DYSTOPIAS

Blade Runner! Maze Runner! Rob Schneider! Test your gloomy-movie knowledge…

EASY

1 The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen hails from which District?

2 Which futuristic drama was withdrawn from British release at its director’s request in 1973?

3 In which year is Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men set? a) 2024; b) 2030; c) 2027.

4 What is Neo’s real name in The Matrix?

5 In RoboCop, what does OCP stand for?

MEDIUM

1 Which 1975 sci-fi actioner was remade in 2008 with Jason Statham?

2 Which movie, according to its poster, is about ‘flights of fantasy… the nightmare of reality… and creative plumbing’?

3 Name the character played by Barkhad Abdi in Blade Runner 2049.

4 Which actor connects 1984 (1984) with V for Vendetta (2006)?

5 Name the two sequels to 2014’s The Maze Runner.

HARD

1 In which year was Blade Runner’s source novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? published?

2 What’s the full title of the short on which George Lucas’ THX 1138 is based?

3 Complete Alphaville’s subtitle: A Strange Adventure of _?

4 Rob Schneider, Max von Sydow, Ian Dury… name the movie.

5 Who directed the 1990 big-screen adap of

The Handmaid’s Tale?

ANSWERS: EASY – 1. DISTRICT 12; 2. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE; 3. C) 2027; 4. THOMAS A. ANDERSON; 5. OMNI CONSUMER PRODUCTS MEDIUM – 1. DEATH RACE 2000; 2. BRAZIL; 3. DOC BADGER; 4. JOHN HURT; 5. MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS; MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE HARD – 1. 1968; 2. ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH THX 1138 4EB; 3. LEMMY CAUTION; 4. JUDGE DREDD (1995); 5. VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF