November Quiz bowl specific questions 2

Question 1

When was ?, the first industrial robot, made

Answer 1

Unimate; 1961

Question 2

Robby the robot was in the ? film Forbidden Planet

Answer 2

1956

Question 3

Replicants were the names of the human-looking robots in the movie ?

Answer 3

Blade Runner

Question 4

What is the name of the first robot to sing

Answer 4

EveR-2

Question 5

The robotic car, KITT, was the star of which TV show

Answer 5

Knight Rider

Question 6

Who made the Turing Test and when

Answer 6

Alan Turing in 1950

Question 7

Saturn is about ? times wider than Earth, with an equatorial diameter of about ? miles

Answer 7

Saturn is about nine times wider than Earth, with an equatorial diameter of about 74,898 miles

Question 8

The Apollo Program landed ? men on the moon between ? and ?

Answer 8

12; 1969; 1972

Question 9

Which astromer discovered Uranus?

Answer 9

William Herschel

Question 10

What year was Uranus discovered?

Answer 10

March 1781

Question 11

What are the 2 regions of space beyond Neptune called

Answer 11

Inner: Kuiper Belt
Outer: Scattered disk

Question 12

What are the Jovian planets

Answer 12

Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter. These are also called the Jovian planets.

Question 13

Why does Mars look red

Answer 13

iron minerals in the Martian dirt oxidize, or rust, causing the surface to look red

Question 14

What is the time span for NASA’s Kepler mission

Answer 14

2009-2018

Question 15

In The Princess Diaries, ? is the heir to the throne of the fictional European country Genovia

Answer 15

Mia Thermopolis

Question 16

When did Dumbo come out

Answer 16

1941

Question 17

Who helped Dumbo fly with his “magic” feather

Answer 17

, Timothy Q. Mouse

Question 18

What was the orangutan’s name in the jungle book

Answer 18

King Louie

Question 19

What movie is the dog dug from

Answer 19

up

Question 20

What does dug’s collar do

Answer 20

translates his thoughts into human speech

Question 21

When did Disney’s Robin Hood come out

Answer 21

1973

Question 22

What power foes Sir Hiss from robin hood have

Answer 22

hypnosis

Question 23

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple became a hit ? film in ?.

Answer 23

Steven Spielberg; 1985

Question 24

Who wrote The Jungle Book

Answer 24

Rudyard Kipling

Question 25

Leonardo DiCaprio plsys Romeo in the ? film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 25

1996

Question 26

Robert Downey Jr. stars in the ? film based on this novel, originally published in ?, about a physician who can talk to animals by Hugh.

Answer 26

2020; 1920; The story of Doctor Dolittle

Question 27

During the filming of the ? film adaptation of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, director ? never used the traditional phrase “Action!” to begin the actors’ performance on set.

Answer 27

2005; Ken Kwapis

Question 28

Who wrote Oliver Twist

Answer 28

Charles Dicken

Question 28

The movie Wonka was released in ?. The book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published in ?.

Answer 28

2023; 1964

Question 29

Peter Pan from the 2023 film Peter Pan & Wendy first appeared in The Little White Bird. When did the novel "The Little White Bird" come out

Answer 29

1902

Question 30

The Secert Garden book turned into a movie in ?, and again in ?

Answer 30

1993; 2020

Question 31

Who wrote the chronicles of Narnia

Answer 31

C.S. Lewis

Question 31

Little Women with Emma Watson is a ? film version of the novel by Louisa May Alcott

Answer 31

2019

Question 32

Who wrote the color purple

Answer 32

Alice Walker

Question 33

Who wrote The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Answer 33

Hugh Lofting