The world of science fiction is filled with wonder, adventure, and thrilling possibilities. From books to movies to TV series, science fiction has entertained us for decades.
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Here we will explore some interesting trivia questions and answers related to science fiction movies and television. See how many you can get right–then, test your friends with the same questions!
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110 Science Fiction Trivia Questions And Answers
In the movie Blade Runner, what is the lifespan of the Nexus-6 models?
Answer: Four years.
In which 2010 psychological thriller does Leonardo DiCaprio hack into people’s minds to steal secrets and plant ideas?
Answer: Inception.
In the movie Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, what is the name of the planet that the Death Star destroys?
Answer: Alderaan.
Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Answer: Stanley Kubrick.
The theme music from which film can be heard being played by the mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Answer: Jaws.
In the movie Blade Runner, what is the name of the replicant played by Rutger Hauer?
Answer: Roy Batty.
In the movie The Matrix, what is the name of the character played by Keanu Reeves?
Answer: Neo.
Does Neo take the blue pill or the red pill?
Answer: Neo takes the red pill.
What is the name of the planet in Avatar where the Na’vi live?
Answer: Pandora.
Who stars as Barbarella?
Answer: Jane Fonda.
Which popular 1980s band was named after one of the characters in Barbarella?
Answer: Duran Duran.
In which 2013 film does Sandra Bullock star with George Clooney?
Answer: Gravity.
Forbidden Planet is based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Tempest.
In the movie Back to the Future, what is the name of the time machine that Marty McFly uses?
Answer: DeLorean.
In the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, what is the name of the boy who befriends E.T.?
Answer: Elliott.
In the TV series “Doctor Who”, what is the name of the Doctor’s time machine?
Answer: TARDIS.
The original Star Trek series is set in which century?
Answer: 23rd century.
With what fighting move did Mr. Spock knock out his enemies?
Answer: A Vulcan nerve pinch.
In the movie Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, what is the name of the device that Khan uses to try to kill Captain Kirk?
Answer: Genesis Device.
In the movie The Terminator, what is the name of the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: T-800.
In The Matrix, which character says “Neo, no one has ever done anything like this”?
Answer: Trinity.
In the movie Alien, what is the name of the ship that the crew is on?
Answer: Nostromo.
Jeff Bridges plays Tron in the original film of the same name. True or False?
Answer: False.
The line “You have 20 seconds to comply” comes from which film?
Answer: Robocop.
Dr. Ian Malcolm, the gifted mathematician who specializes in chaos theory in Jurassic Park, is played by which actor?
Answer: Jeff Goldblum.
Complete the film name: Close Encounters of… ___?
Answer: The Third Kind.
In the TV series “The X-Files”, what is the name of the character played by Gillian Anderson?
Answer: Dana Scully.
What horror film with fast-running zombies that are able to ladder on top of each other to climb walls is based on a book by Max Brooks?
Answer: World War Z.
In the movie Inception, what is the name of the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio?
Answer: Dom Cobb.
In the movie Jurassic Park, what is the name of the company that creates the cloned dinosaurs?
Answer: InGen.
In the movie The Fifth Element, what is the name of the character played by Milla Jovovich?
Answer: Leeloo.
In the movie WALL-E, what is the name of the robot that WALL-E falls in love with?
Answer: EVE.
What are the alien enemies in Starship Troopers called?
Answer: Bugs.
Which series of hit films is based on the books of Pierre Boulle?
Answer: Planet of the Apes.
Which 2014 film features Matthew McConaughey traveling through a wormhole to find a new home for Earth’s endangered population?
Answer: Interstellar.
Who does Mark Hamill play in Star Wars?
Answer: Luke Skywalker.
What does Charlton Heston find at the end of the first Planet of the Apes film?
Answer: The ruined Statue of Liberty.
In the movie War of the Worlds, what is the name of the character played by Tom Cruise?
Answer: Ray Ferrier.
In the movie District 9, what is the name of the alien species that is stranded on Earth?
Answer: Prawns.
From which planet do the aliens in War of the Worlds come from?
Answer: Mars.
Transformers originated as a Japanese toy. True or False?
Answer: True.
What 1978 zombie film was set in a shopping mall in Pittsburgh?
Answer: Dawn of the Dead.
In the movie Metropolis, what is the name of the robot created by the scientist Rotwang?
Answer: Maria.
Which film stars Gort the robot?
Answer: The Day The Earth Stood Still.
What are the names of the Star Wars films released in the ’80s?
Answer: The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
What 1982 film was the highest-grossing film of the 1980s at the U.S. box office?
Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
What is the name of the robot in Futurama?
Answer: Bender.
In the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), what is the name of the alien who visits Earth?
Answer: Klaatu.
In the movie Planet of the Apes (1968), what is the name of the astronaut played by Charlton Heston?
Answer: George Taylor.
In the movie The War of the Worlds (2005), what is the name of the character played by Tom Cruise’s daughter?
Answer: Rachel Ferrier.
What is the name of the island in the film Jurassic Park?
Answer: Isla Nubar.
In the Alien film series, what is the name of Ellen Ripley’s pet cat?
Answer: Jonesy.
In the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, what is the name of the android played by Brent Spiner?
Answer: Data.
In the movie Total Recall, what is the name of the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: Douglas Quaid.
Blade Runner 2049 is set how many years after the original film?
Answer: 30 years.
In Spaceballs, what does Lonestar use to disable the enemy’s radar?
Answer: Raspberry jam.
From what movie does this quote come from? “It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.”
Answer: Batman Begins (2005).
From what movie does this quote come from? “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
From what movie does this quote come from? “We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”
Answer: Star Trek: First Contact (1996).
In the movie The Terminator, what is the name of the character played by Linda Hamilton?
Answer: Sarah Connor.
In the TV series The Twilight Zone, what is the name of the narrator and creator of the show?
Answer: Rod Serling.
In the movie The Hunger Games, what is the name of the character played by Jennifer Lawrence?
Answer: Katniss Everdeen.
In The Martian, what event separates Matt Watney from the original crew, making them think he’s dead?
Answer: A dust storm.
In the movie The Matrix Reloaded, what is the name of the character played by Monica Bellucci?
Answer: Persephone.
In the movie Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, what is the name of the character played by Daisy Ridley?
Answer: Rey.
In the TV series Lost, what is the name of the island where the survivors are stranded?
Answer: The Island.
While fighting his own father in the Cloud City, which hand does Luke Skywalker lose?
Answer: Right hand.
What species is Chewbacca?
Answer: Wookiee.
In what 2012 time-travel thriller, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt, are mob targets disposed of 30 years in the past?
Answer: Looper.
What 2014 blockbuster begins ten years after the Simian Flu wiped out most humans?
Answer: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
What computer program caused the end of the world in Terminator?
Answer: Skynet.
What futuristic desert thriller, rebooted in 2015 after 30 years, is the first in the franchise to not star Mel Gibson in the role of the title character?
Answer: Mad Max: Fury Road (Tom Hardy is the lead role).
The villains in the 2007 version of the movie Transformers are known as what?
Answer: Decepticons.
What is the name of the alien invaders in the 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow?
Answer: Mimics.
Which Star Wars character says the following: “Let me give you some advice. Assume everyone will betray you, and you will never be disappointed.”
Answer: Han Solo.
Which Star Wars character says the following: “You do have your moments. Not many, but you have them.”
Answer: Princess Leia.
In the TV series The 100, what is the name of the space station that the survivors live on?
Answer: The Ark.
In the TV series Stranger Things, what is the name of the alternate dimension that the characters end up visiting to save the world?
Answer: The Upside Down.
In the TV series Westworld, what is the name of the artificial intelligence that runs the park?
Answer: Ford.
Who directed Jurassic World?
Answer: Colin Trevorrow.
From what movie does this quote come from? “The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope.”
Answer: Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
From what movie does this quote come from? “Great Scott!”
Answer: Back to the Future (1985).
From what movie does this quote come from? “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”
Answer: Blade Runner (1982).
What is the little girl’s name in the HBO show and video game, The Last Of Us?
Answer: Ellie.
Who plays the lead role in the TV show The Witcher?
Answer: Henry Cavill.
Who plays the lead role in the movie Passengers?
Answer: Chris Pratt.
In the TV show The Umbrella Academy, what is the name of the time-traveling chimpanzee who acts as the team’s mentor?
Answer: Pogo.
Who directed the science fiction movie Arrival?
Answer: Denis Villeneuve.
In the TV show Lost in Space, what is the name of the alien robot that befriends the Robinson family?
Answer: Robot.
Who plays the lead role in the TV show Star Trek: Discovery?
Answer: Sonequa Martin-Green.
In the movie Ready Player One, what is the name of the virtual reality world where the majority of the movie takes place?
Answer: The Oasis.
Who directed the science fiction movie Interstellar?
Answer: Christopher Nolan.
Who plays the lead role in the TV show The Mandalorian?
Answer: Pedro Pascal.
In the movie Arrival, what is the name of the linguist who is tasked with communicating with the aliens?
Answer: Louise Banks.
Who directed the science fiction movie Annihilation?
Answer: Alex Garland.
In the TV show Black Mirror, what is the name of the virtual reality video game that allows users to experience a full life in a matter of minutes?
Answer: San Junipero.
Who plays the lead role in the movie Gravity?
Answer: Sandra Bullock.
In the TV show The Expanse, what is the name of the spaceship crew that the show follows?
Answer: Rocinante.
Who plays the lead role in the TV show Altered Carbon?
Answer: Joel Kinnaman.
In the movie Interstellar, what is the name of the spacecraft that the crew uses to travel through a wormhole?
Answer: Endurance.
Who stars in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth?
Answer: David Bowie.
“Klaatu barada nikto” is a famous line from a movie with a warning for mankind. Can you name the movie?
Answer: The Day the Earth Stood Still.
In the TV series Black Mirror what is the name of the episode where people can rate each other’s social interactions on a five-star scale?
Answer: “Nosedive”.
In the movie Blade Runner 2049, what is the name of the replicant played by Ryan Gosling?
Answer: Officer K.
In the TV series The OA, what does OA stand for?
Answer: Original Angel.
In the movie Ex Machina, what is the name of the AI robot created by Nathan Bateman?
Answer: Ava.
In the movie Her, what is the name of the AI operating system that the main character falls in love with?
Answer: Samantha.
In the TV series Orphan Black, what is the name of the clone played by Tatiana Maslany who is the main protagonist?
Answer: Sarah Manning.
In the movie The Hunger Games, what is the name of the district that the main character, Katniss, is from?
Answer: District 12.
In the TV series Fringe, what is the name of the parallel universe that the main characters must navigate?
Answer: The Other Side.
In the TV series Westworld, what is the name of the androids that populate the titular theme park?
Answer: Hosts.
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