Devils and Monsters in Movies Trivia

1. Who played the shining devil who met his match with "The Witches of Eastwick" in 1987?

From Quiz His Bark Is Worse Than His Bite

Answer: Nicholson

"The Witches of Eastwick" (1987) was George Miller's first major feature in Hollywood. Strangely, Bill Murray was the studio's first choice for the role but after re-visiting Jack Nicholson's stellar performance in "The Shining" the studio soon changed their minds on the man to play the ultimate bad guy. Nicholson's co-stars in this film were Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer who played three women from Rhode Island with latent powers they did not know they possessed. Jack manages to seduce the ladies and, in the process draws the witch inside out... much to his dismay in the end.

From Quiz Operation: Doomsday II

Answer: Microorganisms

In the 1950s movie "War of the Worlds", the military had tried every kind of bomb they could think of to destroy the Martian spaceships, but nothing worked. At the end of the movie, Martian spaceships began crashing. When the Martians were examined, it was discovered that microorganisms which people were immune to had killed the Martians.

From Quiz Speak of the Devil

Answer: Bedazzled

The original "Bedazzled" was written by the team of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. In it Cook plays the Devil and Moore the person who trades his soul. Interestingly, Raquel Welch plays Lilian Lust in the 1967 version. In the 2000 "Bedazzled" The Devil becomes the vixen, as Hurley tackles the role. Both Fraser and Moore play the hapless fool with whom the Devil toys to perfection.

From Quiz Of Course It's Not A Dragon

Answer: Balrog

In a memorable scene, Gandalf the Grey protects the fellowship by fending off the Balrog, allowing Frodo and the ring to escape the deep Mines of Moria. Holding on for his life, Gandalf has to let go and fall into a chasm pulled down by the demon chasing behind. It is discovered in the second film, "The Two Towers", that once the Bridge of Khazad-dûm collapsed, Gandalf and the Balrog continued fighting to the top of the mountain Zirakzigil. After an extensive battle, both Gandalf and the Balrog fell. Gandalf, however, was sent back to Middle Earth as Gandalf the White, a much more powerful wizard. Nazgûls, also known as Ringwraiths, pursued Frodo and the Ring through most of the journey. Ents are tree creatures from Fangorn Forest, and Shelob is a spider-creature fought by Sam and Frodo in Cirith Ungol. They appeared in "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" respectively.

From Quiz Acting for Good and Evil

Answer: Father Kiernan

Gabriel Byrne played Father Andrew Kiernan. Father Durning was played by Thomas Kopache, Father Delmonico was played by Dick Latessa, and Jonathan Pryce played Daniel Houseman, who was actually a cardinal. In "End Of Days", Byrne was credited as playing Satan, aka The Man, and this was released shortly after "Stigmata", in the same year.

From Quiz Werewolves At The Movies

Answer: Jack Goodman

Goodman was played by Griffin Dunn, David (Jack's friend) and Max Kessler by David Naughton and Mark Fisher and Nurse Alex Price was portrayed by Jenny Agutter.

From Quiz Operation: Doomsday

Answer: Escape From the Planet of the Apes

In "Escape From the Planet of the Apes" NASA recovered the spaceship Taylor had flown in "Planet of the Apes", but the NASA people were surprised when large chimpanzees wearing spacesuits came out of the spaceship. People were even more surprised when they found out the apes could speak, and the apes said they came from future Earth. A German scientist decided to kill the intelligent apes to prevent them from taking over the Earth in the future.

From Quiz Speak of the Devil

Answer: John Ritter

"Wholly Moses!" is a religious spoof along the lines of Monty Python's "Life of Brian". Moore plays Herschel, a man whose life parallels that of the more famous Moses. The movie came out in 1980, right in the middle of Ritter's eight year run as Jack Tripper on "Three's Company".

From Quiz Of Course It's Not A Dragon

Answer: Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh

The film, a cult classic comedy starring the Monty Python troupe, has gone down as one of the more popular comedy films according to many outlets. After a long journey, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table end up at the Cave of Caerbannog guarded by a killer rabbit (the aptly named Rabbit of Caerbannog). When they venture inside with Brother Maynard, he is promptly eaten and they are forced to flee from the animated Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh. This chase promptly ends when Terry Gilliam, the film's animator, suffers from a horrible heart attack and the beast is no more. After this, the knights find their way to the Bridge of Death on the Gorge of Eternal Peril.

From Quiz Acting for Good and Evil

Answer: Jesus

Chris Sarandon played Jesus Christ in the 1980 television film, "The Day Christ Died". He was a vampire in "Fright Night" (1985), Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, in "The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), and a Necromancer in an episode of "Charmed" (1998).

From Quiz Name That Movie Devil

Answer: Barney Satin

Bill Cosby played Mr. Satin and Elliot Gould took the role of Max. Devlin's job got complicated when, as payment for his soul, a seven year old demands that Max marry his mother.

From Quiz The Devil At The Movies

Answer: Mona Lisa & Mona Lisa's & The Mona Lisa & The Mona Lisa's

Ironically, Pacino's name in the movie is John Milton, after the author of 'Paradise Lost'.

From Quiz His Bark Is Worse Than His Bite

Answer: The Passion of the Christ

Rosalinda plays a bald, androgynous, albino Devil who appears to Jesus in Gethsemane while he's deep in prayer. She endeavours to talk him out of dying for humanity's sake and when he ignores her she turns his sweat to blood and takes on the guise of a snake. "The Passion of the Christ", which details the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus Christ, became, at the time, the highest grossing R-rated and foreign language (Latin and reconstructed Aramaic) film in the history of US cinema, grossing in excess of $370 million.

From Quiz Operation: Doomsday II

Answer: Resident Evil

The Umbrella Corporation scientists were working on a beauty product to stop aging. When the chemical gas got loose, it mutated the scientists into killers and monsters. As the gas continued to spread, dead animals and people were also resurrected and became ravenous zombies. At the end of the movie the gas spread to nearby Raccoon City, and in sequels it spread all over the world.

From Quiz Operation: Doomsday

Answer: Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Continuing from "Planet of the Apes" the movie followed Taylor (Heston) as he was captured by some underground mutant people who lived in the Forbidden Zone. Another astronaut landed and looked for Taylor, and the apes followed him and attacked the people who worshipped "the doomsday bomb". These people had psychic powers and were descended from survivors of a nuclear war from the past, but they had stayed hidden from the apes, while the apes treated the "yahoos" on the surface of planet Earth like animals.

From Quiz Speak of the Devil

Answer: Deconstructing Harry

"Deconstructing Harry" features an All-Star cast along with Woody Allen in the lead. In many ways the movie is seen as a reflection of Allen's life at the time. Many critics see parallels between the movie and the works of Ingmar Bergman, specifically "Wild Strawberries" and "Through a Glass Darkly". Bergman's influence is undeniable.

From Quiz Of Course It's Not A Dragon

Answer: Beetlejuice

Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin, as the Maitlands, have died. Doomed to 'haunt' the house they live in together, the two are forced to seek help in ridding their country abode of its new residents, the post-modern Deetze family (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder). When they find that their case worker from beyond the grave is unable to help them beyond a couple of helpful tips, they ask Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) to help. Soon though, they realize this is a bad idea. The couple is unable to leave their house, despite being dead, because they can't leave without emerging in a desert world populated by angry sand worm creatures. Geena Davis' character later uses this to her advantage.

From Quiz Acting for Good and Evil

Answer: Blade II

Thomas Kretschmann is a German actor, who is probably most recogniseable as playing Captain Englehorn in "King Kong" (2005). He played a vampire in Blade II (2002), called Damaskinos, and played the pope in the aforementioned television film about Pope John Paul II.

From Quiz Name That Movie Devil

Answer: John Milton

By using John Milton as his alias, the devil was paying the epic poet a nod of appreciation. After all, it is generally agreed that Satan had all the good lines in "Paradise Lost".

From Quiz Werewolves At The Movies

Answer: Eddie The Mangler

Robert Picardo played the role.

From Quiz The Devil At The Movies

Answer: David Warner

Troughton plays Father {Brennan;} Leo McKern is Bugenhagen, the {archeologist;} and Martin Benson is Father Spiletto.

From Quiz His Bark Is Worse Than His Bite

Answer: Needful Things

There cannot be many actors who have played Jesus ("The Greatest Story Ever Told" - 1965), the Devil ("Needful Things" - 1983) and an exorcist ("The Exorcist" - 1974) but Swedish actor Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow, 1929) has certainly shown his acting chops by playing all three. In this film adaptation of Stephen King's 1980 novel of the same name, Leland Gaunt moves to Castle Rock, Maine opens an antiques store and plays havoc with the townsfolk in a supernatural way. When his store is blown up he leaves the town as mysteriously as he came presumably to cause havoc in another town.

From Quiz Operation: Doomsday II

Answer: Set off nuclear missiles

Years before "War Games", or "Terminator", or "The Matrix", there was a movie called "Colossus: The Forbin Project", in which a computer was hooked up to all the nuclear missiles of the United States, so that it could immediately react to an attack from Russia. However, the computer took over the Russian computer, so then it controlled all the missiles of the world, and told the people what to do. One time it blew up a city with a nuclear missile to prove what it could do.

From Quiz Operation: Doomsday

Answer: War Games

Every movie I listed involved a computer controlling nuclear weapons. In "War Games", yet another computer was connected to the missiles, and a teenage boy (Matthew Broderick) hacked into the system and played a computer game showing a simulated nuclear war, but the military people thought it was really happening. The boy and his girl friend escaped the military and found the man who created the computer and brought him back to show the military what to do to prevent World War III.

From Quiz Speak of the Devil

Answer: Viggo Mortenson

"The Prophecy" was released in Europe as "God's Army". The movie tells the story of a war raging among the angels. A man who quit the priesthood to become an LAPD detective is the focus of the movie. He quit the priesthood because of the visions he saw of the angelic war and now that war engulfs his life.

From Quiz Of Course It's Not A Dragon

Answer: New York City

J.J. Abrams' 2008 monster movie, "Cloverfield", was quite the significant film in North America. Hyped up by a viral marketing ploy and mysteriously kept under-wraps for months before its box office release, "Cloverfield" was extremely successful, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of the year by January, before most films even got a chance. Filmed entirely on handheld cameras (becoming the one of the first to popularize the 'shaky-cam' style). You either liked or hated the abrupt urgency of the story, a journey of a small group of survivors, traveling across the city to save a trapped friend and evacuating the city before it's nuked to stop the Cloverfield monster in its tracks. The origin of the monster is unknown, and while it's extremely dangerous, a complete image of the creature is difficult to come by. You only see the most of it at the end of the film, but never a full shot.

From Quiz Kooky Monsters 3

Answer: Kalifornia

In the end, Early was killed and Adele found peace of mind. The roles of Early Grayce and Adele Corners were played by Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis. Ms. Lewis also played the role of Mallory Knox in 1994's "Natural Born Killers". This 1993 movie was directed by Dominic Sena.

From Quiz Werewolves At The Movies

Answer: Yvonne Romain

His mother was a servant raped by a beggar (Richard Wordsworth) who was, in fact, a werewolf.

From Quiz Operation: Doomsday II

Answer: Jason X

At the beginning of "Jason X", the tenth movie about Jason Voorhees, Jason was in a containment pod, but the machete penetrated the outside of the pod, stabbing a woman. The entire room became cold and froze Jason and the woman to prevent Jason from escaping. The story jumped hundreds of years into the future when some students visited the unpopulated Earth. In the past all of the people had left planet Earth and lived on space stations and other planets. With future technology, the woman and Jason were taken to a spaceship and defrosted. However, when Jason came back to life, he continued his old habit of murdering people.

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