AI Month begins! September has five Fridays, so this month will be five V11llain Quizzes long!
We’re going to focus on all the evil Als of the word: Weird Al Yankovic, Al B. Sure, Al Bundy…oh, wait, it’s A.I., not A.L. No offense, Als of the world.
Just as everyone with a hammer sees every problem as a nail, Skynet – with its factory full of time-travelling robot assassins – has yet to find a problem it doesn’t try to solve via time-travelling robot assassins. This has led a series of sci-fi classics, the stardom of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and James Cameron having enough money and clout to sink the Titanic and then make planets of blue people.
How much do you know about Skynet?
SKYNET send a T-800 model of what killer robot back in time to kill Sarah Connor?
A few years later, Skynet sent a more advanced T-1000 model back in time to kill who?
What happened when humans in the 1990s tried to shut down Skynet?
What was the name of the tech company that created Skynet?
Good thing Skynet isn’t real for realizes, right? Keeping that in mind, what’s the name of three unrelated airlines that ran out of Irelnad, Armenia, and Russia?
And what’s the name of a linked series of British militry spy satelittes?
An astronomy collective called “the SkyNet” and the actual Skynet use what identical premise to run a cluster of computed without a single homebase location?
This science-fiction writer was added as one of the first film’s writers after he sued, saying the plot was very similar to one of his own stories.
Which two actors, both from from The Crown, have voiced Skynet?
Ever after Skynet is successfully stopped, a new AI program calling by this Biblical name takes over, with the same robot-assassin modus operandi?
China has a satellite system called Skynet — what does China use its Skynet for?
ANSWERS BELOW! Are you a true V11LLAIN?
SKYNET send a T-800 model of what killer robot back in time to kill Sarah Connor?
A TERMINATOR
A few years later, it sent a more advanced T-1000 model back in time to kill who?
SARAH’S SON, JOHN CONNOR
What happened when human in the 1990s tried to shut down Skynet?
IT STARTED A NUCLEAR WAR
What was the name of the tech company that created Skynet?
CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS
Good thing Skynet isn’t real for realizes, right? Keeping that in mind, what’s the name of three different airlines that ran out of Irelnad, Armenia, and Russia?
SKY NET
And what’s the name of a linked series of Brisih militry spy satelittes?
SKYNET
An astronomy collective called “the SkyNet” and the actual Skynet used the same premise to run a cluster of computed without a single homebase location?
A DECENTRALIZED NETWORK
This science-fiction writer was added as one of the first film’s writers after he sued, saying the plot was very similar to one of his own stories.
HARLAN ELLSION
Which two actors, both from from The Crown, have voiced Skynet?
HELENA BONHAM CARTER AND MATT SMITH
Ever after Skynet is successfully stopped, a new AI program calling by this Biblical name takes over, with the same robot-assassin modus operandi?
LEGION
China has a satellite system called Skynet — what does China use its Skynet for?
MASS SURVEILLANCE OF ITS CITIZENS