Guild-y as Sin: Wrath Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ricardo Montalbán

The story of Khan began with an episode called "Space Seed." The Enterprise finds a derelict ship with cryogenically frozen humans on board. They rescue them only to find out that they were bio-engineered soldiers from the Eugenics war on earth 300 years ago. Khan tries to take over the Enterprise, but ends up exiled on Ceti Alpha V. The movie continues this story 15 years later.

Question submitted by SilverMoonsong. She thinks "The Wrath of Moon" would make a great Star Trek movie, but unfortunately, Majel Barret-Roddenberry passed on before she could approve the script.

Answer: Raymond E. Feist

I hope you paid attention to the fact that Magician had a capital M and gave a clue. A native of California, Feist created the "Riftwar" series of novels about strange worlds that became intertwined. The saga began with "Magician" in 1982 and while the tales sometimes sidetracked, the theme of life on Midkemia was always one of the struggle between good and evil - the evil often coming from distant worlds. Writing alone and with collaborators such as Janny Wurts, William R. Forstchen, Joel Rosenberg, and S. M. Stirling, Feist took the tally of adventures to 27 with "Wrath Of A Mad God" in 2008.

Question submitted by Darksplash's Chocolate Lab, Coco. She really wanted to be a Great Dane, but you can't have everything. Just don't call her Cujo.

Answer: HMS Caribbean

The HMS Caribbean's wreckage was found in 2004, practically untouched. The ship was famous because it used to be named the RMS Dunottar Castle. That vessel was one of the first to cut in half the journey time from Britain to Africa. It was renamed for wartime service.

Question submitted by Guild member Greengal, who wanted to be a Simpson's character when she grew up, but her color was all wrong... this made her very angry. Maybe we can send her on a date with the Hulk?

Answer: World of Warcraft

Released in 2008, "Wrath of the Lich King" set a record for fastest-selling computer game, selling 2.8 million copies on the first day of release. All the wrong answers are MMORPGs.

Question submitted by Quiz_Beagle, who, in a fit of pique, bit my ankle when I asked her to make edits to her question.

Answer: Odysseus

Who wouldn't be full of wrath after taking 10 years to get home?

Agamemnon means steadfast, resolute; Daedalus means craftsman, cunning worker; Prometheus means foresight.

Question submitted by Patricck, who is still rather ticked off that his 'C' key keeps sticking.

Answer: Tom Joad

The theme of "The Grapes of Wrath" can also be traced in Woody Guthrie's song "Do-Re-Mi":

"California is a Garden of Eden
A Paradise to live in or see
But believe it or not
You won't find it so hot
If you don't have the Do-Re-Mi"

"The Grapes of Wrath" was published in 1939 and was one of the main reasons behind the award of a Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1962) to Steinbeck. He also won a Pulitzer Prize. The book told the story of the Joad family as they traveled west from Oklahoma after their farm was repossessed. Along the way they found many others had the same idea and the book went on to deal with the exploitation the Okies faced in their new land.

In 1940, Henry Fonda starred in a Hollywood version, though its ending differed from that of the novel.

Question submitted by darksplash. He's rather peeved about the fact that his dog's question is better than his. Of course, she's more intelligent than he is, too.

Answer: Klaus Kinski

The story of the film is loosely based on the misadventures of the egomaniacal conquistador, Lope de Aguirre, as he undertook his mission to find the lost city of gold, El Dorado. The film explores the madness of such a single and bloody-minded individual as he pursues an unachievable goal.

Kinski, not short on ego himself, was personally chosen by Herzog for the part. The two had known each other many years previously when Kinski had lodged in the Herzog family home. The two disagreed on the way to portray Aguirre and the only way that Herzog could obtain the restrained performance he required from Kinski was to provoke Kinski into wild rages and not start filming until they had subsided.

Matters came to a head when Kinski threatened to walk off set (not for the first time) over the director's unwillingness to fire a sound engineer. Herzog told Kinski that if he left the set, he would shoot first Kinski and then himself. Whether he meant it or not, Herzog's threat worked and Kinski stayed on for the remainder of the shoot.

Despite the spectacular rages between the pair, Kinski and Herzog worked together several times after "Aguirre, Wrath of God" had been completed.

Question submitted by Snowman, whose wrath caused a meltdown. Search crews are still out with mops and buckets cleaning up all his melty bits.

Answer: Iago

Iago was trying to tell Othello that his wife Desdemona had been unfaithful (to this end he had bribed a servant to get a handkerchief from Desdemona that Iago was subsequently to give Cassio, the object of Othello's jealously...) Othello was about to lose his temper with Iago, the real villain, but unfortunately it was Desdemona who felt his wrath when he strangled her.

Question submitted by Guild member Quiz_Beagle, who really needs to take some anger management classes (or maybe just some obedience classes?) - biting the ankles of people who don't agree with you is very naughty. Now go rub your nose on a newspaper and throw yourself down the stairs. Good dog.

Answer: Bill Bixby

There have been many incarnations of the Hulk, but probably the best known is the TV series, with Bill Bixby as Bruce Banner and Lou Ferrigno as his alter-ego, the Hulk. Because of a lab experiment gone awry, when Dr. Banner becomes angry, he turns into the Hulk.

Lou Ferrigno won the part of the Hulk over Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ferrigno is almost 6'5" and "Ah-nuld" is only 6'1.5". The producers felt that the taller actor/bodybuilder could better portray the 7' Hulk.

Question submitted by SilverMoonsong, who saves her wrath for people driving while talking on cell phones. Perhaps, one day, she'll have one of them as a new hood ornament on her truck.

Answer: American Civil War

These lines form the first verse of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," written for the Union side of the U.S. Civil War. The tune was written by William Steffe before the war; its first use by soldiers was in 1860, when a Massachusetts infantryman named Thomas Bishop wrote lyrics called "John Brown's Body," commonly supposed to be about a famous, ill-fated abolitionist who took matters into his own hands in the 1850s. But the most famous set of lyrics for this music is the version written by Julia Ward Howe, a staunch Union supporter who wrote them in a Washington, DC hotel in 1861. She had heard an army unit singing "John Brown's Body," and decided to write new lyrics, arguing quite literally that God was angry about slavery and on the Union's side:

"In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on."

Question submitted by CellarDoor, who plays with particle accelerators and other cool toys. Just don't make her angry, you wouldn't like her when she's angry...