{"id":11985,"date":"2011-10-04T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11985"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:32:43","slug":"trivia-tuesday-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11985","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. Boris Karloff has portrayed Frankenstein’s monster, the Mummy, and Dr. Fu Manchu. What other actor–who also had a part in some of the Star Wars<\/i> movies–has also played those three roles?<\/li>\n
  2. Created in the wake of Godzilla’s success, Gamera is a giant, fire-breathing what?
    \nA) Octopus
    \nB) Elephant
    \nC) Stegosaurus
    \nD) Turtle
    \nE) Parrot<\/li>\n
  3. What well-known Eurythmics song was covered by Cruxshadows on their “Until the Voices Fade” album?<\/li>\n
  4. In this classic short story by W. W. Jacobs, a couple is given an artifact which grants them three wishes, but each one comes at a terrible cost.<\/li>\n
  5. In the voodoo religion, loas<\/i> are intermediary spirits which are often worshipped in their own right. Which of these is NOT a loa<\/i>?
    \nA) Damballa Weddo
    \nB) Ogou Feray
    \nC) Baron Samedi
    \nD) Oreille Singe
    \nE) Erzulie Fr\u00e9da<\/li>\n
  6. Named for the mythical Mars’ acolytes, Fear and Terror, the moons of Mars are called what?<\/li>\n
  7. Winston Smith met his greatest fear in Room 101. What was it?<\/li>\n
  8. The Blob’s theme song (of course it had a theme song) was written by Hal David and:
    \nA) Warren Zevon
    \nB) Art Garfunkel
    \nC) Don Ho
    \nD) Burt Bacharach
    \nE) Paul Anka<\/li>\n
  9. The drum machine used by The Sisters of Mercy on many of their albums also “runs” an advice column on their Website. What is its name?<\/li>\n
  10. What did Sarah Connor work as before the Terminator arrived from the future?
    \nA) Police Officer
    \nB) Teacher
    \nC) Waitress
    \nD) Secretary
    \nE) Taxi Driver<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    <\/p>\n

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    1. Christopher Lee<\/li>\n
    2. D) Turtle<\/li>\n
    3. “Here Comes the Rain Again”<\/li>\n
    4. “The Monkey’s Paw”<\/li>\n
    5. D) Oreille Singe<\/li>\n
    6. Deimos and Phobos<\/li>\n
    7. Rats. (From Orwell’s 1984<\/i>)<\/li>\n
    8. D) Burt Bacharach. The song’s lyrics, incidentally, are: “Beware of The Blob!\/It creeps, and leaps, and glides and slides\/across the floor, right through the door\/and all around the wall\/A splotch, a blotch\/be careful of The Blob!”<\/li>\n
    9. Doktor Avalanche<\/li>\n
    10. C) Waitress<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.) Boris Karloff has portrayed Frankenstein’s monster, the Mummy, and Dr. Fu Manchu. What other actor–who also had a part in some of the Star Wars movies–has also played those three roles? Created in the wake of Godzilla’s success, Gamera is […]<\/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-11985","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\/11985","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=11985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24489,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions\/24489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}