BRAN 30 - Movie Trivia
The almost annual BRAN Movie Trivia is back to mess with your
minds, take your thoughts beyond the galaxies, an odyssey for your
mind . . . There will be fabulous prizes awarded; at least bragging
rights. Make sure you turn your intelligent guesses into Easy Rider
(Fred Jalass) by 4:00pm Friday, June 11th to be eligible.
1 The wayward Robinson family journeys into space to construct a hypergate on a habitable planet in
Lost
in Space
a new star system. ________
____
___________ (movie)
oxygen
this planet.
2 Astronaut Crusoe discovers that burning coal like rocks produces ______________on
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Also the name of the movie is ______________________.
3 This mild mannered construction worker (originally meant to be Richard Dreyfuss or Patrick
Swayze) pulls out the Biggest Bugger in movie history from his nose and finds his true destiny on
Total Recall
Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
Mars. ________________________
4 Despite its huge success, the sequel was never made and morphed into three mutants who can see
the future – starring a shrimpy mega star.
Minority Report
Tom Cruise
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
5 Four American astronauts blast off from the NM desert in order to beat the Russians to the Moon
Destination Moon
in this early sci-fi film. ________________________
(Movie)
6 Unspeakable horrors from outer space paralyze the living and resurrect the dead.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
________________________
(Movie)
7 Alien spaceship lands in AZ desert. Amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence
It Came from Outer Space
when locals act strange. ________________________
(Movie)
Henry Mancini
8 This pink “Moon” man supplied some of the music for the above movie. ______________________
9 Left for dead on a remote planet for obsolete machines & people, a fallen hero has one last battle
to fight. Shades of “Shane” in outer space.
Soldier
Kurt Russell
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
10 Set on one of Jupiter’s moons, this space Western is essentially a re-make of “High Noon”.
Sean Connery
Outland
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
11 Which high-flying James Bond movie was nominated for an Oscar?
Moonraker
________________________
(Movie)
12 This alien resurrects a dead deer and causes quite a stir.
Starman
Jeff Bridges
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
13 The U.S. government conducts a lottery to select 800,000 ordinary Americans
to seek shelter (deep in Missouri caves) from impending mega tsunami.
Deep Impact
________________________
(Movie)
14 This end of the world space disaster movie was nominated for 4 Oscars and 7 Razzies? Who won
Armageddon
Bruce Willis
for Worst Actor. ________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
15 Taylor and two astronauts land in Calamus reservoir and make their way out of the Forbidden Zone,
Statue of Liberty
where a Nova shows the way to what land mark? ______________________
.
Planet of the Apes
______________________________________________________
(movie)
16 While deep sleeping for 2006 years, female astronaut Stewart dies, leaving the 3 remaining guy
Planet of the Apes
(Movie)
astronauts speechless and fending for themselves. ________________________
Marooned
17 Thrusters fail to initiate atmospheric re-entry and 3 American astronauts are “_____________”
in
Best
Special
Visual
Effects
space. Winner of 1 Oscar for ____________________________?
18 This astronaut is no longer marooned, and tries to save Taylor in what movie?
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Movie) ________________________
James Franciscus
____________________________
(Actor)
Quotes and Tag Lines
Idiocracy
19 “The Future is a No Brainer” ________________________
(Movie)
Apollo 13
20 Three astronauts report, “Houston, we have a problem!” ________________________
(Movie)
Tom
Hanks
Bill Paxton
Kevin Bacon
______________________ (Actor) ______________________
(Actor) ______________________
(Actor)
Total Recall
21 They stole his mind…now he wants it back. ________________________
(Movie)
Alien
22 “In Space, no one can hear you scream!” ________________________
(Movie)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn (Movie)
23 At the end of the Universe lies the beginning of vengeance. ________________________
Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (Movie)
24 A long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away. ____________________________
25 The show has been cancelled . . . but the adventure is just beginning.
Galaxy Quest
________________________
(Movie)
Aliens
26 This time it’s War!! ________________________
(Movie)
Star Trek: First Contact
27 Resistance is Futile! ________________________
(Movie)
28 “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”
Planet of the Apes
Charlton Heston
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
29 “Don’t tell me, you’re from outer space.” — “No, I’m from Iowa. I only work in outer space.”
Star Trek: The Voyage Home (Movie)
________________________
30
Star Wars IV
May the Force be with You! ________________________
(Movie)
Alex McCrindle
or
Harrison Ford
________________________
(Actor)
Spaceballs
31 May the Schwartz be with you! ________________________
(Movie)
Ghostbusters
32 Who you gonna call? ________________________
(Movie)
33 In what movie is this astronaut the sole survivor of the Nostromo?
Alien
________________________
(Movie)
Ripley
is awakened to save colonists from her old nemesis.
34 After deep sleeping 57 years, ______________
Aliens
________________________
(Movie)
35 What Steve Miller album contains a BRAN appropriate hit song?
Space Cowboy or The Joker (Song)
Brave New World
________________________
(Album) ________________________
36 What German rock song made a major impact on the music scene in a
Major Tom
time far, far away (early ‘80’s)? ____________________________
(Song)
37 Its release coincided with the same year that West Germany sent its first
Columbia
astronaut into space aboard which Shuttle? ________________________
38 In the song “Why Me” the above mentioned astronaut is referenced with
the lines . . . “The last man to leave here was never heard from again. He
2010
won’t be back this way till ________________”
39 At the end of Space Cowboys, what song serenades which astronaut – and what legend performs
Fly Me to the Moon
Tommy Lee Jones
it? ____________________________
(Song) _____________________________
(Actor)
Frank
Sinatra
____________________________ (Singer)
Right Stuff
_________
_________”
40 Sam Shepard, Alan Shepard, Scott Glenn and John Glenn all have “______ The
Sound
41 “Sam Shepard “ was the first to break what barrier _____________________?
It was done in what
Bell
X-1
or
X-1
Chuck
Yeager
extraordinary aircraft? ________________________ (Aircraft) ________________________ (Pilot)
Alan Shepard
42 Who was the oldest man to walk on the moon? ________________________
47
Hint — It’s the average age of BRAN cyclenauts. ________
(Age)
Alan Shepard
43 Who hit the first six iron golf shot on the moon? ________________________
various versions of “Dear Lord, please don’t let me f_ this up”
44 What is “Shepard’s Prayer”? __________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
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(Age)
45 What is everyone’s Last Day age in Logan’s Run? ________
46 Because we’ll orbit close to the sun, don’t get burned on one side of your face like this character.
Richard Dreyfuss
________________________
(Actor) Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman
and Jack Nickolson all turned down this encounter with the camera.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
_____________________________________
(Movie)
47 This original magnificent seven saves the world by defeating this Nebraska winter hating alien.
The Blob
Steve McQueen
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
48 This John Wayne killer reverses roles and attempts to save the last remaining plants & animals by
taking the last dome into deep outer space.
Silent Running
Bruce Dern
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
Soylent Green
49 Food for thought: “________________
____________” — is People!!!
ET
50 The concept for “____________”
was based on an imaginary friend this jaw dropping Jones created
after his parents’ divorce in 1960.
ET-The Extra Terrestrial
Stephen Spielberg
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Director)
51 This horror author set his corny story in what Nebraska town on this year’s route?
Stephen King
Children of the Corn or
Hemingford
________________________
(Movie) ____________________
(Author) ___________________
(NE town)
Children of the Corn II
52 Just like the water from the Ogallala Aquifer, these people stayed young by frolicking in this fountain of youth swimming pool.
Don Ameche
Cocoon
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor - Oscar Winner )
53 “Open the pod bay doors, HAL”.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Keir Dullea
________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
Daisies
54 Name HAL’s favorite flora. ________________________
55 What disease grounded which astronaut and almost prevented him from shooting to the moon?
This ailment also seems to afflict numerous BRAN cyclenauts with disorientation, dizziness and
Meniere’s
Alan Shepard
nausea. ________________________
(Disease) ________________________
(Astronaut)
56 Mystery alien space thighs.
BRAN 23 & 25 Videos
________________________
(Movie)
Kelly - Bike Rack
________________________
(Actor)
Any answer was accepted
Terminator II
Arnold Schwarzenegger
57 “Hasta la vista, baby!” ________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
The Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger
58 “I’ll be back!” ________________________
(Movie) ________________________
(Actor)
59 What star Hustler pioneered naked eye astronomy on television, and what is his signature signoff?
Jack Horkheimer
Keep Looking Up
________________________
(Name) _____________________________________________
(Signoff)
60 Bonus Question
What galaxy is this?
Easy Rider’s Eye
________________________
(Name)
Only 1 correct answer
was received