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About This Quiz
What do you get when you make an astronaut and his robot pals watch some of the worst movies ever made? Comedy gold, that's what. Our quiz is all about "Mystery Science Theater 3000," the TV show of choice for cinema cultists. Now brace yourselves, folks: We've got movie sign!
Before it went national, "Mystery Science Theater 3000"- or "MST3K" for short - originally premiered on which of these midwestern TV stations?
KVFD-TV (Now Defunct) in Fort Dodge, Iowa
WISC-TV in Madison, Wisconsin
KTMA-TV (Now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota
What sort of animal is Gamera, a Japanese monster whose movies were regularly trashed on Mystery Science Theater?
a giant turtle
a deadly mantis
a killer shrew
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Beloved by MST3K fans, the 1966 "horror" flick "Manos: The Hands of Fate" was directed by Harold P. Warren, a Texas salesman. What did he used to sell?
tractors
propane and propane accessories
fertilizer
Name the movie that inspired Joel and the 'bots to break out singing, "He tried to kill me with a forklift!"
"Laserblast" (1978)
"Fugitive Alien" (1986)
"Teenagers From Outer Space" (1959)
True or False: "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie" (1996) is shorter than the film it parodies.
true
false
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"Glee" fans are known as "Gleeks," but what do "Mystery Science Theater" diehards call themselves?
Crow-magnons
MSTies
Riffheads
Clint Eastwood, yes *that* Clint Eastwood, made his film debut in what pulp sci-fi movie (that "Mystery Science Theater" later spoofed)?
"It Conquered the World" (1956)
"The Black Scorpion" (1957)
"Revenge of the Creature" (1955)
How is Pearl Forrester related to Dr. Clayton Forrester, the show's original villain?
She's his mother.
She's his niece.
They're clones.
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