The Den of Geek Weekly Quiz! Movie Planets
Do you know your Tatooine from your Pandora? Try our 12-question sci-fi movie planets quiz.

Quizmaster Chris Farnell is back with his final (for now) guest appearance in the Den of Geek Weekly Quiz slot. Show him what you know about sci-fi movie planets, and share your successes and failures below. Over to you, Chris.
We love alien planets. Ocean planets, jungle planets, forbidden planets, planets that are exactly like our own except everyone is a 1940s gangster… Alien planets are an opportunity to see our own world from a different angle, to depict a world completely different from the one we know, and to test our assumptions. Sometimes they’re just a pile of wet rocks that is home to one (1) perfectly evolved predatory lifeform, and sometimes, on the really, really bad days, they simply explode. Above all though, the appeal of these planets is that they offer us a chance to voyage into the unknown. The question is – just how unknown?
To celebrate the imminent release of The Ultimate Sci-Fi Movie Quiz Book, which
contains 1,000 sci-fi movie questions on everything from alien planets to time travel to killer
robots, here are 12 questions to test your knowledge of where no one has gone before…
Sci-Fi Movie Planets Quiz
1. Which of these titular planets is in our solar system?
A: Treasure Planet (2002)
B: Solaris (1972)
C: Planet of the Apes (1968)
D: The Forbidden Planet (1956)
2. Which planet does the Death Star destroy in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope?
A: Alderaan
B: Tatooine
C: Yavin
D: Hoth
3. According to the John Carpenter movie, which of these planets has ghosts?
A: Venus
B: Mars
C: Jupiter
D: Saturn
4. Which of these planets has not been completely destroyed?
A: Krypton (Superman (1978))
B: Earth (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005))
C: Miranda (Serenity (2005))
D: Vulcan (Star Trek (2009))
5. In Pitch Black (2000) when do the predatory aliens attack?
A: At night
B: When there is a volcanic eruption
C: When there is a solar eclipse
D: During winter
6. What is the name of the musical planet in The Marvels?
A: Hala
B: Aakon
C: Sakaar
D: Aladna
7. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), where is the best place to get a bespoke planet?
A: Betelgeuse VII
B: Magrathea
C:Vogsphere
D: Damogran
8. In The Martian, Mark Watney is able to keep himself alive on Mars because he is what sort of scientist?
A: Astrophysicist
B: Botanist
C: Chemist
D: Geologist
9. Which of these non-Star Wars worlds would Anakin Skywalker like most?
A: Arrakis (Dune)
B: Unnamed planet (Stargate)
C: Pandora (Avatar)
D: Pandora (Borderlands)
10. Which world did the crew of the Nostromo find an alien on?
A: LV-042
B: LV-420
C: LV-426
D: LV: 246
11. Which of these space adventurers do we see set foot on the most planetary bodies in one movie (Not counting Earth)?
A: Han Solo in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
B: Mal Reynolds in Serenity (2005)
C: Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
D: Roy McBride in Ad Astra (2019)
12. When was the first screen adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s novel, Solaris released?
A: 1968
B: 1972
C: 1988
D: 2002
Answers!
Correct answers: 1c, 2a, 3b, 4c, 5c, 6d, 7c, 8b, 9c, 10c, 11b, 12a
0-4 Not your best work. Maybe the atmosphere’s a bit thin on your home planet?
5-8 Nice! No Death Star superlaser for you!
9-12 Excellent! You’re a Goldilocks planet, perfectly adapted to support quizzing life
The Ultimate Sci-Fi Movie Quiz Book is published on September 26. Win copies at the Edge-Lit 10 pub quiz in Derby on September 7.