# 🎥 Trivia: Young Frankenstein  
**Used:** 2025-06-13

## 🧠 Regular Questions

### 1. What is the name of the town where Dr. Frankenstein travels to inherit his grandfather's castle?  
**Answer:** Transylvania Heights  
**Taglines:**  
- “Because nothing says luxury real estate like a fog-choked mountain with livestock traffic.”  
- “Where your neighbors are bats and your mailman is a howling wind.”  
- “The Zillow listing just said ‘coffin-adjacent with great bones.’”  
- “Buy one cursed castle, get one disfigured assistant free!”  
- “Voted most likely place to reanimate your relatives.”

### 2. What is the actual pronunciation of "Frankenstein" insisted upon by Gene Wilder’s character?  
**Answer:** "Fronkensteen"  
**Taglines:**  
- “Rhymes with ‘completely unnecessary correction.’”  
- “Because nothing says ‘I’m not like my grandfather’ like selective phonetics.”  
- “All the snobbery of French, none of the wine.”  
- “Say it right or he’ll throw a tantrum in iambic pentameter.”  
- “It’s not a phase, Mom, it’s *Fronkensteen!*”

### 3. What song is performed by Dr. Frankenstein and the Monster during their stage debut?  
**Answer:** "Puttin' on the Ritz"  
**Taglines:**  
- “Because nothing screams horror like a top hat and jazz hands.”  
- “It’s alive! And it can *tap dance!*”  
- “Just when you thought you were watching Frankenstein, it became Glee.”  
- “Gene Wilder: teaching monsters choreography since 1974.”  
- “This is what happens when Broadway meets body parts.”

### 4. Who plays Igor, the hump-hopping assistant?  
**Answer:** Marty Feldman  
**Taglines:**  
- “With eyes like dinner plates and comedic timing from another planet.”  
- “His hump has more screen presence than most Marvel heroes.”  
- “You rang? No, wait, wrong franchise.”  
- “Part assistant, part optical illusion.”  
- “He’s not a glitch, he’s a feature.”

### 5. What actress played Inga, the lab assistant who really knew her way around haystacks?  
**Answer:** Teri Garr  
**Taglines:**  
- “Blond, bubbly, and genetically allergic to bras.”  
- “Where science meets va-va-voom.”  
- “Lab work has never looked this... horizontally adventurous.”  
- “Making hay sexy since 1974.”  
- “Brains, beauty, and questionable workplace boundaries.”

## ✍️ Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

### 1. "He was my boyfriend!" is dramatically declared by _______.  
**Answer:** Frau Blücher  
**Taglines:**  
- “The name that makes horses scream and therapists rich.”  
- “She put the ‘ugh’ in ‘Blücher.’”  
- “Yes, even mad scientists have messy breakups.”  
- “The original ‘I can fix him’ energy.”  
- “Cue the thunder, cue the trauma.”

### 2. The monster gains intelligence after receiving a _______ transplant.  
**Answer:** brain  
**Taglines:**  
- “Because self-improvement starts with stealing someone else’s cortex.”  
- “Not the smartest move, but hey, it’s a start.”  
- “Brains: now available in ‘Abby Normal.’”  
- “The real organ donor horror story.”  
- “Intelligence: rated R for resurrection.”

### 3. The villagers carry _______ when storming the castle.  
**Answer:** torches and pitchforks  
**Taglines:**  
- “Ah yes, the universal Yelp review of ‘We disapprove.’”  
- “Nothing says ‘welcome’ like mob violence.”  
- “The OG cancel culture.”  
- “Pre-internet flame wars.”  
- “Rage, now with improved lighting!”

### 4. Dr. Frankenstein exclaims, “Destiny! Destiny! No _______ me!”  
**Answer:** escaping  
**Taglines:**  
- “Spoiler alert: destiny has a strict no-refund policy.”  
- “Shouted while casually unraveling generations of science and sanity.”  
- “The motivational poster from Hell.”  
- “Destiny: still better than Comcast.”  
- “Try that on a job interview.”

### 5. The creature's penis is humorously implied to be _______.  
**Answer:** enormous  
**Taglines:**  
- “Because subtlety is for other genres.”  
- “Plot twist: It’s alive... and it’s a tripod.”  
- “The Monster’s real monster.”  
- “Shocking size—call it Franken-thigh.”  
- “Mary Shelley is spinning in her grave... with curiosity.”

## 🎯 Multiple Choice Questions

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What food is used to lure the monster in the blind man's cottage scene?  
A) Cheese  
B) Soup  
C) Pretzels  
D) Toast  
**Answer:** B) Soup  
**Taglines:**  
- “Hot liquid and scalding social awkwardness.”  
- “Because nothing bonds strangers like 3rd-degree burns.”  
- “Soup’s on! And so is screaming.”  
- “Unfortunate ladling: 1, Hospitality: 0.”  
- “He came for comfort, he left with blisters.”

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What does Igor say when asked about his shifting hump?  
A) "What hump?"  
B) "It’s a feature, not a bug."  
C) "I prefer to keep it mobile."  
D) "The hump has a life of its own."  
**Answer:** A) "What hump?"  
**Taglines:**  
- “Denial is the first step to becoming Igor.”  
- “Your hump’s not gaslighting you—you’re gaslighting it.”  
- “That’s called ‘selective anatomy awareness.’”  
- “He should open a chiropractic mystery clinic.”  
- “Real men don’t acknowledge spinal defects.”

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What medical school does Dr. Frankenstein teach at before heading to Transylvania?  
A) Johns Hopkins  
B) Harvard Medical  
C) The New York Academy of Sciences  
D) The American Institute of the Brain  
**Answer:** D) The American Institute of the Brain  
**Taglines:**  
- “A totally real institution that definitely exists. Pinky swear.”  
- “Accredited by the League of Mad Scientists.”  
- “Where tenure is earned in lightning bolts.”  
- “Because nothing screams legitimacy like vague naming.”  
- “Ivy League? More like Cranium League.”

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What is the name of the blind man who befriends the Monster?  
A) Hans  
B) Johann  
C) Harold  
D) Gene  
**Answer:** A) Hans  
**Taglines:**  
- “Because no tragic comedy is complete without a Hans.”  
- “He gave friendship, got flaming soup in return.”  
- “Hans down, the best accidental torturer.”  
- “Hans: patron saint of ‘oops, my bad.’”  
- “Burn unit MVP.”

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What was the original inspiration for the film's black-and-white aesthetic?  
A) To honor old horror films  
B) Budget constraints  
C) Mel Brooks lost a bet  
D) The script came in grayscale  
**Answer:** A) To honor old horror films  
**Taglines:**  
- “Because nothing says reverence like resurrecting clichés.”  
- “Old-school vibes with new-school absurdity.”  
- “Mel Brooks: turning nostalgia into lunacy.”  
- “Black-and-white: the Instagram filter of sincerity.”  
- “Less color, more chaos.”
