Xavier's Pot Pourri

Who predicted the fall of the Galactic Empire - the capital of which was Trantor?
1. Hari Seldon
2. Han Solo
3. Luke Skywalker
4. Paul Atreides
Who removed the galactic emperor with a little help from dad.
1. Hari Seldon
2. Han Solo
3. Luke Skywalker
4. Paul Atreides
Who married a princess but kept on a concubine as his real partner
1. Hari Seldon
2. Han Solo
3. Luke Skywalker
4. Paul Atreides
Who has a striking resemblance to Rick Deckard (Blade Runner) and Indiana Jones
1. Hari Seldon
2. Han Solo
3. Luke Skywalker
4. Paul Atreides
Who used atomic weapons?
1. Paul Atreides
2. Obi Wan Kenobi
3. Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV (Dune)
4. Emperor Cleon II (Foundation and Empire)
Which captain of the Enterprise was also played Gurney Halleck (Dune)
1. William Shatner
2. Leonard Nimoy
3. Patrick Stewart
4. Gene Roddenberry
Match the villain. Baron Harkonnen
1. Dune
2. Star Wars
3. Star Trek
4. Blake's Seven
Match the villain. Jabba
1. Dune
2. Star Wars
3. Star Trek
4. Blake's Seven
Match the villain:.Servalan
1. Dune
2. Star Wars
3. Star Trek
4. Blake's Seven
Match the villain:.Khan
1. Dune
2. Star Wars
3. Star Trek
4. Blake's Seven
Who put a cat into a cupboard to demonstrate the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics?
1. Heisenberg
2. Gibson
3. Schroedinger
4. None of the above
Who had a cat called Frankenstein?
1. Dr Frankenstein
2. Mary Shelley
3. Rimmer
4. Lister
Everything which happened in the twentieth century was inevitable.
1. Yes
2. No
3. Nobody knows
(Dan Dare question) The ruler of the Northern hemisphere of Mars was
1. The Treen
2. The Mekon
3. The Emperor
4. A small furry creature from Alpha Centauri
Whose sidekick was Digby?
1. Lister
2. Dan Dare
3. The Mekon
4. Harry Potter
(Foundation question) Who was Mayor Hardin's sidekick?
1. Yohan Lee
2. Christopher Lee
3. Dave Lee Travis
4. Bruce Lee
What made Hari Seldon an unusual protagonist in the Foundation Series?
1. He was homosexual
2. He was a coward
3. He was dead for most of the series
4. He was an imaginary figure
What made Vila an unusual hero?
1. He was homosexual
2. He was a coward
3. He was dead for most of the series
4. He was an imaginary figure
What did Orac and Zen have in common?
1. They were computers
2. They were played by the same voice actor
3. Both of the above
4. None of the above
Who actually said "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!"
1. Avon
2. Salvor Hardin
3. Servalan
4. The God Emperor of Dune
In The Mirror of Eternity, who was Hitler's closest ally?
1. Goering
2. Goebbels
3. Hess
4. Rohm
Lister had a role in which soap?
1. East Enders
2. Coronation Street
3. Holby City
4. All of the above
Which of these is *not* a Craig Charles band
1. Watt 4
2. Beat Burglars
3. The Sons of Gordon Gekko
4. The Rimmers
Which of these writers came closest to predicting e-readers like Kindle?
1. H G Wells
2. Jules Verne
3. Isaac Asimov
What put paid to the Martians in War of the Worlds?
1. A counter-attack with aircraft
2. A computer virus
3. Superior Earth technology
4. Bacteria
Which oddity of 2001 which outraged Isaac Asimov?
1. Hal was an IBM
2. Hal broke the first Law of Robotics
3. Nobody understood the ending
4. It was better than any of his films
What reason was given for the president's ignorance about Area 51 in Independence Day?
1. "You didn't ask, sir"
2. "Plausible deniablity"
3. "You did know. There is no need to lie now!"
"The Mirror of Eternity" comes from which phrase
1. Nil Carborundum Bastardos in Excreta
2. Mirrorus Eternalis
3. sub specie aeternitatis
4. In the Mirror of Lost Time
What did Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov regard as the first science fiction story?
1. Ezekiel
2. Somnium by Johannes Kepler.
3. The Time Machine
4. 20000 leagues under the sea
What was an unfortunate by-product of the publication of Somnium by Johannes Kepler?
1. Nobody took him seriously as a scientist
2. He became bankrupt
3. His eyesight deteriorated
4. His mother was arrested for witchcraft
The Star Wars clone army used the genetic code of...
1. The Emperor
2. Boba Fett
3. Ringo Starr
4. Jango Fett
Xavier Hollands is a mad scientist
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
"The Iron Heel" predicted fascism before Mussolini or Hitler
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
In "The Mirror of Eternity" who won the second world war?
1. The Nazis
2. The Allies
3. The USSR
4. It never took place
The duplicity of the state in 1984 is partly based on Orwell's work for the BBC during the war.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
"Mini-me" Verne Troyer was in "Men in Black"
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
Harrison Ford described one Star Wars script thus: "You can write this crap, George but you sure as Hell can't say it!"
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
Nemo was the captain of the Nautilus
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
E E "Doc" Smith was so called because
1. He resembled the Disney character of the same name.
2. He was a medical doctor
3. He was a doctor of astrophysics
4. He was a doctor of chemical engineering
Jack London wrote about biological warfare in 1910
1. TRUE
2. FALSE

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