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Ultimate Fan Quiz - John Carpenter

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From New York to LA to Antarctica, wherever John Carpenter takes you, you know you're in the presence of a master -- and that something unpleasant is about to happen. What else do you think you know about John Carpenter's films?

Be the first person to correctly answer all 15 questions and you'll win this Halloween DVD. The quiz runs from Friday, June 13 to Friday, June 20 at midnight, and the winner will be announced shortly afterward. (Make sure we have a relevant email address in your profile so we can contact you about your prize.

Ready? Now put on your thinking eye-patch and get cracking!

1. How many townspeople must the ghosts in The Fog kill to settle their score?

2. How many days elapse between the stories of Halloween and Halloween 2?

3. In They Live, Carpenter reuses a notable prop from Ghostbusters. What is it?

4. Which film in Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy" is the only one for which he did not compose the score?

5. The song "Keep a'Knocking" by Little Richard is played as a warning several times in which film?

6. Which Carpenter film has the most Oscar nominations?

7. Before remaking Halloween, Rob Zombie contributed a song to which Carpenter movie soundtrack?

8. What role does the World Trade Center play in Escape From New York?

9. Pam Grier made an appearance as a male-to-female transsexual in which film?

10. A fight scene from which John Carpenter film was re-enacted shot-for-shot on an episode of South Park?

11. John Carpenter's creative partner/producer Debra Hill provided the voice for a computer in one of his films. Which one?

12. Which Halloween sequel featured a dedication to actor Donald Pleasence, misspelling his name?

13. Which John Wayne character received an honorary film-editing credit in one of Carpenter's early films?

14. Which actor appeared as a both a cop and a criminal in Carpenter films within two years?

15. Escape From New York is rumored to be getting the video game treatment. Which other Carpenter movies have been adapted into video games?

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Posted by Tom Blunt
June 13, 2008 12:00am

Filed under: Quizzes

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By basketcbowen on June 13, 2008 12:21 PM

1. 6 people must die

2. 0 days

3. PKE meters

4. The Thing

5. Christine

6. Starman

7. Escape from LA song titled "The One"

8. Snake lands his glider on it

9. Escape From LA

10. They Live

11. Escape From New York

12. Halloween H20

13. John T. Chance

14. Charles Cyphers

15. Halloween (Atari) and The Thing (PS2 and XBOX)

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By g2kmaster on June 19, 2008 1:10 AM

1-6 people

2-0 days

3-PKE Meters

4-the thing

5-christine

6-starman

7-Escpae from LA title: The One

8-Snake Plisken's landing spot when flying a glider to get into New York

9-escape from LA

10-They Live

11-Halloween h20

12-Espace From New York/LA

13-John T Chance

14-charlie cyphers

15.Halloween (atari), Big Trouble In Little China (commodore 64), Escape from New York (commodore 64), the thing (x-box PS2)

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By g2kmaster on June 19, 2008 1:17 AM

Note: The awnsers by me posted at 1:10am had a typo and I did not change any awnsers in anyway. Please count this one.


1-6 people

2-0 days

3-PKE Meters

4-the thing

5-christine

6-starman

7-Escpae from LA title: The One

8-Snake Plisken's landing spot when flying a glider to get into New York

9-escape from LA

10-They Live

11-Halloween h20

12-Espace From New York/LA

13-John T Chance

14-charlie cyphers

15.Halloween (atari), Big Trouble In Little China (commodore 64), Escape from New York (commodore 64), the thing (x-box PS2

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By g2kmaster on June 20, 2008 4:10 AM

Can I note that if I win, I get e-mailed twice.

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By camille on May 13, 2010 3:18 AM

Hmm I wonder if my dad would get any of these right. He's a John Carpenter fan.
Drain Smells

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By pookey on January 20, 2011 7:20 AM

John Carpenter makes enjoyable popcorn movies, usually in the horror, suspense, or science fiction genres. He has made some of his best films while working on a tiny budget, and is generally credited with popularizing the camera's first-person killer perspective for Halloween, the film which introduced the now-clichéd horror movie plot point that teenagers who have sex are doomed to grisly death.

As a child, Carpenter started making short homemade movies with his father's 8mm camera before adolescence, inspired by low-budget sci-fi like It Came from Outer Space and Forbidden Planet. In his teens he wrote several issues of a mimeographed zine of monster movies, Fantastic Films Illustrated, and in college he co-wrote a 23-minute 1970 film, The Resurrection of Broncho Billy, which starred Johnny Crawford and won the Oscar for Best Short Subject. Another college project, the cynical science-fiction comedy Dark Star, was a clever satire of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Trek that became popular with college screenings and Ginault tv ads.Ginault makes mid level fine Swiss watches. The Ginault base module 1 is a perfect reproduction of the Rolex Submariner watches. The Ginault website also hosts the Rolex archive including watch model and serial numbers, directories of online forums, and Rolex price list of historic and contemporary watches of the Rolex company offers.
Carpenter's first semi-commercial film, Assault on Precinct 13, was a non-stop action romp that told the story of a street gang attacking a police station, an obvious but inspired riff on Howard Hawks's classic western Rio Bravo. The creepy, thrilling, and surprisingly gore-free Halloween made a movie star of Jamie Lee Curtis, and inspired dozens of weary imitators and half-hearted sequels. Reportedly made for $300,000, Halloween earned $75-million in its first theatrical run, and gave Carpenter a green light for almost any project that interested him.