Alien & UFO Trivia for Kids and Parents: Out-of-This-World Games for Kids

Park Smith

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[00:00:00] All right, and welcome back to Backseat Trivia Rumble. I hope the snacks are open and the volume is up, because we've got a heavyweight battle today. In the backseat, the Moonlight Explorers and the Night Sky Crew. In the front seat, the Blockbuster Alumni and the Rewind Your VHS Rangers. Three rounds, 30 questions.

Drivers, eyes on the road. Kids, eyes on the prize. Let's get ready to rumble with the first kids round. Question one: What do the letters UFO stand for? And the answer is unidentified flying object. Question two: UFOs are often called flying what, [00:01:00] named after a small dish that sits under a teacup And the answer is saucers.

Flying saucers are just lonely. They've been looking for their cup since 1947. Question three: in cartoons, what color are the little men from space usually painted? And the answer is green. Question four. What two wiggly things stick out of the heads of many cartoon aliens?

And the answer is antennae. Question four, what is the name of the galaxy that Earth and our sun are part of? And the answer is the Milky Way. Question six: What do we call the big patterns found flattened into farm fields that some people say aliens made? [00:02:00] And the answer is crop circles. Crop circles prove aliens have great lawn care skills and zero interest in the HOA.

Question seven: In sci-fi movies, what do alien ships use to pull people up into the sky with a glowing light?

And the answer is a tractor beam. Question eight, in old cartoons, aliens land and say, "Take me to your," what?

And the answer is leader. Question nine. What do we call the streak of light we see when a small space rock burns up in our sky?

And the answer is a meteor. Question 10. What planet is famous for the giant beautiful rings around it? And the answer [00:03:00] is Saturn.

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All right, parents, are you ready for round two? Today we're beaming back to the aliens that invaded your TV screens and movie theaters when you were younger. Kids, let's sit back and watch those parents do their work.

Question one: What 1993 Fox series followed FBI agents Mulder and Scully as they investigated unexplained cases?

And the answer is The X-Files. The truth is out there. Unfortunately, so is the TV remote. Question two, what 1996 NBC sitcom starring John Lithgow followed four aliens disguised as a human family in Ohio?

And the answer is Third Rock from the Sun. Question three: What 1999 WB teen drama set in a New Mexico town [00:04:00] followed teenagers who were secretly alien-human hybrids?

And the answer is Roswell. Question four: What 2002 Disney movie features a lonely girl in Hawaii who adopts a blue alien experiment she thinks is a dog?

And the answer is Lilo and Stitch. Question five: What are the alien basketball villains called who steal NBA stars' talent in Space Jam?

And the answer is The Monstars. Question six. What 2001 Nickelodeon cartoon follows a green alien from the planet Irk and his robot sidekick GIR as they try and fail to conquer Earth?

And the answer is Invader Zim. Question seven: [00:05:00] What 1999 comedy follows washed up sci-fi TV actors who get recruited by real aliens who think their show is a documentary?

And the answer is Galaxy Quest. Question eight: What small silver gadget flashes a bright light to erase the memories of people who've seen aliens in the 1997 sci-fi comedy Men in Black?

And the answer is the neuralyzer. Every parent wants a neuralyzer. One flash, and the kids forget they asked for another snack. Question nine: What are the names of the tentacled alien pair who appear in The Simpsons Halloween episodes?

And the answer is Kang and Kodos. Question 10. What 1997 movie stars Jodie Foster as a scientist [00:06:00] who detects a mysterious signal from deep space? And the answer is contact

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We've got two rounds in the books and it's on to the rumble round. This round is a cross-generational mashup of aliens, UFO legends, and space-age pop culture.

First to shout out the answer is the winner. Question one: What small friendly alien from a 1982 movie loves a candy called Reese's Pieces and wants to phone home?

And the answer is ET. Question two: What is the real name of the tiny green creature fans call Baby Yoda in The Mandalorian?

And the answer is Grogu. Grogu is 50 years old and still takes naps and eats snacks all day. Honestly, life goals. [00:07:00] Question three: What popular online game has colorful crewmates on a spaceship trying to find the sneaky imposter? And the answer is Among Us. Question four: What invisible protective bubble do sci-fi spaceships turn on to block attacks?

And the answer is a force field. Question five: What crunchy freeze-dried dessert is sold in space museum gift shops? And the answer is astronaut ice cream. Question six, in silly cartoons, what shiny kitchen wrap do people use to make hats that supposedly block alien mind reading?

And the answer is aluminum foil. Question seven, what shape-shifting alien robots [00:08:00] like Optimus Prime turn into cars and trucks?

And the answer is The Transformers. Question eight: What do we call the giant alien ship that hovers over a city and carries a fleet of smaller ships?

And the answer is the mothership. My minivan is basically a mothership. Smaller beings come and go, and everything smells like snacks. Question nine: What do space aliens in movies and cartoons call the humans? And the answer is Earthlings. And the final question, what sci-fi weapon shaped like a toy pistol shoots glowing beams in old alien movies?

And the answer is a ray gun [00:09:00]