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Quiz about Zombies
Quiz about Zombies

Zombies! Trivia Quiz


Questions about zombies across all Fun Trivia categories--enjoy! (and aim for the head) For the purposes of this quiz, infected humans and animals count as zombies.

A multiple-choice quiz by john_sunseri. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
john_sunseri
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
319,428
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
20
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
13 / 20
Plays
1754
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 96 (12/20), Guest 73 (15/20), Guest 68 (9/20).
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Question 1 of 20
1. ANIMALS ZOMBIE QUESTION: What breed of zombified dog plays a big role in the movie "Resident Evil" (2002)? Hint


Question 2 of 20
2. BRAIN TEASER ZOMBIE QUESTION: Take the word 'zombie', add the two-letter chemical symbol for lithium, anagram the whole thing and you get a word meaning "to make ready for action" or "to get ready for war" (against the zombie hordes, perhaps?). What is this word?

Answer: (One Word .. American spelling)
Question 3 of 20
3. CELEBRITIES ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which star of "Zombieland" (2009) got into a scuffle with a photographer at La Guardia, and then said "With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie"? Hint


Question 4 of 20
4. ENTERTAINMENT ZOMBIE QUESTION: In 2005, which comic book company came out with a miniseries in which many of its superheroes (including Captain America and the Hulk) became zombies? Hint


Question 5 of 20
5. FOR CHILDREN ZOMBIE QUESTION: What song, a children's favorite around Hallowe'en, has the lyrics "The zombies were having fun/ The party had just begun/ The guests included Wolfman/ Dracula, and his son"? Hint


Question 6 of 20
6. GENERAL ZOMBIE QUESTION: What is the title shared by a Robert A. Heinlein short story from 1959 and a song by the Hooters from 1985? Hint


Question 7 of 20
7. GEOGRAPHY ZOMBIE QUESTION: In which American state did George Romero set his "Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead"? Hint


Question 8 of 20
8. HISTORY ZOMBIE QUESTION: The author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" traveled to Haiti in 1937 to study voodoo and zombies. Who is this author? Hint


Question 9 of 20
9. HOBBIES ZOMBIE QUESTION: What kind of alcohol would you use to mix up a Zombie? Hint


Question 10 of 20
10. HUMANITIES ZOMBIE QUESTION: This hypothetical being is used in philosophical thought experiments, and is just like a human being except that it has no experience or sentience. What is the term for this notion? Hint


Question 11 of 20
11. LITERATURE ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which 2009 novel (by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen) combined a classic Regency romance novel with slavering hordes of the undead? Hint


Question 12 of 20
12. MOVIES ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which of these is NOT a zombie movie? Hint


Question 13 of 20
13. MUSIC ZOMBIE QUESTION: In 1994, on the album "No Need to Argue", this Irish band released the song "Zombie". Which band (fronted by Dolores O'Riordan) sang "Zombie"? Hint


Question 14 of 20
14. PEOPLE ZOMBIE QUESTION: This creator of Objectivism (and author of "Atlas Shrugged") said "The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question." Who is she?

Hint


Question 15 of 20
15. RELIGION ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which Caribbean belief system includes magicians (called 'bokor') reanimating the dead for use as slaves? Hint


Question 16 of 20
16. SCI/TECH ZOMBIE QUESTION: What is a zombie computer? Hint


Question 17 of 20
17. SPORTS ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which of these was NOT an event in London's 2009 Zombie Olympics, held at London Fields Park? Hint


Question 18 of 20
18. TELEVISION ZOMBIE QUESTION: On December 2, 1983, a music video premiered on MTV. What is this 14-minute video, directed by John Landis, that features a bunch of dancing zombies? Hint


Question 19 of 20
19. VIDEO GAMES ZOMBIE QUESTION: In this 2008 Valve Corporation first-person shooter, you can play as Francis, Bill, Zoey or Louis. What is this game? Hint


Question 20 of 20
20. WORLD ZOMBIE QUESTION: During World War II, 'zombie' was a derogatory term for an army conscript assigned to home defense of which country? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. ANIMALS ZOMBIE QUESTION: What breed of zombified dog plays a big role in the movie "Resident Evil" (2002)?

Answer: Doberman

In a wonderful action scene from the movie, star Milla Jovovich battles eight of the zombie Dobermans, dispatching the final one with some major kung fu. The poor creatures have been modified by the T-virus.
2. BRAIN TEASER ZOMBIE QUESTION: Take the word 'zombie', add the two-letter chemical symbol for lithium, anagram the whole thing and you get a word meaning "to make ready for action" or "to get ready for war" (against the zombie hordes, perhaps?). What is this word?

Answer: Mobilize

The word is derived from the French 'mobiliser'.
3. CELEBRITIES ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which star of "Zombieland" (2009) got into a scuffle with a photographer at La Guardia, and then said "With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie"?

Answer: Woody Harrelson

The movie broke $60 million in less than three weeks in release, becoming the highest-grossing zombie movie to that point. Harrelson has had run-ins with the law and has been arrested several times, including once for planting hemp seeds (he meant to be arrested, so that he could challenge Kentucky's marijuana possession laws).
4. ENTERTAINMENT ZOMBIE QUESTION: In 2005, which comic book company came out with a miniseries in which many of its superheroes (including Captain America and the Hulk) became zombies?

Answer: Marvel

"Marvel Zombies" is great fun, and often shocking. Who would have thought that the Silver Surfer could ever get eaten by Spider-Man?
5. FOR CHILDREN ZOMBIE QUESTION: What song, a children's favorite around Hallowe'en, has the lyrics "The zombies were having fun/ The party had just begun/ The guests included Wolfman/ Dracula, and his son"?

Answer: Monster Mash

Amazingly, Bobby 'Boris' Pickett's song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962. It's been covered by people as disparate as the Beach Boys, the Misfits, and (in 1978) Ron Howard in an episode of "Happy Days".
6. GENERAL ZOMBIE QUESTION: What is the title shared by a Robert A. Heinlein short story from 1959 and a song by the Hooters from 1985?

Answer: All You Zombies

The Heinlein story is punctuated "--All You Zombies--" and throws every time travel paradox one could imagine into the plot. The main character turns out to be his own mother AND father and, in fact, every character in the story. The Hooters song hit #58 in America (they had more success with "And We Danced", which reached #21).
7. GEOGRAPHY ZOMBIE QUESTION: In which American state did George Romero set his "Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead"?

Answer: Pennsylvania

In "Night" the survivors hole up in a Pennsylvania farmhouse, and "Dawn" takes place at the Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, PA. The third movie in the series ("Day of the Dead") is set in and around Ft. Myers, Florida. George Romero, the master of the zombie movie, got his start directing commercials and shorts, including one for "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" (a slightly friendlier neighborhood than can be found in most of his later films).
8. HISTORY ZOMBIE QUESTION: The author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" traveled to Haiti in 1937 to study voodoo and zombies. Who is this author?

Answer: Zora Neale Hurston

She didn't believe they were supernatural. She wrote "What is more, if science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than gestures of ceremony."
9. HOBBIES ZOMBIE QUESTION: What kind of alcohol would you use to mix up a Zombie?

Answer: Rum

According to Mr. Boston, a Zombie uses Gold rum, 151-proof rum and White rum (with sugar, lemon, lime and pineapple juices, passion fruit syrup and bitters). Two or three of these, and you'll feel like a zombie, all right!
10. HUMANITIES ZOMBIE QUESTION: This hypothetical being is used in philosophical thought experiments, and is just like a human being except that it has no experience or sentience. What is the term for this notion?

Answer: Philosophical Zombie

A philosophical zombie can also be called a p-zombie or a p-zed, and is used to refute the behaviorists and materialists. These arguments are esoteric as all get out.
11. LITERATURE ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which 2009 novel (by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen) combined a classic Regency romance novel with slavering hordes of the undead?

Answer: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

In the novel, heroine Elizabeth Bennet is not only a romantic prospect for Mr. Darcy, but a swordfighting martial artist quite skilled at destroying the living dead. A prequel (to be called "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls") followed year later.
12. MOVIES ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which of these is NOT a zombie movie?

Answer: "Gone With the Wind" (1939)

The others, believe it or not, are all actual movies. So are "Erotic Nights of the Living Dead" (1980), "Fast Zombies with Guns" (2009) and "Female Mercenaries on Zombie Island" (1998). It's a rich field. It's also a field where anyone with a few thousand bucks and a few tubes of black makeup can churn out a horror movie in a week or two.
13. MUSIC ZOMBIE QUESTION: In 1994, on the album "No Need to Argue", this Irish band released the song "Zombie". Which band (fronted by Dolores O'Riordan) sang "Zombie"?

Answer: The Cranberries

The song was about the conflict in Northern Ireland, and memorializes two youths who were killed by an IRA bomb. It reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks. The Cranberries also had hits with "Dreams" and "Linger".
14. PEOPLE ZOMBIE QUESTION: This creator of Objectivism (and author of "Atlas Shrugged") said "The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question." Who is she?

Answer: Ayn Rand

Rand also wrote "The Fountainhead". She was fiercely opposed to religion and anything else that she considered mysticism, and her views on economics (including passionate defenses of laissez-faire capitalism and passionate attacks on government regulations and interventions) make her popular even to this day.
15. RELIGION ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which Caribbean belief system includes magicians (called 'bokor') reanimating the dead for use as slaves?

Answer: Voodoo

Voodoo (also known as Vodou or Vaudou) is native to Haiti, where the inhabitants mixed Roman Catholicism with African native religions. Zombies aren't part of the real religion, but rather an element of rural beliefs.
16. SCI/TECH ZOMBIE QUESTION: What is a zombie computer?

Answer: One that has been compromised

A zombie computer has been hijacked by a harmful program or virus, of which the user is usually unaware. Sometimes the computer that has been compromised is used to promulgate spam, and sometimes it can even attack web pages.
17. SPORTS ZOMBIE QUESTION: Which of these was NOT an event in London's 2009 Zombie Olympics, held at London Fields Park?

Answer: Synchronized swimming

Other events included the Body Bag Race and the Relay of the Dead (with severed limbs instead of batons). The event raised money for the British Heart Foundation, though I'm surprised it wasn't for the Brain Tumour Trust.
18. TELEVISION ZOMBIE QUESTION: On December 2, 1983, a music video premiered on MTV. What is this 14-minute video, directed by John Landis, that features a bunch of dancing zombies?

Answer: Thriller

"Thriller" won a Grammy in 1985 for Best Long Form Video, and in 1999 was named the Greatest Music Video Ever Made by MTV. The song featured additional lyrics by horror icon Vincent Price, and spooky additional music by Elmer Bernstein.
19. VIDEO GAMES ZOMBIE QUESTION: In this 2008 Valve Corporation first-person shooter, you can play as Francis, Bill, Zoey or Louis. What is this game?

Answer: Left 4 Dead

"Left 4 Dead" did so well that a sequel was released a year after the original was put on sale. The creatures in the game are infected humans, not real zombies. At one point in the game, a memorial wall is shown, and the names on the wall are those of the game developers (with birth and 'death' dates).
20. WORLD ZOMBIE QUESTION: During World War II, 'zombie' was a derogatory term for an army conscript assigned to home defense of which country?

Answer: Canada

By 1944, the Canadian armed forces had gone through a meat grinder in Europe and were at only 50% of their full strength, and yet there were 100,000 troops guarding Canada who had been conscripted on the promise that they wouldn't have to go overseas. The fighting troops scornfully called these soldiers 'zombies'.
Source: Author john_sunseri

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