"Battlestar Galactica" 1.01 - "33" Quiz

Answer: thirty-three minutes

The ticking clock is an ominous theme in this episode. We are shown it in and out of Gaius Baltar's dreams and at one point, we are left with nothing but silence and the ticking before the commercial break. Every 33 minutes, the Cylon ships would arrive and the Colonials had to jump to save their lives. As they went on (a total time of over 130 hours), the crews of all the ships gradually became more delayed in their reaction times, and the Cylons got closer to destroying them.

Some of the clocks in this episode had a piece of tape marked with the number "33" placed on them at the proper spot to denote the amount time they had before the Cylons arrived. When they had all jumped, the clocks were set back so that the countdown would begin all over again.

The show's creator, Ron Moore, says that the number "33" was simply a random number that they picked and has no real significance to it.

Answer: Anastasia Dualla

After querying Socinus about the possibility of finding any living family members, Dee was turned away because they didn't have the capability to identify them. She was instead relegated to a small corridor that was converted into Memorial walkway. The walls were literally covered with pictures of loved ones who died during the attacks. The hallway was purposely meant to be reminiscent of similar boards and walls littered with pictures of worried family members during the World Trade Center attacks.

After Dualla stated that she was from Sagittaron, Socinus replied that there were 5,251 people in the fleet from her home planet. It seemed that none of her family members had made it.

Answer: The two erupted into a fit of nervous laughter.

Their laughter was perhaps another effect of them getting little sleep. After the two finished laughing, Apollo handed Starbuck the stims and she swallowed them. Later, when they were in the air and Kara asked Lee why he chose her to fly the first cap, she said, "[is it because] I'm on drugs?" Crashdown then asked everyone else if they felt like they had "ants behind their eyeballs", evidently a side effect from sleep deprivation mixed with the stimulants.

Answer: Dr. Amorak could have possibly exposed Baltar as the one who let the Cylons into the Defense mainframe.

When he heard the name, he popped out of his seat and eagerly forced himself into the conversation going on between Billy and Roslin. He asked to personally handle Dr. Amorak's request. The Six in his head antagonized him during the conversation, yet he was somehow able to keep his cool.

Later in the show, we found out that Dr. Amorak happened to be aboard the Olympic Carrier, a twist of fate that perhaps saved Baltar's life. The Six, who had been attempting to make him see God, forced him to repent for his sins, which he reluctantly does. The result is a seemingly supernatural force guiding Gaius to safety and the Olympic Carrier is ordered destroyed by the president.

Answer: crisis

After days without sleep, the president and her staff have trouble functioning themselves. Although they aren't in Viper cockpits or handling any machinery, they do have to make heavy decisions, and their states make them vulnerable. Crisis after crisis reaches Laura's desk, and more bad news is brought to her attention; Dr. Amorak was onboard the Olympic Carrier.

Answer: Bill Adama

Anastasia Dualla and Felix Gaeta tried to defend the fact that anything could have happened to cause the disappearance of the Olympic Carrier and that it wasn't necessarily the fault of any one person. After Tigh's reprimands, Commander Adama, in his sage-like manner said, "We make mistakes, people die.

There aren't many of us left." After that, the crew goes back to work in silence, determined not to make another mistake that could cost them even more lives.

Answer: dramatic irony

This scene is a prime example of dramatic irony. Only we, as the audience, know that Boomer is actually a Cylon. Starbuck, Boomer, and the rest find the comment humorous, believing that she really has no chance of being one. In actuality, she was a Cylon, making this comment ironic, and since only the viewers know this fact, we have a form of dramatic irony.

Answer: All of these contributed to its destruction.

It was an enormously difficult decision to make, but the Olympic Carrier had to be destroyed. With the ship directed toward the fleet and a radiological alert, the situation made for a risk the fleet couldn't bare. When the Viper and Raptor pilots could not see any passengers in the windows, they finally had come to the decision to destroy the threat.

They could have killed over 1,300 people or those people could have already been compromised by the Cylons and killed. That was the dilemma they faced. The importance of the fleet and preservation of humanity outweighed the possibility that those lives could have been saved, and the fleet moved on.

Answer: A Number Eight

"It's all right, I'm a friend," the Number Six said. After the Six was shot from behind, Helo showed surprise, but then he saw his long-time friend Sharon. She helped him up and they ran from the area, trying to escape any more Cylons that may have come. Unbeknownst to Helo, Sharon was actually a Cylon, and we see a Six and two Centurions walk into the scene hinting that something more than we can understand was going on.

Answer: She added one; a baby was born on the Rising Star.

An emotional Roslin added one after she had continuously subtracted from the head count. The baby boy, who was born on the Rising Star, upped the count to 47,973 survivors. Roslin smiled with a morose happiness.