Frobozz Magic

Colossal Caves

1. What's the danger of walking in the dark?

2. What can be done with the black rod with rusty star that is useful?

3. At window on pit, who is the shadowy figure who's trying to attract your attention?

4. How do you defeat the dragon?

5. What is the purpose of the magazine?

6. What happens if you throw the axe at the troll?

7. How can you get fresh batteries for the lamp?

8. What is the significance of "Fee Fie Foe Foo"?

DUNGEON (DECUS version)

9. Where was DUNGEON originally written? Who were the original authors?

10. In what language was DUNGEON originally written? How is the name of this language pronounced?

11. Who translated DUNGEON into Fortran IV?

12. According to US NEWS & DUNGEON REPORT, how should you report any problems? What forms of reporting won't work, and why not?

13. What items do you need for an exorcism?

14. From the Bat Room: "A deranged vampire bat (a reject from WUMPUS) swoops down from the ceiling and lifts you away...." What's the reference?

ZORK 0

Never mind about ZORK Zero.

ZORK I

15. Name all of the Dungeon's entrances or exits. Altar the kitchen

16. What's wrong with the nasty knife?

17. What is the danger of walking in the dark?

18. What happens if you try the magic words from the Colossal Cave?

19. What is a grue?

20. How can you get the Jewel-encrusted egg opened without damaging its contents?

21. What's wrong with the rusty knife?

22. What is advertised on the matchbook?

23. Name two distinct ways of defeating the Cyclops.

24. What's all the noise in the Loud Room?

25. Describe the sin and punishments of Commandment #12592?
    Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin before the gods?
    Yea, verily, thou shalt be ground between two stones.
    Shall the angry gods cast thy body into the whirlpool?
    Surely, thy eye shall be put out with a sharp stick!
    Even unto the ends of the earth shalt thou wander and
    Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.

26. What can be done to the mirror that is useful?

27. What's the ritual for getting past the Entrance to Hades?

ZORK II

28. What happens if you wait too long in the Topiary?

29. Stupid Riddles:
    What is tall as a house,
    round as a cup,
    and all the king's horses
    can't draw it up?

30. How do you defeat the dragon?

31. What's this?

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32. What object is useful in determining the functions of the iced cakes?

33. What's wrong with the orange cake?

34. What's the advertisement on the matchbook this time?

35. Where can the Grue Repellent be found?

36. How does Grue Repellent work?

37. What kind of degree does the Wizard of Frobozz have? Where did he get it?

38. What's the title of J. Pierpont Flathead's outrageous autobiography?

39. What's in the package of candy?

40. What does all the money say?

ZORK III

41. What items do you need to face the Dungeon Master and how are they obtained?

42. How do you get into the museum?

43. What locations can be visited from the viewer at Scenic Vista? In which games do they originally appear?

44. What item do you need from one of the other adventures?

45. Where and how is "Hello, sailor" useful?

46. What do the weapons of the Museum Guards look like?

47. Who is Lord Feepness?

BEYOND ZORK

48. What is your name (if you use the default character)?

49. What is your Quest?

50. Who appears on the bubble gum card, and how is he significant to the adventure?

51. What is the name of the wine in the Wine Cellar? What's the picture on the label?

52. More Stupid Riddles:
    My tines be long,
    my tines be short,
    my tines end ere my first report.
    What am I?

53. Still More Stupid Riddles:
    Never ahead, ever behind
    Yet flying swiftly past;
    For a child, I last forever,
    For adults I'm gone too fast.
    What am I?

54. Name the songs sung by the Christmas Tree Monsters.

ZORK General Section

55. Name all products and subsidiaries of FrobozzCo International, the multinational conglomerate, mentioned in the series.

56. Give the names and occupations of all the Flatheads mentioned in the series.

Random Computer Games Trivia

57. What are Alexi Paszitnov and Vagim Gerasimov responsible for?

58. Draw a glider for Conway's Game of Life?

59. What is a glider gun, and who invented/discovered it?

60. In Star Trek: TNG, Riker, then Data, lose a game of something to the Zackdorn Sirna Kolrami, and Data later forces a draw with Kolrami at the same game. What is the name of the game, and what does the playing field look like?

61. What is your quest in Hack?

62. A computer game is central to the story "Dogfight", by Michael Swanick and William Gibson. Name and describe it.

63. In Star Trek III: TSFS, McCoy enters a bar to commission a ship. Two other patrons are playing a video game in the background. Describe it.

64. In Corewar, what is an IMP? An IMP STOMPER?

65. "You hear Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass playing a Sex Pistols medley very soothingly." What game does this come from, and what company is responsible for the game.

66. What are the different types of terrain in Populous, the Promised Lands?

Random Computer Trivia

67. According to K&R, 2ed., what is "everyone's favorite trivial change" between original C and ANSI C?

68. What do the following stand for: ping, awk, grep?

69. What is the WELL, i.e. what does the name WELL stand for?

70. What was the title of the first computer-written novel? What was the name of the program that wrote it?

71. Murphy's Law is often misquoted as "Anything which can go wrong, will, and at the worst possible moment." What is the real Murphy's Law?

72. What does the prefix yocto- mean?

73. How long is a jiffy?

74. Translate the following from rot13: Lbh ner va gur Gbzo bs gur Haxabja Vzcyrzragre. N ubyybj ibvpr fnlf, "Gung'f abg n oht, vg'f n srngher!"

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