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1. This first question deals with the series premier episode of "The Twilight Zone". In the story, "Where is Everybody?", Mike Ferris finds himself in what appears to be a deserted town and can't remember how he got, or for that matter, how he got there. After frantically searching the town he notices the title, "Battle Hymn" on a movie theater marquee, which reminds him that he is in the (U.S.) Air Force. Eventually, he does find out where he was. Do you know where?
2. In "The Twilight Zone" fifth season episode, "Probe 7, Over and Out", actor Richard Basehart plays the role of Col. Adam Cook, an astronaut "millions of miles" from home. His crippled spacecraft crashes on a strange forested planet with gravity and breathable air. He contacted his superior officer back home and learned that they are in a state of all out war, where no one is expected to survive. By a stroke of luck Adam ran into Eve, another humanoid who was also a refugee from a dying planet. Eve gave Adam "seppla" to eat. What is "seppla"?
3. "The Invaders" is the title of a second season episode where a mute woman is being attacked by two robotic looking creatures who have emerged from a flying saucer. Just as the woman beat the creatures back into their spacecraft, it was revealed that the aliens were actually astronauts from the U.S. Air Force. Who was the *bewitched* star who played the part of the woman in this episode?
4. On 30 March 1962, during "The Twilight Zone's" third season, the television audience was presented with the Rod Serling teleplay entitled, "The Little People". Two astronauts, Captain William Fletcher and co-pilot Peter Craig landed their spacecraft on a far off planet for repairs. Like all planets in "The Twilight Zone", this planet's atmosphere and environment was Earth-like and suitable for life.
During an argument about their predicament, Peter stated that he would like to be the one giving the orders. Not long after, Peter claimed to have heard a strange sound; Capt. Fletcher did not.
During the following days, while Capt. Fletcher did repairs on the ship, Peter went on scouting excursions. One time after Peter returned, the Capt. observed that it appeared his co-pilot had not used any water when he was away. When Peter told Capt. Fletcher that he had found potable water, he was accused of holding out on the Captain. Peter then told Capt. Fletcher that he had found something. What did he find?
5. On 19 February 1960, during "The Twilight Zone's" first season, the episode "Elegy" was broadcast for the first time. In this episode four astronauts made an emergency landing on an asteroid in the year 2186. They were surprised to find that the asteroid was very much like their planet Earth. So much so that there was a nice little town that one might find in the mid-western USA. The problem was that all of the people they encountered, including a man fishing, a homely women winning a beauty contest, and a man accepting an election victory, were motionless, like statues. They finally met a kindly gentleman named Wickwire, who explained what kind of asteroid they had landed on. Where in the heavens were they?
6. Our next crew of astronauts to crash land their spacecraft on an Earth-like asteroid in "The Twilight Zone" was a crew of eight. This episode is entitled "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" and premiered on 15 January 1960.
Sadly, only four space mariners survived the landing and another expired shortly thereafter. They had landed in a hot desert and had a limited water supply. Astronauts Corey and Pierson went off to look for more water and supplies, but only Corey returned. The leader, Col. Donlin, discovered that Corey had returned with more water than he had left with. Corey confessed that he had killed Pierson for his water then proceeded to kill Col. Donlin. Corey, the sole survivor, trekked off through the desert making a terrible discovery. What did he find?
7. "The Parallel" is the title of the 14 March 1963 episode of "The Twilight Zone". In this story, astronaut Major Robert Gaines knew that he was returning to Earth, but not until after he lost consciousness in his orbiting spacecraft.
After he returned to his base, everyone referred to him as "Colonel" rather than "Major". Furthermore, nobody seemed to have heard of the man known as "President John F. Kennedy". He soon realized that he had landed where?
8. Returning to the first season of "The Twilight Zone", there was an episode that first aired on 13 November 1959 called "The Lonely". In this story, a convict named Corry had been sentenced to life imprisonment on a desert planet. Four times a year, a spacecraft would come to bring Corry supplies. On one occasion, the supply ship brought him a special gift to help him fight the loneliness. What was this gift?
9. In "The Twilight Zone" episode entitled "Third From the Sun", a scientist named Will Sturka and his co-worker Jerry Riden steal an experimental spacecraft from a military base, where they worked to escape from an impending nuclear war with their families. To where had they escaped?
10. Who was the prolific writer and regular contributor of "The Twilight Zone" who wrote 16 original short stories that were made into "Twilight Zone" episodes such as "And When the Sky was Opened", "Third From the Sun", "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", and more?
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