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  1. Which of these was NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe?

A. The Tell Tale Heart
B. The Raven
C. One Dead in Attic

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C. One Dead in Attic, a story about Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

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  1. Where is the town of Deadwood, site of an acclaimed TV series of the Old West?

A. South Dakota
B. North Dakota
C. Texas

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A. South Dakota

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  1. What is a zombie bank?

A. Bank where 51% of deposits are in the names of estates or escrow for estates of the recently deceased.
B. A financial institution that has an economic net worth less than zero.
C. A bank in Mexico that only conducts business in the week before and after Halloween and the day of the dead.

A

B. A zombie bank is able to operate, even with no money, because it is shored up by government credit support.

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  1. Which James Bond movie deals with Caribbean voodoo culture?

A. Diamonds are forever
B. Live and let die
C. Moonraker

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B. Live and Let Die, the first film to star Roger Moore as Bond.

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  1. Which of these Bob Hope movies includes zombies?

A. The Ghost Breakers
B. Never Say Die
C. Paleface

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A. The Ghost Breakers (warren has clip from You Tube)

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  1. When did Vlad the Impaler, the historical Count Dracula, live?

A. 1200s
B. 1400s
C. 1600s

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B. 1431-1476

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  1. Follow-up ?: Vlad lived in Transylvania. What modern country comprises Transylvania?

A. Romania
B. Germany
C. Hungary

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A. Romania

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  1. What 19th Century book, with roots in European folklore, is credited with the idea that resurrection of the dead is a scientific process rather than a mystical one?

A. Dracula
B. A Tale of Ghosts
C. Frankenstein

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C. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

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  1. What ancient epic poem is considered the beginning of zombie lineage?

A. The Odyssey
B. The Epic of Gilgamesh
C. Jason and the Argonauts

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B. Gilgamesh, an epic poem from 2100 BC in Mesopotamia.

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  1. The 1968 film “night of the living dead” is usually considered the beginning of modern fictional zombie culture. What were the walking dead called in the film?

A. Zombies
B. Ghosts
C. Ghouls

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C. Ghouls. The film made no spoken reference to zombies, though filmmaker George Romero use the term in later interviews.

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  1. Some zombies, such as those in “Helix” and “World War Z” are vectors. What do vectors do?

A. Guide alien ships
B. Transport victims directly to graveyards
C. Spread infection

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C. Spread infection

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  1. Bram Stoker was the author of Dracula. Where was he from?

A. Romania
B. Norway
C. Ireland

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C. Born in 1847 on the north side of Dublin.

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  1. Who starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 film “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”?

A. Christopher Reeve
B. Al Pacino
C. Gary Oldman

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C. Gary Oldman was Dracula. Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves also starred

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  1. When was the English word “zombie” first used?

A. 1819
B, 1859
C. 1929

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A. 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey.

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15.”Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” was published by which U.S. government agency?

A. Centers for Disease Control.
B. Securities and Exchange Commission.
C. Are you crazy? Even the bureaucrats in Washington haven’t gone that far.

A

A. The CDC called the 2011 graphic novel “a fun new way of teaching the importance of emergency preparedness.”

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  1. What does Harcos Labs in California sell?

A. Zombie ice cream
B. Zombie jerky
C. Zombie lunch boxes

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B. Zombie Jerky (and Blood) in specimen-style pouches,

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  1. Michael Jackson’s music video “Thriller” featured choreographed zombies dancing with the singer. What year was “Thriller” made?

A. 1983
B. 1989
C. 1993

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A. 1983

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  1. The Oxford English dictionary gives the origin of the word zombie from two words meaning God and fetish in what language?

A. French
B. Kongo
C. Brazilian Portuguese

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B. West African Kongo. The words are nzambi (God) and zumbi (fetish).

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  1. Zombie fiction emerged as a distinct literary genre in what decade?

A. 1980s
B. 1990s
C. 2000s

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B. 1990s. With the publication of “Book of the Dead.”

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  1. The best known current work of zombie fiction is Max Brooks’ novel “World War Z,” which became a New York Times bestseller after it was released in what year?

A. 1996
B. 2000
C. 2006

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C. 2006

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