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1. While this episode did not actually deal with racism outright, it was one of the earliest televised programs offering Black or African-Americans actors in positive and intelligent roles. In the episode,"The Big Tall Wish", a young boy urged Bolie Jackson to have faith in his "big tall wish". What was the occupation of Mr. Jackson?
2. What was the name of the November 11, 1960 episode of "The Twilight Zone" that introduces Janet Tyler; a disfigured hospital patient about to undergo reconstructive surgery on her face by a group of unseen doctors and nurses?
3. In "The Twilight Zone" fifth season episode (1964) titled "I am the Night - Color Me Black", in the pre-dawn hours of a particular morning, a man was scheduled about to be executed for the murder of a bigot and "cross burner". His conviction was questionable as he apparently killed the man in a case of self defense. For some reason, the sun did not rise that morning, while the bloodthirsty crowd watching the public execution, urged the sheriff to go on with the hanging anyway. Even after a heartfelt sermon by the local preacher, the hanging went on as scheduled, in the dark. What was the ethnicity of the convict, Jagger, who was executed?
4. "The Encounter" is an episode from the fifth season of "The Twilight Zone". In this story, WWII veteran, Fenton met a Japanese-American gardener named Arthur Takamori, who was looking for landscaping work. During their conversation, Fenton made several somewhat racist comments, while Takamori spoke about his father's bravery and loyalty to the United States during the war. Fenton shows Arthur a sword that he removed from the body of a dead Japanese soldier during the war. The sword caused Arthur to become possessed by the spirit of the dead owner and try to kill Fenton. He yelled "Banzai" and jumped from the second floor window to his death. Can you BOLDLY GO and tell me the name of the STAR who played the part of Arthur Takamori on this TREK to "The Twilight Zone"?
5. In the second season episode of "The Twilight Zone" entitled, "The Invaders", a mute woman living in a simple cabin in the wilderness is attacked time tiny beings that have emerged from a similarly small flying saucer. The terrified woman, played by "Bewitched" actress Agnes Moorehead fights back hitting the invaders with a hatchet. "Twilight Zone" viewers relieved when the last alien sends a warning message to other spacecraft in its fleet until they were shown the hidden side of the flying saucer, which had what markings?
6. This next question could have gone in my Space themed "Twilight Zone" quiz, but the underlying message makes a better fit here. In "People Are Alike All Over", which premiered in the first season on 25 March 1960, starred Roddy McDowell (Night Gallery pilot, Planet of the Apes) as Sam Conrad and co-starred Susan Oliver as Teenya.
Sam Conrad is one of two members of an interplanetary mission aboard a spacecraft that crash landed on a particular planet in our Solar system. Before his fellow astronaut, Warren Marcussen (played by Paul Comi) dies from injuries, he makes a point of telling Conrad that "people are alike all over", referring to any intelligent life that he may encounter. Conrad is eventually rescued by beings that appeared to be human. In the end, Conrad ends up as a zoo exhibit on what planet?
7. In this episode, residents in a pleasant neighborhood were playing and socializing in the streets when they witnessed a flash of light across the sky and the power goes out. After a boy told the neighborhood that the situation was the same as a story that he had read in a comic book, where monsters who appeared like and lived with humans took control of a neighborhood by isolating it from the rest of the community. Hysteria soon followed as neighbors accused each other of being the monsters in question based on some behavior that they thought was unusual. Fights and deaths ensue.
Which of these choices is the title of this Rod Serling short story and first season episode of "The Twilight Zone"?
8. In "The Obsolete Man", a episode of "The Twilight Zone" that first aired on 2 June 1961, Fritz Weaver returned to "the Zone" as the Chancellor of a Nazi-like totalitarian state, who has condemned librarian Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith) to death by declaring him to be "Obsolete". Wordsworth's crime? Reading a Bible in a dystopian state where both books and religion were strictly forbidden. What was the method of execution "by an unknown assassin" chosen to eliminate?
9. "The Gift" was another episode of "The Twilight Zone" that contained a veiled message against xenophobia. In this story, an alien ship crashed in an area near the Texas/Mexico international boundary. The alien, who called himself Mr. Williams, inadvertently killed a police officer. Wounded, he found help from a friendly doctor and met a young orphan boy named Pedro. He gave the people a gift, but the townsfolk claimed it was the "work of the Devil" and threw it in a fire before killing Mr. Williams. The doctor pulls the gift out of the fire, finding most of it burned away. What was the gift?
10. In "The Twilight Zone" episode called "Four O'Clock", Oliver Crangle, a fanatical bigot harassed and accused people who HE felt were a detriment to society. Since the powers that were would not do anything about it, he made claims that at "Four O'Clock" of a particular day, all of the evil people would undergo a physical change so they could be easily identified and rooted out of society. What was the physical change that the evil people would suffer due to Oliver's curse?
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