Congratulations to Mike Moore and Jay McDowell, the first and second place winners (respectively) of 2 Warps to Neptune’s very first Quiz!
Mike got 22 out of 30 (including all 5 Breakfast Club answers), and Jay got 17 out of 30. Good work, guys. And a giant thank you to everyone who played. The questions weren’t a walk in the park, I know.
I had a lot of fun writing the thing, and I’ll do another one at some point next year. Keep your minds and pencils sharp!
Here’s the answer key to #1:
- Abraham
- a (Pencil)
- b (Conquest)
- Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
- a (The Keep on the Borderlands)
- Brain: had a gun in his locker; Athlete: taped Larry Lester’s buns together; Basket Case: had nothing better to do; Princess: ditched school to go shopping; Criminal: pulled the fire alarm (“What if your home, what if your family—what if your dope—was on fire?” “Impossible, sir. It’s in Johnson’s underwear.”)
- c (Conan the Barbarian)
- Mansion, Apartment, Shack/Sewer, House
- Gyruss
- Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel
- c (The Man from Snowy River)
- Duran Duran (eponymous)
- Magic Realm
- Big Trouble in Little China (Friend J. missed this one and was rightly, heartily ashamed. We watched the movie almost every weekend.)
- Bruce Springsteen
- c (Wisdom)
- The Cure
- c (Wolverine)
- Battlestar Galactica
- E.T.
- BONUS QUESTION: The Day After
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