Sci-Fi Trivia Quiz

as the thread rules state, you may ask ANY Sci-fi related question as long as A) its your turn, B) its not such an obscure bit of info that next to nobody  can guess or research online or whatever.

so when its your turn, hit us with those Trek tech questions if that what ya know. I myself am a long time fan of starfleets finest.

Boba Fett wrote:

Anyway, Vader's ship was the TIE Advanced X-1. It also had shields and a class 4 hyperdrive. As a piece of trivia, I think that the MPC/AMT model of it provided the wings for TIE Bombers in other movies. It has been around for quite some time.

Yes, it did, in E IV and E V. Lucas Film didn't come right out and say they used AMT/ERTL parts; what they did say is that they utilized "several commercially-available plastic model kits." It doesn't take too many brains to figure out that the only commercially-available plastic kits in 1980 were the AMT/ERTL kits.

I, myself, am not a Star Wars geek (I lean more toward Star Trek, actually); however, I am surrounded by Star Wars geeks, in particular my wife (she's the only person I know who would purposely sneak a tape recorder into a movie theater so that she could record E IV!).

Bingo. He snuck abord on one of the acceleration couches on the lower deck to reprogram the "Bubble-headed Booby" aka robot to destroy the Jupiter 2 like 8 hours into the flight. Your turn viper_mp!

Come on! this is an easy one!

Uhhhhh, wrong answer.

Boba Fett wrote:

In the original "Lost in Space", How does Dr. Zachary Smith () get onboard the Robinsin's Jupiter 2

Ummm, he hid himself in Angela Cartwright's cleavage?

 Dangit, and I got a good question too...

Allright. I would love to ask something Star Wars but I'll pace myself.

In the origional "Lost in Space", How does Dr. Zachary Smith () get onboard the Robinsin's Jupiter 2? (Bonus! Why did he come abord?)

That would be correct! Jean-Claude Van Damme was eventualy replaced with the late Kevin Peter Hall due to him not beeing menacing enough for the director's needs. IMHO, we got the good end of the deal.

as for the other two questions, I will just out with the answers for ya.

1) the sulaco was only shot from one side because only one side of the model was ever compleated. for the shots of it in Alien 3 they had to repaint the ship and put the lettering on so it could be read in a mirror and then filmed it that way.

2) only one. One side was marked 01 and the other 02. this was to save money on the miniatures budget.

On to you Boba.

wow, dont I feel like I have no life. I think my crazy knowlage of the Alien legacy is a bit to much for some. No offence ment. so in place of my original questions, here is a easier one.

Who was originaly cast to play the Predator in the first Predator movie?

If you can guess the answer to the other two questions I will give you some LoLCat pics.

1) the answer to your question is the internet, look hard enough and you can and will find anything.

2) todays questions (sorry, I have 2. they just both seemed like good ones) -

     In the movie Aliens, the ship Sulaco was only filmed from one side, why? Also how many "hero" models did they have for the dropship in the same movie?

Since noone could get it, ill give it to puma for the next Q, because he had a 'good guess'

Heres the info.

Unit name: Le Cygne

Le Cygne = Swan = Cygnus (constilation)

Language Be: French

Manga: Ecole du Ciel

Largest difference in units: The head

take a look at the head of this gundam unit, its wildly different then the others. (while you can still see the gundam influence in the Zeta type chest piece)

I guess that 'technichly' correct.  Wasn't the answer I was after, mainly because you know, unicorns and pheonix arent real animals

 Remember, I said different, not unique, there is one feature of it that is completly and utterly against the design of the rest. (because the zeta was unique it could transform into wave rider, alex had the special armor, Nu had fin funnels, there all unique, this one is differnt)

I doth believe I have stumped the group.

Unicorn Gundam-

From: MSG:Unicorn Gundam

What makes it unique: Its armor opens up and it goes into what is called destroy mode.

while not directly from a constelation named after a unicorn, ther is a unicorn shaped one.

OR

Phenex gundam from SD generations video games. it is consitered to be in both UC and FC timelines. Sukker is wierd even for me......

Heh, thats why I said universal century, universal century includes Gundam,  08th ms team, 0080... etc etc etc CCA Unicorn, Victory gundam, G savior, and everything inbetween, show and novel.

Wing is in the AFter Colony time line.  Seed is in the cosmic era etc.

Thats a bit of a doosy.

Not sure if its included on the Universal Century or not.  But in the Gundam Wing series, there were three.

Leo- Basic design, used by both sides.

Aries-designed for space flight.  Could transfrom between vehicle and gundam.

Taurus- one of the first to use the mobile doll system

Cancer- Designed after a crab.  Acted like a sub and then could transform into its gundam mode.

Pisces- also designed for underwater use.  and also could transform from vehicle mode to gundam mode.

Virgo- mobile doll system created using technology from both the Vayatte and Marcurious suits.

Multipart question

What is the only Mobile Suit in the universal century to be named after a constellation/animal.

What constellation/animal is it named after, What language is it it's name in,  What series is it from and what makes it physically different from every other gundam (design wise).

Kamen Rider Black RX

vehichles were...

Acrobatter
Mach Jabber
Ridron
Roborizer

I think

OK, here we go!!

 I am on this BIG Kamen Rider obbsesion as of late so that is todays topic.

In 1995 Saban Entertainment released a show called Masked Rider based off of one of the japanese Kamen Rider series. Which Kamen Rider was it and what were the names of his vehicals? 

Yay!...... Crap.........now I have to think up a question huh?

Give me a bit and I will have one.

Puma got it.

actualy the E-11 was based on the Sterling submachine gun used from 1953 to 1988 by the British Army.

said gun is also my final answer for the question.