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Who was the first victim of the psychotic killer in Halloween?

His older sister Judith, seen killed in a flashback at the start of the movie

Tags: Horror,

What was Kathrin Bigelow's 1987 cult movie about a blood-drinking family travelling across America?

Near Dark

Tags: Horror,

Which British comic actor played Scotty, the engineer abroad the Enterprise in Star Trek (2009)?

Simon Pegg

Tags: Star Trek, Sci-fi,

Who made Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit 451 into a movie in 1966?

Francois Truffaut

In 2005 both Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson revisited classic sci-fi stories for the major movies; what were the two films?

War of the Worlds (Spielberg) and King Kong (Jackson)

Tags: Sci-fi,

Serve the trust. Protect the innocent. Uphold the law. Whose mantra was this?

Robocop

Which classic sci-fi movie concern the invention of a beautiful robot by a scientist called Rotwang?

Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Tags: Classic Cinema, Sci-fi,

In which movie David Bowie appears as Jareth the Goblin King?

Labyrinth

What is Mad Max's surname?

Rockatansky

Who played the obsessive character at the centre of Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Richard Dreyfuss

the story goes that he virtually had to stalk Spielberg to get the part after the various big box office names turned it down

Who made the 1989 underwater sci-fi chiller The Abyss?

James Cameron

Tags: Sci-fi,

What was the 1982 film starring Jeff Bridges as a computer software programmer battling to escape from being trapped inside his own programme?

Tron

Tags: Sci-fi,

As of Star Trek: Beyond, what is the number of films in the official franchise?

  • 9
  • 13
  • 16
  • 18

13

Tags: Star Trek,

What was the name of the Duncan Jones' 2009 feature debut, and which actor carried the film almost single-handedly

Moon, Sam Rockwell

Tags: Film Debuts,

Who remade Solaris in 2002 and who took the lead role?

Steven Soderbergh; George Clooney

Who was The Invisible Man in James Whales' 1933 film? And on whose story was the film based?

Claude Rains; H.G. Wells

Tags: Classic Cinema,

The artist Frida Kahlo was born in which country?

Mexico

Jenga, the game where you try to build a tower of bricks without it falling down, is named after a Swahili word. What does it translate to in English?

  • Build
  • Fall
  • Brick

build

On a monopoly board, how many housing properties are there?

22

Tags: Board Games,

The name of which game, when translated to English, literally means sparrow?

Mahjong

How many differently coloured sets of residential properties are there in a game of Monopoly?

Eight

Tags: Board Games,

In the game Scrabble, how many bonus squares are there on a board, including the central square (i.e. double word, triple letter etc)

  • 67
  • 72
  • 77

77

Tags: Board Games,

Which king in a pack of cards does not have a moustache?

King Of Hearts

Tags: Card Games,

The aerial bombardment of which German city is described in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five?

Dresden

Tags: Kurt Vonnegut,

Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness features a narrated voyage up which African river?

Congo River

The Congo river was formerly known as the Zaire River

Tags: Africa,

Which famous diarist wrote a diary in the form of letters to a person named Kitty?

Anne Frank

Tags: Biographies,

Which epic movie, based on a real historical character, was the only film to have won the Oscar for Best Picture without a single female speaking role?

Lawrence of Arabia

Tags: Oscars,

Which writer was responsible for The Three Laws of Robotics?

Isaac Asimov

Tags: Sci-fi,

Who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia series of books?

CS Lewis

Which book opens with the line "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."?

1984 by George Orwell

Tags: Classic Lines,