Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 62 Trivia Quiz

Answer: to kill the crew and steal their spaceship

Because the atmosphere of the Moon is soon to be exhausted, the cat women plan to kill all of the male members of the Moon Rocket 4 crew and seize their spaceship. Their plan is to travel to the Earth in Moon Rocket 4 and take over. Their leader, Alpha, played by Carol Brewster, says, "We will get their women under our power, and soon we will rule the whole world!" The cat women have psychic powers to control the minds of Earth women.

Answer: The Moon Maiden

Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, and Debra Paget starred in "From the Earth to the Moon" (1958), based loosely on the Jules Verne 1865 novel. "Missile to the Moon" (1958) was a remake of 1963's "Cat Women of the Moon". Commando Cody saves the world in the Republic Pictures serial "Radar Men from the Moon" (1952). Moon Maiden is a superhero character in the DC Comics universe. Garrett P. Serviss wrote a 1978 novel titled "The Moon Maiden". British communist composer Rutland Boughton wrote "The Moon Maiden", an opera, in 1918.

There does not appear to have ever been a theatrical motion picture titled "The Moon Maiden".

Answer: It wasn't; it was only frozen.

In Steve's father's grocery store, Steve and Jane shelter in the walk-in freezer from which the Blob recoils. An attempt to electrocute the Blob with a high-voltage power line fails (and sets fire to the restaurant which the creature is attacking). Efforts to put out the fire using a CO2 extinguisher again show that the Blob is averse to cold.

The townspeople use CO2 fire extinguishers to contain the Blob until the US Air Force sends a cargo plane to take the Blob to the Arctic. Leaving it there does not kill it but rather renders it as inactive as it was the cold of outer space.

Answer: Peter Cushing

English actor Peter Cushing built his career on television performances. "The Curse of Frankenstein" was his first lead in a motion picture. Terence Fisher directed the Hammer Films production. Victor recounts the story in flashbacks, told to a priest in the prison where he is awaiting execution for murder. Cushing repeated this role for Hammer in "The Revenge of Frankenstein" (1958), "The Evil of Frankenstein" (1964), "Frankenstein Created Woman" (1967), "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" (1969), and "Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell" (1974).

Answer: la Carcagne, a banshee-like creature

Pierre Broussard, played by Louis D. Merrill, rescues Mitch and Sally from their plane, wrecked by the monster. He takes them to his Adirondacks cabin and shares his homemade hard cider with them, medicinally. When he steps outside to investigate what is upsetting his horse and dog, he is attacked by the creature but escapes.

He is terrified and says that the bird is "La Carcagne" -- a chimera of a woman with bat's wings and a wolf's head which is a harbinger of death. Sally has heard of the superstition about such an apparition being an omen of impending death.

This monster may have been inspired by Samuel Adams Hopkins' short story "Grandfather and a Winter's Tale" which was published in "The New Yorker" in 1951.

Answer: Yes

"How to Make a Monster" adopts characters from "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957) and "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" (1957), both of which were made by American International. The Frankenstein monster, teenager Tony Mantell, was played by Gary Conway in both films.

The wolfman, teenager Larry Drake, was played by Gary Clark in "How to Make a Monster" because the original actor, Michael Landon, was unavailable.

Answer: he cuts off his head

Still drunk from a party thrown in his honour, Walter lurches toward his apartment. He sees a man working in a sawmill, which gives him an idea. He cuts the man's head off, using his own buzzsaw, and takes it home to make a "bust" out of it.

Answer: acting

Earl Holliman (b. 1928) seemingly specialized in Westerns and military movies. In "Forbidden Planet" (1956), he played Cookie, the space ship's cook. His role provided comic relief to a tense storyline. He secretly persuaded Robby the Robot to replicate a pint of bourbon and received sixty gallons in return. On television, he played Sergeant Bill Crowley on "Police Woman" (1974-1978).

Other science fiction films in which he appeared included "Visit to a Small Planet" (1960) and "The Power" (1968).

Answer: a small town in Texas

The range of gila monsters includes Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, California, and Arizona, south to Sonora and northwestern Sinaloa in Mexico. Probably to increase its appeal to teenagers all over the United States, "The Giant Gila Monster" is set in a small town in Texas which could be anywhere.

Answer: They fire all their nuclear missiles at it.

The scientists decide that, if all of the rockets and missiles on Earth were armed with nuclear warheads, they could intercept and destroy the threatening asteroids. They must compute the exact moment for the launch of each of these missiles from each of the countries participating.

The trajectory calculations are completed and transmitted at the last moment and the explosions successfully destroy the asteroids.