Trivia Thursday


  1. In Asimov’s book Foundation, who develops psychohistory?
  2. How many Star Trek – The Original Series actors appeared in Twilight Zone episodes?
  3. The main character “burning bright:ln the forest of the night” is Gully Foyle, the protagonist of an escape-from-prison story author Alfred Bester said he modeled on The Count of Monte Cristo. Name the novel.
  4. In Alien Nation, Sykes might relax after work with a beer. What would George have?
  5. This writer and magazine publisher wrote under the punny pseudonyms, “Dr. Acula” and “Hubert George Wells”, among others. Who was he?
  6. They are the greatest soldiers in the galaxy, having developed a mercenary culture in order to gain the capital necessary to survive on a resource-poor planet. Their name is also the title of the first novel in the “Childe Cycle” by Gordon R. Dickson.
  7. Perhaps the original classic big-screen SF movie, this was adapted from Harry Bateson’s Farewell To The Master. Its star has been immortalized in the lyrics of the theme song of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  8. In Star Wars, what spaceport was the cantina in?
  9. Name Martin Landau’s character on Space: 1999.
  10. What are the 5 brilliant criminal lords in Jack Vance’s five-book “revenge” series collectively known as?

(Answers below the fold)

  1. Hari Seldon.
  2. Four. They were: William Shatner (“Nick Of Time,” “Nightmare At 20,000 Feet”), Leonard Nimoy (“A Quality Of Mercy”), James Doohan (“Valley of the Shadow”), and George Takei (“The Encounter”).
  3. The Stars My Destination (British title: Tiger! Tiger!)
  4. Sour milk.
  5. Forrest J. Ackerman.
  6. Dorsai.
  7. The Day The Earth Stood Still (Farewell To The Master is the title of the novel by Harry Bateson on which the movie’s based).
  8. Mos Eisley.
  9. Landau played Alpha Moonbase commander John Koenig.
  10. Vance’s criminal lords are known as the Demon Princes.