Science Fiction Trivia

[Cody]

Apostrophe'

[Smivs]

What events took place in Herot in 709AD?

[Cody]

Thinking of Heorot, I had to google that, and came up with Outlander. 'Beowulf meets Predator', the poster blurb said. Hmm...
In answer, a spaceship carrying an alien human and a monster crashes there?

[Smivs]

Yup, good googling old chap.
Silly film but quite good. The 'human' alien helps the local vikings to track down the other alien which escapes from his ship when it crashes. The other one is a bit nasty, to put it mildly.
Over to you.

[Cody]

They should've made a movie out of The Legacy of Heorot instead - a much better take on Beowulf, with an excellent alien life-form.
Probably my favourite sci-fi alien, in fact, along with the Moties.

Name this old short story: a scientist drills a bore deep into the Earth, with unusual results.

[cbr]

typing 'drilling deep' in a search engine lead to eh..

but i go for 'drilling to hell'

[Cody]

<chortles> I can imagine!

No, the tale I'm after is pre-war, and was originally published in a magazine.

[Cody]

More clues: the scientist believes the Earth to be a sentient being; and the author is very well known.

[cbr]

a good clues

sentient and famous

When the World Screamed, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[Cody]

Aye, one of Doyle's Professor Challenger tales, of which the most famous is The Lost World.

<lobs coconut at cbr>

[cbr]

ah thank you.

Below you see a picture with some 3d look-a-like doodleing and mixing

Name the original ship or shiptype for each of the models ( novels, movie, television or games )

[Smivs]

The top one is quite easy - Discovery (2001). No 2? Liberator (Blake's 7)? The only thing I get for No3 is suggested by those ship-launching outriggers - A Battlestar (Battlestar Galactica).

[cbr]

no 1 good, discovery one
no 2 false, think smaller
no 3 good, bsg pegasus

[Smivs]

Star Wars? Looks a bit like this, maybe? A Tie Hunter.

[Cody]

Not the Imperial Trader from FEII - is it?