Q 01/05

In Night of the Comet, the survivors all spent the night inside rooms or containers lined with which material?

A) Lead

B) Steel

C) Concrete

D) Copper

Answer · why

B) Steel

Steel is the link the Belmont sisters spot between their hiding places, and Hector Gomez fits the pattern too: he slept in the back of his truck.

Q 02/05

What is left of most people on the morning after the comet passes in Night of the Comet?

A) Blackened skeletons

B) Pillars of salt

C) Piles of red dust

D) Pools of green slime

Answer · why

C) Piles of red dust

Piles of red dust lie beside heaps of empty clothing wherever people stood watching the sky, while those who were only partly exposed turn into zombie...

Q 03/05

Samantha Belmont of Night of the Comet was an early influence on which California teenager of 1990s television?

A) Buffy Summers

B) Kelly Kapowski

C) Brenda Walsh

D) Cher Horowitz

Answer · why

A) Buffy Summers

Buffy Summers owes a debt to Sam: Joss Whedon set out to subvert the horror cliché of the little blonde girl who walks into a dark alley and gets kill...

Q 04/05

Night of the Comet was among the first mainstream films to receive which MPAA rating, introduced in July 1984?

A) An R

B) An NC-17

C) An X

D) A PG-13

Answer · why

D) A PG-13

A PG-13 was brand new: the rating arrived after complaints that Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom were too violent for a PG.

Q 05/05

In Night of the Comet, Earth last passed through the comet's tail when which animals were wiped out?

A) Woolly mammoths

B) Dinosaurs

C) Trilobites

D) Dodos

Answer · why

B) Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years before the story begins, the last time Earth took this path, yet people still treat the comet's return as a party.