OK you guys, pop quiz time. All in the spirit of Friday the 13th.
1) Peter Graves starred in The Beginning of the End. In this movie ordinary creatures grew giant, ate people, and marched on Chicago.
What were the monsters?
A) Giant Killer Shrews
B) Giant Killer Ants
C) Giant Killer Grasshoppers
D) Giant Killer Potato Bugs
2) Deforest Kelly (Bones) got a starring role in The Night of the Lepus after Star Trek was canceled.
What was the monster here?
A) A winged gargoyle thing
B) Giant Killer Rabbits
C) A satanist cult
D) Some guy with a knife
3) In the movie Earth vs the Spider, a giant spider attacks a small town.
What was the explanation for the creatures great size?
A) Lingering radiation from the first atomic bomb
B) A mad scientist's experiment gone horribly wrong
C) An insidious plot by...aliens!
D) There was no explanation
4) Plan 9 from Outer Space. The aliens were on a budget (literally! It was a plot point). What cut rate plan did they choose to conquer the Earth?
A) Release a mind controlling virus
B) Replace key leaders with look alike robots
C) Threaten to destroy New York City unless humans gave into their will.
D) Raise the dead to attack the living.
5) In the movie The Creature that Threatened the World, what did it really threaten?
A) The New York subway system.
B) A Pacific island military base
C) The California Irrigation canal system
D) San Francisco
6) Bonus Point: what was the creature in the above question?
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7) In the movie Poltergeist, a suburb was built on what former structure
A) an old indian burial ground
B) an insane asylum
C) a prison
D) a graveyard
8) In the movie THEM, the first nest of giant ants was destroyed in which way?
A) By a nuclear explosion
B) By poison gas
C) By the US Army
D) By being lured over electrified railway lines.
9) In The Deadly Mantis, a giant man eating Praying Mantis wrecks havoc. What started this mess?
A) Explosions cracked the ice and released it
B) A nuclear bomb freed it from a stony prison
C) This was Plan 10 from Outer Space
D) There was no explanation
I will publish the answers on Sunday the 15th.