Trivia Tuesday
- This 1987 film was originally supposed to be titled The Hellbound Heart, after the novella it was based upon. When the studio decided that sounded too much like a romance, the author suggested Sadomasochists from Beyond the Grave. They didn’t like that either. What was the movie ultimately called?
- This work, subtitled Prince Galehaut, is a collection of tales supposedly told by a group of people sheltering from the Black Plague.
A) Book of Taliesin
B) The Canterbury Tales
C) Purgatorio
D) Tales of Count Lucanor
E) The Decameron - This “last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world” was a gigantic spider who attacked Frodo Baggins before being repelled by Sam.
- The Hogwarts Flying instructor is Madam _____.
A) Sinistra
B) Hooch
C) Kettleburn
D) Pince
E) Vector - This band, founded by Sean Brennan, takes its name from a seminal 1927 horror movie starring Lon Chaney.
- Although Psycho author Robert Bloch denies deliberately basing Norman Bates on this real-life killer, he has remarked upon being surprised how closely “the imaginary character I’d created resembled the real [person] both in overt act and apparent motivation.” Who was it?
A) David Berkowitz
B) Ted Bundy
C) Dean Corll
D) Ed Gein
E) Peter Sutcliffe - The video game Portal involves navigating puzzles whilst being “aided” and later menaced by an AI named what?
- Which of these is not one of the Pagan Sabbats?
A) Lughnasadh
B) Carmentalia
C) Ostara
D) Mabon
E) Imbolc - In Homer’s Odyssey, the ship finds itself menaced between a horrible monster named Scylla and a whirlpool named this.
- In the movie Alien the (rather unhelpful) ship’s computer is called what?
A) Athena
B) Osgood
C) Mother
D) Lucy
E) Icarus
(Answers below the fold)
- Hellraiser
- E) The Decameron
- Shelob
- B) Hooch
- London After Midnight
- D) Ed Gein
- GLaDOS
- B) Carmentalia
- Charybdis
- C) Mother
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February 4th, 2014 at 12:00 pm
“What’d you do this weekend?”
“I went to see Sadomasochists from Beyond the Grave.”
“Oh! I’ve heard of that! Was it any good?”
6—I think that’s my best score, yet! Although I feel vaguely as though you threw in #7 just to pad my score (not that I’m complaining!).
February 4th, 2014 at 3:24 pm
5 if I am truthful, 6 if I count #9 which I knew but had a senior moment.
February 4th, 2014 at 6:11 pm
7. I think that’s my best score too!
I’m surprised I actually remembered Charybdis. It’s been at least 10 years since I’ve read that section of The Odyssey.