Friday Quiz-Sam Raimi

All right you primitive screw heads listen up. My name is Bryce Wilson. Budd, being the kind and gentlemanly fellow that he is, was kind enough to let me guest host this edition of Friday Quiz. Starting Sunday on my blog Things That Don’t Suck, I’ll be hosting a week long celebration of Sam Raimi and his work. So to get things off to an early start that would make a Deadite cower, here are five fearsome questions.

1. Sam Raimi is a long time friend and creative partner of The Coen Brothers. In which of their movies does he appear as “The Sniggering Gunman”? (Bonus Point, on which of their movies does he have a co writers credit?)

2. The 1978 Oldsmobile The Classic appears in every Sam Raimi movie but one. Which is that one?


3. Who plays The One Legged Fiddler Annie has a vision of in The Gift?


4. Who was Raimi’s planned villain in the cancelled Spiderman 4?


5. What is the last of the three magic words that Ash forgets to say in Army Of Darkness?

Friday Quiz- Martial Arts in Sci-fi/Fantasy

New more exciting format:  As I am a fan of Jeopardy and already style my quiz after the show with categories and answering in the form of the question, I have decided to give each clue a monetary value.  There will no longer be a quiz winner, but you can keep a running total of how much money/points you have and use it for bragging rights. I will create some buttons for people that reach certain amounts.  I did this to help encourage participation and end the one and done scenerios.  Of course, it depends on your honesty, but why would anyone lie.  on to the quiz. 

All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. 


This weeks category is Martial Arts in Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Next weeks category is Animated Movies

These are a bit harder so this will be a double jeopardy round:

$400- Neo is astounded that he learns this martial art in the Matrix.
$800- Kurt Wimmer's Gunkata is used in these two scifi films.
$1200- The Fedaykin are trained in the Weirding Way in this novel.
$1600- The Bat'leth is used by this warrior race.
$2000-  In the Wheel of Time series, these warriors can channel are master swordsmen and trained in Aiel Martial arts. 

Good Luck

Friday Quiz- Animated Movies

This weeks quiz- Animated Movies
Next weeks quiz- Cartoon Shows

$200-  Earth is being evacuated and the seed ship is lost.  Humanity is living on the fringe looked down upon by alien cultures in this movie that mixes traditional animation and CGI. 
$400-  This movie is about extremely smart rodents that must move a house to save a child. 
$600-  Sen is a girl forced to grow up and save her family in this Miyazaki fantasy
$800-  This fantasy was the first animated movie to ever be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.  It lost to Silence of the Lambs.
$1000- The 1978 animated version of Lord of the rings used this animation technique to give some scenes more realism. 

Friday Quiz- The companion quiz

I am calling this the companion quiz.  We will be testing your knowlege on various companions, mostly from the New Series (as that is where my knowledge lies).  Wouldn't Emma Watson make a great companion.  Also, I am having trouble leaving comments on some blogs for some reason right now, so know that I am lurking. 

$400-  Susan was the first companion and generally referred to the Doctor as this familial term

$800-  This companion got her own spin off show. 

$1200- She is the companion pictured on this page.

$1600- After serving with the tenth doctor, she went on to serve with Unit and Torchwood.

$2000- He is the male companion to 9th doctor in the new 1st season that is expelled for bad behavior. 

Good Luck!

Friday Quiz-Super Spooky Halloween Edition

This week's quiz is guest hosted by Christine Hadden, who can usually be found talking horror on her own site Fascination with Fear.  You might want to stop by there and check out her super aggressive Halloween Festival  of Lists.  Every day this month she has created a horror related list numbered to correspond with the day of the month.  For example today is the 28th, so her list will have 28 items on it.  One of my favorites so far as been the kids in horror one.  On to the quiz.



$200-  What film is supposedly based on The Keddie Murders, an violent unsolved case of a brutal murder in the Sierra Nevada mountains?


$400-   What three Dario Argento movies combine to make the "Three Mothers" trilogy?  And what are the names of the so-called mothers?


$600-  What flavor of ice cream does Dick Hallorann give Danny in The Shining?


$800-  Name the real-life mall in which 1978's Dawn of the Dead was filmed?


$1000  Author and friend Peter Straub convinced Stephen King to put down and step away from what novel he was writing because the subject matter was so disturbing? 


Bonus-  Match the car to the movie


1.  1958 Plymouth Fury                                          A.  Death Proof
2.  1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88                                  B.  Christine
3.  1969 Dodge Charger                                          C.  Evil Dead 1, 2, and AOD
4.  1957 Ford Custom 300                                       D.  Psycho


Christine Hadden is the creator/editor/writer of Fascination with Fear.  She prefers frequenting dark theaters alone and avoiding most situations in which she is required to be social. She boasts an uncanny knack for sarcasm, an utter lack of conformity, and a raging hatred of the 3D phenomenon.  Vampires are her go-to monster of choice and she has a sincere love of Italian horror, ghost stories, Great White sharks, and Norman Bates.  She is a contributor to Fangoria, Paracinema, and The Blood Sprayer
  

Friday Quiz

All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with all the correct answers or the most correct answers by Monday will get a coveted SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website.


This weeks quiz is in honor of Valentine's Day and will deal with love and relationships.

1.  On Buffy the Vampire Slayer Willow goes all dark when this girlfriend is shot by Warren. 

2.  This long time couple met as part of the first X-Men team and have lived through each other dying a number of times.  They have even gone into the future to raise their son. 

3.  On Supernatural, Sam has a relationship with this demon that leads to a demon blood addiction. 

4.  Her character marries Aragorn and was given a larger role in the Lord of the Rings movies where she was played by Liv Tyler.

5.  In Doctor Who, the good Doctor is copied into a paralell universe so that some version of him can be with this love played by Billie Piper.

Bonus for you Trek fans:  This Batgirl actress also seduced kirk as the Orion Slave Girl in Star Trek.

Extra hard look it up bonus-  These catwoman actresses also had roles on Star Trek.

Friday Quiz-Ships

Sorry about the lack of updates, but the computer I normally post from has IE7 and blogger became incompatible with IE7 this week.  It has actually been affecting my commenting as well.   Alex awarded me the Liebster Blog award.  It goes to a deserving blog with less than 200 followers.  I will pass it on to 365 Days of Comics as Dom consistently entertains with reviews on observations from his comic addiction.  Be sure to visit Alex's site for other winners.  On to the quiz.  

Today is an image category:  Ships.  Be sure to phrase your answer in the form of a question.

$200-

$400-

$600-

$800-

$1000-

Good Luck!

Friday Quiz-Harry Potter

We know who the real star is.

In spirit of the weekend festivities that are surrounding the final movie, Harry Potter is taking over the Quiz this week.  I wish I were enough of a Harry Potter geek that I could convert the money into wizarding money, but I am not.  If you are feel free to do it. 

$400-  Harry's mother and father's names
$800-  Harry's godfather that dies in book/movie 5. 
$1200-Hermione starts this organization to help house elves, whom she feels are slaves.
$1600-The Actor that plays Ron Weasley (the only one whose real name sounds more like a wizarding name than his character's).
$2000-When you can talk to snakes it is called this.

Good luck, and have fun if you are seeing the movie this weekend. 

Friday Quiz

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All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with the most correct answers will get a SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website.


1.  Today is the 5th of November, do you remember?  This comic, and later movie, used the Guy Fawkes mask to hide the protagonists face. 
 

2.  Towers of Midnight is the new book in this series being finished by Brandon Sanderson.

3.  Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, and Dan Akroyd reprised their roles for this 2009 video game.

4.  This movie, currently in Theaters, is a remake of a Swedish film and book about a child vampire. 

5.  She was the little girl that is sucked into another dimension and must communicate through the TV in Poltergeist. 

The quiz has been fun to put together, but I want to know if you are having fun taking it.  I realize that the first responder usually wins, so, am I making the clues too easy? Do you think it should be harder, longer, or themed?  Let me know with your answers in the comments. 

Friday Quiz-Star Wars

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All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with all the correct answers or the most correct answers by Monday will get a coveted SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website.


This weeks theme: Star Wars

1.  This University of Tennessee Alumn wanted a purple light sabre.
2.  He is the iconic voice of Darth Vader
3.  These are the two droids that assist Anakin, Luke, and Leia.
4.  This is the Bounty Hunter that dies in Return of the Jedi; why is he so tough again?
5.  This is the planet the Ewok moon orbits.
Bonus- which moon is it?
Hard bonus-  This asian actress's scenes were cut from Episode 3 allegedly because she posed for Playboy. 

Friday Quiz-Angel

All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with all the correct answers or the most correct answers by Monday will get a coveted SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website. 

This week's theme: Angel
Next Week: Firefly

1.  Before getting his own show, Angel was a recurring character on this show.
2.  The curse that gives Angel a soul is lifted when this happens.
3.   Angel is actually short for. . .
4.  Angel is originaly from. . .
5.  When he got his own show, she was the only scooby that initially joined him. 

Bonus- He drove her insane and into the arms of Spike.
Bonus 2-  Giles finds it hard to forgive Angel for killing this love interest.

Geek Cred Bonus-  This is Angel's response when he finds out Spike also has a soul.

Friday Quiz

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This week our theme will be Sci Fi TV shows.

All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with the most correct answers will get a SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website.




1.  David Duchovney played agen Fox Mulder on this Fox show.
 
2.  "Beam me up, Scotty" was never actually said in this iconic series.
 
3.  He was the God like Antagonist on Star Trek: TNG.
 
4.  This Fox then SciFi show explored a group of people as they went through rifts to parallel worlds. 
 
5.  This show had a living ship named Moya.
 
6.  Carla Gugino played Molly, an expert on worst case scenerios, in this short lived CBS alien invasion show.
 
7.  Brian Austin Green entered this show with groans but proved his acting chops as Derek Reese.
 
8.  Another 90210 alumnus starred in this post apocoliptical survival series co starring Malcolm Jamal Warner on Showtime. 
 
9.  This BBC series is the longest running science fiction series on TV.
 
10.  Cowboys in space is how this cancelled Fox show is sometimes described. 
 

Friday Quiz-Military SciFi

All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with all the correct answers or the most correct answers by Monday will get a coveted SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website.


This Week's Theme- Military SciFi
Next Week's Theme- Superman

1. This novel Follows Andrew Wiggin as he saves the Earth from the Buggers.
2.  This Heinlein novel inspired a movie starring Denise Richards and Casper Van Diem.  While both were intertaining, they were vastly different. 
3.  John Steakly wrote this bit of military scifi.  One of his only two novels. 
4.  This show takes place on space station that is captained by one John Sheridan.
5.  Kurt Russell plays the perfect soldier that is deemed obsolete in this 1998 film.

Bonus:  Jack Campbell has written this series about a space fleet trying to fight their way home. 
Geek Cred Bonus:  If you want to fly for an intergallactic fleet and are in an 1984 movie, this would be how you would get the alien's attention. 

Friday Quiz-Star Trek

All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with all the correct answers or the most correct answers by Monday will get a coveted SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website.

This weeks theme is Star Trek.

1.  This Lt. cmdr was also the host of Reading Rainbow and was also recently on Community (Troy was too in awe to actually speak). 

2.  This is the first captian of the Enterprise.

3.  Spock's mother was of this race. 

4.  These aliens have big ears and an even bigger business sense.

5.  This mischevious character shares a name with a James Bond character. 

Bonus:  This actress was the very attractive 7 of 9
I wonder how Watson would do on these. 

Friday Quiz-Doctor Who

$200-  Stephen Mophet intrduced us to these crying statues in the episode Blink (one of the best hours in television history in my opinion)
$400-  This is the name of the Doctor's current female Companion. 
$600-  He played the 10th doctor (my favorite). 
$800-  She was the first companion of the new series.
$1000-  River Song was introduced in this episode. 

Good Luck Everyone. 

Friday Quiz

Cover of Lifeforce

All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with the most correct answers will get a SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website.

1.  This actor is now scifi royalty, but got his scifi starts in the movies Dune, Excaliber, and Lifeforce. 

2.  In the Princess Bride, this phrase is a substitue for "I love you."

3.  He was the mechanized villian in the first Iron Man movie.

4.  Speaking of mechanized, Real Steel is coming out next year about robots boxing.  It almost seems like a remake of this 1990 movie starring Gary Graham.

5.  One last mech question.  This japanese book about Mechs and a time loop has sold rights to be made into Warner Bros movie. 

Good luck and winner will be chosen on Monday. 

Friday Quiz- Cartoon Shows

This week's category:  Cartoon Shows
Next week's category:  Video Games

Double Jeopardy Round

Watch out kids, BEHIND YOU!!!

$400-  The protagonists on this show came from Thundara.
$800-  This Decepticon was a composite of the constructicons.
$1200-  In Voltron, this is the Lion that formed the head.
$1600-  He is able to transform into a cybornetic being by giving the command "Blathering Blatherskite."
$2000- This show had Dinosaurs coming to Earth in a battle against the Tyrannos

Friday Quiz

All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with all the correct answers or the most correct answers by Monday will get a coveted SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website. Geek Cred and bonus questions are made to challenge the more dedicated fans and are not included in the scoring.


This week's theme- Hodge Podge
Next week's theme- Martial Arts in Scifi/fantasy

1.  This is a huge genre convention held every labor day weekend in Atlanta, GA. 
2.  She played Lana Lang on Smallville. 
3.  This singer played a liquid terminator on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
4.  This is the last character shown on screen in the Stargate Universe series. 
5.  John Crichton of Farscape named his gun this. 

Geek Cred-  This is the Superman like hero that Buster Bunny from the childeren's show arthur loves.  (you are allowed to ask your kids)

Friday Quiz-Superman- A to Z

All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with all the correct answers or the most correct answers by Monday will get a coveted SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website.


This week's theme: Superman
Next week's theme: Arthurian Legend

1.  This is Superman's birth planet.
2.  This is Superman's birth name.
3.  Superman is "killed" when fighting this monstorous weapon.
4.  This is the miniature city that Supes keeps in Fortress of Solitude.
5.  Before Lois Lane, Clark shared his secret with this alliterative beauty.


Bonus:  Name 3 actors that have played Superman.
Geek Cred:  These are the creators of Superman. 

Friday Quiz-The X-Men

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All answers must be in the form of a question, answer in the comments, and no cheating. First person with all the correct answers or the most correct answers by Monday will get a coveted SciFi Media "no prize" button to display on their website.

This weeks theme will be the X-Men

1. He is credited as the creator of the X-Men along with several other super hero titles. 

2.  This X-Man is German and very religious despite his appearance. 

3.  Before Jean Grey was the Phoenix, she had this childish nick name.

4.  These are the giant robots programmed to capture or kill all mutants. 

5.  Cain Marko, Xavier's half brother, finds the Gem of Cyttorak and transforms into this unstoppable force. 

Bonus:  Cain finds the Gem of Cyttorak in this Asian country.

Really Hard Bonus:  This is the address of Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.