{"id":8405,"date":"2010-11-13T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:29:08","slug":"trivia-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8405","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)<\/p>\n

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  1. This Hugo Award-winning author is also known for his dark graphic novels, many of which feature Death as a character.<\/li>\n
  2. In Stephen King’s The Stand<\/i>, a U.S. military facility accidentally releases a deadly mutation of what illness?<\/li>\n
  3. What was the name of Wednesday Addams’ favorite pet spider?<\/li>\n
  4. This vampiric demon from Philippine mythology can separate its body into two halves: The upper half flies around on huge bat wings, and the lower half is left standing around, where it is vulnerable to an application of salt or garlic. Name it.<\/li>\n
  5. According to fossil evidence, how long have bats been around?<\/li>\n
  6. What is the only horror movie to have been nominated for 10 Academy Awards?<\/li>\n
  7. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” what is the name of the cat?<\/li>\n
  8. What classic horror movie was originally titled The Babysitter Murders<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  9. What was Boris Karloff’s real name?<\/li>\n
  10. The music video “Thriller” contains a monologue by which horror star?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n
    2. The flu<\/li>\n
    3. Homer<\/li>\n
    4. The creature is called a Manananggal.<\/li>\n
    5. The oldest known bat fossils date from the Eocene, 52.5 million years ago.<\/li>\n
    6. The Exorcist<\/i>. It won two: For Sound, and for Writing Adapted Screenplay<\/li>\n
    7. Pluto<\/li>\n
    8. Halloween<\/i> (A somewhat snappier title)<\/li>\n
    9. William Henry Pratt<\/li>\n
    10. Vincent Price<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.) This Hugo Award-winning author is also known for his dark graphic novels, many of which feature Death as a character. In Stephen King’s The Stand, a U.S. military facility accidentally releases a deadly mutation of what illness? What was the […]<\/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-8405","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\/8405","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=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}