Q 01/05

Who wrote and directed the 2009 film Avatar?

A) Peter Jackson

B) Steven Spielberg

C) Ridley Scott

D) James Cameron

Answer · why

D) James Cameron

He also co-produced it with Jon Landau, his producing partner from Titanic.

Q 02/05

Who plays Jake Sully?

A) Chris Evans

B) Channing Tatum

C) Sam Worthington

D) Chris Pine

Answer · why

C) Sam Worthington

He was relatively unknown at the time and got the part after an angry outburst during secretive auditions impressed the director.

Q 03/05

Which actress plays Neytiri?

A) Zoe Saldaña

B) Michelle Rodriguez

C) Q'orianka Kilcher

D) Rosario Dawson

Answer · why

A) Zoe Saldaña

Cast early, she helped screen-test the actors auditioning for Jake, including her eventual co-star.

Q 04/05

What valuable mineral are the humans mining on Pandora?

A) Vibranium

B) Adamantium

C) Unobtanium

D) Tiberium

Answer · why

C) Unobtanium

The name is an old engineering in-joke for any material that would be perfect if only it existed.

Q 05/05

Pandora is a moon in which star system?

A) Proxima Centauri

B) Tau Ceti

C) Sirius

D) Alpha Centauri

Answer · why

D) Alpha Centauri

It is the nearest star system to the Sun, which makes the 22nd-century mining trip at least plausible.

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