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Although his work is usually classed as science fiction, Philip K. Dick wrote works with strong political and philosophical themes. A number of his works have been the basis for films: "Blade Runner" on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", "Total Recall" on "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale", "The Adjustment Bureau" on "Adjustment Team", and "Minority Report" and "Paycheck" on stories of the same name.
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  The Fiction of Philip K. Dick   great trivia quiz  
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One of the most original and inventive science fiction writers of all time, Philip K. Dick's reputation has grown steadily since his death. This quiz is dedicated to the strange worlds of his fiction. Enjoy!
Tough, 10 Qns, MarcelMule, Apr 09 08
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  Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?    
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This quiz is about the book by Philip K Dick on which the film "Blade Runner" was based.
Difficult, 10 Qns, Polly_Prentiss, Jan 28 21
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  Philip K. Dick in the Movies   popular trivia quiz  
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Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was a giant of science fiction and cyberpunk literature. Many movies are inspired by his novels and short stories.
Average, 10 Qns, nerzack, Jan 17 13
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  We Can Remember it for You Wholesale    
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This is a quiz about the story 'We Can Remember it for You Wholesale' by Philip K Dick, on which the film 'Total Recall' was based.
Difficult, 10 Qns, Polly_Prentiss, Feb 21 08
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Which John Woo-directed film was based on Dick's short story of the same name and starred Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman and Aaron Eckhart?

From Quiz "Philip K. Dick in the Movies"




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Philip K Dick Trivia Questions
1. "Blade Runner" was the first movie based on a work by Philip K. Dick. Harrison Ford is a retired policeman, who gets back to work to hunt androids (called "Replicants"). Which novel of Dick's is this masterpiece by Ridley Scott based on?

From Quiz Philip K. Dick in the Movies

Answer: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Blade Runner" came out in summer of 1982, a few months after Philip K. Dick's death. It was a true aesthetic masterpiece, and received many awards over time. A more dark and philosophized "Director's Cut" came out ten years later, in 1992.

2. What does Douglas Quail do for a living?

From Quiz We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Answer: Clerk

A construction worker in the film, but a clerk in the story. Lots of Dick's characters are salesmen; that's because he himself used to work in a radio store for a while.

3. What is the name of Rick Deckard's wife?

From Quiz Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Answer: Iran

In the film Deckard is not married, but in the book he is.

4. Paul Verhoeven directed "Total Recall", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. Which of Dick's short stories inspired "Total Recall"?

From Quiz Philip K. Dick in the Movies

Answer: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

Arnold played Douglas Quaid, a worker who had mysterious dreams about Mars. He decided to visit Mars, despite his wife's (played by Sharon Stone) objections. A usual concept in Philip K. Dick's works is implanted/erased memories and man's worries about his true identity.

5. What city is the story set in?

From Quiz We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Answer: Chicago

It's mentioned a few times throughout the story.

6. What sort of animal does Bill Barbour own?

From Quiz Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Answer: a horse

Deckard is jealous of him because not only is his horse real (and not electric), it is also pregnant.

7. Christian Duguay directed "Screamers", starring Peter Weller, based on what Dick short story?

From Quiz Philip K. Dick in the Movies

Answer: Second Variety

The screamers were small robots manufactured to assist humans in a civil war in outer space colonies. They soon evolved and constructed their own personalities. A film with the true feeling of Philip K. Dick work, another one dealing with identity worries.

8. What drug does Rekal, Incorporated, use on its patients?

From Quiz We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Answer: Narkidrine

Narkidrine is the drug, the other choices are also from novels or stories by Philip K Dick. Substance D is from 'A Scanner Darkly', KR-3 is from 'Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said' and the Mood Organ is featured in 'Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?'. Read them, they're all great stories.

9. Steven Spielberg directed Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell in "Minority Report", based on which Dick short story?

From Quiz Philip K. Dick in the Movies

Answer: The Minority Report

Tom Cruise played John Anderton, head of the futuristic "PreCrime" police department. "PreCrime" used advanced technologies, based on reports by three oracles, to arrest future criminals before they commit their crimes. An excellent futuristic thriller by Steven Spielberg.

10. What colour are the receptionist's breasts sprayed?

From Quiz We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Answer: Blue

The memory implant operation goes wrong and Rekal, Incorporated, tries to act like nothing happened and Quail never contacted them. Unfortunately there are a few facts he still remembers, the blue breasts being one of them. Well, you would remember that, wouldn't you?

11. What does Deckard call an android normally?

From Quiz Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Answer: Andy

Not a very difficult question... The word "blade" for android is not used in the book, as it is in the film.

12. Philip K. Dick wrote two collaborative novels, "Deus Irae" and "The Ganymede Takeover". With whom did he, respectively, collaborate?

From Quiz The Fiction of Philip K. Dick

Answer: Roger Zelazny and Ray Nelson

While Dick was greatly respected by his peers, sales of his work never approached those of contemporaries such as Frank Herbert or Isaac Asimov. He was often forced to write at break-neck speed, churning out novels and stories for pulp publication. (Original 'Ace' paperbacks are highly prized by fans and collectors.) One negative aspect of this is that most of his works received scant editorial attention and were printed replete with errors.

13. For what organization did Quail work as a spy?

From Quiz We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Answer: Interplan

Terrapol an Astrocop are both made up names and the Metropolitan Police Force is never mentioned. Interplan is a sort of interplanetary MI5.

14. Which John Woo-directed film was based on Dick's short story of the same name and starred Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman and Aaron Eckhart?

From Quiz Philip K. Dick in the Movies

Answer: Paycheck

Ben Affleck played Michael Jennings, a top class engineer who erased his own memory for security reasons and had trouble to get it back. Another memory-identity-personality game by Philip K. Dick.

15. In which novel would you find Heebs, Pares, Manses, Skitzes, Polys, Ob-Coms, Deps and a telepathic Ganymedean slime mold named Lord Running Clam?

From Quiz The Fiction of Philip K. Dick

Answer: Clans of the Alphane Moon

In this 1964 novel (based on a 1954 short story, "Shell Game") a moon of Alpha Centauri is one big psychiatric hospital. Much as the British sent their 'criminals' to Australia, Earth sent its mentally ill to this Alphane moon. There, they all split off into clans according to their particular form of illness: Pares (paranoiacs), Heebs (hebephrenics; now hebephrenia is usually referred to as Disorganized Schizophrenia), Manses (manics), Skitzes (schizophrenics), Deps (depressives), Ob-Coms (obsessive-compulsives), and Polys (polymorphic schizophrenics). Despite their differences, and in some cases, resentment toward each other, they are forced to unite to combat an invasion by their former home planet, Earth.

16. Richard Linklater directed "A Scanner Darkly", an animated film based on Philip K. Dick's short story with the same name. In what way was this film exceptional?

From Quiz Philip K. Dick in the Movies

Answer: It was first filmed with real actors and then animated over that footage

Another major concept in Philip K. Dick's works was drugs and substances. This dark animated film, starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey, Jr., tells about a future where the majority of the people are addicts of the "Substance D". Keanu Reeves played Bob Arctor, an undercover police officer with orders to infiltrate the addicts in attempt to find the drug suppliers.

17. For which novel did Dick win the Hugo Award in 1963?

From Quiz The Fiction of Philip K. Dick

Answer: The Man in the High Castle

Several of his novels were nominated for 'Hugo' or 'Nebula' Awards, but "The Man in the High Castle" was his only work to receive either. It is concerned with an alternative reality in which the Axis won WWII and America is ruled by Japan. The 'man in the high castle' of the title is an author who writes an 'alternative history' in which the Allies won the war. "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" won a John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975.

18. What is Mercer's first name?

From Quiz Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Answer: Wilbur

Wilbur Mercer, he of Empathy Box fame.

19. Lee Tamahori directed Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel in "Next", loosely based on what Philip K. Dick short story?

From Quiz Philip K. Dick in the Movies

Answer: The Golden Man

Nicolas Cage played a man who had the ability to foresee in a short time in the future. "The Golden Man" was an alien who had the ability to foresee all future possible outcomes of his actions and choose the best one of them.

20. What was the gift the aliens gave Quail?

From Quiz We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Answer: magic invisible destroying rod

They gave it to him in return for his kindness. And for not wiping them out, presumably.

21. What opera is being rehearsed when Deckard goes to find Luba Luft?

From Quiz Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Answer: The Magic Flute

She sings the part of Pamina, and Deckard is very much impressed by her voice.

22. Alan Simon directed "Radio Free Albemuth", based on Dick's short story with the same name. What is the name of the supernatural entity involved in that story?

From Quiz Philip K. Dick in the Movies

Answer: VALIS

VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System) was a supernatural entity based on religious experiences of Philip K. Dick himself. It inspired a trilogy of novels: "The Divine Invasion", "VALIS" and "The Owl in Daylight".

23. Who supposedly wrote the document thanking Quail for saving the Earth?

From Quiz We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Answer: UN Secretary General

Strictly speaking nobody was supposed to know about Quail saving the Earth by helping the aliens, so this piece of proof is somewhat dodgy.

24. What android does J. R. Isidore move in with?

From Quiz Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Answer: Pris Stratton

It was Roy's idea. It didn't last long though; soon after, Pris and the others get retired.

25. Matt Damon stars in "The Adjustment Bureau", based on what Philip K. Dick's short story?

From Quiz Philip K. Dick in the Movies

Answer: Adjustment Team

Matt Damon played Richard Norris, a congressman running for senator. He met a beautiful girl and went after her, breaking his agenda. He discovered then that he was under total surveillance by "The Adjustment Bureau", a group of mysterious people who coordinated his entire life.

26. By the end of the book, how many androids has Rick retired that day?

From Quiz Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Answer: 6

Polokov, Luba, Pris, Roy, Irmgard and Garland.

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