{"id":24405,"date":"2015-04-07T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T10:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24405"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:27:02","slug":"trivia-tuesday-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24405","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Although not as famous as Nessie, the lake monster Ogopogo has plenty of fans. The critter allegedly makes its home in Okanagan Lake, in which country?<\/li>\n
  2. In the “Mecha-Streisand” episode of South Park<\/i>, this goth music legend voiced an animated version of himself; he engages the evil Barbra Streisand in a giant robot battle and saves the world from her tyranny.
    \nA) Peter Murphy
    \nB) Andrew Eldritch
    \nC) Robert Smith
    \nD) Nick Cave
    \nE) Ian Curtis<\/li>\n
  3. Armin Shimerman, who played Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>, also played which character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  4. Which of the following locations gained fame as “the most haunted house in England”?
    \nA) Raynham Hall
    \nB) Woodchester Mansion
    \nC) Chillingham Castle
    \nD) Salmesbury Hall
    \nE) Borley Rectory<\/li>\n
  5. What is the license plate of the Ghostbusters’ vehicle?<\/li>\n
  6. The Monster in Young Frankenstein<\/i> was accidentally given an “abby normal” brain instead of the brain belonging to whom?
    \nA) Friedrich W\u00f6hler
    \nB) Hans Delbr\u00fcck
    \nC) Karl Stetter
    \nD) Gottfried Leibniz
    \nE) Julius Pl\u00fccker<\/li>\n
  7. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are War, Famine, Death, and Pestilence. In Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens<\/i> Pestilence retired in 1936, “muttering about penicillin,” and was replaced by whom?<\/li>\n
  8. One of the most famous cases of purported past life regression is that of Virginia Tighe, who claimed to recall a past life as a 19th century Irish woman named what?
    \nA) Mary Reilly
    \nB) Fiona Shaw
    \nC) Nora Barnacle
    \nD) Bridey Murphy
    \nE) Kate O’Brien<\/li>\n
  9. Who lives at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?<\/li>\n
  10. In the novel Dracula<\/i>, which of these vampire-hunters doesn’t survive until the end of the book? (Um, spoiler alert for a 115-year-old novel, I guess.)
    \nA) Jonathan Harker
    \nB) Arthur Holmwood
    \nC) John Seward
    \nD) Abraham Van Helsing
    \nE) Quincey Morris<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Canada<\/li>\n
    2. C) Robert Smith. In a magazine interview, Smith said that his nieces and nephews ere much<\/em> more impressed with his appearance on South Park<\/i> than they were by his fame as a musician.<\/li>\n
    3. Quark, the Ferengi bartender<\/li>\n
    4. E) Borley Rectory<\/li>\n
    5. ECTO-1<\/li>\n
    6. B) Hans Delbr\u00fcck. Incidentally, there was a real-life Hans Delbr\u00fcck, an accomplished military historian whose son Max won a Nobel prize for medicine.<\/li>\n
    7. Pollution<\/li>\n
    8. D) Bridey Murphy<\/li>\n
    9. The Munsters<\/li>\n
    10. E) Quincey Morris. Quincey, one of Lucy’s suitors and the only American of the lot, is mortally wounded by Dracula but manages to stab him through the heart with a Bowie knife before he dies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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