Halloween Competition - Answers

Day 727, 12:05 Published in Ireland Ireland by einberliner

I thought I'd posted this already but it looks like my paper ate it so, much belatedly!

The answer to the halloween quiz - Cas and Biffo a little prize each is on it's way.

Films

1) Which horror movie advises you to never say 'I'll be right back' because, if you're in a horror movie, you won't be? - Scream
2) What connects the leading ladies of 1960's 'Psycho' and 1978's Halloween? - Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis are mother and daughter.
3) Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer share a supporting actress that is far more famous for a horror-genre TV show - which show? - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Sarah Michelle Gellar)
4) Which now-megastar made their movie debut in Nightmare on Elm Street? - Johnny Depp
5) Which film's tagline was 'You Can't Cheat Death'? - Final Destination
6) Who, and in which film, declares that a boy's best friend is his mother? - Norman Bates, Psycho

Myths and Urban Legends

1) According to urban legend what you should never mix with coke? - Pop rocks (or mentos, but I was looking really for pop rocks)
2) And what allegedly happens if you chant 'Bloody Mary' in front of a mirror? - You summon her
3) Rumors persisted for years that you could see a ghost during one scene of 'Three Men and a Baby' - what, in reality, is it that you see when you see the 'ghost'? - A cardboard cut out of Ted Danson
4) What bodily organ is the usual subject of an urban legend where a person wakes in a bath of ice with a note telling them to go to the hospital because said organ has been taken to be sold on the black market? - Kidney(s)
5) Which country is famous of the legend of the 'hungry grass'? - Ireland
6) What, in Irish, is the correct spelling of the 'Land of Youth' and where would you find it? - Tír na nÓg, way off to the West

Misc

1) What is Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia? - Fear of '666'
2) What is xenoglossy? - Knowledge of a language you've never learned
3) What does Samhain mean (I'll take either of two answers for this), what dates (there should be two) can it be said to occur on, and what is the name of the holiday most people celebrate in it's stead? - Summer's End, also November. Oct 31 or Nov 1 and Halloween
4) From which bloodthirsty historical figure did Dracula's name come? - Vald the Impaler
5) According to modern literature to which metal is a werewolf vulnerable? - Silver
6) Giles Corey, a Salem resident who was accused of witchcraft, was pressed to death when he refused to plead guilty or innocent. His last words were "I curse you Corwin and all of Salem!", but what were his most famous words? - 'More weight'