Las Cruces Space Festival 2021!

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  1. 3. In the 1987 movie “Spaceballs,” the director of the movie plays the character that parodies Yoda from Star Wars. What’s the parody character’s name?
  2. 5. What’s the name of one of the brightest stars in the constellation Orion?
  3. 7. Who stepped on the moon first in the Apollo 11 mission, Buzz or Neil?
  4. 9. The 1997 movie “Contact” starring Jodie Foster is based on a hard science fiction novel published in 1985. Who wrote the novel?
  5. 11. What’s the name of the ship that Ripley and crew were on in the 1979 movie “Alien”?
  6. 12. What’s Leela’s first name in the tv show “Futurama”?
  7. 13. In the 1990 movie “Total Recall,” Arnold Swartzenegger’s character encounters the leader of the rebellion, a mutant conjoined to his brother, George. What’s the rebellion leader’s name?
  8. 14. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
  9. 16. What’s the name of Saturn’s largest moon, famous for its lakes of methane and ethane gas?
  10. 17. What color pill does Neo take in the 1999 movie “The Matrix,” red or blue?
  11. 21. What’s Rick’s nonsensical catchphrase that Birdperson eventually translates to mean “I am in great pain, please help me” on the cartoon “Rick and Morty”?
  12. 22. Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City, in the year 2000, People magazine dubbed him the “Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive.” Who is it?
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  1. 1. The anthology radio series began in the summer of 1938, and became famous later that year when Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” was on the show, leading many people to believe that aliens had actually invaded earth. What was the name of the series?
  2. 2. In 1983, she became the first American woman in space. Who is she?
  3. 4. In the 1962 novel “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle, time travel is possible through a process that’s described as a sort of folding of space and time. What word do the characters use to describe the process?
  4. 6. Which planet in the Milky Way only has one moon?
  5. 8. Who founded Space Exploration Technologies Corps, better known as SpaceX, in 2002?
  6. 9. Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of which geological period, after an asteroid hit Earth?
  7. 10. The Three Laws of Robotics were first introduced by Isaac Asimov in a 1942 short story within a book called “I, Robot.” What’s the name of the short story?
  8. 15. What’s the first name of the guy the Higgs boson particle was named after?
  9. 18. The Mandalorian is a series based in the Star Wars world about a bounty hunter hired to find a child. What’s the bounty hunter’s first and last name?
  10. 19. Stephen Hawking was the director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at which university when he died in 2018?
  11. 20. What does “Bebop” refer to in the Japanese sci-fi anime “Cowboy Bebop”?