PUZZLES
By
Bill
Brohaugh
La Triviata
Yes, I know that the name of the opera is La Traviata,
but since this puzzle is about coin-op trivia and not
sopranos and such, you'll have to excuse my little puns (no
one else will).
Enough chitchat, and on with the puzzle.
I. On an episode of "Hill Street Blues" aired in late 1981,
an organization of merchants offered an unofficial
award to the police officers who caught whoever had
been ripping off the merchants' vending machines.
I. I. What was the reward?
1.2. Bonus: What was the unofficial name of the
merchants' organization?
2. Much has been said of the appearance of Space Invaders
in the "Funky Winkerbean" comic strip. Which video
game succeeded Space Invaders as a Winkerbean hero?
3. On an episode of "Taxi" aired in early 1982, Louie
installs a coin-op game.
3. 1. What was the game?
3.2. Who was the first to play it?
3.3. The game is first seen covered by a tarp. What
does the first player to play the game guess is
under the tarp?
4. In the recent movie "The Verdict":
4. 1 What pinball machine does Paul Newman play
down at his local Boston pub?
4.2. True or false: Newman finally wins a free game
on the machine.
5. What breakfast cereal turned itself into a pinball
machine for a recent long-running Saturday morning
commercial?
6. From the following list, which does not have some sort
of Pac-Man tie-in? Bubblegum cards, Sunday morning
cartoons, Ma Bell, designer jeans, "Tron."
7. Richard Pryor was one of the toys in the movie "The
Toy," also starring Jackie Gleason. Gottlieb had a few
toys in the film, too . Name them .
8. Which of the following TV shows did not involve
playing video games as an important element? "Gimme
a Break," "Diff'rent Strokes." "Silver Spoons,"
"Simon & Simon," "Barbara Mandrell,-" "Your Show
of Shows."
9. Shortly after the air-traffic controllers were fired, a
political cartoon pictured a group that you should be
familiar with taking over for the controllers. Who
took over at the radar screens?
10. A long-running TV commercial for a popular maga-
zine starts off with a sound from a specific pinball
machine.
10.1. Easy part: What is the machine?
10.2. Tough part: What is the sound?
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