{"id":10718,"date":"2011-06-07T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T12:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=10718"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:30:02","slug":"trivia-tuesday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=10718","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)<\/p>\n

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  1. In the novel Dracula<\/i>, what nationality is Abraham Van Helsing?<\/li>\n
  2. 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?<\/li>\n
  3. Which serial killer was also known as Pogo the Clown?<\/li>\n
  4. What was the name of Grandpa Munster’s pet bat?<\/li>\n
  5. “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)?<\/li>\n
  6. Complete the title of this H.P. Lovecraft story: “Herbert West: _______ “<\/li>\n
  7. What was the name of Nick Cave’s band before he formed the Bad Seeds?<\/li>\n
  8. The movie Maximum Overdrive<\/i> was adapted from a Stephen King short story titled “Trucks,” in which machinery comes to life and begins murdering humans. What causes the “possession?”<\/li>\n
  9. What terrible discovery does “Young Goodman Brown” make, in the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne?<\/li>\n
  10. The tradition of carving Jack-o’-lanterns hails from Ireland, but what vegetables were most commonly used before pumpkins became popular?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Answers below the fold)<\/p>\n

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    1. Dutch<\/li>\n
    2. Island of Lost Souls<\/i> (it was adapted from H.G. Wells’ novel The Island of Dr. Moreau<\/i>).<\/li>\n
    3. John Wayne Gacy<\/li>\n
    4. Grandpa’s “mouse with wings” was named Igor (and was a veteran of the Transylvanian Air Force).<\/li>\n
    5. The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/i>, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<\/li>\n
    6. Reanimator<\/li>\n
    7. The Birthday Party<\/li>\n
    8. A comet’s “quantum” tail. (Protip: Any time you need to make something sound vaguely scientific, use “quantum” in the description.)<\/li>\n
    9. His wife and neighbors are all witches.<\/li>\n
    10. Turnips<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10722,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions\/10722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}