The First Men in the Moon - Quiz
The First Men in the Moon
  • 1. In which US magazine was The First Men in the Moon originally serialised?
A) The Strand Magazine
B) The Moon Maze Game
C) The Cosmopolitan
D) Out of the Silent Planet
  • 2. In which UK magazine was The First Men in the Moon originally serialised?
A) The Strand Magazine
B) The Cosmopolitan
C) Warehouse 13
D) Black Dossier
  • 3. Between which months and years was the story originally serialised?
A) January 1901 to December 1901
B) November 1899 to June 1900
C) June 1900 to November 1900
D) November 1900 to June 1901
  • 4. Who published the first UK book edition of The First Men in the Moon in 1901?
A) C. S. Lewis
B) George Newnes Ltd
C) Jules Verne
D) The Bowen-Merrill Company
  • 5. Who illustrated the first UK book edition of the story?
A) Claude Shepperson
B) Roger Lancelyn Green
C) Emil Hering
D) T.H. Huxley
  • 6. Who published the first US book edition of the story in 1901?
A) The Bowen-Merrill Company
B) George Newnes Ltd
C) The Cosmopolitan
D) The Strand Magazine
  • 7. Who illustrated the first US book edition?
A) Emil Hering
B) Brian Stableford
C) Larry Niven
D) Claude Shepperson
  • 8. Which author explicitly stated that his science fiction books were written as an antithesis to those of H. G. Wells?
A) Jules Verne
B) Vernor Vinge
C) C. S. Lewis
D) Brian Stableford
  • 9. In a letter to whom did C. S. Lewis call The First Men in the Moon 'the best of the sort of science fiction I have read'?
A) T.H. Huxley
B) Eddie Jones
C) Steven Barnes
D) Roger Lancelyn Green
  • 10. Which C. S. Lewis book shows a visible influence from Wells's The First Men in the Moon?
A) The Moon Maze Game
B) Operation Luna
C) Journey to the Moon
D) Out of the Silent Planet
  • 11. What is the primary material interest of the worldly businessman in C. S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet?
A) Enslaving the Selenites for food
B) Building steam-powered time machines
C) Mining cavorite for gravity blocking
D) Importing extraterrestrial gold to Earth
  • 12. Where do the two characters quietly build their spaceship in C. S. Lewis's book?
A) A secret underground base in London
B) A crater on the Moon
C) An English country house
D) An ocean-going steamship
  • 13. What resource requirement did both Wells and Lewis grossly underestimate?
A) The resources needed for a jaunt outside Earth's gravitational field
B) The amount of cavorite to power a terrace house
C) The amount of gold required to fund a spaceship
D) The quantity of food needed by the Selenites
  • 14. What is the name of the wise ruler of Malacandra/Mars in C. S. Lewis's book?
A) Jet Morgan
B) Oyarsa
C) Weston
D) Cavor
  • 15. What does the Earth scientist blurt out to the alien ruler at the climax of both Wells's and Lewis's books?
A) The warlike and predatory nature of humanity
B) The secret formula for creating cavorite
C) The blueprint of the English country house
D) The location of the extraterrestrial gold mines
  • 16. Who are the villains of the piece in C. S. Lewis's book regarding the spaceship journey?
A) The Martians
B) The businessman-scientist pair
C) The Selenites
D) The lunar Amazons
  • 17. What is the name of C. S. Lewis's scientist who holds a philosophy opposite to Cavor's?
A) Eddie Jones
B) T.H. Huxley
C) Professor Weston
D) Selwyn Cavor
  • 18. What does Professor Weston outspokenly advocate for?
A) Using cavorite solely for trapping criminals
B) Peaceful coexistence with the Selenites
C) Trading extraterrestrial gold with the Martians
D) Human colonisation of other planets, including extermination of primitive natives
  • 19. Who argues that The First Men in the Moon is the first alien dystopia?
A) Jules Verne
B) Brian Stableford
C) Vernor Vinge
D) Roger Lancelyn Green
  • 20. Which character takes a copy of The First Men in the Moon along in Journey to the Moon and Operation Luna?
A) Professor Weston
B) Selwyn Cavor
C) Eddie Jones
D) Jet Morgan
  • 21. In which volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is cavorite featured as a major plot device?
A) Scarlet Traces: The Great Game
B) The first volume
C) Black Dossier
D) Volume III: Century
  • 22. What is Cavor's given first name in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
A) Weston
B) Selwyn
C) Eddie
D) Jet
  • 23. In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century, who are featured as enemies of the nude lunar Amazons?
A) The Selenites
B) The business-scientists
C) The time-travelling terrace house residents
D) The Martians
  • 24. In which television show is cavorite used as a minor plot device with gravity-blocking properties to make a trap?
A) Night Terrace
B) Warehouse 13
C) Princess Principal
D) DuckTales
  • 25. In the end of which work do cavorite and Cavor play a major role, alongside brief depictions of the Selenites?
A) Out of the Silent Planet
B) Scarlet Traces: The Great Game
C) Operation Luna
D) The Moon Maze Game
  • 26. Which video game was based on Wells's The First Men in the Moon and Jules Verne's moon novels?
A) Princess Principal
B) Warehouse 13
C) Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne
D) The Moon Maze Game
  • 27. Who besides Jules Verne co-inspired the video game Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne?
A) Vernor Vinge
B) Brian Stableford
C) C. S. Lewis
D) H. G. Wells
  • 28. In The Martian War, whose ship takes Wells, his wife, and T.H. Huxley to the Moon and Mars?
A) The SSS Implausible
B) Jet Morgan's rocket
C) Professor Weston's ship
D) Cavor's ship
  • 29. In The Martian War, who are taken to the Moon and Mars along with H. G. Wells?
A) His wife and T.H. Huxley
B) Della Duck and Selwyn Cavor
C) Eddie Jones and Anastasia Black
D) C. S. Lewis and Professor Weston
  • 30. In The Martian War, what has happened to the Selenites?
A) They have been enslaved by the Martians as food and canal/fleet builders
B) They have conquered Earth and exterminated humanity
C) They are allies of the nude lunar Amazons
D) They are peacefully trading gold with Professor Weston
  • 31. Which authors wrote the 'Dream Park' series adventure novel The Moon Maze Game?
A) Jules Verne and Brian Stableford
B) Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
C) H. G. Wells and T.H. Huxley
D) C. S. Lewis and Roger Lancelyn Green
  • 32. What serves as the precursor to the player's adventure in The Moon Maze Game?
A) The construction of the SSS Implausible
B) The publication of Out of the Silent Planet
C) The martian enslavement of the Selenites
D) The events of The First Men in the Moon
  • 33. In which novel by Vernor Vinge does an antigravity material called 'cavorite' appear?
A) Out of the Silent Planet
B) The Moon Maze Game
C) Scarlet Traces: The Great Game
D) A Deepness in the Sky
  • 34. In which anime set in an alternate history fin-de-siècle steampunk Britain does cavorite show up?
A) DuckTales
B) Night Terrace
C) Warehouse 13
D) Princess Principal
  • 35. In the Night Terrace episode 'Full Steam', what is the name of the steam-powered spaceship?
A) Operation Luna
B) SSS Implausible
C) The Moon Maze Game
D) Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne
  • 36. What miraculous mineral is cited in 'Full Steam' as allowing the SSS Implausible to function?
A) Malacandrian ore
B) The Martian canal stone
C) Cavorite
D) Extraterrestrial gold
  • 37. Who is the first person in the SSS Implausible's sixty-year history to see through the cavorite deception?
A) Anastasia Black
B) Eddie Jones
C) Susan Denholm
D) Selwyn Cavor
  • 38. Who joins Eddie Jones in learning the true source of the SSS Implausible's power?
A) H. G. Wells and his wife
B) Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
C) Anastasia Black and Susan Denholm
D) Jet Morgan and Professor Weston
  • 39. What is the true source of power for the SSS Implausible?
A) An engine designed by Professor Weston and Cavor
B) Extraterrestrial gold imported from Mars
C) A massive deposit of cavorite mined by the Selenites
D) Another time-and-space-travelling terrace house from the same street
  • 40. In the 2017 DuckTales TV series second season, whose ordeal on the Moon bears similarity to Cavor's?
A) T.H. Huxley
B) Jet Morgan
C) Anastasia Black
D) Della Duck
  • 41. How does Della Duck attempt to contact Earth while stranded on the Moon in DuckTales?
A) Via radio
B) Through a fantasy role-playing game
C) Using a cavorite-powered spaceship
D) By writing a letter to Roger Lancelyn Green
  • 42. In the DuckTales lunar society scenario, which group is arguably more warlike?
A) The Martians
B) The lunar society
C) Humanity on Earth
D) The nude lunar Amazons
  • 43. What is the name of the first-person narrator and businessman in the novel?
A) Mr. Julius Wendigee
B) Tommy Simmons
C) Mr. Bedford
D) Mr. Cavor
  • 44. What is the name of the eccentric scientist who invents cavorite?
A) Mr. Cavor
B) Tommy Simmons
C) Mr. Bedford
D) Mr. Julius Wendigee
  • 45. What is cavorite?
A) A gravity-blocking substance
B) A luminous blue liquid
C) A compressed oxygen supply
D) A type of rocket fuel
  • 46. What shape is the spacecraft constructed by Cavor and Bedford?
A) Pyramidal
B) Conical
C) Cylindrical
D) Spherical
  • 47. What are the large, fat beasts tended by the Selenites called by Bedford and Cavor?
A) Mooncalves
B) Selenites
C) Cavorites
D) Fungus-beasts
  • 48. Who is the Dutch electrician who picks up wireless telegraphy fragments from Cavor?
A) Mr. Cavor
B) Tommy Simmons
C) Mr. Bedford
D) Mr. Julius Wendigee
  • 49. How far below the exterior surface is the Lunar Central Sea located?
A) Nearly 50 miles
B) Nearly 200 miles
C) Nearly 500 miles
D) Nearly 100 miles
  • 50. Which missing ingredient does the Moon lack that makes the Selenites consider cavorite impossible to make?
A) Gold
B) Carbon
C) Oxygen
D) Helium
  • 51. How many times has The First Men in the Moon been adapted directly to film?
A) Three times
B) Five times
C) Four times
D) Two times
  • 52. Who regarded the 1902 film as a combination of Verne novels and adventures from Wells's book?
A) Georges Sadoul
B) Mark Gatiss
C) Wendy Graham
D) Lionel Jeffries
  • 53. In what year was the first official adaptation of The First Men in the Moon made?
A) 1919
B) 2010
C) 1964
D) 1902
  • 54. Who played Cavor in the 1964 film adaptation?
A) Edward Judd
B) Mark Gatiss
C) Rory Kinnear
D) Lionel Jeffries
  • 55. Who played Bedford in the 1964 film adaptation?
A) Rory Kinnear
B) Edward Judd
C) Hywell Bennett
D) Lionel Jeffries
  • 56. What kind of suits did the explorers wear in the 1964 film adaptation?
A) Diving suits
B) Radiation suits
C) Regular suits
D) Pressure suits
  • 57. Who played Bedford's fiancée in the 1964 film?
A) No one
B) Martha Hyer
C) Wendy Graham
D) Terry James
  • 58. Which television network broadcast the 2010 adaptation of The First Men in the Moon?
A) BBC Radio 4
B) BBC Radio 4 Extra
C) BBC Four
D) ITV
  • 59. Who wrote the 2010 BBC Four adaptation?
A) Terry James
B) Robert Cromie
C) Georges Sadoul
D) Mark Gatiss
  • 60. Who played Bedford in the 2010 adaptation?
A) Hywell Bennett
B) Rory Kinnear
C) Edward Judd
D) Mark Gatiss
  • 61. Which film adaptation is considered the most faithful to the novel?
A) The 1919 adaptation
B) The 2010 adaptation
C) A Trip to the Moon
D) The 1964 adaptation
  • 62. Who created the 3D adaptation of The First Men in the Moon?
A) Mark Gatiss
B) Terry James
C) Georges Sadoul
D) David Rosler
  • 63. How long was the audio adaptation broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1981?
A) 30-minute
B) 90-minute
C) 60-minute
D) 120-minute
  • 64. Who dramatised the 1981 audio adaptation?
A) Chrysostom Trueman
B) Robert Cromie
C) Mark Gatiss
D) Terry James
  • 65. Who played Cavor in the 1981 radio adaptation?
A) Willie Rushdon
B) Rory Kinnear
C) Hywell Bennett
D) Lionel Jeffries
  • 66. Who played Bedford in the 1981 radio adaptation?
A) Mark Gatiss
B) Hywell Bennett
C) Willie Rushdon
D) Edward Judd
  • 67. What happened to the 1981 audio adaptation before it was re-discovered?
A) It was lost
B) It was copyrighted
C) It was destroyed by fire
D) It was banned
  • 68. What was the name of the strand on which the 1981 radio adaptation was re-broadcast in 2025?
A) Vintage Sci-Fi
B) Lost Classics
C) Hidden Treasures
D) Wells Audio
  • 69. Who accused Wells of plagiarism shortly after his novel was published?
A) Jules Verne
B) Chrysostom Trueman
C) Robert Cromie
D) Georges Sadoul
  • 70. What was the title of Robert Cromie's novel published in 1890?
A) A Plunge into Space
B) From the Earth to the Moon
C) Around the Moon
D) The History of a Voyage to the Moon
  • 71. Who wrote The History of a Voyage to the Moon (1864)?
A) H.G. Wells
B) Chrysostom Trueman
C) Robert Cromie
D) Jules Verne
  • 72. How did Jules Verne feel about Wells's novel?
A) Publicly hostile
B) Indifferent
C) Secretly supportive
D) Deeply admiring
  • 73. Who reviewed First Men in the Moon for Adventurer magazine?
A) Martha Hyer
B) Georges Sadoul
C) Wendy Graham
D) Terry James
  • 74. What did Wendy Graham call The First Men in the Moon on one level?
A) A ripping SF adventure yarn
B) A poorly written plagiarized story
C) A confusing cinematic disaster
D) A boring scientific textbook
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