Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 192 Trivia Quiz

Answer: to put a nuclear weapon in orbit

The purpose of the six-stage rocket called the Thunderer is to place a nuclear device in permanent Earth orbit. The rationale is to enable the United States to strike back at any nation foolish enough to attack America as the device can be targeted to drop from space on any city in the world. It is precisely this militarisation of space and spread of nuclear capability which the alien seeks to prevent.

Answer: From Another Planet

The feature-length movies "Lost Planet Airmen" (1951), "Red Planet Mars" (1952), and "The Angry Red Planet" (1959) are all actual, not-made-up, existent, and authentic motion pictures. In "Lost Planet Airmen," Rocket Man defeats Dr. Vulcan. In "Red Planet Mars," an American couple (both scientists) defeat secret-agent Franz Calder. In "The Angry Red Planet," the crew of MR-1 defeat a giant rat-bat-spider-crab hybrid.

Charles S. Cockell's nonfiction book "Taxi from Another Planet" was published by Harvard University Press in 2022. The young-adult novel "From Another Planet" by "A Well-Travelled Man" was published in 2023. John Sayles directed the American movie "The Brother from Another Planet" (1984). A musical album titled "From another Planet" was recorded by Mind Oscillation in 2023. A collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons by Bill Watterson was published in 1990 called "Weirdos from Another Planet!" "She's from Another Planet" is a 2023 Korean film. Dunya Mikhail's 2013 poem begins, "I have a special ticket / to another planet / beyond this Earth." Diligent research has not revealed a 1950s feature-length science fiction movie named "From Another Planet."

Answer: He is shot by police and sinks in a muddy pond.

At one point in the film, John Banning shoots Kharis with a pistol but to no effect. Later Banning gets his shotgun and shoots the mummy but to no effect. Finally he impales Kharis with a spear but that does nothing more than annoy the mummy. In the exciting conclusion, Mehemet Bey orders Kharis to kill Isobel Banning but the mummy refuses, thinking her to be an incarnation of his beloved Ananka. Bey attempts to stab Isobel and Kharis kills him. Isobel faints and Kharis carries her out the door in the direction of the bog. John Banning, Inspector Mulrooney, and other police officers follow. Kharis complies when she asks him to put her down.

The police then fire their weapons at the mummy, who sinks into the quagmire with the Scroll of Life still in his dusty hand.

Answer: Gloria Talbott

Born in the United States, Gloria Talbott (1931-2000) began her acting career as a child in several motion pictures, e.g. "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945). Her good looks won her the title of "Miss Glendale" (California) in 1947. In addition to many guest roles in television, she became a "scream queen" in the 1950s, appearing in films such as "The Cyclops" (1957), "The Daughter of Dr Jekyll" (1957), " I Married a Monster from Outer Space" (1958), and "The Leech Woman" (1960).

Answer: Dr. Philip Crenshaw

Philip Crenshaw, played by Andrew Osborn, is a biologist and a member of the British team seeking to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. He is also having an affair with the wife of Stephen Mitchell, Vanessa Mitchell. After the couple disappear, it is discovered that he is a spy.

He has a degree from a German university which he conceals. Although it is suspected that Philip and Vanessa had been murdered, they are found in a lovers' cottage by the sea. Rather than move to the United States as he said he would at the conclusion of the project, he intended to defect to the East.

Answer: a film treatment by Robert A. Heinlein

In April of 1950, science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein wrote a twelve-page movie treatment titled "Abbott and Costello Move to the Moon." Heinlein was an enthusiastic fan of Abbott and Costello. He submitted his treatment directly to them. While they did not make the picture which Heinlein proposed, "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" was enough like the script by D.D. Beauchamp, John Grant, and Howard Christie was said to be "inspired" by Heinlein's work. Plenty of other works by Robert A.

Heinlein found there way onto the silver screen, e.g. "Destination Moon" (1950), "Project Moonbase" (1953), "The Brain Eaters" (1958), "The Puppet Masters" (1994), and "Predestination" (2014).

Answer: Toho Films, Tokyo, Japan

Toho Co., Ltd. (Tōhō Kabushiki-gaisha) produced and distributed "The H-Man." An English-dubbed version of the motion picture was distributed in the United States by Columbia Pictures. Toho is the home of Godzilla ("gojira") who has appeared in over thirty of the company's movies. Toho has historically made and distributed most of the kaiju and tokusatsu films of director Ishirō Honda and special effects thaumaturge Eiji Tsuburaya. Big scary monsters in the Toho ensemble include Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah, and Mechagodzilla.

Answer: directing

W. Merle Connell (1905-1963) was born in Yakima, Washington, and became a motion picture director, cinematographer, film editor, writer and composer. He did not do a great deal of horror or science fiction work. He directed and edited "Untamed Women" (1952), was the director of photography (cinematographer) on "The Unearthly" (1957), directed and edited "The Devil's Sleep" (1949), and produced and directed "The Wild and the Wicked" (1956).

Answer: the Japanese Alps of Nagano Prefecture

Nagano Prefecture, located on Honshū Island of Japan, is sometimes called the Japanese Alps because of the many snowy mountains there. The City of Nagano, the capital of the prefecture, hosted both the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Winter Paralympics. Even the city proper receives an average of 101 inches (2.57 metres) of snow each winter.

In "Half Human," five young university students travel to the north of Japan to celebrate the New Year with a skiing vacation. The film's narrator says they travelled to the Japanese Alps in Nagano. Most of these students are killed. In the following summer, Professor Shigeki Koizumi, an anthropologist, leads an expedition to "the Japanese Alps," so identified by Dr. John Rayburn, played by John Carradine.

Answer: He was stranded on Mount Everest by a blizzard.

Eric, a sophisticated professional mountaineer, was played by James Anderson. At the time of the atomic explosions, he was pinned down by a blizzard. His location was above the fall-out zone, below which everyone was killed. He survived while most of the rest of humanity died.