Q 01/05

Blade Runner moved the action to Los Angeles, but in which city is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? set?

A) New York

B) San Francisco

C) Salt Lake City

D) San Diego

Answer · why

B) San Francisco

San Francisco is where Rick Deckard hunts androids for the police, in a city half emptied by fallout and emigration. The film swapped it for a dystopi...

Q 02/05

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, what does Rick Deckard use to tell androids from humans by their empathy?

A) The Turing test

B) The Rorschach test

C) The Voigt-Kampff test

D) The Stanford-Binet test

Answer · why

C) The Voigt-Kampff test

The Voigt-Kampff test measures involuntary reactions to questions, most of them about harm to animals. An android's flinch arrives a fraction of a sec...

Q 03/05

Who played bounty hunter Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, the film version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A) Harrison Ford

B) Michael Douglas

C) Kurt Russell

D) Jeff Bridges

Answer · why

A) Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford won the part on the strength of Star Wars and warm praise from Steven Spielberg. Decades later he came back as Deckard in Blade Runner 2...

Q 04/05

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which live animal does Rick Deckard buy with his bounty for three androids?

A) A calf

B) A pony

C) A goat

D) A lamb

Answer · why

C) A goat

A goat of the Nubian breed swallows his entire $3,000 bounty as a mere down payment, leaving him with heavy monthly instalments.

Q 05/05

Which word did Blade Runner invent to replace the androids of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A) Terminators

B) Synthetics

C) Cylons

D) Replicants

Answer · why

D) Replicants

Replicants grew out of a chat between screenwriter David Peoples and his daughter, a biochemist, who brought up the way cells go about replicating.