You get five points for correct answers. Totals at bottom. Deduct one point each time you have to reference a book. Answers in spoiler tags. Most are gimmes, especially for you old people. I managed all of these off my head, alas.

1. What prosthetic has Ehran the Scribe worn in the past?


2. Name the two canon characters with six fingers on their left hand.


3. What is Dr. Halberstam's full name?


4. True or False: you must be an initiate to use metamagic.


5. True or False: Metacows, Awakened Silverfish and Heath Spirits have all been mentioned, but not given stats.


6. True or False: There have been exactly two explicit Lovecraft references made in Shadowrun.


7. What is the cost for a Lone Star Thaumaturgy License?


8. What items were left out of the Revised Street Samurai Catalog?


9. Which books contain memorials to Nigel D. Findley?


10. What booklet accompanied each edition of the SR GM screen?


11. What is the name of the street samurai associate of Nathaniel Edward Fortescure, Doctor of Thauamturgy?


12. "Drak's Drek" and Power Armor appeared in what FASA SR publication?


13. Take the highest initiate grade in an SR module. Subtract the highest spell force in an SR module. Add the highest focus force in an SR module. What number do you have?


14. What is the last name of the detective in Missing Blood and 2XS?


15. Who trusts Kibo?


16. Ambrose made his first, and last, appearence in what book?


17. True or False: The Midnight Thorns is described in both the first and second Grimoire.


18. How long fo you have to wait before you can use the "Turn spirit to guacamole" focus?


19. What novel has been called "Secrets of Power Vol. IV"?


20. True or False: the series of paintings described by Nigel D. Findley in "House of the Sun" hanging in the Telestrian office actually exist.


*Bonus* What magazine contains a reference to the Weeping Stoen of Ta'Bel?


Points Score List:

0-10 Points: Grasshopper

11-30 Points: You need to pad your collection

31-60 Points: What is all this old shit? Where's the Fanpro love!?

61-70 Points: You had to refer to stuff before your time

71-89 Points: Scholar

90-100 Points: Master

105-110 Points: Grand Master

111 Points: Me.

112+ Points:

at the score list.

You may bitch when you write your own crappy quiz, smart-ass.

You forgot an answer to number 8
Because 3 things were removed from the catalog in 2nd ed.

Now how do I use spoilers on this thing...?

You also misspelled Neddy's last name.

And made me feel like a tard.

I've seen something similar on the fanpro forums. We did Shadowrun trivia, basically picking out book references, which gets to be more difficult that you think based on the differences between the English and German books. Maybe we could do something like that.

Be warned though, the thread is at about 44 pages, IIRC.

Don

70 points for me. What's a Heath spirit? A metaphysical representation of a candy bar?

The Abstruse One

Heath, as in moorland. Quite common in Europe, essentially an upland area cleared of old forest for grazing and since left to grow wild again. classsic example would be Dartmoor, Exmoor and Bodmin Moor.

As for Canon reference - Germany Sourcebook.

I think my force 6 candy bar spirit friend would like to disagree. May I introduce you to the dreaded, "Mr. Goodbar."

*summons a Force 6 Great Form Wonka Bar* I'd like to use my first service to use your Search power to find a golden ticket...

Sorry, couldn't resist once I'd thought of it

The Abstruse One

If there's a shaman of Toaster, there could well be a candybar shaman.

I'd strangle the player who tried to pull that in my game, though. With his own intestines.

But that sounds like fun.

With his own intestines.

Nice one Ancient. BTW- You can add a "subquestion" to number two too.

Who's the other canon character who should have six fingers but only has five...

Sweet Jesus. Despite my massive Shadowrun collection, I still ended up with a pathetically low score. Talk about obscure. Maybe if I had read some of this stuff over again more recently I'd have done better.

Just some Penny Arcade style dry humor

A classic. (with dirty words)

Do we get extra points for knowing the right answers to the question(s) that the spoilers have incorrect answers to?

I made a few booboos,s ince I was going from memory, yeah. I didn't think I was being too obscu...okay, maybe Dr. halberstam's name and the two six-fingered ones. The thaumaturgy license was a bit anal. The Power armor was damn obscure. Only GMs should get #13. The bonus was strictly for the compulsive types like me.

[/edit] If you had the right answer to a question that had an incomplete answer, give yourself two bonus points each.

[/edit][/edit] And anyone with more than 111 points because of knowing those answers may proudly bear the title of Adam.

But hey, I got a good cross-sampling of material, eh?

The answer to 12 is just plain wrong, not obscure.

Okay, I should have said powered armor, and it was Sword of the Knight publications, not FASA. Picky, picky.

[/edit] There are /always/ mistakes. I'm only a room full of monkeys, y'know.

I made 4 points, 9 if you consider I only read the French version of SR rulebooks, in which Fortescue's name is translated ; I remembered it but failed in reverse-translating it. The Halberstam reference was the second easiest for me, though I only remembered his first name and had to look in the book to find about the second. I guess it would have been a lot easier for me if there wasn't all these boring questions about magic, immortals and novels. Dunno, stick to interesting things

1.Which of Ares main divisions changed its Vice-President two times between Corporate Shadowfiles and Corporate Download (thus having a total of three different VP) ?


2.What was the name of the shipping company Mr. Tadamako Shibanojuki headed and merged with other to start Yamatetsu ?


3.In 2060, Ares lagged behind in the field of nanotechnology, threatening its chance in the space conquest. Who were the two possible allies considered to recover ?


4.Since the beginning of SR, three different corps have wanted to acquire Biogene Inc. They were ?


5.What happened to Darren Villiers between the novel Night's Pawn and the adventure seeds book Blood in the Boardroom ?


6.Which company did Diderson Kyogi create ?


7.Who's the only known and named shareholder of Shiawase that isn't a member of the Shiawase family ?


8.In alphabetical order, which of Sr company (of any size or importance) would come last ?


9.Does Citibank still exist in SR ?


10.And an easy one to finish, name the seven founders of the Inter-Corporate Council.

After finishing Ancient's questionary I was feeling a bit blue (just plain 31), but since I don't own many first ed books I wasn't that bad. But NMAth, you've depressed me. 0 points (yeah, I knew the seven founders but it's late and I thought the quick way with the 7 AAA corps in 2050s....¬¬). I'm going to bed now, I won't leave it in a couple months...

0 on both quizzes. I rock hard.

Hah. I knew better than to even try.

-Siege

I got 14 on Nath's quiz but only a miserable 34 on AH's. Most of the answers to Nath's questions has been reprinted or referenced to in SR3 books or available in the novels so they are not as difficult for me as AH's questions. And I do not have a single pre-SR3 book other than the novels.

At 24 points, I'm feeling distinct trivia inferiority.

~J

I'm surprised no one asked this yet. In AH's quiz, number 18, where the heck is the reference for the "turn spirit to guacamole" focus found?

MitS under Unique Foci, which is part of the Enchanting section, I think.

Ah. Found it. I thought he was saying that somewhere there was an item labeled "Turn Spirit to Guacamole" Focus, and it's availability was TN/127 years. I was like, they have an item with an availability of 127 years?!?!??!?!

So how do you use metamagic without initiating?

~J

Going without any books on me, I'm gonna say be a horse shaman, gives you access to the Mobility metamagic. I apologize if I'm wrong. If I'm right I'm gonna go ahead and give myself 17 points, because I want 17 points.

Wow. I spend way too much time reading SR books on the toilet.

I...Could say something both amusing and highly evil in response to that...But I won't. Because I'm nice.

For now.

Here's a few gleaned from the Triva Thread at Fanpro:

1.What is Nachtmeister's Alias?


2. What firm did KE buyout at its beginning?


3. What is the name of the host where the Aztlan sourcebook is stored?