MOVIES
In the Fifth Element, Diva Plavalaguna has these inside of her body.
What are the first four elements?
The most popular episode of this Netflix show features a time traveling lesbian couple.
What is Black Mirror?
This song, performed by a singer known for her memeable Super Bowl halftime show, shares its name with a sci-fi film for young audiences that released in 1982.
What is ET by Katy Perry?
This book, written by biochemist Andy Weir, is known for its authentic use of science and its quirky sense of humor.
What is The Martian?
On my last birthday (6/26/2023), the James Webb telescope took a photo of a galaxy shaped exactly like this punctuation mark.
What is a question mark?
In this 2021 film with Jennifer Lawrence, an asteroid is imminently going to impact the earth.
What is Don’t Look Up?
In this iconic show, Fox’s sister was kidnapped in his childhood.
What is the X-Files?
This hit song shares its name with the vessel which Elon Musk intends to use to send humanity to Mars.
What is Starships by Nicki Minaj?
In this trilogy by Ian Macdonald, five international families fight over political and monetary control of the moon and its resources. Its name comes from the Latin name for the moon.
What is Luna?
This dog, aboard Sputnik II, died of overheating while in the craft’s fourth orbit around the earth. Her survival was never expected.
Who is Laika?
In this seminal sci-fi film, the lead character was originally conceived as a man, though later Meryl Streep was considered as well as the actress who actually performed the role.
What is Alien?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was the first Star Trek show to have an episode in this genre.
What is Musical Theatre?
The song from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is titled “so long and ____”.
What is “Thanks for all the fish”?
This novel, released in 1959, was adapted into a cult classic satirical film in 1997 which parodies and criticizes its ideas as fascist propaganda.
What is Starship Troopers?
From November 2023 or April 20, 2024, contact with this vessel was lost. It is the first and one of two interstellar vessels ever launched.
What is Voyager 1?
In the film with Natalie Portman, Annihilation, this is the name for the mysterious zone they venture into.
What is The Shimmer?
This character, the last living human, is known for saying the line “moisturize me!”
Who is Cassandra?
In this song, Ariana Grande posits that she would “give you the whole world,” but also that “imma need space.”
The Bene Gesserit name for Moadib.
What is Kwisatz Haderach?
Dr. Rosalind Franklin is widely uncredited for her contributions to the discovery of this spiraling protein formation found in the human body.
What is DNA’s double helix?
The first word that Dr. Louise Banks writes on a white board for the heptapods.
What is “HUMAN”?
This show, heavily inspired by Star Trek, was written by Seth McFarlane and holds a 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
What is The Orville?
This single, released by Sammy Rae and the Friends, includes the name of Earth’s natural satellite.
What is Follow Me Like the Moon?
The aliens in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, The Sirens of Titan, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Hocus Pocus, and Timequake.
What are Trafalmadorians?
In 2020, 17 year old Wolf Cukier, as NASA intern, discovered the planet TOI 1338 b. He thought the designation was, quote, “sufficient,” but his brother wanted it to be named this.
What is Wolftopia?