- What was the title of George Lucas’ first feature-length SF movie?
- In the marvelously cheesy Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, where did Buck find a new home?
A) New York
B) New Chicago
C) New Orleans
D) New Philadelphia
E) New Denver - Reed Richards is the alter ego of what superhero?
- What classic SF novel is divided into three sections, titled “Fiat Lux,” “Fiat Homo,” and “Fiat Voluntus Tua?”
- Crysknives are made from the teeth of these enormous beasts.
- John W. Campbell, Jr.’s novella Who Goes There? inspired two movies. What were their titles?
- In Carl Sagan’s novel, what is the name of the project which finally makes “Contact?”
- What story title did Joan Vinge borrow from Hans Christian Andersen?
- WestWorld, along with MedievalWorld and RomanWorld, make up the robotic amusement park called what?
- In this 1959 B-movie, Eros and Tanna, representatives of a highly advanced alien culture, are determined to destroy Earth before our scientists discover a bomb which will explode sunlight.
(Answers below the fold)
- THX 1138
- B) New Chicago
- Mr. Fantastic
- A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Sandworms (Dune)
- The Thing from Another World (1951) and The Thing (1982). There’s also a prequel to the 1982 movie due out this year, also titled The Thing.
- Project Argus picks up signals coming from the direction of Vega.
- Tin Soldier
- Delos
- Plan 9 from Outer Space
One response to “Trivia Thursday”
No. 8 And The Snow Queen too, surely?