Hey, did you know that the Mummy Series just won’t die? To celebrate the December 16th release of last summer’s Mummy Movie – THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR Universal Home Video is holding a promotion to test your Mummy knowledge. There’s no mention of what the prize will be if you get it – so it’s an extra special contest. I’m not even sure the point of this post. But if you want to test your mumability check out the contest rules and the quiz after the break.
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
MONSTROUSLY FUN FACTS – QUIZ
QUIZ RULES
1. Quiz is geared to promote the DECEMBER 16 DVD RELEASE OF THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
2. Universal Studios Home Entertainment is not responsible for quiz or content
3. First Ten Winners to Respond with 18 items or more correct will win Multi-Disc DVD Sets of THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
4. Grades will be given by quiz creator at his discretion – fairness will be ensured
5. FIRST PERFECT SCORE RECEIVES 20-minute call with a notable Monster Historian
6. Contest is sponsored by Visionary Media
7. Copy>Paste the entire quiz with answers filled in and send in an e-mail to:
8. Please include your name, complete mailing address, e-mail address and phone number(s) and age of quiz taker with your quiz answers
9. Contest results are final and not disputable
10. Winners will be notified by mail and prizes distributed before December 31, 2008
MONSTROUSLY FUN FACTS – QUIZ
1. Running from _______ (with The Man Who Laughs) through _______ (with House of Dracula), the first classic Universal monster “cycle” encompassed over 30 films.
2. The only three people who worked on every monster film from Dracula (1931) through House of Dracula (1945) were ____________________.
3. The only film in the cycle to be filmed in color was ___________ .
4. Four different actors played the Frankenstein Monster – ____________ .
5. Universal’s top two horror stars of the 1930s -Karloff and Lugosi – were paired in _______ films during that decade.
6. Karloff only appeared as the Frankenstein Monster in the first three films, and Lugosi only appeared as Dracula _______ (how many times) during the classic monster cycle.
7. In the 1940s, Lon Chaney Jr. portrayed all of the top Universal horror characters at least once ______________________________
| ______________ (which ones?). 8. Karloff appeared onscreen as the Mummy, Im-Ho-Tep, very briefly at the outset of the film. His face is only visible in one closeup. The remainder of the 1932 film, he appeared as _________, a very different likeness than his bandaged counterpart. 9. Claude Rains, arguably Universal’s fourth biggest horror star of the time, never appeared speaking on camera with his face visible in The Invisible Man. TRUE OR FALSE? 10. There were _________ sequels to The Invisible Man, but all appeared in the 1940s and none starred Rains. 11. Though four Mummy sequels came to the screen in the 1940s, none starred Karloff, the man who made the part famous. Who played the Mummy in the sequels? Hint – it was two different actors. 12. James Whale directed four films in the cycle during the early 1930s and was one of the studio’s top filmmakers. What were they? 13. The cycle was initiated by the founder of Universal Studios, Carl Laemmle, whose son, _____________ personally presided over the films through 1936. 14. Carl’s niece, Carla Laemmle, has the first speaking part in _________, the first sound film of the cycle. Carla, a trained dancer, is still alive and well, living quietly in a Hollywood-area home. 15. In both House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula, ___________ plays Count Dracula, ironic since he had first been considered for the role in 1931. 16. Boris Karloff, retired from the role of the Frankenstein Monster in 1939, played the significant part of Dr. Gustav Niemann, a doctor who cares for the Monster in _______________. 17. The last true film in the cycle, House of Dracula, was originally entitled _________________, since the tortured Larry Talbot, played by Lon Chaney, Jr. is in fact cured of his curse at the film’s end. 18. Three years after the end of the classic cycle and the seeming cure of Talbot’s Wolf Man, he reunited with Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula and Glenn Strange as the Monster in ____________. 19. Including the recent run of remakes and sequels, how many total Mummy films has Universal Studios produced? 20. Jet Li plays the Mummy in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor… who played the Mummy in 1999’s The Mummy and its sequel The Mummy Returns? |