paganinio on 18/12/2008 at 17:20

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You may have noticed that I have been a very active user on these forums during the past two months, notable for liking to start threads :) . This is my final thread, yep, no more starting threads after this. So I decided to make it a good one, one that everybody can participate in. I wrote a quiz.

i'm not a native English speaker so the grammar in the quiz may be wrong sometimes . I hope this quiz is humorous as well as informative. If you got any good quiz problems you can add it in your reply.

For multiple choices problems, the choices are S,H,O instead of A,B,C, for obvious reasons. All questions are worth 3 points unless specified otherwise.

1. (7 points) What is the Deck 6 Midwife (in the shuttle bay control rooms) doing when you open the door?
S. Attacking you, like all monsters are.
H. Attacking the computer console. She's a "Paranoid Android" who is not "OK" with the "Computer".
O. Running away.

2. (6 points) Which Tech skills can be upgraded, used and then you can get the cyber modules back by pressing "UNDO"?
S. Hack
H. Maintenance
O. Research
D. Repair
A. Modify

3. (5 points) Most people on Von Braun are dead, but some are still alive when you are exploring the decks. List at least five of them.

4. Which INSET upper/lower level is the smallest?

5. What is hackable only with a Hack skill level of 6?

6. (2 points) List two reasons why there is a "Lean forward" button.

7. (1 point) What does the "Slide on" button do?

8. Besides increasing your ability to maintenance weapons, what else does the MAINT. skill do?

9. The highest possible value of PSI is 9, but only 6 can be gained from a Stats upgrade unit. How do you get the extra 3?

11. According to the manual, how long does the Localized Pyrokinesis last?
S. 1 second + 1 per PSI.
H. 3 seconds + 1 per PSI.
O. 5 seconds + 2 per PSI.
D. 10 seconds + 5 per PSI.

12. Crystal shards are awesome, but sometimes it can take quite some time just to kill a Hybrid. In the most extreme cases how many hits does it take to kill a Hybrid with a Crystal Shard?

14. Which of the following are female?
S. The hilarious Amazon reviewer (see the thread I made on GameSpot forum)
H. Von Braun (clues in the SS2 fiction by Ken Levine)
O. Chief engineer of Von Braun
C. Producer of BioShock for X360
K. Designer of Xerxes
M. People in the room near a vehicle in front of the UNN Recruitment Center
A. Worms
N. The biggest fan of SShock 2 who made a lot of quality mods
Y. The subway operator in front of the UNN Recruitment Center



15. Which of the following abilities make the game less scary?
S. Spatially aware
H. Relocation
O. Radar
D. Quit to Main Menu!


18. What's the difference between Monkey's attack and your PSI Amplifier?

19. (0 points) Name at least four types of water containers in the game.

20. How to get rid of Toxin when there's no Hypos?

21. Which of the following areas have no maps?
S. The final level.
H. The starting area of Med/Sci.
O. Polito's office.
D. The Many.
A. Training levels in the UNN Recruitment Center.

22. What's the price of rebirth on Easy?

23. Who is the mysterious figure that appears when you walk out of Polito's office, and haunts you in your dreams?
S. Cortez.
H. Nobody, just a ghost.
O. A midwife.
D. A Cyborg Assassin.
A. Hey, I'm not scared of that! What do you mean "haunt me in my dreams"??

24. What would happen to the man behind the window at the beginning of Deck 5?
S. Escape on the pods on Deck 6.
H. E-mail you and ask you to meet him.
O. Join the Many.
D. Killed by Fusion Cannon shots.


27. What lie between Med/Sci and Engineering?
S. Tunnel.
H. Ladder.
O. An auxiliary deck.
D. Inset upper and lower levels.

28. Name some of the secret(hard to enter) areas such as the Sub-Armory on Medical Deck.

29. What does SHODAN mean?
S. Shod, which means "god" in her programming language.
H. A shoddy weapon. Call the maintenance bots!
O. Sentient Hyber-Optimized Data Access Network.
D. Shodan is a common name for a beautiful woman, doesn't mean anything.

30. Why do the Protocol Droids always like to hug you?
S. They were meant to be chatty, friendly and helpful, like a robot friend. Friends like to hug each other.
H. They are trying to self-explode on you.
O. The ship is lonely for them too, you know.

31. What is going on in the mall?

32. If you don't watch your back you will be killed by the:
S. Deck 4 Spider.
H. Deck 3 Monkeys.
O. Deck 1 MP Robot.
D. Deck 6 Cyborg Assassin, except that he is the one who needs to watch out, not me.

33. (9 points) Write an essay on the topic "Why would anyone want to hack the security computers?"
You can quote my thread about the audio logs.



Okay, this is it. My final thread. I'm sorry that I won't make "A day in the life of a UNN Rickenbacker soldier" anymore.
And watch out for me in the Deus Ex forums... maybe years later. ;)

mostlyharmless on 21/12/2008 at 05:49

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That's a cool quiz, it really makes me realize how unobsessed i am! :(

paganinio on 31/1/2009 at 07:36

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I know, that's why the answer is not O.





14. all of them are female. Von Braun had a female project name in the novel by Ken Levine. Designer of Xerxes is Dr. Polito.

19. Soda Can, Bottle of Wine, Teacup, Swimming Pool.

22. I didn't mean the Rebirth mod, I meant the bio-reconstruction.

kidmystik101 on 3/2/2009 at 06:40

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Then none of those answers are right. It's Sentient Hyper-optimised data access network and not anything else. Jesus.