1. What was the mission of the spaceship on the TV series Quark?
2. What book begins, “The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.”?
3. What planet does Babylon 5 orbit?
4. Who is Cirocco Jones?
5. What is the motto of the Tyrell corporation?
6. What were Mike, Proteus, Extro, Domino, and Shalmaneser?
7. What is the central race in Clifford Simak’s City?
8. What “talented amateur” was mentioned in the opening of The Avengers?
9. Who wrote The Houses of Iszm, a novel about intelligent plant life?
10. Who is the hero in Lois McMaster Bujold’s sci-fi novel Barrayar?

(Answers below the fold)

1. To collect interstellar garbage.
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Epsilon 3
4. The main character in John Varley’s Titan series.
5. More Human Than Human. The Tyrell corporation manufactured replicants in Blade Runner.
6. Computers
7. The Dogs
8. Emma Peel
9. Jack Vance
10. Miles Vorkosigan