Universal Monsters 10 Questions - From The Monster Squad Quiz Book

1. What was Boris Karloff’s real name?

A) Marion Mitchell Morrison

B) Archibald Alexander Leach

C) William Henry Pratt

D) Maurice Joseph Micklewhite

2. What was the name of 1998 biopic about James Whale starring Ian Mckellen as Whale?

A) Immortal Beloved

B) Gods and Monsters

C) Permanent Midnight

D) Waiting for the Moon

3. Which Universal Monster movie had started out as story treatment entitled Cagliostro?

A) Creature from the Black Lagoon

B) The Mummy

C) Dracula

D) The Invisible Man

4. Which comedic actors made a string of “Meet…” movies with the Universal Monsters?

A) Abbott and Costello

B) Laurel and Hardy

C) The Three Stooges

D) The Marx Brothers

5. Where did Béla Lugosi embark on a 1950’s theatre tour of the stage production of Dracula?

A) France

B) UK

C) Spain

D) Australia

6. In which language was the alternative version of Dracula (1931) filmed, which was shot at night on the same sets as the English-language version?

A) French

B) German

C) Italian

D) Spanish

7. Which legendary Hollywood star appeared in an uncredited role as a lab technician in Revenge of the Creature before he became famous?

A) Jack Nicholson

B) Dustin Hoffman

C) Clint Eastwood

D) Gene Hackman

8. Where does the majority of Creature from the Black Lagoon take place?

A) The Congo

B) The Amazon

C) The Everglades

D) Costa Rica

9. What is the name of Claude Rains’ character in The Invisible Man?

A) Dr. John Talbot

B) Dr. Jack Griffin

C) Dr. Erique Claudin

D) Dr. George Edward Challenger

10. Which musical instrument was Erique Claudin renowned for playing in Phantom of the Opera (1943)?

A) The violin

B) The piano

C) The pipe organ

D) The flute

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1) C - William Henry Pratt (for the record, the other names were: Marion Mitchell Morrison – John Wayne; Archibald Alexander Leach – Cary Grant and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite – Michael Caine)

2) B - Gods and Monsters

3) B - The Mummy (the script based on the Cagliostro story was firstly named Imhotep before being changed to The Mummy)

4) A - Abbott and Costello (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein; Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff; Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man; Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy – They also encountered the Creature from the Black Lagoon in a short sketch on NBC’s Colgate Comedy Hour)

5) B – UK (the stage production toured to such places as Brighton, Eastbourne, Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Leicester, Chatham, Cambridge, Chiswick, Luton and Derby)

6) D – Spanish (the Spanish version is seen by some to be a superior movie partly due to the fact that the Spanish crew were able to watch the footage from the Lugosi version being shot in the daytime and improve upon it)

7) C - Clint Eastwood

8) B - The Amazon

9) B - Dr. Jack Griffin (aka The Invisible Man)

10) A - The violin

Taken from The Monster Squad Unauthorized Quiz Book

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