Win Books in our InterGalactic Trivia Contest

AND TV TIME, TOO!!

Would you like a chance to win books from the  Linton Public Library?

A few weeks ago, the library held an InterGalactic Trivia Contest as part of our Adult Summer Reading Program. We know with work hours and just regular "adulting" type things happening, it is hard to participate in some of our events.

So, I decided to bring the contest to you!!  We have John Grisham's The Reckoning. and three of David Baldacci's Amos Decker series books to give to the 1st person to turn in all of  the correct answers to these 40 questions below.  There will first be 20 questions, with two bonus rounds of 10 each.

Just bring in your answers to the Linton Public Library with your name and phone number at the top for us to contact you.  Bringing them in to the library is the preferred route, but you can also send them to me as an attachment at danderson@lintonpl.lib.in.us. 

Let's play 20 Questions!

1)  What basketball player teamed up with Bugs Bunny and friends in a kid's movie?

2)   __________, ___________, and ___________ (actors) never make it to the moon, but get home safely, in what movie?

3)  What fairly recent film features 3 brilliant women at NASA who helped launch astronaut John Glenn into orbit?

4) What movie about Neil Armstrong will the library be showing in July?

5) A young Drew Barrymore stars in this 1982 film about an alien trying to get home again?

6) This "book-into-movie" classic starts out in England, then travels through outer space with tips, suggestions and more. Don't forget your towel!

7) Sigourney Weaver plays Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley in what movie?

8) In which movie did actor Billy Bob Thornton play a character building a rocket in his barn?

9) Summary of what movie:  "The stars of a 1970's sci-fi show, now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions, are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. The aliens want the TV stars to save them."

10) Aliens live among us on earth. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones wear suits and sunglasses. Will makes it look good! 

11) In which movie is Matt Damon forced to survive on a nearby planet, before being saved by NASA?

12)  A 1977 movie about seeing UFO's, strange visions of a mountainlike image, and a haunting 5-note melody.

13)  Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner starred in what space-related movie together?

14) What movie features a space adventurer, a gun-toting raccoon, a treelike-humanoid, Gamora, and Drax the Destroyer?

15)  A comic spoof of Star Wars, that has a half-man/half-dog named Barf, a villian named Dark Helmet and an RV camper-spaceship.

16)  A 2014 movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon and Michael Caine involving a plan to save mankind by transporting Earth's population to a new home via a wormhole.

17)  Will Smith, and many other stars, save Earth from an alien invasion on what American holiday?

18)  Homer Hickam is a NASA engineering legend who started building rockets in his backyard. His memoir, Rocket Boys, was turned into what 1999 movie, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper and Laura Dern?

19)  During a routine space walk by characters played by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, disaster strikes and they are stranded. What is the name of the movie?

20)  A science-fiction classic about 3 astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet ruled by intelligent mammals. classic version released in 1968, many newer sequels.

1st Bonus Round

Is the following a part of Star Wars or Star Trek?

1) S.S. Enterprise

2) Hans Solo

3) Empire Strikes Back

4) R2-D2

5) Spock

6) Stormtroopers

7) "Beam me up, Scotty!"

8) "I am your father"

9) Wrath of Khan

10)  Captain Kirk

2nd Bonus Round

Name the TV show that is described, or that the following character or actor was part of

1)  Robin Williams

2)  Furry, sarcastic alien life form from the 1980's

3)  TV show from 1960's, made into a movie in 1998, and then another series in 2018?

4)  William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy

5)  A space-related TV show that the library has many DVD's from the series.

6)  The logical one's name is Data this time, not Spock

7)  A group of aliens sent to Earth, disguiesed as a family, in a late 1990's TV show

8)  Finish the name of this TV show: Battlestar ______________

9)  Cartoon family of the future: George, Jane, Judy, Elroy & the dog, Astro

10)  Mulder, Scully...and "the truth is out there"

Good Luck to you, and please leave a comment if you have any questions!