Test Your Geekdom
Vol XII: Humanitarians

8 questions and 24 possible points, good luck!

1) This 1991 film, which has very little to do with quiet young sheep, revolves greatly around a humanitarian psychiatrist and his efforts to help a young FBI agent solve a serial killer case.
What was the name of the film?
What was the name of psychiatrist?
What was the name of the actor who played him?

2) The actor in the above case also starred in a 1999 film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, where he plays the lead character and hosts his Emperor for a feast where he displays his baking skills.
What was the shared name of the play, film, and character?
Who played him?
What was the ‘item’ that he baked?

3) This barber, who first appeared in the 1846-47 serial “The String of Pearls: A Romance” was rather well known for the especially close shaves he gave some of his clients before passing them along to his friend, Mrs. Lovett, another innovative baker.
What was the name of the barber?

4) This 1973 Film set in a Dystopian Future famously ends with the character Thorn screaming to crowds about a product, “_______ ________ is people!”
What is the name of the product and film?
Who played Thorn?
What was the name of the 1966 book that inspired the film?

5) This Classic 1961 Sci-Fi Novel revolves around a Martian who founds a religion by routinely telling people “Thou Art God” and regularly referring to dead people as food.
Name of the novel?
Name of the author?
Name of the aforementioned character?

6) In this H.G Wells’ classic, the main character travels to a distant land where he meets two races of people, one who live above ground and one beneath, who have formed a surprisingly symbiotic relationship.
What was the name of the book?
What was the name of the people who lived above ground?
What was the name of the people who lived under ground?

7) In the final book of this fantasy classic, the former White Wizard when asked about the fate of Lotho says, "Buried him, I hope; though Worm has been very hungry lately."
What was the name of the book series?
The Author?
The name of the former White Wizard?
The name of the so-called ‘Worm’?

8) This 2002 TV series by Joss Whedon featured a human faction that was described by one of the characters as, "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing – and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."
What was the name of the group?
Name of the show?
Name of the spaceship most of the series took place on?
Name of the Movie that followed the series?

Previous Quizzes
Vol I: Quotes
Vol II: The Sequel
Vol III: Openers
Vol IV: Name That Toon
Vol V: The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Vol VI: Big Dumb Objects
Vol VII: Apocalypse How
Vol VIII: Time Loop
Vol IX: You Bet Your Life
Vol X: Parodies
Vol XI: Zombie Apocalypse
... and the Scif-FI Circle Quiz