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Science fiction and fantasy quiz — Books & authors

The “Science fiction and fantasy” quiz — Books & authors. It has 25 questions in five categories: Distant worlds, Sword & sorcery, Artificial minds, Time & paradox, Hugo & Nebula. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Science fiction and fantasy

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Distant worlds

  1. 100

    Which desert planet is the sole source of the spice melange in Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic?

  2. 200

    What giant cosmic sea turtle carries four elephants supporting the Discworld on its back?

  3. 300

    In Stanislaw Lem's 1961…

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  4. 400

    Which color title begins…

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  5. 500

    Which capital planet of…

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Sword & sorcery

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Into the fires of which volcanic mountain in Mordor must the One Ring be cast to be unmade?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    His silver medallion indicates that Geralt of Rivia belongs to the witcher school named after which predator?

  3. 300

    What must a wizard…

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  4. 400

    Which magic system in…

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  5. 500

    Severian is exiled from…

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Artificial minds

  1. 100

    How many core Laws of Robotics did Isaac Asimov introduce in his foundational 1942 short story 'Runaround'?

  2. 200

    Which fictional empathy test measuring pupil dilation does Rick Deckard use to identify androids in Philip K. Dick's novel?

  3. 300

    What word for the…

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  4. 400

    What does the antisocial…

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  5. 500

    Which sentient shipboard computer…

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Time & paradox

  1. 100Picture for the question

    The accidental crushing of which small creature on a prehistoric safari permanently alters history in Ray Bradbury's tale?

  2. 200

    Which predatory underground species preys upon the gentle Eloi in the year 802,701 in H.G. Wells' foundational 1895 novella?

  3. 300

    Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck…

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  4. 400

    Deciphering the nonlinear script…

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  5. 500

    Which mysterious monuments on…

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Hugo & Nebula

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which temperature in Fahrenheit, serving as the title of Ray Bradbury's dystopia, is given as the ignition point of paper?

  2. 200

    What number is calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought as the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?

  3. 300

    Ursula K. Le Guin…

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  4. 400

    Who became the first…

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  5. 500

    Which Chinese novel, translated…

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