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David Brin's "Startide Rising"

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David Brins Startide Rising game quiz
""Startide Rising" is the second book in the dramatic "Uplift" Saga. It makes three hundred pages seem like ten."

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1. What do the Earthlings find that piques the interest of numerous Galactic races and begins an interstellar war?
    a planet thought to be uninhabited, which in fact is not
    an uncharted system with a high mineral yield
    a new species that can warp reality to create wormholes
    a derelict fleet of spaceships the size of moons


2. Which of these "Streaker" crew members is not a neo-dolphin?
    Toshio
    Takkata-Jim
    Hikahi
    Akki


3. Who or what is "Keneenk?"
    an uplifted race subservient to the Soro
    a language which developed between humans and dolphins
    a specific type of probability drive
    a school of discipline, combining logic with the Whale Dream


4. What is the Galactic races' biggest problem with mankind?
    they ally themselves with the much hated Tymbrimi
    they are destructive and vindictive
    they have no patron race to speak of
    they uplifed mere aquatic mammals to the status of client race


5. Which of these elements does the planet Kithrup possess in more abundance than Earth?
    oxygen
    metal
    hydrogen
    carbon-dioxide


6. What is the big secret surrounding the massive fin K'tha-jon?
    his genetic material more closely resembles a human's
    he had been bought by Soro spies
    his "stenos" genes are spliced with orca genetic material
    he is responsible for an attempt on the life of the captain


7. What is the special ability of both the "Epsiarch" and the "Acceptor?"
    they are able to accurately predict the future
    they are adaptable to both air and water
    they are able to create alternate realities with the sheer force of denial
    they can exist in a vacuum without a suit


8. Which of these characters was not a member of "Streaker's" crew to be left behind on Kithrup?
    Hikahi
    Tom Orley
    Jill Baskin
    Credeikei


9. From which alien species did the Streaker crew appropriate a ship to use as a shell during their escape from Kithrup?
    Tandu
    Thennanin
    Soro
    Tymbrimi


10. What did Toshio decide to name the presapient amphibians that the crew found on Kithrup?
    Karrank%
    Kithrupians
    Pila
    Kiqui


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Compiled May 24 13