Alien trivia
Alien Mini Quiz
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
The spaceship in the 1979 film Alien shares its name with what 1904 Joseph Conrad novel about a South American silver miner?
James Cameron continued this literary homage in the sequel Aliens, naming its marine transport ship the Sulaco after the fictional mining town setting of Conrad's Nostromo.
First spoken in the 1986 sequel Aliens, what term for the deadly creature literally translates from Greek as "strange form"?
Derived from the Greek words for "foreign" and "shape," the term xenomorph was never actually used in the original 1979 film, where it was simply called the organism.
Ridley Scott, director of the sci-fi film Alien, captured genuine actor terror by doing what?
During the infamous chestburster scene, the actors knew a creature would appear but were unaware that hidden pumps would violently spray them with fake blood.
The xenomorph, the deadly creature in the film Alien, deters attackers by bleeding fluid that does what?
The highly corrosive acid blood was a clever plot device proposed by concept artist Ron Cobb to explain why the crew could not simply shoot the creature aboard the spaceship.
In the 1979 film Alien, the crew stops trying to sever the facehugger from Kane for what reason?
While pulling the creature causes it to tighten its grip on Kane's throat, cutting it spills highly corrosive blood that rapidly melts through multiple ship decks.