Q 01/05

In 2018 a copy of the Foundation trilogy was launched into orbit around the Sun by which company?

A) Blue Origin

B) Rocket Lab

C) Virgin Galactic

D) SpaceX

Answer · why

D) SpaceX

SpaceX sent it up on the first Falcon Heavy, stored on a quartz disc inside the Tesla Roadster that rode as the test payload; the disc was meant as th...

Q 02/05

Seldon's psychohistory can forecast the behaviour of what?

A) Single rulers

B) Planetary weather

C) Stock markets

D) Large populations

Answer · why

D) Large populations

Large populations are all it can handle: the mathematics treats people in the mass, by statistics, so one unforeseeable individual, the Mule, later th...

Q 03/05

A Foundation mayor keeps a motto on his office wall that calls violence the last refuge of whom?

A) The desperate

B) The ignorant

C) The incompetent

D) The powerful

Answer · why

C) The incompetent

The incompetent: the mayor lives by it, outwitting armed neighbours rather than fighting them, and decades later a young rival sneers at the line as '...

Q 04/05

According to Seldon's calculations, how long would the dark age after the Empire's fall last if nothing were done?

A) 3,000 years

B) 10,000 years

C) 30,000 years

D) 100,000 years

Answer · why

C) 30,000 years

30,000 years of barbarism is what his mathematics foresees; he cannot stop the Empire falling, only shorten the dark age, and for saying so he is trie...

Q 05/05

In which magazine were the original Foundation stories published between 1942 and 1950?

A) Amazing Stories

B) Astounding Science-Fiction

C) Galaxy Science Fiction

D) Thrilling Wonder Stories

Answer · why

B) Astounding Science-Fiction

Astounding Science-Fiction ran the saga as eight separate stories from 1942; when the first four became a book in 1951, Asimov had to write a new open...