{"id":20794,"date":"2014-02-04T06:26:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20794"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:36:28","slug":"trivia-tuesday-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20794","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This 1987 film was originally supposed to be titled The Hellbound Heart<\/i>, 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<\/i>. They didn’t like that either. What was the movie ultimately called?<\/li>\n
  2. This work, subtitled Prince Galehaut<\/i>, is a collection of tales supposedly told by a group of people sheltering from the Black Plague.
    \nA) Book of Taliesin<\/i>
    \nB) The Canterbury Tales<\/i>
    \nC) Purgatorio<\/i>
    \nD) Tales of Count Lucanor<\/i>
    \nE) The Decameron<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. This “last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world” was a gigantic spider who attacked Frodo Baggins before being repelled by Sam.<\/li>\n
  4. The Hogwarts Flying instructor is Madam _____.
    \nA) Sinistra
    \nB) Hooch
    \nC) Kettleburn
    \nD) Pince
    \nE) Vector<\/li>\n
  5. This band, founded by Sean Brennan, takes its name from a seminal 1927 horror movie starring Lon Chaney.<\/li>\n
  6. Although Psycho<\/i> 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?
    \nA) David Berkowitz
    \nB) Ted Bundy
    \nC) Dean Corll
    \nD) Ed Gein
    \nE) Peter Sutcliffe<\/li>\n
  7. The video game Portal<\/i> involves navigating puzzles whilst being “aided” and later menaced by an AI named what?<\/li>\n
  8. Which of these is not<\/em> one of the Pagan Sabbats?
    \nA) Lughnasadh
    \nB) Carmentalia
    \nC) Ostara
    \nD) Mabon
    \nE) Imbolc<\/li>\n
  9. In Homer’s Odyssey<\/i>, the ship finds itself menaced between a horrible monster named Scylla and a whirlpool named this.<\/li>\n
  10. In the movie Alien<\/i> the (rather unhelpful) ship’s computer is called what?
    \nA) Athena
    \nB) Osgood
    \nC) Mother
    \nD) Lucy
    \nE) Icarus<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Hellraiser<\/i><\/li>\n
    2. E) The Decameron<\/i><\/li>\n
    3. Shelob<\/li>\n
    4. B) Hooch<\/li>\n
    5. London After Midnight<\/li>\n
    6. D) Ed Gein<\/li>\n
    7. GLaDOS<\/li>\n
    8. B) Carmentalia<\/li>\n
    9. Charybdis<\/li>\n
    10. C) Mother<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      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 […]<\/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-20794","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\/20794","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=20794"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20948,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions\/20948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}