The Quizmaster is back from his one-week vacation with a quiz on a subject he is very passionate about. Last week, Quizmaster T.W. filled in for me to bring you his World Series Quiz. I hope you all enjoyed it, but now it's time for a quiz on a subject that really matters: The Simpsons Halloween Quiz! There have been 12 horror and comedy (mostly comedy) packed episodes in the "Treehouse of Horror" series that have run the gamut from scary movie parodies to political humor. I'll be going through the run in order, one question from each special, so sharpen that pencil, or whatever it is your write with, and let's rock. Get your answers in by 5 p.m. on Tuesday. You can bring them in to the office, e-mail them to news.letter@jhu.edu or fill out the quiz online (at http://www.jhunewsletter.com). The winner gets $10 worth of goodies from our sponsors, Eddie's Market and Eddie's Liquors on the 3100 block of St. Paul. So just fill out the quiz and win $10 worth of stuff, because Homer not function beer well without. 1. The first "Treehouse of Horror Special" premiered during the second season of The Simpsons. In the second story, a parody of a Twilight Zone episode, the Simpsons are sucked aboard a space ship and fed lots of food by a strange alien race. Lisa thinks that the food cooked by Serak the Preparer is part of an effort to fatten them up so the aliens can eat them. What are the names of the two frequently appearing aliens in this tale? 2. The second special followed the nightmares of the Simpson family after they ate too much candy. In Lisa's nightmare, Homer buys a creepy monkey's paw in Morocco that grants him four wishes. Each wish brings increasingly disastrous results, including the enslaving of humanity by the same aliens from Question One. What is Homer's final wish and how does it backfire? 3. That same monkey's paw appears in the background of the House of Evil (Your One Stop Evil Shop) a year later, when Homer desperately tries to buy Bart a birthday gift. Homer eventually buys Bart a Krusty the Clown doll, but to his surprise, the doll tries to kill him numerous times. In this Twilight Zone farce, before Homer buys the doll, he has a lengthy conversation with the shop keeper of the House of Evil. What product is the old store owner trying to sell him? 4. On the heels of Bram Stoker's Dracula (gotta love Keanu Reeves), the Simpsons spun their own Dracula tale starring Mr. Burns in place of Dracula. Before the gang discovers Mr. Burns's secret, the police are investigating the string of murders. When Chief Wiggum finds a cape labeled "Dracula," who is his top suspect and what does he destroy looking for him? 5. "No TV and no beer make Homer something, something..." The fifth special saw an excellent adaptation of Steven King's The Shining, perhaps the best ever. It also featured a tale where Homer accidentally turned his toaster into a time machine and wrought havoc on the earth's past, present and future. After a string of failures to fix the changes in history he caused, Homer settles for a near-perfect present. What change remained for the Simpsons at the end of the story? 6. Homer in 3-D? It happened. Homer jumped through a portal into third dimension behind the family's bookshelf and became trapped. Many of the Springfield folks has plans to save him, including Professor Frink, Grandpa, Chief Wiggum and Bart, but none of them were successful and Homer was sucked away into our world. Who was Homer trying to avoid at the beginning of the episode? 7. In "Treehouse of Horror VII," Bob Dole and Bill Clinton are kidnapped and replaced by aliens before the 1996 presidential election. Homer is the only witness to the alien plot but nobody believes his story. What did the aliens do to him to ensure that no one would believe him? 8. This time around, Homer manages to be the sole survivor of a nuclear war between Springfield and France, the rest of the town is reduced to brain-hungry zombies. Initially, Homer thinks he has the whole town to himself, so he avails himself of many activities that not even he could do in public. Right before the zombies creep up on him, Homer goes to Springfield Church and dances naked in front of the altar. What song was he dancing to? 9. In "Hell Toupe," Homer gets a hair transplant from Snake, who is being executed. The evil hair seeps into Homer's brain and tries to take over his body. Snake was sentenced to death because he was on his third and final strike. His first two offences were blowing up an orphanage and torching a bus full of nuns. What crime did Snake commit as his third strike, which resulted in him getting the death penalty live on FOX TV? 10. This episode premiered on October 31, 1999 while the whole world, or at least a few eggheads, waited and worried about the year 2000 computer bug. In the third story, Homer is the year 2000 compliance officer for the nuclear power plant which unravels into disaster when the clock strikes twelve. The Simpsons manage to navigate their way through the chaos of Springfield until they come across a rocket ship ready to save the best and brightest of humanity. Lisa and Marge are invited aboard but Bart and Homer are left behind to fend for themselves. What was Lisa's job aboard the rocket ship? 11. This episode saw the Simpson family living in poverty in a pumpkin house in a fairy tale world. When Homer can't afford to feed his children, he kicks them out of the house into the deep dark woods. Bart and Lisa subsequently get captured by a witch who plans to eat them. Homer is forced to rescue the children, since Marge points out that they could have been sold instead. When Homer tries to rescue the kids from the witch, he takes advantage of a distraction to throw the witch into her own cauldron. Who was knocking on the witch's door, ready for a hot date? 12. In last year's "Treehouse of Horror," Homer has a HAL-9000 type of computer system installed in the house to take care of the housework. However, the computer gets a mind of its own and falls in love with Marge. Obviously, this leads to the computer trying to kill Homer so that Marge can be his and his alone. Who played the voice of the computer in this episode from the year 2001? First Name:Last Name:E-mail Address: Have a tip or story idea? Let us know! Tags: archives
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