Mensa Trivia

By Neil Krentzin

Monsters, aliens, lab tests gone wrong? Another time perhaps. For Halloween, we want movies with ghosts, spirits, the unexplained (or Halloween night happenings). So simply match the clue to the movie and then go rent a few you've never seen for thrills, chills & even some laughs.

CLUE MOVIE

1. "could make your head spin"
2. "voodo & zombies"
3. "plays a lovestruck messenger" Jamie Lee Curtis waits almost D. The Stepford Wives (1975)
4. "20 yrs. to return in 6th sequel" "Julie Harris & Claire Bloom share E. Bell, Book & Candle (1958)
5. "a bedroom, by themselves?"
6. "Ann-Margaret and a block of wood"
7. "deceased Michael Keaton is an exterminator of sorts"
8. "witch Kim Novak & a cat named Piwackit"
9. "Ichabod Crane"s last ride" I. Halloween (1978)
10. "Kurt Russell; truck driver J. Live and Let Die (1973)
11. vs. kung fu & magic
12. "Fredic March ventures into 'the real world' "
13. "Barbara Hershey raped by
14. "invisible mass"
15. " 'Coach' on a graveyard"
16. "Shirley MacLaine finds a 'treat' atop her refrigerator"
17. "Jack Nicholson is a 'devil' "
18. "the devil sows his wild oats"
19. "who says all women aren't alike"
20. "Wynona Ryder leads dance group"
21. "mind-popping terror"
22. "Tont Danza & friends on Halloween night"
23. "Tippi winging it in a phone booth"
24. "for sale: living in fixer upper"
25. "does your computer talk to you & plot to take over the world?"
26. 'OO7 meets voodo practicing Jane Seymour"
27. "Cary Grant haunts Cosmo"
28. "Revolutionary War ghosts Big Trouble in Little China ("68)
29. with Abbott & Costello"

• G. The Birds (1963)
• A. The Haunting (1963-original)
• K. The Exorcist (1973)
• L. *Topper (1937)
• M. The Witches of Eastwick ('87)
• N. Ghostbusters II (1989)
• O. The Headless Horseman (Disney)
• Q. Magic (1978)
• S. Demon Seed (1977)
• F. The Amityville Horror (1978)
• H. The Entity (1983)
• P. Poltergeist (1982)
• R. The Hollywood Knights (1980)
• U. The Time of Their Lives ('46)
• T. Beetle Juice (1988)
• V. The Crucible (1996)
• W. Death Takes A Holiday('34)
• X.The Possession of Joe Delaney-'72
• Y. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• B. The Ghost Breakers (1940)
• Z. Bonus: How many movie versions have been made of "The Scarlet Letter"?

ANSWERS:

1 - K; 2 - B; 3 - N; 4 - I; 5 - A; 6 - Q; 7;- T 8 - E; 9 - O; 10 - Z; 11 - W; 12 - H; 13 - P; 14 - X; 15 - M; 16 - Y; 17 - D; 18 - V; 19 - C; 20 - R; 21 - G; 22 - P; 23 - S; 24 - J; 25 - L; 26 - U

BONUS: 4 (1926, 1934, 1973, 1995)

* First movie ever computer colorized.