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1. In 1990, a film was made about a deadly Venezuelan jungle spider which mates with common California spiders to produce lethal offspring. What is the name of this Steven Speilberg Movie?
Answer: “Arachnophobia”
2. In the 1997 movie “Batman and Robin”, Uma Thurman played this toxic character. What is her name?
Answer: Poison Ivy
3. What popular cartoon duo of the music world, featured episodes on toad licking & sniffing paint thinner?
Answer: Beavis & Butthead
4. What is the only substance known to be poisonous to Superman?
Answer: Kryptonite
5. On March 5th, 1982, John Belushi died of an overdose. Name the two drugs he overdosed on or the street name of this deadly mixture.
Answer: Cocaine & Heroin otherwise known as a “Speedball” on the streets
6. In the 1986 movie “Little Shop of Horrors”, Steve Martin played a sadistic dentist who meets his demise from an overdose of what substance?
Answer: Laughing gas, or Nitrous Oxide
7. What was the name of the 1986 movie that told of a nerdy janitor who fell into a barrel of toxic waste & became a hulking superhero who set out to rid the town of crime & corruption?
Answer: the Toxic Avenger
8. What popular 1940 Disney film had mushrooms dancing to Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite”?
Answer: Fantasia
9. In one episode, the cartoon character Homer Simpson believed he was going to die from eating which potentially toxic dish popular in Japan?
Answer: Puffer or Blow fish
10. On the popular show Seinfeld, Georges Fiancee is poisoned and dies. How did this tragedy happen?
Answer: From licking engagement envelopes made with a toxic glue
11. In what 1987 film did the character Owen Lifts (Danny DeVito), try to kill his overbearing mother by adding lye to her soft drink?
Answer: Throw Mama from the Train
12. In what 1966 film featuring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, as a couple of alcoholics, does one hear the line “Martha? Rubbing alcohol for you?”
Answer: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
13. In the Three Stooges classic film “Disorder in the Court”, Larry mistakes a man’s toupee for what creature?
Answer: A tarantula
14. In the TV sitcom series “Friends”, Monica is stung by a jellyfish. How did Chandler treat her sting?
Answer: By urinating on it
15. In what Disney movie can you hear the line ”drown them, poison them, bash them on the head. Got any chloroform? I don’t care how you kill the little beasts, just do it!”, being delivered by actress Glenn Close?
Answer: 101 Dalmations
16. In an episode of the Simpsons, Bart takes a trip to France on an exchange program, where he is enslaved by a couple of nasty vineyard owners, and is forced to drink adulterated wine. What was the toxic adulterant in the wine?
Answer: Antifreeze