{"id":23842,"date":"2015-02-03T05:46:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T10:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23842"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:27:15","slug":"trivia-tuesday-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23842","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This song by Siouxsie and the Banshees juxtaposes images of racial disharmony with mundane transactions in a Chinese restaurant.<\/li>\n
  2. “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?
    \nA) Ambrose Bierce
    \nB) John William Polidori
    \nC) Th\u00e9ophile Gautier
    \nD) Lord Dunsany
    \nE) Edgar Allan Poe<\/li>\n
  3. Who ate a census-taker’s liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti?<\/li>\n
  4. 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?
    \nA) The Bloody Baron
    \nB) Nearly Headless Nick
    \nC) Moaning Myrtle
    \nD) Professor Binns
    \nE) The Grey Lady<\/li>\n
  5. Persephone was doomed to spend half the year in the underworld because she ate the seeds of what fruit?<\/li>\n
  6. 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.
    \nA) It’s Alive<\/i>
    \nB) Bad Taste<\/i>
    \nC) Love at First Bite<\/i>
    \nD) Bio Zombie<\/i>
    \nE) The Stuff<\/i><\/li>\n
  7. In the movie Se7en<\/i>, the victim representing the sin of Gluttony is force-fed what dish until his stomach explodes?<\/li>\n
  8. Cannibal! The Musical!<\/i> is a black comedy loosely based on the story of whom?
    \nA) Alferd Packer
    \nB) The Sawney Bean Clan
    \nC) Liver-Eating Johnson
    \nD) The Donner Party
    \nE) Boone Helm<\/li>\n
  9. 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.<\/li>\n
  10. In the horror comedy Zombieland<\/i>, the character “Tallahassee” (played by Woody Harrelson) is desperately seeking what junk food?
    \nA) Ho Hos
    \nB) Cheez-Its
    \nC) Twinkies
    \nD) Doritos
    \nE) Zingers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Hong Kong Garden<\/li>\n
    2. D) Lord Dunsany<\/li>\n
    3. Hannibal Lecter<\/li>\n
    4. B) Nearly Headless Nick<\/li>\n
    5. Pomegranate<\/li>\n
    6. E) The Stuff<\/i><\/li>\n
    7. Spaghetti<\/li>\n
    8. A) Alferd Packer<\/li>\n
    9. Thinner<\/i><\/li>\n
    10. C) Twinkies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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