Q 01/05

Which actor was billed only as a question mark in the opening credits of Universal's Frankenstein (1931)?

A) Boris Karloff

B) John Carradine

C) Lionel Atwill

D) Basil Rathbone

Answer · why

A) Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff's teasing "?" billing worked so well that Universal repeated the trick in 1935, crediting the Monster's bride the same way.

Q 02/05

Which Hungarian-born actor played Count Dracula on Broadway before starring in Universal's 1931 film?

A) Peter Lorre

B) Conrad Veidt

C) Bela Lugosi

D) Paul Lukas

Answer · why

C) Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi had the luck to be in Los Angeles with a touring company of the play just as Universal was casting, and won the part over several other ac...

Q 03/05

What is the name of Henry Frankenstein's hunchbacked lab assistant in Universal's 1931 film Frankenstein?

A) Otto

B) Fritz

C) Hans

D) Ludwig

Answer · why

B) Fritz

Fritz is the original, played by Dwight Frye; the better-known Ygor is a broken-necked blacksmith who only arrived in Son of Frankenstein (1939).

Q 04/05

Which future Western star made his uncredited screen debut as a lab technician in Revenge of the Creature (1955)?

A) Steve McQueen

B) Charles Bronson

C) James Garner

D) Clint Eastwood

Answer · why

D) Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood turns up in the sequel that hauls the captured Gill-man out of the jungle and into an oceanarium tank for study.

Q 05/05

The 1922 opening of which pharaoh's tomb inspired Universal to make The Mummy a decade later?

A) Ramesses II

B) Tutankhamun

C) Akhenaten

D) Thutmose III

Answer · why

B) Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun's tomb had been covered for a New York newspaper by John L. Balderston, the former journalist Universal then hired to write the script.