Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 76 Trivia Quiz

Answer: He falls into a vat of molten wax.

As Professor Jarrod is about to pour hot wax all over the restrained body of Sue Allen, the police break into his studio to save her and arrest him. A fight ensues in which the professor (who only pretended to be confined to a wheelchair) loses his balance and plummets into a huge vat of hot wax. (Note the patent irony.)

Answer: Blood of the Werewolf

"Blood of Dracula" (1957) is a film about a school girl turned into a vampire in which Dracula plays no part whatsoever. In "Corridors of Blood" (1958), Boris Karloff develops a surgical anesthetic. "Night of the Blood Beast" (1958) concerns an astronaut who is "seeded" with alien embryos while in space. Scientifically Proven released the platform video game "Blood of the Werewolf" to Microsoft Windows in 2013 and to the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in 2014.

There was an amateur-produced video made of three short stories in 2001, the collection of which was titled "Blood of the Werewolf".

It was not a theatrical production. There was not a theatrical movie in the 1950s titled "Blood of the Werewolf".

Answer: computer-controlled robots

In a secret space-travel research facility, underground in New Mexico, the entire facility is run by the Nuclear Operative Variable Automatic Computer (NOVAC). NOVAC, in turn, operates two robots: God and Magog. These are programmed by punched tape fed to the computer.

They are large, have multiple arms, are very strong and can perform tasks in dangerous environments. They can also be lethal.

Answer: Helmut Dantine

In "Stranger From Venus", the Visitor appears at an English inn and makes no answer when asked his name. The character is played by Helmut Dantine, who often played roles as a Nazi in films of the era. In this motion picture, he is an alien who falls in love with a visiting American woman, Susan North, played by Patricia Neal.

Answer: He explodes in a fire.

Jonathan Drake and Zutai grapple for control of a pistol while Lt. Jeff Rowan fights with Dr. Zurich. Rowan then tosses Zutai into an open fire. Zutai explodes and there is nothing left of him.

Answer: Japan

The motion picture "Rodan" was filmed in Japanese in and around the city of Fukuoka, the largest city on the southernmost island of Kyushu. A few scenes were shot in Sasebo on the same island. The Japanese name of the film was "Sora no Daikaiju Radon" which means "Giant Monster of the Sky Rodan".

It was released in a dubbed version in the United States under the name "Rodan! The Flying Monster!". (Distributors feared that "radon" was too evocative of radon, the naturally-occurring radioactive gas, and changed the kaiju's name to Rodan.

They were apparently unconcerned about the potential for confusion with the 19th-20th century French sculptor Auguste Rodin, whose name is pronounced like the monster's new name.)

Answer: Their cerebrospinal fluids are all sucked out.

Autopsies of the monsters' victims show that the fluids surrounding their brains and spinal chord have been sucked out through two puncture holes at the base of their skulls. Each corpse is missing its brain and its spinal cord, as well. The creatures occupy these parts of the human nervous system as their own earthly physical bodies (which is what makes them visible).

Answer: acting

American actor Grant Williams (1931-1985) was born John Joseph Williams. He had a career which embraced motion pictures, television, radio and the live stage ('tho never Broadway). He is well remembered for his role as Greg MacKenzie on television's "Hawaiian Eye" (1960-1963) with Robert Conrad, Anthony Eisley, and Connie Stevens.

His greatest film success was as Scott Carey in "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957). He also played in "The Monolith Monsters" (1957), "The Leech Woman" (1960), "Brain of Blood" (1971) and "Doomsday Machine" (1972).

Answer: inside (and under) the Arctic Circle

"The Atomic Submarine" begins and ends in the Bremerton Navy Yard in Washington State. Between the two points of this chiasmus, the action in the film takes place inside and under the Arctic Circle. Noting that the UFO ranges a thousand nautical miles from the Pole to kill ships and submarines but then always returns to the Pole, the American boat lays in wait near the Pole to attack it.

Answer: gunfire from rifles

At one point in the film, Navy divers find monsters in the irrigation canal system and dispatch them with explosives. Later in the movie, a single mollusk has Gail and her daughter Sandy cornered. Twill arrives, calls for help, throws laboratory chemicals at the beast, squirts it with a CO2 fire extinguisher, and discharges live-steam onto it.

More Navy people arrive and shoot the thing to death.