Can You Name Them All? Modern Sci-Fi Trivia Quiz Challenge

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Are you a fan of mind-bending modern sci-fi cinema from the 21st century? Test your knowledge with this 20-question quiz featuring iconic films from 2000 onwards. Questions range from easy warm-ups to devilishly tricky ones – can you name them all and score a perfect 20/20?

20 Trivia Questions on Modern Sci-Fi Films

Question 1: Which film features a team using a device called PASIV to infiltrate dreams and plant ideas?

A. Tenet
B. Interstellar
C. Ex Machina
D. Inception

Question 2: In which movie does a corn farmer pilot through a wormhole near Saturn to find a new home for humanity?

A. Dune
B. The Martian
C. Interstellar
D. Ad Astra

Question 3: Which film centres on Paul Atreides learning to ride sandworms on the desert planet Arrakis?

A. Prometheus
B. Dune
C. Avatar
D. District 9

Question 4: In which picture does a paraplegic Marine connect to a blue-skinned alien avatar on Pandora?

A. Her
B. Moon
C. Avatar
D. Sunshine

Question 5: Which film follows Dr. Ryan Stone surviving a space debris catastrophe while untethered in orbit?

A. Gravity
B. Passengers
C. Children of Men
D. Edge of Tomorrow

Question 6: In which movie does Major Bill Cage relive the same day fighting aliens in a time loop?

A. Arrival
B. Tenet
C. Edge of Tomorrow
D. Annihilation

Question 7: Which film involves a programmer testing an AI robot named Ava in a secluded facility?

A. Blade Runner 2049
B. Ex Machina
C. Prometheus
D. Moon

Question 8: In which picture does linguist Louise Banks decipher a non-linear alien language from heptapods?

A. Arrival
B. Her
C. District 9
D. Sunshine

Question 9: Which sequel features Officer K discovering a miracle birth among replicants?

A. Blade Runner 2049
B. Inception
C. Interstellar
D. Gravity

Question 10: In which Nolan film do agents use temporal inversion to prevent a global catastrophe?

A. The Martian
B. Tenet
C. Dune
D. Annihilation

Question 11: Which movie has Evelyn Wang jumping through multiverses to fight Jobu Tupaki with a bagel?

A. Everything Everywhere All at Once
B. Children of Men
C. Avatar
D. Edge of Tomorrow

Question 12: In which survival tale does astronaut Mark Watney grow potatoes and blast ABBA while stranded on Mars?

A. Ad Astra
B. Moon
C. The Martian
D. Sunshine

Question 13: Which film explores a mysterious zone called the Shimmer that mutates DNA?

A. Prometheus
B. District 9
C. Annihilation
D. Her

Question 14: In which space odyssey does Roy McBride search for his father near Neptune?

A. Interstellar
B. Gravity
C. Ad Astra
D. Arrival

Question 15: Which prequel has a crew encountering ancient Engineers and black liquid on LV-223?

A. Blade Runner 2049
B. Prometheus
C. Ex Machina
D. Tenet

Question 16: In which mockumentary do aliens force prawn-like creatures into Johannesburg slums?

A. Dune
B. District 9
C. Everything Everywhere All at Once
D. Children of Men

Question 17: Which film stars Sam Rockwell as a lone lunar miner discovering his clone?

A. Moon
B. The Martian
C. Sunshine
D. Annihilation

Question 18: In which story does Theodore Twombly fall in love with an operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson?

A. Her
B. Ex Machina
C. Arrival
D. Gravity

Question 19: Which dystopian film depicts a world without births, protecting the last pregnant woman?

A. Children of Men
B. District 9
C. Prometheus
D. Ad Astra

Question 20: In which Danny Boyle film does a crew deliver a payload to restart the dying Sun?

A. 28 Days Later
B. Sunshine
C. Moon
D. Interstellar

Answers

  1. D. Inception – Directed by Christopher Nolan in 2010, it introduces PASIV for dream infiltration; others involve time manipulation or AI but not dream-sharing tech.
  2. C. Interstellar – Released in 2014, Cooper’s journey starts from a dying Earth through a Saturn wormhole; Dune is desert-based, not space farming.
  3. B. Dune – Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 adaptation has Paul riding sandworms; Avatar features flying banshees, not worms.
  4. C. Avatar – James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster stars Sam Worthington as Jake Sully; District 9 has alien prawns, not blue Na’vi.
  5. A. Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón’s 2013 film stars Sandra Bullock as Stone after a satellite collision; Edge of Tomorrow is Earth-bound combat.
  6. C. Edge of Tomorrow – 2014 film with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in a loop against mimics; Arrival has no combat reset.
  7. B. Ex Machina – Alex Garland’s 2014 debut tests Ava with Caleb; Blade Runner 2049 hunts replicants, not tests AI.
  8. A. Arrival – 2016 Denis Villeneuve film with Amy Adams decoding heptapod script; District 9 aliens speak clicks, not circles.
  9. A. Blade Runner 2049 – Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 sequel with Ryan Gosling as K; Inception has no replicants.
  10. B. Tenet – Christopher Nolan’s 2020 film uses inversion against Sator; The Martian is planetary survival.
  11. A. Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniels’ 2022 multiverse action-comedy stars Michelle Yeoh; others lack bagel apocalypse.
  12. C. The Martian – Ridley Scott’s 2015 film with Matt Damon farming potatoes; Moon has no ABBA or Mars.
  13. C. Annihilation – Alex Garland’s 2018 film mutates biology in the Shimmer; Prometheus uses black goo, not a zone.
  14. C. Ad Astra – James Gray’s 2019 film stars Brad Pitt seeking the Lima Project; Gravity is near-Earth.
  15. B. Prometheus – Ridley Scott’s 2012 Alien prequel on LV-223; Ex Machina is Earth-bound AI.
  16. B. District 9 – Neill Blomkamp’s 2009 film with prawn relocation; Dune has no mockumentary style.
  17. A. Moon – Duncan Jones’ 2009 film with Sam Rockwell and clones; The Martian has no lunar clones.
  18. A. Her – Spike Jonze’s 2013 film with Joaquin Phoenix and OS Samantha; Ex Machina has physical AI.
  19. A. Children of Men – Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film guards Kee; District 9 has no infertility crisis.
  20. B. Sunshine – Danny Boyle’s 2007 film with the Icarus 2 payload; 28 Days Later is horror, not space.

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