JPod Trivia Quiz

Answer: Turtle

The members of JPod in a Vancouver video gaming company have been told to design a new character for a skateboarding game called "BoardX". Unfortunately, the team is alarmed by the fact that the new character has to be a skateboarding turtle because their boss, Steve (who turned Toblerone around in two years), thinks that since his son likes a game with turtles in it, everyone else will too. Ethan, the main character of the story, is called to his parents' house where his mother has unfortunately killed a man to whom she was going to sell marijuana.

They are forced to dispose of the body in a local construction site.

Answer: Ronald McDonald

The team realizes that Ronald McDonald must feel lonely without a spouse or girlfriend to go home to, so they each write their own letters (including Kaitlin) to give Ronald options. This later comes back to haunt Cowboy.
In order to procrastinate the creation of the turtle character in "BoardX", Ethan creates biographies for all of the JPod crew members involving info like their weaknesses and favourite foods.

Answer: The Subway Diet

Ethan and Bree decide to Google Kaitlin to learn more about her and they find that she was a spokesperson for the Subway Diet only to be caught cheating. It is later revealed that Kaitlin planted the pictures to trick her colleagues. Meanwhile, Ethan is forced to help his brother smuggle Northern Chinese immigrants into the country for a famous Cinese businessman, Kam Fong, and Kaitlin learns that the man who originally had her cubicle killed himself by sucking in too much helium at a child's birthday party.

Answer: Ballroom dancing

Mr. Jarlewski was once an accomplished ballroom dancer despite the fact that Ethan's mother hated the hobby with a passion. During a night on the town with Kam Fong, Ethan discovers that Kam is also a dancer and both Kam and his father bond during a bout of dancing.

After a night where literally everyone in Jpod is frazzled and bothered with problems, Ethan returns to Jpod and decides to tell Kaitlin that he has feelings for her and decides to give her some doughnuts. She realizes that he doesn't care how fat she gets and reveals that the Subway Diet webpage was a hoax.

She used her sister (who has the family 'fat gene') on the site and tried to mess with everyone's minds.

Answer: SpriteQuest

Four months later, Ethan and Kaitlin are together and Steve (who turned Toblerone around in two years) has been missing for ages. Four months earlier, Ethan had seen Steve outside his mother's house, and he hadn't seen him since. At the office, the new boss decides to change the game entirely.

The player is now a character who rides a magic carpet through dungeons and other odd areas and the game is called "SpriteQuest". One night, the group gathers to watch a TV show and Ethan realizes that Kam Fong and his mother may know more about Steve's disappearance.

They also note that the Zima they're drinking would be something that Douglas Coupland would use to establish a culture.

Answer: Bree

After a European man comes into her life, Bree decides that she needs to class herself up in order to get a beter job and look great for her new beau. She realizes that British women are more likely to get raises than North American women. Meanwhile, Ethan finds evidence of Steve at his mother's house (in the form of a penguin-patterned tie).

As for "SpriteQuest", Jpod is trying to sabotage the game. Four members are creating an evil 'Ronald McDonald-esque' clown character that can be unlocked that has the ability to create carnage and destroy environments and characters in the game complete with back story and dungeon.

Answer: Douglas Coupland

Ethan gets fed up with the whole 'Missing Steve' situation and goes to Kam Fong who sets him up on a plane ride to China. On the first class plane ride, Ethan notices Douglas Coupland (the writer of this novel) who is writing an article about China and commercialism before telling his story and getting drunk. Coupland later roots through the files on Ethan's laptop and leaves a note for him.

In China, Ethan is whisked off to a slave labour factory within a couple days and he finds Steve, on heroin, cutting soles for fake Nike shoes. Ethan returns Steve to the United States.

Answer: Kaitlin

Kaitlin created the hugging machine idea as a way to combat acute forms of autism that she has seen from her fellow workers. Using crib mattresses, terry cloth covers and pieces of wood, she unveiled the creation as John Doe unveiled his jCola idea (although Kam Fong put drugs into it). John Doe's lesbian mother also makes an embarrassment of him at the party and while Ethan takes Steve to get some drugs, Douglas Coupland talks to the other JPodders about an investment opportunity.

Answer: freedom

At the party, Ethan's mother takes a liking to freedom (which she likes to keep uncapitalized) and she ends up leaving home for weeks to get in touch with her inner woman. Because of this, John Doe and Ethan take an hour-long ferry ride to visit freedom's lesbian commune and talk to his mother. Also, Ethan talks with Bruce Pao who plans to shut down "Spritequest". Ethan brings up the fact that he's related to Greg Jarlewski, his brother, and Bruce comments that he might want to buy Lot 49 in Whistler, so he holds off on shutting down production.

Answer: DGlobe

In Whistler, Ethan discovers that freedom plans to buy Lot 49 and "SpriteQuest" is shut down when Bruce Pao doesn't get to buy it. As if things couldn't get worse, Ethan's mom calls him up and they decide to dig up Tim's body in Kam Fong's lawn to retrieve a safety deposit box key. All of the JPodders help out and they tell Ethan that they're all quitting the job to work for Douglas Coupland.

When they dig up the body, everyone goes off to a meeting while Ethan stays back. Douglas Coupland arrives and drives him to DGlobe headquarters to unveil his new product to Ethan, a sphere that can show the world's transformation (or other planets' transformations) over billions of years.

In exchange for his new laptop (so that Coupland can write a book about his life), Ethan gets a job with his friends at DGlobe, and he mentions that everyone is happy.