OCTOBER 2005 CONTEST START DATE 9/22/05 END DATE  11/20/05
1.   What type of vampire does Scotland have, that is in the form of a beautiful maiden?  Baobhan-sith.

2.   Name the actresses who played “Dracula’s Brides” in Bram Stokers Dracula movie?  Monica Bellucci, Michaela Bercu, Florina Kendrick.

3.   What is the literal meaning of Transylvania?  Land beyond the forest.

4.   What type of vampire does India have, who consumes not only the victims blood but also the brains?  Brahmaparush or Masani.

5.   What profession was Renfield?  Real estate agent.

6.   What was Vlad Dracula’s older brothers name?  Mircea.

7.   Which actor ended up as a Dracula United States stamp?  Bela Lugosi.

8.   What was Jonathan Harkers, fiancé’s best friends name?  Lucy Westenra.

9.   Which one of the movie adaptations of Stoker’s story actually caused Stoker’s estate to sue for copyright infringement?  Nosferatu the Vampire.

10.  Vlad Daracula died in what month and year?  December 1476.

11.  Where were Vlad Dracula’s mortal remains buried secretly?  Snagov Abbey.

12.  What movie did Boris Karloff portray a vampire?  Black Sabbath (1963).

13.  What are the two crucial traits that define vampirism?  Being undead and drinking of blood.

14.  What animal besides the bat are vampires able to shape shift into?  Wolf.

15.  Where did the world premier of “Dracula, The Musical” take place?  La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California Oct 13 through Nov 25, 2001.

16.  Who has the distinction of being the last of the North American vampires?  Mercy Brown, the Rhode Island Vampire.

17.  He was called Vlad III, Vlad Dracula, Vlad the Impaler.  What other name is he known by?  Vlad Tepes, Kaziglu Bey (The Impaler Prince).

18.  Vlad Dracula’s father was a member of what secret fraternal order of knights?  Order of the Dragon.

19.  Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in 1897, name two other works written over the next 14 years?   “The Lady of the Shroud” (1909) and “The Lair of the White Worm” (1911).

20.  Which Dracula movie did George Hamilton star in?  Love at First Bite.

21.  What year was Vlad Dracula born?  1431.

22.  Which of Vlad Dracula’s brothers died of syphilis?  Radu (the younger brother).

23.  Name the vampire demon from Greek mythology that supposedly was a servant of Hecate?  Empusas or Mormos.

24.  Where was the first performance of  a full-length ballet version of “Dracula” in 1997 held?  Wortham Center of Houston, Texas.

25.  Name the blood sucking vampire of the Aztec Civilization?  Civatateo.

26.  In 1927 Stokers story was adapted for the Broadway stage, it starred Edward Van Sloan and who?  Bela Lugosi.

27.  Which vampire movie has two criminal brothers kidnap a family on their way to safety in Mexico?  From Dusk to Dawn.

28.  When Anne Rice wrote the character Lestat, which actor did she have in mind for the part other than Tom Cruise?  Rutger Hauer.

29.  Name the movie with a black Caribbean Dracula?  Blacula.

30.  What Romanian word means devil?  Drac.

31.  Where was Vlad Dracula born?  The Transylvanian city of Sighisoara.

32.  Which vampire movie has a mom and her two sons who just moved to Santa Carla?  The Lost Boys.

33.  Vlad Dracula’s first wife committed suicide by leaping from the towers of Vlad’s castle into what river?  Arges River.

34.  When Bram Stoker’s book was published in 1897 “Dracula, or the Un-Dead, he staged a reading at what theatre?  Lyceum Theatre, London.

35.  Name the blood-sucking vampire of the Malaysian culture?  Pennangalan.

36.  When Vlad Dracula was sent to Turkey as a hostage, he was how old?  13.

37.  Name one of Bram Stoker’s famous literary friends?  Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson, Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Doyle.

38.  Who was nicknamed the “Blood Countess of Hungary”?  Erzsebet Bathory.

39.  Which vampire movie starred the cult icon Udo Kier?  Dracula (a.k.a. “Blood for Dracula”).

40.  Which gypsies served Dracula, carrying his boxes of earth and guarding him?  The Szgany gypsies.

41.  You can kill a vampire by cremation, exposing it to sunlight or by driving a stake through its heart and one more?  Cutting off its head.

42.  Complete the title of the following movie “___________ Fights Dracula?  Batman Fights Dracula (1967).

43.  Name the noble branded as a vampire and burned at the stake, who was also a compatriot of Joan of Arc?  Gilles de Rais.

44.  What kind of vampire sucks the energy out of a person rather than blood?  Psychic Vampire.

45.  The Australian aborigines have a vampire myth, and call it?  Yara-Ma-Yha-Who.

46.  An individual under physical attack from a vampire will present symptoms; bite marks, fatigue, sensitivity to light, unexplained death and?  Deathly pallor.

47.  The word vampire or vampire is derived from upir, first mentioned by an old Russian manuscript from 1047 in which a Novgorodian prince is called?  Upir Lichyj, (wicked vampire).

48.  Which Irish Bloody Tyrant was slain, buried standing up in his grave and two days later he emerged from his grave scouring the area to drink the blood of his former subjects?  Abhartach.

49.   In “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” movie what common pantry item was used for the blood?  Red Jelly.

50.  What movie was based on John Polidori’s 1819 short story “The Vampire”?  The Vampire’s Ghost (1945).

51.  What is traditionally the most vampire-infested place in the world?  Santorini, Greece.

52.  Which well respected French theologian and scholar put together a treatise in 1746, which said vampires did exist?  Dom Augustine Calmet.

53.  What did Renfield like to eat? Bugs, insects.

54.  Where did Count Dracula’s ship run aground in England?  Whitby.

55.  Professor Abraham Van Helsing came to help Lucy from what city?  Amsterdam.

    

Sources for questionf came from the internet and the book “The Vampire Watcher’s Handbook, A Guide for Slayers”,  by Constantine Gregory,  St. Martin’s Griffin, New York, 2003

 

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