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Friday Mega-Quiz
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43 - Nigel Searle
41 - Richard Altwasser
41 - Richard Altwasser
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17 - Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt
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1&2 'Brataccas' and that other 16-bit 'Barbarian'
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16. Dinamic
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23 - Scarborough Fair
1 - Gift from the Gods?
1 - Gift from the Gods?
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17 & 18. The Blue Danube and In The Hall of the Mountain King.
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Brataccas is right, but [mention]GreenCard[/mention] beat you to it.
The other game derived from Bandersnatch is indeed Gift from the Gods.
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39 - SIR CLIVE SINCLAIR
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An update. I couldn't work out how to do strikethrough, so I have shrunk fully answered questions, instead.
HISTORY ROUND
1&2. Name two games that emerged from the remnants of the Imagine megagame Bandersnatch.
3&4. At launch what was the minimum age you had to be to drive a C5 in the UK, and how much would it have cost you to buy one (in pounds)?
5-8. The very first batch of Crash Smashes (NOT Game of the Month awards) were awarded to five games. One was Jet Set Willy. What were the other four?
LOGO ROUND
9-16. Name the software houses from their partial logos (from left to right, then top to bottom).
MUSIC ROUND
17&18. What two pieces of classical music feature in Manic Miner?
19. What is the title music to Dynamite Dan II?
20. What piece of classical music appears in The Birds and The Bees?
21. What tune plays on the title screen of Mikie?
22. What music plays between levels in Eskimo Eddie?
23. What music plays on the title screen of Camelot Warriors?
24. What is the music that plays on the Hunchback title screen?
ART ROUND
25-7. Who painted the following pieces of Spectrum-related art?
28. One of the paintings above was re-used in a game for the Amiga. What is the game?
29-32. The following two covers contain art copied from another source. Name the original art AND the original artist for each of the sources.
PUZZLE ROUND
33&34. The following game titles have had their vowels removed. What are they?
LTR
TLS
35&36. The following game titles have been rendered in T9 code. What are they?
28422822
3784669
37&38. The following describe homophones of two Spectrum games. What are the games?
FORMAL DRESS GROWL
FEATHERWEIGHT QUADS
39&40. Solve the following anagrams:
SCARCER HAIRLINES
TRAGICOMIC PUNT
FAMOUS FACES ROUND
41-43. Who are the following people (from left to right)?
44-48. The following image is a blend of five different people. Who are they (from top to bottom)? (44 is the hair, 45 the eyes, 46 the nose, 47 the mouth and 48 the chin.)
HISTORY ROUND
1&2. Name two games that emerged from the remnants of the Imagine megagame Bandersnatch.
3&4. At launch what was the minimum age you had to be to drive a C5 in the UK, and how much would it have cost you to buy one (in pounds)?
5-8. The very first batch of Crash Smashes (NOT Game of the Month awards) were awarded to five games. One was Jet Set Willy. What were the other four?
LOGO ROUND
9-16. Name the software houses from their partial logos (from left to right, then top to bottom).
MUSIC ROUND
17&18. What two pieces of classical music feature in Manic Miner?
19. What is the title music to Dynamite Dan II?
20. What piece of classical music appears in The Birds and The Bees?
21. What tune plays on the title screen of Mikie?
22. What music plays between levels in Eskimo Eddie?
23. What music plays on the title screen of Camelot Warriors?
24. What is the music that plays on the Hunchback title screen?
ART ROUND
25-7. Who painted the following pieces of Spectrum-related art?
28. One of the paintings above was re-used in a game for the Amiga. What is the game?
29-32. The following two covers contain art copied from another source. Name the original art AND the original artist for each of the sources.
PUZZLE ROUND
33&34. The following game titles have had their vowels removed. What are they?
LTR
TLS
35&36. The following game titles have been rendered in T9 code. What are they?
28422822
3784669
37&38. The following describe homophones of two Spectrum games. What are the games?
FORMAL DRESS GROWL
FEATHERWEIGHT QUADS
39&40. Solve the following anagrams:
SCARCER HAIRLINES
TRAGICOMIC PUNT
FAMOUS FACES ROUND
41-43. Who are the following people (from left to right)?
44-48. The following image is a blend of five different people. Who are they (from top to bottom)? (44 is the hair, 45 the eyes, 46 the nose, 47 the mouth and 48 the chin.)
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39 - Sinclair Research
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MatGubbins
- Dynamite Dan
- Posts: 1241
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:45 am
- Location: Kent, UK
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28 Mutants (Bob Wakelin) has the helmet from Game Over (Luis Royo)