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Was This REALLY a Movie? #2 Trivia Quiz

Considering the feedback, I'd guess Part 1 was a grand success! Here's Part 2. I give you the plot of a goofy movie, add some of my own humour, a fun hint, and you pick the title of the film. Thanks for playing! Too Funny!

A multiple-choice quiz by krazykritik. Estimated time: 7 mins.

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Question 1 of 10

1. PLOT: A meteor strikes a houseboat floating in a swamp near a southern US town. The town is populated by "Yankees" with fake accents. Folks on the houseboat become alligator-eating zombies! (Don't you love zombies?) Once they eat all the 'gators, they make their meals out of the town citizens. Only a local scientist suspects something's wrong when people start disappearing.

Well, B-movie fans, what title was given this film?

(I've never seen a movie zombie that was alive.) Hint

Alien Dead

The Horrible Houseboat Holiday

Where Have the Gators Gone?

Meteoric Munchies

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Question 2 of 10

2. PLOT: Friends on a sailing tour run aground on a deserted island. Their boat destroyed, they take refuge in an old fungus-covered ship. The ship's logbook tells it was a research vessel, and the crew went mad because they ate the fungus, which they had named "Matango". Unable to find alternative food sources, they are no longer able to stand the hunger, and the friends are forced to eat the 'tasty fungi treat', with disastrous results.

Opening in Japan with the name "Matango", it was released in the US, Canada, and other venues under which title?

(Think twice now about what pizza toppings you ask for.) Hint

Attack of the Mushroom People

The Fearsome Fungus

Island of Terror

Revenge of the Sushi Monster

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Question 3 of 10

3. PLOT: In this movie, the lead woman surprisingly makes it onto a game show, where she wins a trip to Europe and Asia. But some government boys, who are watching the show, put a damper on her round-the-world vacation by convincing her that she can make some big bucks by smuggling top secret spy data to their partners in Lebanon.

What's the title for this film, which is the same as the undercover nickname she's given by the government agents?

(It's what I say to my wife when she asks me to repeat what I want on my toast.) Hint

Honeybaby, Honeybaby

The Falafel Affair

Goodbye Sweetypie

Middle Eastern Spy Gravy

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Question 4 of 10

4. PLOT: Four Scottish teenagers become very bored with their jobs working in a factory that only makes kitchen basins. (Gee, I wonder why?) One of the teens, though, finds out that stainless steel fetches a big price at the scrapyard. So they devise a "stop-motion-potion", then they dress up as women to distract their co-workers, and put the potion into their drinks so they can steal the whole warehouse of stock.

What do you think the producers named this picture show?

(The movie's investors must have felt this when the saw the admission receipts.) Hint

The Great Scottish Basin Caper

Stolen Steal

The Sinks Get Sunk

That Sinking Feeling

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Question 5 of 10

5. PLOT: A professor doing an experiment loses everything when a baseball comes through the window, smashing all his containers of liquid. The fluids mix, soaking the baseball and making it resistant to wood! Suddenly, a brilliant idea comes to him! Bats are made of wood! (Oh Goody Goody!) He takes off to St. Louis, becomes their pitcher, and takes them to the World Series!

What was this picture called when released?

(Baseball fans anticipate this every year.) Hint

It Happens Every Spring

The Happiest Coach Ever

The Perfect Game Professor

When You Just Can't Lose

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Question 6 of 10

6. PLOT: A mob boss needs a big tax write-off quickly, so he invests tons in a film flop remake of "Romeo and Juliet". But the actors and crew are too good at their craft and despite their orders to act lousy, the film ends up being considered a "witty parody", wins an award and makes enough money to cause the boss more tax trouble.

What's your guess as to the title of this movie about a movie?

(I bet the boss was looking for this when the IRS showed up!) Hint

The Successful Flop

Panic Button

Too Good To Be Bad

Romeo and Juliet Get Hit

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Question 7 of 10

7. PLOT: A maniac named Abdullah kills the town's mayor, then goes to work for a butcher who's invented a new language for the town's new theme park. Abdullah hides the body in the meat freezer. The shop has a septic tank where meat scraps are dumped and turn radioactive, producing "balonium", a fuel sought by space aliens. The aliens revive the mayor and use him to help them get the balonium! (Too intense for me!)

Can you control your "cravings for balonium" long enough to guess the title of this movie?

(I was one of these until I saw the plot of the movie.) Hint

Big Meat Eater

Alien Septic Searchers

The Butcher of Balonium

The Sewage Suckers

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Question 8 of 10

8. PLOT: In medieval France, a young lawyer has tired of the cynicism of the people of Paris, so he returns to a rural atmosphere to practise simpler law as a public defender. His first case (this is a beauty) is to defend a mysterious gypsy's pet pig from the charge of murder. Simple rural superstition turns out to reveal sinister corruption!

What is the title of this 'oinker' of a film?

(Do you think the pig knows he's only got 60 minutes to plead his case?) Hint

Silence of the Hams

The Hour of the Pig

The Greasy Green Mile

Crispy Electric Chair Bacon

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Question 9 of 10

9. PLOT: A former prison doctor abducts young women from nightclubs and uses their skin to repair his own daughter's fire-scarred face. With the aid of his assistant "Morpho", a barbarous and deformed sick-o who likes to bite the victims, the doctor tries in vain to restore his daughter's face. Time's running out as a young detective is closing in on their morbid scheme!

Which of the following titles was given to this horror film?

(A 'terrible' doctor, a 'diabolical' doctor, a truly '____' doctor!) Hint

The Awful Dr. Orloff

Dr. Skin and Mr. Hyde

Morpho's Malpractice

The First Plastic Surgeon

NEXT>

Question 10 of 10

10. PLOT: Some seemingly harmless desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence after realizing the inhabitants of an isolated desert town are trying to eradicate them. (Uh-huh... yeah... Suuurrreee...) They begin attacking the residents, leaving it up to two scientists and a girl they saved from the ants to kill them off! (How about just squishing 'em with your boot?)

And the Oscar goes to the movie with the title of?

(I'd hate to see the previous three attempts.) Hint

Revenge of the Colonies

Empire of the Ants

Phase Four

They Come Out at Sundown

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. PLOT: A meteor strikes a houseboat floating in a swamp near a southern US town. The town is populated by "Yankees" with fake accents. Folks on the houseboat become alligator-eating zombies! (Don't you love zombies?) Once they eat all the 'gators, they make their meals out of the town citizens. Only a local scientist suspects something's wrong when people start disappearing. Well, B-movie fans, what title was given this film? (I've never seen a movie zombie that was alive.)

Answer: Alien Dead

"Alien Dead", released in July 1980, starred Buster Crabbe (dozens of cowboy pics from the '20s to the '70s) in the lead role of Sheriff Kowalski. After you watch this one, you'll be wishing the zombies had eaten 'Crabbe' instead of 'Gator'! The film, which was produced by Fred Olin Ray (Fabulous Freddie Valentine of ACW wrestling fame), was also released under the title "It Fell From the Sky".

The three main co-stars of this flick had never starred in a film previous to this one, nor will they again sadly as they've gone to that big "Walk of Fame" in Hollywood heaven.

2. PLOT: Friends on a sailing tour run aground on a deserted island. Their boat destroyed, they take refuge in an old fungus-covered ship. The ship's logbook tells it was a research vessel, and the crew went mad because they ate the fungus, which they had named "Matango". Unable to find alternative food sources, they are no longer able to stand the hunger, and the friends are forced to eat the 'tasty fungi treat', with disastrous results. Opening in Japan with the name "Matango", it was released in the US, Canada, and other venues under which title? (Think twice now about what pizza toppings you ask for.)

Answer: Attack of the Mushroom People

"Attack of the Mushroom People" was directed by Ishiro Honda, writer and director of the original "Gojira" (Godzilla) in 1954. Honda is credited with many great monster titles like "War of the Gargantuas", "Frankenstein Conquers the World", and "King Kong Escapes". Also worth noting is that Haruo Nakajima played the special effects part of the "Matango". Nakajima is well known to monster movie buffs as having playing Godzilla the monster in twelve different "Gojira" films.

3. PLOT: In this movie, the lead woman surprisingly makes it onto a game show, where she wins a trip to Europe and Asia. But some government boys, who are watching the show, put a damper on her round-the-world vacation by convincing her that she can make some big bucks by smuggling top secret spy data to their partners in Lebanon. What's the title for this film, which is the same as the undercover nickname she's given by the government agents? (It's what I say to my wife when she asks me to repeat what I want on my toast.)

Answer: Honeybaby, Honeybaby

"Honeybaby, Honeybaby" was an attempt by director Michael Schultz (t.v. director for "Boston Public", "Ally McBeal", "The Practice", etc) to make a "serious" movie about international intrigue and assassination. The star role was played by Diana Sands (black actress whose work in the '50s and '60s was highly regarded, like "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961) with Sidney Poitier), and co-starred Calvin Lockhart (1975's "Let's Do It Again") and Seth Allen ("Prizzi's Honor" and "The Flamingo Kid"). I wish I could say it was a comedy with a plot like that, and with the reviews it received, it might have done better under that genre.

4. PLOT: Four Scottish teenagers become very bored with their jobs working in a factory that only makes kitchen basins. (Gee, I wonder why?) One of the teens, though, finds out that stainless steel fetches a big price at the scrapyard. So they devise a "stop-motion-potion", then they dress up as women to distract their co-workers, and put the potion into their drinks so they can steal the whole warehouse of stock. What do you think the producers named this picture show? (The movie's investors must have felt this when the saw the admission receipts.)

Answer: That Sinking Feeling

February 15th, 1984 saw "That Sinking Feeling" hit the theatres in New York, then it hit everyone associated with it. Bill Forsyth directed ("Local Hero" (1983) with Burt Lancaster, and "Being Human" (1993) with Robin Williams), while Tom Mannion took the lead role, with his big claim-to-fame playing the part of Stardestroyer Captain #2 in "Return of the Jedi". Yep, I checked, that's about his biggest claim to fame.

5. PLOT: A professor doing an experiment loses everything when a baseball comes through the window, smashing all his containers of liquid. The fluids mix, soaking the baseball and making it resistant to wood! Suddenly, a brilliant idea comes to him! Bats are made of wood! (Oh Goody Goody!) He takes off to St. Louis, becomes their pitcher, and takes them to the World Series! What was this picture called when released? (Baseball fans anticipate this every year.)

Answer: It Happens Every Spring

"It Happens Every Spring" was released in theatres in July, 1949, and starred the great Ray Milland of many a great horror B-movie. (By the look of this 'comedy', he should stick to that genre.) It co-starred Jean Peters (from the classic "Three Coins In A Fountain"), as well as Ed Begley and Alan Hale Jr.

6. PLOT: A mob boss needs a big tax write-off quickly, so he invests tons in a film flop remake of "Romeo and Juliet". But the actors and crew are too good at their craft and despite their orders to act lousy, the film ends up being considered a "witty parody", wins an award and makes enough money to cause the boss more tax trouble. What's your guess as to the title of this movie about a movie? (I bet the boss was looking for this when the IRS showed up!)

Answer: Panic Button

Released in the US in 1964 with the title "Let's Go Bust", the movie "Panic Button" stars the great french actor/singer, Maurice Chevalier, the blonde bombshell, Jayne Mansefield, and Mike Connors of t.v.'s "Mannix". With a man like Chevalier at the helm, no wonder this attempt at a flop didn't flop!

7. PLOT: A maniac named Abdullah kills the town's mayor, then goes to work for a butcher who's invented a new language for the town's new theme park. Abdullah hides the body in the meat freezer. The shop has a septic tank where meat scraps are dumped and turn radioactive, producing "balonium", a fuel sought by space aliens. The aliens revive the mayor and use him to help them get the balonium! (Too intense for me!) Can you control your "cravings for balonium" long enough to guess the title of this movie? (I was one of these until I saw the plot of the movie.)

Answer: Big Meat Eater

I don't think the director was watching his own film when he chose "Big Meat Eater" as the title. They didn't eat the meat; they used its radioactive runoff as a fuel for their ships! Then again, why look for a sensible title with such a pathetic plot? Released in Canada in April 1982, and then in the US in April 1984, the film had a budget of $220,000 CDN, which didn't leave much denaro for hiring a cast.

It 'starred' George Dawson of nothing worth mentioning and Clarence 'Big' Miller who had one 30-second cameo in a film nine years earlier.

8. PLOT: In medieval France, a young lawyer has tired of the cynicism of the people of Paris, so he returns to a rural atmosphere to practise simpler law as a public defender. His first case (this is a beauty) is to defend a mysterious gypsy's pet pig from the charge of murder. Simple rural superstition turns out to reveal sinister corruption! What is the title of this 'oinker' of a film? (Do you think the pig knows he's only got 60 minutes to plead his case?)

Answer: The Hour of the Pig

"The Hour of the Pig" was first released in 1993 in France at the Dinard Festival of British Cinema, then it hit the theatres in the US in August 1994. Get this! The lead part of the lawyer defending the pig was played by Colin Firth ("Bridget Jone's Diary"), and also starred the highly regarded Donald Pleasance (200+ film roles in 40 years), as well as Ian Holm (Bilbo Baggins of "The Fellowship of the Ring"). Titled as "The Advocate" when released on dvd, it was actually considered to be a highly imaginative film and escaped the genre of B-movie infamy.

9. PLOT: A former prison doctor abducts young women from nightclubs and uses their skin to repair his own daughter's fire-scarred face. With the aid of his assistant "Morpho", a barbarous and deformed sick-o who likes to bite the victims, the doctor tries in vain to restore his daughter's face. Time's running out as a young detective is closing in on their morbid scheme! Which of the following titles was given to this horror film? (A 'terrible' doctor, a 'diabolical' doctor, a truly '____' doctor!)

Answer: The Awful Dr. Orloff

I'd say "Dr. Orloff" was worse than "Awful"! This doctor almost sounds like a forerunner to Jame Gumb of "The Silence of the Lambs" fame. (He was the notorious skin collector known as "Buffalo Bill".) Written and directed by the prolific Jesus Franco (writer, director, actor, cinematogropher, composer), the movie hit theatres in Dec 1964, and was actually considered one of the better horror films of the era and garnered some decent gate receipts.

10. PLOT: Some seemingly harmless desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence after realizing the inhabitants of an isolated desert town are trying to eradicate them. (Uh-huh... yeah... Suuurrreee...) They begin attacking the residents, leaving it up to two scientists and a girl they saved from the ants to kill them off! (How about just squishing 'em with your boot?) And the Oscar goes to the movie with the title of? (I'd hate to see the previous three attempts.)

Answer: Phase Four

If they called this "Phase Four", then what happened the first three times they attempted to exterminate the little monsters? "Phase Four" came to US theatres in September 1974, and was the work of extraordinary film title designer Saul Bass ("Goodfellas", "Big", "Cape Fear" (1991), "Alien", and many others). So since this was from his earlier work, he can be forgiven due to the many great projects he worked on later in his career. Michael Murphy and Nigel Davenport star as the two scientists in this B-movie bomb.

Source: Author krazykritik

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