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  • 1. In which US magazine was The First Men in the Moon originally serialised?
A) The Cosmopolitan
B) Out of the Silent Planet
C) The Moon Maze Game
D) The Strand Magazine
  • 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) George Newnes Ltd
B) Jules Verne
C) The Bowen-Merrill Company
D) C. S. Lewis
  • 5. Who illustrated the first UK book edition of the story?
A) T.H. Huxley
B) Roger Lancelyn Green
C) Emil Hering
D) Claude Shepperson
  • 6. Who published the first US book edition of the story in 1901?
A) The Bowen-Merrill Company
B) The Cosmopolitan
C) George Newnes Ltd
D) The Strand Magazine
  • 7. Who illustrated the first US book edition?
A) Brian Stableford
B) Emil Hering
C) Claude Shepperson
D) Larry Niven
  • 8. Which author explicitly stated that his science fiction books were written as an antithesis to those of H. G. Wells?
A) Brian Stableford
B) Jules Verne
C) C. S. Lewis
D) Vernor Vinge
  • 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) Eddie Jones
B) Steven Barnes
C) Roger Lancelyn Green
D) T.H. Huxley
  • 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) 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) Importing extraterrestrial gold to Earth
B) Mining cavorite for gravity blocking
C) Building steam-powered time machines
D) Enslaving the Selenites for food
  • 12. Where do the two characters quietly build their spaceship in C. S. Lewis's book?
A) An English country house
B) A crater on the Moon
C) A secret underground base in London
D) An ocean-going steamship
  • 13. What resource requirement did both Wells and Lewis grossly underestimate?
A) The quantity of food needed by the Selenites
B) The amount of gold required to fund a spaceship
C) The resources needed for a jaunt outside Earth's gravitational field
D) The amount of cavorite to power a terrace house
  • 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 Martians
B) The businessman-scientist pair
C) The lunar Amazons
D) The Selenites
  • 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) Trading extraterrestrial gold with the Martians
B) Human colonisation of other planets, including extermination of primitive natives
C) Peaceful coexistence with the Selenites
D) Using cavorite solely for trapping criminals
  • 19. Who argues that The First Men in the Moon is the first alien dystopia?
A) Jules Verne
B) Vernor Vinge
C) Brian Stableford
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) Selwyn Cavor
B) Professor Weston
C) Jet Morgan
D) Eddie Jones
  • 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) Eddie
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 business-scientists
B) The Martians
C) The Selenites
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) DuckTales
C) Warehouse 13
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) 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) 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) C. S. Lewis
B) Brian Stableford
C) H. G. Wells
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) Della Duck and Selwyn Cavor
C) Eddie Jones and Anastasia Black
D) His wife and T.H. Huxley
  • 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 peacefully trading gold with Professor Weston
C) They are allies of the nude lunar Amazons
D) They have conquered Earth and exterminated humanity
  • 31. Which authors wrote the 'Dream Park' series adventure novel The Moon Maze Game?
A) Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
B) Jules Verne and Brian Stableford
C) C. S. Lewis and Roger Lancelyn Green
D) H. G. Wells and T.H. Huxley
  • 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 events of The First Men in the Moon
C) The martian enslavement of the Selenites
D) The construction of the SSS Implausible
  • 33. In which novel by Vernor Vinge does an antigravity material called 'cavorite' appear?
A) The Moon Maze Game
B) Out of the Silent Planet
C) A Deepness in the Sky
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) Warehouse 13
C) Princess Principal
D) Night Terrace
  • 35. In the Night Terrace episode 'Full Steam', what is the name of the steam-powered spaceship?
A) The Moon Maze Game
B) SSS Implausible
C) Operation Luna
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) Extraterrestrial gold
C) Cavorite
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) Eddie Jones
B) Susan Denholm
C) Anastasia Black
D) Selwyn Cavor
  • 38. Who joins Eddie Jones in learning the true source of the SSS Implausible's power?
A) Jet Morgan and Professor Weston
B) Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
C) Anastasia Black and Susan Denholm
D) H. G. Wells and his wife
  • 39. What is the true source of power for the SSS Implausible?
A) Extraterrestrial gold imported from Mars
B) An engine designed by Professor Weston and Cavor
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) Jet Morgan
B) Della Duck
C) T.H. Huxley
D) Anastasia Black
  • 41. How does Della Duck attempt to contact Earth while stranded on the Moon in DuckTales?
A) Using a cavorite-powered spaceship
B) Through a fantasy role-playing game
C) Via radio
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) Tommy Simmons
B) Mr. Bedford
C) Mr. Cavor
D) Mr. Julius Wendigee
  • 44. What is the name of the eccentric scientist who invents cavorite?
A) Tommy Simmons
B) Mr. Bedford
C) Mr. Cavor
D) Mr. Julius Wendigee
  • 45. What is cavorite?
A) A type of rocket fuel
B) A compressed oxygen supply
C) A luminous blue liquid
D) A gravity-blocking substance
  • 46. What shape is the spacecraft constructed by Cavor and Bedford?
A) Pyramidal
B) Spherical
C) Conical
D) Cylindrical
  • 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. Bedford
C) Tommy Simmons
D) Mr. Cavor
  • 49. How far below the exterior surface is the Lunar Central Sea located?
A) Nearly 50 miles
B) Nearly 100 miles
C) Nearly 500 miles
D) Nearly 200 miles
  • 50. Which missing ingredient does the Moon lack that makes the Selenites consider cavorite impossible to make?
A) Gold
B) Oxygen
C) Helium
D) Carbon
  • 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) Wendy Graham
B) Georges Sadoul
C) Lionel Jeffries
D) Mark Gatiss
  • 53. In what year was the first official adaptation of The First Men in the Moon made?
A) 1919
B) 1964
C) 1902
D) 2010
  • 54. Who played Cavor in the 1964 film adaptation?
A) Lionel Jeffries
B) Edward Judd
C) Rory Kinnear
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) Radiation suits
B) Diving suits
C) Regular suits
D) Pressure suits
  • 57. Who played Bedford's fiancée in the 1964 film?
A) No one
B) Terry James
C) Wendy Graham
D) Martha Hyer
  • 58. Which television network broadcast the 2010 adaptation of The First Men in the Moon?
A) ITV
B) BBC Radio 4 Extra
C) BBC Four
D) BBC Radio 4
  • 59. Who wrote the 2010 BBC Four adaptation?
A) Mark Gatiss
B) Robert Cromie
C) Georges Sadoul
D) Terry James
  • 60. Who played Bedford in the 2010 adaptation?
A) Hywell Bennett
B) Mark Gatiss
C) Rory Kinnear
D) Edward Judd
  • 61. Which film adaptation is considered the most faithful to the novel?
A) The 2010 adaptation
B) A Trip to the Moon
C) The 1919 adaptation
D) The 1964 adaptation
  • 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) 90-minute
B) 120-minute
C) 60-minute
D) 30-minute
  • 64. Who dramatised the 1981 audio adaptation?
A) Chrysostom Trueman
B) Robert Cromie
C) Terry James
D) Mark Gatiss
  • 65. Who played Cavor in the 1981 radio adaptation?
A) Lionel Jeffries
B) Willie Rushdon
C) Hywell Bennett
D) Rory Kinnear
  • 66. Who played Bedford in the 1981 radio adaptation?
A) Edward Judd
B) Willie Rushdon
C) Hywell Bennett
D) Mark Gatiss
  • 67. What happened to the 1981 audio adaptation before it was re-discovered?
A) It was banned
B) It was copyrighted
C) It was lost
D) It was destroyed by fire
  • 68. What was the name of the strand on which the 1981 radio adaptation was re-broadcast in 2025?
A) Lost Classics
B) Wells Audio
C) Vintage Sci-Fi
D) Hidden Treasures
  • 69. Who accused Wells of plagiarism shortly after his novel was published?
A) Jules Verne
B) Georges Sadoul
C) Chrysostom Trueman
D) Robert Cromie
  • 70. What was the title of Robert Cromie's novel published in 1890?
A) The History of a Voyage to the Moon
B) Around the Moon
C) A Plunge into Space
D) From the Earth to the Moon
  • 71. Who wrote The History of a Voyage to the Moon (1864)?
A) Chrysostom Trueman
B) Jules Verne
C) H.G. Wells
D) Robert Cromie
  • 72. How did Jules Verne feel about Wells's novel?
A) Indifferent
B) Publicly hostile
C) Secretly supportive
D) Deeply admiring
  • 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 confusing cinematic disaster
B) A boring scientific textbook
C) A poorly written plagiarized story
D) A ripping SF adventure yarn
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