DIE-HARD fans of science fiction (advanced science and technology versus swords and sorcery under the fantasy category) are never afraid to exhibit just how much bizarre knowledge they have of this genre. But how much do you really know about sci-fi in movies and TV?

1. What company tries to profit off the xenomorph in the ?Alien? series?
a) Cyberdyne
b) Massive Dynamic
c) Weylan-Utani
d) InGen Bioengineering

2. In the original ?Starship Troopers? novel by Robert Heinlein, protagonist Juan Rico is Filipino. What nationality is he in Paul Verhoeven?s 1997 movie adaptation?
a) American
b) Argentine
c) Puerto Rican
d) Canadian

3. What is Arnold Schwarzenegger?s nickname in the original ?Predator??
a) Bosco
b) Bogart
c) Fritz
d) Dutch

4. After the events depicted in the 1982 John Carpenter movie ?The Thing,? how many human survivors were left?
a) Two
b) Eight
c) Three
d) None

5. In the ?Star Wars? movies, Boba Fett is a feared interstellar bounty hunter. What race does he belong to?
a) Mon Calamari
b) Mandalorians
c) Correlians
d) Kaminoans

6. In which real-world country is the Peter Jackson-produced and Oscar-nominated alien drama ?District 9? set?
a) Brazil
b) Germany
c) Japan
d) South Africa

7. ?Dr. Who? is the classic British television series considered to be the longest running sci-fi series in the world. Different actors have played the Doctor, with Christopher Eccleston being one of the most popular. What place is he in the order of actors who have played the Doctor?
a) Fifth
b) Eighth
c) Ninth
d) Eleventh

8. Which influential film director appeared in the ground-breaking 1977 movie ?Close Encounters of the Third Kind??
a) Alfred Hitchcock
b) Francois Truffaut
c) Akira Kurosawa
d) Pedro Almodovar

9) The 2004 Will Smith starrer ?I, Robot? is based on the work of venerable sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. How many Laws of Robotics are there, according to him?
a) Three
b) Five
c) Twelve
d) Ten

10. Which Oscar-winning actor played the dapper villain SID to Denzel Washington in the 1995 movie ?Virtuosity??
a) Robin Williams
b) Ralph Fiennes
c) Al Pacino
d) Russell Crowe

11. In the wildly successful ?Battlestar Galactica? remake, Cylons are cybernetic life-forms that have developed human appearance. How many models of Cylon are there?

a) Three
b) Eight
c) Thirteen
d) Ten

12. Big man Michael Clarke Duncan has appeared in two movies directed by Michael Bay. The first one is ?Armageddon.? What is the second one?
a) ?Transformers?
b) ?Bad Boys II?
c) ?The Rock?
d) ?The Island?

13. In both the original 1951 and the remade 2008 movie ?The Day The Earth Stood Still,? an alien spacecraft carries a deadly humanoid. What is the creature?s name?
a) Groot
b) Gort
c) Gojira
d) Gorilla

14. The iconic original ?Star Trek? TV series, starring William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk, is set in the future. In what century is the series set?
a) 21st
b) 23rd
c) 25th
d) 31st

15. Fitting the topic of James Cameron?s CGI-heavy movie, ?Avatar? means incarnations. In what language is the word from?
a) Hebrew
b) Thai
c) Nippongo
d) Sanskrit

16. Alfonso Cuaron?s bleak and gritty 2006 movie ?Children of Men? is, ironically, about a near future where women can no longer give birth. Who is the writer of the novel on which the movie is based?
a) P.D. James
b) J.D. Robb
c) James Patterson
d) Arthur C. Clarke

17. The late great director Stanley Kubrick employed classical music in his work, such as Beethoven?s Fifth Symphony in ?A Clockwork Orange.? What piece of classical music is used in ?2001: A Space Odyssey??
a) ?Eine Klein Nachtmusic?
b) ?Bolero?
c) ?Also Sprach Zarathustra?
d) William Tell Overture

18. In the 1982 Ridley Scott classic ?Blade Runner,? Harrison Ford is tracking down four artificial humans. What are these humanoids called?
a) Androids
b) Oompa Loompas
c) Replicants
d) Freejacks

19. Steven Spielberg?s ?Minority Report? is based on a book by celebrated sci-fi author Philip K. Dick. Which of the following movies is NOT based on Dick?s work?
a) ?Total Recall?
b) ?The Fifth Element?
c) ?A Scanner Darkly?
d) ?Paycheck?

20. In ?The Matrix Trilogy,? Laurence Fishburne plays Morpheus. What is the name of Morpheus? ship?
a) Serenity
b) Mjolnir
c) Osiris
d) Nebuchadnezzar

Answers: 1. c, 2. b, 3. d, 4. a, 5. b, 6. d, 7. c, 8. b, 9. a, 10. d, 11. c, 12. d, 13. b, 14. b, 15. b, 16. a, 17. c, 18. c, 19. b, 20. d