Quiz Night- Fundraiser
Fri, 17 June 2005, 05:28 pmWalter Plinge17 posts in thread
Quiz Night- Fundraiser
Fri, 17 June 2005, 05:28 pmQuestion 1 : How is Supergirl related to Superman ??
------ think you know the answer??? well:
Red Ryder Theatre Company
invites you to a
QUIZ NIGHT
Sunday, July 3rd @6pm onwards
Hyde Park Hotel - Comedy Lounge (cnr Bulwer & Fitzgerald St)
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Tickets only $10 p/p - which includes $3.00 off meal @ the Bistro.
Make your team as BIG or as small as you like !!
Heaps of prizes and other games on the night !
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FUNRAISING and FUNDRAISING for
Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber
a Red Ryder Theatre Company production.
The Rechabites Hall July 21 - Aug 6
with Damon Lockwood, Benj D'Addario, Kingsley Reeve
Allan Girod, Brent Hill & Craig Weston.
Directed by Emily McLean Produced by Alison van Reeken
All funds go towards supporting local independent theatre.
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Come along and test your history, geography,entertainment, current affairs, useless information & trivial pursuits.
__________All for a great cause!________
To reserve a table call 9470 2380, email redrydertheatre@hotmail.com . Advise how many tickets and simply pay on the night !!
Benj D'Addario
Red Ryder Theatre
Re: Super Quiz
Sun, 19 June 2005, 10:51 amWalter Plinge
crgwllms wrote:
>
> jamieS wrote:
>
> Question 1 : How is Supergirl related to Superman ??
> > Supergirl is Superman's cousin if I am not mistaken ???
>
> > No, you are not mistaken...you are quite right !!
>
>
> AH....but this could be a trick question - it's also correct
> to say they're NOT related - because it depends WHICH
> Supergirl you are talking about!
>
>
> The Supergirl of the 'Golden Age' of DC Comics WAS his
> cousin, Kara... from Argo City, which was somehow hurled into
> space (people and buildings intact) when Krypton exploded;
> and her parents sent her to earth in a similar way to
> Superman when they discovered they were all dying of
> Kryptonite poisoning in Argo City.
>
> However this 'Golden Age' was already having an identity
> crisis. Many years of stories by various DC contributors had
> changed the story of Superman's origin somewhat, as well as
> enhancing or reducing his powers, until there were several
> 'parallel universes', with several conflicting versions of
> the same characters. (There was a series where 'Superman
> Blue' met his own image 'Superman Red'...)
>
> In 1985, DC Comics ran a 12-issue crossover series called
> "Crisis on Infinite Earths" which was designed to reduce the
> increasingly complicated DC superhero multiverse, which
> featured multiple versions of the same characters on Earth-1,
> Earth-2, etc, into a single, streamlined universe with one,
> revised timeline. Superman's story in particular was to be
> simplified. The multiple Earths were merged and many
> characters died and memories of them erased in the minds of
> the survivors. History was retroactively rewritten, and while
> some characters who died were remembered by those who
> survived the Crisis, all memories of Supergirl's existence
> were erased. (She died heroically in Crisis issue #7.4)
>
> The Modern Age begun by Crisis was a complete reboot. In this
> new version of Superman, a DC company mandate stipulated that
> Superman be the sole survivor of Krypton with no relatives or
> superpets. There was no Supergirl from Krypton in this
> universe, and no one remembered Argo City. Yet the souls of
> those who had existed pre-Crisis were not destroyed.
> Supergirl's spirit lived on, perhaps to be reborn in another
> form....
> DC Comics officially relaunched their comicbook line and
> began revamping and reintroducing old characters into the
> "new" continuity.
>
> A new Supergirl appeared just three years after Kara died,
> and in keeping with the revised Superman mythos, she was NOT
> biologically related to him.
>
>
>
> So, who wants to be on MY table?
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
> [%sig%]
I'd like to see you fit THAT on your answer sheet !! LOL
>
> jamieS wrote:
>
> Question 1 : How is Supergirl related to Superman ??
> > Supergirl is Superman's cousin if I am not mistaken ???
>
> > No, you are not mistaken...you are quite right !!
>
>
> AH....but this could be a trick question - it's also correct
> to say they're NOT related - because it depends WHICH
> Supergirl you are talking about!
>
>
> The Supergirl of the 'Golden Age' of DC Comics WAS his
> cousin, Kara... from Argo City, which was somehow hurled into
> space (people and buildings intact) when Krypton exploded;
> and her parents sent her to earth in a similar way to
> Superman when they discovered they were all dying of
> Kryptonite poisoning in Argo City.
>
> However this 'Golden Age' was already having an identity
> crisis. Many years of stories by various DC contributors had
> changed the story of Superman's origin somewhat, as well as
> enhancing or reducing his powers, until there were several
> 'parallel universes', with several conflicting versions of
> the same characters. (There was a series where 'Superman
> Blue' met his own image 'Superman Red'...)
>
> In 1985, DC Comics ran a 12-issue crossover series called
> "Crisis on Infinite Earths" which was designed to reduce the
> increasingly complicated DC superhero multiverse, which
> featured multiple versions of the same characters on Earth-1,
> Earth-2, etc, into a single, streamlined universe with one,
> revised timeline. Superman's story in particular was to be
> simplified. The multiple Earths were merged and many
> characters died and memories of them erased in the minds of
> the survivors. History was retroactively rewritten, and while
> some characters who died were remembered by those who
> survived the Crisis, all memories of Supergirl's existence
> were erased. (She died heroically in Crisis issue #7.4)
>
> The Modern Age begun by Crisis was a complete reboot. In this
> new version of Superman, a DC company mandate stipulated that
> Superman be the sole survivor of Krypton with no relatives or
> superpets. There was no Supergirl from Krypton in this
> universe, and no one remembered Argo City. Yet the souls of
> those who had existed pre-Crisis were not destroyed.
> Supergirl's spirit lived on, perhaps to be reborn in another
> form....
> DC Comics officially relaunched their comicbook line and
> began revamping and reintroducing old characters into the
> "new" continuity.
>
> A new Supergirl appeared just three years after Kara died,
> and in keeping with the revised Superman mythos, she was NOT
> biologically related to him.
>
>
>
> So, who wants to be on MY table?
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
> [%sig%]
I'd like to see you fit THAT on your answer sheet !! LOL
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