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How do Star Trek viewscreens show perceivable depth?

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How did Obi-Wan know what Darth Vader looked like in Episode IV?

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In “Aliens” when Bishop enters the access tunnel, why does he refuse a pistol?

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Do the Kwikspell courses work?

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Which Sci-Fi work introduced handheld wireless communicator?

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Why hasn't Rita Skeeter registered as an Animagus?

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Why Does Seven of Nine use her Borg designation?

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What was the point of Draco's plan?

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1960's or 1970's TV movie about about a futuristic society seeking pleasure “Who are you engaging tonight?”

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Why were there so many willing accomplices to the Red Wedding?

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Who is the heaviest superhero in the MCU?

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Bad girls at Pleasure Island/Toyland?

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Was Nagini the only snake which could become human?

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What does the Venom symbiote subsist on?

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