Trivia Thursday


  1. In what Ursula Le Guin novel are the inhabitants of the planet Winter able to become either Male or Female depending on the dominant sexual emotion at the time they enter “heat?”
  2. The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, was based on what Arthur C. Clarke story?
  3. What football star was the other head in the 1972 Ray Milland film The Thing with Two Heads?
  4. What was the title of Philip K. Dick’s only children’s book?
  5. What biologist wrote My Friend Mr. Leakey, a book of stories combining magic and science fiction?
  6. What was Cruiser C-57-D?
  7. Who is Tweel?
  8. The original title for this movie, while in production, was “Outer Heat.” What was it changed to prior to the film’s release?
  9. What star does Pern orbit?
  10. Who led the group of Ham, Monk, Long Tom, Renny, and Johnny?

(Answers below the fold)

  1. The Left Hand Of Darkness
  2. The Sentinel
  3. Rosie Grier
  4. Nick and the Glimmung
  5. J.B.S. Haldane
  6. The starship that visited Altair IV in search of the Bellerophon from Forbidden Planet.
  7. The birdlike Martian in Weinbaum’s A Martian Odyssey.
  8. Alien Nation
  9. Rukbat
  10. Clark “Doc” Savage, Jr., Kenneth Robeson’s pulp hero.