Sci-Fi Trivia (10 points per question!): Be in it to win it, baby!!!!

1.) Which Donna Haraway essay reflects on cyborgs connected to the "(In )aprropriated" other?
a.) "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980's"
b.)"The Biopolitics of Post-Modern Bodies; Constitution of Self in Immune Systems Discourse"
c.)"The Promises of Monsters"
d.) "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the world of Modern Science"

2.) Which Octavia Butler novel provides a narrative of forced displacement through time travel?
a.) Lilith's Brood
b.) Kindred
c.) Bloodchild
d.) Clay's Ark

3.) Who wrote an early screenplay of Peter Bouille's novel, La Planete des Singes
(Planet of the Apes)?

a.) Gene Roddenberry
b.) John Frankenheimer
c.) Orson Wells
d.) Rod Serling

4.) Which cyberpunk Anime masterpiece reflects on a female cyborg's quest to find the puppet master?
a.) Black Magic M66
b.) Battle Angel Alita
c.) Ghost In The Shell
d.) Key:The Metal Doll

5.) Which novel earned Ursula K. Le Guin a Nebula Award in 1970 and focused on alien gender transformation?
a.) The Left Hand of Darkness
b.) The Dispossessed
c.) Tehanu
d.) The Telling

6.) Which novel focused on the bounty hunt for cyborgs?
a.) Blade Runner
b.) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
c.) The Attrocity Exhibition
d.) The Female Man

7.) Which Anime film presented 5 children utilized for government military scientific experimentation ?
a.) Akira
b.) Blood:The Last Vampire
c.) Cowboy Bebop
d.) Armitage III

8.) What film was an adaptation of a Jules Verne novel which focused on the production of submarines enabling man to rule the world?
a.) The Island of Dr. Moreau
b.) The Mysterious Island
c.) The Tunnel
d.) Dr Cyclops

9.) Which film makes a connection with ancient Egyptian civilization and extraterrestrial communication?
a.) The Mummy
b.) The Island of Lost Souls
c.) Stargate
d.) Demon Seed

10.) Which cyberpunk film deals metal fetish and metal's posession over the body?
a.) Lawnmower Man
b.) Strange Days
c.) eXsistenz
d.) Tetsuo Iron Man

 

***Bonus question (10 points): Which Samuel Delany novel focused on the main character's final decision to have a sex change , in order to find love?

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Answers:

1 c, 2 b, 3 d, 4 c, 5 a, 6 b, 7 a, 8 b, 9 c, 10 d

Bonus- Trouble on Triton