Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 92 Trivia Quiz

Answer: one-eyed bipedal starfish

The extraterrestrial Pairans were shaped very much like people wearing five-pointed starfish-costumes. They walked on the two lower points, used the two points on the sides like arms, and had a single eye on the top point, as if it were a head. These aliens were designed by an avant-garde Japanese artist named Taro Okamoto.

The Pairans were about two meters tall, just the right side to put a man inside the costume. Their appearance frightens humans so they adopt the visage of famous Japanese entertainer Hikari Aozora and transmogrify one of Pairans, Ginko, into human visage.

She has certain powers in her human form: walking through walls, jumping 10 feet in the air.

Answer: The Werewolf's Daughter

"Frankenstein's Daughter" (1958) is a rather silly American production about a formula slipped into a scientist's daughter's drink which makes her a monster. "My Son, the Vampire" (1952) is a very silly British production which stars Arthur Lucan as Old Mother Riley. "The Son of Dr. Jekyll" (1951) is a movie about the son of Dr. Jekyll. "The Werewolf's Daughter" is a Slovakian folktale.

There are (at least) two novels titled "The Werewolf's Daughter": one by M.R. Street (2015) and the other by Ari Wellman (2017).

There does not appear to have been a theatrical motion picture called "The Werewolf's Daughter" made in the 1950s.

Answer: a wooden stake through the heart

The conventional wisdom is that werewolves are properly dispatched by means of shooting them with a bullet made of silver. Vampires, on the other hand, are conventionally killed by the insertion of a wooden stake through the heart. In an interesting blend of filmic folk mythologies, Doctor Lomas is killed by a wooden stake through his heart, even though he was a werewolf and not a vampire.

Answer: Bert Convy

In addition to his quiz show work on television, Bert Convy (1933-1991) appeared in a number of motion pictures: "Semi-Tough" (1977), "Jennifer" (1978), and "The Cannonball Run" (1981). In "A Bucket of Blood" (1959), he plays an undercover police officer staking out the Yellow Door, a beatnik café, for heroin sales. Det. Raby follows busboy Walter Paisley home to arrest him for drug possession.

Instead, Walter conks him on the head with a frying pan, kills him, and covers his body with clay, calling the result a sculpture.

Answer: how to use fire to cook meat

Engor loses his weapon when being pursued by an elephant. While making a new club, he strikes two rocks together and discovers fire. This becomes useful in driving off a large bird-like creature which attacks and to combat the giant Guaddi. The men taught the women how to roast meat over an open fire, doubtless prefiguring the male propensity to immolate meat on a backyard barbecue.

Answer: True

The same production company which made the original 1953 motion picture, Astor Pictures Corp., remade it in 1958. The remake was titled "Missile to the Moon". It included the giant spiders from the original but added giant rock monsters to the scary mix.

Answer: Missiles/rockets get past its antimatter shield.

In response to reports that the monster is attacking Manhattan, a specially-armed B-25 bomber flies to New York City. It destroys the Empire State Building and starts in on the United Nations building. The heroes buzz the bird to get it to follow and then shoot at it with a muonic-atom gun mounted in the tail gunner's position.

This destroys the creature's antimatter shield, whereupon normal rockets and missiles are able to reach it. The bird plunges into the water below until only its claw can be seen, clenched and sinking into the East River.

Answer: acting

Beverly Garland (1926-2008) is likely not best remembered for her roles in motion pictures so much as her role as Barbara Harper Douglas, who married Fred MacMurray's character, Steve Douglas, on television's "My Three Sons" (1969-1972). Her horror and science fiction credits include "Swamp Woman" (1955), "It Conquered the World" (1956), "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon" (1956), "Not of This Earth" (1957), and "The Alligator People" (1959).

Answer: the small town of River Falls

"Earth vs. the Spider" is set in the small town of River Falls. While it is somewhere in the United States, no particular state is indicated. This allows the setting of the film to be anywhere in the country, which increases in the audience the fear that "it could happen here". Cave interiors were filmed in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and in the Bronson Caves in Griffith Park near Los Angeles.

Answer: a hotrod full of nitro-glycerin

Early in the film, Chase Winstead learns that his boss, Mr. Compton, has stored nitroglycerin in the shed near the garage where they work. Near the end of the movie, nitroglycerin plays a significant part. Chase loads four quarts (!) of the stuff into his hot rod, drives it straight at the monster and bails out at the last moment.

When the car strikes the giant creature, it explodes and kills the beast.