Last night there was a trivia contest in the notes.
Prize for trivia contest will be a chance at pass for a temp rezzer christmas tree (255 temp prims max) from the mayor’s office. I will allow one per sim. That means you should enter even if you can’t get all the answers, I will be ranking the entries by completness/correctness.
To enter, send your answers back to me via notecard before next wednesday’s office hours, put your name in the name of the notecard please. Here’s the questions:
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1. Tiny Tin was What?
A: An alcoholic beverage.
B: a Giant Robot.
C: a Clockwork Urchin.
D: all of the above
2. What happened if you ate one of Ordinal Malaprop’s Christmas candies?
3. Who was Ruthorford of Ruthorford square? (full name)
4. Doctor Obolensky had factories that produced two different food products. What were the foods?
5. What is Tenk’s nickname for the New Babbage sim? (the sim, not the estate)
6. What is the oldest unaltered standing build in Babbage Square?
7. What was Mr. Underby’s orginal profession before he got into politics?
8. What was the occasion for the first Breakfast in Babbage broadcast?
9. What was the name of the homestead sim that used to be located south of the Vernian Sea?
10. How many bars are there currently in Babbage?
11. What was the name of the sim that Mayor Sprocket planned, but was never rezzed?
12. What is the real name of the Ghost Train?
13. Which establishment has had more owners, the Gangplank or the Cocoajava?
14. BONUS: How many sims have been derezzed in New Babbage estate?
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Some of these that would only be known to oldtimers can be found inworld if you are particularly nosey in your camming. Answers will be given in next week’s Engineer Notes.
Congrats to Edward Pearse, Tepic Harlequin, and Loki Eliot, in that order of correctness. Loki’s answers were the most amusing.
1. Tiny Tin was What?
B: a Giant Robot.
2. What happened if you ate one of Ordinal Malaprop’s Christmas candies?
smoke billowed out of your ears then your head exploded. There is an image in the back gallery at city hall.
3. Who was Ruthorford of Ruthorford square? (full name)
Father Daniel Ruthorford, a cleric who lived at or shortly before the time of the fall of the Old Empire.
4. Doctor Obolensky had factories that produced two different food products. What were they?
The Om Nom Nom boxed candy assortments, which all tasted very very bad, and Scones.
5. What is Tenk’s nickname for the New Babbage sim? (the sim, not the estate)
Number Seven
6. What is the oldest unaltered standing build in Babbage Square?
The Rusty Cog. Kahruvel Steamworks would have been a good guess, but it has been partially deprimmed from its original state.
7. What was Mr. Underby’s orginal profession before he got into politics?
psychic/soothsayer/fortuneteller
8. What was the occasion for the first Breakfast in Babbage broadcast?
Tenk’s 2nd rezday
9. What was the name of the homestead sim that used to be located south of the Vernian Sea?
Clockspire Cove
10. How many bars are there currently in Babbage?
counting places that actually have a bar installed: 17
The Gangplank
The Old Brewery in Clockhaven
Red Rum Cave
Good-bye Mushy Gurkin
Victory Hall
The Brass Monkey
The Rusty Cog
Loki’s Absinthe
Ruby’s Public House
The Sneaky Vole
The Porthead Tavern
Ahab’s Bane
The Bucket of Blood
Cooger & Dark’s Wax Museum
The Merryman
Oddson’s Brewery and fishing wharf
Rookswood Brewery
11. What was the name of the sim that Mayor Sprocket planned, but was never rezzed?
Brunel Heights. Cam inside the top apartment above the Gangplank to see an artifact.
12. What is the real name of the Ghost Train?
Engine Seven
13. Which establishment has had more owners, the Gangplank or the Cocoajava?
While each has changed hands three times, The Gangplank would me more correct as it is currently owned jointly by Junie Ginsburg and Emerson Lighthouse.
14. BONUS: How many sims have been derezzed in New Babbage estate? (tricky)
Four.
Academy of Industry the first was derezed to become Clockspire Cove
Clockspire Cove was derezzed after homestead pricing increased (it was sold by Mayor Sprocket).
North Fells was derezzed (it was turned in by Mayor Tenk).
Vernian Deep was derezzed to become The Fells.
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Winners are Edward Pearse (highest score) for Babbage Palisade, Tepic Harlequin for Wheatstone Waterways, and Loki Eliot for Babbage Square.
BTW– LAQ Decor has a 3 impact mesh christmas tree that is much much nicer than that old rezzer tree ever was. Also, some temp rezzers do not work as smoothly as they used to, so buyer beware.
Good grief! Reckon i made a bit of a mess of most of those answers! Just goes to show, research don’t always give the right answer! Still….. hmmmm…. now just where am i gonna put that tree!
I found the poster in the Gangplank room, which I don’t remember having seen before. I’ll have to see if a copy is available. My guess of Brunel Heights was based on a blog entry of mine for when the “Number Seven” sim was being allocated.