Science Fiction & Fantasy Weekly Newsletter - Monday, February 29, 2016

Top new questions this week: Was any character alive during all of the Star Wars episodes from I to VII? Is there any character in the Star Wars universe who is known to have been born before Episode I and is known to still be alive in Episode VII? Some of the main characters that I have already ruled ... star-wars   asked by kasperd 56 votes answered by David Banner 62 votes What is the smallest object(s) that a Force user has manipulated? The movies and most other works seem to stress Force users by forcing(ha) them to manipulate large objects. Pillars, rocks, ships, etc... all large or pretty heavy objects. However, tiny objects ... star-wars star-wars-legends the-force   asked by Ellesedil 37 votes answered by Null 31 votes Why were the three rings allowed to go to the Undying Land? The One Ring, it is said, would not be allowed in Valinor, but the three rings, Narya, Nenya and Vilya, crafted by Celebrimbor (who learned the skill from Sauron) were allowed to travel West. All went ... lord-of-the-rings tolkien rings-of-power undying-lands   asked by Morgan 32 votes answered by Gandalf 79 votes Can wands burn? Reading some of the questions on the Elder Wand (in particular this one), I got to wondering why Harry chose such silly and easily reversible methods of discarding the Elder Wand as putting it in ... harry-potter wandlore   asked by Janus Bahs Jacquet 29 votes answered by ThruGog 32 votes Is Sybill Trelawney taken lightly more often than necessary? In the book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Professor Trelawney says this: "If Dumbledore chooses to ignore the warnings the cards show —" Her bony hand closed suddenly around Harry's ... harry-potter   asked by Priyanka.Patil 29 votes answered by Mithrandir 31 votes Why did the captains and their crew from lots of other hovercrafts disregard Neo's supernatural ability in the Matrix? Why did the captains and their crew from lots of other hovercrafts disregard Neo's supernatural ability in the Matrix? I think they must have noticed what Neo did in the Matrix. They didn't seem ... the-matrix   asked by Kinzle B 27 votes answered by Praxis 34 votes Star Wars references in this drawing What are all the Star Wars references in this drawing by O'lee Graphiste? star-wars object-identification   asked by Thirsty Kitty 26 votes answered by RedCaio 62 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What did Padmé die of? According to Star Wars: Episode III MEDICAL DROID: Medically, she is completely healthy. For reasons we can't explain, we are losing her. OBI-WAN: She's dying? MEDICAL DROID: We don't ... star-wars revenge-of-the-sith   asked by Richard 104 votes answered by DVK-in-exile 149 votes What is Hermione Granger's ethnicity? In all of the Potter books, there appears to be only one reference to Hermione's skin colour: They were there, both of them, sitting outside Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor — Ron looking ... harry-potter hermione-granger   asked by Richard 48 votes answered by Richard 55 votes Can you answer these? According to comic book canon, how many full scale, full bodied Kryptonian humanoids made it to Earth? According to comic book canon, how many full scale, full bodied Kryptonian humanoids made it to Earth? Krypto, being non humanoid, of course wouldn't make the list, and neither would any Kandorians ... dc-comics history krypton   asked by Major Stackings 4 votes Hero escapes underground prison using inertite atomic cartridge This was a hardcover book I read in the early 1970's. The hero was falsely convicted of a crime, and was sentenced to life in prison at hard labor. He resists and is knocked unconscious. As he is ... story-identification   asked by Winchell Chung 4 votes What is the population of the Undying Lands? Is there any Canon reference as to Valinor's population? All the Elves of old who survived conflict apparently live there and all the remaining Elves from Middle Earth went there, so how many are ... lord-of-the-rings tolkien silmarillion undying-lands   asked by Morgan 3 votes

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