with my apologies for the delay - I've been remarkably unwell for several days - here are the answers to the quiz I posed just before New Year:

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 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 [3^rd 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 (3^rd 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