THE KING OF HORROR
REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY
MASS HSYTERIA
CRYPTIDS
THE DEATH OF AMERICA
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A STORY REVOLVING AROUND A TELEKINETIC HIGH SCHOOL GIRL WAS LATER EXPANDED INTO THIS DEBUT NOVEL AFTER THE AUTHORS WIFE RESCUED THE FIRST THREE PAGES FROM THE TRASH

WHAT IS CARRIE

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THIS INVENTION BY THE SCOTTISH ENGINEER JAMES WATT REVOLUTIONISED TRANSPORT AND MACHINERY IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND DROVE THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 

WHAT IS THE STEAM ENGINE 

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THIS COLURFUL 2-WORD TERM REFERS TO THE FEAR OF COMMUNISTS INFILTRATING AMERICAN SOCIETY 

WHAT IS THE RED SCARE? 

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LOCATED IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS THIS LAKE IS ALLEGED TO BE HOME OF A LEGENDARY, LONG-NECKED, AQUATIC BEAST

WHAT IS LOCH NESS?

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THE REPORT ESTABLISHED BY PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JONSON TO INVESTIGATE THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN. F KENNEDY

WHAT IS THE WARREN COMISSION?

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ORIGINIALLY RELEASED AS A SIX PART SERIAL, THIS NOVEL DETAILS A LOUISIANNA PRISON GUARD'S ENCOUNTER WITH A DEATH ROW INMATE WHO POSSSESSES MIRACULOUS HEALING POWERS

WHAT IS THE GREEN MILE?

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THE INVENTION OF THIS MACHINE LED TO THE SPREAD OF IDEAS, KNOWLEDGE, AND LITERACY, ACCELERATING THE TRANSITION FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE RENAISSANCE 

WHAT IS THE PRINTING PRESS

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GILES COREY AND SARAH GOOD WERE AMONG THE VICTIMS OF THIS PURITANICAL INQUISITION 

WHAT ARE THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS?

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A LEGENDARY CREATURES NAME, LITERALLY TRANSLATING TO "GOAT-SUCKER"

WHAT IS CHUPACABRA? 

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THE THEORY THAT SOUGHT TO EXPLAIN HOW ONE BULLET WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SEVEN WOUNDS INFLICTED ON BOTH PRESIDENT JOHN. F. KENNEDY AND TEXAS GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY 

WHAT IS THE MAGIC-BULLET/SINGLE-BULLET THEORY?

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LOUIS CREED LEARNS "SOMETIMES DEAD IS BETTER " IN THIS 1983 NOVEL

WHAT IS PET SEMATARY 

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THIS FORM OF ENERGY WAS DISCOVERED IN THE 1930s AFTER ITALIAN PHYSICIST ENRICO FERMI FOUND THAT BOMBARDING AN ATOM WITH NEUTRONS COULD SPLIT THEM 

WHAT IS NUCLEAR ENERGY

600

THIS SCI-FI STORY, ADAPTED BY ORSON WELLES FOR RADIO, WAS THOUGHT TO BE BY SOME AN ACTUAL ACCOUNT OF A MARTIAN INVASION

WHAT IS THE WAR OF THE WORLDS?


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THIS RED-EYED, WINGED CREATURE IS THOUGHT TO BE A PORTENT OF DOOM, WITH ITS APPEARANCE FORESHADOWING REAL WORLD DISASTERS 

WHAT IS MOTHMAN? 

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PRESIDENT JOHN. F KENNEDY, LEE HARVEY OSWALD, AND JACK RUBY ALL EITHER DIED OR WERE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THIS FAMOUS DALLAS, TX HOSPITAL 

WHAT IS PARKLAND MEMORIAL HOSTPITAL?

800

ROUGHLY EVERY 27 YEARS THIS ANCIENT, TRANS-DIMENSIONAL ENTITY RETURNS TO DERRY, MAINE TO TERRORIZE ITS RESIDENTS

WHO IS IT/PENNYWISE

800

BEFORE THIS INVENTION WOOD STRUCTURES HAD TO BE BUILT BY INTERLOCKING ADJACENT BOARDS GEOMETRICALLY 

WHAT ARE NAILS

800

A WIDESPREAD FRENZY IN THE 1980S MARKED BY UNSUBSTANTIATED ACCUSATIONS OF THE RITUAL ABUSE AND SACRIFICE OF CHILDREN

WHAT IS THE SATANIC PANIC? 

800

THIS HUMANOID CRYPTID WAS CAPTURED IN A 1967 HOME MOVIE KNOWS AS THE PATTERSON-GIMLIN FILM

WHAT IS BIGFOOT/SASQUATCH?

800

THIS 486 FRAME, 8MM HOME MOVIE CAPTURED THE ASSASSINATION OF U.S. PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY 

WHAT IS THE ZAPRUDER FILM?

 

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"THE MAN IN BLACK FLED ACROSS THE DESERT, AND THE GUN-SLINGER FOLLOWED." IS THE OPENENING SENTENCE OF THIS SERIES FEATURING EIGHT NOVELS, ONE NOVELLA, AND A CHILDRENS BOOK

WHAT IS THE DARK TOWER


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THIS REVOLTUION IN PERSONAL COMPUTING WAS INTRODUCED IN A RIDLEY SCOTT DIRECTED SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL TITLED "1984" 

WHAT IS THE APPLE MACINTOSH?

1000

GORE, NUDITY, AND SHOCK VALUE WERE KEY COMPONENTS OF THIS LIST OF BANNED MOVIES IN THE UK IN THE 1980S

WHAT ARE THE VIDEO NASTIES?

1000

ONCE CONSIDERED TO BE A CRYPTID THIS ANIMAL FEATURES CHARACTERISTICS OF REPTILES, MAMMALS, AND BIRDS 

WHAT IS THE PLATYPUS? 

1000

JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS LAID TO REST IN THIS VIRGINIA CEMETERY 

WHAT IS THE ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY?