{"id":9371,"date":"2011-01-25T07:49:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:29:35","slug":"trivia-tuesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=9371","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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  1. What is the name of the character killed in the famous shower scene in Psycho<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  2. A male priest of the Voodoo religion is called a “houngan.” What is a female priest called?<\/li>\n
  3. Taphephobia<\/i> is a fear of what?<\/li>\n
  4. Chris Sarandon did the “speaking” voice of Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/i>. Who did the “singing” voice?<\/li>\n
  5. In Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman<\/i>, Morpheus is mistakenly captured by a cult that is actually trying to capture who?<\/li>\n
  6. What band is a spinoff of Sisters of Mercy? <\/li>\n
  7. This author wrote of vampire-stricken knights who were, “Pale warriors, death pale were they all.”<\/li>\n
  8. Absinthe is traditionally flavored with what herb?<\/li>\n
  9. From what novel comes this (enormously run-on) sentence? “It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.”<\/li>\n
  10. In Stephen King’s Christine<\/i>, what type of vehicle was Christine?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    <\/p>\n

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    1. Marion Crane<\/li>\n
    2. A mambo<\/li>\n
    3. Being buried alive<\/li>\n
    4. Danny Elfman (who was also responsible for the film’s musical score)<\/li>\n
    5. Death.<\/li>\n
    6. The Mission (released in the US as The Mission UK)<\/li>\n
    7. John Keats (in “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”)<\/li>\n
    8. Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium<\/i> and related species)<\/li>\n
    9. Frankenstein<\/i><\/li>\n
    10. Christine was a 1958 Plymouth Fury<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.) What is the name of the character killed in the famous shower scene in Psycho? A male priest of the Voodoo religion is called a “houngan.” What is a female priest called? Taphephobia is a fear of what? Chris Sarandon […]<\/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-9371","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\/9371","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=9371"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24488,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions\/24488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}