Sci-Fi Trivia

Head and Shoulders?

Edit: wait that might be Prell...Sci Fi isn't a strong point, no matter how I try.

Good one. I had to look that up.

Here's an easier one for the sci-fi geeks: Who was Woodie Smith, and by what other name was he more commonly known?


Paul

he is the voice of Big Baby on Toy Story 3

Or he is a baseball player otherwise known as Forest Elwood Smith

Or a Kentucky man that strangled his wife

I think I know the answer to the first one,but not 100% sure.

As far as Paul's question, I haven't a clue. None of the answers fit in the sci-fi area in my opinion.

They accidentally killed themselves with a machine that gave "life" to emotions they didn't know they had, in the physical form of a monster (or something along those lines)...I think.

Disclaimer: I had half a bottle of wine with my lunch earlier.

"Monsters from the Id".

Forbidden Planet is, in my opinion, the best si-fi movie ever made.
The story line was shear genius!
The acting superb.
And, of course, "Robbie". A robot never to be exceeded.
And, Gene Roddenberrys' inspiration for Star Trek.

And, as Steven mentioned, after seeing that movie who would
have thought that Leslie Nielson was, at heart, a great comedian who
has to struggle to be serious.

Speaking of Star Trek....

Why was Spock court marshaled?

Way to be Steven!

So, I'm sure you know who played Captain Pike?

And, (although I don't recall the characters name), who played Captain Pikes' first officer, and was the computer voice in the series?
She also had another connection with the show.
What was it?

You got that on the nail Paul.Beat me to it. `

Where did (Jedi) Yoda go into "hiding" after the fall of the republic?

Hands up if anyone makes money on IM.

Why was Gates McFadden (Dr Beverly Crusher) not on a single episode in season 2? Also which STNG actor attempted to copyright all of Roddenberry's unfinished work after he died?

Feh.

Hunt was a joke, albeit one of the better ones in the annals of dramatic schlock TV. Janeway was just different. Same stock as Picard and Riker, basically. Sisko was a refreshingly different sort of captain.

I haven't seen a lot of episodes of Enterprise, but it seems well done.


Paul

Matt,

The only Star Trek universe series I liked enough to watch all the way through, in order, was Andromeda. I am a huge fan of well-done schlock, and few people do schlock better than Kevin Sorbo.

Got the whole series in a boxed set. One of the more fun Christmas goofts I was ever given.


Paul

OK.
Change of subject.

In the 1957 schlock film "Invasion Of The Saucer Men" what did the "saucer men" use to incapacitate their victims?

What killed the "Triffids"?

In the original "The Thing" who played the Thing?

Some mysterious device?

What did Patricia Neal say to the "big guy" to keep him from destroying earth?

Klaatu barada nicto

And of course as Steven knows, Klaatu is a fairly obscure band from the 70s.

I stand corrected!

Looks like I stumped Warriors on the SNG question. :Let's tryt a different one. What is the secret of life according to Douglas Adams in "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"?

OK.

Another 'B' si-fi classic question.
(Which I'm sure Steven knows :-) ).

In "20 Million Miles To Earth" what did the alien eat?
And, for extra credit, what was the big "fight" scene?

Here ya go Steve:
Sister: Princess Leaha(sp?)
Father: Anakan Skywalker aka Darth Vader
Actress was Carrie Fisher
Actor who voiced the line: James Earl Jones.

Although I haven't seen the movie yet, (it just came out today), what's the flaw in "The Rise of The Planet of The Apes", as compared to how it started in the original series?

It wasn't told in the original movie, but rather in one of the later ones.

And, for extra credit, in the original story of The Planet Of The Apes, in book form, who was reading Taylors' journal and where did he find it?

I'm sure Stephen W. and Kim will know this answer.

Who was the inventor of "clay-mation"?
And, who did the animation for 20,000,000 Miles To Earth, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Clash Of The Titans, (the original), and both "Mighty Joe Young" movies, and too many more to name here?

What did The Outer Limits and The Man From Uncle have in common?

Steven, you beat me to it on this one.

Steve (Seasoned) Maybe they weren't too easy,maybe I'm just too much of a geek?

lcombs: Is the answer your looking for Ray Harryhausen (or something like that)?

Oh yeah, about the mushrooms I forgot to mention. They figured the comming rains would DOOM their planet. They found that the rain actually saved it, Those plants didn't like water!

In "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" what made Roy, (Richard Dreyfuss), decide to stop looking for the aliens?

As long as we are talking about the planet of the apes, how did the planet of the apes come to be in the LAST movie, prior to the one that just came out, or is coming out? What monument changed in the end, and how?

And I could see the last event happening in several ways, what do YOU think the author was trying to convey?

Steve

Funner????

Close, but no cigar.

Hint...
It was in a Warner Bros. cartoon.

The planet of the apes film before the alzheimers one now that I think about it was kind of confusing. I guess the craft must have sent out a chimp, who went to the past, and somehow started a culture. He somehow conveyed enough info such that I guess the creatures could get more later. He must have then taken off to try to get back to the ship. Meanwhile, his head trainer, and kind of friend, went to search for the chimp. In the future, the ship ran into trouble and crashed in the past, sometime before the trainer had landed, but after he setout. He saw things more into the future. The chimp wasn't there yet, but ship was. The military leader of the planet was locked up in the ship. Who knows WHAT happened! The chimp met up with him, to the cheer of his supporters, since it validated all that he had said. They recognized that the chimp came back as he once somehow said he would.

They took off, and te guy landed on a planet that looked like the earth. All sounded like the earth. The people, the radios, the police cars, all seemed the same. BUT!!!!!!!! The people were APES, and the licoln monument was APE centric and celebrated the military leader that he had so securely locked up.

SO, the film had at least 3 paradoxes and maybe more, and the chimp understood what no human could, and somehow conveyed a LOT of info that was not very easy to do, though I guess the ship could have crashed when he did, or before, and he could have trained them all to use it. But then his friend probably would be world famous!

Steve

You lost me at the barber shop???

lcombs,

If you are talking about MY post, join the club. Sometimes I think they take paradoxes WAY too far. On SOME movies, like "back to the future", they generally have ONE! When #3 threatened to cause a breakdown of logic in the whole concept, he brought in the multiverse concept.(So the NEW future, that would have been their past is not the same place as their old past which was the future they hoped to go to.) So it was STILL only one paradox. But things like the planet of the apes that would require several paradoxes in the same place is just pushing it. I guess they hope you will get lost in the movie.

BTW I heard the latest POTA movie is #1 at the box office. Supposedly, it is GREAT!

Steve

What links the following characters:

• Adam Brake (from Children of the Stones)
• Goudry (from Dr. Who episode: The Sun Makers)
• Doctorman Allan (from Dr. Who audio production Spare Parts)
• Alien Strong (from Space 1999 episode The Rules of Luton)
• Tekker (from Dr. Who episode: Timelash)
• Computer (from Dr. Who episode: The Ark in Space)

... and who is missing?

Google is permitted!