Here's the web page for the show:
www.abc.net.au/einsteinfactor/
And here's the Expert page for the Gap episode:
www.abc.net.au/einsteinfactor/txt/s1666561.htm
But I couldn't find an online feed so we could watch the episode when it airs (but did it already air in July? or was that the filming date?). If anyone has a copy of the show, please send it to me - I promise to watch the commercials, and even buy some of the things advertised!
I can burn it to a DVD and send it to Steve - I'm sure he'd be interested in watching.
Does anyone know Paul Yovich? Is he a fellow Watcher? Sounds like he could be one of us from his background. And he holds titles in Bridge - a game of which SRD is an avid fan.
And here are the questions:
Q. How many books constitute Stephen Donaldson’s ‘The Gap Cycle’?
Q. What is the name of the organisation abbreviated to UMCP?
Q. What is the subtitle of the third book ‘The Gap into Power’?
Q. Who rescues Morn Hyland at the end of ‘The Gap Into Conflict:The Real Story’?
Q. In the last book ‘The Gap Into Ruin’, the Governing Council_for Earth and Space had voted to reject Captain Sixten Vertigus’s Bill of what?
Q. What powerful tools gave governments of Earth the ability to find out what happened to any ship anywhere in human space?
Q. Where in the Massif-5 system were Mikka and Ciro born?
Q. Angus commits a capital crime when he places what remotely controlled electrode in Morn’s brain?
Q. Captain Davies Hyland is the commanding officer of which UMCP destroyer?
Q. As well as possibly light and colour, Amnion intraspecies communication relied significantly on sound and what?
Q. ‘Min’ is the title of both the opening and closing chapters of which book?
Q. Despite the pretense of being a prospector’s ship, ‘Bright Beauty’ was equipped with sophisticated particle sifters and what?
Q. ‘Please, Angus. Don’t fail.’ is the closing line of which book?
Q. On her first layover on Com-Mine, Morn Hyland had stayed in which sector?
Q. At the beginning of the ‘The Gap Into Conflict:The Real Story’, Morn Hyland enters Mallorys Bar & Sleep with whom?
Bonus Question. The ‘gap’ refers to the evolutionary distance between Earth and the world of the Amnion.
You can find the answers here:
www.abc.net.au/einsteinfactor/txt/Quest ... ly2006.htm
I also found these quesitons (in the "other topics" column to the right):
Q. What is the two-word alternative title of the second book in the series?
Q. What is the name of Nick Succorso’s ‘pretty frigate’?
Q. Donaldson’s original intention with the series was to deal with variations of the archetypes of Victim, Villain and what?
Q. Which book ends: ‘Despite his horror of imprisonment, he was condemned to stay in lockup until he rotted’?
Q. Hashi Lebwohl’s department has what name, a euphemism for sabotage and trickery?
Q. At the start of ‘Chaos and Order’, Min Donner ‘hadn’t eaten since her ride back to UMCPHQ from’ where?
Q. Making exploration beyond the solar system feasible was the discovery of the gap drive by whom?
Q. According to Vector Shaheed, who ‘can make computers walk on water’?
Q. To which friend, agent and ping-pong player does Donaldson dedicate ‘Chaos and Order’?
Q. More than anything, which character ‘looked like a toad bloated by malice’?
Q. ‘Bitter as a vial of acid’, who ‘continued to think long after her body lost its last capacity to do anything’?
Q. The truth about Nick Succorso, which he kept to himself, ‘was that he didn’t actually like’ what?
Q. At the start of ‘This Day All Gods Die’, what is Cleatus Fane’s UMC job title?
Q. Defended by Amnion warships was which planetoid, home to the bootleg shipyard Billingate?
Q. The last line of the final book is ‘Perhaps’ what ‘will survive without its gods’?
Bonus Question. Suffered by a relatively small number of people who travel through the gap is the mental disorder gapellosis.
And these answers are here:
www.abc.net.au/einsteinfactor/txt/s1678306.htm
) that someone like Romeo might be able to help us out.
no, no, no, thank you LM!!! and Seareach!!! 