1. Roleplaying Games
1. As of a month ago, what is the official edition number or name for Dungeons & Dragons 2024? (5.5)
2. Vampire: The Masquerade’s latest sourcebook is about bands. Which venue from the game’s history does it namecheck in the title? (Live From The Succubus Club)
3. Which of these Pelgrane Press games does not use the Gumshoe system? Hillfolk, Swords Of The Serpentine, or Trail of Cthulhu? (Hillfolk)
4. The Ghost, Hollow and Mortal are among the core Skins in which Powered By The Apocalypse game? (Monsterhearts)
5. Name Tanya Floaker's game of revenants? (The Thunder Perfect Mind)
6. Cold City is set in Berlin, in which city is Hot War mainly set? (London)
7. Relics by Tin Star Games is subtitled “a game of” what? (Angels)
8. Which licensed RPG from Free League is now in its Evolved Edition? (Alien)
9. Which is not a Hungry Family in Curseborne? House Bathory, Black Hearts, Les Fantômes? (Les Fantômes, from Trinity Continuum)
10. Warhammer: The Old World is not percentile based. What kind of dice does it use? (D10s)
2. Other Tabletop Games
1. The current Warhammer 40,000 starter set introduces which edition? (10)
2. The latest set for Magic: The Gathering is based on which comic about four brothers? (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
3. Reiner Knizia’s latest game is based on which account of a mythic war? (Iliad)
4. Thaw Of The Lich Lord and The Wildwoods are supplements for which Osprey minis game? (Frostgrave)
5. From Eerie Idol Games, this boardgame has Nobility, Clans and more fighting over whose crown? (The Old King’s Crown)
6. Age of Sail and Deep Sea are standalone sequels to which nautical exploration boardgame? (Endeavour)
7. New Antioch, the Iron Sultanate and the Cult of the Black Grail are among the playable factions in which wargame? (Trench Crusade)
8. Which came first? Slay The Spire the board game or the console/computer game? (console/computer)
9. Name Tettix Games’ board game about “fishing progressively more horrifying things out of the ocean”? (Deep Regrets)
10. Which of these is not available in skirmish minis game Unmatched? (a) Angel from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, (b) Daredevil from Marvel Comics, (c) The Demon from DC Comics or (d) Hellboy? (c: The Demon)
Picture Round “Up Above The World”
What is the missing word in each of these RPG, supplement and gamebook titles?
1. Dragon Mountain
2. The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain
3. Beyond The Mountains Of Madness
4. The Mountain Witch
3. Film And TV
1 In Sinners, which city did Smoke and Stack come home from after ripping off the Mob? (Chicago)
2. The Ghorman Massacre, introduced in The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook for the original Star Wars RPG, is loosely dramatised in which series? (Andor)
3. Which 2025 MCU film was set on Earth 828? (Fantastic Four: First Steps)
4. The three human guests in this year's The Muppet Show special were Sabrina Carpenter, Maya Rudolph and - ? (Seth Rogen)
5. Which Guillermo del Toro film was partially set and shot in Edinburgh? (Frankenstein)
6. True or false, Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, stars of The War Between The Land And The Sea, have both appeared as different characters in Doctor Who? (True: Alonzo in Voyage Of The Damned and Martha’s sister Tish)
7. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One was followed last year by which Reckoning? (The Final Reckoning)
8. Which of these songs comes from KPop Demon Hunters? How It’s Done, Ramona, 3 Small Words? (How It’s Done - Ramona is from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and 3 Small Words is from Josie And The Pussycats)
9. True or false, Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Grace’s aunt Annie in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come? (False - She plays Ursula Danforth, one of the hunters)
10. Which D&D class does Mike say Will is in Stranger Things 5 - over a decade before it was actually published? (Sorcerer)
The only non-picture round where a team got full marks, and several came close but were wrong about Ready Or Not 2.
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4. Books And Comics
1. Robert Jackson Bennett wrote the 2025 Hugo and World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel: name it? (The Tainted Cup)
2. True or false, all six nominees for the Best Novella Hugo were published by Tor dot com? (False - one was published by their horror imprint Nightfire)
3. Calico and Deathdream are members of the Outliers, created by Gail Simone, a new set of kids of which Marvel superhero type? (X-Men / mutants)
4. Amongst Our Weapons and Stone And Sky are the two latest novels in which urban fantasy series? (Rivers Of London)
5. Bleeding Hearts and The Peril Of The Brutal Dark are among the launch titles for which revived DC Comics imprint? (Vertigo)
6. Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck co-write under which single pseudonym? (James S. A. Corey)
7. The 2024 story A Better World questions the way things work in which 2000 A.D. series? Not all of them. (Judge Dredd)
8. Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead is an SF novel written entirely in what form? (verse)
9. Warp Your Own Way is a gamebook comic spinoff from which Star Trek series? (Lower Decks)
10. The Butlerian Jihad against computers and AI is part of the history of which SF series? (Dune)
The Audio Round here would be hard to replicate in questions unless I linked to a Google Doc. Anyway, snippets from speeches, SF TV themes and video game sound effects. That Team got their one point here as my helpful scorer K and one other team confirmed that their referential wrong answer (Deltarune instead of Undertale) was in fact also correct...
6. On Top Of The World
(What’s on top of the world? The atmosphere. And beyond that? Orbit. And in orbit we find the Moon.)
1. Artemis II is our first crewed mission to the Moon this century. In which year did we last land? (1972)
2. Artemis is not the Greek goddess of the moon, who is? (Selene)
3. The phases of the Moon, waxing and waning, are New, WHAT, Quarter, Gibbous and Full? (Crescent)
4. Which month in our calendar is the closest length to a (non-synodic) lunar month? (February)
5. The Soviet Union, the United States, China and India have all landed objects on the Moon. Which country joined them most recently in 2024? (Japan)
6. The International Space Station has been occupied continuously since the first crew entered in which year? (2000)
7. Helen Sharman was the first British astronaut (or rather cosmonaut) when she flew to which space station in 1991? (Mir)
8. Which planet in the solar system has the most moons? (Saturn - at last count 274)
9. Which comic character is the mascot for NASA’s safety programme? (Snoopy)
10. “Roleplaying in space is absolutely possible!” according to Fram2 astronaut Rabea Rogge, demonstrating rolling which kind of dice in zero gravity? (D20. She rolls a 7)
Tiebreaker
Name the frozen region of Discworld with Cori Celesti at the centre? (The Hub)
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