Hi Skeleton Crew,
Tomorrow’s the first day I’ll be sendin’ out a paid-subscriber-only email!
Now, don’t worry if ya don’t pay for a subscription: we’ll still be recappin’ today’s answers on Monday just like normal. But if ya DO wanna pay for a ’scrip, here’s a button to do that:
Remember, tomorrow’s trivias aren’t part a’ the regular monthly leaderboard. Basically, ya can think a’ tomorrow’s email as some extra fun that’s 100% independent a’ the other stuff we do here at the Trivia Zone.
We’ll, uh, see how it goes? Just ... maybe cut me some slack if I screw somethin’ up, I’m still kinda figurin’ this stuff out.
Answers to Last Time
Mr. Cap’n Perry’s “openin’ up“ a’ Japan is a prototypical example a’ what historians sometimes call gunboat diplomacy.
It was a spin a’ the “Guess A Pirates of the Caribbean Subtitle” trivia wheel yesterday, an’ this time it came up Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. I guess that one in particular was super mega expensive to make? For some reason??
Today’s Questions
Question 1
Like I said yesterday, the On Stranger Tides movie was loosely based on a 1987 book by Tim Powers. That book was ’bout a puppeteer-cum-pirate named Jack Shandy who went off on a quest for the Fountain a’ Youth.
In addition to its cinematic namesake, the book On Stranger Tides also was cited by game designer Ron Gilbert as the inspiration for what series a’ computer adventure games, the first several a’ which were published by LucasArts? From Mr. Gilbert’s blog:
I was sorting through some boxes today and I came across my copy of Tim Power’s On Stranger Tides, which I read in the late 80’s and was the inspiration for [REDACTED]. Some people believe the inspiration for [REDACTED] came from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride—probably because I said it several times during interviews—but that was really just for the ambiance. If you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were
plagiarizedderived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game.
Question 2
What Spanish conquistador an’ explorer, the first colonial Governor a’ Puerto Rico, has a name that’s basically synonymous with the search for the Fountain a’ Youth?
OK then
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