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It's the End of the World

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Its the End of the World game quiz
"For centuries, people have been fascinated by the thought of the end of the world. How many of these literary, mythological, musical and downright strange "Ends" have you heard of?"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. What is the significance of the personal "end of the world" for Americans William Kemmler and Martha M. Place?
    First man and woman to suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge
    First couple to have "flagrante delicto extremis" on their death certificates
    First man and woman to be executed in the USA using the electric chair
    First man and woman to win Darwin Awards for "supremely idiotic deaths"


2. Which book by Margaret Atwood features "Snowman" as the last man on earth, with wolvogs, pigoons and racunks for company?
    Oryx and Crake
    The Blind Assassin
    The Handmaid's Tale
    Surfacing


3. Which singer, born Mary Frances Penick, had a massive hit in 1962 with the song "The End of the World"?
    Skeeter Davis
    Connie Smith
    Little Eva
    Patsy Kline


4. Which country owns "Faro del Fin del Mundo" or the "Lighthouse at the End of the World" on Isla de los Estrados?
    Brazil
    Argentina
    Chile
    Ecuador


5. "The Last Man" is often considered to be the first 'apocalyptic science fiction' novel. Who wrote it?
    Bram Stoker
    John William Polidori
    H G Wells
    Mary Shelley


6. Complete this line of dialogue from "The Simpsons" - "It's the Rapture! Quick, get Bart out of the house __________"
    Answer: (3 words - 6,3,5)


7. In the Book of Revelation of the Bible, who is described as the "King of Locusts"?
    Azrael
    Geburael
    Beelzebub
    Abaddon


8. What term, used to describe a genre of novels in which a group of disaster survivors "get on with it" and rebuild themselves a hopeful new society, was coined by Brian Aldiss in his book "A Billion Year Spree"?
    Dinky Disaster
    Almost Armageddon
    Apronstring Apocalypse
    Cosy Catastrophe


9. The 'apocalyptic' song "99 Luftballoons" by Nena was only the second German language song to go Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA.
Which fictional character's name appears in both the English and German lyrics of 99 Luftballoons? ("Everyone's a silver hero, everyone's a ________")

    Answer: (Two Words 7,4)


10. Which dystopian film, based loosely on a book by Harry Harrison, was Edward G. Robinson's 101st, and last movie?
    Cheyenne Autumn
    Neither by Day nor by Night
    Soylent Green
    Mr. Winkle Goes to War


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Compiled May 22 13