Monday night, quiz night in the union. On my way in with my friend I bump into someone I knew from college and we stood around and chatted for a bit. Then, later on in the union, I spoke to someone else from college. Three in one day! What are the chances of that?
So, every week in the quiz they have the random round. As the name suggests, the theme of the round changes each week. (Particular highlight was the week it was about the Pizza Hut menu (no, really)). So this week it was superheroes.
We got three questions wrong.
First one we got wrong was What is the name of Prince Adam of Eternia’s pet cat?
We put Tygra.
Answer: Cringer.
Second one we got wrong was How many types of Kryptonite are there?
We put 10.
Answer: 5.
(Although some fans of the comic argued that was only in the films. Wikipedia lists 15.)
But the third one was the one that got my geek heckles raised. This one had me ranting for ages (and poor Nikki had to put up with it).
What metal is bonded to Wolverines skeleton?
Immediately I wrote down ‘Adamantium’ which I know to be spot on. I knew it. I also said to Nikki that few teams would actually get that right, cos it doesn’t actually exist.
The answer that was given as correct?
Titanium.
Fucking titanium.
It’s not. It’s bloody not. I know it isn’t. I’ve read countless guides to The X-Men (thanks to my ex) and they all say the same thing. Wolverine has a metal called adamantium bonded to his skeleton and bone claws and this is the toughest metal known to man.
IT’S NOT TITANUIM FOR THE LOVE OF PROFESSOR X!!!!!!!!!
(Yeah, and just remember that Nikki got that, and variations thereof, for about 15 minutes.)
When I confronted them about it afterwards, they admitted that they knew it was wrong.
Nikki was crashing at mine, so we got food and then got a taxi back, at her request. And I’m wishing she hadn’t cos I got the tip of one of my fingers trapped in the door when I closed it. So now the finger in question is kinda bruised, swolen and ouchy.
Tuesday I got my old, broken laptop back. I opened the box and kinda got nostalgic about it. But, everything changes as they say. Now all I need is the cash to send it to Aberdeen.
I’m going to seriously get addicted to http://www.alluc.org as it’s thanks to them that I’m getting caught up Heroes (huge personal SQUEE!!! moment in Chapter 13) and then there’s Veronica Mars, then they have wrestling videos and then series one of The Prisoner, and then…
If only their Studio 60 links would work :¬(
Anyhoo, got to go to the cludgie, then have a smoke then I’ve got Chapter 14 of heores all lined up. Yay!
On my way into town today I noticed that there is a shop opening up near me selling pet lizards, etc. I swear, if I thought I would be allowed pets in the flat, I had the room and the money, I would get one. And probably name it Hiro.
Unless I got a gekko. In which case I’d name it Gordon. (Kudos if you get the reference.)
Don’t forget. I need your questions for my belated 1100th entry interview thingy. Hopefully I’ll get it posted at the weekend.
Will
(Fictional cookie and internetty hugs n stuff for anyone who knows what the entry title means.)
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