Trivia Tuesday
(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)
- In the short story/essay “The Revenant” by Walter de la Mare, the ghost of what author rebukes a modern lecturer who has made disparaging remarks about him?
- The excoriatingly (literally) gruesome films Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula were produced in 1974 by this artist.
- The following line opens chapter one of a well-known dark fantasy novel: “The seller of lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm.” Name the novel.
- In the Star Trek episode “Wolf in the Fold,” what historical villain pays a visit to the Enterprise?
- Warren Zevon’s immaculately-coiffed werewolf was seen drinking a pina colada at this, then popular, chain restaurant. Name this upscale eatery.
- Vincent Price was a renowned master of what cuisine?
A) Chinese
B) Italian
C) Mexican
D) Turkish
E) Romanian - F.W. Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece is thought by many to be the greatest vampire movie of all time. Name the movie.
- “It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.” What story, set in Antarctica, is this description from?
- In The Exorcist, Father Merrin (Max Von Sydow) discovered an evil-looking amulet whilst on an archaeological dig in Iraq. What was the name of the demon that the unholy object represented?
- Tim Powers wrote about Byron, Shelley, Caligari and the vampiric Lamia in this darkly-dripping secret history novel.
A) The Drawing Of The Dark
B) Expiration Date
C) Declare
D) The Stress of Her Regard
E) On Stranger Tides
(Answers below the fold)
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Andy Warhol
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Jack the Ripper
- Trader Vic’s
- A) Chinese
- Nosferatu
- H.P. Lovecraft, “At the Mountains of Madness.” It describes a shoggoth.
- Pazuzu
- D) The Stress of Her Regard
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July 12th, 2011 at 7:47 am
Got all of them but the multiple choice ones. Haha.
July 12th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
holy poop! i got 8 right! (though i got lucky and guessed right on both the multiple choices.) so, i guess i *really* only knew 6. but i’ll take it. :)
July 12th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
I got two right—although I correctly identified the author of #8.
I watched Nosferatu (as well as M) in my German film class—one in a series of classes about awesomely depressing German- stuff. [Including -business, -fairytales, -history, and -novels.] Early 1900s German [insert noun] is worth mining for appropriately Goth awesomeness.
July 12th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
The name Pazuzu has always made me think of a pet nickname bestowed by a heavily accented and doting european grandfather upon a precocious tot with hair ribbons. Now I can concede that a “Pazuzu,” with excessive spoiling, could grow up to be a deamon … but she’d have to change her name. Pazuzu is just too lovable.