Science Fiction Cinema

What this quiz asks

• Which actress plays the stranded astronaut Ryan Stone in Gravity (2013)?
• This landmark appears, half-buried in the sand, at the end of which 1968 film?
• In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), what is the name of the spaceship's computer?
• What is the name of the commercial towing spaceship in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979)?
• Ridley Scott directed Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the sequel to his own Blade Runner.
• In Arrival (2016), what is the profession of Amy Adams's character, Louise Banks?
• In Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), how do humans and the alien mothership talk to each other?
• Select ALL of these films that were directed by Stanley Kubrick.
• In which year is the original Blade Runner (1982) set?
• Which science fiction author co-wrote the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick?
• Is the title of the film Gattaca (1997) spelled only with the letters used for the four DNA bases?
• Moon (2009) was the first feature by director Duncan Jones. Who is his famous father?
• Who directed Metropolis (1927), the silent German epic of a city split between rulers and workers?
• In which city is District 9 (2009), with its stranded alien refugees, set?
• Order these science fiction films by release year, earliest first.
• Select ALL of these films that were adapted from stories by Philip K. Dick.
• Contact (1997), starring Jodie Foster, is based on a novel by which scientist?
• Soylent Green (1973) is set in an overcrowded New York of the year 2022.
• Forbidden Planet (1956) is loosely based on which play by William Shakespeare?
• Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) adapts a novel by which Polish writer?