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Dune series by Frank Herbert
TRIVIA CONTEST
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Contest closed May 15, 2022

With the posting of Set Six questions, this trivia contest is over.   We hope the questions were enough to challenge you and make it fun. But, since no submissions were received by the due date, this contest is officially closed. 

Please click here for the questions.  And stay tuned for future trivia contests

Set 1/Book 1: Dune

1.       An unnamed Bene Gesserit sister and Baron Harkonnen

2.       A Mentat and a Master of Assassins

3.       Liet

4.       Dr. Yueh

5.       Saudauker

6.       Salusa Secundus

7.       Maud’Dib

8.       Shai-hulud or Makers

9.      The drowning of a small maker (sandworm).

10.   A crysknife

11.   A flawed potential Kwisatz-Haderach

12.   They were breeding to create a human whose mental powers would allow an understanding and use of higher order dimensions. (a super-Mentat)

13.   An arm of the Bene Gesserit that deliberately used religion and superstition to guide beliefs; for the purpose of providing cover for any Bene Gesserit in need of protection.

Set 2/Book 2: Dune Messiah

1.       Princess Irulan, Reverend Mother Mohiam, Scytale the Face Dancer, and Edric, the Guildsman.

2.       A ghola of his friend and mentor, Duncan Idaho.

3.       Irulan had been administering a contraceptive.

4.       He was too close to an atomic bomb called a “stone burner.”

5.       He threw a crysknife and aimed by using his son’s eyes.

6.      A compulsion to kill Paul.

Set 3/Book 3: Children of Dune

1.      Leto II and Ghanima

2.       She allowed Baron Harkonnen’s memory to control and dominate her psyche.

3.       Wensicia, mother to Farad’n, the heir to House Corrino.

4.       Lady Jessica

5.       Harum, a dynastic king in Earth’s history; possibly Egyptian or Mesopotamian.

6.      Because he foresaw the destruction of Shai-Hulud and the isolation of all humans, leading to humanity’s demise.

7.       He created a symbiotic relationship with sandtrout which removed his humanity.

8.       Stilgar

9.       She suicided.

10.   Alia had one of her priests kill him.

Set 4/Book 4: God Emperor of Dune

1.       She and her descendants would be invisible to prescience; a new type of Atreides

2.       he was a confidant and protector of Siona and sworn to obey her in everything; however, she ultimately served Leto

3.       Hwi Noree

4.       Leto’s female soldiers

Set 5/Book 5: Heretics of Dune

1.       A diaspora of humanity after the end of Leto’s rule.

2.       The descendants of Bene Gesserit witches who left in the Scattering.  They made a science or art of controlling people with sex.

3.       She is able to control the giant sand worms, Shai-Halud aka Shaitan.

4.       She is convinced that Leto’s Golden Path has gone awry and she intends to restore it.

5.       He was gene-gineered with special physical skills.  There is also a suspicion that the Bene Tleilaxu have left an unknown quality in him.

6.       Miles is a descendent of the original Duke Leo and Lucille is a descendent of Lady Jessica.

7.       A sandworm, possibly the last such worm.

8.       To disrupt the last remaining vestige of humanity’s dependency – spice.  She intended that the worms on Rakis would die out and humanity would finally learn how to live without it.

Set 6/Book 6: Chapterhouse Dune

1.       Miles Teg

2.      Miles Teg was a superlative military leader and the current Reverend Mother Superior, Odrade, needed his leadership to survive an inevitable clash with the Honored Matres.

3.       Murbella

4.       Odrade wants the secret of using the axtolt tanks to create spice.

5.       Miles Teg is now able to ‘see’ no-ships.

6.       She assumed command/control of both the Bene Gesserit and the Honored Matres.

7.       To an unidentifiable universe

8.      A pair of Face Dancers, Marty and Daniel, who apparently broke the hold the Bene Tleilaxu had on them, to be independent.

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