Q 01/05

Roughly how many of the original series' 156 episodes did Rod Serling write or co-write himself?

A) Around 30

B) Around 60

C) Around 90

D) All 156

Answer · why

C) Around 90

He wrote or co-wrote 92, while also serving as executive producer, host and narrator.

Q 02/05

In The Twilight Zone's 'The Howling Man', who is the prisoner the monks keep locked in a cell?

A) A werewolf

B) The Devil

C) A vampire

D) A ghost

Answer · why

B) The Devil

The Devil: the traveller who frees him later recaptures him, only for his housekeeper to open the door again.

Q 03/05

In The Twilight Zone's 'The After Hours', what does shopper Marsha White discover she really is?

A) A ghost

B) A mannequin

C) A wax figure

D) A robot

Answer · why

B) A mannequin

Marsha is a mannequin: the store's mannequins take turns spending a month among humans, and she overstayed hers after forgetting what she was.

Q 04/05

How many episodes of the original series were made?

A) 104

B) 156

C) 132

D) 201

Answer · why

B) 156

Serling, Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson between them wrote 127 of them.

Q 05/05

In 'Time Enough at Last', what happens to Henry Bemis as he settles down to read?

A) His glasses shatter

B) He goes blind

C) The books crumble to dust

D) He is found by soldiers

Answer · why

A) His glasses shatter

Burgess Meredith's bank teller had survived the H-bomb in a vault, surrounded at last by all the books he could want.

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