Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 20 Trivia Quiz

Answer: He is melted and she is driven mad.

On a quiet night, laboratory technician Harry Unwin, played by Neil Hallett, and nurse Zena, played by Marianne Brauns, step aside for a quick tryst. They are unaware of the creeping danger. Harry hears something and goes into an adjacent room to investigate.

He swells and blisters and melts away down to his bones. Zena sees this through a shielded window, is burned by radiation herself, and driven mad by the sight of what happened to Harry.

Answer: Voodoo Zombies from Hell

"Voodoo Island" (1957) was set in the South Pacific and shot on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i. "Voodoo Woman" (1957) was set in the French jungle colony of Bantalaya but shot in California. "Teenage Zombies" (1959) produced a movie poster which read "Young Pawns Thrust into Pulsating Cages of Horror in a Sadistic Experiment." In Lucius Shepard's 2007 Nebula-Award winning short story "Stars Seen Through Stone," he writes "The crowd surged forward, everyone wanting to get next to the stage, dancing in place, this strange, shuffling dance, voodoo zombies from hell." But nobody used those words as the title of a movie in the 1950s.

Answer: He suffers multiple gunshot wounds.

A forest ranger wounds him and then the police shoot him repeatedly, which finally kills him. Before their eyes, he reverts from the ghastly prehistoric self to his benign professorial self, in death.

Answer: Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck was attracted to the role of Commander Dwight Towers, captain of the USS Sawfish, in "On the Beach" by the strong anti-war anti-nuclear message in Nevil Shute's story. Peck held that the atomic bomb ought not have been used in Japan at the conclusion of World War II.

He supported a nuclear weapons test ban and the prohibition of nuclear weapons as an article of international law.

Answer: to obtain a potential cancer-curing drug

Dr. Andrea Romar, a medical doctor, has heard of a drug used to shrink tissues by headhunters in the Upper Amazon. Thinking it might be effective in shrinking cancer tissues, she wishes to learn how it is made and obtain a sample for laboratory analysis.

Answer: Japan

"The Manster" is an American-made movie shot in Japan. The producer-director was British. The script was written by an American. The crew was primarily Japanese as were a number of the actors. It was shot in English. It was released in Japan before it was released in the US which led to the misapprehension that it was a movie of Japanese provenance.

Answer: crushed in an automobile accident

Kerry gets the Twonky into his car in order to drive off a cliff and destroy it. The Twonky prevents this. Kerry abandons his car and hitches a ride with an elderly Englishwoman who is a terrible driver. The Twonky hitches a ride in the woman's car's boot.

The Twonky breaks through the back seat and pulls the emergency brake, causing a truck to collide with them. According to Kerry's wife Caroline, visiting him in the hospital, the crash completely destroyed the Twonky.

Answer: directing

Charles Lamont (1895-1993) had a long and distinguished career making motion pictures. He wrote and produced; he was best-known for the 200+ films he directed. He directed a great many series, e.g. the "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies, the "Francis the Talking Mule" movies and many "Abbott and Costello" comedies.

His films with Abbott and Costello included "Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion" (1950), "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" (1951), "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd" (1952), "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" (1953), "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1953), "Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops" (1955), and "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" (1955).

Answer: near Dakar, Senegal, West Africa

Dakar is the capital of Senegal. It is a major Atlantic port. "Zombies of Mora Tau" was set but not shot there. It was filmed in the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden in Arcadia, California, and at the Baldwin Ranch near Santa Anita Race Track.

The interiors were all shot on Columbia sound stages, including the underwater scenes. This was accomplished by using a technique called dry-for-wet in which the actors were on one side of a filled aquarium and shot by a camera on the opposite side, through the fish tank.

Answer: No

The distance between Earth and Venus changes all the time as the two planets are in different orbits which bring them closer to or lead them farther from each other. At their most distant point, they are about 162 million miles apart which is equivalent to 14.5 light minutes.

At their closest point, they are about 24 million miles apart which is the equivalent to 2.15 light minutes. This means that what is seen from a telescope on Earth is what happened on Venus between two and fifteen minutes before.