The Horrible Trivia Game

[Gehanna]

Let's play shall we?

The trivia questions can come from horror films, books, urban legends, real life events and etc. so long as the category remains focused on scary, weird or otherwise freaky stuff.

I'll start with a question and who ever is able to come up with the answer gets to ask the next question and so forth.

What if the person who answers gets it wrong, you ask? .. we'll just perform a lobotomy on them while they are awake and strapped down naked to a splintering wooden table in an old shack somewhere. Last I recall, William Haskins had a razor we could use.

- OR -


We could politely point out the error and continue on with the current question. Which reminds me, some of the most polite clients I ever worked with were psychopaths. They were also among the most intelligent although, I never saw any of them play trivia games.

First Question:



What is the name of the 1960's low budget monster movie that became an off-Broadway musical in the early 80's and returned again to the screen in 1986 as a musical, sci-fi, horror film?


Ack!! The theme song from Jeopardy just started in my head and now I'll be hearing it all night...marvelous. :Smack:


Gehanna

[Gehanna]

If an answer is not posted by tomorrow then I'll start giving additional clues until someone answers or tells me to "shad up".

[ScottAJohnson]

LIttle Shop of Horrors...?

[Gehanna]

YES!

I like the 1986 movie. When I get hungry I usually say, "Feed me Seymour! Feeeed Me."

[Spookster]

I love that movie too! When I was, um, 13 I got to see it performed at a dinner theater. Okay, so it's wayyy off broadway, but it was still fun. The bum spilled a soda on my sister during a promotion and we ended up getting free tickets.

So, where's the next question?

[ScottAJohnson]

What low-budget horror director moonlights as a professional wrestler?

[Liam Jackson]

Scott, unless it's Roddy Piper, I'm clueless.

[ScottAJohnson]

Nope, sorry. Not Roddy Piper. But he is one of my favorites!

[ScottAJohnson]

I'll give a hint...He wrestles under the name of "Fabulous" Freddie Valentine.

[Joe Calabrese]

Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses) is into wrestling but I don't know if he does it too.

[Joe Calabrese]

Fred Olan Ray is not a low budget director-- He's a no budget hack.

[Joe Calabrese]

Here's one.

What Director of Slasher Films won the academy award for best short film very early in his/her career?

EXTRA BONUS. What is the title, year and filmmaker of the very first horror film?

[ScottAJohnson]

Fred Olan Ray is not a low budget director-- He's a no budget hack.

You're right...Some would argue on both counts, but he's who I was talking about. Your turn!

[Liam Jackson]

I think the first horror film (a vampire flick) was made in 1896-87. English title was something like: The House of the Devil. (Le Manoir du Diable- original title, if someone cares to translate.) Don't know the name of the director.

[sthrnwriter]

I think the first horror film (a vampire flick) was made in 1896-87. English title was something like: The House of the Devil. (Le Manoir du Diable- original title, if someone cares to translate.) Don't know the name of the director.

It was directed by Georges Mèliès

And Joe on your first question. I'm just guessing..Mario Bava?

[Joe Calabrese]

Liam got the bonus question, but no one has the director question yet.

Another clue.

Two of his most famous horror flicks are being remade and/or sequeled as we speak for release next year.

[DiscoDan]

Tobe Hooper?

[Joe Calabrese]

nope.

Another hint. He's directed a wrestler, a rapper, a Bond mastermind villain and a woman with a famous shower connection.

(I'm practically giving it away now, so you better name these people I am mentioning too.)

[Gehanna]

Alfred Hitchcock? *shrug* lol

ps- I already had a lobotomy, just last week.

[Joe Calabrese]

getting warmer...

[Gehanna]

Anthony Perkins?

[Joe Calabrese]

You're cold.

[Gehanna]

ok just to recap, there are actually a couple of questions to answer as posted by joecalabre and they are:

What Director of Slasher Films won the academy award for best short film very early in his/her career?

Most recent hints:

Two of his most famous horror flicks are being remade and/or sequeled as we speak for release next year.

He's directed a wrestler, a rapper, a Bond mastermind villain and a woman with a famous shower connection.

Additional trivia to answer:

(I'm practically giving it away now, so you better name these people I am mentioning too.)

If I left anything out or made a mistake please correct me.

Thanks,
Gehanna

[three seven]

Hmmm. Tricky. Janet Leigh, LL Cool J and Donald Pleasance have all been directed by Steve Miner, who is undoubtedly a slasher film director, but I can't think of any wrestlers...

[Joe Calabrese]

Donald is right, but Director is not.

Time limit. If there's no correct answer by Thursday noon, the answer will be given and I'll post an easier question for you guys.

Name the Famous (could be considered the father of slasher films) Director who won a short film oscar early in career.

Two of his most famous films are either being remade or a sequel for a 2006 release.

Directed (not in any one film) Donald Pleasance, a wrestler, a woman with a famous shower connection (connection is key word here) and a rapper (you could say an "x" rated one at that).

One more thing. Before James Cameron did it, this director was famous for having affairs (and marrying) those women he worked with.

[Gehanna]

The word Hellraiser just flashed in my head. Ok that was weird. Isn't that a type of toys-r-us toy or somehting like that? ... just googled it. Looks like movies so now I gotta check into all this mess.

Be back later.

Gehanna

[three seven]

That'd be John Carpenter then.

[Joe Calabrese]

For those who don't know http://www.imdb.com , The Internet Movie Database, is the best place to find any info on any film, actor, direct, etc...

[three seven]

No need, I figured it out.

EDIT: Sorry... Ice Cube in Ghosts Of Mars, Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance in Halloween, Oscar for Resurrection of Bronco Billy. Still working on that bloody wrestler though...

[Joe Calabrese]

Give Three Seven a cigar.

John Carpenter won the oscar in 1970 for best short film for The Resurrection of Bronco Billy and we all know created the classic and early slasher film, Halloween, which starred Donald Pleasance.

Oh and a new Halloween is being made as well as a remake for The Fog.

Now it should be easy to name the wrestler, the woman with a shower connection and the "x"rated rapper.

[three seven]

Damn cross-posting!

No need, I figured it out.

EDIT: Sorry... Ice Cube in Ghosts Of Mars, Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance in Halloween, Oscar for Resurrection of Bronco Billy. Still working on that bloody wrestler though...

[Gehanna]

three seven saves the day!!

btw, Hellraiser demons look like Alternative Medicine gone wrong! :scared:

[Joe Calabrese]

Ice Cube stars in XXX 2 (thus the x rated)

The wrestler is a famous one although the film he did with carpenter isn't.

[Joe Calabrese]

Wrestler and Carpenter, They both Live in the US.

[three seven]

Oh, I got it. Rowdy Roddy Piper in They Live.

[Joe Calabrese]

Okay Three. You WIN!

Your turn to ask...

[sthrnwriter]

Oh and a new Halloween is being made as well as a remake for The Fog.


They are making another Halloween movie? This one better be good cuz I think they need to give it up already. I watched The Fog last night. It was pretty good. I liked it. Ok so what's the next question?

[Joe Calabrese]

Three Seven should ask the next question, but I have plenty if he doesn't want to.

[sthrnwriter]

Did everyone just give up or is everyone waiting on someone to ask a question?

[BlueTexas]

I'm ready for a new question, too...

[MacAllister]

Three Seven never came back.


*sniff*

But this thread is too much fun to let it go, so I'm gonna jump in with another question for ya'll. I don't know that much about horror films, so I'm going to retreat to books.

Q: What is The Book of Counted Sorrows?
No Googling....

[Liam Jackson]

Yeah, aim one at the Dean Koontnz fans because they would know he would use that famous book to pull quotes for his stories if such a book existed but since it doesn't he just says he pulls from that famous book for his stories when actually he just makes the whole thing up.

(Do I qualify for inclusion in "Atlanta Nights ll"?

[three seven]

Three Seven never came back.


*sniff*What? Who? Where?

[Liam Jackson]

Three, those sig banners are outstanding. May I ask where the pictures were taken?

[MacAllister]

Liam--you are absolutely correct, and your answer was phrased with impressive eccentricity, as well!

Next question, Sir?

[three seven]

Three, those sig banners are outstanding. May I ask where the pictures were taken?Why thank you sir. They were all taken within five miles of my house, in Thetford Forest.

I'm currently in the middle of building a site to display some of my pictures of the forest, and I'll bore you all with it when I'm done!

[Liam Jackson]

Name the first fiction book to make the NYT besteseller list.

Bonus for the year and author

[Liam Jackson]

Bump.

No guesses to the question?

[BlueTexas]

Bump.

No guesses to the question?

Not without google or a hint :)

[MacAllister]

I know, Kira--I'm stumped too. :) The horrible part is that niggling feeling that the answer is there somewhere in that wasteland I call a brain...I just can't access it.

[BlueTexas]

I keep thinking that if I knew the year, I could figure out the answer.

I hope your brain spits it out where you can reach it soon.

[MacAllister]

My brain has been awfully uncooperative lately. I mean more than usually so...

[Liam Jackson]

<grin> Not only is the answer in your "wasteland", Mac, I've posted it in another forum. Bwwhahahahaha!

hint-1977

[sthrnwriter]

Ok I'm completely stumped. I tried looking it up and somehow found a list of fiction books that were on the NYT best sellers list. The only problem is that the first fiction book that was listed was in 1970 and it was by John Fowles and I don't think that is right so I give up.

[MacAllister]

Ah--I suspect Liam meant the first FANTASY novel to make the NY Times bestseller list--in which case, that would be Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shannara, indeed, in 1977

[Liam Jackson]

Ouch. A gaff on my part, but not in reference to "fiction." The Sword of Shannara was the first fiction work to ever appear on the NYT bestseller "paperback" list. It stayed there for five months. There were earlier fiction works to make the hardcover list. Apologies.

Mac, you're up.

[MacAllister]

How many words did Stephen King put back IN the later, expanded version of "The Stand"?

[Joe Calabrese]

Oh Oh. I know this one.

Around 150,000 words?

I remember when it came out and I said to myself "How am I gonna read all that?"

[MacAllister]

That's the round number, yup! Amazing, that's a whole 'nuther BOOK added in, for chrissakes...

Your question, Joe.

[Joe Calabrese]

Which Horror writer has had more of his/her works made into movies than anyone else? And name atleast five films.

[MacAllister]

I'm pretty sure I know this, but I'll hold off and give everyone else a chance to play, too... :)

[Liam Jackson]

Wes Craven?

I SO wanted to say S. King. (only because naming five of his books-to-movies would have been pretty simple. :) )

[DiscoDan]

Surely it's Stephen King.. he's had more movies based on his books than most people have books written.

[Joe Calabrese]

nope. guess again...

[Gehanna]

Dean Koontz ?

I don't have a clue if this is even remotely close to being the correct answer but I posted it because I have an odd fascination with the last name. :Shrug:

[maestrowork]

I thought it was Stephen King.

Ray Bradbury?

[Joe Calabrese]

nope.

[ScottAJohnson]

I'm going to say Ray Bradburry, with:
Martian Chronicals
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Farenheight 451
The Illustrated Man
The Electric Grandmother...

Not to mention the TV show...

[Gehanna]

Does anyone else but me get the strange feeling that Joe Calabrese is laughing at us with sadistic delight while we make our attempts to answer his questions? :tongue

I feel so vulnerable all of a sudden. ;-)

Jokingly Yours,
Gehanna

[Joe Calabrese]

Ray Bradbury is prolific movie adaptation wise (with almost 40 film adaptations of his work), but who I am thinking of has more than 3 times as many and almost double of Stephen King (with 80).

[three seven]

Er... wouldn't be Bram Stoker, would it? (Did you say most adaptations, or most books adapted?)

[maestrowork]

ooo, three, good one. I didn't think of Dracula...

[Joe Calabrese]

although dracula has been into film many times, the question states :works made into movies: plural. Dracula is but one work.

So to clarify.

Which horror writer has had more films made of a vast number of his/her works than anyone else?

[ScottAJohnson]

<-------- Stumped...
:idea:

[three seven]

I can't think of anyone who's written 150 horror novels, let alone had 150 made into films.

[three seven]

the question states :works made into movies: plural. Dracula is but one work.
I didn't say dracula, I said Bram Stoker, at least three of whose novels have been filmed. Plural. :wag: Mnah.

[maestrowork]

There must be a trick to that question. I can't think of anyone so prolific.... AH! Joe carefully worded his question:

"Which horror writer (he didn't say novelist...) has had more of his/her works (he didn't say novels, or short stories...) made into movies..."


Hitchcock? Nah...

Clive Barker?

[three seven]

Ok, I'll say Edgar Allan Poe then.

[Joe Calabrese]

Nope.

Don't read too much into the question.

A writer of horror (not movies but published works).

Let's say Writer "A" has written 1000 (just a number out of my butt) novels, short stories, novellas, whatever and of those works, let's say 500 (again, just a number out of my butt) were made into films. More than anyone else. Bradbury has had about 40 of his works turned into films and King about 80. This person has much more.

Who is that writer?

[ScottAJohnson]

Hurm...
Richard Matheson?
Hell House
Incredible Shrinking Man
I Am Legend (Omega Man, Last Man on Earth)
Stir of Echoes
What Dreams May Come

Also wrote for Star Trek, Zone, and Thriller...

Maybe?

[three seven]

We understand the question. I'm still saying Poe.

[Joe Calabrese]

OK Three.

Edgar Allen Poe by far has had more of his literary works turned into films than anyone elsee.

149 films to date with "Sileni" currently in production.

Your turn Three.

[maestrowork]

OK Three.

Edgar Allen Poe by far has had more of his literary works turned into films than anyone elsee.

149 films to date with "Sileni" currently in production.

Your turn Three.

Wow, now I can see... what are the five most recent films adapted from Poe's works?

[three seven]

Ok, which (living) horror author links Countess Dracula with Luke Skywalker?

[sthrnwriter]

Anne Rice?

I feel like I know the answer to this question but I can't quite remember exactly who it is.

[three seven]

It's not Anne Rice.

[sthrnwriter]

I didn't think it was her. I guess I'll have to think about this one.

[Gehanna]

By three seven

Ok, which (living) horror author links Countess Dracula with Luke Skywalker?


Joe Calabrese

what? ... It was the first answer that came to mind.


Seriously three seven, I want to know who and how? Not knowing is getting to me. Have mercy will you? :flag:

Gehanna