Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 116 Trivia Quiz

Answer: He gets stuck in the past.

Partly using the esoteric knowledge he acquired in Tibet and partly through the marvels of modern science concerning the electrical activity of the brain, Quintus hooks himself up to a machine which allows him to transport himself physically as well as mentally to the past.

His brain waves are synchronized to Diana's/Helene's which allows this. When Helene decides to voluntarily submit to beheading in order to preserve, rather than alter, history, her death breaks the psychic connection with both Diana and Quintus. Diana wakes up and resolves to live a better life. Quintus' suit sits empty in a chair.

He is trapped in the past with no way home. The Devil speaks to Quintus and tells him that, once he has lived his lifetime in the Middle Ages, "I'll come a calling on thee." This strikes the Prince of Darkness as particularly funny and the film ends with Satan's laughter.

Answer: Saucer Base on the Moon

"The Flying Saucer" (1950) is about Soviet spies' efforts to steal a flying saucer designed by an American scientist in Alaska. "Invasion of the Saucer Men" (1957) is about little green men versus romance-crazed, hot-rod-driving teenagers. "Supersonic Saucer" (1956) is about a spaceman from Venus being protected by a group of English schoolchildren from evil gangsters intent on kidnapping the alien.

The feature-length motion picture "Project Moon Base" (1953) is about a space station orbiting the Moon with plans to build a base on the surface.

The British science-fiction television series "Space: 1999" (1975-1977) was set on the lunar surface at Moon Base Alpha. Stanley Kubrick situated a base on the Moon in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1967). Apparently, no one produced a commercial motion picture with the title "Saucer Base on the Moon" in the 1950s.

Answer: a man assembled from various spare parts

This Baron Frankenstein (the third) seeks to vindicate his grandfather's name by creating a man and infusing him with life. In a modern setting, he uses atomic power to create life. An American film crew present on his estate provides many of the body parts necessary to his project.

Answer: Carolyn Jones

Carolyn Jones (1930-1983) began her career with her role as Cathy Gray in the motion picture "House of Wax" (1953). Much of her part in "House of Wax" is as a dead girl whose body has been dipped in hot wax to create the "sculpture" of Joan of Arc in the mad professor's exhibition.

Her roommate, Sue Allen, not only notices the resemblance but finds that "Joan" has only one ear pierced, as did Sue. Jones became much better known for her role as Morticia Addams in "The Addams Family" on ABC television (1964-1966).

Answer: Marilyn Blanchard and Rick Brady

Marilyn Blanchard, played by Marla English, and Rick Brady, played by Lance Fuller, partner to steal the map to the jungle treasure from Harry West, played by Norman Willis. While searching his room, looking for the map, they are interrupted by Harry who Marilyn shoots to death.

They take over the services of the guide hired by Harry, Ted Bronson played by Mike Connors, to lead them to the treasure.

Answer: Yes. The movie was "novelized".

After the script for "Forbidden Planet" was completed but before the film's release, the story was "novelised" by Philip MacDonald, using the pen name W.J. Stuart. The hardback was published on 1 January 1956. The movie was released on 23 March 1956. A paperback version followed.

The novel differs in several respects from the screen version. It is written as the first-person observations of Dr. Ostrow, Commander Adams, and Dr. Morbius. It provides more of the backstory about Morbius and the Krell.

It says more and different things about the Earth animals which the visiting crew finds on Altair IV.

Answer: carnivorous quick sand

The Earth party of four was jeopardized by large creatures made of stone, by a large spider, seen before in "Cat-Women of the Moon" (1953), and a race of beautiful women intent on killing them all. Quicksand is a meme in motion pictures: "Swiss Family Robinson" (1960), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Woman in the Dunes" (1964), "Blazing Saddles" (1974), "The Princess Bride" (1987) and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008).

In the B Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s, the maxim was "If you see a cowboy hat sitting on the ground, don't walk over to pick it up." No carnivorous lunar quicksand was found in "Missile to the Moon".

Answer: acting

Hugh Beaumont (1910-1982) was an American actor who played on stage, in nightclubs, on radio, in motion pictures, and on television. His best-known television role was as Ward Cleaver, the father in "Leave It to Beaver" (1957-1963). He played in 234 episodes.

His movie roles were varied. He took over as private detective Michael Shayne (from actor Lloyd Nolan) and made five movies in that series (1946-1947). He appeared in few horror pictures: "Lost Continent" (1951), "The Mole People" (1956), and "The Human Duplicators" (1965).

After he suffered a stroke in 1972, he retired to grow Christmas trees in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

Answer: the small town of Silsby

Silsby is a fictional small town, not too far from Metropolis, the big city where the "Daily Planet" is located. Clark Kent and Lois Lane are assigned to report on the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. There is a Sileby village located in Leicestershire, England, from which the similar name Silsby might have been taken.

There is no connection with the historic Silsby House in Olympia, Washington. Metropolis was coined by co-creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel in 1939 as the name for the large northeastern city in which Clark Kent works and lives.

Answer: Dies Irae

The "Dies Irae" is a 13th century Latin chant sung immediately before the reading of the Gospel in the funeral liturgy. The text begins "Dies irę, dies illa, / Solvet sęclum in favilla: / Teste David cum Sibylla" which means "Day of wrath and doom impending! / David's word with Sibyl's blending, / Heaven and earth in ashes ending!"

The traditional Gregorian melody has been "quoted" by numerous composers, e.g. Brahms, Charpentier, Gounod, Haydn, Holst, Khachaturian, Liszt, Mahler, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Respighi, Saint-Saėns, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky. It has been quoted in numerous film scores, e.g. "The Shining" (1980), "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), "The Mephisto Waltz" (1971), "Citizen Kane" (1941), "Metropolis" (1927), "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996), "Home Alone" (1990). Hector Berlioz quotes Dies Irae in his "Symphonie Fantastique" (1830), which was the basis for composer Ernest Gold's score for "The Screaming Skull". Ernest Gold won the Academy Award for his score to "Exodus" (1960).