Prelims of the Science Fiction quiz conducted by Shreyan, Karthik and Pranav at Tech Tatva '17.

1. Sci-fi quiz
Episode i

2. Rules
• 25 questions.
• +1 for every correct answer.
• Tie breaker questions are Death Star marked.
• Top 8 teams make it to finals.

3. Prelims

4. q1. iD the island / where have you seen it?
• This is a remote island about 120 miles
(190 km) off the west coast of Costa
Rica.
• The name means "clouded island",
though phonetically its name is
incorrect. Its name is most likely an
allusion to the Costa Rican island Isla
del Coco, which is the only island with
cloud forests in the eastern Pacific.

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7. • Isla Nublar from
Jurassic Park

8. q2. Name the series/
Name the first book

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11. 2001: A Space Odyssey

12. q3. iD the song and the character
The title of Radiohead’s X was taken from an iconic character from science fiction,
Y, as a joke by singer Thom Yorke. “The title was chosen as a joke. It was like, 'Oh,
I'm so depressed.' And I just thought, that's great. That's how people would like me
to be. “, Yorke said.
The song however, has nothing to do with the character and has to do with a bad
experience Yorke had at a bar.

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14. X-”Paranoid Android”
Y- Marvin The Paranoid Android from HGTTG

15. q4. x?
• X, thought by many to have been ___________’s last work made an
undeniable impact on sci-fi , a Scholar Nutall even credited X for
“Inventing science fiction”.
• X was the basis for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet.
• In the film, the crew of Starship C-57D visits Planet Altair in search of
an expedition that had crash-landed years ago, only to find one of the
survivors, Dr Mobius living in isolation with his daughter, Altaira, and
Robby the robot , one of the first movie robots with a distinct
personality rather than being a tin can with legs.

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17. “The Tempest” by Shakespeare

18. q5.
• The scene is taken from the play
Rossumovi Univerzální ______.
The play is known for introducing
_____s to both, the English
language, as well as to Science
Fiction as a whole.
Which word?

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20. Robot
• From Carl Kapek’s Rossumovi Univerzální Robot

21. q6. Which book is being talked about?
When first released in 1818, the book was titled “___________ - The
modern Prometheus” and the author used this allusion to signify that
the main character demonstrated ‘hubris’ against god/nature in his
experimental desire to create life from dead body parts, much like the
Titan Prometheus, who stole fire from The Gods to benefit mankind,
without realizing the ramifications of his actions.

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23. Frankenstein

24. q7. What is shown here?

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26. Fremen alphabet (from
Dune)

27. q8.
• Shown here are Huey, Duey
and Lewis, who were three
service robots in the 1972
film Silent Running.
What did they inspire?

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29. R2D2 from Star Wars

30. q9. FiTB
________ ______ on Mars is a 1964 independently made American
technicolor film produced by Audrey Schenck. As the title indicates, the
film was a science fiction retelling of the classic novel ________
______.
The movie tells the story of two astronauts en-route to Mars who are
forced to use up all their fuel to avoid an imminent collision with a
meteoroid, leaving them marooned upon landing on The Red Planet.
The movie entails their survival and encounters with aliens on Mars
during their time stranded on it.

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32. Robinson Crusoe

33. q10. What is being talked about?
“One of the things we still have to shoot is the X. Shooting that ___ is actually one
of the hardest things on these shows. The artwork itself is only about four feet long
and maybe a foot wide. The camera is real low to the ground and we use a tilting
lens to eliminate a lot of the focus problems. But everything has to be lined up just
perfectly and you spend days running through tests. Every little blemish shows up.
Any little bump, any little movement of the camera is going to screw up this big
2,000-frame-long take. It's fun, but pure torture."

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35. Star Wars opening sequence

36. q11. FiTB
• The character _______ is voiced by legendary sound designer Ben
Burtt. Burtt is best known for his work on Star Wars though he’s
worked on films like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Indiana
Jones series as well. The Russian Satellite Sputnik 1, which in 1957
was the first man-made object to be placed in Earth’s orbit is featured
in the film.
• The American Film Institute named it one of their best movies of
2008 and the jury states it has the best storyline and emotion in its
genre since Chaplin’s “Little Tramp.”

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38. Wall-E

39. q12.
• Published in The US in McClure’s
Magazine , and in The UK in The
Windsor Magazine in 1905, “With The
Night Mail: A story of 2000 AD”, was a
famous author’s first venture into the
realm of Science Fiction.
The story revolves around transatlantic
aircrafts in the year 2000, which ferry
cargo around the world. The story
consists of riot of invention, considering
that it was published only two years
after the first flight across The English
Channel was accomplished.
• Name the author.

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41. Rudyard Kipling

42. q13. id the movie
Antonio Sant’Elia’s designs served as an inspiration for the 1982 Sci Fi
film Blade Runner. The following are a set of pictures which served as
an inspiration for another movie.
(IMAGES ON THE NEXT SLIDE)

46. Safety Slide

47. Metropolis

48. q14.
• In S01E14 of The Big Bang
Theory, Sheldon falls asleep
and has a nightmare where
he ends up in April 28
802,721 and is subsequently
attacked by cannibalistic
creatures as shown in the
picture, who are from a
classic Science Fiction Novel.
• What creatures is he
attacked by?

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50. Morlocks from H. G Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’

51. q15. Put Funda

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54. Route of The Nautilus in ‘20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea’.

55. q16. FiTB
Randy Pausch, of Last Lecture fame, had the childhood dream of "being
Captain Kirk". After being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (which
proved fatal nearly two years later) he received a signed autographed
picture of Kirk with the inscription, "I don't believe in the ____. My
Best, Bill Shatner“.

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57. Kobayashi Maru

58. q17. What is the meme a reference to?
This is a popular meme in which
people, animals or objects are
depicted as if they’re suffering from
pain, such as “implied” physical
deformity, or otherwise
uncomfortable conditions. The
images are often accompanied by
the caption “Kill me”, reflecting the
subject’s desire to be put out of
misery.

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60. The “Please kill me” scene from Aliens.

61. q18. Which movie?
• This cult classic sci-fi film was directed by a 26-year old film school
grad who had directed just 2 short student movies before. Films that
have embraced time travel and alternate realities such as Twelve
Monkeys influenced the director and the protagonist from Richard
Adam’s Watership Down inspired a character in the movie.
• Opening a few weeks after 9/11 didn’t help the box office. Pioneer
Theatre at New York city kept playing X at midnight shows for 28
months and other theatres followed suit, this helped X gather a cult
following. A special reference to E.T was made when the protagonist
is shown riding his bike.

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63. Donnie Darko

64. q19. Which book and author?
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would
men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the
remembrance of the city of God!"
The above quotation was introduced to X by his editor, who was
himself an author of repute in the same genre, in 1941. Inspired by the
above, X went on to base one of his most famous short stories Y on the
quote. Y was then adapted into a full-fledged novel in 1989 by X, a few
years before his death.

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66. X-Isaac Asimov
Y-Nightfall

67. q20.
• In an episode of Rick and Morty,
Snuffles develops higher intelligence
and wants to enslave the Smith
family. After he gets these intentions,
he says he wants to go by the name
'Snowball‘.
• Why was the name ‘Snowball’
chosen?

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69. Named after Snowball in George Orwell’s
‘Animal Farm’

70. q21. iD The writer
• In 1926 writer ______ founded Amazing Stories, the first true
science-fiction magazine. He tried to trademark the term science
fiction though he preferred “scientification”, and he paid writers so
little that H. P. Lovecraft later nicknamed him “The Rat.” Before
helping to create science fiction, he was an entrepreneur in the
electronics industry, importing radio parts from Europe to the United
States and helping to popularize amateur "wireless".

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72. Hugo Gernsback
After whom the Hugo awards
were named.

73. q22. This scene in HiMYM is a tribute to?

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75. E.T

76. q23. Where are they venturing into?
The scene is from a movie based on a Stephen King
novel of the same name.

77. q23. Where are they venturing into?

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79. The Human Body

80. q24. iD The horrific creatures blanked out (0.5 points for each)

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83. • The Mummy
• The Invisible Man
• Frankenstein
• The Creature from The Blue Lagoon