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Hello. Here’s a quiz to challenge your knowledge of Nolan’s sci-fi masterpiece, Interstellar. There are 50 questions, each with four possible answers. Only one answer is correct. You can find your results at the end of the quiz.

1. Who is Cooper?
A former military pilot
A former starship pilot
A former NASA pilot
It is not stated in the film
2. What is the anomaly?
Gravitational waves from the 5th dimension
Energetic waves from the 5th dimension
Messages sent by the Lazarus mission
Gravitational waves sent by future Cooper
3. How many people were in the crew of the Endurance?
5
6
3
4
4. Which physics theories is the film based on?
Theory of everything
Relativity and string theory
Quantum mechanics and biology
Thermodynamics and chaos theory
5. What did the "Bulk Beings" put into the black hole?
A cube
A pentagon
A tesseract
A triangle
6. Who is Murph's ghost?
Cooper
Tom
Donald
Doyle
7. What is the 4th dimension?
Space
Gravity
Time
Quantum
8. Who wrote the score for the film?
Hans Zimmer
Ludwig Göransson
Howard Shore
Lalo Schifrin
9. Who is Professor Brand?
A Stanford professor
A NASA scientist
A military engineer
It is not stated
10. What was the Lazarus mission's purpose?
To colonize Mars
To assemble the Endurance in orbit
To rescue previous failed missions
To find a new home for humanity
11. What was the Endurance's main mission?
To relocate people from Earth
To rescue the Lazarus mission
To colonize a new planet
To bring equipment to Dr. Mann
12. Who placed the wormhole near Saturn?
Bulk Beings
Aliens
Mystical gods
The Lazarus crew
13. What did Cooper see inside the tesseract?
Endless strings of light
Murph’s room across all time
His own childhood
The future of humanity
14. What does the gravity equation achieve?
Control over time
Faster-than-light travel
Control over gravity
Decryption of the 5th dimension
15. Why did Dr. Mann betray the mission?
He was betrayed by NASA
Cooper tried to kill him
He had a secret government plan
His ego and survival instinct
16. Why is the Endurance constructed as a ring?
To create artificial gravity
For aerodynamic efficiency
To travel through the wormhole
To survive the black hole's heat
17. Was there actually a Plan A?
Yes, there was
It is left ambiguous
No, there wasn't
The film doesn't mention Plan A
18. What is TARS?
A NASA research robot
A former U.S. Marine Corps robot
A specialized farmer robot
It is not stated
19. Who or what assisted Cooper in docking with the Endurance?
CASE
TARS
CASE and TARS
Dr. Brand
20. Who did Mann kill on his planet?
Doyle
Romilly
Dr. Brand
Cooper
21. Why did humans decide to leave Earth?
Biological blight and suffocation
High levels of radiation
Nuclear war destruction
An asteroid impact
22. Who did the crew lose on Miller's planet?
Romilly
Doyle
Dr. Brand
TARS
23. How many years did they loose on Miller's planet?
22
24
23
21
24. Why did Dr. Brand choose Edmunds' planet?
She trusted his data more
Her father recommended it
It was the closest planet
She was in love with him
25. What was TARS's goal in the Gargantua mission?
To gather quantum data
To help Cooper survive
To send data directly to Murph
TARS did not enter Gargantua
26. Why was Professor Brand unable to solve the equation?
He made a math error
He lacked quantum data
He wasn't the equation's author
The equation is unsolvable
27. What code did Cooper use to send quantum data?
Morse code
English text
Secret military code
Binary code
28. Why did Cooper fall into the black hole?
To travel to Earth faster
Out of scientific curiosity
To reduce the Endurance's weight
He was misled by TARS
29. Where did Dr. Brand establish the colony?
Edmunds' planet
Mann's planet
Miller's planet
Cobb's planet
30. Who solved the gravity equation?
Dr. Brand
Professor Brand
TARS
Murph
31. Why did Professor Brand lie about Plan A?
He wanted to betray humanity
NASA ordered him to lie
To give the crew hope
He didn't actually lie
32. How many people were in the Lazarus mission?
12
11
13
10
33. Where did Cooper fly at the end?
Miller's planet
Edmunds' planet
Mann's planet
Saturn
34. Who is Dr. Mann?
The leader of the Lazarus mission
The chief of NASA
A military pilot
A stowaway on the Endurance
35. What structure did the beings create for Cooper?
A 3D cube
A 2D square
A 4D tesseract
A 5D pentagon
36. According to the school teacher, what event was faked?
The first satellite launch
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The discovery of Miller's planet
The Apollo Moon landing
37. Did Cooper actually "abandon" Murph?
No, he didn't
Yes, he did
It is not stated
No idea
38. What is a tesseract in the film?
A 3D representation of the 4th dimension
A 3D representation of the 5th dimension
A portal to the past
A physical manifestation of gravity
39. Why did Cooper use a gravitational slingshot?
To send Dr. Brand to Mann's planet
To send Dr. Brand to Edmunds' planet
To gather quantum data
To return to Earth immediately
40. What are the "strings" in the tesseract?
Simple visual distortions
Unknown alien technology
Physical manifestations of space
Physical manifestations of time
41. Why did the future beings need Cooper to transmit data?
They didn't have the data
They wanted to test him
They couldn't find a specific moment in time
They could not communicate with Murph
42. How did humanity launch Cooper Station?
They learned to control gravity
They used a massive wormhole
They built it in orbit
The Bulk Beings moved it
43. What created gravity on Cooper Station?
A gravity generator
Centrifugal force from rotation
Bulk Being technology
It used the Moon's gravity
44. Besides gravity, what force can cross dimensions?
Love
Pressure
Friction
Electromagnetism
45. What saved Cooper's life inside the black hole?
He didn't enter the black hole
His advanced spacesuit
The Endurance's shields
The tesseract
46. How did Cooper appear near Saturn?
He flew the Endurance back
He was placed there by the beings
He used his landing pod
He never left the black hole
47. Why did Murph become much older than Cooper?
Time dilation near objects with huge gravitation
Time dilation near objects with little gravitation
In space time runs much slower
Murph was ill
48. How did Cooper find the right moments in the room?
He was instructed by Professor Brand
They were highlighted by the future
He followed his emotional bond
He chose the room snapshots randomly
49. Who was Cooper Station named after?
Cooper himself
His daughter
His son
His grandson
50. On which planet is time dilation the highest?
Miller's planet
Edmunds' planet
Mann's planet
Earth