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STAR TREK (some movie information included)

1. Give the names of the original 14 Constitution Class Cruisers. Also indicate which of these survived until the end of the series.

   Constitution
   Farragut
   Enterprise -- survived
   Intrepid
   Exeter
   Republic
   Excalibur
   Constellation
   Potemkin
   Hood
   Yorktown
   Lexington
   Kongo
   Valiant

2. Give the full names for every known captain of the Enterprise.

   Robert April
   Christopher Pike
   James T. Kirk
   William Decker
   Spock
   Rachel Garrett
   Jean-Luc Picard
   William T. Riker

3. Name the ships with the following Naval Construction Codes:

   NCC 638 Grissom
   NCC 1701Enterprise
   NCC 1703Hood
   NCC 1864Reliant
   NCC 2522Stargazer
   NX 2000Excelsior

4. What was the Galaxy-Class Enterprise's first sister ship, and what historical event connects the names of the two ships?

   The Yamato, which was the world's largest battleship when it was sunk during WW II by a squadron of dive bombers from the aircraft carrier Enterprise.

5. What is the full name of the Transporter Chief on the Galaxy-Class Enterprise?
   Edward Miles O'Brian

Doctor Who

1. Name every actor every to play the Doctor.
   William Hartnell
   Patrick Troughton
   Jon Pertwee
   Tom Baker
   Peter Davidson
   Sylvester McCoy
   Richard Hurndall(sub)
   Peter Cushing
   David Banks (the play)
   Michael Jayston (the Valeyard)
   Colin Baker

2. Which two of these men were featured in The Two Doctors? The Three Doctors?
   2 -- Troughton & Colin Baker
   3 -- Hartnell, Troughton, and Pertwee

3. Who are the two major figure that founded the Time Lords?
   Rasilon and Omega

4. Strangely, although the Doctor travels through time and space, the Daleks he meets are always more advanced than the previous ones. in the latest incarnation, Remembrance of the Daleks, the normal Daleks have two major changes from previous ones. What are they?
   Their bodies now have a claw, and they can go upstairs

5. Who is The Face of Evil?
   Tom Baker's Doctor

6. Who recorded the pop hit Who Is The Doctor?
   Jon Pertwee

7. What were the disguises taken by the six parts that made up the Key to Time?
   A large piece of Jethric
   The planet Calufrax
   Vivian's medallion
   The Dragon Statue
   Princess Astra
   The symbol of power swallowed by Kroll

Battlestar Galactica

1. Name all 7 battlestars to appear in the premiere.

2. How did the Galactica cope when all of its fighter pilots were struck down with disease?
   They drafted women pilots

3. What are the three standard buttons on the joystick on a Viper?
   Fire, Turbo (or thrust), and Fire

General

1. In the Red Dwarf episode "Better than Life", archaeologists report finding a page missing from the Bible. Where should it go, and what does it say?
   At the very beginning. "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are ficticious and any resemblence to any people, living or dead, is purely coincidental."

2. What is the official title of the High Gorgon in Quark?
   Exalted seer of depth and perception

3. What was the occupation of George Jetson?
   Automated index Operator at Spacely Space

4. What is the pharmaceutical name for "Synthetic Love" in War of the Worlds?
   Krevulax

5. Who was the host of Science Fiction Theatre?
   Truman Bradley

6. Who played the star of Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers?
   Cliff Robertson

7. According to television's original Flash Gordon, what is the only "dead" planet left?
   Minerva

8. What was the home planet of Dodo, The Kid from Outer Space?
   Hena Hydo

9. Who were the main characters of Space Ghost?
   Space Ghost, Jan, Jayce, and Blip the monkey

10. What does IMIPAC stand for in Blake's 7?
    Induced Molecular Instability Projector and Key

11. What was the original title of The Outer Limits, and why was it changed?
    Please Stand By. With the Cuban Missile Crisis only one year gone, ABC didn't want to scare viewers with an authoritative voice saying "Please Stand By..."

12. What was Mindy's last name in Mork and Mindy?
    McConnell

13. In V (the miniseries), what was the name of the character who gave birth to the first interspecies baby?
    Robin Maxwell

14. What are the three "Great Composers" that Rimmer says Lister ought to appreciate in Red Dwarf?
    Mozart, Mantovanni, and Motorhead

15. What is the eerie object following the Swinetrek that looks like a motorcycle headlight?
    A motorcycle

MOVIES

The Star Wars Trilogy

1. Who owned C-3PO and R2-D2 before Luke?
   Captain Antilles

2. Why couldn't Han blast out of the trash compactor?
   It was magnetically sealed

3. How many AT-AT walkers did the rebels down in the battle for Hoth? Who was responsible for each one?
   Two -- One by the cables fired by Wedge/Jenkins, and one by Luke's thrown bomb in the underbelly

4. How many times does the immortal phrase "I've got a bad feeling about this..." occur in each movie?
   SW--2
   Empire--1
   Jedi--2

5. Who is in command of the entire rebellion after the destruction of Alderaan?
   Mon Mothma

6. What was different about the C-3PO action figure introduced after The Empire Strikes Back ?
   He broke apart into component pieces, just like in the movie

7. How many fingers do Ewoks have (per hand)?
   3

   
   

8. What was the color of each lightsaber seen in the trilogy?
   Vader's Red
   Luke's first Blue
   Luke's second Green
   Obi-Wan's Blue-White

9. Near the beginning of Star Wars , Luke is seen playing with a model. What is it a model of?
   Starlighter

10. At what battle did Lando's "little maneuver" earn him a Generalship in the rebellion and command of the fighter attack in Jedi?
    T'nerb (Alternate spellings acceptable)

11. What was the name of the shuttle the Rebellion used to infiltrate Endor?
    Tiderium

12. How long were the Jedi "the guardians of truth and justice" for the old republic?
    more than a thousand generations

13. On which planet of the Hoth system did the rebels set up their base?
    the sixth planet

14. What animal can be glimpsed outside the cantina at Mos Eisley?
    a dewback

Tron

1. What is written on the sign above Flynn's?
   Home of Space Paranoids

2. What was Ram's function before becoming a video warrior?
   actuarial program

3. Who did Flynn beat in his first "game"?
   Crom

General

1. What's special about the aliens in Invasion of the Star Creatures ?
   They're all female

2. Describe :
   Godzilla
   Rodan
   Gamera --monster turtle, breaths fire, flies

3. What film did Leonard Nimoy appear in before he was cast as Mr. Spock in Star Trek?
   Them

4. Who played The Queen of Outer Space?
   Zsa-Zsa Gabor

5. Who was The Demon with a Glass Hand?
   Robert Culp

6. Who played The Last Man on Earth?
   Vincent Price

7. Who was The Thing (from Another World)?
   James Arness

8. Who played The Son of Frankenstein?
   Basil Rathbone

9. Who was The Omega Man?
   Charleton Heston

10. Where is the Robot Monster from, and what is his leader called?
    The moon -- Great One

    
    

11. Give the original story/novel and author that was the inspiration for:
    The Omega Man I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
    2001: A Space Oddysey The Sentinel (A. C. Clarke)
    The Last Days of Man on Earth The Final Programme (M. Moorcock)
    Charly Flowers For Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
    Blade Runner Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Dick)

12. What were the names of the both the "good" and "evil" floating brain-creatures from The Brain from Planet Arous ?
    Good--Vol; Bad--Gor

13. Who are The Mole People servents of?
    The Albino People, of course

Literature

Robert Heinlein

1. Everyone knows about Mr. Heinlein's book Stranger in a Strange Land, but perceptive readers were given forewarning on its appearance. Where?
   "Ray Guns and Rocket Ships" in Expanded Universe (among other places)

2. Who really was Rev. Alex Hergensheimer's friend Jerry?
   Satan
   
   
3. Diagram a MI division -- the ideal case.
   ? platoons in ? companies in ? battalions in 6 regiments in 2 or ? brigades

4. How long did the act of Lawrence Smith -- "The Great Lorenzo" -- run?
   Over twenty-five years

5. How can Pixel walk through walls?
   He's Schrodinger's Cat

6. "Women should be seen but not heard" is the motto of what character?
   Jubal Harshaw

Isaac Asimov

1. What are the Three Laws of Robotics?
   1. A robot may not injure a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm
   2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except when orders would conflict with the First Law
   3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Law

2. Asimov's shortest story is "About Nothing". Why was it written, and what is the name of the play in it?
   It was written to go on a postcard. The play is Much Aideu About Nothing

3. What is being advertised on the billboard in Buy Jupiter?
   Mizzarett Ergone Vertices

4. We all call Asimov The Good Doctor, but why? (be specific)
   He is a Ph.D. in Chemistry, and is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine

5. The story "Runaround", aside from being as successful as the rest of Asimov's works, was especially notable for two other things. What?
   The first complete appearance of the Three Laws, and the first use of the word "robotics"

6. What were the first words that Asimov ever read?
   Coney Island

7. Asimov once reported an infamous legal case where a man named Stein had stolen $100,0
8. gotten in a time machine, and taken it 7 years and 1 day into the future -- one day after the statute of limitations on his theft had expired. What was Judge Neville Preston's exact ruling on the legality of this subterfuge, and Stein's fate?
   "A niche in time saves Stein"

Larry Niven

1. What concept was the Ringworld originally based upon?
   The Dyson Sphere

2. In what stories do the following spacecraft appear?
   The Golden Circle World of Ptavvs
   Angel's Pencil Madness Has Its Place
   Overcee Bordered in Black
   Flutterby The Kiteman
   Planch A Gift From Earth
   Percival Lowell The Hole Man
   MacArthur The Mote In God's Eye
   Firebee Brenda

3. Explain rishathra.
   The ringworld word describing sex outside one's species, while still within the hominids. It's also notable that the word is the same in every language upon the ringworld

4. What works were Niven's first:
   Story sold "The Coldest Place"
   Novella World of Ptavvs (Orig. A Relic of Empire)
   Novel World of Ptavvs
   Hugo award Neutron Star

Harlan Ellison

1. In the space of four Worldcons, Harlan Ellison managed to win three short-story Hugos. What were the three stories, in which year did each win, and what was the other story (and author) to win the short-story Hugo in that time?
   "Repent Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman (1966)
   Neutron Star (Larry Niven - 1967)
   I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1968)
   The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969)

2. Who was the Harlequin?
   Everett C. Marm

3. Harlan once published a fanzine. What was it called?
   Dimensions

4. Who are Gorrister, Ellen, Nimdok, and Benny?
   The victems in "I have no mouth..."

William Gibson

1. What is Case's (of Neuromancer) full name?
   Henry Dorsett Case

2. Who is Kolodny? Sally?
   They're both Molly

3. One of Gibson's short stories is referred to in Count Zero. Which one, and in what context?
   Burning Chrome. Jammer's deck was made by one of the two cowboys who burned Chrome

Douglas Adams

1. Upon whom were the Space Cops in Hitchhiker based?
   Starsky and Hutch

2. What colors were used to decorate the Cathedral of Hate?
   Ultra Violent
   Infra Dead
   Liver Purple
   Loathsome Lilac
   Matter Yellow
   Burnt Hombre
   Gan Green

3. Name and define the economic condition which ruined the planet Brontitall.
   The shoe event horizon
   People living in stagnent societies buy shoes to cheer themselves up. If everyone buys shoes, there need to be more shoe shops; subsequently, the shoes produced are of poor quality, so people have to keep replacing shoes. The whole economy overbalances, and it becomes impossible to build anything but shoe shops. Famine, collapse and ruin. Any survivors eventually evolve into birds, and never put their feet on the ground again.

4. Write out verse 2 of Prostentnic Vogon Jeltz's poem. (Its not in the book - try elsewhere)
   Fripping Lyshus wimbgunts, awhilst moongroving kormzibs
   Gashee morphousite, thou expungiest quoopisk!
   Bleem miserable venchit! Bleem forever mestinglish asunder fropt.
   Gerond withoutitude form into formless bloit, why not then? Moose.

Jack L. Chalker

1. Why does Serge Ortega not leave South Zone, and what finally convinces him to do so (In Twilight At The Well of Souls)?
   A magic spell that keeps him from aging works only in Zone or the deep-water magic-users hex.
   He's finally convinced that he won't instantly die if he leaves, and he "wants to be there at the finish"

2. What are the Olympians?
   The race which worships Nathan Brazil: The Fellowship of the Well highest have horse tails, otherwise normal. Stunningly beautiful.

3. What one word word does Chalker claim sums up most of his stories?
   Transformations

4. What are the names of the planets in the system of the four lords of the diamond?
   Charon, Lilith, Cerebrus, Medusa

2001, 2010 & 2061

1. Who created HAL 9000 (full name)
   Dr. Sivasubramian Chandrasegarampillai

2. What does "David Bownan" discover is the core of Jupiter?
   A diamond as big as the Earth

3. What is TMA-2's nickname?
   Big Brother or Zagadka

4. What is HAL's final message?
   "All these worlds are yours - except Europa. Attempt no landings there."

Fahrenheit 451

1. What is the fireman's official slogan?
   "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes."

2. Who was the first fireman?
   Benjamin Franklin

3. What poem does Montag read to his wife's friends?
   "Dover Beach"

4. What book does the protagonist "know most of" by the end of the book?
   Ecclesiastes

Brave New World

1. What is the World State's motto?
   Community, Identity, Stability

2. Who does the populace worship, and what is the sign of their reverence?
   "Our Ford" -- Henry Ford.
   Making a "T" on their stomachs

3. What is the result of Bokanovsky's Process?
   one fertilized human egg dividing into >embryos, which make ? people

General

1. Who is Equality 7-25 (give a name, please)
   "Promethius" or "the Unconquered" (Anthem by Ayn Rand)

2. At the first breakfast aboard the Nautilus, what does the crew really eat in place of each of these foods?
   Meat Fillet of Turtle
   Ragout of Pork Dolphin's livers
   Cream Milk from the cetacea
   Sugar from the great fucus of the North Sea
   Fruit Preserve Preserve of the anemones

3. What are the 4 Ministries of Oceania in 1984. What are their supposed purposes? What are their real purposes? What are their names in Newspeak?
   Ministry of Peace -- war -- war -- Minitrue
   Ministry of Truth- news, entertainment, education, arts- lies- Minipax
   Ministry of Love - maintain law and order - torture - Miniluv
   Ministry of Plenty - economic affairs - starvation - Miniplenty

4. What's the religious significance of: "Pound pastrami, can krout, six bagels - bring home for Emma" and "Remember - pick up form 1040 Uncle Revenue"?
   They are documents written by the Blessed Saint I. E. Leibowitz from Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller

5. What chemical is auctioned for 10 cents as "Item QX47R769BC - one bottle of waste solution"?
   "X", the chemical discovered by Richard Seaton which catalyzes the reactionless drive in Doc Smith's "Skylark of Space" books.

6. Who was the first human being to concieve of an artificial earth satellite?
   Edward Everett Hale

7. Where does Hawthorne Abendsen, The Man in the High Castle, live, and what is the book that he writes about?
   A single-story stucco house in Cheyenne, CO. An alternate world where the US and Britain won WWII (in his world, Germany and Japan won)

8. What monster with a bright, wet, purple gaze terrorized the town of Peaksville (pop. 46)?
   Anthony Fremont, a six-year-old with absolute power over reality

9. How did the hero Dollar Bill die in 1947?
   His cape was caught in a revolving door, and the gunman he was chasing shot him

10. What is Valis, and what does it do?
    the Vast Active Living Intelligence System, an alien satellite broadcasting subliminal messages to earthlings

11. What science fiction creature is considered the inspiration for Tribbles, and who created it?
    The Flat Cat, Heinlein

12. What is the middle name of the Green Lantern called Gnort?
    Esplanade

13. Who originated the word "robot", and where?
    Karel Capek in the play "R.U.R."

14. Only one author has been so prolific as to have at least one fantasy/science fiction novel beginning with every letter of the alphabet. Who? (We aren't quite so sadistic to make you name them...)
    Andre Norton

15. Who wrote "The Sensuous Dirty Old Man"?
    Issac Asimov

16. How did John Carter get to Mars?
    Occult teleportation

17. Which science fiction writer was one of the main broadcasters for the Apollo
18. moon mission?
    Robert Heinlein

19. What is the name of the video game used secretly to test cadets in Ender's Game?
    Free Play (also, The Mind Game)

20. Draw the Game Grid of Proton in Split Infinity.
    Along the top: 1) physical 2) mental 3) chance 4) art
    Along the side: 1) naked 2) tool 3) machine 4) animal

21. Draw a completed 4-dot sprout game from Macroscope.
    

22. What do the initials stand for in the following names?
    L. Ron Hubbard Lafayette
    H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips
    L. Sprague de Camp Lyon
    Ursula K. LeGuin Kroeber
    C.S. Lewis Clive Staples
    Phillip K. Dick Kendred
    Samuel R. Delany Ray
    Arthur C. Clarke Charles

23. Give the locations of the following bars, as well as the authors who created them:
    The White Hart London, an anonymous lane leading from Fleet St. to the Embankment (A.C. Clarke)
    Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille Jumps from wherever a nuclear bomb goes off to where one is about to go off (Brust)
    The Draco Tavern Mount Fovel Spaceport (Niven)
    The Casa Manana Earth, near the Eisenhower Hotel (Heinlein)
    The Sans Souci Bar & Grill L.A., Earth (Heinlein)
    he Horse and Grom down from Dent's home in Cottington, England (Adams)
    Chatsubo Chiba, Japan (Gibson)
    Squishers Jokertown (ed. George R.R. Martin)
    Jammers 14th floor, the hypermart in the Sprawl (Gibson)

24. Who was:
    The Grey Lensman? Kimball Kinnison
    The Ship Who Sang? Helva XH-83
    The Incomplete Enchanter? Harold Shea
    The Female Man? Janet Evason
    The Stainless Steel Rat? Jim (James Bolivar) DiGriz
    The Demolished Man? Ben Reich
    The Man who sold the Moon? D.D. Harriman
    The Bladerunner? Billy Gimp
    The Terminal Man? Harry Benson

25. Name the planet on which the following (dominantly) take place:
    The Left Hand of Darkness Winter
    The Foundation Trilogy Terminus
    Dune Arrakis
    Tunnel in the Sky Tangaroa
    The "Lensmen" Series Arisia
    The "Dorsai" Series St. Marie
    The Naked Sun Solaria
    The Dispossessed Urras

26. What was the eventual title of the following stories (magazine serial titles given)?
    Call me Conrad This Immortal
    Under the Moons of Mars A Princess of Mars
    Satellite Scout Farmer in the Sky
    The Devil Makes the Law Magic, Inc.

27. What two planets does Dr. Ransom visit in C. S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, and what are these planets called by their inhabitants?
    Mars -- Malacandra
    Venus -- Perelandra

28. What is the system of interplanetary travel used in Five-Twelfths of Heaven?
    Manipulation of the voidmarks in purgatory (Harmonics)