Trivia Tuesday
- This song by Siouxsie and the Banshees juxtaposes images of racial disharmony with mundane transactions in a Chinese restaurant.
- “The Two Bottles of Relish” is a short story about an ingenious way to dispose of a corpse…provided you can stomach it. Who wrote this classic tale?
A) Ambrose Bierce
B) John William Polidori
C) Théophile Gautier
D) Lord Dunsany
E) Edgar Allan Poe - Who ate a census-taker’s liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti?
- A candlelit dinner of rancid, moldy food, the stench of which allowed ghosts to “almost taste” it, was the centerpiece of a party which Harry Potter attended for whom?
A) The Bloody Baron
B) Nearly Headless Nick
C) Moaning Myrtle
D) Professor Binns
E) The Grey Lady - Persephone was doomed to spend half the year in the underworld because she ate the seeds of what fruit?
- This cheese-tastic 80s comedy/horror movie involves a man discovering a sweet, addictive substance bubbling out of the ground and marketing it as an ice cream substitute. Sadly, it’s actually a parasitic organism which eats its victims from the inside out.
A) It’s Alive
B) Bad Taste
C) Love at First Bite
D) Bio Zombie
E) The Stuff - In the movie Se7en, the victim representing the sin of Gluttony is force-fed what dish until his stomach explodes?
- Cannibal! The Musical! is a black comedy loosely based on the story of whom?
A) Alferd Packer
B) The Sawney Bean Clan
C) Liver-Eating Johnson
D) The Donner Party
E) Boone Helm - Stephen King (writing under his Richard Bachman pseudonym) penned this novel about a lawyer cursed by a Gypsy to lose weight no matter how much he eats.
- In the horror comedy Zombieland, the character “Tallahassee” (played by Woody Harrelson) is desperately seeking what junk food?
A) Ho Hos
B) Cheez-Its
C) Twinkies
D) Doritos
E) Zingers
(Answers below the fold)
- Hong Kong Garden
- D) Lord Dunsany
- Hannibal Lecter
- B) Nearly Headless Nick
- Pomegranate
- E) The Stuff
- Spaghetti
- A) Alferd Packer
- Thinner
- C) Twinkies
Posted in Trivia | 7 Comments »
February 3rd, 2015 at 10:38 am
Lowest score ever – 3. I blame the coffee.
February 3rd, 2015 at 6:17 pm
I got six…or 7, if you accept Spaghettios in place of spaghetti for #7…
February 4th, 2015 at 1:49 pm
4 but please tell me the Sawney Bean Clan is a thing.
February 5th, 2015 at 4:50 am
Eight!
Do you have Pot Noodles in the US? (Basically, just-add-water instant noodles that come in a plastic pot.) My brother loved those as a kid, until he saw The Stuff, then couldn’t eat them for years because the tub reminded him of that film!
February 5th, 2015 at 7:15 pm
Hadn’t hear of Two Jars before, so I’ll have to add that to.my reading list.
February 5th, 2015 at 11:29 pm
I got 7. Missed the first two and spaghetti ’cause I missed Se7en.
February 6th, 2015 at 5:07 pm
5! pretty happy with that. :)