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| In the beginning of the three stories, covered in the book, "Looks, Brains, and Everything", we see Ryan Beckwith having a dream about creating a cure-all nerve tonic out of gin, toothpaste, and water. With what kitchen implement does Shelley Winter wake up from this blissful endeavour? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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Mr Wooden Spoon. Ryan isn't too happy about being woken up with a wooden spoon, and suggests that Shelley knocks instead, but she replies that she tried rattling the streamers on the curtain in Ryan's bedroom door frame, but they "weren't rattly enough."
| At the science fair, Tim Jones encounters his arch nemesis, Seamus Fogerty. Exhibiting his newest invention, the phosphorescent waterfowl, he claims that it will smarten up crummy seaside towns like Corby and Hull. When Seamus appears on the scene, we find that he has stolen Tim's invention from the previous fair. What was this invention, and how has Fogerty improved it in order to win? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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"Mr Baker", a coffee and bread making machine. Fogerty has improved it by putting moulded plastic around it and fixing the "minor scalding problem".. Tim is distressed when he finds out that his invention has been stolen, as he, "foresaw a whole nation being awoken by warm bread flopping on to their foreheads", a notion which Shelley believes to be obscene. It is the theft of his idea that puts Tim squarely in the frame from Seamus's murder when he comes across Seamus's body later.
| Following the science fair, Seamus Fogerty is found murdered and Tim is put squarely in the frame as the culprit. Following this action, Shelley is also murdered, as the real murderer believes that she has figured him out. When talking about these two related murders, Rachel and Tessa are left to talk about it. Rachel suggests that the two stay indoors and buy a gun, but what does Tessa want to do? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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Investigate the occurences, Angela Lansbury style.. While trying to get Tim out of jail, Rachel and Tessa attempt to talk to the people in the Tackleford police department, only to find that they're incompetent and truly believe that Tim committed the murders, even though he was in jail when Shelley was killed. With regards to the Angela Lansbury case, the two set out to find the murderer at Fogerty's laboratories.
| Tessa and Rachel soon find out that it was Archie who murdered both Shelley and Seamus, and so they go to his office to confront him. What reason does Archie give for trying to frame Tim for the murders of the victims? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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Tim fell for Drella, the lab assistant that Archie was in love with.. Archie describes his love for Drella to Tessa and Rachel as they are going all "Angela Lansbury" on the case. We see an image of Tim handing a flower to Drella just as Archie goes into his lab to supposedly get his list of enemies. Instead, he selects the machinery with which he intends to kill Tessa and Rachel. It's a choice between the "Killmaster 3000", the "Bonepulper", and "The Scratchifier", but we never find out the names of the weapons he chooses.
| Escaping from jail using a surprisingly simple method (donning an overcoat, a flat cap, and a pipe to fool the on-duty guard), Tim comes to the rescue of Tessa and Rachel who are stuck on the roof of Fogerty Laboratories. They are being attacked by Archie and his mad, metal weapons of death. Rachel think the best method is to jam a ball-point pen into his brain, but how are the girls saved in the end? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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Tim throws a well-aimed rock at Archie's head, and as he falls, he is sliced up by his own weaponry.. After dealing with the maniacal Archie and being saved by a piece of basalt, the girls come down and are left to face the police, who have finally worked out that it was Archie Stanwyck who murdered Seamus and Shelley. This isn't the first display of stupidity shown by the West Yorkshire police force in this story as earlier, the head of the force believed that Tim murdered Shelley, even though he was in jail at the time, simply on the basis that he is a genius. "What word do you associate with genius? Evil. Evil Genius. Bish bosh, case closed."
| To get out of the house, Tim, Ryan, and Shelley decide to go the Guy Fawkes Night Pub Quiz at the local public house. Ryan is worried that there may be people there who knew Shelley and that they would get suspicious, but Ryan tells him that it is okay, because when you are being interrogated over such things, all you have to do is, what? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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Repeat everything they say back to them in a sarcastic voice.. To show that his technique supposedly works, Tim carries it out in the vestibule of the pub when Ryan tells him that "it doesn't even sound true." Tim answers that by repeating it, but in a sarcastic voice. As the trio sits down to fill in the pub quiz, Shelley's presence alerts the West Yorkshire Anti-Zombie unit, and chaos ensues.
| Shelley is soon cornered by Biff and Sanjiv, two of the most active members of the "West Yorkshire Anti-Zombie Unit", who began to suspect her when Biff's chicken claw began to glow and vibrate. As the drag her into the bathrooms, what do they try to force her to eat, so that she will revert back to her dead form? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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Sodium Chloride. As Biff and Sanjiv attempt the fill Shelley's mouth with salt, Sanjiv realises that a jar of salt was specified in the manual, not sachets. Shelley, however, has different ideas, and spits the salt out as soon as they put it in her mouth. She then suggests that they could use "a sort of valve." As Biff and Sanjiv try to complete the job, Tim intervenes.
| As you may have noticed, the usually ever present Amy Chilton has been absent from this story so far. As she arrives home on a snowy December day from art college, she is met by her father, Len, who soon notices that Amy has been rather heavily tattooed while at college. Amy, in her infinite wisdom, knew that Len would react violently, as soon as her end of term project, she painted him a Christmas gift. What was it? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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Five Phil Collins album covers. Len notices Amy's tattoos as she is decorating the Christmas tree without her sweater on. There is no fairy for the tree as Len's guinea pig, Cecil chewed her face off last year, in what was described as a "very small, intense 'Silence of the Lambs'". Angered at first, his rage is soon assuaged when Amy presents him with his gift.
| By the time Amy has been in contact with Tim and found out what happened to her best friend, Shelley is already gone. Living in a bed-sit that smells of dry rot in the run-down suburb of Copper Edge. In an attempt to get a job, Shelley has been thrown out of the agencies she has tried, but soon finds a job in the paper seeking a "discreet assistant". What does she claim she invented in her application form? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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The witness protection programme. In a clearly fabricated effort to seem discreet, Shelley fills in the form and sends it off, and she soon gets a letter informing her that Hamilton Percy has chosen her to be his new secretary. She first has to get herself some clothes for the job, though, and we see her in a gothic apparel store purchasing a scratchy "1940s secretary" outfit, stockings and all.
| In her home at Copper Edge Heights, Shelley begins to become irritated by her neighbours, who seem intent on getting to know her better. Shelley quickly makes her excuses and takes to kicking her room to bits to relieve the tension but she quickly finds that this does not make everything feel better like she thought it would. What excuse does Shelley use to make her neighbours leave her alone? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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She is teaching a crow to dance. In the words of the undead Miss Winters herself, "I'm training a crow to dance, and we've like, got no chance at the regional championship if I don't finish making his tiny tap shoes."
| By some strange stroke of luck, Amy and Tim are exhibiting Tim's newest invention at the same golf course that day. As Shelley carries her boss's clubs around Keane End Links, Tim is explaining the virtues of his newly designed Golf Cart, which has a 25 foot pole that extends to capture potential lightning strikes and use them to power the battery of the cart. Meanwhile, Shelley is busy going to town on her boss's grey matter. What excuse does she use to get access to Hamilton Percy's cranium? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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"You have a bug in your hair! I think it might be a scorpion, or a bio-weapon!". Hamilton panics at the notion that it might be a scorpion as these creatures frighten him. Ordering Shelley to get the supposed scorpion out of his hair, Shelley takes the opportunity to lunge at his head and feast on his brains while Dave Eye, Percy's golfing opponent, becomes impatient and tell him to take his shot, unaware of what is going on.
| After finishing off Hamilton, Shelley runs wildly across Keane End Links until she finds Tim and Amy. Leaping on Tim, Shelley drools madly and makes easy access to his left ear by lifting up his sideboards. Grabbing the nearest thing to her, Amy then hits Shelley on the head with a golf club and Shelley makes her escape on the golf cart. In another terrible twist of fate, lightning strikes the cart, and the cart does not work as Tim had claimed. Shelley is horribly electrocuted. What does this do to her? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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It brings her back to life by reactivating every dead cell in her body.. Hamilton Percy also lived to tell the tale, as somehow Shelley managed to eat the 90% of the brain that no one ever uses. As Tim and Amy are talking about it in the coffee shop in Tackleford Infirmary, we find that he is "wearing a hat and taking each day as it comes", and living well as "a grotesque freak."
| At the end of this fantastical tale, we see Tessa and Rachel cleaning up the pub. They speak of Shelley' "big kiddie bug eyes and her silly red hair", and how "she just had one of those bad comas, the sort where they bury you". As it is the end of the tale, the question I must ask is this. What are the final words of this well-spun yarn? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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"Stupid Shelley.". As you may or may not have already picked up from reading the comic, or even the quiz, Tessa and Rachel are not exactly Shelley Winters' biggest fans. The merely took on the story so that they could have an article for their newspaper, and the fact that it was about Shelley seemed to have little to do with it, although Tessa and Rachel get along well with Tim and Ryan.
| Now a question for those lucky enough to own the printed version of the story. John occasionally writes epilogues for his stories, but the epilogue for this tale was not published on the website, as in his words, "I can only question how much spray-mount I had to inhale to conclude that this was a fitting end to the story".
In the aforementioned epilogue, we see Tim, Ryan, Shelley, and Amy going to see a "Guided by Voices" concert. Shelley, however, is worried that the microphone, swung by "Guided by Voices" lead singer Bob Pollard, will hit her on the head and she will die again. What solution to this potential problem does Ryan offer? | "Scary Go Round" - "Looks, Brains, and Everything"
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The Rapid Reaction Microphone Gull. At the "Guided by Voices" concert, we see Shelley still has short hair, and that the concert itself is being held at "The Empire", a pub. While Shelley clearly expects the support act to be quite good, Amy tells her that "support acts are there to be endured, not enjoyed." And so the story comes to a close. Shelley is alive, Seamus and Archie are dead, Tim's invention was a non-starter, and Amy and Ryan are pretty much back to the normality one can expect from a West Yorkshire town.
A big ol' "thank you!" to Colin and Dagmar, who by all accounts, should have something better to do with their time. This quiz was written while eating creme eggs and listening to Bic Runga, and I hope that is reflected in the quality of the quiz. Thanks for playing, guys!
| Based on the better-known Superman, this character was sent to Earth as a baby and adopted by an Earth couple. The goverment soon intervened and tried to turn him into a super-soldier. Who is this muscular hero? | Who is the Squadron Supreme?
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Hyperion. Hyperion's alter ego is Mark Milton, and his powers include super strength, speed, resistance to injury and flash vision, similar to Superman's heat vision. Unlike Superman, Hyperion has quickly become disenchanted with the world.
| Kyle Richmond is an African-American entrepreneur who dons a costume to combat those who commit hate crimes. What is his codename? | Who is the Squadron Supreme?
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Nighthawk. Nighthawk is based on Batman. Unlike Batman, Nighthawk has no qualms about killing his adversaries. Another hero in the Squadron Supreme, the Blur, is also African-American, but the two do not get along.
Princess Power. Zarda met Hyperion when she healed him after a battle. She hints at having a similar origin to that of Hyperion's, but she claims that she was sent to Earth to take it over. Based on Wonder Woman, Zarda seems to take pleasure from killing people.
| A female with gills and other fish-like characteristics, Amphibian saw two people die in front of her because of her shocking appearance. What does Doctor Spectrum call her? | Who is the Squadron Supreme?
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Kingsley. Amphibian's mother killed herself due to her daughter's gruesome visage, and her father went insane. In her first encounter with the human race, the human in question became very frightened and broke their air hose.
Less than an inch. Thomas Thompson was another volunteer who had Hyperion's DNA grafted onto his own. Able to shrink to .007 of an inch, Thumb is perfect for any kind of covert operation. Originally based on The Atom, the Supreme Power version of Tom Thumb is not a scientist.
| Emil Burbank has an unparalleled intellect. He has doctoral degrees in economics, literature and Metallurgy, among others. Which famous super villain is he based on? | Who is the Squadron Supreme?
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Lex Luthor. Burbank's intelligence was caused by the same virus that gave Blur his powers, although Burbank denies this.
Invisibility. Raleigh Lund is the perfect soldier, loyal and willing to follow orders, not to mention great strength. His only shortcoming is that he is not particularly intelligent nor does he think on his own very well.
Soldier. Inertia can manipulate kinetic energy, she also has super-strength and invulnerability. She is a private in the U.S. Army and reveals herself to the public after wrecking a bar. She is a lesbian whose father was prejudiced against homosexuals.
| Steven Binst is Whiteface, a serial killer in clown makeup who kills via toxins. Before that, in which state did he work as a pharmacist? | Who is the Squadron Supreme?
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Illinois. Binst killed a mother and her children when he knowingly gave them a toxin disguised as prescription medicine. Sent to jail, he escaped and went on a killing spree numbering in the thousands. His reign ended when Nighthawk shot a harpoon through him and then snapped his neck.
General Casey. General Casey ran Project Hyperion and was succeeded by General Richard Alexander, who ran the Squadron Supreme. Mark Gruenwald was a prolific Marvel writer and Milton is Hyperion's surname.
Ted Knight. Ted Knight was an astronomer who invented a special rod that allowed him the power of flight. He defended Opal City from crime and served with the Justice Society of America.
Special armbands. Prince Gavyn, an alien ruler, wore armbands that gave him the ability to fly and shoot energy bolts. He once teamed up with Superman and was originally believed to have died during the Crises on Infinite Earths.
Precognition. Will Payton was an ordinary human who was struck by a lightning bolt from outer space. Turned into a kind of human fusion reactor, Payton took the name Starman and fought crime.
He sacrifices himself.. From a 853rd Century, Farris Knight is a descendant of the Knight famiyl as well as a descendant of The Mist. A member of Justice Legion A, he changes sides and helps the evil Solaris. Repenting, he gives his life to defeat Solaris.
Jack Knight. Jack Knight was raped by Nash, the daughter of The Mist, an old Starman villain. She later gave birth to Jack's son as a result of the rape. Another hero who has been raped is Nightwing.
Mikaal Tomas. This was revealed in the 1990's "Starman" series, when Jack Knight was Starman. He went into space to find Will Payton, and took Mikaal Tomas with him.
The New Warriors. The New Warriors were a group of superheroes that also included Nova, Rage, Namorita and Hindsight Lad. It was this group of superheroes that fought Nitro in New England. Nitro exploded, resulting in the deaths of nearly the entire team and many innocent people, including sixty schoolchildren.
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