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otw_staff ([personal profile] otw_staff) wrote in [community profile] fanlore2013-06-17 06:11 am

Trivia Post #2

Welcome to the second set of trivia questions celebrating Fanlore's 25,000th article!




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(1) According to American sources, reporting on which event brought about the worldwide interest in cosplay?

(2) Which phrase, most commonly used in RPGs when someone's annoyed the Dungeon Master to the point of mass-character murder, was also used literally by Douglas Adams in the final Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

(3) What does OBHWF stand for?

(4) What are the four top-level categories on Fanlore?

(5) Who views 1D fandom as a 'return of popslash'?

(6) Which show did writer Aaron Sorkin observe while researching his upcoming series about cable news?

(7) What is Pesterchum Radio?

(8) Included in the Anthropological History of YouTube, this metavid by Lim, released in 2007, was a controversial look at fandom as a whole.

(9) Started in 1992, this is a multi-fandom convention held in Germany.

(10) This slightly tongue-in-cheek meta essay written by seperis has a long name and discusses being a fan in the early 2000s and the impact that technology had on the fannish experience.

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