Without Looking It Up (game)

[Blaze1616 he/him]

WLIU Name the three original IRO-bots from the Amory Wars?

 

Coheed Kilgannon - The Beast

Cambria Kilgannon - The Knowledge

Jesse - Inferno - The Prize Fighter Inferno

 

WLIU Name the spectrum of light and the emotion that each color represents from the Green Lantern Universe (9 colors total).

[Curiosity he/him]

Red - Anger

Orange - Greed

Yellow - Fear

Green - Willpower

Blue - Hope

Indigo - Compassion

Violet - Love

 

White - Life

Black - Death

 

So happy to be able to work at least one of these out. 

 

Without looking it up, name all the primes from 1-100. 

[Lindel he/him]

I used to be able to count to 100 in Prime numbers without even thinking about it. I started to go for it, but I gave up pretty quickly. It's too tired and I'm too late. Or maybe the other way around? I don't even know anymore...

[Young Bard he/him]

1 in all but name

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 87, 89, 93, 97.

 

I'm sure about all of them to about 50, but after that I might have added one in. Sorry.

 

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WLIU, name 5 fantasy authors who published a high fantasy book prior to the Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (1990).

Edited March 15, 2016 by The Young Bard

[Eagle of the Forest Path he/him]

JRR Tolkien, obviously.

CS Lewis, if you consider Narnia as high fantasy

Terry Pratchett, wrote The Colour of magic in the early eighties.

Jack Vance, even though that's technically future Earth I still classify it as high fantasy.

Stephen King with the Dark Tower series.

 

If you consider my answer to be correct,

 

WLIU name the nine, uhm, eight... planets in the solar system, preferably in order. (I miss Pluto ) 

[Delightful]

Mars earth Venus Neptune Jupiter Uranus Saturn Mercury (Pluto!)

WLIU, name 5 different breeds of horse.

[Robinski he/him]

Palomino

Arabian

Shetland

Lipitsano

...(Why is it you can only ever easily recall one fewer than the number you are trying to find? That must be Pratchett's Fourth Law or something.)

Zebra?

Mongolian!

I'm not confident enough to put up a question yet.

Edited March 15, 2016 by Robinski

[Robinski he/him]

JRR Tolkien, obviously.

CS Lewis, if you consider Narnia as high fantasy

Terry Pratchett, wrote The Colour of magic in the early eighties.

Jack Vance, even though that's technically future Earth I still classify it as high fantasy.

Stephen King with the Dark Tower series.

I would question Pratchett as high fantasy, but you can have Conan from the 1930s. Also, Jack Vance, who will always be my favourite author, wrote Lyonesse in the early 80s, which I think should replace King.

Awesome question!

[Robinski he/him]

1 in all but name

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 87, 89, 93, 97.

 

I'm sure about all of them to about 50, but after that I might have added one in. Sorry.

Not 87 or 93

[Delightful]

Palomino

Arabian

Shetland

Lipitsano

...(Why is it you can only ever easily recall one fewer than the number you are trying to find?)

I might have had the same problem with planets and Sailor Moon might have helped me remember Mercury. :ph34r:

[Robinski he/him]

Did I get the horses right?  What am I saying, I can Google them now to check...and I did!

 

Okay, WLIU: In honour of Fun With Flags presented by Dr. Sheldon Cooper, name 10 countries the flags of which do NOT have red in them.

[Delightful]

Mongolian is a breed? I didn't actually know that.

[Eagle of the Forest Path he/him]

Sweden

Finland

Greece

Ireland

Brazil

uhm...Bhutan?

...

Are there even ten? Red has to be the most popular color there is to put on a flag.

 

edit: it appears Palomino is actually a color, not a breed. Try Percheron and Brabant.

Edited March 16, 2016 by EagleOfTheForestPath

[Trizee]

To the list of pre- Jordan High Fantasy authors you can add Terry Brooks, David Eddings, and Stephen R. Donaldson.

[Robinski he/him]

Are there even ten?

Red has to be the most popular color there is to put on a flag.

Definitely 10. Think South / Central America, and Africa.

It is, isn't it? Hence the question!

[Orlok Tsubodai]

1) Argentina

2) Ireland

3) Greece

4) Cyprus

5) India

6) Pakistan

7) Ukraine

8) Israel

9) Uruguay

10) Vatican City(?)

 

List 10 Roman provinces that existed under the Roman Republic.

[Robinski he/him]

Looks good. Honduras, Sweden and Finland also available, but I'm content with Varican City. And Ivory Coast, which is the reverse of the Irish Flag, I mean how did that come about? Don't you just love flags?

[Robinski he/him]

Oh, err, Roman Provinces, hmm, not really my area, but I'll have a punt.

Gaul and Britain, maybe, and how about Germanica, or did I just make that up?

[Delightful]

Judea/Paelestina.....

I know what the empire looks like on a map but I can't name places......

[Elbereth she/her]

Definitely Gallia. Britannia. Aegypta. Hibernia, I'm guessing? Does Rome itself count (or Italy)? I don't remember what the North Africa was called after they conquered it. Did it stay Carthage, or become something else? Was Phoenicia (sp) a province or its own nation?

I really want to say Byzantium, but I don't think that was conquered back then. Actually, technically Britannia wasn't conquered until it became the Roman Empire. I think. No, wait, that was Julius Caesar, so it was before.

Caledonia? I don't think that's separate from Britain, though.

I don't remember what the now-German area was called. It might have been Germania, but I feel like it was something else. Hm.

Well, that's 9 at best, 6 or 7 more realistically. Anyone else want to round it off?

EDIT: Wait, Greece! Graecia! And probably Macedonia as well. How could I have missed Greece?

Edited March 23, 2016 by Elbereth

[Delightful]

Wasn't Byzantium the capital city of the Byzantine empire which is essentially Eastern Rome after the 'official' fall of Rome. And that city is now current day Istanbul?

Caesar claimed he conquered it but didn't really. I think it was Caligula in like.....50CE? who somewhat succeeded in conquering Britain.

[Elbereth she/her]

I got the order mixed up. I forgot that Byzantium was after Constantinople. Which was after the Roman Republic, obviously, because it was named after Constantine.

Before it was Constantinople, it was Roma Nuova, I think. Which was definitely not a province. Darn.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Italy doesn't count btw, a roman province is outside Italy

Oh and there are a few types of provinces like Republican and Imperial. I'm just saying the ones I know off the top of my head

1.Sicilia

2.Macedonia

3.Cyprus

4.Siria soz Syria

5.Egypt

6.Germania

7. Mesopotamia, pretty sure it was a propraetorial province 

8.Thracia

9.Andd.... Epirus

 

Um....

Why is Harry's wand made of Oak? 

jk (rowling XD) doubt anyone would get it

 

....

 

Uhhhh..... Name three ways a medieval witch was thought to be able to harm people.

And as a bonus, if any f you have read "Laws of Magic", by Michael Prior, attribute these methods to a law.

You will get many upvotes

10.

[Eagle of the Forest Path he/him]

I got the order mixed up. I forgot that Byzantium was after Constantinople. Which was after the Roman Republic, obviously, because it was named after Constantine.

Before it was Constantinople, it was Roma Nuova, I think. Which was definitely not a province. Darn.

 

You still got the order mixed up, it's

 

Byzantium => Constantinople => Istanbul

 

(btw, it was part of the Roman Republic, but the name of the province was Asia)

Edited March 24, 2016 by EagleOfTheForestPath

[Elbereth she/her]

That's what I thought in the first place! But then I got confused by the fact that it was the Byzantine Empire after Rome fell. So it should have been Byzantium then. But no. That would make too much sense.