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The appendix to the novel Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, contains a method for message encryption using nothing but what ordinary, household item? (The technique is also employed in the story.)
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In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, what weapon/weapons did Hiro Protagonist prefer?
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In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, - 'Snow Crash' was the name of __________?
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In Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, Bobby Shaftoe is a United States Marine tormented in dreams and hallucinations by what figure?
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In Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, what greek letter does Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse use to represent "horniness"?
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How did "Half-cocked" Jack Shaftoe, of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, acquire his nickname?
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In the opening chapter of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash what occupation did the 'Deliverator' work in?
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In Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, the 'Rat Thing' was a __________?
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In Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, 'Rat Things' provided security for what Burbclave?
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In Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, 'YT' used something equipped with a set of RadiKS Mark IV Smartwheels in her job as a Kourier. What was it?
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In Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, what organization, in general, worked for the betterment of mankind - and specifically in the interests of 'YT' and Hiro?
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In Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, when the phrase "listen to Reason" is used - to what does it refer?
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What ancient civilization does the story revolve around in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson?
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In Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, an individual who wears a harness equipped with numerous cameras, microphones, computers, and uplink systems so they can upload everything they see to the CIA is called __________.
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In Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, the world wide web, or internet, is known as the _________.
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Uncle Enzo absolutely and personally guarantees that your pizza will be delivered in ______ minutes or less in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
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In Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, L. Bob Rife bought what ship as his personal yacht?
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In which Neal Stephenson novel is the protagonist named Protagonist?
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Running throughout the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson is a feud between real-life characters Isaac Newton and which other prominent natural philosopher over who first developed calculus, the bane of vampire-novel-loving high-school students everywhere?
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In Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, as the book begins who is the first person Enoch Root speaks with?
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In Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, what is Hiro's day job?
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"If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it.
If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and your blood boil.
If you seek an adventure, may this song sing you away to blissful escape.
If you need to test or confirm your beliefs, may you reach comfortable conclusions.
All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not.
May you find that which you seek, in these pages or outside them.
May you find perfection, and know it by name."
This quote belongs to which author?
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In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, who is Uncle Enzo?
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In the The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson, Judge Fang is a frequent customer of which fast food restaurant?
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In the The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson, Bud has a gun embedded in which part of his body?
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In the novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, what mode of transportation is the character Y.T. most closely associated with?
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What does author Neal Stephenson use to compose his books?
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"He -- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it -- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."
This is the opening line of ...
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