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1. In the beginning of the three stories, covered in the book, "Looks, Brains, and Everything", we see Ryan Beckwith having a dream about creating a cure-all nerve tonic out of gin, toothpaste, and water. With what kitchen implement does Shelley Winter wake up from this blissful endeavour?
2. At the science fair, Tim Jones encounters his arch nemesis, Seamus Fogerty. Exhibiting his newest invention, the phosphorescent waterfowl, he claims that it will smarten up crummy seaside towns like Corby and Hull. When Seamus appears on the scene, we find that he has stolen Tim's invention from the previous fair. What was this invention, and how has Fogerty improved it in order to win?
3. Following the science fair, Seamus Fogerty is found murdered and Tim is put squarely in the frame as the culprit. Following this action, Shelley is also murdered, as the real murderer believes that she has figured him out. When talking about these two related murders, Rachel and Tessa are left to talk about it. Rachel suggests that the two stay indoors and buy a gun, but what does Tessa want to do?
4. Tessa and Rachel soon find out that it was Archie who murdered both Shelley and Seamus, and so they go to his office to confront him. What reason does Archie give for trying to frame Tim for the murders of the victims?
5. Escaping from jail using a surprisingly simple method (donning an overcoat, a flat cap, and a pipe to fool the on-duty guard), Tim comes to the rescue of Tessa and Rachel who are stuck on the roof of Fogerty Laboratories. They are being attacked by Archie and his mad, metal weapons of death. Rachel think the best method is to jam a ball-point pen into his brain, but how are the girls saved in the end?
6. Rachel and Tessa may be safe for now, but as we see, Ryan and Tim are still missing Shelley terribly. Come Halloween, Ryan is drinking away his sorrows and Tim is trying to contact aliens. When he meets Ralph in the pub, though, Ryan's life is about to change. Ralph, a necromancer, is set on bringing Shelley back to life. Which of the following things is NOT featured in the "ceremony" in the graveyard?
7. Now burdened with the zombie of his late friend, Shelley, Ryan takes her home to his bed-sit where his landlady Miss Birch seems blissfully unaware of the otherworldly goings-on upstairs. The next day, he takes her to Tim's house, to see what they should do.
As the arrive, Tim is horrified and not convinced by Ryan's excuse that he just found her "wandering around, y'know?". What is the first thing Tim suggests they do for Shelley?
8. To get out of the house, Tim, Ryan, and Shelley decide to go the Guy Fawkes Night Pub Quiz at the local public house. Ryan is worried that there may be people there who knew Shelley and that they would get suspicious, but Ryan tells him that it is okay, because when you are being interrogated over such things, all you have to do is, what?
9. Shelley is soon cornered by Biff and Sanjiv, two of the most active members of the "West Yorkshire Anti-Zombie Unit", who began to suspect her when Biff's chicken claw began to glow and vibrate. As the drag her into the bathrooms, what do they try to force her to eat, so that she will revert back to her dead form?
10. As the trio goes out to look at the bonfire, a bigger threat to Shelley's "life" appears. The Devil, accompanied by Ralph the Necromancer, loom up behind the trio, and demand Ryan's soul for his provision of Shelley's re-birth. Shelley, however, would rather fight it out. As she takes her pent-up anger out on the Devil, which of these is NOT an exclamation she makes?
11. As you may have noticed, the usually ever present Amy Chilton has been absent from this story so far. As she arrives home on a snowy December day from art college, she is met by her father, Len, who soon notices that Amy has been rather heavily tattooed while at college. Amy, in her infinite wisdom, knew that Len would react violently, as soon as her end of term project, she painted him a Christmas gift. What was it?
12. By the time Amy has been in contact with Tim and found out what happened to her best friend, Shelley is already gone. Living in a bed-sit that smells of dry rot in the run-down suburb of Copper Edge. In an attempt to get a job, Shelley has been thrown out of the agencies she has tried, but soon finds a job in the paper seeking a "discreet assistant". What does she claim she invented in her application form?
13. Shelley soon gets the job and finds herself working with the highly suspicious Hamilton Percy, a man who supposedly imports and exports dreams of one kind or another. As she arrives at her building of employment, however, she is disappointed, as it does not exactly "scream career progression".
14. In her home at Copper Edge Heights, Shelley begins to become irritated by her neighbours, who seem intent on getting to know her better. Shelley quickly makes her excuses and takes to kicking her room to bits to relieve the tension but she quickly finds that this does not make everything feel better like she thought it would. What excuse does Shelley use to make her neighbours leave her alone?
15. Still flustered the next morning, Shelley makes her way to work as usual, but her need for brains is growing stronger and stronger. Her boss tells her that today, she will be caddying for him as he plays against Dave Eye, Ryan's past employer. On the way to work that day, though, Shelley bought something in a hope to satisfy her need for brains. What was it?
16. By some strange stroke of luck, Amy and Tim are exhibiting Tim's newest invention at the same golf course that day. As Shelley carries her boss's clubs around Keane End Links, Tim is explaining the virtues of his newly designed Golf Cart, which has a 25 foot pole that extends to capture potential lightning strikes and use them to power the battery of the cart. Meanwhile, Shelley is busy going to town on her boss's grey matter. What excuse does she use to get access to Hamilton Percy's cranium?
17. After finishing off Hamilton, Shelley runs wildly across Keane End Links until she finds Tim and Amy. Leaping on Tim, Shelley drools madly and makes easy access to his left ear by lifting up his sideboards. Grabbing the nearest thing to her, Amy then hits Shelley on the head with a golf club and Shelley makes her escape on the golf cart. In another terrible twist of fate, lightning strikes the cart, and the cart does not work as Tim had claimed. Shelley is horribly electrocuted. What does this do to her?
18. As she leaves hospital a newly invigorated woman, Shelly has short hair as the lightning strike caused her to shed the hair she had as a zombie. We see an argument ensure between Shelley and Amy, as Amy claims that she looked like which of the following things when she had no hair?
19. At the end of this fantastical tale, we see Tessa and Rachel cleaning up the pub. They speak of Shelley' "big kiddie bug eyes and her silly red hair", and how "she just had one of those bad comas, the sort where they bury you". As it is the end of the tale, the question I must ask is this. What are the final words of this well-spun yarn?
20. Now a question for those lucky enough to own the printed version of the story. John occasionally writes epilogues for his stories, but the epilogue for this tale was not published on the website, as in his words, "I can only question how much spray-mount I had to inhale to conclude that this was a fitting end to the story".
In the aforementioned epilogue, we see Tim, Ryan, Shelley, and Amy going to see a "Guided by Voices" concert. Shelley, however, is worried that the microphone, swung by "Guided by Voices" lead singer Bob Pollard, will hit her on the head and she will die again. What solution to this potential problem does Ryan offer?
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