CRANIUM QUIZ
(3/22/12)
- How many individual vignettes are contained in 1945's DEAD OF NIGHT?
- What were the names of the colliding planet and the sanctuary planet in WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE?
- James Whale first noticed Boris Karloff during what Universal gangster film?
- Who played the Devil "Mr. Scratch" in ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY?
- Who is credited as the brainchild behind KING KONG?
- What film marked Peter Lorre's American debut?
- What mid-1960s British film was condemned by the Catholic Church because of its title?
- Buddy Hackett struggles to slay a dragon in what storybook fantasy film?
- What was the first Universal picture to be directed by Karl Freund?
- Who played "the Doctor" in THE MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCAS?
- Did Roger Corman produce or direct THE BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE?
- What was the flower sought by Henry Hull in WEREWOLF OF LONDON?
- What 1956 film produced and directed by Jerry Warren features a Yeti?
- Which well known "Poverty Row" studio eventually became Allied Artists?
- What were the three-letter names of the aliens in BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS?
- What was the first issue of Famous Monsters to display a vertical version of the magazine's name to the left of its main logo?
- What was Ingrid Goude, who played Ann in THE KILLER SHREWS, most noted for?
- Which film is generally credited with initiating the atomic-giant monster craze?
- TERROR IS A MAN was re-released under what title?
- Who created the makeup for I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN and I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF?
- What 1957 film starring Sandra Harrison was released in England as BLOOD OF MY HERITAGE?
- The INNOCENTS was based on what Henry James novella?
- What was the first Inner Sanctum film to star Lon Chaney?
- What was the original Czech title for 1963's VOYAGE TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE?
- Which Val Lewton film dealt with devil worship in Greenwich Village?
ANSWERS
1) Six. 2)
Bellus and Zyra. 3) Graft. 4) Walter Huston. 5) Merian C. Cooper. 6) Mad Love. 7) Children of the Damned. 8) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. 9) The Mummy. 10) Les Tremayne. 11) Produced - Monte Hellman directed. 12) The Marifasa Lupina. 13) Man-Beast.
14) Monogram. 15)
Gor and Vol. 16) Issue #33. 17) Miss Universe 1957. 18) The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. 19) Blood Creature. 20) Philip Scheer. 21) Blood of Dracula. 22) Turn of the Screw. 23) Calling Doctor Death. 24) Ikaria XB-1. 25) The Seventh Victim.
(12/27/11)
- Who played the clubfooted puppeteer in 1931's THE MAD GENIUS?
- DIE, MONSTER, DIE is based on which HP Lovecraft short story?
- Which Sherlock Holmes film produced by Universal Studios starred George Zucco?
- What was the original British title for BURN, WITCH, BURN?
- This 1953 film describes a new element which threatens to consume the world's energy.
- The Doc Savage pulps were first published in what year?
- LES YEUX SANS VISAGE was the French title for this 1960 horror film.
- What type of blood does Humphrey Bogart crave in THE RETURN OF DR. X?
- The "Selenites" were creatures which appeared in what film?
- THE SPACE CHILDREN featured what actor from The Addams Family?
- Whose character steals the sacred amulet from Boris Karloff in THE GHOUL?
- He played the more responsible brother in FIRST MAN INTO SPACE.
- True or False. Jacques Tourneur directed both THE CAT PEOPLE and CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE.
- This 1957 Italian film directed by Riccardo Freda was released in the US as THE DEVIL'S COMMANDMENT.
- On what heavenly body did ROCKET SHIP XM originally intend to land?
- Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey star as brother and sister in this version of The Turn of the Screw.
- THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED was adapted from what John Wyndham novel?
- What was the name of Martin Kosleck's character in THE FLESH EATERS?
- Which Roger Corman film was co-billed with his ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS?
- What was the name of Tor Johnson's character in Ed Wood's NIGHT OF THE GHOULS?
- Who wrote the screenplay for THE TROLLENBERG TERROR (aka The Crawling Eye)?
- Maze-A-Tron was one of two Tron video games released on the Intellivision. What was the other title?
- "Cult Queen" Yvette Vickers appeared in just two horror/sci-fi films. Name them.
- Who played Count Zaroff in 1932's THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME?
- This Russian film featured a Wind Demon and a three-headed dragon.
ANSWERS
1) John Barrymore. 2) The Colour Out Of Space. 3) Sherlock Holmes in Washington. 4) Night of the Eagle. 5) The Magnetic Monster. 6) 1933. 7) Eyes Without a Face. 8) O-negative. 9) First Men in the Moon. 10) Jackie Coogan. 11) Ernest Thesiger. 12) Marshall Thompson. 13) False - Curse of the Cat People was directed by Robert Wise. 14) I, Vampiri. 15) The Moon. 16) The Uninvited. 17) The Midwich Cuckoos. 18) Peter Bartell. 19) Not Of This Earth. 20) Lobo. 21) Jimmy Sangster. 22) Tron Deadly Discs. 23) Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman & Attack of the Giant Leeches. 24) Leslie Banks. 25) The Sword and the Dragon.
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