- Dr. Charles A. Forbin was the chief designer of a secret highly-advanced computer called what?
- The “Ultimate Computer” in the original Star Trek episode of that title was:
A) V’Ger
B) Excalibur
C) Noah
D) M5
E) Daystrom 9 - In addition to his famous robots, Isaac Asimov also had a UNIVAC-like computer which showed up in many of his stories, including “Franchise,” “Jokester,” “The Last Question,” and “Point of View.” What was the computer called?
- What computer was designed to provide the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?
- In Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” novels, starships, planets and orbitals have their own self-conscious, hyperintelligent machines which are known as what?
- GWB-666 (an acronym for Great Western Beast 666), is the central computer of what secret society?
- Which of these is NOT a computer from one of Roger Zelazny’s stories?
A) Frost
B) Maxine
C) Shalmaneser
D) Ghostwheel
E) Loki 7281 - What cartoon character’s job was being the digital index operator for the computer Referential Universal Digital Indexer (RUDI)?
- In this 1983 film, the computer WOPR almost starts a global thermonuclear war before playing tic-tac-toe against itself convinces it that war is pointless.
- The computer system on the planet Gallifrey which acts as the repository of the combined knowledge of the Time Lords is:
A) The Master
B) Rassilon
C) The Matrix
D) Shayde
E) Pandora
(Answers below the fold)
- Colossus
- D) M5
- Multivac
- Deep Thought
- Minds
- The Illuminati
- C) Shalmaneser
- George Jetson
- WarGames
- C) The Matrix