Godzilla

"Godzilla" is an Anglicization of the nuclear dinosaur's Japanese name, Gojira, a bizarre portmanteau of the Japanese words for...

• "Scale" and "Burn"

• "American" and "Iguana"

• "Gorilla" and "Whale"

• "Bomb" and "Dinosaur"

The Godzilla film series has had a lasting impact on pop culture, affecting even the most unexpected of people - which of these stories is true?

• U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, heading the American occupation of Japan, encouraged the English localization of the original 1954 Gojira as he was a huge fan of the film

• Former North Korean dictator and noted cinephile Kim Jong-Il had a South Korean director kidnapped to direct a communist propaganda Godzilla knock-off

• Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the

  Communist Party of the Soviet Union, petitioned to have a number of Soviet battleships named after Godzilla monsters

• Ugandan president Idi Amin, during his press conference expelling 160,000 Asians from the country, described himself as "the new Godzilla"

A version of the popular board game Trivial Pursuit contained this misinformation about the Godzilla series, stemming from a long-standing urban myth

• Godzilla is the winner of the Japanese version of King Kong vs Godzilla (1962)

• The Godzilla series' last film (at the time) was 1993's Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla

• Godzilla is actually female

• The original ending of Gojira (1954) has the monster making landfall in New York and destroying the city

Godzilla's iconic roar (often written out as "skreeonk!") is actually ______.

• The sound of running a glove over the strings of a contrabass

• Reversed recordings of a bull elephant in musth

• Distortions of a lion's roar recording illegally stolen from the Warner Bros. sound library

• Director Ishiro Honda's dysfunctional car, damaged during the bombing of Hiroshima

Contrary to popular belief, the original ~200 pound Godzilla suit was made mostly from what material?

• Hard plastic

• Rubber

• Ready-mix concrete

• Painted wood

1969's All Monsters Attack is often considered the worst Godzilla movie (which is really saying something) in that a significant portion of the movie is re-used footage from five other Godzilla movies. What is the technical term for footage is re-used like this?

• Recut

• Dupefilm

• Ditto footage

• Stock footage

The first American Godzilla film, Godzilla (1998), was poorly received by audiences, but also by Toho, the company behind Godzilla. Which of these is NOT true about how Toho expressed their displeasure about the American rendition of their creation?

• In Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack (2001), Japanese government officials bemoan that Americans misconstrued a monster that attacked New York City as Godzilla

• In Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), the Japanese suitmation Godzilla defeats a shoddy-CGI American Godzilla in a fight that lasts less than 30 seconds

• Toho officially copywrote the American Godzilla design as "Zilla," as the felt the Americans had removed the "God" from the character

• A toilet in Toho president Yoshishige Shimatani's Summer home is designed to look like the American Godzilla's mouth

Over the course of the Godzilla film franchise, Godzilla has had offspring that went by many names. Despite his "fame," which of these is not one of Godzilla's children?

• Godzooky

• Minilla

• Godzilla Junior

• Little Godzilla

The Godzilla franchise is both the longest-running film series and the film series with the most entries, beating out franchises like James Bond. How many "Godzilla" movies are there?

• 21

• 11

• 24

• 36

Godzilla has employed many bizarre techniques when battling against foes and communicating with allies. Which of these is not something Godzilla has done in one of his movies?

• Taken flight to pursue Hedorah by firing his atomic breath into the ground

• Propelled Kaiser Ghidorah into the earth's atmosphere with the sheer force of his atomic breath

• Spoken actual, understandable words with his friend, Anguirus

• Partially ate the remains of Reptilicus in an unusually gory scene for the series