My current column from CBG #1679 has been posted at CBGxtra. It details the Pro vs. Fans Trivia Challenge at March's C2E2 convention in Chicago, in which Mark Waid single-handedly battled a panel of Silver Age trivia fans for the championship!
Take the quiz and see how you do:
-- MSA
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I waited until my print copy arrived to take the test. Sad to say, either the quiz is getting tougher each year, or my brain cells are burning out and not retaining the information from the endless editions of Showcase Presents I've been consuming during the past few years. Out of 90 questions, I got 55 correct and missed 35. I'm dragging and complaining, so I guess I need more entertaining.
Thanks for the quiz, Craig.
Hoy
Thanks for taking the quiz, guys! Those are really pretty good scores, considering the wide range of the questions and that some are supposed to be stumpers for an entire panel. Granted, Waid knows most of this stuff almost immediately, but even he missed a few.
I've probably asked a thousand questions by now over all the years we've been doing these, so the questions are not coming quite as fast and easy these days, especially if I don't want to repeat myself. I'm glad you enjoyed taking it, and I hope C2E2 wants us to keep doing it. We had a pretty good crowd this year, especially for a Sunday afternoon.
-- MSA
Well, I got 16/90, which I'm happy enough about. Considering I only really started reading Silver Age stories systematically in the mid-Nineties and read many of these stories only once. I've probably read many of the Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen stories referred to, but they tend to merge into one another when read in a glut like I generally do with the Showcases.
As I'm such a neophyte, I marked myself very laxly, giving myself half a point when I got the questions with two-part answers half-right.
I was annoyed I couldn't get the the Ra-Man and time-travelling Batman questions right, as I've read about them in Morrison's comics.
I gave myself a point also for describing the answer to #9 in the Lightning Round as
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Airplane with a big head on it.
I told you I was lax!
Doing this test reminded me how much fun stuff was in those old 60s comics and I should go back and reread some of them.
Technically, the third sleeper didn't become an airplane until it joined with the second sleeper, but I know the image you have in your head. Sadly, "a big head" would not have gained you a half-point at the panel and would have had Waid mocking you for many minutes, but that's the price that panelists must pay for all that fame and glory.
Doing this test reminded me how much fun stuff was in those old 60s comics and I should go back and reread some of them.
That's pretty much the point, so I'm glad it worked! I always say that the quiz is a journey, not a destination, and that we keep score just to keep our fingers busy. I saw an online review where an audience member said it was so much fun it made him want to go down to the hall and buy some old comics. That's the intent! And fortunately today, that's a really easy thing to do with the vast number of collections.
The Lo and Jimbo stories do run together sometimes. Waid missed one when he confused Jimmy turning into a Martian with Jimmy turning into a Jovian. It can happen.
-- MSA
My lousy answer has served its purpose then.
The quiz sounds like fun. Waid is a Big Head himself, with all that astounding knowledge recall.
So you gave half points for half answers?
Point taken about the Second Sleeper. So I'm demoted to 15/90. I was actually remembering the 60s cartoon which I'd seen long before reading the comic. It's not an image that leaves the mind easily.
(So what was the first sleeper?)
And why did Hitler lose the War if he had 'a giant head on an aerplane' capable of taking over the world tucked away for a rainy day like that?
Perhaps the Nazis had already found the design flaw on it, whereby a reasonably fit soldier could just climb onto it and disable it in mid-flight.
The First Sleeper was your typical Republic Pictures Giant Nazi Robot complete with claws and energy blasts.
The Sleepers weren't designed to take over the world but to destroy it if when the Third Reich fell.
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