Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 48 Trivia Quiz

Answer: an invisible electric fence

Nyah warns the residents of the Bonnie Charlie Inn that she has erected a sort of invisible wall around the hostelry and its grounds. This is demonstrated by Professor Hennessy who injures himself by tripping over the invisible barrier and falling into it.

Answer: The Mummy Walks at Midnight

"Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" (1955) is an American-made motion picture. "The Mummy" (1959) is a British film. "The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy" (1959) is a Mexican movie. The first book in the children's series "Kreepy Kids" is titled "The Mummy Walks At Midnight" by Gemma Paul (Red Cape Publishing, 2020).

There is another children's book titled "The Mummy at Midnight" by Steve Brezenoff (Stone Arch Books, 2009). There does not seem to be a motion picture called "The Mummy Walks at Midnight".

Answer: giant shrews

A scientist on an island off the Texas Coast is experimenting with shrews in an attempt to discover the genes responsible for growth and metabolism. His goal is to create miniature animals which would consume fewer of Earth's resources. Unfortunately, one of those experiments works backwards and produces a group of shrews the size of wolves. Even more unfortunately, these giant shrews escape confinement and are breeding on the island in the wild. Coincidentally, these giant shrews have a toxin in their saliva such that, once bitten, the victim always dies.

This is the result of leaving out poisoned bait for the shrews to which they became accustomed. One of the characters says "There are two or three hundred giant shrews out there, monsters weighing between fifty and a hundred pounds!"

Answer: Walter Pidgeon

Dr. Edward Morbius was the philologist on the starship Bellerophon's mission to Altair IV. He, his wife, and daughter were stranded there when an invisible monster killed all of the others on the mission and destroyed the Bellerophon. Noted Canadian-American actor Walter Pidgeon played Morbius in a rare entry into the world of horror and science fiction moviemaking.

Answer: creating an internal nuclear explosion

Magog is dispatched by the NOVAC computer to remove the safety rods from the facility's nuclear reactor, resulting in an explosion. It begins to pull out the rod, thereby creating a chain reaction leading to criticality. Dr. Sheppard intervenes and pushes the rod back into the pile, and disables Magog with a flamethrower. Gog appears, intent on completing his mate's mission, but US Air Force fighters shoot down the phantom aircraft controlling the robot and it stops dead.

Answer: one

Jacques R. Marquette (1915-1999) was a camera operator in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He became a Hollywood cinematographer and founded his own production company in which he frequently hired himself as director of photography (cinematographer).

He co-wrote, co-produced and directed "Teenage Monster" (1958) to be an inexpensive second-feature to "The Brain from Planet Arous" (1957). "Teenage Monster" was the only film he ever directed.

Answer: She is petrifying but survives.

At the Simson family farm, Ginny's parents are found dead, turned to stone. She is in some sort of catatonic state. She is rushed to the California Medical Research Institute in Los Angeles where Dr. Steve Hendricks diagnoses her condition. He opines that fragments of meteoric rock are draining the silicon from her body and turning it to stone.

He administers a silicon solution and Ginny recovers.

Answer: acting

Paul Douglas (1907-1959) was an American actor who worked until the day before he died. He studied drama at Yale University, worked as an announcer on radio, appeared on Broadway, and hosted the 22nd Annual Academy Awards in 1950. He was married five times (which must have been exhausting). Douglas did not appear in horror or science fiction motion pictures other than "The Gamma People" (1956).

He did appear in several episodes of the radio programme "Suspense" in 1951 and 1952.

Answer: Oceania

In the time line of the story, a nuclear war in the middle 1960s destroyed most of the civilisations on the Earth. Out of the survivors, three superpowers emerged: Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia. London was rebuilt as a bomb-proof fortress, in which both the novel and the film are set.

Answer: an ancient curse for desecrating Indian burial grounds

The residents of Pine Ridge think that the gruesome murder of their neighbour Harold Banks is of supernatural causes. A thoroughly inebriated Indian Joe, played by Billy Dix, says there is an Indian curse which condemns those who disturb the Indian burial ground at Devil's Crag. When he says "All white men die," the sheriff runs him out of town. On his way out of town he says, "People who walk on Indian grave die." Later, Joe's bloody body is found hanging from a rafter in his own cabin, a victim of the Giant.