Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The 3 for 1 general quiz

Okay, assuming that my answer to 1. was acceptable, and I think it was:

1. Who are Gala Brand and Vivienne Michel? As in, what pop culture category do they fit into... or almost fit into?

2. When Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy first got Superboy to join the Legion, it's possible to argue that they weren't the only four Legionnaires, that the best way to make continuity work was for there to have been other Legionnaires, including Supergirl, already on the team, and for other Legion stories to have predated Superboy's joining. But there's another point in Legion history during which the Legion had exactly four members. Which four?

3. The movie 'Ghost', with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, made the Righteous Brothers' cover of the song 'Unchained Melody' famous again. But what's the name of the movie in which 'Unchained Melody' first appeared?

1. No idea, although somehow Vivienne Michel's name is vaguely familiar. Don't know if I'm just imagining it, though. At a wild guess, were they somehow almost pop music singers?

2. Dynamo Boy, Lightning Lord, Saturn Queen, Cosmic King

3. Love Story

1. Nope.
2. Not the occasion I had in mind; can you elaborate?
3. Nope.

In Adventure #330, a villain pretending to be "Dynamo Boy" joins the Legion and manages to frame everyone else for breaking various aspects of the Legion code, expelling them. THen in #331, he inducts Lightning Lord and friends as members.

I was also wondering if you are referring to the Legion just brfore its dissolution during the 5 year gap, but I've got no memory who they might have been. At a guess, I'd say Polar Boy, Lamprey, Echo, and Kent Shakespeare.

1. Both are characters from James Bond novels that were left out of the films made from the books ("The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" -- both of which had little in common with the books, other than the titles).

2. This could refer to part of the Legion's origin story in SUPERBOY # 147, after Triplicate Girl joins but before Phantom Girl does. This seems too obvious ... but just in case, the four characters would be Cos, SG, LL, and Triplicate Girl.

3. "Unchained" (1955).

1. He Who Wanders is correct: they're Bond girls from the novels. (By the way, if anyone cares: the books are better than the movies.)

2. Xben is on the right track with his 5-year-gap theory, but has only one of the four correctly identified. (Someone's probably going to have to do a bit of research on this to figure it out.) The Dynamo Boy thing is interesting but I don't know if I'd say it really counts.

3. He Who Wanders is correct--that's why they call the song 'Unchained Melody'. I was so ticked off when I first found that out... what a boring way to name a song.

1. Bond girls

2. Polar Boy, Colossal Boy, Nightwind, Calamity King

3. Unchained.

1. Correct.
2. Three out of four!
3. Correct.

Hints: for 2., the incorrect answer was Calamity King, and the missing fourth Legionnaire was a Legion member of relatively long standing, not a Sub or walk-on who joined during the Gap.

1. Bond girls from books who weren't in movies
2. Polar Boy, Colossal Boy, Nightwind, Invisible Kid (Jacques)
3. Unchained.

That's it. Go ahead. (And, by the way, I'd love to read a story about that version of the Legion having to face some kind of interstellar emergency.)

1. What is a holographic codicil?

2. In Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice", what is Mr. Darcy's first name?

3. In the Bible, who was the first of Jesus' twelve apostles to be martyred?

1) a handwritten addition to a will.

2) Sebatian? I just heard his first name on a game show too.

3) I am thinking James the Lesser?

My that was quick! But not entirely correct.

1) Yes
2) No (and still no if you meant to write Sebastian)
3) No

Any other guesses?

Some hints...the answer to #2 is also the last name of another character in the book.

For #3, this person is actually the only one of the 12 apostles who is martyred as part of the scriptural narrative itself. Quislet, though he picked the wrong person, was in some ways close with his guess.

1) a handwritten addition to a will.

2) Cornelius?

3) Peter?

Still only one correct, Quislet.

More hints, I guess:
2) Darcy's first name is the last name of another character in the book, his cousin in fact

3) Not sure what to say that wouldn't give it away, except to repeat again that in many ways Quislet was very close to his first guess, even though he guessed completely the wrong person

1. A handwritten addition to a will.

2. Fitzwilliam

3. James the Great

He Who Wanders, you are correct!

1. What are the Years of Confusion?

2. If you're researching a British historical figure who was born on September 5, 1752, you have good reason to suspect your source is inaccurate. Why?

3. How was it possible to be born in May and die in February of the same year?

1. I'll guess that that was the period when Sweden was switching from the Julian to Gregorian calendar.

2. That was the year the British Empire switched from the Julian to Gregorian calendar and "lost" several days in September.

3. The New Year used to begin on 25 March.

Two and Three are correct. One is partly correct, but I'm looking for two specific years. Hint: They are several centuries apart.

Second hint: Think of who the Julian calendar was named after.

Final clue (if no one gets this it will go to Rockhopper Lad by default):

The two years are exactly 1,627 years apart. (Hint: There is no year 0 on the calendar.)