Answers

So, for the two of you who actually read my blog - nice to know there's at least two :) - here are the answers to the Halloween trivia I posted. If you haven't yet looked at the questions, skip the answers-no cheating! Looking back over them, I guess I actually got 13 right, with a few hints from Sterling. Enjoy! (I added a few comments in italics)

1. Warts; green skin is acceptable also
2. Archie, Veronica, and Betty at Riverdale High School
3. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
4. Meatloaf
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6. The Monster Mash (Krista, we totally should have known this one from our younger days)
7. Woodsboro High
8. When the moon is full
9. The Bates Motel
10. Dan Akroyd
11. The abominable snowman
12. Collinsport, Maine
13. “Nightmare on Elm Street”
14. Cyclops
15. Jane Eyre – The plot: a second wife living in a house with many secrets regarding the death of the first wife and a deranged governess tossed in.
16. HALLOWEEN
17. The Raven
18. Poltergeist
19. Elvira is Mistress of the Dark and assumed to be a female vampire (still have no idea what she’s from)
20. Frank Sinatra
21. Barry Bostwick - He is the mayor on “SpinCity”
22. Lon Chaney (I’ve actually heard of him before, he plays the phantom, Erik, on the original silent film Phantom of the Opera. I also want to add that he did his own makeup and it wasn’t revealed until the movie’s premier.

Chaney pulled his eyeballs out from their sockets with thin wires, so that his eyes appeared to bulge out and their sockets became very deep. He then kept his eyes in their bulged-out position with wires and painted his eye sockets black, giving a skull-like impression to them. He also pulled the tip of his nose up and pinned that in place with wire, enlarging his nostrils with black paint, and putting a set of jagged false teeth into his mouth to complete the ghastly deformed look of the Phantom)
23. Phantom of the Opera
24. Mummies
25. Boris Karloff
26. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins
27. Michael Landon
28. True. Mary Shelly wrote it because of a bet she had with her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelly and another writer friend, Lord George Byron. She had it entered in a writing contest.
29. Mia Farrow (Uh, who is she?)
30. Vincent Price
31. UNICEF