The Sunday Quiz — October 23, 2016

It is The Fifth Element (1997). Oh, Luke Perry’s name was Billy!

It is Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope. Of course, almost exactly the same music was used in all the other Star Wars films, but this is from the original.

It is Ratatouille. Did You Know? Ratatouille was the sixth highest grossing film of 2007?

It is 1987’s The Princess Bride, of course.

It is Deadpool. Here, Ryan Reynolds (as Deadpool) all-but admits the humorous opening sequence was cribbed from Honest Trailers.

It is Dying of the Light. Published in 1977, it is a science fiction novel set in the same universe as “A Song for Lya,” which won the Hugo for Best Novella in 1975. A Game of Thrones was not released until 1996.

It is Restoree. Published in 1967, it is a novel of alien abduction, featuring one of the genre’s first badass female heroes. Dragonflight, the first novel in McCaffey’s long-running Pern series, was released in 1968.

It is The Carpet People. First published in 1971, though revised and updated in 1992 after the Discworld gained him fame, The Carpet People is a comic novel detailing the journey of a tiny race of beings who live in, well, a carpet. The Colour of Magic, the first book in the Discworld series, was released in 1983.

It is Pebble in the Sky. Published in January of 1950, it is a time travel adventure that catapults our hero forward into a time when the Earth is all-but destroyed. The same year saw the release of Asimov’s first short story collection, I, Robot; Foundation came out in 1951.

It is Fire Proof. Published in 1999, it is the eleventh book in the Mystery Files of Shelby Woo series, based on the Nickelodeon TV show of the same name. It is Collins’s only media tie-in novel.

It is from Samurai Pizza Cats, said by Speedy Cerviche (pronounced sir-veech-ay).

It is from Samurai Pizza Cats, said by Guido Anchovy. But it sounds an awful lot like something Raphael would say, right?

It is from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This, of course, is Krang, scourge of Dimension X.

It is from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This is Raphael, telling the Shredder he and his brothers don’t want to go Dark Side.

This is the best Raphael.

It is from Samurai Pizza Cats. This is from the theme song!

Samurai Pizza Cats (Oh yeah)
Who do you call when you want some pepperoni?
Samurai Pizza Cats (Right on)
They’re stampin’ out crime and you know that ain’t baloney.
There’s Speedy Cerviche he’s the leader of the bunch. (That’s right!)
A heck of a fighter! (Whoa!) Makes a heck of a lunch!
And little Polly Esther who’s never afraid, (That’s me)
Of going into battle when the bad guys invade!
There’s Guido Anchovy, a wild romantic rover.
This cat gets down, down with a love hangover!
Here Come the Pizza Cats!
They’re so bad!
They’ve got more fur than any turtle ever had.

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Yeah.

It is Revenge of the 5th. Because those on the Dark Side need to celebrate, too.

World Science-Fiction Day!

This is the generally accepted date of James T. Kirk‘s birthday.

It was 2006. Can you believe it’s been ten years already?

It is September, which also brings Talk Like a Pirate Day. Mateys.

They are Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World’s End (2013). The name was born out of a joke, when a journalist noticed the use of Cornetto ice-creams in both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Wright likened the films to Krzysztof Kieślowski’s acclaimed art-house Three Colours film trilogy.