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Shoeless Trivia: Aliens

This is the 51st entry of these I have posted on my personal blog, so I thought 51 ⇒ Area 51 ⇒ Aliens.

  1. What ABC sitcom about aliens living beside humans in the New Jersey suburbs featured characters named Larry Bird, Dick Butkus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee?
  2. Below is the logo for what fictional corporation?
  3. In what Saturday morning cartoon did Gordon Shumway and his friends Skip and Rhonda take the lead roles in fractured versions of classic fairy tales, such as “Rapunzel” in the style of Sunset Boulevard?
  4. What Frenchman, much better remembered for directing such films as The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim, had a major role as a government scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
  5. What is the name of the distributed computing project project in which millions of volunteers worldwide contribute to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by running a program on their computers that analyzes radio signals from space?

[spoiler title=Answers]

  1. The Neighbors
  2. Weyland-Yutani
  3. ALF Tales
  4. François Truffaut
  5. SETI@Home

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