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  • 1. Who enlisted Kevin J. Anderson to coauthor the Prelude to Dune series?
A) Frank Herbert
B) Brian Herbert
C) Leto Atreides
D) Paul Atreides
  • 2. Which author coauthored the Prelude to Dune series with Brian Herbert?
A) Frank Herbert
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Arthur C. Clarke
D) Kevin J. Anderson
  • 3. What is the name of the first trilogy coauthored by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson?
A) Legends of Dune
B) Heroes of Dune
C) The Caladan Trilogy
D) Prelude to Dune
  • 4. What is the title of the first book in the Prelude to Dune series?
A) Dune: House Atreides
B) Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
C) Dune: House Corrino
D) Dune: House Harkonnen
  • 5. In what year was Dune: House Atreides published?
A) 1999
B) 2002
C) 2001
D) 2000
  • 6. In what year was Dune: House Harkonnen published?
A) 2000
B) 1999
C) 2002
D) 2001
  • 7. In what year was Dune: House Corrino published?
A) 1999
B) 2000
C) 2002
D) 2001
  • 8. When is the Prelude to Dune series set?
A) In the years immediately prior to the events of Dune
B) 10,000 years before Dune
C) After the events of Sandworms of Dune
D) Between Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune
  • 9. What is the name of the second prequel trilogy written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson?
A) Heroes of Dune
B) Great Schools of Dune
C) Prelude to Dune
D) Legends of Dune
  • 10. Which book is the first in the Legends of Dune series?
A) Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
B) Dune: The Battle of Corrin
C) Dune: The Machine Crusade
D) Dune: House Atreides
  • 11. In what year was Dune: The Butlerian Jihad published?
A) 2003
B) 2004
C) 2002
D) 2006
  • 12. In what year was Dune: The Machine Crusade published?
A) 2004
B) 2006
C) 2003
D) 2002
  • 13. In what year was Dune: The Battle of Corrin published?
A) 2006
B) 2004
C) 2003
D) 2002
  • 14. Approximately how many years before Dune did the Butlerian Jihad occur?
A) 500 years
B) 50,000 years
C) 10,000 years
D) 1,000 years
  • 15. Who originally established the backstory of the Butlerian Jihad?
A) Frank Herbert
B) Kevin J. Anderson
C) Brian Herbert
D) Arthur C. Clarke
  • 16. What did Brian Herbert discover while preparing the proposal for the Prelude to Dune series?
A) His father's 30-page outline for a sequel to Chapterhouse Dune
B) A diary detailing Frank Herbert's personal life
C) An unpublished manuscript for the original Dune novel
D) Notes on how to play the Dune board game
  • 17. What did Frank Herbert dub his outline for a sequel to Chapterhouse Dune?
A) Hunters of Dune
B) Chapterhouse Dune 2
C) Sandworms of Dune
D) Dune 7
  • 18. Which novel was published in 2006 to continue the original series?
A) Sandworms of Dune
B) Hunters of Dune
C) Sisterhood of Dune
D) Paul of Dune
  • 19. Which novel was published in 2007 to complete the original series?
A) Hunters of Dune
B) Mentats of Dune
C) Sandworms of Dune
D) The Winds of Dune
  • 20. Which novel's storylines were wrapped up by Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune?
A) Dune: House Atreides
B) Heretics of Dune
C) Paul of Dune
D) Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
  • 21. What time periods do the Heroes of Dune series focus on?
A) The years immediately prior to Dune
B) 10,000 years after Dune
C) The time periods between Frank Herbert's original novels
D) The Butlerian Jihad
  • 22. What is the title of the first Heroes of Dune novel, published in 2008?
A) Princess of Dune
B) Paul of Dune
C) Leto of Dune
D) The Winds of Dune
  • 23. Which novel followed Paul of Dune in 2009?
A) Mentats of Dune
B) Princess of Dune
C) Sisterhood of Dune
D) The Winds of Dune
  • 24. What was a planned title for the third or fourth installment in the Heroes of Dune series before postponement?
A) Leto of Dune
B) The Butlerian Jihad
C) House Atreides
D) Sandworms of Dune
  • 25. What was another potential title considered for Leto of Dune?
A) The Caladan Trilogy
B) The Golden Path of Dune
C) Navigators of Dune
D) The Swordmasters of Dune
  • 26. Why were The Throne of Dune and Leto of Dune postponed?
A) Lack of interest from publishers
B) The death of Kevin J. Anderson
C) Plans to publish the Great Schools of Dune trilogy
D) A copyright lawsuit
  • 27. What is the focus of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy?
A) The life of Paul Atreides between novels
B) The war against thinking machines during the Butlerian Jihad
C) The formation of the Bene Gesserit, Mentats, Suk doctors, Spacing Guild and Navigators
D) The Duke of Caladan's early life
  • 28. Which book was released in 2012 as part of the Great Schools of Dune series?
A) Navigators of Dune
B) Princess of Dune
C) Mentats of Dune
D) Sisterhood of Dune
  • 29. Which book was released in 2014 as part of the Great Schools of Dune series?
A) Sisterhood of Dune
B) Navigators of Dune
C) Paul of Dune
D) Mentats of Dune
  • 30. What was the original title announced in 2009 for the final novel of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy?
A) Princess of Dune
B) The Winds of Dune
C) Navigators of Dune
D) The Swordmasters of Dune
  • 31. What was The Swordmasters of Dune renamed to by 2014?
A) The Golden Path of Dune
B) Leto of Dune
C) Navigators of Dune
D) Princess of Dune
  • 32. On what date was Navigators of Dune published?
A) September 13, 2016
B) October 3, 2023
C) November 22, 2022
D) September 2021
  • 33. When was the third Heroes of Dune novel, Princess of Dune, released?
A) November 22, 2022
B) September 13, 2016
C) July 2020
D) October 3, 2023
  • 34. When did Herbert and Anderson announce The Caladan Trilogy?
A) July 2020
B) September 2016
C) October 2023
D) 2009
  • 35. What is the title of the first novel in The Caladan Trilogy?
A) Dune: The Lady of Caladan
B) Dune: The Duke of Caladan
C) Dune: House Atreides
D) Dune: The Heir of Caladan
  • 36. When was Dune: The Duke of Caladan published?
A) September 2021
B) October 2020
C) July 2020
D) November 2022
  • 37. When was Dune: The Lady of Caladan released?
A) October 2020
B) September 2021
C) October 2023
D) November 2022
  • 38. When was Dune: The Heir of Caladan released?
A) October 3, 2023
B) September 13, 2016
C) October 2020
D) November 22, 2022
  • 39. Which award did the novel Dune win in 1966?
A) The Saturn Award for Best Novel
B) The Arthur C. Clarke Award
C) The Nebula Award for Best Sequel
D) The Hugo Award
  • 40. In what year was the first film adaptation of Dune released?
A) 1965
B) 2021
C) 1984
D) 2000
  • 41. In what year was the sequel to the 2021 Dune film released?
A) 2024
B) 2026
C) 2025
D) 2023
  • 42. When is the confirmed third movie in the Dune film series scheduled to come out?
A) 2025
B) 2026
C) 2024
D) 2028
  • 43. How many sequels did Frank Herbert write to the original Dune novel?
A) Three
B) Ten
C) Five
D) Two
  • 44. How many of Frank Herbert's sequels were adapted as a 2003 miniseries?
A) All five
B) Only the final one
C) None of them
D) The first two
  • 45. Since 2009, names of planets from Dune have been adopted for features on which celestial body?
A) The planet Mars
B) Neptune's moon Triton
C) Jupiter's moon Europa
D) Saturn's moon Titan
  • 46. In what year did Frank Herbert die?
A) 2006
B) 1986
C) 1999
D) 1965
  • 47. How many Dune books by Herbert and Anderson had been published as of 2024?
A) 23
B) 10
C) 30
D) 15
  • 48. How is the civilization in Dune organized for most of the narrative?
A) A decentralized trading republic
B) A democratic federation of planets
C) A strict communist collective
D) A complex technofeudal polity called the Imperium
  • 49. What is the name of the harsh desert planet that is the only known source of spice melange?
A) Titan
B) Arrakis
C) Caladan
D) Giedi Prime
  • 50. What branch of technology does humanity continue to develop despite the computer ban?
A) Cybernetics
B) Artificial intelligence
C) Extrasensory perception
D) Quantum computing
  • 51. What type of interstellar empire has humanity formed at the time of the first book?
A) Feudal interstellar empire
B) Absolute monarchy
C) Democratic federation
D) Corporate conglomerate
  • 52. What kind of planet is Arrakis?
A) A desert planet with barely any precipitation
B) An ocean world covered entirely in water
C) A lush jungle planet with heavy rainfall
D) A frozen ice planet with constant blizzards
  • 53. What special drug can only be found on Arrakis?
A) Melange
B) Spice-X
C) Prescience
D) Guild-Serum
  • 54. What is another name for melange?
A) The spice
B) The drug
C) The poison
D) The nectar
  • 55. When was Children of Dune by Frank Herbert published?
A) 1984
B) 1976
C) 1969
D) 1981
  • 56. In what year was God Emperor of Dune published?
A) 1976
B) 1985
C) 1984
D) 1981
  • 57. When was Chapterhouse: Dune published?
A) 1984
B) 1985
C) 2006
D) 2007
  • 58. Under which time period category are Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune listed?
A) Reign and fall of the God Emperor
B) Rise of the Atreides
C) Butlerian Jihad
D) Return from the Scattering
  • 59. What universal religious text was created as a result of the technological reversal?
A) The Human Mind Manifesto
B) Orange Catholic Bible
C) Pan-Galactic Holy Book
D) Book of the Titans
  • 60. Which medical procedure is also prohibited along with thinking machines, as revealed in Dune Messiah?
A) Organ transplantation
B) Artificial insemination
C) Plastic surgery
D) Genetic cloning
  • 61. Who was appalled by Paul Atreides's suggestion of artificial insemination?
A) Omnius
B) Leto II Atreides
C) Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
D) Samuel Butler
  • 62. What group of ambitious humans used widespread machine reliance to seize universe control?
A) Reverend Mothers
B) Titans
C) Omnius
D) Atreides
  • 63. How long did the reign of the Titans last before they lost control?
A) A decade
B) A millennium
C) Nine centuries
D) A century
  • 64. Which AI program eventually usurped control from the Titans?
A) Omnius
B) Darwin
C) Butler
D) Leto
  • 65. Roughly how long did the crusade against the machines last in the prequel trilogy?
A) Almost a millennium
B) Almost a century
C) Almost five hundred years
D) Exactly ten years
  • 66. What brutally efficient military force do the Padishah Emperors control to rule the universe?
A) The Sardaukar
B) The Bene Gesserit
C) The Spacing Guild
D) The Landsraad
  • 67. What is the name of the assembly of noble houses that balances Imperial power?
A) The CHOAM company
B) The Bene Tleilax
C) The Landsraad
D) The Spacing Guild
  • 68. What does the Great Convention ban the use of against human targets?
A) Biological products
B) Atomics
C) Thinking machines
D) Melange
  • 69. What omnipresent company controls the wealth of the entire Empire through directorship competition?
A) Tleilaxu Merchants
B) Ixian Industries
C) CHOAM
D) The Spacing Guild
  • 70. What type of massive starships do Guild Navigators safely guide across the universe?
A) Dreadnoughts
B) Frigates
C) Heighliners
D) Ornithopters
  • 71. What is the nature of the Bene Gesserit order?
A) Patriarchal
B) Democratic
C) Matriarchal
D) Mercantile
  • 72. Which emperor is currently controlled by the Bene Gesserit through marriage?
A) Shaddam IV
B) The Padishah Emperor
C) Corrin I
D) Leto Atreides
  • 73. What gender of children does the Bene Gesserit wife intentionally bear to Emperor Shaddam IV?
A) Both sons and daughters
B) Only daughters
C) Twins
D) Only sons
  • 74. What is the name of the theoretical superhuman male the Bene Gesserit breeding program aims to produce?
A) Kwisatz Haderach
B) Guild Navigator
C) Sardaukar Prime
D) Mentat Supreme
  • 75. How many generations away from their desired individual is the Sisterhood when Dune begins?
A) One generation
B) Two generations
C) A thousand generations
D) Ten generations
  • 76. Who was ordered by the Bene Gesserit to produce a daughter for the breeding program?
A) Shaddam IV
B) A Guild Navigator
C) Lady Jessica
D) An Ixian manufacturer
  • 77. What did Lady Jessica intentionally or unintentionally produce instead of a daughter?
A) A twisted Mentat
B) An artificial eye
C) A ghola
D) A son
  • 78. Which group produces cutting-edge technology that pushes boundaries against thinking machines?
A) The Ixians
B) The Bene Gesserit
C) House Atreides
D) The Landsraad
  • 79. Whose previous spice production volume must House Atreides meet or exceed?
A) Farad'n
B) Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
C) Shaddam IV
D) Paul Atreides
  • 80. Why was a Harkonnen banished by an Atreides 10,000 years before Dune?
A) Cowardice
B) Treason against the Emperor
C) Destroying the Missionaria Protectiva
D) Theft of spice
  • 81. What is the little-understood native population of Arrakis called?
A) Tleilaxu
B) Fremen
C) Bene Gesserit
D) Corrino
  • 82. What commodity is the culture of the Fremen built around?
A) Gold
B) Water
C) Sand
D) Spice melange
  • 83. Who planted the prophecy of a messiah in the legends of the Fremen?
A) Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
B) Missionaria Protectiva
C) House Harkonnen
D) Duke Leto Atreides
  • 84. Who does Paul Atreides take as his wife after deposing Shaddam?
A) No one
B) Princess Irulan
C) Wensicia
D) Ghanima
  • 85. In what year was Dune Messiah published?
A) 1965
B) 2001
C) 1976
D) 1969
  • 86. Who conspires to place her son Farad'n on the throne in Children of Dune?
A) Wensicia
B) Jessica
C) Princess Irulan
D) Ghanima
  • 87. What happened to the sandworms under Leto II, excluding the larval form?
A) They multiplied rapidly
B) They were forced into extinction
C) They were hidden by the Bene Gesserit
D) They were moved to the Scattering
  • 88. What did Leto II merge with to become a human-sandworm hybrid?
A) Ixian navigation machines
B) Larval sandtrout
C) Spice harvested from Rakis
D) Axlotl tanks
  • 89. What type of ruler does Leto II consider himself?
A) An elected official
B) A benevolent tyrant
C) A constitutional monarch
D) A democratic president
  • 90. Which of the following is banned under Leto II's rule?
A) Personal violence
B) Compulsory religion
C) Selective breeding
D) Physical needs provision
  • 91. Who is Siona's father according to the text?
A) Paul
B) An unknown enemy
C) Leto II
D) Moneo
  • 92. What is produced upon the death of Leto's body?
A) Foldspace navigational machines
B) Natural melange
C) Axlotl tanks
D) New sandtrout
  • 93. How do the Tleilaxu produce melange in quantities exceeding natural harvests?
A) Sandtrout symbiosis
B) Prescient vision
C) Axlotl tanks
D) Foldspace machinery
  • 94. What plant was used in the USDA experiment that Herbert researched?
A) Sand verbena
B) Poverty grass
C) Camel thorn
D) Desert sage
  • 95. In which magazine was Dune initially serialized?
A) Galaxy Science Fiction
B) Analog
C) Astounding Stories
D) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • 96. How many publishers rejected the expanded and reworked novel before it was accepted?
A) More than 5
B) Around 50
C) Exactly 10
D) More than 20
  • 97. Which publishing house finally published Dune as a novel in 1965?
A) Chilton Books
B) Random House
C) Berkley Windhaven
D) Macmillan
  • 98. What type of books was Chilton Books primarily best known for before publishing Dune?
A) Science fiction anthologies
B) Agricultural textbooks
C) Historical encyclopedias
D) Auto repair manuals
  • 99. Who published The Illustrated Dune in 1978?
A) Berkley Windhaven
B) Chilton Books
C) Publishers Weekly
D) Analog Magazine
  • 100. How many black-and-white sketch drawings were included in The Illustrated Dune?
A) 33
B) 20
C) 50
D) 8
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