The Thing Trivia
In a frozen realm of blood tests and paranoia, prove you’re as cool as MacReady in this wild, shape-shifting showdown.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
In the 1982 film The Thing, which test does MacReady perform using a heated copper wire on biological samples to expose an infected crew member?
Blood test
In John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror, which Kurt Russell character is the determined Antarctic helicopter pilot facing a mysterious alien threat?
R.J. MacReady
At the film’s climax, what drastic measure do MacReady and Garry take to ensure the Thing's threat is permanently contained?
Destroy station
Both Thing films are adapted from a 1938 sci‑fi novella by John W. Campbell Jr.. What is the title of that novella?
Who Goes There?
Which renowned film critic once described John Carpenter’s The Thing as “basically, then, just a geek show, a gross-out movie”?
Roger Ebert