Q 01/05

The Six Million Dollar Man's opening narration promises 'Better, stronger' and which third word?

A) Faster

B) Smarter

C) Tougher

D) Braver

Answer · why

A) Faster

Faster. The irony is how the show displayed it: Steve Austin's top-speed runs were filmed in slow motion, the series' signal that his bionics were in ...

Q 02/05

The Six Million Dollar Man was based on which 1972 novel by Martin Caidin?

A) Bionic

B) Rebuilt

C) Operation Nuke

D) Cyborg

Answer · why

D) Cyborg

Cyborg gave the show its hero, but a harder one: Caidin's Steve Austin killed freely, while the TV version was softened until he rarely used deadly fo...

Q 03/05

Steve Austin was injured in the crash of what kind of aircraft?

A) A supersonic jet fighter

B) A space shuttle prototype

C) An experimental lifting body

D) A helicopter gunship

Answer · why

C) An experimental lifting body

An experimental lifting body: the crash in the opening credits is real NASA film of test pilot Bruce Peterson's 1967 M2-F2 accident, which he survived...

Q 04/05

Which of Steve Austin's body parts were replaced with bionics?

A) Both arms and both legs

B) Left arm, right leg and right eye

C) Both legs, spine and left ear

D) Right arm, both legs and left eye

Answer · why

D) Right arm, both legs and left eye

Right arm, both legs and left eye, on TV at least: in Martin Caidin's novel the bionic arm was the left one, and the eye was a hidden camera he could ...

Q 05/05

What did the initials OSI, Steve Austin's employer, stand for?

A) Office of Scientific Intelligence

B) Office of Special Investigations

C) Office of Security Intelligence

D) Office of Secret Interventions

Answer · why

A) Office of Scientific Intelligence

Office of Scientific Intelligence, the usual name on screen, replaced the OSO of Martin Caidin's novels and the first pilot film; the CIA had a real o...