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Test Your Game Knowledge 10:
Jason Takes Manhattan
September 3, 1999

Here you go everyone...three new questions to baffle your minds. Good luck!

Question #1: Two of the console versions of Doom were ported in-house by id Software. Which two were they?

Question #2: Early in his career, John Romero worked on one of the games in a popular RPG series. What game was it?

Question #3: Twice Blizzard Software has cancelled titles after promoting their development. Name them both.

Send your answers to contest@bluesnews.com, and a random entry from the correct entries will even win a prize that we haven't decided on just yet. We'll stop accepting entries at midnight EDT on Tuesday, September 14, 1999.

Official looking tiny print™: No purchase necessary, void in places that are icky. Ickyness to be determined on a case-by-case basis. Employees, relatives, and general hangers-on of id Software (and its licensees), Blizzard Entertainment and any other companies related to this week's trivia are not elligible. Blue's News holds the right to change the rules as we see fit. Please allow six to eight weeks for Blue to remember to send prizes. Possibly longer if he's feeling surly. And we all know how often that happens, don't we? Say...what's that over there? I think it's a stupid fact! Pablo Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomunceno Crispin Crispiano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Y Picasso. Or just PDJFPJNCCSTRP for short. Probably the strangest ice cream Baskin Robbins ever made was Ketchup Ice Cream. After making several gallons of the stuff, they soon realized it would not sell. One can only wonder why. The highest man-made temperature - 70 million degrees Celsius - was generated at Princeton University in a fusion power experiment in 1978. In the 1988 movie Die Hard the addresses and phone numbers depicted on the LAPD dispatch's computer for the Nakatomi plaza management are the actual numbers for management of Fox Plaza, where the film was shot. In Champaign, Illinois it is considered an offense to piss in your neighbor's mouth. Bamboo is not a tree. It is a wood grass. In 1978, Superman and Muhammad Ali had a boxing match. Ali won. There are 250,000 species of flowering plants on the earth today. Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils. A glove belonging to A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger can be seen hanging near the steps in one of the cellar scenes in Evil Dead 2. This was in response to the use of Evil Dead 1, on a television screen in the original Nightmare on Elm Street movie. According to the CEMA, as of 8/20/99, 3,067,141 DVD players have been sold to dealers. According to The Old Farmers' Almanac, 1903 - the best time of the day to select a new pair of shoes is in the afternoon, when the exercise of the day has stretched the muscles to their largest extent. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide. Okay, now leave already! Don't you have work to do?