November Quiz bowl specific questions 2 Flashcards
When was Unimate, the first industrial robot, made
1961
Robby the robot was in the ? film Forbidden Planet
1956
Replicants were the names of the human-looking robots in the movie ?
Blade Runner
What is the name of the first robot to sing
EveR-2
The robotic car, KITT, was the star of which TV show
Knight Rider
Who made the Turing Test
Alan Turing in 1950
Saturn is about ? times wider than Earth, with an equatorial diameter of about ? miles
Saturn is about nine times wider than Earth, with an equatorial diameter of about 74,898 miles
The Apollo Program landed ? men on the moon between ? and ?
12; 1969; 1972
Which astromer discovered Uranus?
William Herschel
What year was Uranus discovered?
March 1781
What are the 2 regions of space beyond Neptune called
Inner: Kuiper Belt
Outer: Scattered disk
What are the 4 giant planets
Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter. These are also called the Jovian planets.
Why does Mars look red
iron minerals in the Martian dirt oxidize, or rust, causing the surface to look red
What is the time span for NASA’s Kepler mission
2009-2018
In The Princess Diaries, ? is the heir to the throne of the fictional European country Genovia
Mia Thermopolis
When did Dumbo come out
1941
Who helped Dumbo fly with his “magic” feather
, Timothy Q. Mouse
What was the orangutan’s name in the jungle book
King Louie
What movie is the dog dug from
up
What does dug’s collar do
translates his thoughts into human speech
When did Disney’s Robin Hood come out
1973
What power foes Sir Hiss from robin hood have
hypnosis
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple became a hit Steven Spielberg film in ?.
1985
In ? and Disney’s The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling’s
Leonardo DiCaprio plsys Romeo in the ? film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet?
1996
Robert Downey Jr. stars in the ? film based on this novel, originally published in ?, about a physician who can talk to animals by Hugh.
2020; 1920; The story of Doctor Dolittle
During the filming of the ? film adaptation of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, director ? never used the traditional phrase “Action!” to begin the actors’ performance on set.
2005; Ken Kwapis
Who wrote Oliver Twist
Charles Dicken
The movie Wonka was released in ?. The book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published in ?.
2023; 1964
Peter Pan from the 2023 film Peter Pan & Wendy first appeared in The Little White Bird. When did the novel “The Little White Bird” come out
1902
The Secert Garden book turned into a movie in ?, and again in ?
1993; 2020
Who wrote the chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
Little Women with Emma Watson is a ? film version of the novel by Louisa May Alcott
2019
