Oh wow, I guess I’ll learn about monsters. And cats. Although, surprisingly, probably not about cat monsters. Let’s go!
Pop Quiz Hot Shot!
1) The soundtrack features Boadicea by Enya. Enya had a single number one single in the UK, Orinoco Flow. The Orinoco River in South America discharges near what nation of the Lesser Antilles?
2) In the movie the villains are, implicitly at least, energy vampires. Energy vampires feed on the lifeforce of others. Elsewhere is popular culture, the character of Colin Robinson is also an energy vampire in what television show?
3) The beginning of the film takes place in Bodega Bay, California. A famous thriller from 1963 also took place in Bodega Bay (although it starts at a pet store in San Francisco). Which film?
4) Somehow the character of Tanya has her own wikipedia page (the character!). In it she is described as a classic Damsel in Distress. We’ve seen one of the original DiDs in the classic BMT film Clash of the Titans. She was to be sacrificed to the Kraken to appease the Gods … what was her name?
5) You know, there was apparently a sequel in development at one point written by King’s wife. It involved a women’s basketball team somehow. Can you know both the first (1982) and most recent (2024) NCAA Division 1 Women’s Basketball champions?
Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: Is this a tough one? Maybe, but I bet Jamie could get it.
What is the film?
Answers
1) You should know that the southernmost nation of the Lesser Antilles is Trinidad and Tobago. The islands along Venezuela are all part of The Netherlands. The most important three to know there are Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (ABC, easy to remember).
2) What We Do in the Shadows. Again, this is the television show, and Colin, for the most part, presents as merely a quite boring person who (gleefully) talks at people about nonsense until they fall asleep.
3) Hitchcock’s The Birds! We saw the sequel. Remember that? When we watched the sequel to the really good and famous film The Birds. Anyways, yeah, filmed there where they present the single town of Bodega Bay as two towns and also film at the famous Potter School.
4) That would be Andromeda baby! You best remember all those Greek people because that always comes up in quizzes. She was saved by Perseus, who slew the Kraken. Note: In the movie he flyies on Pegasus, but traditionally it was Bellerophon who tamed Pegasus.
5) There is no way you could. The answer is Louisiana Tech (beating Cheyney State) in 1982 (they would win again in 1988, so they were something of a force at the time), and in 2024 it was South Carolina beating Iowa.
Bonus NYTimes Listing Answer: You better believe it is Meatballs 4. Yeah, it came a bit after the others in the 90s and seems like a big pile of crap. Not like the second or third …
That was a wide ranging affair, geography is always a nice thing to get a handle on.
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