Science Fiction Trivia Quizzes

The Llama Book Club couldn't agree on which Sci-Fi book would be next on the reading list, so everyone was asked to put forward their suggestions. Can you figure out which books have been recommended?

This is quiz on classic and iconic Science Fiction. There are some interesting bits and bobs of information in the results.

Science fiction novels where something just isn't right.

They're not real but, without robots, "Star Wars" would have lost some of its magic. The following robots have also bought life to their own stories, match them to the author who gave them us.

The pages of science fiction are filled with people who have been unceremoniously yanked elsewhere and elsewhen. Test your knowledge of these ten inadvertent time travelers.

Sometimes the future just isn't all that it was made out to be.

Robots, automata, artificial intelligences. These are staples of science fiction that seem to come into reality more and more as technology advances. Take a look at these works that have brought them to life.

Can you correctly answer questions about popular sci-fi authors?

Many well-loved SF novels were nominated for Hugo Awards, but were beaten by stiff competition. See if you can remember these runners-up, by plot description. Most will be from the sixties and seventies, and some authors will appear more than once.

Here's a walk through a series of science fiction stories where rings play some significant role. Best of luck.

The end of the world is nigh in these stories. Sometimes it's the apocalypse; sometimes it's the end of life as we know it; sometimes its to make space for a hyper-spatial express route.

Speculative science fiction is a type of work which focuses more on a fascinating setting or situation than on characters or plot details. In each question you will be given one of these situations, and must identify the work or author from which it cam

Science fiction takes its readers across galaxies and even universes, but some works stop closer to home. Test your knowledge of ten books and stories where Earth's Moon plays a role.

The aliens have landed, the disease has spread, the bombs have exploded, the climate has changed: any way you slice it, civilization as we know it is not coming back. Let's see how people from the pages of science fiction are coping with the aftermath.

Can you correctly match these futuristic novels with their authors and/or plots?

There's no limit to how far science fiction can take you: other worlds, other galaxies, and even other universes! Come to the stars with me and let's see where we can go.

Can you spot which famous science fiction novel the following first lines are from? (I have used the first "proper" line, not any chapter heading quotes or forewords.)

Another daybreak on a ruined Earth. All the books in this quiz are about the destruction of Earth/the human race.

Answer these ten questions from ten works of fantasy and science fiction that were set in the far future when their authors wrote them.

Sci-fi isn't just Star Wars and Captain Kirk. Sci-fi goes back years, to Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. A lot of things have been written by authors and screenwriters you might not have heard of...or maybe you have!

This is a quiz of science fiction with titles that refer to "dark", one way or another. Match the work with its author.

You liked the first one, so here's more. I'll describe the cover of a science fiction classic. Then you see if you can identify the correct book from the clues on the cover (and believe me, you won't need to have the same edition).

SF & Fantasy novels which, although runners-up to the award winner, were better than, or at least as good as, the book which did win. (Using the advantage of hindsight.) I'll tell you a bit about each one, and who wrote it; you pick out the title.

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is given each year to a speculative fiction novel from the previous year. Though this award was first given in 1953, this quiz will focus on winners from the 21st century, some well-known, some more obscure.

The Rockets big quiz on Sci-Fi literature...enjoy! (submitted by both past and present Rockets that we still hold dear to our hearts!)

Recall how Galileo said that there were four moons around Jupiter? While he wasn't entirely right, the information he provided got us curious enough to do some further research. Hopefully this high level quiz will have a similar result.

I'll describe the cover of a science fiction classic - in one of its editions. See if you can identify the correct book from the clues on the cover. (Believe me, you won't need to have the same edition to know the answer...)

All the sci-fi characters in this quiz appear in human form, even though none of them are actually fully human. How many of them do you recognise?

There is something very satisfying about a good series no matter what the genre. Here are some sci-fi classics to identify.

This is a group of questions about Hugo winners for Best Novel from specific years. I describe the book and you choose the correct title from the choices given.

Take a tour with me through a galaxy of short fiction stars... and identify the correct short story title from the clues I'll give you.

This is a quiz about a bunch of science fiction novels that I like.

'Sometimes a fantasy author has to point out the strangeness of reality.' A quote by Terry Pratchett. All the answers relate to science fiction and fantasy works by various authors.

"He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land"... So goes the song, but how many of these men, and lands, from some weird and wonderful "nowhere worlds" of science fiction do you know?

Boldly going where no-one has gone before, to places where there are definitely no roads! How many of these sci-fi pioneers and alien first contacts do you remember?

How many of these sci-fi tyrants, dictators, and rulers of worlds can you remember?

'Doctor Who - the Five Doctors' was a 'Doctor Who' twenty-year anniversary serial. Terrance Dicks then wrote the novelisation that was released the same year. Warning - contains spoilers.

Some of our favorite characters in science fiction literature will live forever in our hearts. Some have carried on in stories even after their original author passed on. Can you identify the creator of these popular adventurers?

Are you fan of fantasy, science fiction, and horror books? Test your knowledge with this quiz.