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