Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 125 Trivia Quiz

Answer: It is utterly destroyed.

The planet Zyra makes a close pass of the Earth, the result of which is earthquakes, tidal waves, fires, volcanic eruptions, and flooding. The spaceship slides down the railing and launches under full power. The passengers see the star Bellus collide with the Earth, destroying both, but they then pass out from the g-forces of the ship's acceleration. When they awaken, Earth is gone.

Answer: World of the Lost

There are no dinosaurs in "The Lost Missile" (1958), nor are there any in "The Lost Planet" (1953), nor even one in "Lost Planet Airmen" (1951). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel titled "The Lost World" in 1912. There were dinosaurs in it. The theatrical motion picture "Land of the Lost" (2009) involved people lost in a time-space vortex and some dinosaurs.

The movie "The Lost World" (1997) involved lots of dinosaurs. None of the following included dinosaurs: "A World Lost" (1996), a novel by Wendell Berry; "The Lost World" (1969), a poem by Randall Jarrell.

The role-playing game "World of the Lost: Lamentations of the Flame Princess" (2016) by Rafael Chandler certainly does. There does not appear to have been a 1950s theatrical move named "World of the Lost."

Answer: electrocuted

The melted-gummi-bear-ameboid monster looked as if it were composed of a variety of colours of gelatin dessert mixed together. It absorbed Chief Jacobs before he could get off a shot. The remaining crew of three rewired the MR-1 (Mars Rocket 1) to electrify the outer hull and therewith electrocuted the beast before its acid skin could eat through the ship's metal hull.

Answer: Whit Bissell

Character actor Whit Bissell was cast as Dr. Edwin Thompson in "Creature From the Black Lagoon". He was well known as a Broadway actor and from hundreds of roles on television and in motion pictures. Once the Gill Man has been captured, he is tasked with guarding it. The creature escapes and slashes Dr. Thompson's face, rendering him "hors de combat" for the duration.

Answer: a dragon-like pelagic creature

There are (only) two encounters between people and "the Great Sea Serpent" promised in the title of this motion picture. The first is between the beast and the Viking woman as they set out to find their men. The second is between the Vikings and the Grimaults in the conclusion of the film.

The creature is very large and looks rather like a dragon. It is big and strong enough to destroy the Viking women's boat. The synopsis in an IMDB entry for this film says it resembles the "little lizards that live in the bushes by my house." Despite being mortally wounded, the Great Sea Serpent is able to attack and destroy the Grimault ship.

Answer: True

At the end of "Voodoo Woman," the words "THE END" first appear on the screen, followed by the addition of a large question mark between them. According to the review in "The Hollywood Reporter," "There will probably be a sequel, 'The Voodoo Woman Returns'." While no sequel was made, the film was remade for television by Larry Buchanan in 1996 under the title "Curse of the Swamp Creature".

Answer: the Calcinator death ray

Ro-Man came to Earth with a death ray called a Calcinator. He used it to kill all but eight people on the planet. The Great One has a device called Cosmic June Rays which bring prehistoric creatures back to life. The Great One also has a Psychotronic Vibrator with which he intends to "smash the planet Earth out of the universe." The Sonic Ray Gun Type 1 was used in the Buck Rogers series of motion-picture serials.

Answer: acting

Margaret Sheridan (1926-1982) worked as a stewardess for Flying Tiger Airlines. She worked as a top fashion model until "discovered" by Howard Hawks. He signed her to a five-year contract in 1950 and put her in "The Thing From Another World" the next year.

Her role as Nikki Nicholson, opposite Kenneth Tobey, playing Captain Patrick Hendry, was her best-known role. She withdrew from acting in 1954 and concentrated on raising her family.

Answer: Deanfield, England

The British government, seeking to launch satellites and ultimately assemble a space station, builds a top-secret, high-security, research facility in Deanfield. The experts assembled there, including Doctor Stephen Mitchell, an American on loan to the British, live in spartan military quarters surrounded by guards located near Deanfield. Doctor Mitchell's wife Vanessa feels sequestered. The movie was shot entirely within the UK, at Bray Studios in Berkshire, particularly.

Answer: not at all well

Out of more than 250 audience ratings on the Rotten Tomatoes website, only three percent thought "King Dinosaur" was a good movie. Scott McGee's 2004 review for Turner Classic Movies called it a "grade-Z science fiction movie." The review on the Internet Movie Database notes that "[i]ronically, this is one of the few films whose stock footage does not look spliced into the story because the films main footage is equally as crude." Film historian Leonard Maltin awarded no stars to this movie, and wrote, "First and worst of director Gordon's many 1950s sci-fi films .... Boring, silly, and awesomely cheap ..."