Fun with Zombies!
Hi There!
You are here because you are one of the few, the not-so-proud, the owner of your very own apocalypse fire starter (also known as the paperback version of Going Green)!
In this special edition, I added a couple of time-wasters including a couple of puzzles. Below is the key for each.
First up is the word search. As I mentioned in the book, I was distracted, so I wasn't keeping track of all of the weapons I'd added. Below is everything I found going back through this, but there may be more. Feel free to add your own (specially if you find something creative) in the comments!
You are here because you are one of the few, the not-so-proud, the owner of your very own apocalypse fire starter (also known as the paperback version of Going Green)!
In this special edition, I added a couple of time-wasters including a couple of puzzles. Below is the key for each.
First up is the word search. As I mentioned in the book, I was distracted, so I wasn't keeping track of all of the weapons I'd added. Below is everything I found going back through this, but there may be more. Feel free to add your own (specially if you find something creative) in the comments!
Up Next is the Crossword. I had a lot of fun coming up with the crossword questions, but boy howdy were they a pain to line up! Here is the key and below that is a little trivia pertaining to the answers.
Crossword
Clues:
ACROSS
1. Escape method in
Dawn of the Dead
Helicopter
Movie Trivia: According to the IMDB,
extras in the original 1978 version of the film were given $20 in cash, a box
lunch, and a Dawn of the Dead T-shirt. Acting can be quite glamourous!
6. Organization that
maintains a zombie preparedness website
CDC(AKA Center for Disease Control)
Fun Fact: The inspiration for the
CDC denial scenes was in fact the 2012 denial of a zombie apocalypse after the
zombie-like attack on a man in Miami.
7. 18th c.
English novelist who received a 21st c. zombie update
Austen,
Jane Austen
Hmm… Is it just me, or does the idea of
a seemingly mild-mannered Victorian lady of letters having a secret life as an
international spy sound a heck of a lot more interesting than stuffy uptight
Victorians being visited upon by zombies?
8. What zombies crave
Brains
Fun Fact: If you Google the phrase, Why
do zombies eat brains? You get the following interesting tidbit of information:
“Although
Romero is noted as the source for many of the common zombie tropes, shambolic
movement and a hunger for human flesh being the most prominent, zombies don't
actually eat brains in any of the six "Of the
Dead" series of films he directed.”
10. What vegan
zombies crave
Grains
Little Known Author Fact: I am not
actually a vegan. I am a vegetarian, but because my husband decided to go
vegan, I eat vegan meals on a regular basis. Because a limited diet can get
boring, I was determined to create a wide variety of healthy and balanced meals
for the both of us. Turns out, there’s a wide world of vegan goodies that I
enjoy exploring, which is why vegan cooking is listed as one of my many hobbies
on my author profile.
12. Zombie country of
origin
Haiti
Fun Fact: Long before Romero popularized
the modern Zombie, Bela Lugosi starred as an evil voodoo priest in the film White
Zombie.
13. If infected, seek
help at the___
ER
(Emergency Room)
Fun Fact: These letters just happened
to show up while I was fitting together other answers, meaning the answer begat
the question, Jeopardy style.
15. “Bring a shotgun,
just ____”
In
Case
Random Fact: The internet has no verifiable
information of anyone actually named Justin Case.
17.
Anthropologist/author who went to 12a to learn about 18d
Davis,
Wade Davis
Trivia: Davis is the author of the
nonfiction (contested) scientific study of the voodoo practice of zombification
in Haiti, The Serpent and the Rainbow. The 1988 Wes Craven film by the same name
is in fact loosely based on this book.
19. ___ Corpses make
better zombies
Fresh
Random Trivia: Fresh was eighties slang
for cool until about 1985 when Kool and the Gang wrote a song called She’s
Fresh, which effectively made fresh no longer fresh, until a couple years later
when a young Will Smith would style himself as the Fresh Prince.
20. ___ flesh is a
sure sign that someone is a zombie
Rotten
Randomness: Despite the stage name
Johnny Rotten, musician John Lydon has never portrayed a zombie.
21. The goal of
anyone in the apocalypse is not to ___
Die
Randomest Fact On This List: I had a
friend for most of my young adult life whose parting words were always, “Don’t
get run over!” So far, I’ve managed to not disappoint.
23. “___ People”
Aliens that appear as zombified replicas of humans.
Pod
Trivia: Technically, the pod people in
Invasion of the Body Snatchers are not zombies, they are artificial replicas
and the originals are disintegrated. I’ll leave it up to you to decide which is
worse.
24. Where zombies
will not stay
Grave
Geography Trivia: New Orleans’ cities
of the dead, AKA, their above ground cemeteries, are not an aesthetic decision.
Due to the sandy soil and high water table, early settlers had trouble keeping
buried caskets from rising out of the earth.
DOWN
2. Best bet for
surviving the apocalypse
Luck
3. 90’s alt rock band
who sang about a zombie
Cranberries
Fun Fact: When I first heard this song,
I thought lead singer Dolores O’Riordan was saying Jambi, referring to the
genie from Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Admittedly, I thought this for all of a couple
minutes, but there it is.
4. Zombies are often
featured in creepy ___
Pasta
I admit to having a slight addiction to
the internet phenomena that is creepy pasta and an even bigger addiction to the
subspecies it spawned: crappy pasta.
5. Human can, zombies
can’t, yet people get caught by zombies anyway
Run
Questionable Advice from the Author: In
the event of a zombie apocalypse, walk, do not run. You are far less inclined
to trip over a tray tree root, dead body, your own two feet, etc if you remain
calm.
6. Night of the ___
(movie)
Comet
Random Author Fact: If the bitchin’
mall apocalypse ever happens, this was the bitchin’ mall apocalypse my 13 year
old self would have prayed for.
9. A British zombie
might do this to your brain
Nosh
Random Nonsense: I did not intend for
the next three questions to all have an English flair, but there you have it.
11. Site of Shaun’s
last stand
Winchester
Fun Stuff: If you haven’t seen is
movie, do so. If you have seen this movie, go take a look at the trivia for it
on IMDB and try to keep a straight face.
14. After going
green, you will crave the ___ stuff
Red
Historical Trivia: “The red stuff” is
the term used for blood in the “Dear Boss” letter, which was a letter allegedly
written by Jack the Ripper in red ink because “the red stuff” he saved in a
bottle “went thick like glue.”
15. Harry’s
zombie-like foes
Inferi
Fun Fact: JK Rowling claims that the
inferi have some similarities to, but are in fact, not zombies. She can claim
all she wants that this has to do with zombies hailing from a different region
of the world, but I’m going to call hogwash and say it’s because she likely
doesn’t want to be associated with the zomb-pocalypse trend.
16. Groovy monster
slayer
Ash
Fun Fact: Whether or not the Evil Dead
franchise can be considered zombie films is a hotly debated topic on the
internet.
18. Religion
associated with zombies
Voodoo
The More You Know: Aside from making for a delightful tongue twisting opening to the song Magic Dance, Hoodoo and Voodoo are not the same thing. Hoodoo is folk magic, whereas Voodoo is a religion based on practices created by slaves who were forced to abandon their beliefs and take up Christianity.
22. Part of the
delicious brain
Id
Sad Fact: Loads of people play the word id in Scrabble and its copycat games without knowing its meaning because they found it on a list of “acceptable two letter words” when trying to cheat.
Word search words - I found DAGGER and I'm not sure if it was used as a weapon, but also found OAR
ReplyDeleteGood eye! I also found shoe. I'll make updates in a different color.
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