30-Dec-2021 Theme: 'SciFi ecologists'

(1) In what 2009 movie did Sigourney Weaver play an exobiologist called Dr Grace Augustine?

Answer: Avatar.

(2) What 1982 movie, set in Antarctica and based on a 1938 novella, features a biologist called Dr Blair?

Answer: The Thing.

(3) What 1972 movie featured an ecologist called Freeman Lowell, played by Bruce Dern? (bonus: what famous singer featured on the sound track?).

Answer: Silent Running (bonus: Joan Baez).

(4) What nine-book SciFi series (also a TV series) features the biologist Dr Elvi Okoye?

Answer: The Expanse.

(5) What book and movie includes the fictional ecologist Liet Kynes?

Answer: Dune.

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