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Test Your Game Knowledge 8:
Jason Takes Manhattan
July 28, 1999

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

Question #1: At the end of episode 3 of Wolfenstein 3D, what does Hitler say as he's dying, and what does it mean?

Question #2: Before being dubbed its final name of Shogo: Mobile Armor division, what two names was this title known as?

Question #3: What was the first FPS that utilized a "fish eye" effect, so when looking up and down buildings seemed to tower above you?

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, August 2, 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. Sigh. I'm hungry, so let's make with the stupid facts, shall we? Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's. More than 50 percent of the people who are bitten by venomous snakes in the United States and who go untreated still survive.Christendom did not begin to date its history from the birth of Christ until 500 years after his death. The system was introduced in 550 by Dionysius Exigus, a monk in Rome. Dirty snow melts faster than clean. Dry ice does not melt. It evaporates. The plastic covering on the end of a shoelace is called an 'aglet'. Most precious gems are actually colorless. Their color comes form impurities in the stone than act as pigmenting agents. Neck ties were first worn in Croatia. That's why they were called cravats (CRO-vats). No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States. Fagin, the sinister villain in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, was also the name of Dickens' best friend, Bob Fagin. Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair. Gibbon spent 20 years writing The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Noah Webster spent 36 years writing his dictionary. The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet. On average, Clergymen, Lawyers, and Doctors each have 15,000 words in their vocabulary. Skilled workers who haven't had a college education know between 5,000 and 7,000 words. Farm laborers about 1,600. The world consumes 1 billion gallons of petroleum a day. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. There are two radios for every man, women, and child in the United States. Houdini was the first man to fly an airplane solo in Australia. In 1776 a man who made $4,000 a year was considered wealthy. There is no living descendant of William Shakespeare. Residents of Nevada bet an average of $846 a year in gambling casinos. Samuel Beckett's play "Breath" is the shortest recorded play ever written, consisting of 35 seconds of human cries and breathes. In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50-pound rock. the ceremony was witnessed by more than twenty people.