Google Pop Quiz

saturday movie trivia

[incrediBILL]

Name the movie where Googleplex was mentioned before Google even existed.

Bonus points if you can quote the exact phrase ;)

[Key_Master]

The abbreviated name of a very powerful computer in Douglas Adam's book "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

'And are you not,' said Fook leaning anxiously forward, 'a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?' - Douglas Adams, 'The Hitch-Hikers's Guide to the Galaxy', 1979, Pan Books, page 141.

[mcavic]

If you mean googolplex, in Back to the Future III, Doc says "Clara was one in a million... one in a billion! One in googolplex! And now I've lost her for all time."

[incrediBILL]

Good mcavic!

Googolplex in BTF3 but when you hear it today it reminds you more of Googleplex than the number ;)

Close enough for government work in my books as I sure don't remember hearing anything remotely similar in any other movies.

[mcavic]

True, it definitely sounds like a place rather than a number. And incidentally, I've always loved Michael J. Fox's work.

:)

[httpwebwitch]

I've always loved Michael J. Fox's work

Even "Family Ties"?
and "Teen Wolf"?

[Hester]

The word "Google" was used much earlier than many people think. Name the film and year it was first used in!

[2oddSox]

Name the film and year it was first used in!

Would you be thinking of 'Major Google' from 1936?

[mcavic]

Even "Family Ties"?
and "Teen Wolf"?

Family Ties, definitely. And as I recall, Teen Wolf was okay.

[httpwebwitch]

or outside the realm of movies, there's comic strip Barney Google [kingfeatures.com], created in 1919

[Hester]

Would you be thinking of 'Major Google' from 1936?

Sure would! I think it was about Barney Google.