And the winners are....
These three winners of this summer's Cyberpunk Triva Contest will each be the lucky recipient of a copy of Digital Burn fresh off the printers. We promise it will be slightly better bound than the one our Fixer has in the picture.
Thanks to everyone who entered! We present below the questions and answers from the contest.
Answers:
Category 1, Movies:
Q1a. What actor originally played the character that was "Part Man, Part
Machine, All Cop"?
A1a. Peter Weller in RoboCop
Q1b. In running from his intended destination of the Spritual Switchboard,
Alex Furlong became what?
A1b. A Freejack
Q1c. Who created the infamous 'Lady in Red' in the training program?
A1c. Mouse in The Matrix
Q1d. What chess move won Roy Batty access to Eldon Tyrell?
A1d. Bishop to King 7 Checkmate in Blade Runner
Q1e. In San Angeles, what is the fine for a sotto voce violation of the
Verbal Morality Statute?
A1e. 1 half credit for a sotto voce violation. 1 full credit for a fully
voiced violation. All of this from Demolition Man.
Category 2, Literature:
Q2a. What cybernetics does Molly Millions have?
A2a. Improved reflexes, cybereyes, razor nails, and a chipjack. From
William Gibson's Johhny Mnemonic and Mona Lisa Overdrive
Q2b. Who are the Highriders?
A2b.
Q2c. What is an Idoru?
A2c. A computer-generated pop icon. From William Gibson's Idoru.
Q2d. What did Cowboy do before he became a deltajock?
A2d. An honest-to-goodness cowboy. Rodeo riding and cattle ranching.
From Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired.
Q2e. In Snow Crash, what weapon did Raven keep on his bike?
A2e. A nuclear bomb. That's Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
Category 3, Comics and Television:
Q3a. What television network does Edison Carter work for?
A3a. Network 23. From Max Headroom.
Q3b. In "Transmetropolitan," Spider Jerusalem uses what setting on his
bowel disruptor on the President of the United States?
A3b. Prolapse
Q3c. Name the character from the Robocop TV series whose mind was trapped
in the OCP computer system?
A3c. Diana Powers
Q3d. In an episode of Bubblegum Crisis, a radar screen is shown briefly
that has the names of characters from an American film spread across it. What
film are the characters from?
A3d. Top Gun
Q3e. What is the name of the city Judge Dredd patrols?
A3e. Mega-City One
Category 4, Role-Playing Games:
Q4a. In CyberGen, what does RABID stand for?
A4a. Roving Autonomous Bartmoss Interface Drones
Q4b. What RPG contains a corporation named 'Disposable Heroes Inc.'?
A4b. Underground
Q4c. According to Rache Bartmoss, what major appliance is a good place to
hide?
A4c. The refrigerator.
Q4d. In a Shadowrun first edition sourcebook, what compound was described
in the shadowtalk as 'really bad ju-ju'?
A4d. Kamikaze in 'Shadowtech'
Q4e. In Cyberspace, what has Death Valley National Park been turned into?
A4e. Death Valley Free Prison
Bonus question: What was Dark Angel's last album?
Bonus Answer: Earthdawn (Or Earthdawn: The Scourge, which was incomplete
at the time of his death. From the Shadowrun module 'Dark Angel')