1. This is an alphabetical list of Traveller eras/rule sets, can you put it in chronological order of publication?
2300AD (GDW)
2300AD (Mongoose)
Cepheus Engine
GURPS Traveller
Marc Miller’s Traveller
MegaTraveller
Mongoose Traveller
Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition
Traveller
Traveller HERO
Traveller: The New Era
Traveller20
Traveller5
ANSWER:
Traveller
MegaTraveller
2300AD (GDW)
Traveller: The New Era
Marc Miller’s Traveller
GURPS Traveller
Traveller20
Traveller HERO
Traveller5
Mongoose Traveller
2300AD (Mongoose)
Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition/Cepheus Engine
2. What’s the connection between Stranded on Arden, Exit Visa, and the Zilan Wine chapter of The Traveller Adventure? They’re all essentially the same adventure – negotiating a bureaucracy gone mad.
3. What (slightly cumbersome) numbering system did Christian Hollnbuchner use for his 80 book starship series? Binary numbers.
4. Which race of sophonts were the only ones to keep the same Alien Module volume number from GDW era to Mongoose? Zhodani (Alien Module 4).
5. Connect the world building book to its rule set:
Worlds and Adventures MegaTraveller
World Builder’s Handbook Traveller: The New Era
World Tamer’s Handbook Mongoose Traveller [3rd party]
World Creator’s Handbook (classic) Traveller
ANSWER:
Worlds and Adventures (classic) Traveller
World Builder’s Handbook MegaTraveller
World Tamer’s Handbook Traveller: The New Era
World Creator’s Handbook Mongoose Traveller (3rd party)
6. Which of the following is NOT a BITS 101 book:
101 Starcrews
101 Corporations
101 Aliens - is the fake
101 Rendezvous
101 Lifeforms
101 Travellers
101 Cargos
7. Each issue of the original 24 issues of The Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society had a title, what was the title of the first? Annic Nova.
8. Name the three environment books from the Keith brothers in the 80s. Desert, Mountain, Undersea (Arctic came later in 1999 via Cargonaut).
9. Name two alternate universes based on well known tv/comic franchises. Babylon 5, Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog.
10. Which Digest Group Publications book introduced the Universal Religion Profile? Grand Census.
11. Which setting for Traveller is the earliest datewise? Attack Squadron: Roswell (1950s).
12. Which Traveller author has the most title credits? Martin J. Dougherty.
13. Who compiled the Integrated Timeline charting all of Traveller history? Don McKinney.
14. German and Spanish editions of Traveller are more familiar foreign language versions, but give at least two other languages that have Traveller products? French, Swedish, Finnish, Japanese.
15. Grenadier produced four sets of Traveller miniatures: Adventurers, Alien Animals, Alien Mercenaries and what other pack? Imperial Marines.
16. What Traveller boardgame was subtitled ‘Empires in Conflict: Worlds in the Balance’? Imperium.
17. True or False: There’s a Traveller publication which lists tattoos? True: d66 Tattoos.
18: True or False: The Aslan and Vargr shared a MegaTraveller alien volume? False. (It was Vilani & Vargr and Solomani & Aslan).
19. Name the three Sky Raiders trilogy books in order: Legend of the Sky Raiders, Trail of the Sky Raiders, Fate of the Sky Raiders.
20. Match the GURPS planetary survey worlds to their subtitled descriptions:
Kamsii The Pleasure Planet
Denuli The Savage Sea
Granicus The Jewell of the Marches
Glisten The Prison Planet
Tobibak The Pirate Paradise
Darkmoon The Shrieker World
ANSWER:
Kamsii The Pleasure Planet
Denuli The Shrieker World
Granicus The Pirate Paradise
Glisten The Jewell of the Marches
Tobibak The Savage Sea
Darkmoon The Prison Planet