STARMEN.NET - EarthBound Trivia

Description of Trivia:

At its heart, Mother trivia exists to get you thinking about the game. Questions will vary from very straightforward to potentially difficult (though not quite as hard as Plo's Hard Trivia). Answering all of the week's questions correctly places you in the Hall of Fame.

Questions can be pulled from any of the games of the Mother series, but each week's questions will usually stem from a single game. If the questions span more than one game, I'll indicate it at the top of the questions for the week.

For submissions, please try to be as clear as possible. If there's any significant ambiguity in your answer, I can't accept it. (I'd rather you be too specific than too general!) Most browsers support basic spelling correction, but as long as I can tell what you meant, I won't count spelling errors against you.

Rewards for many-time winners are currently in the works. Nothing is firmly set as of yet, but many-time winners may receive a badge on the forums for their efforts in addition to recognition on the Hall of Fame.

Updates:

Trivia will be updated Wednesdays, usually in the late evening or early night. The winners from the old week, along with the questions for the new week, will be posted then.

Submitting your answers:

One set of answers may be submitted each week. If I receive multiple submissions, I'll only accept the first set (unless the submissions are no more than a few minutes apart, then I'll take the second set if indicated).

If you do not understand a question (how you're expected to answer, or even if you just don't have a clue at all as to the answer), or if would like to dispute an answer, please contact me through e-mail, PM on the forums, or IRC (I often hang around for RadioPSI shows. Also, your quickest responses will generally come from IRC, PMs, or e-mail, in that order.)

To submit answers for each week, either send an e-mail to my username (Aurilliux) at the gmail domain, or PM me on the forum. Use the subject line: Trivia Answers, so that it doesn't get lost. If you send me an e-mail, be sure to include your username (or whatever you'd like to go by)!

Additionally, if you so choose, you can submit the logic behind your answers to the week's trivia. This helps me write future questions more clearly, and also more accurately gauge the difficulty of each week's question set. I'll never take away credit even if all of your answers are just (correct) guesses, nor will I require the logic in order to accept submissions.

The questions:

This week's theme: "Clubbin'"

Question 1: How many claymen must you recharge before calling it quits for a day?

Question 2: Why in the world would anyone want a DCMC pamphlet? You're almost certain to have a weapon with higher offense by this point. (Give a little detail in your explanation, a four-word answer here probably won't get credit.)

Question 3: Hey, I see some presents back behind that fence in the train's tunnel. Can you ever get those? How?

Be sure to get those answers in before Wednesday!

Last Week:

Last week's question set:

Theme: "Dollars and Common Sense"!

Question 1: What is the cheapest way to acquire a single fresh egg, and where can it be found?

Question 2: What is the cheapest way to acquire a single diamond band, and where can it be found?

Question 3: What is the cheapest way to acquire a single bicycle, and where can it be found?

Note that there may be multiple acceptable answers for each question this week, since it might be possible to acquire an item for the same price in different locations or by different means. Your answer must be the cheapest possible method to obtain a single copy of the listed item in order to get credit, so think carefully about where these items could be found!

Answer 1: Self-service stand in Happy-Happy Village, for free. (Also accepted: the monkey in the Monkey Caves, a Mad Duck (8/128 chance per combat), and the Chicken by the Hot Springs west of Club Titiboo (Mother 3).)

Answer 2: Inside a casket within the Pyramids of Scaraba, for free.

Answer 3: The bike shop Punk-Sure of Twoson, for free.