The Oddball Couple II Trivia Quiz

Answer: Devil Bat

In the movie "Devil Bat" a family became wealthy selling things Dr. Carruthers, (Bela Lugosi) had invented, while paying Dr. Carruthers a low salary. To get revenge he grew a large killer bat which was attracted to a specific perfume. He convinced each member of the family to wear the perfume, and would release the bat at night, which would kill the person on the way home.

Answer: Indestructible Man

In "Indestructible Man" Butcher Benson (Lon Chaney Jr) was a prisoner that a mad scientist wanted to do experiments on. After becoming super strong from electricity, Butcher Benson killed the doctor and his assistant and escaped. The police tried to capture him and find out where he put the money he stole. Meanwhile, Butcher was killing each person who turned state's evidence.

Answer: Glen or Glenda

Infamous bad director Ed Wood became friends with Bela Lugosi at about the time he was assigned to make a movie about a sex change operation. When the producer couldn't get the rights to the sex change story, Ed changed the script to primarily tell his real life involvement with wearing women's clothing. Bela played as a "God" character who watched the happenings and sometimes commented.

This was similar to the narrator character in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

Answer: Bride of the Monster

The second movie Ed Wood directed was "Bride of the Monster" in which Bela was a mad scientist, Dr. Eric Vornoff, who wanted to build a race of "atomic powered supermen". The movie gets its name from a scene in which a woman reporter got captured by Vornoff and Lobo and was forced to wear a wedding dress.

At the end of the movie, Vornoff fell in the pond where the octopus attacked him, and then the place blew up. This was hilariously reenacted in the movie "Ed Wood", in which Bela wrestled with a rubber octopus.

The producer (according to "Ed Wood") wanted the movie to end with an explosion, so Wood showed a film clip of an atomic explosion at the end of the movie.

Answer: Of Mice and Men

In the movie "Of Mice and Men" Lon Chaney Jr played the large simple-minded man, Lennie, who wanted his own rabbit farm so he could pet the furry little bunnies. In the meantime he was working on a ranch when someone gave him a pet puppy. One day he petted the puppy too hard, and it died.

Answer: Plan 9 From Outer Space

In Ed Wood's third movie, "Plan 9 From Outer Space", people reported seeing UFOs and strange lights over by the cemetery. Bela was an old man wearing a Dracula cape who left his house one day and (off camera) got hit by a car. Later, the aliens began bringing dead people back to life, including Tor Johnson, a wrestler (playing a commissioner), Vampira, the TV hostess (playing as Bela's dead wife), and Bela. People investigated and found out the aliens were doing this to warn people against inventing something which exploded light particles.

Answer: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

At the beginning of "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man", some thieves wanted to steal things from the coffin of Larry Talbot, the man who had turned into a wolf man in the movie "The Wolf Man". They removed the coffin lid, and moonlight shone on Larry (Lon), turning him into the wolf man, and bringing him back to life.

He killed someone and escaped the tomb. Later, he was captured, but no one believed him when he said he was Larry Talbot, because Talbot supposedly died years earlier. He met the old gypsy woman who told him that Dr. Frankenstein might be the only doctor creepy enough to help him.

Answer: Dracula Vs Frankenstein (1971)

The movie "Dracula Vs Frankenstein" brought the movie monsters into modern times. Some people had been missing because Dr. Frankenstein (J. Carrol Naish, 1896-1973) was doing experiments on them. When someone died or escaped, Frankenstein's assistant, Groton (Lon Chaney Jr, 1906-1973), would dispose of the people. Sometimes Dracula would pop up and get into arguments with Frankenstein.

At the end of the movie, Dracula had a fight with Frankenstein's monster.

Answer: Murders in the Rue Morgue

Having almost nothing to do with the Edgar Allen Poe story, "Murders in the Rue Morgue" involved Bela as a mad scientist who injected ape blood into women he kidnapped for his experiments. After a woman died, he would dump her body in the river and send his pet ape to capture another woman.

Answer: Alligator People

Lon Chaney Jr played someone working at a plantation in a swamp. A doctor was doing experiments on a man who had been injured, and used alligator DNA to allow the man to grow back his missing arm. However, he eventually began mutating until he turned into an alligator man. Lon Chaney Jr had a fight with him.