trivia questions about Kim Stanley Robinson
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Where do the characters go, in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, to await reincarnation between lifetimes?
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182 times |
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110 times (26.9%) |
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72 times (17.6%) |
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227 times (55.5%) |
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In the novel The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, Caucasians were generally considered ___________.
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144 times |
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53 times (15.4%) |
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very difficult |
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91 times (26.4%) |
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201 times (58.3%) |
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Which of the following is not one of the three futures imagined in Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias?
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50 times |
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5 times (4.5%) |
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really really difficult |
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45 times (40.2%) |
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62 times (55.4%) |
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Which of the following works of science fiction does not prominently feature a "space elevator"—a structure in stationary orbit that nonetheless touches a planet's surface?
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151 times |
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51 times (14.0%) |
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very difficult |
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100 times (27.5%) |
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212 times (58.4%) |
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Before 1965 (or, in Vice President Dan Quayle's case, 1992), the surface of Mars was thought by many to be crisscrossed with long, straight "canals." Which of the following science fiction stories does not feature such channels (with or without water)?
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237 times |
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61 times (13.0%) |
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very difficult |
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176 times (37.6%) |
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231 times (49.4%) |
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In Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, a space elevator is built on Mars. The orbital end of the cable is tethered to an asteroid in areosynchronous orbit. What is the name of the asteroid?
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139 times |
| Correct: |
30 times (6.3%) |
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really really difficult |
| Incorrect: |
109 times (23.0%) |
| Skipped: |
335 times (70.7%) |
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In Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, a space elevator is built on Mars. The Martian end of the cable touches down on which volcano?
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134 times |
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51 times (10.9%) |
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very difficult |
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83 times (17.7%) |
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335 times (71.4%) |
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In Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, which human firsts sets foot on Mars?
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36 times |
| Correct: |
14 times (13.9%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
| Incorrect: |
22 times (21.8%) |
| Skipped: |
65 times (64.4%) |
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