STAR TREK (TOS) TRIVIA QUIZ  -- by Jean Graham

(Answers to all quizzes are at the bottom of the page.)

QUIZ #1  -- AIs, Aliens & other Entities

1.  How did the ship's computer in "Tomorrow is Yesterday" address Cpt. Kirk?
2.  What was the name of the perfectionist satellite probe in "The Changeling"?
3.  What did the scientist in "The Ultimate Computer" call his creation?
4.  Which alien being was said to be "so ugly the sight of him drove men mad"?
5.  What did the god Vaal of "The Apple" look like?
6.  What was the name of the computer ruler in "Return of the Archons"?
7.  Why did the Companion of "Metamorphosis" want to keep the Zephram Cochrane?
8.  What was the huge, lizard-like creature of "Arena" called?
9.  Why did the Horta of "Devil in the Dark" attack the miners?
10. How do you keep a few tribbles from doubling every few hours?
 

QUIZ #2 -- Characters

1.  He was the Irish navigator of "The Naked Time" who sang "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen."
2.  Her fiance, Roger Corby, was found in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
3.  He peddled tribbles and ended up with a space station full of them.
4.  He married Miramanee in "The Paradise Syndrome."
5.  She was a pubescent girl on a planet where adulthood meant death by deadly virus.
6.  She told McCoy about sehlats on "Journey to Babel."
7.  He was Kirk's nemesis of a practical joker at the Academy. ("Shore Leave.")
8.  He appeared twice: once with three beautiful women and again with a whole planet full of beautiful androids.
9.  She sang "Charlie is My Darling" on "Charlie X."
10. He was accused of murder in "Wolf in the Fold."

QUIZ 3 -- Gadgets

1.  McCoy left one behind by accident in "A Piece of the Action."
2.  It thought it was in love with Kirk in "Tomorrow is Yesterday."
3.  Spock used it to see Edith Keeler's future in "City on the Edge of Forever."
4.  Instrument useful with language barriers.
5.  One opens onto the bridge.
6.  Stolen in "The Enterprise Incident"
7.  Used to tow other vessels or objects behind the Enterprise.
8.  McCoy disapproves of having it scramble his molecules.
9.  Kirk and Spock built one to make the crew angry enough to destroy invading spores in "This Side of Paradise."
10. Bela Oxmyx called them "fancy heaters."

QUIZ 4 -- The Ship
1.  Does the Enterprise ever land on a planet's surface?
2.  Approximately how many people in the crew?
3.  What is the registration number that appears on the saucer and nacelles?
4.  What is the best protected part of the ship.
5.  Where do Kirk and Spock usually play 3-dimensional chess?
6.  How fast is warp factor one?
7.  What area is "the size of a football field"?
8.  Where can you actually look out at the stars (without a viewscreen)?
9.  What is the highest safe warp speed for the Enterprise?
10. Can a starship be programmed to self destruct?

QUIZ 5 -- Planets
1.  Trelaine's planet.
2.  Where Spock fell in love with Leila.
3.  Spock was born there.
4.  Where Kirk, Uhura and Checkov became "thralls."
5.  Visited in "The City on the Edge of Forever."
6.  Planet invaded by Klingons in "Errand of Mercy."
7.  Disputed territory in "The Trouble With Tribbles."
8.  Where "Mudd's Women" ended up.
9.  A planet so overpopulated its people tried to inflict disease on themselves.
10. It has green-skinned inhabitants, including exotic slave girls.

QUIZ 6 -- Quotations
Who said...?
1.  "He was probably terrified of your beads and rattles."
2.  "Would you mind being more careful where you throw your rocks, Mr. Spock?"
3.  "You smell like a girl!"
4.  "At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do."
5.  "I'm trying to thank you, you pointed earred hobgoblin!"
6.  "In another reality, I could have called you friend."
7.  "This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is what we are."
8.  "Vulcans treat their women strangely. At least, people say that."
9.  "I tink I'm goink to be space sick."
10. "You've got a foolie, is that it? And you want me to play, only I can't. I don't know the rules."

QUIZ 7 -- Chemicals, Minerals & a Few Other Substances
1.  McCoy was accidentally injected with it in "City on the Edge of Forever."
2.  What the Horta was made of.
3.  Crystal important to the Enterprise's propulsion system.
4.  Element sought to cure the Enterprise crew in "Requiem for Methuselah."
5.  What Nancy thrived on in "The Man Trap."
6.  Chekov was kept from aging by this in "The Deadly Years."
7.  Tribbles loved it.
8.  Substance sought after in "The Cloud Minders."
9.  Mixture that powers the Enterprise.
10. Kirk invented it to bluff Balok, and used it again on the Romulans in "The Deadly Years."

QUIZ 8 -- Episode Titles
1.  Kirk was tried for the murder of Lt. Ben Finney.
2.  Nazi Germany was recreated.
3.  A "little boy" named Trelaine delighted in sadistic games.
4.  McCoy fell for a high priestess on a ship disguised as a planetoid.
5.  Gary Seven tried to stop the onset of WWIII on 20th century Earth.
6.  An alien creature pitted Klingons against humans aboard the Enterprise.
7.  Kirk  became enchanted with a woman whose tears were a love potion.]
8.  Spock returned to Vulcan for his wedding ceremony.
9.  Six rebels searching for a legendary planet commandeered the ship.
10. Lazarus came from a parallel universe to stop his counterpart from destroying reality.
 
 
 

ANSWERS:

QUIZ 1
1.  "Dear"
2.  Nomad
3.  M-5
4.  Ambassador Kollos, the Medusan in "Is There in Truth No Beauty"
5.  A giant stone dragon's head
6.  Landru
7.  It loved him
8.  A Gorn
9.  To protect her young
10. Don't feed them

QUIZ 2
1.  Lt. Kevin Thomas Riley (Bruce Hyde)
2.  Nurse Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett)
3.  Cyrano Jones (Stanley Adams)
4.  Kirok, AKA Captain Kirk (aw, you know)
5.  Miri (Kim Darby)
6.  Amanda (Jane Wyatt)
7.  Finnigan (Bruce Mars)
8.  Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd (Roger C. Carmel)
9.  Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols)
10. Engineer Montgomery Scott (James Doohan)

QUIZ 3
1.  Communicator
2.  Ship's computer
3.  Tricorder
4.  Universal translator
5.  Turbolift
6.  Cloaking device
7.  Tractor beam
8.  Transporter
9.  Subsonic transmitter
10. Phasers

QUIZ 4
1.  No, never
2.  430
3.  NCC-1701
4.  Sickbay (according to Kirk in "Elaan of Troyius"
5.  In the rec room
6.  186,000 miles per second, or the speed of light
7.  The hangar deck
8.  The observation deck
9.  Warp 9
10. Yes. Kirk ordered this in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

QUIZ 5
1.  Gothos
2.  Omichron Ceti III
3.  Vulcan
4.  Triskellion
5.  Earth
6.  Organia
7.  Sherman's Planet
8.  Rigel
9.  Gideon
10. Orion

QUIZ 6
1.  Spock to McCoy, "I, Mudd"
2.  Kirk to Spock, "The Apple"
3.  Charlie Evans to Janice Rand, "Charlie X"
4.  Sarek to Spock about marrying Amanda, "Journey to Babel"
5.  McCoy to Spock, "Bread and Circuses"
6.  Romulan Commander to Kirk, "Balance of Terror"
7.  T'Pau, "Amok Time"
8.  Nurse Chapel to Spock, "The Naked Time"
9.  Chekov to Sulu, "Amok Time"
10. Miri to Kirk, McCoy and Janice, "Miri"

QUIZ 7
1.  Cordrazine
2.  Silicon
3.  Dylithium
4.  Ritalin
5.  Salt
6.  Adrenalin
7.  Quadrotriticale
8.  Zenite
9.  Matter/anti-matter
10. Corbomite

QUIZ 8
1.  "Court Martial"
2.  "Patterns of Force"
3.  "The Squire of Gothos"
4.  "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
5.  "Assignment: Earth"
6.  "Day of the Dove"
7.  "Elaan of Troyius"
8.  "Amok Time"
9.  "The Way to Eden"
10. "The Alternative Factor"