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alienvspredator_quiz.sPubDate = "8/6/2004 8:47:42 PM GMT";
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alienvspredator_quiz.appDeck = new Array("Hollywood has a recurring love of taking two big-screen tough guys who’ve been successful in their own films – usually villains – and making a new movie that locks them in mortal combat. Last year brought two kings of the slasher genre together in “Freddy vs. Jason.” Dipping back into film history, we’ve also seen grudge matches between Frankenstein and the Wolf Man, Godzilla and King Kong, and even the two Japanese samurai Zatoichi and Yojimbo. And on August 13, it’s a battle from beyond the stars as two 1980s sci-fi franchises meet up in “Alien vs. Predator.” But how much do you really know about the films? Take our quiz and find out. ","");
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alienvspredator_quiz[1] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[1][0] = new Array("The concept of pitting Aliens against Predators came to life in the late 1980s when Dark Horse Comics began publishing a series of stories about a long-running war between the two species. What sets off the deadly encounter when they meet in the first Dark Horse story?");
alienvspredator_quiz[1].answer = "The correct answer is B. Also, the best folk-influenced singer-songwriter of the 1970s was clearly Cat Stevens.";
alienvspredator_quiz[1][1] = new Array("A. The Aliens totally cut the Predators off in traffic. Bloody galactic war ensues.",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[1][2] = new Array("B. The Predators capture an Alien queen in order to build a private game reserve where they can hunt satisfyingly dangerous prey.",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[1][3] = new Array("C. The Aliens, out to build a galaxy-wide space empire, viciously attack the Predators’ homeworld, but the ensuing war devastates both species; the remaining Predators hunt the few remaining Aliens to seek revenge. ",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[1][4] = new Array("D. After splitting a case of Old Milwaukee together at a party in Trenton, New Jersey, the Aliens and the Predators have a violent, drunken falling-out after arguing over who was the best folk-influenced singer-songwriter of the 1970s, Gordon Lightfoot or Jim Croce. Bloody galactic war ensues.",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[2] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[2][0] = new Array("In the original Predator, what did Jesse Ventura famously insist he did not have time to do?");
alienvspredator_quiz[2].answer = "The correct answer is B. The “Alien” movies are by far the more commercially successful of the two franchises, but the “Predator” series did give us two governors in Minnesota’s Jesse Ventura and California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Thanks, “Predator” series!) Ventura’s busy schedule gave him no time to bleed, but it did give him time to lead – his victory in the 1998 Minnesota governor’s race shocked the political world and may have laid the groundwork for Schwarzenegger. The former professional wrestler now teaches at Harvard. ";
alienvspredator_quiz[2][1] = new Array("A. Read",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[2][2] = new Array("B. Bleed",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[2][3] = new Array("C. Speed",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[2][4] = new Array("D. Practice golf until he played as well as the legendary Sam Snead ",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[3] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[3][0] = new Array("In an early draft of “Alien 3,” the setting was not a prison planet but what other kind of all-male institution?");
alienvspredator_quiz[3].answer = "The correct answer is A. According to the fan website Planet AvP, (www.planetavp.com), the storyline for the third “Alien” film went through at least 10 major revisions, including a draft in which Sigourney Weaver’s character Ripley crashes on a planet made entirely of wood and populated by pacifist monks. ";
alienvspredator_quiz[3][1] = new Array("A. A monastery",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[3][2] = new Array("B. An Elks lodge",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[3][3] = new Array("C. An English boys’ school",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[3][4] = new Array("D. The Cincinnati Bengals football team",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[4] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[4][0] = new Array("The Internet-based animation company Angry Alien Productions (www.angryalien.com) recently released its own parody version of \"Alien,\" similar to their very funny previous takedowns of films like “Titanic,” “The Shining,” and “The Exorcist.” What is the major change they made to the story?");
alienvspredator_quiz[4].answer = "The correct answer is C. We found the change to be a drastic improvement in the case of “Titanic.”";
alienvspredator_quiz[4][1] = new Array("A. The menacing monster is not an alien xenomorph, but a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman.",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[4][2] = new Array("B. The action takes place on the starship Enterprise, on a lavishly recreated if cheap set built in obsessive detail by the fans who made the film.",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[4][3] = new Array("C. Their version is told in 30 seconds, with all the characters replaced by bunnies.",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[4][4] = new Array("D. The Alien doesn’t kill people; it just tickles them with a feather duster.",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[5] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[5][0] = new Array("Though his scenes were cut from the theatrical version of “Aliens,” actor Mac McDonald plays the doomed colony’s commander in scenes later restored in the director’s cut of the film. Later, he played the commander of a similarly unlucky space vessel in another science fiction series. What was that show?");
alienvspredator_quiz[5].answer = "The correct answer is D. McDonald played Captain Frank Hollister, the long-suffering captain of the space freighter Red Dwarf, in the British sitcom’s first and eighth seasons, and is slated to reprise the role in the upcoming “Red Dwarf” feature film.";
alienvspredator_quiz[5][1] = new Array("A. “Star Trek: Voyager”",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[5][2] = new Array("B. “Space: 1999”",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[5][3] = new Array("C. “Far Out Space Nuts”",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[5][4] = new Array("D. “Red Dwarf”",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[6] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[6][0] = new Array("What singer from the British Isles recently paid nearly 30,000 pounds for the foam-latex model of the chestbursting Alien that erupted from John Hurt’s chest in the first film?");
alienvspredator_quiz[6].answer = "The correct answer is D. Chris de Burgh had a hit in 1983 with “Don’t Pay the Ferryman.” He apparently saved a lot of money by following this advice if he had that much cash lying around to spend on a movie prop.";
alienvspredator_quiz[6][1] = new Array("A. Bono of U2",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[6][2] = new Array("B. Van Morrison",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[6][3] = new Array("C. Johnny Rotten",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[6][4] = new Array("D. Chris de Burgh",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[7] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[7][0] = new Array("“Alien vs. Predator” is written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. What other films has he done?");
alienvspredator_quiz[7].answer = "The correct answer is C. The others were directed by Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson and George Romero respectively.";
alienvspredator_quiz[7][1] = new Array("A. “Rushmore” and “The Royal Tenenbaums”",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[7][2] = new Array("B. “Magnolia” and “Boogie Nights”",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[7][3] = new Array("C. “Resident Evil” and Mortal Kombat”",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[7][4] = new Array("D. “Dawn of the Dead” and “The Crazies”",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[8] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[8][0] = new Array("“Alien vs. Predator” is set in an ancient pyramid discovered deep in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, which is very likely an homage to which H. P. Lovecraft short story with a similar setting and a similarly creepy cast of malevolent outer-space bad guys?");
alienvspredator_quiz[8].answer = "The correct answer is C. In “At the Mountains of Madness,” a team of researchers from the fictional Arkham University encounter an entire lost city encased in the ice, home to a hibernating race of deadly aliens who had been the Earth’s primary inhabitants millions of years before. ";
alienvspredator_quiz[8][1] = new Array("A. “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[8][2] = new Array("B. “Herbert West – Re-Animator”",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[8][3] = new Array("C. “At the Mountains of Madness”",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[8][4] = new Array("D. “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[9] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[9][0] = new Array("Which of the following things connect the two series’ first two sequels, “Predator 2” and “Aliens”?");
alienvspredator_quiz[9].answer = "The correct answer is D. Bill Paxton plays the panicky Pvt. Hudson in Aliens and the obnoxious cop Lambert in Predator 2. In the latter film, an Alien skull can be briefly seen hanging on the wall of the Predator’s trophy room. And Danny Glover argues with Gary Busey in a scene oddly similar to the one in “Aliens,” filmed four years earlier, between Sigourney Weaver and William Hope.";
alienvspredator_quiz[9][1] = new Array("A. Actor Bill Paxton",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[9][2] = new Array("B. The skull of an Alien",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[9][3] = new Array("C. A scene in which a commando team gets slaughtered by the villain while the hero and the commando team’s ineffectual leader watch on video from their secure mobile base; the hero screams at the team leader to get his people out, is not listened to, and winds up taking the situation into his or her own hands to rescue the team, leaving the ineffectual leader to sit there looking like a chump. ",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[9][4] = new Array("D. All of the above",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[10] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[10][0] = new Array("Three of the starships in the “Alien” series – the Sulacco, the Nostromo and the Narcissus – are named in reference to the stories of which early 20th-century English novelist?");
alienvspredator_quiz[10].answer = "The correct answer is C. The Polish-born Conrad wrote such novels as “Lord Jim,” “Nostromo,” “The Secret Agent” and “Heart of Darkness,” the latter of which was used by Francis Ford Coppola as the basis for his Vietnam War film “Apocalypse Now.”";
alienvspredator_quiz[10][1] = new Array("A. James Joyce",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[10][2] = new Array("B. Evelyn Waugh",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[10][3] = new Array("C. Joseph Conrad",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[10][4] = new Array("D. Arthur Conan Doyle ",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[11] = new Array();
alienvspredator_quiz[11][0] = new Array("Give the order in which each of the following characters from “Aliens” dies.");
alienvspredator_quiz[11].answer = "The correct answer is B. Bigtime spoilers here: The Sarge is killed during the initial landing-site fiasco, Hudson dies when the Aliens break through the barricades the survivors have set up, Burke is killed when the Aliens corner him after he tries to betray the other humans, Vasquez and Lt. Gorman blow themselves up with a hand grenade (taking out a couple of Aliens in the process) to buy the others time to get away, Newt dies in the spaceship crash that takes place just before the “Alien 3” storyline begins, the android Bishop is heavily damaged in the same crash but is brought back just long enough to tell Ripley what happened, and Ripley herself immolates herself in molten metal when she discovers she’s carrying the egg of an Alien queen.";
alienvspredator_quiz[11][1] = new Array("A. Pvt. Vasquez, Sgt. Apone, Carter Burke, Newt, Pvt. Hudson, Bishop, Ripley",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[11][2] = new Array("B. Sgt. Apone, Pvt. Hudson, Carter Burke, Pvt. Vasquez, Newt, Bishop, Ripley",'',1);
alienvspredator_quiz[11][3] = new Array("C. Sgt. Apone, Carter Burke, Pvt. Hudson, Bishop, Pvt. Vasquez, Newt, Ripley",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz[11][4] = new Array("D. Sgt. Apone, Pvt. Vasquez, Pvt. Hudson, Carter Burke, Bishop, Newt, Ripley",'',0);
alienvspredator_quiz.profiles = new Array();var i=0;
alienvspredator_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(0,8,"Terrible. You know how the trailers for the movie say “Whoever wins, we lose”? They meant “Whoever wins, you lose.” ");
alienvspredator_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(9,36,"Not Very Good. You’ve done badly and could probably use a hug. Just make sure you don’t get it from an Alien face-hugger. ");
alienvspredator_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(45,64,"Fair. Like Jesse Ventura, you probably don’t have time to bleed – but maybe you should make a little more time to study science-fiction movies! ");
alienvspredator_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(73,91,"Very Good. Aliens might not have visible eyes, but somehow they can still see that you know a lot about these movies. ");
alienvspredator_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(92,100,"Excellent. Are you a Predator? Because you’re obviously an experienced hunter of the world’s most dangerous game – knowledge! ");
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