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1. The American Civil War tore the United States apart, the Union North versus the Confederate South. Following the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter and subsequent wartime actions, in the year 1862, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus...no, vampires weren't granted privileged rights and despite the Latin word "corpus", the action had nothing to do with dead bodies. What happened instead?
2. While the word "scourge" might conjure visions of massive worm boils or plague-ridden half-creatures, surely neither of these was in evidence in fifth-century Europe when the Eastern and Western Roman Empires were worried that they might be dispatched. Instead, what ruler, given the nickname "the Scourge of God" ("flagellum Dei"), spread his armies across much of Eurasia during this time?
3. Imagine Scheherazade, queen to the Persian King Shahryar, telling her one thousand and one stories, only this time around she is an undead creature. Her re-imagined self would have discovered the grave of the real Scheherazade, eaten from her flesh, and then taken upon the queen's appearance. What creature, whose earliest mention is likely from "One Thousand and One Nights", would have manifested itself as the dear queen?
4. Some may scoff at the idea that a zombie apocalypse would exist in Jane Austen's nineteenth-century England, but ideas concerning the undead have existed for a long time. While modern zombies have their roots in Haitian Vodou (voodoo) folklore, "Pride and Prejudice" (sans zombies) was published in 1813, only five years previous to the novel with the most popular reanimated corpse of all time. We can surmise that Frankenstein's monster was indeed a contemporary of the Bennetts and Darcys. Which English writer imagined the galvanized monster?
5. If a novel were written, say titled "Merovingian Mummies", what identity would most closely fit the desiccated corpses that littered its pages?
6. Nefarious or friendly, space aliens were said to have helped ancient civilizations build extravagant wonders such as the Pyramids of Egypt, the statues of Easter Island and Stonehenge. These theories, most often based on the pseudoscientific work of Erich von Däniken, have been disproved, but that doesn't stop them from being disseminated. What famous wonder does Däniken speculate serves as a series of runways on which alien spaceships were guided and landed?
7. While more "animated" than reanimated, the golem is a staple of Jewish folklore. Talmudic legend holds that Adam himself was created from a golem, and the word appears once in the Old Testament, signifying an "unshaped form". Exploits claim that in the sixteenth century, Rabbi Judah Loew, the Maharal of Prague, once created a golem to defend the Jews of Prague against pogroms and possible expulsion, but according to the traditional definitions of a golem, what was likely the result of his efforts rather than an animated anthropomorphic savior?
8. If the mysterious yûrei were to alter history by haunting their former leaders, which of the following would they be most likely to target?
9. The djinni were spiritual beings that had benevolent or malevolent intentions. As their existence is confirmed in the Quran, which leader would have been the most likely to have rubbed the lamp to get the genie out?
10. And of course there are the lycanthropes, who so contributed to Spanish conquest over the Inca that...oh wait. Which of the following actually contributed the most to Spain's dominance in the New World?
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