Hi Team.

I’m running the school trivia night next week and I’m running out of steam thinking up questions.

The theme is “Horror” so there’s been a movie round, an art round, music we also borrowed an idea from the ABC and have a “stupid deaths” round in which you have to match people with their method of demise. Did you know that the Greek writer Aeschylus died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head?

Anyway I’d appreciate some help with general knowledge questions on the horrow them. So far we have

In which modern country is Transylvania: Romania
Which country are zombies most associated. Haiti

Only another 8 needed :)

pommiejohn said:

Hi Team.

I’m running the school trivia night next week and I’m running out of steam thinking up questions.

The theme is “Horror” so there’s been a movie round, an art round, music we also borrowed an idea from the ABC and have a “stupid deaths” round in which you have to match people with their method of demise. Did you know that the Greek writer Aeschylus died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head?

Anyway I’d appreciate some help with general knowledge questions on the horrow them. So far we have

In which modern country is Transylvania: Romania
Which country are zombies most associated. Haiti

Only another 8 needed :)

What was right there on my TV?

Peak Warming Man said:

What was right there on my TV?

Am I being thick? Je ne comprends pas.

pommiejohn said:

Peak Warming Man said:

What was right there on my TV?

Am I being thick? Je ne comprends pas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XljmO_KPQaM

Peak Warming Man said:

pommiejohn said:

Peak Warming Man said:

What was right there on my TV?

Am I being thick? Je ne comprends pas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XljmO_KPQaM

Right! That’s going in the music round. Thanks

Maybe a few questions about horrors of nature?

Things like that fungus that attacks ants and makes them climb up to the top of a tree and then grows a spore stem out of their heads. Or parasitic wasps that prey on spiders so their young eat them alive. Worms that infest human eyes. That sort of thing. Don’t know how to frame the question around it, but maybe look up a few of those horrid things. During the answers to the round you could explain the gory details.

party_pants said:

Maybe a few questions about horrors of nature?

Things like that fungus that attacks ants and makes them climb up to the top of a tree and then grows a spore stem out of their heads. Or parasitic wasps that prey on spiders so their young eat them alive. Worms that infest human eyes. That sort of thing. Don’t know how to frame the question around it, but maybe look up a few of those horrid things. During the answers to the round you could explain the gory details.

Perfect. Each round is presented as a powerpoint so there’s a photo to give a clue.

What was the name of Dracula’s sidekick?
Renfield

What was Dracula’s real name?
Vlad, the Impaler (or turn it around – who is Vlad the Impaler better known as?)

Transylvania is a region in which country?
Romania

One thing I have learned is that you need 7 or 8 dead easy questions so everyone thinks they are doing well and a few hard ones to sort out the men from the boys.

Arts said:

What was the name of Dracula’s sidekick?
Renfield

What was Dracula’s real name?
Vlad, the Impaler (or turn it around – who is Vlad the Impaler better known as?)

Transylvania is a region in which country?
Romania

I reckon I’ll use the Vlad one.

Renfield is probably too hard for this crew.

you could probably throw in a give… in three words what is your most horrific experience?

it gives everyone an easy point, but could turn up some funny answers..

eg have three teenagers

etc

pommiejohn said:

One thing I have learned is that you need 7 or 8 dead easy questions so everyone thinks they are doing well and a few hard ones to sort out the men from the boys.

What farming implement does the Grim Reaper carry?

What sunken city does Cthulhu slumber in – R’lyeh

party_pants said:

pommiejohn said:

One thing I have learned is that you need 7 or 8 dead easy questions so everyone thinks they are doing well and a few hard ones to sort out the men from the boys.

What farming implement does the Grim Reaper carry?

And a bonus question which Doctor Who episode had a android disguised as a Grim Reaper

pommiejohn said:

Arts said:

What was the name of Dracula’s sidekick?
Renfield

What was Dracula’s real name?
Vlad, the Impaler (or turn it around – who is Vlad the Impaler better known as?)

Transylvania is a region in which country?
Romania

I reckon I’ll use the Vlad one.

Renfield is probably too hard for this crew.

I thought that Dracula was one of the texts used for English HSC recently. You may be surprised how many actually know these trivial details.

The name Dracula derives from the Romanian word for which mythical creature?

dv said:

The name Dracula derives from the Romanian word for which mythical creature?

Dragon

Which novel had the alternative title “The Modern Prometheus”?

What ten words does Jack Torrance type over and over in the film The Shining?

Is Uranus or Neptune closer to the Sun?

tauto said:

Is Uranus or Neptune closer to the Sun?

That does not, near as I can tell, have a horror element.

dv said:

What ten words does Jack Torrance type over and over in the film The Shining?

no TV and no Beer make homer go something something

dv said:

Which novel had the alternative title “The Modern Prometheus”?

Give me Frank!

FRANK!

Give me an en!

EN!

Give me a stein!

STEIN!

With the initials E.G., on which real life murderer was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre based?

dv said:

With the initials E.G., on which real life murderer was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre based?

it may surprise everyone here that I know this

18. All right, all right, all right: Barnacles have the largest penises in proportion to their body size. A barnacle’s penis can grow up to ten times the size of its body. Awkward.

from here

26 Of The Most Outrageous Penis Facts
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliegerstein/semen-has-5-calories-per-serving-and-25-other-weird-and?utm_term=.wo0A4KYBD#.jy7DnmPKL

Arts said:

dv said:

With the initials E.G., on which real life murderer was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre based?

it may surprise everyone here that I know this

Me too, but a quick look at the thread it doesn’t look like they are accepting answers.

dv said:

With the initials E.G., on which real life murderer was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre based?

Ed Gein.

AwesomeO said:

Arts said:

dv said:

With the initials E.G., on which real life murderer was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre based?

it may surprise everyone here that I know this

Me too, but a quick look at the thread it doesn’t look like they are accepting answers.

Pfft trust witty to try to sweep in and reap the rewards

AwesomeO said:

Arts said:

dv said:

With the initials E.G., on which real life murderer was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre based?

it may surprise everyone here that I know this

Me too, but a quick look at the thread it doesn’t look like they are accepting answers.

I mean there was a plea for questions, not answers.

• That’s going in the music round.

Goodbye Horses

Arts said:

AwesomeO said:

Arts said:

it may surprise everyone here that I know this

Me too, but a quick look at the thread it doesn’t look like they are accepting answers.

Pfft trust witty to try to sweep in and reap the rewards

Don’t hate me ‘cos I’m a playa…

The fear of being buried alive is a relatively common phobia. What is its name?

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

AwesomeO said:

Me too, but a quick look at the thread it doesn’t look like they are accepting answers.

Pfft trust witty to try to sweep in and reap the rewards

Don’t hate me ‘cos I’m a playa…

Well I’m sure we can find several other reasons

You might get some questions from this QI episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9k3roeOj3g

Vlad the Impaler (Rumanian Vlad Tepes, pronounced tsepesh) was also known as Vlad Dracul. There are several differences between the real life Vlad and Stoker’s Dracula, among them the fact that Vlad was a prince, but Dracula was a count, and that Dracula drank the blood of his victims, but Vlad was never accused (in his lifetime, or for several centuries after his death.) Another historical figure in Transylvania’s past, the Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed (aka The Blood Countess,) whose husband was a count and who fought the Turks in the Transylvanian army, is credited with some of the excesses attributed to Dracula, though with differences.

There are many legends about Elizabeth, but the best known is probably of the time a maidservant, who was brushing her (Liz’s) hair, said something that displeased her, so she snatched the brush out of her hand and hit her with it, breaking the skin and causing a few drops of the girl’s blood to land on Liz’s skin. She seemed to see the skin grow younger, so she ordered the girl killed and her blood drained into a bath, in which she bathed. From that time, she would drain the blood of her maidservants into her bath, bathe in it, and stay young. She was also believed, again according to this legend, to have drunk the girls’ blood. Compare this with Dracula drinking his victims’ blood and growing younger.

In reality, while Liz did murder her maidservants, her favourite method of killing them was to strip them naked, push them into the snow, and throw buckets of cold water over them. The Guinness Book of Records names her as the most prolific murderess in history, but there’s no way to confirm the number of her victims: her political enemies claimed the number to be in excess of 650; the lowest estimate is probably around 300. Her castle (Čachtice Castle) is also closer to the site Stoker chose for Castle Dracula.

Name the two actors from the Star Wars series famed for their portrayals of Dracula and Frankenstein

Not suitable for a trivia question but I just found out that Javier Bardem (from Skyfall, Dead Men Tell No Tales) is going to be playing Frankenstein’s monster in the upcoming Universal film.

dv said:

Name the two actors from the Star Wars series famed for their portrayals of Dracula and Frankenstein

Is it Sammy Jackson in ‘Blacula’?

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

Name the two actors from the Star Wars series famed for their portrayals of Dracula and Frankenstein

Is it Sammy Jackson in ‘Blacula’?

You are the weakest link. Goodbye.

dv said:

Not suitable for a trivia question but I just found out that Javier Bardem (from Skyfall, Dead Men Tell No Tales) is going to be playing Frankenstein’s monster in the upcoming Universal film.

I see…. and .. ummmm… how well (or badly) did you take this news?

62 General Knowledge questions and answers on Universe | Space

party_pants said:

dv said:

Not suitable for a trivia question but I just found out that Javier Bardem (from Skyfall, Dead Men Tell No Tales) is going to be playing Frankenstein’s monster in the upcoming Universal film.

I see…. and .. ummmm… how well (or badly) did you take this news?

I took it a solid medium.

Tau.Neutrino said:

62 General Knowledge questions and answers on Universe | Space

I remind Tau Neutrino again that we’ve been asked for trivia questions pertaining to the horror genre.

Thanks for the input everyone. I’ll be using several of your suggestions.

John

• Name the two actors from the Star Wars series famed for their portrayals of Dracula and Frankenstein?

Wasn’t one also the anti Dracula? I.e. Van Helsing?

furious said:

• Name the two actors from the Star Wars series famed for their portrayals of Dracula and Frankenstein?

Wasn’t one also the anti Dracula? I.e. Van Helsing?

yes but that’s quite by the by

dv said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

62 General Knowledge questions and answers on Universe | Space

I remind Tau Neutrino again that we’ve been asked for trivia questions pertaining to the horror genre.

Horror

ok

Arts said:

What was the name of Dracula’s sidekick?
Renfield

What was Dracula’s real name?
Vlad, the Impaler (or turn it around – who is Vlad the Impaler better known as?)

Transylvania is a region in which country?
Romania

Which Australian comic’s mother was born in Transylvania?

In the Movie The Shining (1980) what was Jack Torrance’s Profession before his alcoholism took over?

Which of the following is not based on a Stephen King novel: It, The Thing, The Shawshank Redemption, Pet Sematary, The Shining.

• Which of the following is not based on a Stephen King novel: It, The Thing, The Shawshank Redemption, Pet Sematary, The Shining.

Too easy…

dv said:

Which of the following is not based on a Stephen King novel: It, The Thing, The Shawshank Redemption, Pet Sematary, The Shining.

The Thing based on John W Campbell’s “Who Goes There”, unless I’m mistaken

In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, where is the victim’s body hidden?

dv said:

In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, where is the victim’s body hidden?

Under the floorboards?

(At least in the Warren Comics adaptation)

To what metal are werewolves vulnerable?

dv said:

To what metal are werewolves vulnerable?

Heavy metal.

• Heavy metal.

Death by stereo. No wait, that was vampires…

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

Name the two actors from the Star Wars series famed for their portrayals of Dracula and Frankenstein

Is it Sammy Jackson in ‘Blacula’?

You are the weakest link. Goodbye.

oh, how the mighty fall

Thomas Marvel is an important character in which H.G. Wells novel?

kii said:

Arts said:

What was the name of Dracula’s sidekick?
Renfield

What was Dracula’s real name?
Vlad, the Impaler (or turn it around – who is Vlad the Impaler better known as?)

Transylvania is a region in which country?
Romania

Which Australian comic’s mother was born in Transylvania?

I see. This question is too hard for people to answer.

dv said:

In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, where is the victim’s body hidden?

oh Poe… swoon

kii said:

kii said:

Arts said:

What was the name of Dracula’s sidekick?
Renfield

What was Dracula’s real name?
Vlad, the Impaler (or turn it around – who is Vlad the Impaler better known as?)

Transylvania is a region in which country?
Romania

Which Australian comic’s mother was born in Transylvania?

I see. This question is too hard for people to answer.

oh, there are no answers, we are just asking questions

kii said:

kii said:

Arts said:

What was the name of Dracula’s sidekick?
Renfield

What was Dracula’s real name?
Vlad, the Impaler (or turn it around – who is Vlad the Impaler better known as?)

Transylvania is a region in which country?
Romania

Which Australian comic’s mother was born in Transylvania?

I see. This question is too hard for people to answer.

We’re not here to answer, only give questions.

The appearance of which comic book figure is based upon the eponymous character in the film The Man Who Laughs?

Arts said:

kii said:

kii said:

Which Australian comic’s mother was born in Transylvania?

I see. This question is too hard for people to answer.

oh, there are no answers, we are just asking questions

Yet I see answers under your questions.

kii said:

Arts said:

kii said:

I see. This question is too hard for people to answer.

oh, there are no answers, we are just asking questions

Yet I see answers under your questions.

DV decided that answers are for the weak…. and he’s a game changer

kii said:

Arts said:

kii said:

I see. This question is too hard for people to answer.

oh, there are no answers, we are just asking questions

Yet I see answers under your questions.

George Smilovici is eastern European in ancestry so I’ll go there.

Arts said:

kii said:

Arts said:

oh, there are no answers, we are just asking questions

Yet I see answers under your questions.

DV decided that answers are for the weak…. and he’s a game changer

British Museum

kii said:

Arts said:

kii said:

Yet I see answers under your questions.

DV decided that answers are for the weak…. and he’s a game changer

British Museum

Telemann is the new British Museum

dv said:

kii said:

Arts said:

oh, there are no answers, we are just asking questions

Yet I see answers under your questions.

George Smilovici is eastern European in ancestry so I’ll go there.

You’re correct.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/havana-affair-20101002-161uq.html

I had blanked out a lot of his father’s adventures. Fark….no wonder he was such a surly shit.

dv said:

kii said:

Arts said:

DV decided that answers are for the weak…. and he’s a game changer

British Museum

Telemann is the new British Museum

I know.

Tom Petty is with them.

kii said:

dv said:

kii said:

British Museum

Telemann is the new British Museum

I know.

Tom Petty is with them.

I don’t see how.

This short film, by Edison Studios, is the first film based on Frankenstein.

Frankenstein 1910

dv said:

The appearance of which comic book figure is based upon the eponymous character in the film The Man Who Laughs?

The Joker.

dv said:

kii said:

dv said:

Telemann is the new British Museum

I know.

Tom Petty is with them.

I don’t see how.

IIRC you hadn’t heard of Mr Petty until the other day….?

I may recall this incorrectly as I am still stunned by the British Museum and Georg Telemann incidents.

kii said:

IIRC you hadn’t heard of Mr Petty until the other day….?

You crazy. It was Bubblecar.

BTW here is how Shelley described the monster:

“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. 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. How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.”

dv said:

kii said:

IIRC you hadn’t heard of Mr Petty until the other day….?

You crazy. It was Bubblecar.

I get you two confused.

kii said:

dv said:

kii said:

IIRC you hadn’t heard of Mr Petty until the other day….?

You crazy. It was Bubblecar.

I get you two confused.

Well you are getting on a bit

I think The Ring is the only movie that I’ve seen as an adult that actually gave me the heebiejeebies.

dv said:

I think The Ring is the only movie that I’ve seen as an adult that actually gave me the heebiejeebies.

Oh yeah…

I watched it on son#2’s computer in his teenage bedroom. Location, location, location.

:/

kii said:

dv said:

I think The Ring is the only movie that I’ve seen as an adult that actually gave me the heebiejeebies.

Oh yeah…

I watched it on son#2’s computer in his teenage bedroom. Location, location, location.

:/

I should say the only horror movie.

There’s a seen in Looper that’s prettttty creepy

dv said:

kii said:

dv said:

I think The Ring is the only movie that I’ve seen as an adult that actually gave me the heebiejeebies.

Oh yeah…

I watched it on son#2’s computer in his teenage bedroom. Location, location, location.

:/

I should say the only horror movie.

There’s a seen in Looper that’s prettttty creepy

Ring was the original Japanese film; The Ring was the American remake. Ring was the one that gave me the heebie jeebies, whereas the remake seemed tame (possibly because there were no surprises.)

Which scene in Looper did you find creepy?

The Grudge was another Japanese horror film that had some creepy scenes: a dead boy in a bath whose hair swirled around his victim.

Parasyte was a good two-part Japanese film involving an alien parasite that gets into people’s brains and turns them into psychopathic mutants.

Rec was a good Spanish horror film, too, though its sequels were crap.

btm said:

Parasyte was a good two-part Japanese film involving an alien parasite that gets into people’s brains and turns them into psychopathic mutants.

They’ve made a film about this forum?!

:O

I much preferred The Ring to Ring.

The scene in Looper that creeped me out was what happened to Old Seth.

kii said:

btm said:

Parasyte was a good two-part Japanese film involving an alien parasite that gets into people’s brains and turns them into psychopathic mutants.

They’ve made a film about this forum?!

:O

Probably not. The victims in the film actually had brains to start with.

(:

https://gizmodo.com/turkish-archeologists-think-they-may-have-discovered-th-1819136539?IR=T

Turkish Archeologists Think They May Have Discovered the Grave of ‘Santa Claus’

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Of course, Santa is still alive at the North Pole, which is where Frankenstein’s monster died.

pommiejohn said:

Hi Team.

I’m running the school trivia night next week and I’m running out of steam thinking up questions.

The theme is “Horror” so there’s been a movie round, an art round, music we also borrowed an idea from the ABC and have a “stupid deaths” round in which you have to match people with their method of demise. Did you know that the Greek writer Aeschylus died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head?

Anyway I’d appreciate some help with general knowledge questions on the horrow them. So far we have

In which modern country is Transylvania: Romania
Which country are zombies most associated. Haiti

Only another 8 needed :)

Where Did Seymour Get Audrey 2?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r_2yyY2SO0

> Did you know that the Greek writer Aeschylus died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head?

Everyone knows that.

Don’t know anything about horror. Except in music eg. “horror movie, it’s the nine o’clock news” from Sherbert, and lines from Michael Jackson “thriller”. And various far side cartoons.

Where did head hunters live?
Where did cannibals live? – everywhere.

mollwollfumble said:

> Did you know that the Greek writer Aeschylus died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head?

Everyone knows that.

Don’t know anything about horror. Except in music eg. “horror movie, it’s the nine o’clock news” from *Sherbert, and lines from Michael Jackson “thriller”.

*Skyhooks

btm said:

mollwollfumble said:

> Did you know that the Greek writer Aeschylus died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head?

Everyone knows that.

Don’t know anything about horror. Except in music eg. “horror movie, it’s the nine o’clock news” from *Sherbert, and lines from Michael Jackson “thriller”.

*Skyhooks

and isn’t it six thirty news?