Chat Room Trivia Session #33

master_q · March 17, 2005

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I will be hosting the official 33rd live Star Trek trivia session Saturday, March 19, at 4:00PM US/Eastern-Time in the StarTrekFans.net chat room. I hope you can make the time to come. :P

Pre-Live Chat Room Trivia:

Yes, once again pull out a piece of paper and a writing utensil because it is time for Master Q's Pre-Live Triviaaaa!!

Just before session #33 starts (this Saturday at 4PM EST) send me a private-chat message containing your answer to the below question. The first two people to answer correctly in a private-chat message will both get four official trivia points!

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Muhahahah

(Yes..... this is yet another attempt by a "Q" to be entertained by placing a human in a puzzle)

Now, human, you have the choice of three doors! One of the doors will lead you to the escape of my twisted Q game!! Behind the other two doors is the vacuum of space! After you selected the door (without opening it), I will then open one of the other two doors and reveal the vacuum of space.

You now select a door. I open one of the other doors and reveal the vacuum of space. I now offer you the chance to switch your choice to the remaining door. Should you take the switch?

master_q · March 25, 2005

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Pre-Live Chat Room Trivia:

I like this question because it is very straightforward, but at the same time the question is very easy to think that your chance of winning when choosing to change really comes down to not mattering because it would seem to be a fifty-fifty chance. That is not the case at all. If the puzzle was reworded in a slightly different way, then it would be a fifty-fifty. Just because we have two possibilities does not mean they are the same. So this makes the question kind of tricky.

The first part of the puzzle is one of the keys to solving this deductively. I announce that after you pick, I will then choice to open a door that leads to the vacuum of space. This is not chance versus me just opening one of the other doors randomly. I am not doing that randomly.

After you then pick a door (without opening it!), I then open one of the two other doors that leads to the vacuum of space. This does not tell you that picking to switch will be a exact 50% chance, independent if you pick to do so or don’t. When you first picked the door there is a 1/3rd chance that the door you picked is the correct one. Your chance is 1/3.

From the start I told you that I will give you information about the doors. I gave you that information after that 1/3rd chance of you picking initially. If you stay with the door you initially picked before I gave you the info about the vacuum of space behind one of the doors, then you just have that 1/3rd chance. However, if you pick to switch, then in the first case you lose, but in the other two you will win, your chance of then picking the correct door is 2/3.

Not that hard after all. Maybe we could actually play this game in the next session a few times.

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**FEARLESS** TRIVA.........WITH MASTER Q!

Q1: Who was the captain of the Enterprise-B? (*FULL NAME*)

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Q2: In which episode did Picard need to learn a new way to communicate while trapped on a planet with an alien who spoke exclusively in metaphors?

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Q3: We first officially learned Sulu’s name on what Star Trek motion picture? What is his first name? [Two Qs. Include both in ONE line!]

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Q4: Data established communications with what young child that built a substance radio calling for help?

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Q5: In what TNG episode did an illusory targ appear?

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Q6: What officer assigned to station Deep Space 9 was offered to become a member of Section 31? [*Full Name*]

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Q7: What character had the responsibility for the admission of the Rite of Succession after the death of K’mpec? [Full-Name] AND what was his title?

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Q8: Where was Jake Sisko’s first story submitted?

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Q9: Vulcan mocha is a beverage similar to what?

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Q10: True or False ~ Choktay preferred his coffee hot, with cream and sugar.

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Q11: Name the Jem'Hadar fourth in “Rocks and Shoals.”

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Q12: Voyager engineer Frank Darwin was murdered while at his engineering post by what fellow crew member? [*Full Name*]

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Q13: The Sheliak were about to colonize what planet that was in violation of the Treaty of Armens?

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Q14: Elim Garak made Odo’s uniform of what material?

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Q15: Thirty-nine people, about half of the crew of the U.S.S. Equinox, died when encountering what alien group?

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Q16_a: “Life isn't always fair.” “When all else fails, do it yourself.” “You gotta go with what works.” Those laws come from whom? [*Full Name*]

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Ensign Lefler had a series of 102 laws...

Law 17: When all else fails, do it yourself.

Law 36: You gotta go with what works.

Law 46: Life isn’t always fair.

Law 91: Always watch you back.

Q16_b: What law did Wesley Crusher suggest to add (if added, would be 103)?

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Q17: What substance did Kirk administer to McCoy, who was suffering from a Vulcan mind meld, in Star Trek III?

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Q18: Who said the following? ---- “Kirk may have been a lowly human, but at least he had pizzazz.”

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Q19: B’Elanna Torres’s nickname was what at the academy? Who gave her that nickname?

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Q20_a: In what episode does Commander Data recite his poem “Ode To Spot”?

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Felis Cattus,

is your taxonomic nomenclature,

an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature?

Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses

contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.

I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,

a singular development of cat communications

that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection

for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.

A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;

you would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.

And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,

it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.

O Spot,

the complex levels of behaviour you display

connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.

And though you are not sentient,

Spot,

and do not comprehend,

I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

Q20_b: “Ode To Spot” is read, in part, on what other TNG episode?

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Q21: What was the only prop from the original series used in ST-I?

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Q22: What species did Seska leave Voyager to join forces with?

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Q23: The 190th Rule of Acquisition says; “Hear all, _____ _____.” [Fill in blanks!]

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Q24: Where is the Millennium Gate located at? [state]

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In the Star Trek Universe, The Millennium Gate can been seen from orbit of Earth, at 3.2 kilometers at the base and 1 kilometer in height, with a surface covered with highly reflective solar panels.

Q25: While pregnant, ________ woman sneeze a lot. [Fill in the blank!]

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Q26: Type the last spoken sentence in “Star Trek Generations” by Captain Picard.

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Q27: Paris enjoyed playing pool where?

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Q28: What Betazoid had a overdeveloped physic ability, which made him eschew contact with humanoids? [*Full Name*]

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