1. Who is Slippery Jim diGriz?
2. Who wrote and directed the horrible yet strangely entertaining movie Plan 9 from Outer Space?
3. Who was Captain America’s arch-rival?
4. What do these novels have in common? The Weapon Makers (Van Voight Vogt), Judgement Night (Moore), Dragonrider (McCaffery), Cosmic Engineers (Simak), Doorways In The Sand (Zelazny)
5. What does Doctor Who’s TARDIS look like?
6. Which company makes the Final Fantasy game series?
7. What was the job of the dragonriders of Pern?
8. What classic western was the movie Outland essentially a remake of?
9. From Heinlein, an artificially created superwoman, courier for a secret organization, has to fend for herself when the decline of the West reaches its climax. Name the character/name the novel.
10. What character said, “I honestly think you ought to calm down, take a stress pill and think things over.

(Answers below the fold)

1. The main character is Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series.
2. Ed Wood
3. Red Skull
4. They were all originally magazine serials in Astounding/Analog.
5. The TARDIS looks like a 1950’s-style British police box.
6. Squaresoft
7. The dragondriders fought Thread.
8. High Noon
9. Friday
10. HAL, from 2001