Xorys'Xena Trivia Challenge, Section 1 - General Questions This is the first section of my Trivia Challenge - General Questions. For overall details of the Trivia Challenge, see the Main Trivia Challenge Page at: http://webhome.idirect.com/~nuzhathl/quizmain.html There are 186 numbered questions below. If you are sending your answers to the Challenge in to me (xorys@idirect.ca), to be in competition for the Trivia Hall Of Fame (see details on the Main Trivia Challenge Page), please just send a numbered list from 1 to 186, giving your answers to each question. Be as specific and precise as you can. Bonus points will be given for answers showing extraordinary precision or giving extra information, so long as it is strictly relevant to the question asked. The scope of the questions is all episodes of the first three seasons of Xena: Warrior Princess and the three HTLJ episodes generally known as the Xena Trilogy (The Warrior Princess, The Gauntlet and Unchained Heart). Other HTLJ episodes, even crossover eps, do not figure in any way in the answers to this Challenge. The content of the questions concerns only what can be seen and heard by watching the episodes of the show. There are no questions concerning Trivia about the crew and cast, other than what they do on screen, and there are no questions concerning fan-fiction and Internet Xenite trivia. No points will be deducted for spelling - any spelling is ok, so long as I can tell what you mean, and your rendering of character and place names is close enough to the way they sounded on the episode that your answer is clear. I, however, have used the standard spellings wherever possible, with reference to the credits, and to The Official Guide. And I've proof-read the questions several times. So if you think you find an error in one of the questions, be careful! You may be right - but think whether the question as written could make sense before you assume I've made a mistake. Whenever possible, give episode references for all information given, even if the question does not specifically ask for them - this will make it a lot easier for me to check your answers, should you offer information that I wasn't expecting. Acronyms may be used for episode titles so long as they are clear - e.g. it is ok to use ADITL for A Day In The Life, but be careful to distinguish between The Prodigal and The Price, between the HTLJ ep The Warrior Princess and the X:WP ep Warrior...Princess, and between Destiny, The Deliverer, and The Debt etc. For two part eps (The Debt, Sacrifice), you must specify the correct part for your answer to be marked correct (e.g. always write "The Debt 1" or "The Debt II", not just "The Debt"). For entries being marked, answers will be scored as follows: one point will be given for each part of an answer. So, for example, if a question asks you to list certain characters or episodes, one point will be given for each correct item listed; however one point will be deducted for each incorrect item listed, but with the limit that the overall score for the answer to that particular question or part-question will never be reduced below zero. Bonus points may be awarded for clever stuff, as specified above. If you're competing, good luck! And if you're just doing the questions for amusement, have fun! The Questions: 1. A musical question - in which Xena episode was the familiar phrase from the theme to the movie "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" quoted? 2. As part of her invasion plan of which place did Xena set their oil reserves on fire ? 3. By what method did the villagers almost execute Xena after she was arrested for the murder of several travellers, actually killed by Ares? How many men was Xena accused of murdering, and what were their names? 4. Gabrielle called for Xena's help from a ship, and Xena had to jump aboard the ship; when Gabrielle called Xena was buying something - what? 5. Gabrielle knows every line of Sophocles by heart - who says so? 6. How did Mezentius manage to get killed in two different X:WP eps? Who killed him in each case? 7. How did Meg's father die? 8. How do you connect Echidna to Philidepes? 9. How did it happen that Xena got dragged behind a chariot? 10. Which characters have dressed up in Xena's warrior costume, and in which eps? 11. In which episode did the carter from Sins Of The Past reappear? 12. In what god's temple did Democritus serve? 13. In which episode did Gab's staff get cut in half in a fight, only to reappear whole a couple of scenes later? In which episode did the same thing happen to Xena's sword? 14. In which episode is the first clearly spoken line "I killed Xena, Warrior Princess!"? What happens to the speaker? 15. In which 2 eps does Xena pull a sword out of a stone? 16. In which episodes did Gabrielle wear a dark wig? 17. In which episode did Gab eat bloody pork liver? Raw Squid? 18. In what episode did we see Xena using a needle and thread to fix part of her costume? What exactly was she doing? 19. In which episode(s) did the chakram get broken? In which did it get mended? 20. In which episode did both Gabrielle and Xena have close encounters with rodents? 21. In what episode other than Warrior...Princess and Warrior...Princess...Tramp does Xena help King Lias out with a problem? 22. List as many eps as you can in which the staircase that collapses into a slide has appeared. 23. Name as many blood relatives of Xena as you can. For each relative a name and a relationship must be supplied (no points for names without relationships or relationships without names). For each relative also supply an episode reference confirming that person's relationship to Xena. 24. Name as many blood relatives of Gabrielle as you can. For each relative a name and a relationship must be supplied (no points for names without relationships or relationships without names). For each relative also supply an episode reference confirming that person's relationship to Gabrielle. 25. Name two X:WP episodes that had the "spiders crawling out of the skull's eyesockets" shot in them. 26. Name two people who sought Xena's hand in marriage. 27. Name the three Titans awoken by Gabrielle. Explain why Gabrielle was able to awake them when previous efforts failed. 28. Name 3 people who have been crucified on X:WP; specify episode for each. 29. Name as many characters as you can you have been played by more than one actor on X:WP (HTLJ does not count for this question); cite episodes for each. 30. Name two weaknesses of giants which Xena has revealed to us. 31. Name a character who refused to talk when Xena put the pinch on him, and lived. 32. Name two notable things that Eponin did. 33. On what occasion did Xena take part in a singing competition? On what occasion did she decline to sing in competition? 34. Phantes nearly died in Hooves and Harlots; in which episode did he die, and how? 35. Salmoneus once said that all he could smell on Xena was something and cinnamon - what was the something? 36. She enjoyed weaving tapestries, making candles and doing volunteer work with her local Hestian virgins - who was she? 37. The warlord Cassius offered 50,000 dinars for the capture of someone - who? 38. The river of wailing, the river of woe - what was the other river like? 39. To what god was Atrius dedicated? 40. Volker the Vicious - what do we know of him? 41. What did the Titan Key and the Dagger of Helios have in common? 42. What was Autolycus' brother's name? 43. What was Joxer's response to Orpheus comment that you can be both a warrior and a musician? 44. What did the Dryads take from Joxer? 45. What is Largo's claim to fame in the Xenaverse? 46. What health problem does Joxer have? 47. What problem did Sumac oil cause? What was the remedy? 48. What united the kingdoms of Milon and Pyros? What divided them? 49. What did "The teacher's student is not incorrect" mean? 50. What was the Ixion stone? 51. What device, not generally considered to have been invented until the Renaissance, did we see in use by a minion of Dagine's? Who else did we see using this device and in which episode? 52. What god have we seen, at different times, pretending to be both of Xena's parents? In which eps? (Clarify complications as necessary.) 53. What happened in a castle on the island of Myconos? 54. What did Gabrielle stop doing after Perdicas died? 55. What tradesman appeared in two different completely unrelated X:WP episode, both times interacting mainly with Gab? 56. What did the Eye of Hephaestus do? 57. What were Marmax's rank and state-affiliation? 58. What happened to Gabrielle's wedding bouquet? 59. What sort of a reputation do the Silosians have? 60. What did Gabrielle say the Amazons should not expect if she became Queen? 61. What clearly indicates that Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts was meant to be the next episode after A Fistful Of Dinars? 62. What character other than the Hestian priestess who looked like Xena was called Leah? 63. What role did Mount Aetna play in Xena and Gabrielle's adventures? 64. What were the names of the Triumvirs? 65. What did Autolycus say about the trick of killing someone with an apricot? What did he say was its drawback? What did he say he used instead if he wished to avoid this drawback? 66. What happened to the Lost Athena of Antigus? 67. What was the name of the first person Xena ever killed? 68. What did Elkton use to give Xena more time whilst her soul navigated the Dream Passage? 69. What did Gabrielle do when she was told not to swim in the river as a child in Poteidaia? 70. What comestible did Gabrielle get into a marketplace fight over? 71. What happened to Lyceus' killer? 72. What was the first weapon Joxer used to attack Gabrielle? 73. What happened whilst Xena was pursuing Melchor to Perimpinis? 74. What did Gabrielle say Xena owed her, after Xena defeated the Persian army? 75. What induced Xena to work out with a speed bag? 76. What did the dog say to Xena? The snake? 77. What was the name of the pony Gabrielle had when she was young? What happened to it? 78. What do they punish by cutting out your tongue, branding your arm, and jailing you for life? 79. What was the name of the pacifist Trojan who took Xena into his house when she was wounded by an arrow? How many children of his did Xena meet? What colour was the dress he gave Xena to wear? Where did he get the dress from? 80. What was to be delivered to the priest of Aphrodite in Parnassus? 81. What was priest of Aphrodite going to do with the object in question 80? 82. What proposed change in the laws of Liberium set in motion an assassination plot? 83. What name was shared by the mother of a rebel and a suicidal, love-lorn maid? 84. What happened at the festival in Pylos? 85. What was the first episode in which Xena used fish as a weapon? 86. What happened to the unprepossessingly named Scaberus? 87. What was the name of Gregor's kingdom? 88. What was Xena drinking when she 'flamed' Nemos? 89. What was the title of the ruler of Mesini? Of Skiros? Of Parnassus? 90. What happened to Queen Analia? 91. What became of Chuang? 92. What role did Hasdruudaal the Phoenician trader play in the Xenaverse? 93. What was the first word Xena ever spoke on television? 94. What name is shared by two different characters, both henchmen to female warriors? Which two female warriors did they serve? 95. What should Gab have done when she and Xena came down from Mt. Poolis? 96. When and where did Xena first meet Helen (of Troy)? 97. When did the 'breast dagger' first appear? When did it last appear? Be precise. 98. When did Xena put the pinch on Joxer? 99. When did Xena impersonate Clotho? 100. When did Xena borrow Gab's staff from her in the middle of a fight? What did Xena do with it? 101. When Xena arm-wrestled Draco, who won? 102. When did Xena use wet towels as a weapon? 103. When did Gabrielle use a catamaran to follow Xena? 104. When Autolycus introduced Xena as his 'concubine', what name did he give her? 105. When did Xena 'auto-eject' the breast-dagger so she could use it to cut the ropes she was tied with? 106. When did Gab take up a mop as a weapon? 107. When did the 'Zorro' Z move with a sword appear in X:WP? What was the accompanying line? 108. When was the only time we have seen Xena smoke? 109. When Xena was in the restraining chair originally occupied by Callisto, how did she get out of it? 110. When did Xena use shellfish as a weapon? 111. When did Xena wear daisies in her hair? 112. When and why did Autolycus unpin Solari's bustier? 113. When Gabrielle got dressed up and put on a phony accent, what names did she use? 114. When Gab did the charade with someone apparently killing a kneeling, pleading person with a sharp weapon, what was the answer? 115. When did Xena do a bungee jump? 116. When did Xena do her war-cry immersed in water, so it came out as bubbles? 117. When was the shrinking of the BGSB explicitly discussed in an episode? 118. When did Xena use a candlestick in a fight? 119. When did Xena say that Gabrielle was the one she loved most in all the world? 120. When Gabrielle was a slave in an alternate reality and Xena rescued her, whose clothes did Xena give her to wear? 121. When Xena orders 'something strong' in a bar, what happens next? 122. When and how did King Gregor assist Xena after COH? 123. When did Gabrielle kiss the chakram? 124. Where would a woman who loves her son enough to defy her husband be likely to be found? 125. Where did Gabrielle go when Xena went to deal with the cyclops in Keramus? 126. Where and under what circumstances did Xena run into Zagreus again after ADITL? 127. Where were ceremonial weapons and the like a hot commodity? 128. Where did Dorian say he came from, and how did Xena know he was lying? 129. Where was it that Xena almost fought against General Galipan? 130. Where was Jacques S'er really from? What were his real name and occupation? 131. Where was Gabrielle captured by the Children of the Sun? 132. Which character persistently referred to himself in the plural? 133. Which character, well remembered by many in the Xenaverse, only ever had two lines in the show: "She would have made a good leader one day" and "She's not bad - a little rough"? 134. Which of the Dirty Half Dozen actually betrayed Xena? 135. Which famous king was a cousin of one of Xena's look-alikes? 136. Who was the earliest owner of Gabrielle's staff that we know of? 137. Who was the king of Triz? 138. Who was Solaris? 139. Who was the royal patron of Akbash? 140. Who was a "vicious tyrant", but was made into the "most loved of rulers"? 141. Who did Xena fell by using her chakram like a circular saw to cut a large tree limb through so it fell on him? 142. Who did Gabrielle criticize for being 'not much of a housekeeper'? 143. Who entered the temple of Demeter to steal a jewel? 144. Who wanted the head of Covenus, and what happened to him? 145. Who owned a ruby that used to belong to an Empress? 146. Who was Lord Seltzer? 147. Who had a weapon that bounced and returned, and cut like the chakram? 148. Who said that what had a 'special, untouched scent'? 149. Who died in the temple in Eleasia? 150. Who defeated Limpit's army? 151. Who slew the Barakas? 152. Who said that Gabrielle loved Xena more than anybody in the whole world and when? 153. Who got sent to prison in Miramas? 154. Who was Lucas? 155. Who used to play the centurions and gladiators game? 156. Who operated from the walled city of Trachus? 157. Who were the Dealians? 158. Who was the despotic ruler of Argos? 159. Who was Gabriel's mother? 160. Who did Xena say was the closest thing she'd ever had to a sister? 161. Who were Persix and Etiocles related to? What happened to them? 162. Who saved the village of Losia from a murderous warlord? 163. Who was to be found in Andreus? 164. Who was the leader of the Centaurs at the time Velasca became a god? 165. Who described whom as 'a useless little pissant, really'? 166. Who called Ares 'a pitiful excuse for a warrior'? 167. Who killed Theodorus? 168. Who asked Gabrielle to rescue an old friend from Poteidaia when she got in with the wrong crowd? 169. Who was Terrai? What distinguishing feature did Terrai have? 170. Who did Xena have a fight with and mortally wound whilst Gab was at the Athens Academy? 171. Who had '17 secret herbs and spices' to go with roast fowl? 172. Who was reputed to have killed hundreds of men at the battle of Liguria? 173. Who butchered the inhabitants of the village of Gardenus? 174. Whose warriors had a spider tattoo on their cheeks? 175. Whose rescue did Xena commence by throwing a bunch of swords wrapped in a cloth into the camp where he was held? 176. Whose head did Mordecai have a price on? 177. Whose hobbies included music, exotic dancing and sacrificing to the gods? 178. Why didn't Autolycus pay for his drink after he stole the dagger of Helios? 179. Why did Xena miss Adaar's speech? 180. Why didn't Mercer make it to the river? 181. Why don't giants bury their dead? 182. Why did Melas hate Xena? 183. Why didn't Thadeus want to have children? 184. Why did Gabrielle say about Xena needing a breast dagger? 185. Why did Xena and Gabrielle go to Mount Nestus? 186. Xena and Gabrielle were on a merchant ship pursued by pirates in a storm, the merchant ship was wrecked on rocks... what happened to Gabrielle? To Xena?