Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 197 Trivia Quiz

Answer: a very small portion of it

The destructive potential of Element 112 is manifested in earthquakes in part of California, as well as in Turkey and Canada. Negligence in handling a small sample of the element results in an explosion which destroys a cabin near Carlsbad Caverns. Element 112 exposed to the atmosphere by the eruption of a volcano destroys Horseshoe Dam near Las Serinas, Nevada.

The gigantic Earth-destroying blast predicted by the Datatron computer in about 28 days never occurs; if it had, there would not have been anybody to watch this movie.

Answer: Red Blood of the Snowman

The feature-length movies "The Abominable Snowman" (1957), "Monster Snowman" (1955), and "Snow Creature" (1954) are all actual, not made-up, existent, and authentic motion pictures. "The Abominable Snowman" is a Hammer Films motion picture starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing. "Monster Snowman" is a Toho production directed by Ishirō Honda. William Lee Wilder, the brother of director Billy Wilder and the father of producer Myles Wilder, produced "Snow Creature".

"White Snow, Red Blood" is a 1989 non-fiction book by Zhāng Zhčnglóng, a colonel in the People's Liberation Army, describing the events of the Communist revolution. In America, sweatshirts have been sold reading "Snowman Blood (Also Known As Water)". Marcus Sedgwick's book "Blood Red Snow White: A Novel" (2016) is set in the Russian Revolution. Diligent research has not revealed a 1950s feature-length science fiction or horror movie named "Red Blood of the Snowman".

Answer: Alsatian dogs attack and kill them.

Doctor Wayne, played by Ken Lynch, believes Marge Farrell's story and organizes a posse of men whose wives have recently delivered babies (proving that the men are not aliens). Bullets have no effect on the aliens; the bullet wounds seal back up. A member of the posse, Charles Mason, played by Steve London, brings his two Alsatian dogs to the area where the spaceship landed.

The dogs successfully attack the duplicants, ripping their breathing-gas tubes loose, which turns the creatures into a simmering glob of protoplasm.

Inside the spaceship, the posse discovers the suspended bodies of kidnapped humans. When they disconnected the wires leading to them, the aliens "wearing" their bodies die and the humans are restored.

Answer: Leif Erickson

Leif Erickson plays an engineer or scientist employed at a top-secret US government plant attempting to build a rocket to enter outer space. He is among the first people captured by the Martians and implanted with a mind-control device. His personality shifts from being a loving husband and caring father to being irritable and even striking his son, David. David is played by young actor Jimmy Hunt. Leif Erickson also played Jimmy's father in "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948).

Answer: Michael Rogin

Michael Rogin, played by William Phipps, is a sensitive Dartmouth man who writes poetry and operates an elevator in the Empire State Building in New York City. He sees the bright side of their predicament and philosophically says they will now live closer to nature.

He delivers Roseanne's baby, though he has no medical training. When Roseanne leaves the house with Eric, Michael goes looking for her. When the baby dies, they bury the boy together.

Answer: a Japanese fishing boat exposed to radiation

Both "Godzilla" (1954) and "The H-Man" were inspired by the exposure of the crew of the Japanese tuna fishing boat Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon Number 5) to radiation from nuclear fallout from a 1954 US thermonuclear device test on Bikini Atoll called Castle Bravo.

The vessel apparently sailed into the test area and was befouled. The boat's chief radioman Kuboyama Aikichi suffered from acute radiation syndrome for six months and then died. The Daigo Fukuryu Maru incident is often cited as a/the motivating factor in the production of "Godzilla" (1954). Likewise it contributed to the anti-nuclear-weapon subtext of "The H-Man".

Answer: many more than one

In addition to being titled "Terror Is a Man", this film wore working titles or pre-release titles of "Creature from Blood Island", "The Gory Creatures", "Island of Terror", "Blood Creature" and "Gore Creature". A working title (also called production title, tentative title, and alternative title) is a name for a production (often a motion picture) other than the one ultimately chosen. Movie titles are also sometimes changed after release, as well. "2001: A Space Odyssey" had the working title "How the Solar System Was Won". "Alien" had the working title "Star Beast". "Casablanca" had the working title "Everybody Comes To Rick's". "Pulp Fiction" was originally named "Black Mask". "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" was originally titled "Head Cheese".

Answer: directing

In five decades of work in the industry, William Cameron Menzies (1896-1957) produced, directed, and worked as an art director as well as a "production designer" (which title he invented to describe what he did). His first work in Hollywood was in set design and art direction in silent pictures.

He won the first Academy Award for Best Production Design in 1929. Silent films on which he worked included "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920) and "Three Live Ghosts" (1929). His filmography of talkies included co-directing "Chandu the Magician" (1932), "Things to Come" (1936), directing "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1949), "Invaders from Mars" (1952), and "The Maze" (1953).

Answer: False

In 2015, the made-for-television movie "Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs" showed what happens when miners searching for Iridium blast open a gigantic cavern under the Montana town of Livingston and all the dinosaurs come out, hungry for cowboys and cowgirls. This film has been compared to (and was based on) the 1969 film "The Valley of Gwangi" in which a cowboy captures a Tyrannosaurus named Gwangi in the Old West and puts it in a traveling circus to unfortunate effect. Neither of these films was the first to pit carnivorous dinosaurs against brave cowboys.

In "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" (1956), a Texan cowboy ranches cattle in Old Mexico. If the cows stray into the swamp at the base of Hollow Mountain, they are eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex. These movies fit squarely into the film subgenre called "Weird West".

This term describes the hybrid genres of horror Western, science-fiction Western, fantasy Western, and steampunk Western. A modern example is "Cowboys & Aliens" (2011).

Answer: Pat and Mike

Mehemet Bey comes to England using the alias Mehemet Atkil and rents a home in Engerfield. He hires a pair of Irish workmen to deliver a large wooden box containing the dozing Kharis to his home. The carters, Pat and Mike, have been drinking in a pub when they set out with their horse and wagon to fetch the crate. As the cart passes the Engerfield Nursing Home for the Mentally Disordered, Stephen Banning becomes agitated, screams and breaks the window. This startles the horse who begins to run, causing the box to come loose and bounce around. The drunken driving causes the box to fall off the cart into a bog where it sinks.

There is a long history of anti-Irish sentiment in England going back, at least to the 12th century. This is reflected in 20th century employment-office signs reading "No Irish Need Apply". This Hibernophobia is often reflected in character traits ascribed to the Irish as being drunks and brawlers. This is perhaps also reflected in the characters Pat and Mike.