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