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

James Cameron drafted Avatar in the mid-1990s, then shelved it for years until visual-effects technology could put what he imagined on screen.

Q 02/05

Who plays Jake Sully in Avatar?

A) Chris Evans

B) Channing Tatum

C) Sam Worthington

D) Chris Pine

Answer · why

C) Sam Worthington

Sam Worthington, then little known, grew so fed up with months of secretive auditions that he lost his temper on camera, and that anger is what caught...

Q 03/05

Which actress plays Neytiri in Avatar?

A) Zoe Saldaña

B) Michelle Rodriguez

C) Q'orianka Kilcher

D) Rosario Dawson

Answer · why

A) Zoe Saldaña

Zoe Saldaña was cast first, so the actors up for the male lead had to play scenes opposite her before the director chose her eventual co-star.

Q 04/05

In Avatar, what valuable mineral are the humans mining on Pandora?

A) Vibranium

B) Adamantium

C) Unobtanium

D) Tiberium

Answer · why

C) Unobtanium

Unobtanium borrows an old engineers' joke: since the 1950s, 'unobtainium' has meant any material that would solve a design problem perfectly, if only ...

Q 05/05

In Avatar, Pandora is a moon in which real star system?

A) Epsilon Eridani

B) Tau Ceti

C) Sirius

D) Alpha Centauri

Answer · why

D) Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri is the Sun's nearest neighbouring star system, and when the film came out a Harvard astronomer said a real moon like Pandora there coul...