Zombie Survival Skills
This essential element can be collected from streams or rain and purified using tablets or boiling.
What is water?
In this 2013 film, Brad Pitt's character fights to stop a global pandemic of fast-moving zombies.
What is World War Z?
According to popular zombie lore, this is the most effective way to permanently kill a zombie.
What is destroying the brain (or head)?
In this 2010 AMC TV series, survivors battle zombies in a post-apocalyptic world based on Robert Kirkman’s graphic novels.
What is The Walking Dead?
In zombie science fiction, this organ is often cited as the key target for killing zombies, since it's responsible for all motor functions.
What is the brain?
When zombies are attracted by sound, it's best to use this type of weapon that doesn't need reloading and is quieter than a gun
What is a melee weapon? (knife, etc.)
This 1968 film by George A. Romero is considered the birth of modern zombie cinema.
What is Night of the Living Dead?
In zombie mythology, this bodily function, often associated with the undead, stops, leading to cold, decaying skin and loss of consciousness.
What is the heart (or heartbeat)?
In the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, this Australian actor reprises his role as Max Rockatansky in a desolate wasteland.
Who is Tom Hardy?
This virus, often used in zombie films like 28 Days Later, spreads quickly and causes extreme aggression and rage in infected individuals.
What is the rage virus?
To secure a shelter, you would fortify these entry points, which zombies are most likely to breach first
What are doors and windows?
This 2016 South Korean film follows passengers trapped on a speeding train during a zombie outbreak.
What is Train to Busan?
In certain zombie stories, like those in The Walking Dead, people can become zombies even without being bitten due to this dormant infection.
What is a virus (or airborne infection)?
This 2007 Will Smith film, based on a Richard Matheson novel, features a post-apocalyptic New York City overrun by infected "Darkseekers."
What is I Am Legend?
In the real world, this neurological disorder, which leads to erratic and uncontrollable behavior, is sometimes compared to zombie-like symptoms.
What is rabies?
In a zombie apocalypse, this popular method of starting a fire involves rubbing two sticks together.
What is friction (or fire by friction)?
In this 2004 comedic film by Edgar Wright, two friends try to survive the zombie apocalypse with a cricket bat and a pint at the pub.
What is Shaun of the Dead?
The concept of zombies originally comes from the folklore of this Caribbean island nation, where they are reanimated corpses controlled by a sorcerer.
What is Haiti?
Set in a post-apocalyptic Boston, this 2015 installment of the Fallout video game series tasks players with surviving in a nuclear wasteland.
What is Fallout 4?
In discussions of potential zombie outbreaks, this term refers to a pathogen that can jump from animals to humans, often depicted as the origin of zombie viruses.
What is a zoonotic disease?
When zombies infect through bites or bodily fluids, this is the most common course of action after being bitten.
What is amputation (or removal of the infected area)?
This 2002 British film directed by Danny Boyle redefined zombies as fast, rage-infected creatures.
What is 28 Days Later?
In some versions of zombie lore, especially in Haitian voodoo traditions, this person is said to have the power to raise and control zombies.
What is a bokor (or sorcerer)?
In this 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, a dystopian future sees women oppressed under a theocratic regime in the Republic of Gilead.
What is The Handmaid’s Tale?
This concept, featured in fungal infection-based zombie lore (like in The Last of Us), refers to a real fungus that controls the behavior of insects like ants.
What is Cordyceps?