Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 41 Trivia Quiz

Answer: With a radioactivity neutralization ray.

There is doubt among the scientists about their ability to kill the creature. Doctor Royston asks "How do you kill mud?" The army tries flamethrowers and various explosives and even seals up the crack in the ground through which it came with concrete. Royston has invented a "scanner" which can neutralize radioactivity using radio waves and cause substances to explode.

They use cobalt to lure the creature within range. Under the ray's influence, the creature appears to explode but there is another explosion from deep within the Earth suggesting that it might not be dead.

Answer: The Unconquered Beast

"The Beast with a Million Eyes" (1955) is a Roger Corman co-production about a space alien who can see through the eyes of the creatures it mentally controls. "The Bride and the Beast" (1958) is an Ed Wood script about a woman who reverts to her form in a previous life: a gorilla. "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon" (1956) is a Curt Siodmak film about a birdlike monster terrorizing native workers in Brazil.

There is an album by Canadian Death Metal band Kataklysm called "Unconquered" (2020). There is a comic book called "Frankenstein the Unconquered".

There is a novel by Robert Jordan titled "Conan the Unconquered". There does not appear to have been a 1950s motion picture called "The Unconquered Beast".

Answer: a reptilian from Venus

The astronauts returning to Earth from their mission to Venus bring back a gelatinous mass which turns out to be the eggs of Venusian monsters. These monsters look like reptiles and are aggressive in their search for sulfur, which is their food source.

Answer: Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire expanded his repertoire of all-singing all-dancing musical romantic comedies by taking his first serious role as an Australian research scientist detached to the USS Sawfish to study the radiation in the Northern Hemisphere.

Answer: False

The special effects in "Them!" were ambitious and effective, earning the film a nomination for Best Special Effects in the 1955 Academy Awards. The 20-foot-long ants lost to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". Monster-maker Ralph Ayers supervised Dick Smith's construction of huge model ants, operated by ropes and pulleys. Footage of real ants was intercut.

The sound of the ants was created by blending the calls of tree frogs with those of a wood thrush, a hooded warbler, and red-bellied woodpecker.

Answer: Mexico

"The Aztec Mummy" was a Mexican production, produced by Guillermo Calderon, scripted by Alfredo Salazar, and directed by Rafael Portillo. It was shot in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico at Estudios CLASA. The production company was Cinematográfica Calderón, S.A. It was released in Mexico on 13 November 1957 by Peliculas Nacionales.

Answer: stop-motion animation

Although the dinosaurs (Brontosaurus, Triceratops and Pterodactyl) in "Lost Continent" (1951) have a lot to do, they get it all done in less than ten minutes of stop-motion animation. The process was slow and very expensive. It took five months to film.

As a step forward in stop-motion photography, the technicians used electric motors to make the tiny adjustments between frames more precise and visually smoother.

Answer: acting

Don Megowan (1922-1981) was an American actor who played a variety of roles in horror and science fiction motion pictures and television programmes. On film, he was the Gill-man in "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956) which was the last of the trilogy begun with "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954).

He played Sheriff Jack Haines in "The Werewolf" (1956) and Capt. Kenneth Cragis in "The Creation of the Humanoids" (1962), a member of the anti-robot Order of Flesh and Blood. On television, he played the monster in "Tales of Frankenstein" (1958).

Answer: in and around Hollywood, California

The original intent was to leave the setting of "Teenagers from Outer Space" unspecified so as to make it generalizable to wherever it was being shown. Several of the shooting locations gave the setting away: Hollywood High School, and Bronson Canyon in Griffith Park on Crystal Springs Drive in Los Angeles.

Answer: The grasshoppers ate each other.

Bert I. Gordon, the producer-director, purchased 200 live grasshoppers to shoot the special effects. Unfortunately, few of them survived and many cannibalized their neighbours before shooting could begin. Due to delays (and Gordon's ignorant failure to feed his bugs), only a dozen were alive to be shot in front of still-photograph backgrounds.