In the Battle of Department of Mysteries, there were more than 12 Death Eaters, why were only 5 Order members (Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Alastor Moody, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Nymphadora Tonks) sent to rescue Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and Gi...

In the picture below the communicators buttons and pattern in the center differ from each other. Was there any direct intent to make them look different although similar from Each other?

Could Frodo have temporarily blinded Sauron by first putting on the One Ring, then to wait for Sauron to zoom in on him, and then to hold up the Phial of Galadriel with his other hand? If this wouldn't have blinded him, I'm sure that the intense light of the Phial of Galadriel probably would ha...

I had this book during the 1980s and early 1990s, so it could be from the 1970s as well. Its a hard back book with several linked stories in it, mainly following one protagonist and his sidekick (one or other of the two may have been called "Walker"). The book was heavily illustrated in the sam...

I read a book series in the early 90's that took place in space. The premise of the first book is a group of 5 or so people on a ship in outer space transporting a prisoner..who can see in the dark. They crash on a planet is all I remember. Second book there was a war between 2 planets and the c...

I saw videotapes of it; it was around 1989, the show seemed to be a regular show on UK TV, possibly BBC. It was some educational program about science, quite short if I remember (20-30min) and the intro featured someone on a swing and some city buildings.. Unfortunately, that's all I remember...

Although Wolverine in 'X-Men (second series) #106, tells Elysia the moral code of the X-Men which reads "The X-Men do not kill", we all know that ever since his appearance in 1974, Wolverine has killed a lot of people. Wolverine is known for his deadly force, which involves, among other things, h...

SciFi horror novel about people who regressed into primitive animals. Two scenes I recall involved a woman jogging, I think on a beach, and she was attacked by “animals”, that turned out to be these regressive forms of humans. The other scene was people in a house, and they had the lights turned ...

If Heimdall had bifrosted Thanos and his goons into a star, the whole problem had been solved. Even if they managed to get out of bifrost beam (similar to that of Thor: Ragnarok), they would have been lost or worse died in the space. Thanos couldn't even come back without Tesseract. Why didn't H...

Watched on TV sometime between 1998 and 2002. Definitely European/American film. There's a female member on the crew. At first they're doing a regular mission, later one by one the crews end up dying/killing each other. The last survivor wrenched something from behind his neck after killing anoth...

The protagonist either taking something or purchasing, to evade detection he used a glove, hoping to hide his fingerprint. He then asked the officer/cashier if the security camera is in color, and getting "well of course" reply, implying his attempt failed, and indeed, his enemy later noticed the...

The bike riding scenes from the new episode of Doctor Who were – I assume – set somewhere in the Peak District, fairly close by to Sheffield. Does anyone know where exactly these scenes were filmed? Thanks!

Partway during Discovery, Michael Burnham gets an object delivered, but The easy answer is 'continuity error ' - but is there another explanation?

In the episode “The Woman Who Fell to Earth”, how did her pants and shoes shrink to fit her but her jacket/coat was still big? I recall when the Dr regenerates the clothes he is wearing is either too big or too small but this time the regeneration shrunk her pants and shoes to fit her perfectly....

In the first season of Blake's Seven (Blakes Seven? Blake's 7? Blakes 7?), the titular seven are: (Roj) Blake (Kerr) Avon Jenna (Stannis) Vila (Restal) (Olag) Gan Cally Zen Apart from Zen and apparently Cally, neither of whom is human, all the characters have two names, but some of them are r...

I read a fanfic a while back that had a snarry pairing I think. It had them in some kind of arranged relationship but Harry had no desire and they later found out that the minister had bound his magic and as a side effect it made him not want sex.

The setting was a largely water world colonized by humans. Since colonization it has been isolated and experienced technological regression. The protagonist is a young woman who works on her own, and lives aboard barge/skiff, transporting goods. Eventually, she finds and helps a man who's inv...

In "The Woman Who Fell to Earth," the Doctor is found on a train after an alien appearance. When she suggests that the creature that fell through the roof of the train (not her) was an alien, Graham says "Don't be daft, there's no such thing as aliens." However, at this point, there have been s...

Mid to late eighties book from uk library. it begins as society is approaching breakdown, a heredity highlands chieftain is visiting the Glencoe Massacre monument and also mentally working out a plan for the future. Society collapses (maybe nuclear war as well but I'm not sure?) and he ends up ...

I remember that the protagonist (average looking white guy) was fighting an ancient sorcerer/magician who looked like a Mongol/Chinese guy and was using hypnosis to control people around him. The magician had a sentient knife which he called "Chimera" and there was a scene where the protagonist ...

Cooper Station is somewhat like a hollow cylinder. Buildings are attached on the surface. It has gravity to hold on buildings and people. If, a person needs to fly in this spot Will the airplane experience two different gravitational field?

Back in 2nd and I think 3rd edition 40K there was a fantastic weapon called a Conversion Beamer. This was a suitably overpowered heavy weapon that could literately transform matter it was targeted at into something different. in the first incarnation I saw I remember tables defining what the effe...

So far I've only found this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_future_in_science_fiction_and_popular_culture but I'm striving for more.

In Doctor Who S11E1, "The Woman Who Fell to Earth", how come the alien spoke English? Most other instances where aliens speak English are explained by saying the TARDIS has an automatic translation circuit, but in the episode Also, in-universe, there was no reason for him to have learned this...

I read this really cool short story in middle school about a heist that gets foiled because the thief unknowingly crosses the international dateline to where it's the day before the crime happened.

I remember watching a back in 2005-2009 where there is a scene in which a guy look at the sky and sees a star falling from to. The star falls from the sky to his hand. The star looked like a Tamarind seed and it penetrates through his hand while hurting him.

Which is the IQ which the NZT 48 was giving to people in Limitless? In the novel is more clear?

In Ant-Man and the Wasp movie, we saw that the Ghost (Ava) could control her matter phasing powers up to an extent (viz. during punching and kicking), it wasn't fully under her control. She often used to involuntarily phase through matter. And, when she first got her powers as a child, she couldn...

I realize it can be quite a speculative subject, but I believe JKR herself had some distinct image of Snape's teaching role in Hogwarts. Evidences seem to be contradictive though. We know Snape became a teacher to be close to Dumbledore, not because he wanted to teach. On the other hand, from t...

I remember an old cartoon, but I cannot find it. I saw it in the 90s on Cartoon Network, but the animation was older. It was like Scooby Doo, but male protagonist was something like werewolf - if he's shown a picture of the moon, he turns into a wolf and when "they" show him a picture of the Sun...

Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit is about the things happenning in Middle Earth, at pre-historic time period, is there any possibilities to exists such a civilization? Can it be Gondwanaland? What they called Middle Earth and the 7 kingdoms.

There was a sci-fi/fantasy book I lost years ago and all I recall about it was that in the last few blank pages at the end of the book there was a small black and white dragon with butterfly wings.

In this question the purpose of the Jedi is discussed but no one mentions their true function in society or the way that their order is funded, since they have access to supplies, technology and have temples all around the galaxy, not to mention that they are associated to the Government through ...

80/90s kids show set in the future, first person perspective so you feel like you’re part of the action. There’s a machine or a shuttle that launches you into space To a station where you get trained for something. There are people in robots walking in the background and the robots look a little ...

Odo doesn't eat and doesn't sleep - he just reverts to his liquid form and stays that way for a few hours. But that surely generates no energy. With that in mind, how does he get the energy that he needs to survive?

At the end of Shrek 2, Dama Fortuna (the Fairy Godmother) says “I told you ogres don’t live happily ever after,” and casts a spell aimed at Shrek. Was it aimed at Fiona too and if it was, would it have turned her back into an ogress?

I was reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and in Chapter 10 - Mayhem at the Ministry - and I was surprised when Ron tells Harry: “Look, here’s the stuff Mum got for you in Diagon Alley. And she’s got some gold out of your vault for you … and she’s washed all your socks.” How can Mo...

Trying to identify a story where an explorer/academian lands on a primitive world and the native witch doctor destroys the shuttle, preventing the explorer from returning to his mothership. He ends up traveling to polar area to regain contact with mothership.

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