Original Battlestar Galactica Trivia

Set the Wayback machine to the 1970s. We're heading back to the colonies to revisit that classic sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica. Hey crew, I'm your host Brian Rollins and this is the dorky geeky, nerdy trivia podcast and you heard me right. We're doing the original Battlestar Galactica will have a whole episode on the 2004 reboot in the future. So keep that in mind when you're answering your questions. As always will feature three rounds of 10 questions. Each each round gets a little harder than the last. If you need rules or resources, check out dorky geeky nerdy.com. Be sure to drop us. A note. Say hi, without any further Ado? Let's get flying. The dorky round number one. How many battle stars were there? 12 14, each of the colonies. Number two. What was the name of boxes? Daggett? Muffet. Number three, the show debuted in. What year? 1978. Number four. What Battlestar joined the Galactica for two episodes? Battlestar Pegasus. Number five, the humans fighter ships were called what? Colonial Vipers. Number 6, Starbuck excelled at playing what card game. Pyramid. Number 7. What was the name of the full contact ball game played by the crew of Galactica? Triad. Number 8, who played Commander Adama? Lorne Greene. number 9, who played the rakish Starbuck, Dirk Benedict. Number 10, who was second in command of the Galactica? Colonel tigh. The geeky round. Number one who played the treasonous count Baltar. John calicoes. Number two, Glen A Larson, put elements of what religion into the show. Mormonism. Number 3, Battlestar Galactica was followed up by what series? Galactica 1980. Number four. What famous actor and Dancer had a guest role as Captain Dmitri? Fred Astaire. Number 5, what actor played the Pegasus has Commander Cain. Lloyd Bridges. Number 6, also a Biblical unit of measure. What was the primary currency of the 12 colonies? A cubit. Number seven. What character was initially supposed to die in the pilot? Jane Seymour's character, Serena test audiences, didn't like it. So it was changed so that you would die in the second episode. Number 8, Herbert Jefferson Junior played which Viper pilot. Lieutenant Boomer. Number 9, what Wizard of Oz actor guest starred as a vector in the episode. Greetings from Earth. Ray Bolger, he was the Scarecrow in the 1939 Wizard of Oz. Number 10, who composed the theme music for the show? Stu Phillips. The music would be reused in the reboot as the colonial anthem. We've lost the silence for now, so let's stop for the book of the week. This week we're featuring The Battlestar Galactica, classic Omnibus featuring the crew from the original series. This 312 page comic book lets you relive The Glory Days of 1978. It collects three different story arcs. All-in-one collector's edition. Be sure to check out this or any of our previous books of the week at dorky geeky nerdy.com, / book. and now, back to the show, The nerdy round number one, who voiced, the imperious leader. Patrick McNeil. Number two. How many episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica were there? 21. Number three in the episode hand of God, what real life television broadcast was seen. The Apollo, 11 moon landing. Number for the ragtag fleet consisted of how many ships. 220. Number 5 Battlestar Galactica aired on what network? It and Galactica 80 aired on ABC. Number 6, which actor, also wrote novels based on the series and also wrote and produced a trailer for Battlestar Galactica the second coming. Richard Hatch, who played Apollo? Number 7. What actor? And musician. Played Apollo's, brother Zach Rick Springfield his character died in the Cylon attack on Caprica. Number 8. What was the name of Ed Begley Junior's character? Flight. Sergeant Green Bean. No, I'm not making that up. Number nine. What was the title of the final episode of Battlestar Galactica? The hand of God. Number 10, Galactica 1980 went out with what episode? The return of Starbuck. It was arguably the only good episode of the series. And that's it. Like I said, in the intro will be Cruising Into the 2004 version of the series sometime later. This year, I'm putting out another call for suggestions for future episodes were creeping up on our one-year Mark, and that needs a new season and new topics, speaking of the future, here's your clue for next week. The red Queen's guards, in Alice in Wonderland are made from what Be sure to visit us on our website dorky geeky nerdy.com. We also have a Facebook page Twitter feed and Reddit sub. If you feel like swapping trivia with your fellow listeners, I'm your host. Brian Rollins. Thanks for listening.