Weekender Blastermind Quiz NOW WITH ANSWERS

Answers

Round One

1 Who wrote the music for Alien?
Jerry Goldsmith

2 Spell the name of the Superman villain whose name phonetically is Mister “mix e zpit lick”
Mxyzptlk

3 Which space ship was commanded by Dylan Hunt?
The Andromeda Ascendant (we’ll give you Andromeda but you can feel extra geeky if you knew the full thing)

4 What time does the clock strike at the beginning of Nineteen Eighty-Four?
13

5 What was the name of the golden retriever in Pushing Daises?
Digby

6 What place name appears in War And Peace, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country?
Rura Penthe

7 Which Doctor Who was the first to use the Sonic Screwdriver?
The second/Patrick Troughton

8 Where would you find Frigia, Coralia, The Land of the Lion Men, The Magnetic Mountain, Tropica and The Fire Lands
Mongo

9 Who wrote the Rigante series of fantasy novels?
David Gemmell

10 Which band’s greatest hits include Lapti Nek and Jedi Rocks?
The Max Rebo Band

Round Two

1 “And at that moment, as if by a miracle, the sick no longer died, and the stifling shadow of the vampire vanished with the morning sun.”
Nosferatu

2 “THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART!”
Metropolis

3 “There’s no place like home.”
The Wizard Of Oz

4 “Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.”
The Day The Earth Stood Still

5 “They’re here already. YOU’RE NEXT!”
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

6 “We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the telephone, the electric light, vitamins, radio, and even television! And now some of us laugh at outer space. God help us… in the future.”
Plan 9 From Outer Space

7 “No, sir! Don’t thank me, Warden. We’re all part of the same team. Good night.”
Superman The Movie

8 “You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
Planet Of The Apes

9 “I was cured all right.”
A Clockwork Orange

10 “Out there. That-a-way.”
Star Trek The Motion Picture

11 “I’m a New York City girl. It’s a little too quiet around here for me.”
Flash Gordon

12 “Good afternoon, Mr. President. Sorry I’ve been away so long. I won’t let you down again.”
Superman II

13 “One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires.”
The Lost Boys

14 “Hail to the king, baby.”
Army Of Darkness

15 “I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.”
The Matrix

Round Three

1 Blake
Blake’s Seven

2 Chosen
Buffy The Vampire Slayer

3 The End
Lost

4 Fall Out
The Prisoner

5 Me Without You
Medium

6 Kerplunk
Pushing Daisies

7 Not Fade Away
Angel

8 All Good Things…
Star Trek: The Next Generation

9 What You Leave Behind
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

10 Sleeping In Light
Babylon 5

11 Unending
Stargate SG-1

12 The Time Of The Wolf
Robin Of Sherwood

13 Full Circle
Hercules The Legendary Journeys

14 Daybreak
Battlestar Galactica

15 The Truth
The X-Files

16 The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome
The Middleman

17 Bad Timing
Farscape

18 Turnabout Intruder
Star Trek

19 Endgame
Star Trek: Voyager

20 Give Or Take A Million
Thunderbirds

Round Four

1 TOMTIT – Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time
2 BIG RAT – Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfer
3 NERD – Nucleic Exchange Research and Development
4 SHADO – Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization
5 SHIELD – originally Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law Enforcement Division