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grindhouse_quiz.sPubDate = "4/2/2007 11:10:30 PM GMT";
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grindhouse_quiz.appDeck = new Array("Directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have both drawn a lot of inspiration from the action movies of the 1970s, but perhaps never so directly as in their new project, “Grindhouse.” The movie takes its title from the type of theater that specialized in “exploitation movies” in the 1970s — a catch-all term covering kung fu movies, blaxploitation, horror, sex films, biker movies, and anything trashy, violent, and full of explosions. “Grindhouse” aims to recreate the experience of a 1970s double feature, with Tarantino directing a muscle-car/serial-killer thriller called “Death Proof” and Rodriguez helming a zombie flick called “Planet Terror,” interspersed with trailers for four fictitious grindhouse movies directed by Rodriguez and three other notable modern horror directors, Rob Zombie, Eli Roth and Edgar Wright. How well do you know Tarantino and Rodriguez’s movies, and the genres that inspired their latest film? Take our quiz and find out.","");
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grindhouse_quiz[1] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[1][0] = new Array("A basic terminology question to begin: Why were these movie theaters called “grindhouses”?");
grindhouse_quiz[1].answer = "The correct answer is A. Grindhouses were usually found in urban areas; in the suburbs, exploitation cinema was found mainly in drive-ins.";
grindhouse_quiz[1][1] = new Array("A. They had often begun as burlesque houses in red-light districts.",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[1][2] = new Array("B. They were usually former butcher shops which had been converted into movie theaters as part of the increased patriotism during World War II.",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[1][3] = new Array("C. It’s from the Dutch term “De Grinde Huus,” meaning “house of grinning” or “house of laughter.”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[1][4] = new Array("D. The original chain of theaters was owned by movie mogul Sylvester Grindhouse.",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[2] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[2][0] = new Array("Rodriguez and Tarantino have worked together often: In 1995, for instance, they collaborated on the movie “Four Rooms,” in which four directors each contributed a story revolving around the misadventures of a hotel bellhop played by Tim Roth. Who were the other two directors?");
grindhouse_quiz[2].answer = "The correct answer is D. Anders directed the 1992 indie drama “Gas Food Lodging,” and Rockwell is best known as the singer of 1984 R&B hit “Somebody’s Watching Me.” No, wait, that’s a different Rockwell. Alexandre Rockwell directed another award-winning 1992 indie drama, “In The Soup.”";
grindhouse_quiz[2][1] = new Array("A. Sam Raimi and Ethan Coen",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[2][2] = new Array("B. George Romero and David Cronenberg",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[2][3] = new Array("C. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[2][4] = new Array("D. Allison Anders and Alexandre Rockwell",'',1);

grindhouse_quiz[3] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[3][0] = new Array("In Tarantino’s “Death Proof,” Kurt Russell plays a stuntman and serial killer whose choice of weapon is a tricked-out and fortified black stunt car. In what 1970 movie is Dennis Weaver terrorized by a murderous truck driver?");
grindhouse_quiz[3].answer = "The correct answer is A. “Duel” is best known as the debut of director Steven Spielberg.";
grindhouse_quiz[3][1] = new Array("A. “Duel”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[3][2] = new Array("B. “The Road Warrior”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[3][3] = new Array("C. “The Cars That Ate Paris”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[3][4] = new Array("D. “Christine”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[4] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[4][0] = new Array("What remarkable opponents fight each other in the most celebrated scene of Lucio Fulci’s horror film “Zombi 2”?");
grindhouse_quiz[4].answer = "The correct answer is A, a zombie and a shark. A preacher who knows kung fu does fight zombies in Peter Jackson’s “Dead/Alive,” showing up to save the main characters with the unforgettable line “I kick ass for the Lord!”";
grindhouse_quiz[4][1] = new Array("A. A zombie and a shark",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[4][2] = new Array("B. A zombie and an elephant",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[4][3] = new Array("C. A zombie and a preacher who knows kung fu",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[4][4] = new Array("D. A zombie and a swarm of fire ants",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[5] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[5][0] = new Array("The heroines of “Death Proof” drive a white Dodge Challenger, which Tarantino says is a reference to the iconic automobile from what grindhouse movie?");
grindhouse_quiz[5].answer = "The correct answer is B. Director Richard Sarafian’s 1971 movie follows an ex-cop and race-car driver named Kowalski who’s hired to deliver a car from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours.";
grindhouse_quiz[5][1] = new Array("A. “Cannonball Run”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[5][2] = new Array("B. “Vanishing Point”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[5][3] = new Array("C. “Death Race 2000”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[5][4] = new Array("D. “Gone In 60 Seconds”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[6] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[6][0] = new Array("What was the common real-life profession shared by the main actors in “The Black Six,” the 1974 blaxploitation movie about a gang of bikers who seek revenge against a racist rival gang for lynching the brother of the hero?");
grindhouse_quiz[6].answer = "The correct answer is A. It’s pretty clear that the filmmakers were banking on the athletes’ fame to help get people into the theaters: The opening credits helpfully list the actors not only by name, but which team they play for.";
grindhouse_quiz[6][1] = new Array("A. Football players",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[6][2] = new Array("B. Harley-Davidson sales reps",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[6][3] = new Array("C. Basketball players",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[6][4] = new Array("D. Politicians",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[7] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[7][0] = new Array("Pam Grier, the lead actress in Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown,” first became famous as the one of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation genre. Which of the following movies did she NOT appear in?");
grindhouse_quiz[7].answer = "The correct answer is A. Grier actually starred in the sequel, “Scream Blacula Scream.”";
grindhouse_quiz[7][1] = new Array("A. “Blacula”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[7][2] = new Array("B. “Greased Lightning”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[7][3] = new Array("C. “Foxy Brown”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[7][4] = new Array("D. “Naked Warriors”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[7][5] = new Array("E. “Coffy”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[7][6] = new Array("F. “Island of the Twilight People”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[7][7] = new Array("G. “Black Mama, White Mama",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[7][8] = new Array("H. “Sheba, Baby”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[7][9] = new Array("I. “Women in Cages”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[7][10] = new Array("J. “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[8] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[8][0] = new Array("“Planet Terror” heroine Cherry, played by Rose McGowan, is a badass stripper with a machine gun for a leg. In what earlier movie will you find a character with a chainsaw for a hand?");
grindhouse_quiz[8].answer = "The correct answer is C. Bruce Campbell plays Ash in the “Evil Dead” trilogy. In the second film, after his hand becomes possessed by a demon, he is forced to cut it off. Later, as he prepares his final battle to the death with the forces of evil, he straps a chainsaw in its place and looks upon his work approvingly with a single laconic word: “Groovy.”";
grindhouse_quiz[8][1] = new Array("A. “Saw”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[8][2] = new Array("B. “The Evil Dead”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[8][3] = new Array("C. “Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[8][4] = new Array("D. “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[9] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[9][0] = new Array("Tom Savini, who created the special effects and makeup for George Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” and “Day of the Dead,” has a small role in “Planet Terror” as a policeman. So does Carlos Gallardo, a relatively unknown actor who is very important to Robert Rodriguez — who is he?");
grindhouse_quiz[9].answer = "The correct answer is C. Gallardo played the hero of “El Mariachi,” a musician who is mistaken for a hired killer who happens to keep his weapons in his guitar case. Rodriguez made his reputation with the film, which reportedly cost only $7,000 to make. Later, he returned to the story with the loose sequel/remake “Desperado.”";
grindhouse_quiz[9][1] = new Array("A. Rodriguez’s father",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[9][2] = new Array("B. Rodriguez’s rabbi",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[9][3] = new Array("C. The star of Rodriguez’s first film",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[9][4] = new Array("D. Rodriguez’s dentist",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[10] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[10][0] = new Array("Rob Zombie’s “Grindhouse” trailer, “Werewolf Women of the SS,” plays off the title of the notorious B-movie “Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS,” a breathtakingly tasteless film in which the deranged Nazi officer of the title sexually tortures and degrades prisoners in a concentration camp. The movie was filmed on the set of which TV sitcom, also set during wartime?");
grindhouse_quiz[10].answer = "The correct answer is C. So if you ever wonder “what’s more tasteless than setting a situation comedy in a German prisoner-of-war camp,” you have your answer.";
grindhouse_quiz[10][1] = new Array("A. “M*A*S*H”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[10][2] = new Array("B. “The Wackiest Ship in the Army”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[10][3] = new Array("C. “Hogan’s Heroes”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[10][4] = new Array("D. “McHale’s Navy”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[11] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[11][0] = new Array("Rose McGowan might be best known as one of the stars of the TV show “Charmed,” but she’s been in her share of horror films before, including “Scream,” “Dean Koontz’s Phantoms,” and “Devil In The Flesh.” But it might be even scarier that her early film credits also include two comedies with which notoriously unfunny comic?");
grindhouse_quiz[11].answer = "The correct answer is A. McGowan was in both “Bio-Dome” and “Encino Man” with Shore. She was young; she needed the work.";
grindhouse_quiz[11][1] = new Array("A. Pauly Shore",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[11][2] = new Array("B. Yahoo Serious",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[11][3] = new Array("C. Carrot Top",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[11][4] = new Array("D. Dane Cook",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[12] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[12][0] = new Array("In 1996, Tarantino used his newfound clout as one of the hottest directors in Hollywood to secure the re-release of what 1975 B-movie about knife-wielding gangs?");
grindhouse_quiz[12].answer = "The correct answer is A, \"Switchblade Sisters.\" Director Jack Hill also helmed underground classics “Foxy Brown” and “Coffy.”";
grindhouse_quiz[12][1] = new Array("A. “Switchblade Sisters”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[12][2] = new Array("B. “The Warriors”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[12][3] = new Array("C. “Gangs Of New York”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[12][4] = new Array("D. “Blood Orgy Of The Leather Girls”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[13] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[13][0] = new Array("Who’s the black private dick who’s a sex machine to all the chicks?");
grindhouse_quiz[13].answer = "The correct answer is D. You know, that Shaft is a bad mother— Well, never mind. The other three characters are also African-American private eyes or cops, and can be seen in the movies “A Low Down Dirty Shame,” “Cotton Comes To Harlem,” and “Devil In A Blue Dress” respectively.";
grindhouse_quiz[13][1] = new Array("A. Andre Shame",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[13][2] = new Array("B. Coffin Ed",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[13][3] = new Array("C. Easy Rawlins",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[13][4] = new Array("D. John Shaft",'',1);

grindhouse_quiz[14] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[14][0] = new Array("The finale of which 1974 martial-arts movie takes place in an overflowing car wash, with all the characters waist-deep in soap bubbles?");
grindhouse_quiz[14].answer = "The correct answer is A, “Black Belt Jones.” The film starred Jim Kelly, who became one of the era’s most prominent martial-arts stars after appearing in the Bruce Lee classic “Enter The Dragon.”";
grindhouse_quiz[14][1] = new Array("A. “Black Belt Jones”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[14][2] = new Array("B. “Car Wash”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[14][3] = new Array("C. “The Black Samurai”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[14][4] = new Array("D. “Three The Hard Way”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[15] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[15][0] = new Array("Rap group Wu-Tang Clan takes its name from which Hong Kong kung fu movie?");
grindhouse_quiz[15].answer = "The correct answer is C, “Shaolin And Wu Tang.\" The Wu-Tang Clan sampled the movie on their debut, “Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).”";
grindhouse_quiz[15][1] = new Array("A. “The Five Deadly Venoms”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[15][2] = new Array("B. “36th Chamber Of Shaolin”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[15][3] = new Array("C. “Shaolin And Wu Tang”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[15][4] = new Array("D. “Wu Tang: Breakfast Drink Of Terror”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[16] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[16][0] = new Array("Although Kurt Russell has been a movie actor since he was a child, it’s pretty safe to say that the reason Tarantino and Rodriguez wanted him for “Grindhouse” was his performance in several of the best films by horror and action-movie director John Carpenter. Which one of the following movies was not a Carpenter/Russell collaboration?");
grindhouse_quiz[16].answer = "The correct answer is C. The lead actor in “They Live” is played instead by professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper.";
grindhouse_quiz[16][1] = new Array("A. “Big Trouble in Little China”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[16][2] = new Array("B. “Escape from New York”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[16][3] = new Array("C. “They Live”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[16][4] = new Array("D. “The Thing”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[17] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[17][0] = new Array("Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert wrote the screenplays for which two films by exploitation director Russ Meyer, whose films were notable for the comically voluptuous figures of their Amazonian heroines?");
grindhouse_quiz[17].answer = "The correct answer is B, “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” and “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens.” Ebert also wrote the script for Meyer’s “Up!” under the pseudonym “Reinhold Timme.”";
grindhouse_quiz[17][1] = new Array("A. “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” and “Black Snake: The Whip”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[17][2] = new Array("B. “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” and “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[17][3] = new Array("C. “Wild Gals of the Naked West” and “Common Law Cabin”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[17][4] = new Array("D. “Mudhoney” and “Mondo Topless”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[18] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[18][0] = new Array("Shock director John Waters and his boyhood friend and longtime lead actor Divine, a luridly obese tranvestite, made film history when Divine performed what nauseatingly unforgettable action at the end of 1972’s “Pink Flamingos”?");
grindhouse_quiz[18].answer = "The correct answer is B, ate dog excrement. Waters’ movie deliberately sets out to unsettle and disgust viewers in the most blatant means possible. All four of the possible answers to this question really did appear in the film, and were not faked.";
grindhouse_quiz[18][1] = new Array("A. Declared that the best philosophy of life is “Kill everyone now! Advocate cannibalism! Eat s—!”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[18][2] = new Array("B. Ate dog excrement",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[18][3] = new Array("C. Performed an unmentionable NC-17 act with a live chicken, which did not survive the experience",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[18][4] = new Array("D. Performed a sexual act on the actor playing her son",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz[19] = new Array();
grindhouse_quiz[19][0] = new Array("In mystery novelist George Pelecanos’ “King Suckerman,” set during the height of the grindhouse/drive-in era in 1976, the murder in the opening chapter takes place at a drive-in theater showing what film? ");
grindhouse_quiz[19].answer = "The correct answer is A. The killer times his murder to coincide with the shootout at the end of “Black Caesar” so that his real gunshots will be mistaken for the sounds of the movie.";
grindhouse_quiz[19][1] = new Array("A. “Black Caesar”",'',1);
grindhouse_quiz[19][2] = new Array("B. “Angels As Hard As They Come”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[19][3] = new Array("C. “I Spit On Your Grave”",'',0);
grindhouse_quiz[19][4] = new Array("D. “Humanoids From The Deep”",'',0);

grindhouse_quiz.profiles = new Array();var i=0;
grindhouse_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(98,100,"<font color=#990000><b>All correct. This is nearly as prestigious as winning &#147;Death Race 2000.&#148; Go take a victory lap. </b></font>");
grindhouse_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(63,97,"<font color=#990000><b>Mostly correct. When the zombie apocalypse comes, you&#146;ll know what to do. </b></font>");
grindhouse_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(27,58,"<font color=#990000><b>So-so. Seek out the works of Roger Corman and redeem yourself. </b></font>");
grindhouse_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(5,26,"<font color=#990000><b>Not Very Good. Have you been watching nothing but quality cinema all this time? </b></font>");
grindhouse_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(0,4,"<font color=#990000><b>Terrible. But still better than having to watch &#147;Ilsa: She Wolf Of The SS.&#148; </b></font>");

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