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October Sky-Did you even watch the movie?!?!?
October Sky-Did you even watch the movie?!?!?
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Where was the National Science Fair?
Indianapolis
Corpus Christi
West Virginia
Washington DC
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What state where they in?
Virginia
West Virginia
Indiana
Texas
3
What was the name of the first rocket?
USA 1
Star 1
AUK 1
Blast 1
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What was the name of the mining company?
Zinn
Auk
Olga
Snakeroot
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What was the name of the boys High School?
Welch
Minerville
Big Creek
Little Creek
6
What did John Hickam eventually die from?
Heart Attack
Car Crash
Black Lung Disease
Mining Accident
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How did the boys get money to build their rockets?
Took abandoned railroad material
Signed Autographs
Worked in the coal mine
Robbed gas stations
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What is the name of the launch site?
Little NASA
Launchpad Joe
Snakeroot
Cape Coalwood
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What was the name of the Russian satellite in the movie?
Sputnik
Lunar 1
USSR
Moscow 1
10
Who asked Homer to sign her paper?
Mary
Elise
Dorthy
Sheila
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What was Homer's mom's first name?
Shanicka
Meredith
Judith
Elise
12
What was the name of the Principal?
Mr. Rosebrough
Mr. Beeman
Mr. Muller
Mr. Turner
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What is the actor's name that played Homer Hickam?
Jake Gyllenhaal
Chris Pine
Mark Wahlberg
Robert Downey Jr
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What movie did Homer see while at the National Science Fair?
Wolfman meets Frankenstein
Avengers
Apollo 13
Incredible Shrinking Man
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Who's name was written on the last rocket?
Homer's mom
Homer's Teacher
The guy that died in the mine
Homer's Dad
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What really started the fire in the woods?
Discarded cigarette
Aeronautical Flare
An arsonist
Big Foot
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Miss Riley was quoted as saying "Science requires _________
Hard work
History
Practice
Math
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What college did Homer's brother get a scholarship to play football?
Purdue
Indiana University
West Virginia
Virginia
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What year was the movie October Sky released?
2015
1980
1999
2010
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What was the nickname of Homer and the other boys?
The Mad Scientists
The Rocket Boys
The Coal Miners
The Geeks
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What present did Homer's teacher give him?
A rocket building kit
A book about rockets
Amazon Giftcard
An autograph picture
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Homer went on and became a successful engineer for what company?
NASA
Amazon
Ford Motors
Allison Transmission
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What was the name of the main character?
Roy Lee
Homer Hickam
Tony Stark
Chris Owens
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What inspired the boys to start building rockets?
Sputnick
They wanted to impress girls
He learned about space in science class
President Kennedy's Assassination
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How old is Homer Hickam today in real life?
90
17
80
43
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What picture was Homer's mom painting on the kitchen wall?
A desert
A beach
A coal mine
A mountain
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What word did the boys say to show excitement?
Prodigious
Awesome
Yeet
Sheeeeeeee
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Which Rocket boy wears glasses?
Homer
O'Dell
Roy Lee
Quienten
29
Who launched the very last rocket
His dad
Miss Riley
All 4 boys
His mom
30
What was the mining number of the guy that died in the mine?
666
237
732
723
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What college did Homer attend?
Purdue
Virginia Tech
Harvard
MIT
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What was the name of the town?
Minerville
Richmond
Coalwood
Speedway
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How old was Homer in the movie?
12
17
21
8
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Who's hand did Homer shake after he won the Science Fair?
John F. Kennedy
Wernher Von Braun
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldridge
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Homer had to drop out of school and work where?
The coal mine
On the family farm
Janitor at the school
The grocery store
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What happened to the first rocket the boys launched?
It blew up
It damaged the coal mine
It traveled for 3 miles
It disappeared into the sky
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What illness did Homer's teacher have?
Hodgkin's Disease
Heart Attack
Covid-19
Diabetes
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Who died in the mine?
John Hickem
Homer Hickam
Principal Turner
Ike Bykovsky
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When you rearrange the letters in the movie title October Sky you get this phrase?
Boys Rock
Big Rockets
Rocket Boys
Rock N Roll
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What was Homer's Science Teacher's name?
Miss Elise
Miss Riley
Miss Betty
Mr. McConnell