Weekly Quiz #2: Pop-culture Quiz - Space edition from SJU Quizzers Conducted on 10th August 2023 for SJU students Set by Current Office Bearers Sanjana and Shruti

1. QUIZ ON Pop Culture:
Space Edition
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2. Which Steven
Spielberg movie
shares its name with
the title of a song by
a famous pop-artist?
01.

3. ET

4. 2. In the movie "2001: A Space
Odyssey," what is the name of the
AI computer that malfunctions
during the mission?

5. HAL 9000

6. 3. The science-fiction series Foundation
introduced the Three Laws of Robotics
which have since not only been referenced
in various other media, but have also
influenced the ethics of artificial intelligence.
These laws are also referred to X’s Laws,
with X being the name of the author. Who is
he?

7. Isaac Asimov

8. 4. Which space
shuttle was named
after the popular Star
Trek spaceship?

9. Enterprise

10. 5. This sci-fi filmmaker who has a background in
anthropology utilized the Vietnam war as inspiration in
his franchise."We're fighting the largest empire in the
world, and we're just a bunch of hay seeds in
coonskin hats that don't know nothing," he said,
referencing how he based the heroes of his franchise
on real-life rebellions against powerful empires. “The
little guys won. The highly technical empire -- the
English Empire, the American Empire -- lost. That was
the whole point.” Which franchise are we referring to
here, and who is this filmmaker?

11. Star Wars and George Lucas

12. 6. The science of this movie was developed by
the laureate for the 2017 Nobel Prize for
Physics, and is completely scientifically
accurate. The only detail of the movie which,
in theory, would not be entirely probable is one
where there are clouds on an ice-planet. While
filming this scene, one of its actors also
caught hypothermia. Which movie are we
referring to here?

14. Interstellar

15. 7. Who voiced the
character of Marvin
the Paranoid
Android in the 2005
film adaptation of
"The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the
Galaxy"?

17. Alan Rickman

18. 8. The movie “Alien” has a Mother computer which is coded
to instill trust, but has a secret agenda unknown to the crew.
This is referenced in another movie, also featuring a main
computer in a starliner that keeps those abroad in the dark
with respect to certain things. The voice of this computer is
none other than Alien star, Sigourney Weaver. Which movie
is this?

19. Wall-E

20. 9. Writer-director Luc Besson sneaked in a
reference in his sci-fi movie X in the form
of dialogue of another movie he wrote:
Taken. While in Taken, these lines were
said by the protagonist to the antagonist,
in X, they are said by a minor alien
antagonist to the protagonist. What is
movie X, which features over 200 species
of aliens?

21. “I will find you, and I will kill you.”
“Good luck.”

22. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

23. 10. In the second movie of this
famous movie franchise, the dancing
of its director actually inspired the
dance moves of one of its
characters. What is the character,
and name its franchise?

25. Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy
Volume II