Name the Sci-Fi TV Show, Movie or Book
It’s all very simple today, from the clues, name the classic sci-fi film/TV show or book. What could be easier?
QUESTIONS
1. Who wrote the epic novel, ‘Dune’?
2. Blade Runner, the 1982 epic movie starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young, was based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. What was the title of the short story?
3. Captain Trips is the nickname for a disease which wipes out more than 99% of the world’s population in which Stephen King novel that has been made into two different mini-TV series?
4. In John Carpenter’s, ‘Escape From New York’ film of 1981, which actor plays the role of Snake Plissken who is given the task of finding the US President, played by Donald Pleasance, after his plane, Airforce One, is downed over the city?
5. In ‘The Day Of The Triffids’ by John Wyndham, what was discovered to kill the Triffids at the end of the novel?
6. In the pilot TV episode of Star Trek in 1966 titled, ‘The Cage’, who was the captain of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701?
7. Which spacecraft managed to complete the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs according to its captain in this 1977 movie?
8. In the sequel to the 1979 film, ‘Alien’ what was the name of the spacecraft that brought the Colonial Marines and Ellen Ripley back to the planet, LV-426?
9. Ricardo Montalban and Benedict Cumberbatch have both played which character in the Star Trek series of films/TV shows? (5 points if you know the full character’s name)
10. What is the name of the ‘baby Yoda’ who the Mandalorian is assigned to retrieve and ultimately protects in the Disney Star Wars TV Show, ‘The Mandalorian’?
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ANSWERS
1. Who wrote the epic novel, ‘Dune’?
FRANK HERBERT
2. Blade Runner, the 1982 epic movie starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young, was based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. What was the title of the short story?
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
3. Captain Trips is the nickname for a disease which wipes out more than 99% of the world’s population in which Stephen King novel that has been made into two different mini-TV series?
THE STAND
4. In John Carpenter’s, ‘Escape From New York’ film of 1981, which actor plays the role of Snake Plissken who is given the task of finding the US President, played by Donald Pleasance, after his plane, Airforce One, is downed over the city?
KURT RUSSELL (Interesting fact – the film was set in 1997)
5. In, ‘The Day Of The Triffids’ by John Wyndham, what was discovered to kill the Triffids at the end of the novel?
SALT WATER or SEA WATER
6. In the pilot TV episode of Star Trek in 1966 titled, ‘The Cage’, who was the captain of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701?
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
7. Which spacecraft managed to complete the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs according to its captain in this 1977 movie?
MILLENNIUM FALCON
8. In the sequel to the 1979 film, ‘Alien’ what was the name of the spacecraft that brought the Colonial Marines and Ellen Ripley back to the planet, LV-426?
USS SULACO
9. Ricardo Montalban and Benedict Cumberbatch have both played which character in the Star Trek series of films/TV shows? (5 points if you know the full character’s name)
KHAN (Khan Noonien Singh – only Star Trek nerds need apply!)
10. What is the name of the ‘baby Yoda’ who the Mandalorian is assigned to retrieve, and ultimately protects in the Disney Star Wars TV Show, ‘The Mandalorian’?
GROGU