1. What magazine does Fielding Mellish discreetly attempt to purchase at the newsstand in Bananas?

1. Screw
2. Big Boobs
3. Orgasm
4. Hustler

2. Which David Lynch film begins with the lines - “It’s a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton: Get those chainsaws out!”?

1. Eraserhead
2. Blue Velvet
3. Wild at Heart
4. Lost Highway

 3. What was the nickname of the surfboard designer who served as a mentor to the three drug-addled young surfers - Matt (Jan Michael Vincent), Jack (William Katt) and Leroy (Gary Busey) - in Big Wednesday?

1. Bull
2. Bear
3. Boar
4. Beast

 4. How old was Steve McQueen when he portrayed the high school kid, Steve Andrews, in The Blob [1958]?

1. 24
2. 30
3. 28
4. 22

 5. Which of the following directors holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy?

1. Francis Ford Coppola
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Terrence Malick
4. Robert Altman

6. What B-movie director was known as the “King of the Nudies” for featuring big-breasted women in his films?

1. Edgar G. Ulmer
2. Roger Corman
3. Russ Meyer
4. Ted V. Mikels

7. Name the dog in A Boy and His Dog [1975].

1. Blood
2. Vic
3. Dog
4. Shep

8. What was the last line in Edward D. Wood’s Bride of the Monster?

1. “I’ll be back!”
2. “He tampered in God’s domain.”
3. “It’s alive! . . . no wait, it’s dead.”
4. “Nature’s beast returns to the primal ooze.”

9. Karen Black and Fabian teamed up in what low-budget Bonnie and Clyde ripoff?

1. The Bonnie Parker Story
2. Killers Three
3. Gun Crazy
4. Little Laura and Big John

10. Which of the following was not an alternate title for Reefer Madness [1936]?

1. Marijuana: The Weed with Roots in Hell
2. Tell Your Children
3. Doped Youth
4. The Burning Question

11. What drug-inspired song does Cab Calloway sing in International House [1933]?

1. Cocaine Blues
2. Reefer Man
3. Sweet Jane
4. Wacky Weed

12. Blade Runner [1982] was based on which novel by Philip K. Dick?

1. The Man in the High Castle
2. Time Out of Joint
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

 13. Which of the following was not one of the Billy Jack films?

1. Billy Jack
2. The Trial of Billy Jack
3. Billy Jack Goes to Washington
4. Billy Jack Gets Laid

14. What rock band got their name from the Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life [1946]?

1. Clarence’s Wings
2. Zuzu’s Petals
3. Pa Bailey’s Stroke
4. Mr. Gower’s Poison

15. Who portrayed the wheelchair-bound patriarch in Frogs [1972]?

1. Ray Milland
2. Robert Ryan
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Lionel Barrymore

16. Which of the following genres was Monogram studios not known for?

1. Cheap Westerns
2. Bowery Boys features
3. Violent gangster flicks
4. Charlie Chan series

17. What was the name of Harvey Korman’s character in Blazing Saddles?

1. Hedley Lamarr
2. Mongo
3. Howard Johnson
4. Governor Lepetomane

18. Which of the Marx Brothers never appeared in one of their films?

1. Harpo
2. Chico
3. Zeppo
4. Gummo

19. Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood [1957] was based on which Shakespeare play?

1. Henry IV, Part I
2. King Lear
3. Macbeth
4. Hamlet

20. What crazy stunt did Dennis Hopper perform in order to promote Out of the Blue [1980]?

1. Wing Walk on World War I-Era Biplane
2. Russian Suicide Death Chair
3. Fire Dance on Burning Charcoal Pit
4. Motorcycle Jump Over 20 Kegs of Cheap Beer

21. Which famous director of cult films such as Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia once stated: “When Nixon was elected president, I said ‘I’m getting the fuck out, this cocksucker is going to ruin the country’”?

1. Don Siegel
2. Roman Polanski
3. John Ford
4. Sam Peckinpah

22. What B-movie was billed as “A Howling Hellcat Humping a Hot Hog, on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge”?

1. Bury Me an Angel
2. Live Fast, Die Young
3. Satan’s Sadists
4. Riot on Sunset Strip

23. Forbidden Planet was based on which Shakespeare play?

1. All’s Well That Ends Well
2. Measure for Measure
3. The Tempest
4. The Taming of the Shrew

24. What was Tor Johnson’s only line in The Unearthly [1957]?

1. “Leave alone me.”
2. “How get here me?”
3. “I hungry am.”
4. “Time for go to sleep.”

25. The character Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) in The Godfather Part II was based on which notorious gangster?

1. Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll
2. Meyer Lansky
3. Charles “Lucky” Luciano
4. Carlo Gambino

26. What famous director once said, “The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”?

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. David Lean
3. George Stevens
4. Edward Dmytryk

27. How many joints did Jack Nicholson claim to have smoked during the infamous campfire scene in Easy Rider [1969]?

1. 45
2. 85
3. 155
4. Over 200

28. What was the actual name of the high school in Rock ’N’ Roll High School?

1. Dwight David High
2. Vince Lombardi High
3. Hank Stram High
4. Neil Armstrong High

29. Which of the following was not an alternate title for Freaks [1932]?

1. Blunders of Nature
2. The Monster Show
3. Nature’s Mistakes
4. Forbidden Love

30. Chief Justice Warren Burger personally banned the film crew of what early Jack Nicholson movie from shooting a drunken scene on the steps of the Supreme Court building?

1. Five Easy Pieces
2. The Last Detail
3. The King of Marvin Gardens
4. Carnal Knowledge

31. What former 1940’s movie queen portrayed a mad scientist in Flesh Feast?

1. Rita Hayworth
2. Gene Tierney
3. Fawn Leibowitz
4. Veronica Lake

32. Which of the following was not a gang that appeared in The Wanderers?

1. The Wild Boys
2. The Duckie Boys
3. The Wongs
4. The Baldies

33. Who portrayed Major Frank Burns in the movie version of M*A*S*H*?

1. Tom Skerritt
2. Larry Linville
3. Robert Duvall
4. Gunnar Hansen

34. Quentin Tarantino studied his craft at the James Best Acting School in Los Angeles. Who was the school named for?

1. The guy who played Sheriff Roscoe Tanner in “The Dukes of Hazzard”
2. The guy who played Mr. Drummond in “Different Strokes”
3. The guy who played Uncle Fester in “The Addams Family”
4. The guy who played Grady in “Sanford and Son”

35. Which two musicians appeared as “The Driver” and “The Mechanic” in Two-Lane Blacktop?

1. Jim Morrison and Brian Jones
2. James Taylor and Dennis Wilson
3. Alice Cooper and Pete Townsend
4. Peter Frampton and Brian Wilson

36. Val Lewton was inspired to write the script of which film after he saw “The Rake’s Progress” by 18^th-century artist William Hogarth?

1. Isle of the Dead
2. The Body Snatcher
3. I Walked With a Zombie
4. Bedlam

37. Who wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes?

1. Rod Serling
2. Isaac Asimov
3. Pierre Boulle
4. Norman Mailer

38. Which of the following books is not among Karl’s possessions in Sling Blade?

1. The Bible
2. A book on Christmas
3. A book on how to be a carpenter
4. A book on fly fishing

39. Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories was based on which of Fellini’s classic films?

1. The Nights of Cabiria
2. La Strada
3. 8 1/2
4. La Dolce Vita

40. Which film was not directed by the legendary William “One-Shot”Beaudine?

1. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula
2. Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter
3. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
4. Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer - Boris Karloff

41. Assault on Precinct 13 contains striking similarities to which classic Western?

1. Rio Bravo
2. High Noon
3. The Searchers
4. Shane

42. What was the name of Jack Nicholson’s masochistic dentist character in The Little Shop of Horrors?

1. Joe Fink
2. Gravis Mushnik
3. Seymour Krelboing
4. Wilbur Force

43. Which of the following films was condemned by the Italian courts as “obscene, indecent and catering to the lowest instincts of the libido”?

1. Last Tango in Paris
2. Diva
3. The Conformist
4. Jules Et Jim

44. What was Errol Flynn’s last role?

1. Journey Beneath the Desert
2. Cuban Rebel Girls
3. Cult of the Cobra
4. Las Vegas Hillbillies

45. What was the advice the scientist’s wife gave him on discovering that he had a fly’s head in The Fly [1958]?

1. “It doesn’t look so bad.”
2. “Everything will be okay.”
3. “We all go a little mad sometimes.”
4. “Try and get some sleep.”

46. George Stevens’ A Place in the Sun, starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, was based on what American novel?

1. An American Tragedy
2. Main Street
3. The Jungle
4. The Sun Also Rises

47. What is Mamie Van Doren’s real name?

1. Marion Marie Morrison
2. Joan Lucille Olander
3. Julia Frances Turner
4. Gloria Mae Swensen

48. Which of the following movies did legendary tough guy George Raft appear in for his final role?

1. Once Upon a Time in America
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Ragtime
4. Sextette

49. What was the name of the spaceship in Silent Running?

1. Valley Forge
2. Discovery
3. Nostromo
4. Explorer

50. What movie contains the following lines: “That’s what I’m going to do. Tear the skin from your body slowly, bit by bit.”

1. The Corpse Grinders [1971]
2. Hannibal [2001]
3. The Black Cat [1934]
4. Depraved! [1967]

BONUS (ADD 10 POINTS TO YOUR SCORE): Name the Swede’s duck in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

1. Helga
2. Arlene
3. Gertrude
4. Christian

ANSWERS

1. C  2. B  3. B  4. C  5. C  6. C  7. A  8. B  9. D  10. A  11. B  12. C  13. D  14. B  15. A  16. C  17. A  18. D  19. C  20. B  21. D  22. A  23. C  24. D  25. B  26. A  27. C  28. B  29. A  30. B  31. D  32. A  33. C  34. A  35. B  36. D  37. A  38. D  39. C  40. D  41. A  42. D  43. A  44. B  45. D  46. A  47. B  48. D  49. A  50. D  BONUS: C

SCORE

1-10 - Go find a copy of The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film . . . IMMEDIATELY!

11-20 - Do you ever watch anything other than “Survivor”?

21-30 - Wow, you know a lot about very little!

31-40 - Go out and get a six pack of cheap brew and celebrate all of your cult film knowledge!

41-50 - GET A LIFE . . . LOSER!