What’s that? We back jack? That’s right, I have to make a second Saw themed quiz because we also watched Saw III. Let’s go!
Pop Quiz Hot Shot!
1) In the third Saw film there is a whole big thing about how Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is breaking his own rules since the traps were being set up without a way to survive. Detectives would say this broke his M.O. What does M.O. stand for?
2) The entirety of the film takes place in a meatpacking plant. Now … there is a famous book that exposed the horrid working conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry. What is that book, and who wrote it?
3) Saw III apparently use a bathroom set from Scary Movie 4 (a franchise directly spoofing Saw at the time). Simon Rex played George Logan in that series. Who played his brother Tom (mostly in Scary Movie 3, while ripping off Signs)?
4) Apparently, as part of the promotion for Saw III, there was a big blood drive. Blood types (ABO) were discovered by Karl Landsteiner for which he won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine. In addition to the ABO designation there is also +/- which is referred to as what officially?
5) The soundtrack for Saw III features songs by many heavy metal bands including Slayer. Slayer is consider one of the four major bands of “thresh metal”. Name any of the other three.
Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: Crazily the third Chainsaw Massacre film played at 10PM on TMC on April 14, 1992. The lead in to that was this BMT classic:
What is this movie?
Answers
1) Modus operandi. Anyone who watched enough Criminal Minds while drinking criminal wines will know all about serial killers and also that there are definitely a ton of serial killers and most of them have killed hundreds of people.
2) That would be The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Sinclair was an unabashed Socialist and run, unsuccessfully, for governor of California as the Democratic nominee in 1934.
3) That would be the always appropriate and totally normal human being Charlie Sheen. See the bonus question for more Charlie Sheen madness.
4) The rhesus factor named after the Rhesus monkey. The designation isn’t nearly as clear cut as the +/- would suggest. There are like 50 different proteins (D, C, c, E, and e being the most important) which can cause reactions during transfusion. This is, I assume, why getting a precise match for a transfusion is almost impossible … unless you are a twin. Boom! Twin connection.
5) The other three are Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax. I probably would have guessed Metallica just out of habit, I’m terrible at music though. Thrash metal was apparently formed as a punk-inspired backlash to glam metal (e.g. Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Bon Jovi) which itself spun off from glam rock (Bowie obviously).
Bonus NYTimes Listing Answer: You bettah belieb that is Navy SEALs. You had me at Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn.
Finally, something to really use these New York Times listings for! And you get to learn about thrash metal which is very appropriate for Saw III.
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