Classic Video Games
Sci Fi Films
Authors
Philosophers
Mythology
100
This Atari game is considered the first one ever.
What is Pong
100
In this 1980s sequel, The Enterprise is targeted by a revenge hungry superhuman earlier marooned by Captain Kirk.
What is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
100
She wrote Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma.
Who is Jane Austen
100
Plato's mentor, a man who was sentenced to death for introducing a new religious way of thinking to young people. He once said, "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Who is Socrates
100
In Norse Mythology, it is heaven.
What is Valhalla
200
Hideo Kojima was the mastermind of this Playstation X game, where you play as Solid Snake, a stealth operative infiltrating an Alaskan nuclear base that is held hostage.
What is Metal Gear Solid
200
Name Ridley Scott's two Sci Fi masterpieces. One released in 1979 (about a mining ship that becomes infested with a deadly creature.), and one in 1982 (about a cyborg hunting detective played by Harrison Ford.).
What are Alien and Blade Runner
200
He wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina
Who is Leo Tolstoy
200
His religion is one of the biggest in the world, and taught that through meditating one could achieve Nirvana.
Who is Gautama Buddha
200
The Iron Age Celts had a common religion, but what kind of religion was it?
What is Polytheistic
300
This N64 game is widely considered the greatest game ever. You play as Link, and has to save Hyrule and the Triforce from Ganondorf, using an instrument to travel through time.
What is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
300
Who is Luke Skywalker's father?
Who is Darth Vader
300
He wrote A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises.
Who is Ernest Hemingway
300
He has what some call a religion, but is more of a philosophy. He once said, "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
Who is Confucius
300
These enemies of the Greeks in a ten year war were believed to be the mythological ancestors of the Roman people.
Who are The Trojans
400
TROLL QUESTION: Put the following consoles in chronological order, by year of release: Nintendo 64, NES, Atari 2600, SNES, Home Pong, Playstation X (If you get it wrong lose double the points, if you get it right get double the points!)
What is Home Pong, Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Playstation X
400
This other Kubrick film follows the lives of deranged teens in dystopian Britain.
What is A Clockwork Orange
400
He wrote The Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer
400
He had one of the first astronomical theories, stating that the Earth is the center of the universe, which was later proven wrong. He also had a lot to do with politics in his homeland, Greece.
Who is Aristotle
400
In most polytheistic ancient mythologies, this was the term for the group of the highest gods.
What is Pantheon
500
In this Final Fantasy type SNES classic, you play as Chrono, a boy from 1000 A.D. who has to travel throughout history to stop the world from ending in 1999.
What is Chrono Trigger
500
In Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dave Bowman's ship is run by an AI robot that soon loses his temper with the humans and goes on a killing spree using the ship as his weapon. What is the AI system called?
What is HAL 9000
500
TROLL QUESTION: He wrote famous plays such as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View From the Bridge. (If you get it wrong lose double the points, if you get it right get double the points!)
Who is Arthur Miller
500
TROLL QUESTION: He was the foundation for philosophy today and in the ancient world. His 300 or so works shaped many philosophies including Roman and Greek. (If you get it wrong lose double the points, if you get it right get double the points!)
Who is Epicurus
500
This country's mythologies are used in many of the ancient world's writings, and in modern popular culture like Clash of the Titans and God of War.
What is Greek (Mythology)
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