t. 2001: A Space Odyssey Trivia

1. When Dr Heywood Floyd starts his journey to the Moon, he takes a commercial shuttle flight operated by which airline?

From Quiz "My God, It's Full of Stars!"

Answer: Pan American

Pan American, colloquially known as Pan Am, was, for much of the 20th century, the United States' largest international airline, and assumed as position as the country's unofficial flag carrier. Founded in 1927, the airline was operating a fleet of 150 aircraft to 86 different countries by 1968, the year that "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released. At the time, Pan Am had even started taking bookings for passenger flights to the Moon, which chimed with the ideas that director Stanley Kubrick had in his vision of what the world would be like in 2001. However, Pan Am was forced to file for bankruptcy in January 1991, and eventually ceased operations in December the same year. In "2001: A Space Odyssey", Dr Heywood Floyd is the only passenger on a Pan Am Orion III spaceplane that is used to make the flight between Earth and the orbiting Space Station V, which is the stopover point for flights to the Moon.

From Quiz "Space Odyssey": On and Off Screen, Part 2

Answer: In a studio

The landscape images we see behind the apes were images rear projected onto a screen behind the actors.

From Quiz Space Odyssey: On and Off Screen

Answer: Pan Am

If I remember correctly, after the movie was released, some people (probably wealthy) booked reservations with Pan Am for the first commercial flight to the Moon - if and whenever that would be.

From Quiz '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Answer: Dr. Heywood Floyd

From Quiz "My God, It's Full of Stars!"

Answer: Leonard Rossiter

Although Leonard Rossiter's career began in repertory theatre, as was the case with many of his contemporaries, he rapidly established himself as a character actor on screen, making a number of appearances in different films and television shows during the 1960s, before winning the role for which he probably was most famous, that of the lecherous landlord Rigsby in the sitcom "Rising Damp" on ITV, which he had established in the stage play "The Banana Box". While starring in "Rising Damp", Rossiter was also appearing as the title character in the equally successful sitcom "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" for the BBC. Rossiter appeared in one of the few speaking parts in "2001: A Space Odyssey", that of Andrei Smyslov, one of the Soviet scientists returning to Earth from Tchalinko Base on the Moon. It is Smyslov who gently tries to probe and coax an explanation from Floyd as to what the situation is at the American's Clavius Base that has led to it seemingly being put under quarantine.

From Quiz "Space Odyssey": On and Off Screen, Part 2

Answer: 4 million years

This is later heard on the moon bus when the scientists are looking at photos and charts regarding the monolith found on the moon. One of them comments that it was deliberately buried 4 million years ago. This corresponds to the fact that the apes awoke one morning to find the monolith planted in front of them. We make the assumption that the monolith planted on Earth with the apes was put there at the same time the other monolith was buried on the moon.

From Quiz Space Odyssey: On and Off Screen

Answer: The liquid Dr. Floyd is sipping slips back down the straw in a zero gravity environment

By the way, if you said that Dave Bowman could not survive without his helmet, scientists believe that a human could survive a short exposure to the vacuum of space.

From Quiz '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Answer: TMA-1

TMA-1 stands for Tycho Magnetic Annomaly 1. If you didn't know, Tycho is a large crater on the moon.

From Quiz "My God, It's Full of Stars!"

Answer: Clavius

Clavius is a large crater located in the Moon's southern highlands, due south of the much younger crater Tycho. Believed to be the result of an impact during the Nectarine Period, Clavius is one of the Moon's older formations, and is the second largest crater visible on the near side, with a diameter of 231km and a depth of around 3.5km. On the crater's floor are a number of smaller impact craters that move anticlockwise according to size, and which, thanks to their formation of larger to smaller, are often used by amateur astronomers to test the resolution of their telescopes. Clavius was named for Christopher Clavius, a Jesuit priest and mathematician who produced one of the 16th century's most widely accepted astronomy texts. In the film, the American research base at Clavius is the main United States presence on the Moon. One of the largest permanent lunar bases, although it has a significant number of structures on the surface, the majority of it is built underground. The proximity of Clavius to Tycho makes it relatively easy for the Americans to study the strange object that has been excavated at the latter, which is obviously of extraterrestrial origin.

From Quiz Space Odyssey: On and Off Screen

Answer: Destination, nationality, full name

'Moon, American, Floyd, Heywood R.'

From Quiz '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Answer: Jupiter

This is why the Jupiter mission plan is changed to encompass examining the larger monolith in orbit around Jupiter.

From Quiz "My God, It's Full of Stars!"

Answer: Urbana

Urbana is the seat of Champaign County in Illinois. Originally settled by Europeans in 1822, it was originally called Big Grove. The name Urbana was adopted in 1833, when Champaign County was organised - the name came from Urbana, Ohio, the home town of John Vance, the state senator who wrote the Enabling Act that created the county. In 1854, a new town, West Urbana, was developed around the newly built rail depot of the Illinois Central Railroad; the town was renamed Champaign in 1861, and together the two formed the Champaign-Urbana urban area, which, in 1868, became the home of a new state agricultural college that evolved into the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system. In "2001: A Space Odyssey", as a result of the computer's actions in killing Frank Poole and attempting to strand David Bowman in space, Bowman, having effected ingress back aboard the Discovery, proceeds to disconnect HAL's higher functions, which causes HAL to revert to earlier stages of development. Prior to the removal of the final modules, HAL begins reciting his first memory, which came following his activation at the facility in Urbana responsible for his construction, and includes him singing the song "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)".

From Quiz "Space Odyssey": On and Off Screen, Part 2

Answer: Moonwatcher

It is revealed in the credits.

From Quiz Space Odyssey: On and Off Screen

Answer: Hilton and Howard Johnson's

Where was Motel 6? On the neighboring space station??

From Quiz '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Answer: David Bowman

Althought Frank and Dave share the duties on the ship equally, Dave technically outranks him. Dr. Hunter is in hibernation.

From Quiz "My God, It's Full of Stars!"

Answer: Io

A Lagrange point is an area between two orbiting bodies where smaller objects can exist in a state of equilibrium, unaffected by the gravitational pull of either of the celestial bodies. As a result, locating an object at one of the Lagrange points means it will sit in a stable orbit without being pulled towards one or other of the orbiting bodies. A two body system has a total of five Lagrange points - L1 to L3 are in a line through the two bodies, while L4 and L5 sit perpendicular, forming the third line of a triangle connecting the points. The concept is named for Joseph-Louis Lagrange, the French astronomer who discovered the L4 and L5 points, a decade after the first three were discovered. After HAL's disconnection, Discovery finally arrives at Jupiter to discover the two kilometer long monolith that was the target of a signal sent by the first monolith on the Moon. The big monolith is sitting in orbit at one of the Lagrange points between Jupiter and Io, the closest of the planet's four Galilean moons. Bowman leaves Discovery and approaches the monolith, which turns into a gateway, pulling Bowman into an interstellar journey and leaving Discovery adrift in orbit of Io.

From Quiz "Space Odyssey": On and Off Screen, Part 2

Answer: Blue Danube Waltz

No other music would have been more appropriate to play during the graceful dancing of the floating spacecraft we see orbiting the Earth.

From Quiz Space Odyssey: On and Off Screen

Answer: Squirt

I wouldn't even name my dog Squirt!

From Quiz '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Answer: AE-35

'Just a moment. Just a moment. I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit. It will go 100 percent failure within 72 hours.'

From Quiz "Space Odyssey": On and Off Screen, Part 2

Answer: National Council of Astronautics

Although it's never made clear, I'm making an assumption that the National Council of Astronautics replaced NASA somewhere along the way.

From Quiz Space Odyssey: On and Off Screen

Answer: Telephone

If she's talking to him on the telephone, why does she want a telephone? Like Dr. Floyd says, 'We've got lots of telephones.'

From Quiz '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Answer: he's not wearing his space helmet

He opens the door with the claw of his space pod and ejects himself through space into the hatch, all while his helmet is off. He was exposed to the vacuum of space for several seconds before he could close the door.

From Quiz "My God, It's Full of Stars!"

Answer: SAL 9000

The SAL 9000 computer is built as an Earth-bound counterpart to the HAL 9000 computer aboard the Discovery, which is used during the Discovery mission to provide simulation data for the crew aboard the ship to undertake actual tasks during the flight that require the computer. One of these during the mission is to check HAL's reporting of the failure of the Discovery's main communications antenna; the error reported following the simulation using SAL indicates that there is a problem with HAL. With the Soviet mission to Jupiter allowing an opportunity to find out why HAL malfunctioned, SAL is used to simulate the procedures required to reactivate the shipboard computer, as well as to determine if there would be any damage following his deactivation. SAL appears in a single scene in "2010: The Year We Make Contact", alongside Bob Balaban as Dr Chandra, the creator of both computers. SAL appears as a single terminal with a blue optic lens and female voice, as opposed to HAL's red lens and male voice. SAL was voiced by actress Candice Bergen, who was credited in the film as "Olga Mallsnerd".

From Quiz "Space Odyssey": On and Off Screen, Part 2

Answer: Douglas Rain

Rain's voice was used again in the sequel, "2010: The Year We Make Contact".

From Quiz Space Odyssey: On and Off Screen

Answer: Bushbaby

Does anybody know anybody who has a bushbaby? Does anybody even know what a bushbaby is? I think it's a furry little critter of some sort.

From Quiz '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Answer: Urbana, Illinois

His instructor was Mr. Langly...strange because Odyssey 2 says that his creator was Dr. Chandra.

From Quiz "My God, It's Full of Stars!"

Answer: Maxim Brailkovsky

Maxim Brailkovsky, played by Elya Baskin, is possibly the most gregarious and outgoing of the crew members of the Alexei Leonov during the Jupiter mission, and builds a strong relationship with Walter Curnow, stemming from their hazardous EVA to gain control of and reactivate the Discovery. Together, the pair are able to reactivate the American spacecraft and bring it under control from its unstable orbit (which would eventually have led to it crashing onto the surface of Io), allowing Dr Chandra to then come aboard and begin the process of reactivating HAL. Subsequently, Max is despatched to investigate the monolith in a one-man pod, and disappears when the stargate reopens to allow the creature that was David Bowman to return to Earth. Max's fate in the film is different from the original novel, "2010: Odyssey Two", as it is an unmanned pod sent out to investigate the monolith; instead, Max survives to return to Earth with the rest of the crew of the Leonov.

From Quiz "Space Odyssey": On and Off Screen, Part 2

Answer: Best Effects, Special Visual Effects

The movie won for visual effects. It was nominated for, but did not win for, the other three categories listed here.

From Quiz Space Odyssey: On and Off Screen

Answer: One dollar and 70 cents

One dollar and 70 cents? Hey, the movie came out in 1968, not 2001.

From Quiz '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Answer: Pod C

It's the one Bowman used to eject himself into the emergency hatch. It's missing a door.

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