Quiz: How well do you know these sci-fi classics?

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WITH DUNE 2 out this weekend, now seems as good a time as any to test our readers on their sci-fi knowledge.

A niche genre that every now and then contributes unstoppably large juggernauts to the cultural canon, most people have a soft spot in their heart for at least one sci-fi classic.

It will take much more than that to score full marks on our sci-fi quiz, though. Enjoy!

Dune 2 is out in cinemas this weekend, but how many novels did author Frank Herbert write as part of the Dune series of books?

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One

Two

Three

Six

2001: A Space Odyssey was based on a short story by whom?

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Ursula K Le Guin

Margaret Atwood

Arthur C Clarke

Stanley Kubrick

With which of these sci-fi film franchises would one most closely associate HR Giger?

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Alien

Star Wars

The Matrix

The Terminator

In what year did the original Blade Runner film come out?

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1962

1972

1982

1992

Which Star Wars movie is this still taken from?

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Attack of the Clones

The Empire Strikes Back

The Rise of Skywalker

The Revenge of the Sith

Complete the Jules Verne novel title: ______ Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Ten

Twenty

One Hundred

One

Which renowned sci-fi author came up with the Three Laws of Robotics?

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Harlan Ellison

Isaac Asimov

Martha Wells

Douglas Adams

Finish the name of the Philip K Dick sci-fi novel: Do Androids Dream of Electric ______?

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Love

Clouds

Sheep

Cars

2017 winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics Kip Thorne served as an executive producer for which of these films?

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Arrival

Interstellar

Passengers

Ex Machina

Which rapper played Ford in the movie adaptation of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?

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Mos Def

Ice Cube

Ice T

Common

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