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Player Piano
Potpourri
100
"These mountains give me no ideas."
Who is Vashti from "The Machine Stops"?
100
He has long, soft hands.
Who is Paul Proteus?
100
According to Zamyatin, this is the number of revolutions there will be.
What is "infinite" or "no finite number."
100
He has the title of "Reverend" and is the primary instigator of the revolution.
Who is Lasher?
100
She led the children to the Great Operation.
Who is U/"gills"?
200
"If you only had a flesh-and-blood face, I would break it in."
Who is Donovan from "Reason"?
200
He is known as the Prophet.
Who is Q-T?
200
Utopia is like this famous board game, since both substitute for other, more complex realities.
What is chess?
200
Proteus defeats this machine at a game he is famous for never losing.
Who is Checker Charley?
200
This is a branch of study interested in questions regarding the use and treatment of machines.
What is machine ethics?
300
“I am so happy, so happy…I am full—you know, to the brim. I walk about and hear nothing around me, listening all the time within, inside me…”
Who is O from We?
300
He was a Cultist angry that scientists had reduced his religion and faith to a natural phenomenon.
Who is Latimer?
300
He makes a living by guessing the song being playing on a muted TV.
Who is Alfy?
300
He is the captain of the green team at the Meadows.
Who is Shepherd.
300
He wrote that we should live by both the essence that is the soul as well as the equally divine body.
Who is E. M. Forester?
400
"I could tell that one was a doozy."
Who is Hazel from "Harrison Bergeron"?
400
He longs to take long walks by the muscular hills.
Who is Kuno from "The Machine Stops"?
400
This is the third law in the Law of Robotics.
What is "a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."
400
These are the two options you have if you can't compete with the machines.
What is the Army or the Reeks and Wrecks?
400
He believed that "A literature that is alive does not live by yesterday’s clock, nor by today’s, but by tomorrow’s."
Who is Zamyatin?
500
"It would be wise to leave that ridicule to friendly hands."
Who is Theremon from "Nightfall"?
500
Who is mesmerized by this part of the body, saying that women are nothing but lips.
Who is D-503?
500
According to M. Keith Booker, this theme was common to both Disney and Hitchcock in the 1950s.
What is fear of invasion by sinister outside forces?
500
According to Finnerty, Proteus belongs to this now that he is the talking head for the Ghost Shirt Society.
What is History?
500
According to Zamyatin, genius philosophers are like children because of this common trait.
What is they both ask foolish questions?
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