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1. In the 6th episode of the first season of "The Twilight Zone", the audience is introduced to an obnoxious hypochondriac named Walter Bedecker, who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for immortality. After surviving a few fatal stunts, he ends up with a life sentence in prison for the accidental killing of his wife. What did Walter use to avoid spending eternity in prison?
2. One of "The Twilight Zone's" creepiest episodes, "The Hitch-Hiker", is a story that had been told on a few of Orson Welles' radio shows of the 1940s and 50s. It involves a beautiful young woman, Nan Adams, who is driving from New York to Los Angeles, CA when she is almost killed in a collision with a train. From then on, she sees the same hitchhiker on the side of the highway, over and over again. At the end of the story, Nan sees the hitchhiker in her rear view mirror, sitting in the back her car. What was it that the hitchhiker said, that has given viewers the willies for more than fifty years of syndication?
3. In the second season episode simply named "22", actress Barbara Nichols plays Liz Powell, a hospitalized dancer who has suffered a nervous breakdown after having a series of recurring nightmares. In her dreams, she is in a hospital corridor when a nurse comes out of the morgue (Room #22) and delivers the same chilling line. Finally out of the hospital, we see Nan at the airport where she is preparing to board a flight to Miami; Flight 22. At she climbs the stairway, she is met by the flight attendant who looks like the same woman as in her dream. What is the chilling line that the flight attendant\nurse utters that sends Liz running from the plane?
4. In the originally aired 20 March 1964 episode of "The Twilight Zone" entitled "The Masks", a wealthy man on his deathbed, Jason Foster is surrounded by his money grubbing heirs who are anxiously waiting for him to expire. In his dying request, he demands that they wear hideous masks that match their personality traits and keep them on until he dies, if they wished to inherit his wealth. Who was the famous actress who starred in "High Sierra" (1940) and "The Sea Wolf" (1941) who DIRECTED this episode?
5. In the third season of "The Twilight Zone", the episode entitled "The Passersby" involved a parade of Civil War soldier's walking by Mrs. Lavinia Godwin's ruined southern plantation home. It turned out that not only were all of the passing soldiers dead, but she was as well. Who was the last victim of the American Civil War to pass by?
6. In the "Twilight Zone" episode "Long Distance Call", which first aired on 31 March 1961, eight year old Billy's grandmother passes away the night of his birthday. However, she continues to communicate with Billy through the birthday present that she had given him. What was this gift?
7. In the 5 January 1962 episode of "The Twilight Zone" entitled "Nothing in the Dark", Wanda Dunn is an elderly woman who lives in seclusion, afraid that Mr. Death will come for her. One day, after a noisy scuffle outside of her apartment, a handsome policemen, subsequently identified as Harold Beldon, has been shot and begs to be let inside. At first, Ms. Dunn is reluctant, but the police officer's kind and soft spoken demeanor convinces her to let him inside. The question is, who was the handsome blonde actor who played Officer Belden?
8. In another one of "The Twilight Zone's" spookier episodes, "Night Call", we are introduced to Elva Keene, an elderly wheelchair bound spinster who had been receiving strange telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night. After telling the caller to stop ringing her, she reported the calls to the phone company. From where the call traced?
9. "Passage of the Lady Anne" was one of the hour long episodes of "The Twilight Zone's" fourth season. It was the story of Eileen and Alan Ransome, a troubled couple trying to save their marriage by taking a second honeymoon cruise on the ship, Lady Anne, on her last excursion. During the cruise the Ransomes realized that there was something strange about the rest of the passengers. What was it that they observed about their fellow travelers?
10. On "The Twilight Zone" that premiered on 1 June 1962, actor Donald Pleasence portrays a retiring prep school professor who laments that in his 50 years of teaching, he had accomplished nothing in his life. On Christmas Eve, he had planned to commit suicide before he is interrupted and dissuaded by whom?
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