Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 185 Trivia Quiz

Answer: "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982)

The similarities between "Supersonic Saucer" (1956) and "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) are many. The alien in both is cute. The principal non-alien characters are children. (Children in jeopardy are a hallmark of Spielberg films.) Both aliens have pure, innocent and benign intentions. Both aliens want to go home. Both aliens are small and friendly rather than gigantic and intimidating. Neither alien understands Terran culture.

In both movies, the children end up protecting the alien from adults. E.T. dresses in a white sheet with eye holes cut in it for Hallowe'en; Meba consistently wears a long white yashmak. Both aliens have large eyes. Both films involve a spaceship; both films conclude with the alien going home.

Answer: The Monster of Tiger Reef

The feature-length movies "The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters" (1954), "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956) and "Teenage Monster" (1957) are all actual, not-made-up, existent, and authentic motion pictures. "The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters" is a creepy-old-house movie set nowhere near a reef. "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" is a Japanese kaiju film set mostly in Tokyo. "Teenage Monster" is a Western, set in the 1880s American desert, where there are no reefs. "Great Scarrier Reef" (2016) is an animated TV special in the "Monster High" cartoon series. "The Monster of Tiger Reef" is a completely fictional motion picture title.

Answer: He is electrocuted.

After Bob, the monster, kills Doctor Frankenstein and feeds him to the alligator in the sub-basement, Doctor Karlton arrives with the police. The two officers order the creature to surrender. Instead, he backs away from them into an electrical panel on the wall.

His iron wristbands contact and conduct significant current into his body. He is electrocuted and slides down the wall to the floor dead.

Answer: Abby Dalton

Abby Dalton (1932-2020) played several roles for producer-director Roger Corman before moving primarily to roles on television. She played Desir in "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent", the leader of the Viking woman bereft of their men. Kipp Hamilton had been cast in this part but held out for more money on the first day of shooting and was replaced by Dalton. Desir leads the women to search for and rescue the men. Enger, the priestess of Thor, wants Vedric, Desir's boyfriend, and tries to kill her competition. Stark, the leader of the Grimaults, wants Desir as his love slave, and tries to kill Vedric. Both potential murderers fail; Desir and Vedric reunite, embrace, and kiss.

Answer: An original screenplay written for the movie

Novelist Rowland Barber ("The Night They Raided Minsky's") and screenwriter Arthur Ross (co-writer of "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954) collaborated to produce a screenplay titled "The Secret Bride of Candy Rock Mountain". A greater description of how the script came together is contained in Bob Furmanek and Ron Palumbo, "Abbott and Costello in Hollywood" (New York: Perigee Books, 1991).

Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The motion picture "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) was an adaptation of the stage musical "The Rocky Horror Show" (1973). The opening and closing song (reprise) is "Science Fiction/Double Feature". The lyrics include references to "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951), "It Came From Outer Space" (1953), "Tarantula" (1955), "Forbidden Planet" (1956), and "Night of the Demon" (1957).

The reference to "When Worlds Collide" is "But when Worlds Collide, said George Pal to his bride, I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills." George Pal was the producer of "When Worlds Collide".

Answer: True

Producer Guillermo Calderon, director Rafael Portillo, writers Guillermo Calderon and Alfredo Salazar, one crew and one cast collaborated all three movies: "The Aztec Mummy" (1957), "The Curse of the Aztec Mummy" (1957) and ""The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy".

The movies were shot sequentially. With the exception of the culminating fight scene between the unnamed cyborg and Popoca, the Aztec mummy, most of the story is told in extended flashbacks utilizing footage from the first two motion pictures.

Internet movie blogger Gary Loggins wrote of this film in his 'blog "Cracked Rear Viewer" (8 October 2015), "After sitting through nearly an hour of rehashing, we get to the meat of the film. Unfortunately, the film only runs 65 minutes, so there's not much meat left on this Aztec bone."

Answer: acting

Australian Michael Pate (1920-2008) worked in radio and motion pictures in Australia following World War II. He directed stage plays there, as well. He moved to Hollywood in the 1950s and '60s where he appeared in both cinema and television. His roles were often of Native Americans or Hispanics.

He returned to Australia and worked as a producer and/or director of stage plays as well as acting in movies. His horror and science-fiction movie credits include "The Strange Door" (1951), "The Black Castle" (1952), "The Maze" (1953), "Curse of the Undead" (1959), "Tower of London" (1962), "The Return of Captain Invincible" (1983), and "The Howling III" (1987).

Answer: Island of Kyushu, Japan

Most Japanese kaiju movies tend to focus the monster's destructive potential on Tokyo. Occasionally mass destruction is inflicted upon Osaka, Hokkaido, or Kyoto, or outside of Japan, e.g. Okinawa, Hong Kong, or New York. Mostly it is Tokyo which gets kicked, as in The Blue Oyster Cult's 1977 song: "Oh no, / they say he's got to go / go go Godzilla. / Oh no, / there goes Tokyo / go go Godzilla." Ishirō Honda's 1956 film "Rodan" centers on the volcanic Mount Aso and the city of Fukuoka, both of which are located on Japan's southernmost island Kyushu.

Answer: the army

To the very great surprise of the Drakes, the British armed services arrive and lay siege to the farm. The army declares Green Acres Farm to be a prohibited area. Those inside are virtually military prisoners. Consistent with the martial propensity to give their every activity a codename, the army names its efforts to capture the hen Operation Chickweed.