Alan Moore Trivia

1. OK, one question about the film...who gets the creator credits for the original comic book in the movie version?

From Quiz "V For Vendetta" (the graphic novel)

Answer: David Lloyd

Only David Lloyd gets a credit, as co-creator of the original story. Alan Moore notoriously dislikes Hollywood's handling of his stories, and that included the film version of "V For Vendetta." He refused to allow his name to appear in the credits, and assigned all payments due him for the rights to David Lloyd.

From Quiz "Watchmen:" Say What?

Answer: heroin and child pornography

After visiting Happy Harry's bar for some info and breaking a guy's fingers and turning up nothing, Rorschach writes in his journal: "I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography. I have business elsewhere, with a better class of person." That person would be Adrian Veidt.

From Quiz Who Watches the "Watchmen?"

Answer: 1985

'Watchmen' takes place in an alternate reality in the year 1985 with flashbacks to previous decades to show how history turned out differently with superheroes.

From Quiz "Watchmen": Minor Characters

Answer: Captain Carnage

Dan and Laurie talk about Captain Carnage in the first issue, how he got his kicks being beaten up by heroes. Laurie fell for his act, while Dan ignored him, but later Captain Carnage was dropped down an elevator shaft when he attempted to take on Rorschach.

From Quiz "Watchmen": What's in a Name?

Answer: Manhattan Transfer

Dan told Laurie they all called teleporting the Manhattan Transfer... although never to his face.

From Quiz "Watchmen" - the Graphic Novel

Answer: The Minutemen

The only organized hero team in the novel is the Minutemen, a group from the World War II era. The term Watchmen refers to masked hero society in general, but never was the name of a team. "Who watches the watchmen?" was a motto of the movement to outlaw costumed vigilantes. There was an attempt made to organize some of the remaining members of the Minutemen and some of the newer heroes into a group called the Crimebusters, but the effort failed.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "What Doth The Lord..." Part 2

Answer: The Eagles

Gull is telling Netley about the war between the sun and the moon, and how it represents man's oppression of women, the left brain conquering the right, etc. He says that the inmates of Bedlam claim to rule the eagles, and would wage war on the stars if given some claret.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "What Doth The Lord..." - Part 1

Answer: Queen Victoria

Princess Alexandra, or Alix, was Prince Eddy's mother, and a friend of Sickert. She was unpopular with the queen, but she knew that a potential scandal of this magnitude must be reported to Victoria.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "Blackmail Or Mrs Barrett"

Answer: 4 Months

She takes Alice to Sickert's studio, and tells him he can take care of her, as it's his fault her parents were taken away. Sickert decides to take Alice to Anne Crook's parents, and ask them to look after her, because he does not want to take on that responsibility himself.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "A State Of Darkness" Part 2

Answer: Jubela

Part of the ceremony involves three of the Masons taking on the role of the three Juwes: Jubelo, Jubelum, and Jubela. They each tell the Grand Sojourner that their tortures had no effect on Gull. The man representing Jubelo says: "I beat him and tortured him, but he would not reveal the word", and Jubelum says: "I cut out his organs of generation, and he was mute. He did not reveal the word".

From Quiz "From Hell" - "A State Of Darkness" Part 1

Answer: 3

This is the title of a pamphlet which is being written by Hinton's son Howard, much later in the timeline of the story. The comments and questions heard and said in this darkness foreshadow events which are yet to come.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "The Affections Of Young Mr. S"

Answer: Barley Sugar

Sickert claims that Prince Eddy is his younger brother when they visit Annie at the sweet shop. Prince Eddy is immediately attracted to Annie, and of course their pairing eventually leads to the Whitechapel Murders. The implication is that Sickert and Prince Eddy are visiting the sweet shop because it was on the same street as the male brothel that they frequented.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "The Old Men On The Shore"

Answer: 35

The Whitechapel Murders took place in 1888, and Abberline and Lees are taking their walk in 1923. They begin by discussing politics and socialism, but soon get drawn back to their part in the tragic events of 1888.

From Quiz "V For Vendetta" (the graphic novel)

Answer: World War III

The third world war seemed to involve limited nuclear exchanges (so that there is someplace left for the story to occur in), with England cut off from most of the world. There are references to chaotic social collapse in the US and parts of Europe, with the implication that the death and destruction were far greater beyond England's shores. However, disruptions in weather patterns, food shortages, and outbreaks of disease make conditions in England bad enough, and the promise of "normalcy" by Norsefire is enough to gain them the support of most of the population.

From Quiz "Watchmen:" Say What?

Answer: Are you sure?

Kovacs, better known as Rorschach, carries a sign that says 'The End is Nigh.' He told Bernard the day before that the world was going to end and the next day Bernard points out to him that it didn't. Kovacs says, "Are you sure?" The day before Jon, aka Dr. Manhattan, left Earth which escalates the race toward WWIII.

From Quiz Who Watches the "Watchmen?"

Answer: Rockefeller Military Research Center

Jon had his accident at Gila Flat Test Base, that turned him into the blue god-like being later dubbed Dr. Manhattan. However, it is the Rockefeller Military Research Center where we first see Jon working when Rorschach comes to warn him of a possible mask killer.

From Quiz "Watchmen": Minor Characters

Answer: Hooded Justice

Hooded Justice; Hollis Mason's book 'Under the Hood,' states that Hooded Justice was the first to appear wearing a costume and fighting crime. He later went missing rather than reveal his true name to the public during the McCarthy trials and was never heard from again. Hollis speculates that he was a wrestler named Rolf Muller. In letters it also reveals that Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis were lovers and that Sally Jupiter helped them hide the fact by pretending to date Hooded Justice.

From Quiz "Watchmen": What's in a Name?

Answer: The Keene Act

The Keene Act was passed after the police went on strike in reaction to masked vigilantes and all the adventurers were outlawed.

From Quiz "Watchmen" - the Graphic Novel

Answer: 1980s

In the novel, the nuclear clock is nearing midnight because of the imminent Russian invasion of Afghanistan (in our timeline 1979, but in this timeline in 1985). President Nixon is nervously expecting to have to push the button. And someone is killing masked adventurers just when they're needed the most.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "What Doth The Lord..." Part 2

Answer: London

"I wandered through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames doth flow, And mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe" William Blake wrote this famous poem, from "Songs Of Experience", in the same place as he claimed to be once chased out of his house by a scaly demon. William Blake is often referrenced by William Gull, who admires him and his views.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "What Doth The Lord..." - Part 1

Answer: 74

Netley picks up Dr Gull from his home at 74 Brook Street, which was the confirmed address of the real life William Gull. The quote by Gull during this sequence - "I shall be your baggage" - was a genuine quote by the real life Gull, but was taken from a different situation.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "Blackmail Or Mrs Barrett"

Answer: Three Pence

Hairy-ford-shire is supposed to be a pun on Herefordshire, and is also slang for a woman's genitals. The man knew Marie was a prostitute, and this was his roundabout way of asking for business. He says he only has thruppence, which, according to the appendix in the back of the book, was a standard price for short-term prostitution.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "A State Of Darkness" Part 2

Answer: Osiris

The Masonic god, Jahbulon, is made up of three different gods: Jahweh, a god worshipped by the Hebrews; Osiris, from ancient Egypt; and Baal, from the Canaanites. The Masons are only allowed to learn the name of this God, known as the Great Architect of the Universe, when they reach the thirteenth degree.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "A State Of Darkness" Part 1

Answer: Napoleon & Napoleon Bonaparte & Bonaparte

The young William Gull had been told that his mother had to look at numerous pictures of Napoleon during her pregnancy, because it was around the time of the French Revolution. She claimed that the image was impressed on her mind so strongly, that her child resembled him. William Gull's father backs this up, saying that it is a medical fact that this could occur.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "The Affections Of Young Mr. S"

Answer: His mother

He thinks she has his mother's eyes. Prince Eddy's mother is Princess Alexandra, wife of Queen Victoria's son, Albert. Sickert finds it amusing that he would fall for the first shop-girl he meets, and puts it down to his sheltered life.

From Quiz "From Hell" - "The Old Men On The Shore"

Answer: Bournemouth

All of these choices are coastal towns or cities in the south of England. Although this meeting is entirely fictional, Alan Moore chose to use Bournemouth because Lees had family in the town, and Abberline moved near there after his retirement. Therefore, if the two men were to continue to meet up throughout their lives, Bournemouth would be a likely place.

From Quiz "V For Vendetta" (the graphic novel)

Answer: She was trying to work as a prostitute.

Evey is an orphan (her mother died of cholera, her father was taken by the secret police), raised by the state and working for starvation wages in a factory. On her first outing as a would-be prostitute, she propositions a man who turns out to be a member of the Finger. He and his associates are about to exercise their "prerogative" to rape and then kill her when V appears and kills them instead. He takes Evie under his wing.

From Quiz "Watchmen:" Say What?

Answer: the fat man

Jon, while building his fortress on Mars, says, "Without me, things would have been different. If the fat man hadn't crushed the watch, if I hadn't left it in the test chamber.... Am I to blame then? Or the fat man? Or my father, for choosing my career? Which of us is responsible? Who makes the world?"

From Quiz Who Watches the "Watchmen?"

Answer: Walter Kovacs

Walter carries a sign that reads "The End Is Nigh," but when he puts on his face he is Rorschach.

From Quiz "Watchmen": Minor Characters

Answer: Steve Fine and Joe Bourquin

Detective Steve Fine gets suspended, even after capturing Rorschach, when he lets the Nite Owl escape after busting Rorschach out of prison. His partner who helped him with the Blake murder is Joe Bourquin.

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