{"id":27291,"date":"2016-03-01T05:34:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T10:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27291"},"modified":"2016-02-23T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:01:34","slug":"trivia-tuesday-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27291","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>‘s Xander perpetually seemed to get involved with women who were actually monsters of some type. In which episode did Xander fall for his first non-human?
    \nA) “Inca Mummy Girl”
    \nB) “Teacher’s Pet”
    \nC) “Witch”
    \nD) “The Zeppo”
    \nE) “Pangs”<\/li>\n
  2. In Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time<\/i>, the protagonists encounter the monstrous IT on this planet (which L’Engle named after a Mayan bat god).<\/li>\n
  3. What is Ron Weasley’s middle name?
    \nA) Fabian
    \nB) Septimus
    \nC) Bilius
    \nD) Marvolo
    \nE) Hugo<\/li>\n
  4. What well-known horror character is first described as “a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere?”<\/li>\n
  5. Penny Dreadful<\/i>‘s lycanthrope Ethan Chandler (played by Josh Hartnett) was recently revealed to have been using a false last name. His real one is:
    \nA) Lupine
    \nB) Romulus
    \nC) Lobo
    \nD) Fenrir
    \nE) Talbot<\/li>\n
  6. In the SF series Firefly<\/i>, the “monsters” are savage, violent, cannibalistic humans whose behavior has been altered by the chemical Pax. What are these creatures called?<\/li>\n
  7. Medieval European miners believed in various underground spirits who inhabited mines and might help (by indicating rich veins of ore) or hinder (by causing cave-ins). Which one of these is NOT a type of mine spirit?
    \nA) Grindylow
    \nB) Bluecap
    \nC) Coblynau
    \nD) Bucca
    \nE) Kobold<\/li>\n
  8. Stephen King’s son Joseph has followed in his father’s footsteps, penning several horror\/dark fantasy novels. What is the pseudonym he uses?<\/li>\n
  9. This powerful witch from Shakespeare’s The Tempest<\/i> was the mother of Caliban.<\/li>\n
  10. Edgar Allan Poe’s sonnet “To Science” was strongly influenced by this poem by John Keats about a serpentine demon who takes the form of a human woman to marry the youth Lycius.
    \nA) Hymn To Apollo<\/i>
    \nB) Ode to Psyche<\/i>
    \nC) Lamia<\/i>
    \nD) Hyperion<\/i>
    \nE) La Belle Dame sans Merci<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. B) “Teacher’s Pet.” Miss French, a substitute teacher, is actually a giant she-mantis.<\/li>\n
    2. Camazotz<\/li>\n
    3. C) Bilius. Bilius Weasley was one of Ron’s uncles.<\/li>\n
    4. Count Dracula<\/li>\n
    5. E) Talbot. (His middle name is Lawrence, which is a shout-out to Universal’s classic The Wolf Man<\/i>; Larry Talbot was the name of Lon Chaney Jr.’s character.)<\/li>\n
    6. Reavers<\/li>\n
    7. A) Grindylow<\/li>\n
    8. Joe Hill<\/li>\n
    9. Sycorax<\/li>\n
    10. C) Lamia<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Xander perpetually seemed to get involved with women who were actually monsters of some type. In which episode did Xander fall for his first non-human? A) “Inca Mummy Girl” B) “Teacher’s Pet” C) “Witch” D) “The Zeppo” E) “Pangs” In Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time, the protagonists encounter […]<\/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-27291","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\/27291","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=27291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27305,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27291\/revisions\/27305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}