Logan's Run
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40 free Logan's Run trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Logan's Run imagines a future where nobody grows old. Inside a sealed city of pleasure and plenty, a crystal in every citizen's body counts down to Last Day, and those who try to escape their fate are hunted. When one of the hunters is forced to flee himself, the chase leads out of the city and into a world its people were told had died. This quiz covers the story from every side. There are questions on the plot and the rules of the city, the actors and the people behind the camera, the tricks used to put the future on screen in the 1970s, and how critics and awards juries responded. Others turn to the novel that started it all, which differs from the film in surprising ways, to the television series that followed, and to the long line of remakes that stalled. It is written for fans of classic science fiction, whether you saw the film on release, caught it on late-night television or came to it through the book. Start with the story and see how far you can run.
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Q 01In the 1976 film Logan's Run, citizens of the domed city must die on reaching what age?
30
30 is Last Day in the film. The novel set the limit at 21, and the screenwriter raised it so that a wider range of actors could be cast.
Q 02What name does Logan's Run give the public ritual in which citizens float upward hoping to be renewed?
Carrousel
Carrousel, spelt with a double r on screen, is not in the novel: it was invented for the film by a writer who then left the project.
Q 03What title does Logan's Run give the elite hunters, Logan among them, who track down and kill Runners?
Sandmen
Sandmen are formally Deep Sleep Operatives in the novel, where each carries a gun built to destroy itself if anyone but its owner touches it.
Q 04In Logan's Run, the old man whom Logan and Jessica meet outside the city shares his home with which animals?
Cats
Cats fill the old man's home, and he tells his visitors something unheard of in their city: that he knew his own mother and father.
Q 05Which abandoned, overgrown American city do Logan and Jessica find after escaping the domes in Logan's Run?
Washington
Washington stands empty and choked with plants. The pair explore the ruins of its Senate chamber, having been raised to believe the outside world was poisonous.
Q 06Farrah Fawcett, seen briefly in Logan's Run as Holly, became a star later that year in which TV series?
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels began that September, three months after the film opened, and her fast-rising fame earned a small part a prominent credit.
Q 07Which English actor, D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers, plays the title role of Logan 5 in Logan's Run?
Michael York
Michael York was 33 during filming, older than anyone in the story's city is allowed to be, which the script's raised age limit made easier to accept.
Q 08Logan's Run co-author George Clayton Johnson also wrote the story behind which Rat Pack heist film, remade in 2001?
Ocean's 11
Ocean's 11 grew from a heist story he began in the 1950s, and he later wrote the first episode of Star Trek ever broadcast.
Q 09Where on the body does every citizen in Logan's Run carry the crystal life-clock that counts down to Last Day?
The palm
The palm holds the crystal, which the novel calls a palm flower and which changes colour as its owner passes from one stage of life to the next.
Q 10In Logan's Run, a citizen's life-clock crystal starts flashing which colour as Last Day approaches?
Red
Red and flashing means time is almost up. The computer forces Logan's crystal into that state early, taking four years off his life so he can pose as a Runner.
Q 11Which English actress, known for The Railway Children and Walkabout, plays Jessica 6 in the film Logan's Run?
Jenny Agutter
Jenny Agutter was 23 and newly arrived in Hollywood. She later starred in An American Werewolf in London and the BBC's Call the Midwife.
Q 12Which actor, later seen in Dune and Gettysburg, plays Logan's friend turned pursuer Francis 7 in Logan's Run?
Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan stepped in late, after the actor first announced for the part left to appear in Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot.
Q 13Which actor, later the narrator of the film Babe, wore the costume of the robot Box in Logan's Run?
Roscoe Lee Browne
Q 21Which actor, later Gonzo Gates on Trapper John, M.D., played Logan 5 in the 1977 TV series Logan's Run?
Gregory Harrison
Gregory Harrison won the title role over Dirk Benedict, who also auditioned, and went straight on to the miniseries Centennial.
Q 22In the TV series Logan's Run, which android played by Donald Moffat travels with Logan and Jessica?
Rem
Rem was invented for the series: an android the fugitives meet in a city run by robots, whose skills and tools often get them out of trouble.
Q 23In the TV series Logan's Run, who secretly rules the City of Domes and offers Francis a longer life?
A cabal of elders
A cabal of elders was added when the network had the pilot reshot, giving Francis a selfish reason to hunt his friend: a seat among them.
Roscoe Lee Browne was a champion middle-distance runner before he acted, winning two national indoor titles over 1,000 yards.
Q 14In Logan's Run, the robot Box was originally built to capture and freeze what as food for the city?
Marine life
Marine life was Box's intended catch, but he has since frozen every Runner who made it as far as his cave near the surface.
Q 15Which British director of The Dam Busters and Around the World in 80 Days made Logan's Run?
Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson cast his own son in the film as a character called Doc, and the film brought him a Hugo Award nomination.
Q 16Which composer of the Planet of the Apes and Chinatown scores wrote the music for Logan's Run?
Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith kept to strings, keyboards and electronics for scenes inside the city and saved the full orchestra for the world outside.
Q 17George Clayton Johnson wrote the 1967 novel Logan's Run with which author, who later wrote its sequels alone?
William F. Nolan
William F. Nolan followed it with Logan's World and Logan's Search, and co-wrote the pilot episode of the television series.
Q 18In the novel Logan's Run, Sanctuary proves to be an abandoned space colony near which planet?
Mars
Mars is the neighbour of Argos, the colony Logan and Jessica reach by rocket from Florida. In the film, Sanctuary turns out not to exist at all.
Q 19Which American network aired the Logan's Run TV series in 1977 before cancelling it over low ratings?
CBS
CBS commissioned the series after the film proved a hit with young viewers, but only fourteen episodes were made before it was cancelled.
Q 20Heather Menzies, Jessica 6 in the TV series Logan's Run, played one of the children in which classic musical film?
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music cast her at 14 as Louisa von Trapp, and one of her co-stars from that film also auditioned to play Logan.
Q 24Which Star Trek story editor held the same post on the TV series Logan's Run and hired fellow Trek writers?
D. C. Fontana
D. C. Fontana brought in several Star Trek colleagues, and one of them disliked the rewrite of his script so much that he signed it with a pen name.
Q 25The Great Hall of the city in Logan's Run was filmed at the Apparel Mart in which Texas city?
Dallas
Dallas buildings stood in for the future city and saved the producers about $3 million; the water gardens in neighbouring Fort Worth were used too.
Q 26Logan's Run was the first film released with which cinema sound system on its 70 mm prints?
Dolby Stereo
Dolby Stereo reached 70 mm screens with this film, a year before Star Wars persuaded smaller cinemas to install stereo equipment.
Q 27For Logan's interrogation by the computer in Logan's Run, the makers used real examples of which technology?
Holograms
Holograms were judged the most convincing choice for the scene, so producer Saul David asked for a new effect to be created.
Q 28How did the effects crew of Logan's Run make performers rise into the air during the fiery renewal ritual?
Hidden wires
Hidden wires lifted the performers, and the effects artists regarded the sequence as the most difficult in the whole film to stage.
Q 29Logan's Run won six of which prizes for science fiction, fantasy and horror, including the top film honour?
Saturn Awards
Saturn Awards went to the film in six categories, more than any other release of its year, including Best Science Fiction Film.
Q 30Which Chicago Tribune critic gave Logan's Run zero stars and called it the worst major film of the year?
Gene Siskel
Gene Siskel was far harsher than Roger Ebert, who gave the same film three stars and thought it silly but fun.