# I need hard science fiction and fantasy trivia quesstions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762 "2020-02-11T03:32:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/81 "2020-02-12T03:53:20Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > A really hard one: What is the SF connection between _ **Mr Ed** _, _ **Star Trek** _, and _ **Family Affair** _? Horse Cock? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/82 "2020-02-12T03:55:01Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Horse Cock? The answer was given on Page 1. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/83 "2020-02-12T04:01:00Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Very good. Lee was in both the movie and the series as different characters, only one of which was evil (Catwoman). In the other (a King Tut episode), she was a girlfriend of Bruce Wayne. Was Ted Cassidy ever on _Batman_? I can vaguely remember B&R climbing a wall and Lurch sticking his head out a window to chat with them. ETA: And since I’m guessing, Ted Gehring? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/84 "2020-02-12T04:08:47Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Horse Cock? That’s your answer to everything. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/85 "2020-02-12T04:56:37Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Was Ted Cassidy ever on _Batman_? I can vaguely remember B&R climbing a wall and Lurch sticking his head out a window to chat with them. > > ETA: And since I’m guessing, Ted Gehring? Cassidy is on the list, but I don’t see Gehring. Keep going… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/86 "2020-02-12T05:01:06Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Cassidy is on the list, but I don’t see Gehring. > > Keep going… Malachi Throne! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/87 "2020-02-12T05:05:07Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Malachi Throne! Good! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/88 "2020-02-12T05:30:30Z")
Correction: \*\*27 \*\* familiar actors guest starred on both \*\*\*TOS \*\*\*and _ **Batman** _. I’ll give you a clue: Not all of them had speaking roles. ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/89 "2020-02-12T05:51:05Z")
What was the name of the government council of Phools?The Plenum Moronicum from _Memoirs of a Space Traveler_ by Stanislaw Lem ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/90 "2020-02-12T05:52:47Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Correction: \*\*27 \*\* familiar actors guest starred on both \*\*\*TOS \*\*\*and _ **Batman** _. > > I’ll give you a clue: Not all of them had speaking roles. … And one more brings the total to **28**. If you can find more, my hat’s off to you. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/91 "2020-02-12T16:42:15Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Which one of the Bettys is the clone? Each points to the other. Simultaneously, they both say, “She is!” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/92 "2020-02-12T17:58:36Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Each points to the other. Simultaneously, they both say, “She is!” And they do it _adorably._ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/93 "2020-02-12T21:05:24Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Miramanee’s Amerindians aside, what is the connection between _ **Star Trek** _ and the 1937 classic _ **Lost Horizon** _? A very young Jane “Amanda” Wyatt was one of the inhabitants of Shangri-La. I mention Miramanee because, according to Memory Alpha, Kirk compares her village to Shangri-La in "The Paradise Syndrome’ and I didn’t want to sidetrack anyone. > [@](#): > > By my count, 13 actors (male and female) guest starred on both _ **Star Trek: TOS** _ and the original _ **Lost in Space** _. Name at least five of them. The complete list, according to IMDb, is: Stanley Adams Michael Ansara Michael J Pollard Liam Sullivan Malachi Throne John Crawford Ted Cassidy Sherry Jackson Bart LaRue Arthur Batanides Charles Dierkop Janos Prohaska I shouldn’t have counted the thirteenth name, since he was in \*\*\*ST \*\*\*_ **VI** _, and not _ **TOS** _, but I’ll give it anyway: Robert Easton. My mistake. > [@](#): > > By my count, 26 actors (male and female) guest starred on both _ **Star Trek: TOS** _ and Adam West’s _ **Batman** _, mostly as villains and villainesses. Name at least ten of them. Final count, 29: Frank Gorshin Malachi Throne Ted Cassidy Yvonne Craig Lee Meriwether Sherry Jackson Julie Newmar Joan Collins Meg Wylie Angelique Pettyjohn Roger C Carmel Alyce Andrece Rhae Andrece Leslie Parrish Nancy Kovack Theodore Marcuse John Crawford Marianna Hill Grace Lee Whitney Teri Garr Michael Pataki Stanley Adams Sid Haig Elisha Cook, Jr Charles Dierkop Laurence Montaigne Lloyd Haynes Gene Dynarski Billy Curtis I’ll add one more, not from \*\*\*TOS \*\*\*but from _ **ST V** _: Bill Quinn. > [@](#): > > Two of the guest stars on the original _ **Lost in Space** _ would go on to star in one of the most popular shows of the '80s. Name them. You’d have to be a real die-hard \*\*\*LiS \*\*\*fan to get this one: Daniel J Travanti and Michael Conrad, “Frank Furillo” and “Phil Esterhaus” on _ **Hill Street Blues** _. That’s all, folks! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/94 "2020-02-13T01:29:36Z")
H.G. Wells’ stories and Jules Verne’s don’t overlap all that much. Wells wrote about a Time Machine, Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. But there were two sets of novels in which each of them covered the same science fiction idea, in their very different ways. One was “The Trip to the Moon” – Jules Verne is _From the Earth to the Moon_ (and its sequel, _Around the Moon_) and Wells in _The First Men in the Moon_. What is the other science fiction trope they both wrote a novel about? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/95 "2020-02-13T03:28:32Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > That’s your answer to everything. Hey, they offer me free beer, I’m there. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/96 "2020-02-13T03:35:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You can find it on YouTube here: > > I think it's complete. That was…interesting to see…but overall pretty awful. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/97 "2020-02-13T03:38:43Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > H.G. Wells’ stories and Jules Verne’s don’t overlap all that much. Wells wrote about a Time Machine, Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. But there were two sets of novels in which each of them covered the same science fiction idea, in their very different ways. One was “The Trip to the Moon” – Jules Verne is _From the Earth to the Moon_ (and its sequel, _Around the Moon_) and Wells in _The First Men in the Moon_. Genius take on Verne vs. Wells (bonus! It’s a comic!): [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=231](http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=231) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/98 "2020-02-13T03:40:42Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Hey, they offer me free beer, I’m there. That’s MY answer to everything. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/99 "2020-02-13T11:51:40Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Final count, 29: > > Frank Gorshin > Malachi Throne > Ted Cassidy > Yvonne Craig > Lee Meriwether > > Sherry Jackson > Julie Newmar > Joan Collins > Meg Wylie > Angelique Pettyjohn > > Roger C Carmel > Alyce Andrece > Rhae Andrece > Leslie Parrish > Nancy Kovack > > Theodore Marcuse > John Crawford > Marianna Hill > Grace Lee Whitney > Teri Garr > > Michael Pataki > Stanley Adams > Sid Haig > Elisha Cook, Jr > Charles Dierkop > > Laurence Montaigne > Lloyd Haynes > Gene Dynarski > Billy Curtis The Riddler’s henchman Whitey — who took point on kidnapping King Boris, and who had the right height and build to masquerade as Batman after personally springing the end-of-episode trap on our heroes, and who fared better than the Riddler in the final fight scene, and so why the heck is _he_ the henchman while the guy who leaves clues is the boss? — was played by **Roy Jenson** , who’s also been seen ritualistically pledging allegiance to the flag as Yang chief Cloud William: Guardian of the Holies, Speaker of the Holy Words, Leader of Warriors, and All That Stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762/100 "2020-02-13T12:01:59Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > why the heck is _he_ the henchman while the guy who leaves clues is the boss? . [He knows the rules.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE5TJJqi1xI) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-hard-science-fiction-and-fantasy-trivia-quesstions/847762.md?page=6)