It is up to quizmaster Chris Farnell, who this week Den of Geek weekly quiz. 12 questions about pop culture, each Wednesday at 07:00 ET/12:00 BST. This time: movie monsters!

“Is it permissible to create life?” This is perhaps the oldest question in science fiction, closely followed by “What if that life then ran amok?” and “Perhaps that life is 600 feet tall, has a giant spiky tail and can spit laser beams?” But science fiction also allows us to ask more important questions, such as “Who is the real monster? Is it actually man?”

And the answer is no, it’s this giant killer octopus that’s a cyborg and is terrorizing downtown Tokyo. Can someone please stop him?!

You will find many more questions about science fiction and monsters in the upcoming The Ultimate Sci-Fi Movie Quiz Book, which contains 1,000 questions about science fiction movies, covering everything from alien planets to time travel to giant monsters. To celebrate, here are 12 questions to test your knowledge of all things that are objectively much more monstrous than humans.