Q 01/05

Which 1968 film did Arthur C. Clarke co-write with its director, Stanley Kubrick?

A) Silent Running

B) 2001: A Space Odyssey

C) Planet of the Apes

D) Fantastic Voyage

Answer · why

B) 2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey premiered in April 1968, months before Clarke's novel appeared in July, which he felt made the book look like a mere novelisatio...

Q 02/05

In which country did Arthur C. Clarke live from 1956 until his death in 2008?

A) Malaysia

B) South Africa

C) Sri Lanka

D) Australia

Answer · why

C) Sri Lanka

Clarke moved to Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, in 1956 to pursue scuba diving, and in 2005 received Sri Lankabhimanya, the island's highest civil hono...

Q 03/05

Along with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, Clarke was one of science fiction's so-called what?

A) Big Three

B) Grand Trio

C) Holy Trinity

D) Golden Triangle

Answer · why

A) Big Three

Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein were dubbed the Big Three of science fiction; under the 'Clarke-Asimov Treaty', each would call Clarke the better SF write...

Q 04/05

Complete Clarke's third law: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from...' what?

A) Nature

B) Chaos

C) Magic

D) God

Answer · why

C) Magic

Clarke's third law ends 'indistinguishable from magic'; he set it down in the 1973 revision of his essay 'Hazards of Prophecy' and quipped that three ...

Q 05/05

Clarke's 1945 paper proposed satellites in which orbit as ideal telecommunications relays?

A) Highly elliptical

B) Geostationary

C) Low Earth

D) Polar sun-synchronous

Answer · why

B) Geostationary

Clarke's October 1945 paper argued that three satellites in geostationary orbit, about 36,000 km above the equator, could relay signals worldwide; the...