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Why are so many people farmers, like Cooper, in the world of "Interstellar"?
they distrust technology
it's easy and fun
the world was running out of food
Nowadays, most farmers in the U.S. have a four-year degrees in agricultural science.
nobody can afford college anymore
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What was Coop's job before he was a farmer?
an engineer and test pilot
Cooper becomes a farmer later, but wants more for his son.
a professor of physics
a bootlegger
a spy
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Which crop is blight destroying as the film opens?
wheat
Corn has become the staple crop.
corn
soy
hops
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What is the name of Cooper's son?
Mark
Fred
Tom
Tom is planning to follow in his father's footsteps and become a farmer.
Joseph Jr.
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Why does Murphy dislike her name?
it's a masculine name
it sounds working-class
it's usually a last name
it reminds her and others of Murphy's Law
Her father tells her that Murphy's Law isn't necessarily bad; it just means that anything that can happen, will happen.
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What do Cooper and his kids find on the way to the parent-teacher conference?
a crashed satellite
a weather station
an Indian Army drone
They drive a truck through a cornfield in chasing it -- a reckless thing to do when food is scarce!
coordinates to a secret base
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Why did Murphy get into trouble at school?
she insisted ghosts are real and she had one at home
she wouldn't agree that the moon landing was faked
The textbooks have been changed to suppress interest in space exploration, which is expensive and resource-intensive.
she hit another student
she stole a teacher's car and crashed it
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Who played Donald, Coop's father-in-law?
Chris Cooper
Bob Hoskins
John Lithgow
Lithgow is the film's window into our age, a time of "six billion people ... all wanting to have it all."
Tom Berenger
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What does Coop realize is causing the phenomena in Murphy's room?
raccoons
ley lines
gravity
There's a little more to it than gravity, though, we learn near the film's end.
the spirit of her mother
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What does the dust in Murph's room create, thanks to gravity?
several bars of music
words
a picture
geographical coordinates in binary code
Coop doesn't want Murph to go with him to the point the coordinates indicate, but she hides in his truck.
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Who plays Dr. Brand the elder (Anne Hathaway's father)?
Michael Caine
Brand was Coop's favorite professor, back in the day.
Jon Voight
Max von Sydow
Stellan Skarsgard
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Plan A is to evacuate Earth en masse. What is Plan B?
evacuate the most talented 1 percent of humanity
take 50,000 human embryos into space to populate a new planet
Survival of the species is the most basic imperative in Darwinian biology.
terraform the planet to be livable again
pray and drink heavily
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What does Coop leave to Tom when he goes into space?
a watch
his truck
Tom will need it if he's going to take over the farm.
heirloom seed
the Indian Army drone
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What does Coop leave to Murphy when he goes into space?
a watch
The watch will be essential to the plot for more than sentimental reasons.
her mother's necklace
a book on astrophysics
nothing
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What is the name of the robot that Coop bonds with most?
CASE
KIPP
TARS
TARS is programmed to be funny, but this depends on your idea of humor.
KITT
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Where in our solar system is the wormhole located?
the asteroid belt
between Mars and Jupiter
near Saturn
The wormhole is a cosmic express lane to another galaxy.
just beyond Pluto
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What is the name of the spaceship they board to go through the wormhole?
the Reliant
the Endurance
This is also the name of the ship Shackleton sailed to Antarctica.
the Aspiration
the Initiative
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What is the name of the black hole that the planets orbit?
Thoth
Gargantua
We'll take the astrophysicists' word for it that it's a good idea to populate a planet near a black hole.
Pantagruel
Sauron
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How many potentially-habitable planets are there?
three
Finding even that many is a stroke of luck.
five
eight
nine
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What is wrong with Dr. Miller's planet?
an ammonia-heavy atmosphere
catastrophic meteor storms
catastrophic wave swells
Dr. Doyle is killed by a wave, and the ship's engines are temporarily waterlogged.
no atmospheric protection from solar radiation
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When Coop, Brand and CASE get back on board, how long has Romilly been waiting for them?
several hours
23 days
23 weeks
23 years
To be exact, he's waited 23 years, four months and eight days.
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Why does Brand want to go to Edmunds' planet next?
it's closer
it has more promise, because it's farther from the black hole
she's in love with Dr. Edmunds
both #2 and #3
Brand says that Edmunds' planet has been more exposed to meteors -- events that stimulate life and biological diversity.
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Who played the treacherous Dr. Mann?
Casey Affleck
Matt Damon
After all, if Damon hadn't been a traitor, we couldn't have had the fistfight-on-a-glacier scene every movie needs!
Viggo Mortenson
Colin Farrell
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How long is a day on Dr. Mann's planet?
16 hours
28 hours
67 hours
"Sixty-seven COLD hours," he says -- these scenes were filmed in Iceland.
five weeks
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What was the name of Tom's first son?
Cooper
Jesse
Tom's wife Lois says 'maybe next time' they can name a son "Cooper," which they do.
Tom Jr.
Donald
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Why does Murph record her first message to her father?
she's finally forgiven him for leaving
Tom's son Jesse has just died
it's her birthday, and she's now as old as him
Before leaving, Coop explained that they might be the same age when he returned from deep space.
Dr. Brand has died
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What does Dr. Brand reveal to Murph on his deathbed?
he loves her more than his daughter Amelia
her father left because he hated farming so much
Plan A -- the rescue of humanity -- was never possible
Part of the answer they need, Dr. Brand says, can only be found inside a black hole.
Plan B -- taking embryos into space -- was never possible
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How does Coop intend to get the low-on-fuel ship to Edmunds' planet?
using fire extinguishers as thrusters
using Gargantua's gravitational pull as a slingshot
jettisoning excess weight, like TARS
both #2 and #3
Coop sends both TARS and himself, in a landing vehicle, into the black hole.
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How does Murph distract Tom while getting his wife and son out of the house?
blowing a hole in the side of the water tower
setting the cornfields on fire
Murph also uses the time to try to communicate with the "ghost" in her old bedroom.
setting the house on fire
stealing his truck
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What does the inside of the tesseract resemble?
heaven
Iowa
a giant, multilevel backside of a bookcase
Coop believes that highly-evolved future humans built the tesseract so Coop could relay essential information to his daughter.
a baroque bedroom with a giant obelisk in it
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What message does Coop send to the child Murphy?
the coordinates to the NASA base
the location of Edmunds' planet
the word "Stay"
It's a neat trick -- when Murphy tells her father this early on, we're meant to believe that she's lying or mistaken, but she isn't.
the words, "I love you."
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What message does he send to the adult Murph via the watch he left her?
that he wants to come back
that Edmunds' planet is the most viable
not to stop working on Plan A
the information necessary to make Plan A work
But wait -- if future humans made the tesseract so Coop could relay the information that made the escape from Earth possible, how did humans escape and evolve to that point in the first place?
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Where does Coop wake up after being ejected from the tesseract?
back on Earth
Edmunds' planet
a space station off Saturn
Murph has succeeded in making mass exodus from Earth possible.
a place implied to be heaven
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What does Murph want her father to do at the film's end?
stay with her
go to the planet where Brand is now living
Hey, it's not like he'd want to stick around a meet all his grandkids, right?
start farming again
meet his grandchildren and great-grandchildren
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Who directed "Interstellar"?
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg
Christopher Nolan
Jonathan Nolan, his brother, was the film's scriptwriter, and involved before his more famous brother.
Jonathan Nolan
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