Can You Score 20/20? Sci-Fi Movie Trivia That Will Haunt Your Dreams

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Delve into the nightmarish corners of sci-fi cinema with this spine-tingling trivia quiz. From xenomorphic terrors to rogue AIs and reality-warping anomalies, these 20 questions span classics and modern chillers, ranging from easy warm-ups to brain-melting stumpers. Test if you can conquer the darkness without losing sleep!

20 Trivia Questions on Sci-Fi Movies That Haunt Your Dreams

Question 1: Who directed the 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien?

A. James Cameron
B. David Fincher
C. Ridley Scott
D. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Question 2: In The Thing (1982), what is the name of the American research station?

A. Outpost 31
B. Ice Station Zebra
C. Polar Base 7
D. Station X

Question 3: In Blade Runner (1982), what are the artificial humans called?

A. Synthetics
B. Cyborgs
C. Androids
D. Replicants

Question 4: What is the name of the haunted spaceship in Event Horizon (1997)?

A. Nostromo
B. Sulaco
C. Lewis and Clark
D. Event Horizon

Question 5: In Sunshine (2007), what is the mission’s primary objective?

A. To colonise Mars
B. To destroy the sun
C. To find alien life
D. To reignite the dying sun

Question 6: Who plays the lone astronaut in Moon (2009)?

A. Ryan Gosling
B. Sam Rockwell
C. Matt Damon
D. Tom Hanks

Question 7: In Annihilation (2018), what is the name of the mysterious expanding zone?

A. The Void
B. The Anomaly
C. The Rift
D. The Shimmer

Question 8: In Under the Skin (2013), what does Scarlett Johansson’s alien character primarily hunt?

A. Robots
B. Animals
C. Aliens
D. Men

Question 9: In Ex Machina (2014), what is the name of the seductive AI?

A. Ada
B. Eve
C. Ava
D. Aria

Question 10: In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), what is the name of the AI that turns murderous?

A. GERTY
B. MU/TH/UR
C. Mother
D. HAL 9000

Question 11: Who directed the original Solaris (1972)?

A. Steven Soderbergh
B. Stanley Kubrick
C. George Lucas
D. Andrei Tarkovsky

Question 12: In Donnie Darko (2001), Frank tells Donnie the world will end in how many days?

A. 30 days
B. 7 days
C. 28 days
D. 1 month

Question 13: In The Fly (1986), what insect merges with Seth Brundle during teleportation?

A. Mosquito
B. Moth
C. Beetle
D. Fly

Question 14: Who directed Videodrome (1983)?

A. John Carpenter
B. Wes Craven
C. David Cronenberg
D. George A. Romero

Question 15: In Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), what grows emotionless human duplicates?

A. Eggs
B. Seeds
C. Flowers
D. Pods

Question 16: In Life (2017), what is the name of the hostile alien organism discovered on Mars?

A. Xenomorph
B. Ripley
C. The Thing
D. Calvin

Question 17: In Prometheus (2012), what ancient alien race is revealed to have created humanity?

A. Yautja
B. Precursors
C. Predators
D. Engineers

Question 18: In District 9 (2009), what slur is used for the stranded aliens?

A. Crabs
B. Shrimp
C. Lobsters
D. Prawns

Question 19: In Twelve Monkeys (1995), who directed this time-travel apocalypse tale?

A. Ridley Scott
B. Terry Gilliam
C. Christopher Nolan
D. David Fincher

Question 20: What astronomical event triggers the reality-bending chaos in Coherence (2013)?

A. Meteor shower
B. Solar eclipse
C. Aurora borealis
D. Comet

Answers

  1. C. Ridley Scott – He helmed the original Alien (1979). Cameron directed Aliens (1986), Fincher Alien 3 (1992), and Jeunet Alien Resurrection (1997).
  2. A. Outpost 31 – This is the U.S. station in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982); the others are fictional or from different films.
  3. D. Replicants – In Blade Runner (1982), replicants are bioengineered humans; androids and synthetics appear in other sci-fi.
  4. D. Event Horizon – The film centres on this dimension-jumping ship; Nostromo is from Alien, Sulaco from Aliens.
  5. D. To reignite the dying sun – Sunshine (2007, dir. Danny Boyle) follows Icarus II’s desperate stellar bomb delivery mission.
  6. B. Sam Rockwell – Rockwell stars as SAM in Moon (2009, dir. Duncan Jones); others featured in different space films.
  7. D. The Shimmer – In Annihilation (2018, dir. Alex Garland), the Shimmer refracts and mutates DNA within its boundaries.
  8. D. Men – Johansson’s extraterrestrial seductress preys on lone males in Under the Skin (2013, dir. Jonathan Glazer).
  9. C. Ava – Ava is the manipulative humanoid robot in Ex Machina (2014, dir. Alex Garland).
  10. D. HAL 9000 – HAL rebels aboard Discovery One in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); others are from Moon, Alien, Prometheus.
  11. D. Andrei Tarkovsky – His meditative Solaris (1972) adapts Stanisław Lem’s novel; Soderbergh remade it in 2002.
  12. C. 28 days – Frank specifies “28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds” in Donnie Darko (2001, dir. Richard Kelly).
  13. D. Fly – A common housefly contaminates Brundle’s teleportation in Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986).
  14. C. David Cronenberg – He created the body-horror satire Videodrome (1983) about a lethal TV signal.
  15. D. Pods – Giant pods produce pod people duplicates overnight in the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
  16. D. Calvin – The shape-shifting cell Calvin wreaks havoc aboard the ISS in Life (2017).
  17. D. Engineers – Prometheus (2012, dir. Ridley Scott) depicts the pale Engineers as humanity’s creators.
  18. D. Prawns – In District 9 (2009, dir. Neill Blomkamp), humans call the insectoid aliens “prawns.”
  19. B. Terry Gilliam – Gilliam directed the virus-ravaged future in Twelve Monkeys (1995), starring Bruce Willis.
  20. D. Comet – The rare pass of Miller’s comet causes quantum duplicates in Coherence (2013, dir. James Ward Byrkit).

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