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         THE INFOCOM TRIVIA QUIZ    By Graeme Cree
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Originally in XYZZY magazine

This Infocom Trivia Quiz contains questions with a wide range in
difficulty level. Although this quiz primarily deals with
Infocom's 35 text games, there are some questions dealing with
other Infocom products, and almost anything is fair game. The only
Infocom- related topics specifically excluded are questions
dealing with Infocom label software released after Activision
closed the Infocom offices in 1989 (i.e. Mines of Titan, Circuit's
Edge, Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge, Leather Goddesses
of Phobos 2, Return to Zork, Simon the Sorcerer, and possibly
Planetfall 2, Zork: Nemesis, or Simon the Sorcerer 2.) The answers
will be given next issue.

I.  Identify the following:

     1.   B-19-7
     2.   Old Lingolf House
     3.   EBCDIC
     4.   IC Cola Company
     5.   San Francisco Gazelles
     6.   Agra Treasure
     7.   The Bearded Oracle of Yonkers
     8.   Liquid Gorzium
     9.   Bivotar and Juranda
    10.   Brogmoidism
    11.   Vilstu
    12.   Commandment #12592
    13.   El-Menhir
    14.   Tasmania
    15.   Sal Sapit Omnia
    16.   Bunker Hill Garage
    17.   Dr. Edward Tellhim
    18.   George Bonnard
    19.   The Horse 'n Groom
    20.   Lord Feepness
    21.   Eolene
    22.   Dickory Wood
    23.   Cabeza Plana
    24.   Amy Sue Grue
    25.   Gurthark
    26.   Lieutenant Measle
    27.   Riothamus
    28.   Dimsford House
    29.   SPS Flathead
    30.   Sneffle, Hoobly, Gzornenplatz, and Ardis
    31.   Red Boar Inn
    32.   Eddie Smaldone
    33.   Don Donald
    34.   Frobton Bay
    35.   Stella and Brad
    36.   Teapot Cafe
    37.   Temporizer
    38.   Rodney Quick
    39.   Random Q. Hacker
    40.   Dum-Kof Cough Suppressant
    41.   Desert Island Decameron
    42.   Moscow Alligators
    43.   Father Sebastio
    44.   Pacific Trade Associates
    45.   Muddle, Massachusetts
    46.   A Corpse Line
    47.   Ellron
    48.   Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
    49.   Astrix
    50.   Froon
    51.   Coconut Deflector
    52.   Frobzance
    53.   The Chance Man
    54.   Bozberries
    55.   Leckbandi
    56.   Zorky Park
    57.   Amino-Hydrophase Molecule
    58.   Ramses II
    59.   Lurking Grue
    60.   Bacteriophage
    61.   "Me and the Jester"
    62.   69,105
    63.   Wabewalker
    64.   Gregory Franklin
    65.   Zorkle
    66.   Joshua Rankin
    67.   Funny Bones
    68.   Aseejh Randu
    69.   M. Agrippa
    70.   Tansey
    71.   "Frotz Ozmoo"
    72.   Grueslayer
    73.   Boysenberry Business Engines Corporation
    74.   Digitalis Leaf
    75.   Deep Six beer

II. General questions:

    76.   Name the four games that mention the Leather
          Goddesses of Phobos.
    77.   Which kind of Orcs prefer interactive fiction to graphic
          adventures?
    78.   What was Infocom's early (trademarked) name for its
          interactive fiction?
    79.   Inside the story of which Infocom game can you find a
          copy of BALLYHOO?
    80.   It is possible to render the game ENCHANTER
          impossible to win on the very first move. What command
          will accomplish this?
    81.   Whose face is on the Zorkmid coin?
    82.   Which game mentions a "maze of twisty streets"?
    83.   How many of Infocom's 35 text games take place in "The
          Zork Universe"?
    84.   Where's Waldo?
    85.   Where's the beef?

III. Locations: Which game takes place in the following
locations?

    86.   Maryland
    87.   Los Angeles
    88.   Egypt
    89.   Connecticut
    90.   Ohio
    91.   South Dakota
    92.   New Mexico
    93.   United Kingdom outside London (must name 3 games)
    94.   London (must name 2 games)
    95.   Japan

IV. First sentences: What games are these the first lines of?

    96.   "Our doom is sealed."
    97.   "Important!"
    98.   "You wake up."
    99.   "As night falls the black limousine pulls off the highway."
   100.   "You've waited until the last minute again."
   101.   "Trembling, you fire the heavy arquebus."
   102.   "You are in a strange location, but you cannot
           remember how you got here."
   103.   "It's Halloween night."
   104.   "FC ALERT!"
105. "Somewhere near Los Angeles."

Answers next issue!














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