Trivia Tuesday
(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)
- In the novel Dracula, what nationality is Abraham Van Helsing?
- Edward Parker was stranded on a nightmarish island with a mad scientist called Moreau and his tribe of half-beast, half-human creatures, in what 1933 Charles Laughton film?
- Which serial killer was also known as Pogo the Clown?
- What was the name of Grandpa Munster’s pet bat?
- “They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.” This describes what horrible creature (which is also the title of the story it’s from)?
- Complete the title of this H.P. Lovecraft story: “Herbert West: _______ “
- What was the name of Nick Cave’s band before he formed the Bad Seeds?
- The movie Maximum Overdrive was adapted from a Stephen King short story titled “Trucks,” in which machinery comes to life and begins murdering humans. What causes the “possession?”
- What terrible discovery does “Young Goodman Brown” make, in the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
- The tradition of carving Jack-o’-lanterns hails from Ireland, but what vegetables were most commonly used before pumpkins became popular?
(Answers below the fold)
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