Pop quiz! Win an ARC!

[seanan_mcguire]

I have had a battered and beaten ARC returned to me by my housemate (he read it, he enjoyed it, but these poor babies aren't meant to last forever). Since I can't exactly send it out to a review site, I've decided that it's POP QUIZ TIME! The first person to answer all twenty questions correctly will win the ARC. (If you already have one, you can still win, and tell me where it should be sent.) If no one has answered all twenty questions correctly by tonight, I will pick the person with the highest number of right answers. In case of a tie, it still goes to first.

People who have known me for more than ten years are respectfully asked not to play, as that just wouldn't be fair to the rest of the planet.

Game on!

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1. According to this 1980s horror classic, Daddy would've gotten us something specific. What was the name of the movie, and what would Daddy have gotten us?

2. What, according to Nathan Fillion in Slither, was AWESOME? Who directed Slither? What does the director of Slither need to do?

3. What is the original source for the title Rosemary and Rue?

4. What are the full names of Seanan's cats?

5. What does Seanan claim to use to edit her books?

6. Where does the phrase "the Turtle couldn't help us" come from?

7. Is there anyone who appears on all three of Seanan's albums? Name them. (The people, not the albums.)

8. Okay, now you should name the albums.

9. Seanan has a tendency to listen to the same song over and over and over. What is the name of the song, who originally recorded it, and what album does it appear on?

10. Is that you, Johnny?

11. What was the lineup of The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division, during Velveteen's time on the team? Who was the first of that lineup to leave the team?

12. What was the name of the first anthology to publish Seanan's work?

13. What does Kate say Seanan is not allowed to have?

14. When Seanan says she's putting on her princess pants, what specific type of princess is she going off to be? (Note: there are two correct answers to this question, and either of them will be accepted.)

15. Seanan has a soda. What kind of soda does Seanan have?

16. What is the official publication date and publisher for Rosemary and Rue?

17. Name three of Seanan's protagonists.

18. Where, exactly, is that midnight train going?

19. Name the first three Toby books. For extra credit, name the second three Toby books.

20. Is cloning predatory dinosaurs and keeping them in a secure facility that doesn't have a backup security grid a good idea?

Comments

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

*sits on her hands*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Good woman.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

1. Night of the Comet, Uzis.
2. Er, "That"? James Gunn. Call you.
3. Shakespeare? It's always Shakespeare. I think it's Shakespeare. AHA IT IS FROM A WINTER'S TALE. (Google is allowed, right?)
4. Lillian blah di blah Kane and Alice blah di blah Something. I could look them up, but I don't plan on winning; this is just fun to do.
5. A machete.
6. It, by one Stephen King.
7. Uh, probaby Tony and Vixy? Aha, no! Looks like Michelle Dockrey and Amy McNally and Paul Kwinn and Tony Fabris have, at least.
8. Pretty Little Dead Girl, Stars Fall Home, and Red Roses and Dead Things. (BUT OMG WHEN I STARTED TYPING YOUR NAME INTO GOOGLE IT TOTALLY WANTED TO AUTO-COMPLETE FOR ME!! AND THERE ARE 400 RESULTS FOR "SEANAN MCGUIRE ROSEMARY AND RUE"!)
9. "The Rain King," by the Counting Crows, from...August and Everything After. Hey, that's the one album I've heard of.
10. No, for fuck's sake, it's the goddamn monster that's going to eat your brains, you twit.
11. Oh yeah, I keep meaning to read those stories...
12. Ravens in the Library?
13. Oh God, so many things. But I think the most important one is a pandemic virus. That or a pet velociraptor.
14. Disney princess?
15. DDP.
16. September 1, 2009. DAW.
17. October Daye, Georgia Mason, Clady Whatsername. Porter! It's Porter. I think.
18. Georgia?
19. Rosemary and Rue, Late Eclipses, The One Where Everyone Dies. Followed by Zombie Toby, Zombie Toby Strikes Again, and Rosemary and Braaaaaaaains.
20. Absolutely.

[beable]

Seanan Totally Needs to Write Zombie Toby and Braaaaaaaaaaaaains

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I love you. Also, I love you for this:

"No, for fuck's sake, it's the goddamn monster that's going to eat your brains, you twit."

LOVE.

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

It's highly amusing how many of these I can answer. Jeez.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Well, you've known me forever.

[settecorvi.livejournal.com]

1. Night of the Comet, Uzis
2. a) The fact that you need both “tentacles” of the original alien host in you to get pregnant with the slug-babies. (And he’d only gotten one of them in him, so he wasn’t going to be a mommy.) b) James Gunn c) either make a sequel or call you.
3. Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale?
4. Lillian Kane Moskowitz Munster Cavanaugh-Sawyer McGuire and Alice Price-Healy Little Liddel Abernathy McGuire
5. A machete
6. Stephen King’s IT
7. Michelle Dockrey, Peter Kwinn, Tony Fabris, and Amy McNally.
8. Red Roses and Dead Things, Stars Fall Home, and Pretty Little Dead Girl
9. “Rain King” by Counting Crows from August and Everything After, produced by T-Bone Burnett
10. Yes!
11. Velveteen (Velma Martinez), Sparkle Bright (Yelena), The Claw (David), and Action Dude (Aaron). Velma left first.
12. Ravens in the Library
13. Anything from the show Primeval.
14. Disney Halloweentown Princess Pants
15. Diet Dr. Pepper
16. September 1, 2009, published by DAW
17. October “Toby” Daye, Velma Martinez, and Verity Price
18. Georgia
19. Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses, The Brightest Fell, Ashes of Honor
20. Only if you want to be eaten by them. Or make a fun movie.

[settecorvi.livejournal.com]

Aww...HTML fail.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's funny that in my mind, Late Eclipses was the second book because it's the one she's working on now. Because in the NORMAL, SANE WORLD, if an author is releasing the first book in a series soon, I would presume she would then be working on the second book. Not the fourth.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Vital question here:

Is your name "Johnny"?

[beable]

18. - Nowhere - does that mean Polly and Tom are on the train?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Remember that when I do a trivia contest, Google is NEVER cheating. I made sure everything could be answered via judicious use of my website and/or LJ tags.

[tanuki-green.livejournal.com]

While I don't know the answer to many of these questions, I do know MY answer to #20.

No. It is not a good idea. It is an excellent idea.

[tanuki-green.livejournal.com]

Also - #18 - Anywhere.

[beable]

1. An uzi. Night of the comment.
2. THAT. James Gunn. Call You.
3. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale.
For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep
Seeming and savour all the winter long:
4. Lillian Kane Moskowitz Munster Cavanaugh-Sawyer McGuire
Alice Price-Healy Little Liddel Abernathy McGuire
5. A machete
6. IT, Stephen King
7. Michele Dockrey, Tony Fabris, Paul Kwinn, Amy McNally (according to Seanan homepage-fu)
8. Pretty Little Dead Girl, Stars Fall Home, Red Roses and Dead Things
9. The Rain King, Counting Crows, August and Everything After
10. No. It's not Johnny. It's never Johnny.
11. Gilderoy Lockhart!
12. Ravens in the Library
13. an army of genetically-modified predatory dinosaurs, designed to fulfill her every whim.
14. Pretty pink!
15. Diet Dr Pepper
16. September 1, 2009 - DAW
17. Toby Daye, Clady Porter, Margery
18. Babylon Wood
19. Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night.
Late Eclipses of the Sun, The Brightest Fell, Ashes of Honor
20. How else will they serve your every whim?

[beable]

Night of the comment indeed *headdesk*
I meant to type Night of the Comet.

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

So... I finished reading R&R.
Dammit.
Want more.
So there.
Hrmph.
That is all.

[tanuki-green.livejournal.com]

You won't be disappointed. I assure you.

[shaela]

I probably won’t be the first, since I had to google most of the answers. But here goes:

1. According to Night of the Comet, “Daddy would’ve gotten us Uzis.”

2. When Kylie tells Bill, “You need both of them things in you to get all ‘wormy,’” he responds, “Oh, that’s awesome!” Slither was directed by James Gunn. James Gunn needs to call you.

3. Rosemary and Rue was orginally the name of a book by Martha Everts Holden.

4. Seanan’s cats are named Lillian Kane Moskowitz Munster Cavanaugh-Sawyer McGuire and Alice Price-Healy Little Liddel Abernathy McGuire.

5. Seanan claims that she edits her books with a machete.

6. The phrase “The turtle couldn’t help us” comes from It, by Stephen King.

7. Michelle Dockrey, Tony Fabris, Paul Kwinn, and Amy McNally appear on all three of Seanan’s albums.

8. The albums are Pretty Little Dead Girl, Stars Fall Home, and Red Roses and Dead Things.

9. Seanan has a tendency to listen to “Rain King” over and over. It was originally recorded by Counting Crows and appeared on the album August and Everything After.

10. It’s not Johnny.

11. The lineup of The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division, during Velveteen’s time on the team, was: Handheld, Swallowtail, The Bedbug, Super-Cool, The Nanny, Apex, and The Candy Sisters. IIRC, Velveteen herself was the first to leave the team.

12. Ravens in the Library was the first anthology to publish Seanan’s work.

13. Kate says Seanan is not allowed to have a lawn.

14. When Seanan says she’s putting on her princess pants, she’s going to be a Disney Halloweentown princess.

15. Seanan has a Diet Doctor Pepper.

16. Rosemary and Rue will be released on September 1, 2009. It is published by DAW.

17. Three of Seanan’s protagonists are October Daye, Clady Porter, and Verity Price.

18. That midnight train is going anywhere.

19. The first three Toby books are Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, and An Artificial Night. The second three Toby books are Late Eclipses, The Brightest Fell, and Ashes of Honor.

20. Only if you have a very safe place from which to watch the ensuing “dinosaurs eat people” pandemonium.

Can I change my answer for number three?

[shaela]

Apparently, the phrase “rosemary and rue” is also in A Winter’s Tale, and that strikes me as a more likely source.

[k-crow.livejournal.com]

1. Night of the Comet, Uzis
2. "That"'s AWESOME, specifically that since Nathan Fillion's character didn't get pierced by both tentacles, he won't gestate the "wormy" things. James Gunn. He needs to call you.
3. From Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale.
4. Lillian Kane Moskowitz Munster McGuire, and Alice Price-Healy Little Liddel Abernathy McGuire
5. A machete, and sometimes a chainsaw.
6. Stephen King's IT
7. Vixy (Michelle Dockrey), Tony Fabris, Amy McNally, and Paul Kwin
8. Pretty Little Dead Girl, Stars Fall Home, and Red Roses and Dead Things
9. Rain King, by the Counting Crows, on August and Everything After.
10. No, it's never Johnny.
11. Velveteen, Sparkle Bright, Action Dude, The Claw. The Claw was the first to leave.
12. Ravens in the Library
13. Either a velociraptor or a pandemic
14. A Halloweentown Disney Princess
15. DDP - Diet Dr. Pepper
16. September 1, 2009, from DAW Books.
17. Clady Porter, Toby Daye, and Verity Price
18. To Georgia.
19. Rosemary & Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, then Late Eclipses, The Brightest Fell, and Ashes of Honor
20. No.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

You are, by dint of getting EVERY DAMN QUESTION RIGHT, the winner of our first ever weird-ass trivia contest.

Now where am I sending the ARC? I don't suppose you wanted it, did you? ;)

[erinwrites.livejournal.com]

I am far too late to get in on this action, but this was fun. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

2: You. Someone awesome. Call you
4: Lillian Laptop-Unpacker Kane Moskowitz Munster Cavanaugh-Sawyer McGuire and Alice "Walking Gravitational Singularity" Price-Healy Liddel Little Abernathy McGuire
5: A machete, most ferequently. Also red pens, computers, and a loyal slave-army of proofreaders
6: From your semi-regular "Hi, I'm Seanan, and you, gentle reader, will need this glossary to understand me."
7: YOU DO!
8: Red Roses and Dead Things, Stars Fall Home and Pretty Little Dead Girl
9: Yes, and you do belong in the service of the queen.
10: No, it's Jane and she's drunk again.
11: Screw Action Dude! Hooking up with Sparkle Bright and everything. He deserves what he has...
12: Ravens in the Library, sitting on my desk.
13: Seanan is not allowed to have ANYTHING FUN.
14: A Disney HALLOWEENTOWN Princess!
15: If it's not DDP, it doesn't exist.
16: September 1st. October comes early this year.
17: Toby Daye, Georgia Mason and Clady "Why me, universe?"
20: Yes, as long as you have a camera crew on hand to film the inevitable.

[maverick-weirdo.livejournal.com]

So far you are the only person to mention that Seanan McGuire is on all Seanan McGuire's CDs

[snowcoma.livejournal.com]

NNNGH. I want the ARC so bad, but I'd end up copying some of the answers, and that feels too much like cheating for me to be comfortable with it.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

That's fair.

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I didn't have net access before today. But I knew #18! Anywhere. (It's not cheating that I follow you on Twitter, is it? I thought not.)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Honestly, nothing I don't say is cheating is cheating. I made sure all the answers could be found via my website, my LJ, and a variety of Google searches.