Q 01/05

Who directed the 1984 film Gremlins?

A) Joe Dante

B) John Landis

C) Ivan Reitman

D) Robert Zemeckis

Answer · why

A) Joe Dante

He was hired for his horror-comedy chops after The Howling, and had come up cutting trailers for Roger Corman.

Q 02/05

Which future Home Alone director wrote Gremlins as a spec script?

A) John Hughes

B) Chris Columbus

C) Bob Gale

D) Lawrence Kasdan

Answer · why

B) Chris Columbus

He got the idea from mice skittering around his darkened loft apartment; Spielberg bought the script in late 1981.

Q 03/05

Rand Peltzer buys the mogwai as a Christmas present in an antique store located in which neighborhood?

A) Little Italy

B) Koreatown

C) Chinatown

D) Greenwich Village

Answer · why

C) Chinatown

The shop's owner refuses to sell; it is his grandson who secretly hands the creature over along with the three rules.

Q 04/05

Which of the three mogwai rules is stressed as the most important, 'above all'?

A) keep it away from bright light

B) never let it get wet

C) never leave it alone at night

D) never feed it after midnight

Answer · why

D) never feed it after midnight

The other two rules cover sunlight, which kills a mogwai, and water, which makes it multiply.

Q 05/05

What is the name of the snowy small town where Billy Peltzer works at the local bank?

A) Kingston Falls

B) Bedford Falls

C) Grover's Corners

D) Castle Rock

Answer · why

A) Kingston Falls

The picture-postcard setting deliberately echoes It's a Wonderful Life, a clip of which appears in the film.