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

I would guess Japan for 1, but I'm not sure if it's area is smaller than that. And 3 I would think is Superman. IIRC Submariner preceded Superman but didn't have the costume and Batman, Captain America and Captain Marvel were all slightly later.

No idea on 2 though.

None right, Bevis.

Japan is second based on the conditions I listed (though #31 overall. The country I'm talking about is #11 if you don't take area into account).

Superman is also not correct, at least if you count from when the character was first published (June 1938). Superman was apparently first created in 1932 or 1933? That would predate this character's publication.

I guess a hint for #2 is that the writer is English, and is famous fro writing mystery stories, although not exclusively so.

1. Let's try India.

2. Arthur Conan Doyle?

3. Doctor Occult

Nope Nope Nope.

India is right after Japan. Arthur Conan Doyle is certainly English and a detective writer, but not the right guy. This guy is a famous detective writer, but probably better known for his non-detective stuff than Doyle is.

Does Dr. Occult wear a skintight costume? The guy I'm thinking of does. I don't know how popular this character is in America right now, but he's very popular in Australia.

Dr. Occult is often cited as the first costumed "super-hero" because of a story in which he wore a colorful costume a year or so before Superman's debut. I'm not sure if it was "skintight", though.

1. Singapore

2. I'm not sure if you mean 'comic' as in comic book, or in comedy series, so I'll take a guess. Grant Morrison?

3. The Phantom

1. Singapore is certainly more densely populated than the country I have in mind, but it is far less than 100,000 square kilometers (I think it's about 700), so no.

2. I meant he appeared in a reknowned comic book series. The answer isn't Grant Morrison. This author died in the 1930's. He was male, and he was known as an orthodox Christian.

3. Yes!

1. Um... Bangladesh?

2. G. K. Chesterton, maybe?

3. The Phantom!

1. Bangladesh sounds right.

2. Oscar Wilde? He appeared in Cerebus for a couple dozen issues.

3. The Phantom

Eryk Davis Ester is right! From what I read, Chesterton (aka "Gilbert") was a semi-regular in the Sandman.

Damn, of course you're right about Gilbert being a take on Chesterton. I should have gotten that clue. D'oh.

Hmm... I'm shocked I got both of those right!

Now I have to think up questions!

1. In the Jose Saramago novel The Stone Raft, the main characters are traveling across the Atlantic Ocean on what?

2. Boston Corbett is most famous for having killed what nineteenth-century figure?

3. Who invented the basic techniques of analytic geometry?

1. A raft? A stone raft by chance?

2. John Wilkes Booth

3. Euclid?

You've got 2 right.

Hints:

1) The "raft" in question carried about 50 million people.

3) Analytic Geometry was invented in the 17th century.

1. Atlantis?

2. John Wilkes Booth

3. Pascal?

1) Nope. Hmm... this is hard to give clues for. Let's see... there were two languages spoken on the "raft".

3) You've got the nationality right, at least.

Another hint:

1) If the events of this novel actually happened, Saramago himself would most likely be on the "raft".

3) _____ coordinate system.

1. Brazil?
2. John Wilkes Booth
3. Rene Descartes

Okay, so 2) and 3) are now correct.

And Matthew at least has Saramago speaking the right language. Put all the clues together, now.

Okay, so we're looking for somewhere where Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago is from, there's about 50 million people (actually closer to 55 million, I believe) there, there's two (major) languages spoken there, one of the languages is also spoken in Brazil, and it sails across the Atlantic Ocean in The Stone Raft.

1. Portugal
2. John wilkes Booth
3. Rene Descartes

Portugal is part of it.

1) The Iberian penisula
2) John Wilkes Booth
3) Rene Descartes