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quiz.gif - 38723 Bytes ANSWERS - September 1999

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Riddles:

answers:

I. a window

2. a rib

3. a library book

4. Kaissa board

5. the furs upon which you sit

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word jumble
  • answers:
    • 1. slime worm
    • 2. Priest-Kings
    • 3. Sardar
    • 4. chamber slave
    • 5. mul-al-ka
    • 6. Sarm
    • 7. matok
    • 8. Toos
    • 9. fungus
    • 10. synthesized
    • 11. acceleration strips
    • 12. transportation disks
    • 13. antennae
    • 14. ganglionic net
    • 15. nuptial flight
    • 16. Feast of Tola
    • 17. translator
    • 18. modifications
    • 19. golden beetle
    • 20. mul
    • 21. vivarium
    • 22. plastic cages
    • 23. Misk
    • 24. mother
    • 25. Ba-Ta
    • 26. Kusk
    • 27. gur
    • 28. narcotic odor
    • 29. globe
    • 30. gravitational sensors
    • 31. caverns
    • 32. workshop
    • 33. gravitational disruptors
    • 34. gur ceremony
    • 35. scanning chamber
    • 36. power plant
    • 37. flame death
    • 38. tunnels
    • 39. chamber of the Mother
    • 40. anesthetization
    • 41. nest trust
    • 42. canyon
    • 43. vestibule
    • 44. energy bulbs
    • 45. anthropod

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    Trivia:

    1. What is the definition of Nest Trust?
    A. a communal notion, a sense of relying on the practices and traditions of an institutions, accepting them and living in the terms of them. (p. 80)

    2. What are the 4 principal ingredients of sullage as prepared by Vika to Master Tarl?
    A. Golden Sul (the fruit), leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, and the salty blue roots of the Kes Shrub. (p. 44-45)

    3. True or False: Chairs are a common sight in the private dwellings of persons of Gor?
    A. False: P. 45

    4. Define Mul.
         A. a plant
         B. an insect
         C. a human slave in the sardar mountains
         D. a non human slave in the sardar mountains
    A. C (page 94)

    5. Who stole the egg of the Priest Kings? and why?
    A. Misk, to protect it from the other children of the nest. (p 226)

    6. How many days did it take Tarl to climb the Sardar Mountain, and what greeted him at the top?
    A. four days, and two snow white larls...then Parp (p. 18)

    7. What do the Priest Kings think of the "Home Stone"?
    A. A cultural oddity and quite preposterous. (p.144)

    8. How many record-scars allowed to a mul before being destroyed?
    A. 5 (p. 104)

    9. Who or what kills the Priest Kings, and then who cleans up after them?
    A. Golden Beetle kills them, Slime worms eat their leavings (p.105)

    10. Is Earth the only place that the Priest Kings attained species to populate the counter-earth?
    A. Nope (p. 125)

    11. What is the main difference between 'First Spear' and 'Last Spear' when incountering a fight?
    -Last Spear is normally the weakest warrior. (PK p.20)

    12. This city is a warlike city, her warriors are said to be fierce and brave, her women proud and beautiful. Her tarnsmen are ranked very high and skilled, known as 'The tarn of the Voltai'. There is said to be no access into her but for tarnback..what is it?
    -Treve (PK p.60-61)

    13. What is the primary sensory organ of the Priest-Kings?
    -joint appendages protruding from their heads, above the eyes. (PK p. 77)

    14. How do you tell the differnce between a Mul and a normal slave of Gor?
    -muls were barefoot with shaven heads, all of their body hair has been removes except for eyelashes and eyebrows, they are clad in short purple tunics. (PK p.90)

    15. Why did the muls wear purple, the color of the robes of Ubars?
    -it is a great honor, maybe the highest for a slave to serve the Priest-Kings. (PK p.91)

    16. What is a creature in the Nest but not of the nest?
    -Matok (PK p.92)

    17. How is the Gorean language written down?
    -even-numbered lines, which are written backwards. Much like chinese characters. (PK p.101)

    18. What was the original purpose of the Slime Worm within the nest and what does it do now?
    -original purpose was as a sewerage device in the nest, now it scavenges on the kills of the Golden Beatle. (PK p.105)

    19. What is the difference between high quality fungus and the lower grade Mul-fungus?
    -just the smell (PK p.109)

    20. What is the "Duty of the Twelve Joys?"
    -Muls are to wash themselves 12 times a day, if they do not they will recieve a record-scar for disobedience. (PK p.111)

    21. Where does Gur come from?
    -Gur is originally secreted by large, gray domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are kept by the Priest-Kings. Gur used in the Feast of the Tola is, kept for weeks in the social; stomachs of the Priest-Kings then extracted, which is also called retaining Gur. (PK p.214)

    22. Why was the nest so deep within the mountain?
    -Priest-Kings can not stand the sun. (PK p.279)

    miri would like to thank skye{G`//} for helping miri with some extra trivia questions this month. she is a wonderful help and a loving sister.

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