Max Brooks Trivia

1. To truly understand a Zombie it is important to understand their genesis. According to "The Zombie Survival Guide", a human of any sex or age can become a Zombie through contracting what virus?

From Quiz Max Brooks' "The Zombie Survival Guide": Part 1

Answer: Solanum

The virus heads straight for the brain where it replicates, using the frontal lobe and destroying it in the process. Bodily funtions shut down and the subject dies. The replicated cells reanimate the body and thus a Zombie is born.

From Quiz "World War Z" by Max Brooks

Answer: It had no official name

The villagers former home, Old Dachang, was torn down and rebuilt as a tourist museum.

From Quiz "World War Z" by Max Brooks

Answer: Department of Strategic Resources

This department was started in order to aid American citizens in getting back on their feet and back to work.

From Quiz Max Brooks' "The Zombie Survival Guide": Part 1

Answer: The reason is unknown

Nothing is known about the reason why Zombies feed on human flesh. They will keep consuming and consuming until their stomachs explode or they simply rot away. Eyewitness reports have shown Zombies to keep feeding long after their internal organs have gone. It has recently been suggested that their need to feed on human flesh is simply the virus ensuring it keeps spreading, but this is mere speculation.

From Quiz "World War Z" by Max Brooks

Answer: He was looking toward Nagasaki, Japan when the bomb dropped.

Surviving Japanese victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are referred to as "hibakusha" and are considered unclean by many and have faced much discrimination due to the misconception that radiation sickness is hereditary or contagious.

From Quiz Zombie Apocalypse Survival - Will you make it?

Answer: Damage or destroy the brain

The only way to dispatch (the word "kill" is inappropriate because they're already dead!) a zombie is to severely damage or destroy the brain. This is quite a difficult feat to accomplish because the human skull is an amazingly strong structure which evolved over millions of years to do one thing ... protect the brain! It should be noted that even a severed zombie head is still capable of biting. The brain must be destroyed!

From Quiz "World War Z" by Max Brooks

Answer: Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks is a multi-award winning director, writer, composer, lyricist, actor, comedian and producer. Some of his best films are: "Spaceballs", "Robin Hood: Men in Tights", "Dracula: Dead and Lovin' It" and "High Anxiety". Max is his only child with actress Anne Bancroft whom he was married to until she died in 2005.

From Quiz "World War Z" by Max Brooks

Answer: Zack

I don't believe the book ever says why exactly they started calling the enemy, Zack. One can probably assume that it is because it also starts with Z, as zombie does, and the U.S. military's habit of naming their enemies, as in "Charlie" during the Vietnam War.

From Quiz Max Brooks' "The Zombie Survival Guide": Part 1

Answer: Smell and Hearing

A lot of people truly believe Zombies to possess superhuman strength and amazing eyesight. Truth be told, the Zombie brain is severely limited. Firstly, it lacks the intelligence or emotion a fully functioning human has. Secondly, a Zombie's muscles are just the same as they were in life. The only reason Zombies seem stronger is that they are not limited in the way humans are. A Zombie will not stop if their muscles tear and they are not hindered by fatigue. A door or barricade that would tire a human would fall to two or three determined Zombies. Their eyesight is very poor, the eyes being one of the first to decompose. To compensate for this, the Zombies' hearing and smell is increased, making it easier to seek out and devour prey...namely us!

From Quiz Zombie Apocalypse Survival - Will you make it?

Answer: A good all-terrain bicycle

With a decent mountain bike, you can easily out-pedal the zombies, weave your way through the worst of traffic jams, and even carry it on your back if need be. It is also nearly silent, requires no fuel, and can to be found almost everywhere. A horse, while a good choice, requires a lot of grazing time and water. They are also instinctively terrified by the sight and smell of the unquiet dead and will panic at once in the presence of a ghoul and flee, throwing you off. Trucks, SUV's, motorcycles, tanks, and four-wheelers all require gasoline. It will only be a matter of hours after an infestation before that pseudo-precious commodity will be impossible to find. Gas stations will be littered with corpses ... not of dispatched zombies but of survivors shot by other questing for the same fuel.

From Quiz Zombie Apocalypse Survival - Will you make it?

Answer: A rowboat - zombies cannot swim

Zombies cannot swim. If you can find a means of anchoring a boat in water about ten feet deep, even in a swimming pool, you are completely safe and can sleep like a baby, immune to the threat. It is ludicrous to think zombies have any notion of holy ground. Grocery stores would be dangerous because of looters and violent gangs of survivors. Schools usually have lots of windows which zombies are capable of breaking, but the limited number of exits can actually be a bonus.

From Quiz "World War Z" by Max Brooks

Answer: Whales

Between bombs exploding in and over water and millions of survivors taking to the sea to live, the whales didn't stand a chance.

From Quiz Zombie Apocalypse Survival - Will you make it?

Answer: A .22 caliber rifle or pistol

By far the best possible firearm you could acquire is the lowly .22. How's this? Think of it ... the tiny bullet flies very fast, over 1300 feet per second in most cases, easily capable of piercing the forehead of a zombie and damaging the brain. Not to mention the fact that the super-high velocity bullet (although small) tends to ricochet about inside the skull, further scrambling the brain. The bullets are tiny, plentiful, and readily found almost everywhere. You can literally carry thousands of them about your person without weighing yourself down.

From Quiz "World War Z" by Max Brooks

Answer: Quislings

Quislings are people whose minds have broken down and they behave like zombies, attacking people by biting them as well as moaning. Ironically, real zombies can still tell the difference and will attack quislings even though they don't attack other zombies. The main ways that military personnel were able to distinguish quislings from real zombies was by heat-detecting equipment and also by watching their eyes. Real zombies don't blink.

From Quiz Zombie Apocalypse Survival - Will you make it?

Answer: A trench spike

By far, the best weapon for hand-to-hand combat ever devised is the trench spike. Developed by the Germans during WWI, it was designed to pierce the helmets of British soldiers in the close hand-to-hand combat in the tight quarters of trench warfare. One cannot possibly hold a more lethal weapon than a trench spike, and if you've got one in your hand ... you will win. The seven-inch spike was carefully designed as it's the optimal length of blade to fully penetrate the brain from any angle. Plus, it can be easily made in most simple garage workshops. Good luck finding a Samurai sword. And even if you were lucky enough to find one, they are not suitable for use in tight areas like hallways. Many people are not strong enough to wield a sledgehammer effectively and they too suffer in tight areas. A chainsaw would indeed be a terrible weapon to wield, if they didn't require the use of gasoline and if the roaring engine didn't attract every zombie within earshot. Not to mention the spraying, splattering blood that would be associated with trying to destroy a zombie with a chainsaw. One drop of infected blood in your eyes and ...

From Quiz Zombie Apocalypse Survival - Will you make it?

Answer: Cans of "Dinty Moore" style beef stew

While the other choices are definitely good items to grab if you can, given the choices the best would be the canned beef stew because it offers the widest range of nutritional value. It contains meat, potatoes, vegetables, and fats which provide a lot of energy.

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