Love, Impossibly Trivia Quiz

Answer: A lighthouse

The final title of the story was "The Fog Horn", and that's what the creature fell in love with; the sound of the horn in the lighthouse sounds exactly like the monster's own voice. The sea beast (probably a dinosaur of some sort) shows up at night and moans along with the sound, but when the horn is turned off the creature becomes infuriated and destroys the structure.

The story was filmed as "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" in 1953.

Answer: Pepé Le Pew

Penelope Pussycat was named in 1954, in the short "The Cat's Bah", but she was later called 'Fifi' and 'Fabrette'. It wasn't until 1995's "Carrotblanc" that she was officially and finally called 'Penelope' ("in her first speaking role!" trumpeted the advertisements).

She invariably ended up with a white stripe on her back, which let the amorous skunk Pepé to believe that she was "la belle femme skunk fatale".

Answer: He shot the President of the United States

Hinckley, the psychologically disturbed would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan, was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster. He watched "Taxi Driver" repeatedly, and tried to build a relationship with her by writing poems and shoving them under her door, calling her, and generally being creepy. His obsession turned potentially deadly when he fired six rounds at President Reagan in 1981. It's pure luck that no one died that day, though four people were injured and press secretary James Brady was paralyzed.

It could have been even worse; Hinckley had originally thought to hijack an airplane to impress Foster, and that could have been truly bad.

Answer: Lucy becomes a vampire

In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula", Lucy falls afoul of the sanguinary monster, wastes away and dies. After she rises in her new, vampiric unlife, she starts stalking local children. Holmwood and his friends are forced to drive a stake through her heart, cut off her head and stuff garlic into her mouth, which pretty much kills the romantic mood.

Answer: Himself

Narcissus was the most beautiful boy in the world, but he cruelly spurned those who would love him (including the man Ameinias and the nymph Echo). He was cursed by Nemesis, and when he was sixteen he caught sight of his own reflection in a pool of water and fell instantly, fatally in love with himself. Unable to pull himself away, he died (in some versions of the story, he killed himself) and was transformed into the narcissus flower.

Answer: Kills another cowboy

The jealous narrator challenges another suitor to a gunfight, and after the dust clears 'the handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor'. The narrator runs to the hills, but the lure of Felina's 'blacker than night' eyes proves too strong to resist.

He returns to El Paso, where he is gunned down by at least seventeen other cowboys, and "One little kiss and Felina, good-bye". He dies in her arms.

Answer: Christine

Christine is a 1958 Plymouth Fury, and Arnie Cunningham the high-school loser who falls for her when he sees her on the front lawn of Roland LeBay's house, a 'For Sale' sign in her window. A REAL girlfriend (Leigh Cabot) will come later, but...Christine doesn't like her much. Christine is fairly possessive, in a "Fatal Attraction" kind of way, and pretty soon some serious King mayhem and murder erupts. Fun book!

Answer: Equus

Alan has an unusual and intense sexual/religious desire for horses ('Equus' is the horse god, and appears to Alan through its avatar, a horse named 'Nugget'). The play attracted some attention recently, in 2007, when Daniel Radcliffe ('Harry Potter') starred in a West End production of it, nude scenes and all.

It was made into a film in 1977 starring Peter Firth as Alan and Richard Burton as his psychiatrist Martin Dysart.

Answer: Nene is a video-game character

The man, who goes by the name of Sal9000 (his screen name in Nintendo's "Love Plus" video game), married his bride in an online ceremony, and then went on a honeymoon to Guam. He's sworn to be faithful to his virtual better half: "I think I'll probably continue playing Love Plus. I won't cheat."

Answer: She's his mother

Well, she's not his mother YET, but she will be; in the movie, Marty McFly travels back in time from 1985 to 1955, when Lorraine has not yet fallen in love with or married Marty's father George. Her crush on her future son complicates things in a way that gets creepier the more you think about it, but in the end everything turns out all right--the correct couple gets together, the bully is vanquished and Marty gets back to the future.