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Strap in, cadet: from killer computers to time-traveling police boxes, it's time to prove your sci-fi smarts across the galaxy!

Who wrote the desert-planet epic "Dune"?

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Spice-tacular! Frank Herbert published "Dune" in 1965, and it's one of the best-selling sci-fi novels ever.

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The spice must flow to Frank Herbert! He wrote "Dune" in 1965, launching a saga about Arrakis, sandworms and the Atreides family.

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Which film features the eerily calm computer HAL 9000?

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Affirmative! HAL 9000 is the soft-spoken AI of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 classic "2001: A Space Odyssey".

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I'm sorry, Dave, that's not it. HAL 9000 comes from "2001: A Space Odyssey", Kubrick's 1968 film made with Arthur C. Clarke.

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Isaac Asimov's famous Three Laws are rules for what?

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Beep boop, correct! Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics first appeared together in his 1942 story "Runaround".

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The answer is robots! Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics start with: a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow one to come to harm.

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In "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", what is the answer to life, the universe and everything?

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Don't panic, you nailed it! The supercomputer Deep Thought spent 7.5 million years calculating the answer: 42.

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Don't panic! The answer is 42, calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought. The trouble is, nobody knows what the question was.

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What is the name of Ellen Ripley's ship in "Alien" (1979)?

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In space, everyone can hear you cheer! Ripley's ill-fated ship is the commercial towing vessel Nostromo.

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It's the Nostromo, a commercial towing vessel. The Sulaco shows up later in "Aliens", so you were in the right universe!

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Who wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", the book behind "Blade Runner"?

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No Voight-Kampff test needed, you're clearly human and clever! Philip K. Dick wrote the novel in 1968.

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It was Philip K. Dick, who published the novel in 1968. Many of his stories became films, including "Total Recall" and "Minority Report".

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In Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", what do firemen do?

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Hot take, and correct! In Bradbury's dystopia, firemen burn books, and 451°F is said to be the temperature at which paper catches fire.

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Things heat up differently there: the firemen burn books! The title refers to 451°F, the temperature at which paper supposedly ignites.

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What does the Doctor's TARDIS look like from the outside?

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Fantastic! Its broken chameleon circuit leaves the TARDIS stuck looking like a blue British police box. It's bigger on the inside, of course.

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It's a blue police box! The TARDIS's chameleon circuit got stuck in 1960s London, though it's famously bigger on the inside.

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Which author coined the word "cyberspace"?

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Jacked in and spot on! William Gibson coined "cyberspace" in 1982 and made it famous in his novel "Neuromancer".

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It was William Gibson, in 1982, later popularized by "Neuromancer". Neal Stephenson is the one who gave us the word "metaverse".

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Which 1818 novel is often called the first true science fiction novel?

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It's alive, and so is your sci-fi knowledge! Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" brought a creature to life through science, not magic.

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The answer is Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" from 1818. Its creature is made by science, not magic, which is why many call it the first sci-fi novel.

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