This... Is... Jeopardy!

Who is Stephen King?

  1. This author tells of four old men who call themselves The Chowder Society that love to scare each other with ghost stories.

Incorrect.

Who was H.P. Lovecraft?

  1. This American filmmaker’s Night of the Living Dead ushered in the modern genre of zombie horror.

Who was George Romero?

  1. This director created the classic slasher villain Freddy Krueger.

Who is Peter Straub?

Who is Wes Craven?

  1. This director gave us the first image of “the New Adam”, aka Frankenstein’s monster in 1931.

Who is James Whale?

(Point of order, though; the 1931 movie wasn’t the first adaptation of Frankenstein. Thomas Edison produced a silent film adaptation in 1910.)

  1. As of 2023, almost 60 films with a collective box office gross of over $2 billion have been adapted from the works of this writer

Now is the time for - Who is Stephen King? :slight_smile:

New category:

The Human Body

  1. The average life span of these receptor cell groups in the mouth is 8-10 days.

What are taste buds?

  1. The onset of this common neurological disorder is often preceded by visual hallucinations known as “auras”

What is migraine?

  1. A painful, involuntary muscle cramp in the leg is sometimes called by this idiomatic name.

What is a charley horse?

  1. This surgical procedure, in which a damaged ulnar collateral ligament in the elbow is replaced with a donor tendon, is named for the baseball pitcher who was the first to undergo the procedure.

What is Tommy John surgery?

(I’ve had lateral collateral replacement surgery AKA Tommy John on the outer side from when I fell and dislocated my elbow)

  1. These 3 tiny bones are named for large objects

What are the malleus, incus, and stapes (hammer, anvil, and stirrup, respectively)?

Fears and Phobias

  1. Along with the fear of loud noises, this fear is generally accepted as being one of the two innate fears in human beings.

-“BB”-

What is the fear of falling?

  1. This fear of heights is considered to be among the most common phobias.

What is acrophobia?

  1. It is estimated that over 70% of the population suffers from this fear, the scientific name of which is glossophobia.

What is the fear of public speaking?

  1. While amaxophobia is the fear of automobiles, autophobia - the fear of this - is unrelated to motor vehicles.

What is the fear of being alone?

  1. Howard Hughes was well known for suffering from this fear of germs.

What is germaphobia?

Trains

  1. This music & dance TV program originated in Chicago and ran for 36 years before ending in 2006.

What is Soul Train?

  1. This jazz standard was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra.

What is “Take the A Train”?

  1. This quasi-public corporation was formed by the U.S. government in 1971, to take over operation of the nation’s inter-city passenger train system.

What is Amtrak?

  1. The oldest parts of this urban transit network, which forms a “loop” around the city center, date to the 1890s