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Test Your Game Knowledge 7:
This Time It's Personal
July 19, 1999

Think you know your stuff? Let's see if you can get these three questions.

Question #1: What's the best-selling (retail) first person shooter (FPS) of all time?

Question #2: What Doom and Quake designer is also the author of a popular pen and paper RPG?

Question #3: What was the first FPS to feature fog effects?

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 Monday, July 26, 1999.

Official looking tiny print^TM: No purchase necessary, void in places that we think are deserving of being void. Employees, relatives, and general hangers-on of id Software (and its licensees), 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. Enough talk. Let's dish out the pointless facts. The magician's words "hocus-pocus" are taken from the name of a mythological sorcerer, Ochus Bochus, who appears in Norse folktales and legends. Half a billion people - about one of every eight - are suffering chronic malnutrition today. Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards. Number of "men in black suits" who asked id Software programmer John Carmack kindly, "not to play blackjack anymore" in their casino: 3. A new star is born in our Galaxy is born every 18 days. About 20 new stars are born each year. For comparison, there are 100,000 million stars in our galaxy. At any given time there are 1,300 Quake II servers running on the Internet, with more than 1,500 players. According to Professor David Saunders of the Psychology Department of the University of Chicago, abnormally large numbers of UFO sightings occur every 61 months, usually at distances from 1,500 to 2,000 miles apart. 83% of people hit by lightning are men. Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story. Before the wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" the genre was totally unknown in English or American literature. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second. A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat. Arabic numerals are not Arabic; there were invented in India. Enough already! Try answering the damn questions, you freeloader.