POG MOLE - Game Thread

[metsandfinsfan]

good luck

[Nicholasp27]

6)
all but vasco de gama, who was portugese-paid, were correct

7)
blue skin disorder
vampire disease
werewolf syndrome

8)
all 10 were correct!

9)
bradford pear - china
kudzu - japan (all over atlanta)
pampas grass - south america
periwinkle - europe
sawtooth oak - east asia

10)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
The Puppet Masters (Robert A. Heinlein)
Footfall (Larry Niven)
The Alien Years (Robert Silverberg)
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)


fnord: 5+0+4+0+0=9 points

final score:

isotopes: 38
pin pals: 32

isotopes win task 11!

[Nicholasp27]

Werewolf Syndrome - aka Hypertrichosis, is a medical term referring to a condition of excessive body hair.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis

[Bulletproof Monk]

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isotopes win task 11!

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Huzzah!

[fnord_too]

Technically, Rendezvous with Rama fits that category. An alien ship enters the solar system and we scramble to board and investigate it. Pretty major disruption, which ended up with Mercury almost blowing the thing up.

[fnord_too]

but those three points don't get us the win.

bah, I thought more of those guys in #1 were conquistadors, but I just wasn't sure enough and I figured I had 5 points guaranteed with what I had.

Should have put more in the extinct I guess, but again, I wanted to be more safe.

As stated, I think my answer to 5 was correct.

puke on the malady one and foreign plant one, too hard. (Thought I was pretty sure kudzu came over in a worlds fair, but I couldn't remember from where. Interesting kudzu fact: It is entirely edible.)

[metsandfinsfan]

good try fnordy

[fnord_too]

I love how I put the only three real diseases as OUTs.