The Culture

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. With which race did the Culture engage in a 48 year long war? Idirans Azad Chelgrians The Affront

2. The prestigious Contact Section deals with the Culture's interactions with newly-discovered races. However, what name is given to the division of Contact which deals with covert operations? Answer: (Two Words)

3. Which of the following is not a type of Culture space vessel. GOU GSV TGV GCU

4. Culture vessels choose their own names. Which of the following is not one of them? Nervous Energy Xenophobe Unfortunate Conflict of Evidence Systems Failure

5. Which of the following books by Iain M. Banks does not feature the Culture in any way? Against A Dark Background Use of Weapons The State of the Art Inversions

6. What language is spoken by the Culture? Galach None - they are telepathic English Marain

7. Who was 'The Player of Games'? Cheradenine Zakalwe Byr Genar-Hofoen Uagen Zlepe Jernau Morat Gurgeh

8. Which Culture agent was sent after the Changer, Bora Horza Gobuchul, in 'Consider Phlebas'? Perosteck Balveda Wrobich Schennil Diziet Sma Fal 'Ngeestra

9. What name is given to Artificial Intelligence in the Culture? Minds Intellects Brains Psyches

10. Which word does not describe the Culture? Authoritarian Anarchic Socialist Utopian