# 🌀 The Twilight Zone Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. Who created *The Twilight Zone*?  
**Answer:** Rod Serling  
**Taglines:**  
- The king of twist endings and tight suits  
- Chain-smoking moralist with a typewriter  
- Rod wrote the rules of weird  
- Serling: Your host and judge, jury, and narrator  
- The only man who could scold you in a monologue  

### 2. What year did the original *Twilight Zone* premiere?  
**Answer:** 1959  
**Taglines:**  
- Black-and-white, but morally gray  
- 1959: when weird got syndicated  
- The Cold War needed creepiness  
- Your grandma’s favorite spook show  
- When TV was spooky and smoking indoors was fine  

### 3. What is the opening narration’s famous phrase?  
**Answer:** "You’re traveling through another dimension…"  
**Taglines:**  
- Still gives goosebumps  
- The most dramatic intro since Hamlet  
- Dimension hopping, no passport needed  
- Narrated nightmares  
- Welcome to existential limbo  

### 4. What actor played multiple roles, including in “Time Enough at Last”?  
**Answer:** Burgess Meredith  
**Taglines:**  
- Penguin in Gotham, nerd in the Zone  
- Coke-bottle glasses and shattered dreams  
- Burgess: the MVP of “oops” endings  
- No time, just tragedy  
- He reads, he weeps, he breaks glasses  

### 5. What channel originally aired *The Twilight Zone*?  
**Answer:** CBS  
**Taglines:**  
- CBS: Creepy Broadcasting System  
- Before it stood for “Crime-Based Schedule”  
- The network of nightmares  
- Classic horror, classic network  
- Where the zone first zoned in  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. One of the most famous episodes is titled “Nightmare at ______ Feet.”  
**Answer:** 20,000  
**Taglines:**  
- Gremlins on a plane  
- The original mile-high horror  
- Shatner loses it at altitude  
- No Xanax on this flight  
- Turbulence: monster edition  

### 2. In “To Serve Man,” the aliens’ book turns out to be a ______.  
**Answer:** Cookbook  
**Taglines:**  
- Deliciously evil  
- Aliens with taste  
- It’s a trap dinner  
- Serving… in the culinary sense  
- Bon appétit, humans  

### 3. The Twilight Zone was revived in the ______, 2000s, and 2019.  
**Answer:** 1980s  
**Taglines:**  
- The '80s: perm + paranoia  
- Bigger hair, still spooky  
- Synthesizers and suspense  
- Zone 2: Electric Boogaloo  
- Now with color and moral panic  

### 4. The intro music was composed by Marius ______.  
**Answer:** Constant  
**Taglines:**  
- The guy who made your spine tingle  
- That eerie "doo-doo-doo-doo"? That’s him  
- A name you didn’t know you knew  
- Music to confuse your soul  
- Scary lullaby legend  

### 5. Rod Serling also narrated and wrote for *Night ______ Gallery*.  
**Answer:** Gallery  
**Taglines:**  
- The Zone’s goth cousin  
- Serling went full spooky curator  
- Art that stares back  
- Night Gallery: When Twilight needed a darker room  
- Paintings with plot twists  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What genre best describes *The Twilight Zone*?  
A) Western  
B) Comedy  
C) Science fiction and horror ✅  
D) Romance  
**Taglines:**  
- Romance? Only if it's with aliens  
- Yeehaw? Try yee-haunt  
- Sci-fi + horror = Twilight toast  
- Where dreams die in HD (eventually)  
- Zone of zero rom-coms  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] Which famous actor starred in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”?  
A) Leonard Nimoy  
B) William Shatner ✅  
C) Patrick Stewart  
D) James Earl Jones  
**Taglines:**  
- Before the Enterprise, he panicked in coach  
- The man, the myth, the meltdown  
- Shatner vs. window gremlin  
- From screaming at clouds to captaining space  
- The Shat hits the fan  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] Which of these was NOT a real *Twilight Zone* episode title?  
A) “The Obsolete Man”  
B) “A Stop at Willoughby”  
C) “Escape from Dimension 12” ✅  
D) “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”  
**Taglines:**  
- Fake title alert!  
- Sounds real, but nope  
- Maple Street has more monsters than you  
- Obsolete, but not imaginary  
- Dimension 12 doesn’t exist (yet)  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What episode ends with a twist about a woman being from Earth?  
A) “Third from the Sun”  
B) “People Are Alike All Over”  
C) “The Invaders”  
D) “Eye of the Beholder” ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- Beauty is in the alien eye  
- Plot twist: you're the weirdo  
- The plastic surgery episode from hell  
- Ugly is subjective, says the Zone  
- Reveal that punches harder than gravity  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What object often signaled a character entering the Zone?  
A) A mirror  
B) A door  
C) A clock  
D) Nothing—just narration ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- You’re already there  
- No signposts, just Serling  
- Enter via monologue  
- Narration is the wormhole  
- Voiceover or bust
