GREETINGS FARKERS!  And welcome to the Year Zero Giveaway.  Year Zero is my new novel about a bunch of aliens who are soooo into our pop music that they accidentally commit the biggest copyright infringement since the Big Bang, thereby bankrupting the entire universe (it’s a work of fiction, incidentally).  It just came out today, and we’re giving away five copies.  The following 2-minute trailer should give you a pretty good sense of whether this book’s for you:

The winners will be drawn randomly from the folks who answer the following eight multiple-choice questions correctly.  Enter by posting your answers to the comments section below.  Yes this means you can totally copy each other’s answers.

And by the way – sorry that this entails registering for my site, I know that’s a pain.  We tried to figure out a way to host this thing at Fark, and for a bunch of reasons this turns out to be the best way to do it.  YOU WILL NOT BE SPAMMED.  Having your address will just let us notify you if you’ve won the damn thing.

On to the quiz…

NOTE: The deadline has passed.

Thanks to everyone who participated!  

Here are the correct answers…

1 = B – Bryan Adams

2 = C – NSync Cover

3 = D – The Rolling Stones

4 = A – Gene Simmons

5 = B – Kelly Clarkson’s life

6 = C – Longview

7 = D – all of the above (creepy, huh?)

8 = D – Some other “It,” but not a Stephen King novel

1. What singer does a government minister say that his country has “apologized for on several occasion” in a famous 1999 movie?

a)    Ryan Adams

b)    Bryan Adams

c)    Adam Ant

d)   Adam Savage

2. Which of the following album covers features a young Justin Timberlake? (also – is it just me, or does the McKeithen on the right look an awful lot like a young Drew Curtis?)

3. What band can reasonably be described as “Forty-Hit Wonders”?

a)    Papa Roach

b)    Nickleback

c)    Incubus

d)   The Rolling Stones

4. What music world giant once claimed that he was “hatched in 1776”?

a)    Gene Simmons

b)    Jay-Z

c)    Thomas Jefferson

d)    Ronnie Van Zandt

5. According to a certain American Idol winner, what would “suck without you”?

a)    Nickelback

b)    Kelly Clarkson’s life

c)    The new Dyson vacuum cleaner

d)    Duke

6. What hit song is notoriously about auto-eroticism?

a)    Dancing with Myself – Billy Idol

b)    Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin

c)    Longview – Green Day

d)   Yanking Out my Heart – Nickelback

7. What rock ‘n’ roll classic is about murdering one’s girlfriend?

a)    Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix

b)   Down By the River – Neil Young

c)    I Used to Love Her – Guns ‘n’ Roses

d)   All of the Above

8. According to a canonical Rolling Stones hit, what’s a gas gas gas?

a)    A cross-fire hurricane

b)   Kelly Clarkson’s Life

c)    Stephen King’s hit horror novel “It”

d)   Some other “It,” but not a Stephen King novel

e)    Some other Stephen King novel, but not “It”