Q 01/05

In the novel Altered Carbon, the hotel's AI takes the form of which rock star, cut from the Netflix series?

A) Kurt Cobain

B) Elvis Presley

C) Jim Morrison

D) Jimi Hendrix

Answer · why

D) Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix's estate declined to license his image because of the show's violence, so the series had to invent a different host for the hotel.

Q 02/05

In Altered Carbon, which device at the back of the neck stores a person's memories and consciousness?

A) Cortical stack

B) Synaptic archive

C) Neural lace

D) Memory core

Answer · why

A) Cortical stack

The cortical stack is a disk-shaped device of alien design that humans reverse-engineered and mass-produced. Destroy it with no backup and the person ...

Q 03/05

Altered Carbon's first lead actor said its budget beat the first three seasons of which HBO series?

A) Game of Thrones

B) Boardwalk Empire

C) Westworld

D) True Detective

Answer · why

A) Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones was the yardstick: Altered Carbon was reportedly Netflix's most expensive production at the time, though the real cost was never discl...

Q 04/05

Altered Carbon's ultra-rich, who never have to die of old age, are nicknamed after which Biblical figure?

A) Lazarus

B) Melchizedek

C) Methuselah

D) Nicodemus

Answer · why

C) Methuselah

Methuselah, said in Genesis to have lived 969 years, gives the show's 'Meths' their name. They outlast everyone by moving between clones, with remote ...

Q 05/05

At the end of Altered Carbon's first season, how do two copies of Kovacs decide which one survives?

A) A hand of poker

B) Drawing the short straw

C) Rock-paper-scissors

D) Tossing a coin

Answer · why

C) Rock-paper-scissors

Rock-paper-scissors settles it because Kovacs had illegally cloned himself to slip past an assassin, and the authorities would uphold his pardon for o...