I think "Tremors" is, in its own way, a perfect movie. Not the best movie ever (although it's excellent), but perfectly done. It has characters you care about, a frightening setup, very good special effects, and a refreshing amount of humor. It's definitely one of those rewatchable films--I've probably seen it at least 15 times, and plan to watch it many more times before I die. Otherwise, this will be the usual format--questions followed by the answers, many SPOILERS ahead.
Questions:
1) What's written on Valentine and Earl's truck?
2) What are Valentine and Earl's last names?
3) What did Valentine make for breakfast most recently, and what did Earl make?
4) According to Earl, in the opening scenes, how much money do they currently have?
5) What day of the week is it during the opening scenes?
6) What five attributes does Val want the new lady grad student to possess?
7) What two fields of study do Earl and Val think Rhonda is studying, and what is it, really?
8) What was the name of Valentine's last girlfriend, and what does Earl think it was?
9) According to its sign, when was the town of Perfection established?
10) And what is Perfection's listed population?
11) What university is Rhonda a student of?
12) What is the name of the nearest town to Perfection?
13) How far away is this "nearby" town, according to Burt?
14) What state is Perfection located in?
15) What are the names of the two state roadway workers that Val and Earl briefly speak to?
16) Who is the first victim of the giant underground worms (graboids)?
17) What is the name of the next victim, the sheep rancher?
18) Burt wears a hat for a pro sports team. Name it.
19) What is Miguel's occupation?
20) How much does Walter pay Val and Earl for the snake monster attached to their truck? (It's later revealed to be just a body part of the entire creature.)
21) According to Burt, what makes Perfection geographically isolated?
22) When Earl and Val leave on the horses to get help, what food does Walter give them?
23) How many snakelike tongues does a graboid have?
24) According to Rhonda, what is the soil type of Perfection Valley?
25) Where do the citizens of Perfection head to near the end?
26) We briefly see a street sign when Val flees onto his truck outside of Nancy's house. (After he rescues Mindy.) What is the name of this street or road?
27) What is the vanity license plate on Burt and Heather Gummer's vehicle?
28) What bumper sticker do we also see on the Gummer's vehicle?
29) What radio frequency does Burt ask Val and Earl to use to communicate?
30) According to Earl, the Cat vehicle weighs over how many tons?
31) How many miles is it to reach the safety of the mountains?
32) Burt lists six survival attributes of the Gummer residence. Name them.
33) How many survivors are there at the end of the movie?
34) How many people do the graboids kill? (Directly and indirectly.)
35) How do each of the four graboids die?
36) Val and Earl play a hand game to decide who does a specific, usually unpleasant task. Name each time, and who is the winner.
37) We see Val and Earl doing three hired hand/handyman jobs, and they discuss two others. Name them.
38) According to Rhonda, how many years has the college had seismographs in Perfection Valley?
39) When we first meet the Gummers, Burt is talking about a specific type of ammunition with Walter. Name it.
40) When Earl asks Mindy, how many jumps is she up to on her pogo stick?
41) What is the name of the doctor's wife? (It's never spoken, but is listed in the credits.)
42) The Gummers use a wide variety of guns. What is the so called Elephant Gun that Burt uses?
43) Earl and Val speculate on what caused the worms to be, and come up with three. Name them.
44) True of False? The bad "f" curse word is never spoken in the movie.
45) Where are Melvin's parents, or parent? (Somewhat conjectural.)
46) So who are the actual residents of Perfection? The numbers don't add up. (Somewhat conjectural.)
Answers:
1) V and E Odd Jobs
2) Valentine McKee, and Earl Basset. We hear Val mention Earl's surname once, and it's written on the sign outside their trailer. But it's misspelled as "Bass" in the credits.
3) Val says he just made bologna and beans, and Earl claims he made eggs, over easy.
4) $3, as the $50 Nestor will pay them for the garbage removal will give them $47 more than they currently have.
5) Monday. Earl thinks.
6) Long blonde hair, big green eyes, world class breasts, an ass that won't quit, and legs that go all the way up.
7) Earl says geography, Val says geology, but Rhonda corrects them by saying seismology.
8) Her name was Tammy Lynn Baxter, although Earl thought it was Bobby Lynn Dexter.
9) 1902. A later prequel shows their was a town in the same area named "Rejection" in the late 1800's, though.
10) 14.
11) Mesa State University. The college's initials are written on some of her seismology equipment, and it's written on the side of her truck. This is a fictitious university. Although during the time of filming there was a Mesa State College in Colorado, which since has renamed itself Colorado Mesa University.
12) Bixby. Also a fictitious, made up name for the state Perfection is in (see Question #14). Although there are many real states with a Bixby, such as Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and a creek in California.
13) 38 miles.
14) Nevada. Several license plates are seen, and Walter's store is a listed post office with the state included.
15) Carmine and Howard.
16) Edgar Deems.
17) Fred, often referred to as Old Fred.
18) The NBA's Atlanta Hawks.
19) He's a cattle rancher. He mentions this at one point.
20) $15. He then charges $3 per photo with the snake monster.
21) It has cliffs to its north, and mountains to the east and west. And it's far from any other town.
22) Swiss cheese.
23) 3.
24) Pleistocene alluvial.
25) The mountains to the west.
26) Talcum Lane.
27) UZI 4U.
28) Free Afghanistan.
29) 22.
30) 30.
31) 9 miles.
32) Food for five years, 1000 gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter, and bomb shelter.
33) 9. Val, Earl, Rhonda, Burt, Heather, Nancy, Mindy, Miguel, and Melvin.
34) 10. Edgar, Fred, Dr. Jim, the doc's wife (see Question #41), Carmine, Howard, the 2 unidentified additional road workers, Nestor, and Walter. Edgar is killed indirectly, as he dies from dehydration up on the electric tower, and Howard the road worker appears to be killed by the rockslide that occurs when Carmine is dragged up slope.
35) The first one dies after burrowing into the concrete culvert at full speed chasing Earl and Val. The second one is shot dozens (hundreds?) of times by Burt and Heather Gummer. The third one is blown up by the Gummer's pipe bomb when Earl "fishes" with it. The fourth one is panicked by the final pipe bomb thrown by Val, and accidently goes off the cliff before splatting on the rocks below.
36) They first do this to decide whose turn it is to make breakfast at the start of the film. Earl wins. The second time is to see who has to climb the tower to check on Edgar. Val again loses. The third time is to see who gets Edgar's rifle when they ride away on the horses. Val "wins" but then Earl wins by getting Heather's superior gun on loan. Finally, to decide who runs for the Cat, Val again loses, but cheats and elbows Earl away and runs off himself. Incidentally, I always thought the game they were playing was "odds and evens," but most viewers think it's "rock-paper-scissors."
37) They're seen putting up the fence for Miguel, hauling away trash for Nestor, and emptying the Plug's (Melvin's family) septic tank. They discuss laying linoleum for the Gummers, and consider building a pottery kiln for Nancy.
38) 3 years.
39) Hydra-shok hollow point bullets. I looked it up, and these are real, and were even released in 1989. Their full name is Federal Hydra-shok.
40) 640.
41) The credits list her name as being Megan.
42) Gun enthusiasts on the internet say it's the Belgian-made William Moore & Co. 8 gauge shotgun, which Burt fires solid slugs from.
43) Val thinks they might be mutated from radiation, or made by the government. Earl thinks they're aliens ("no way these are these local boys."). And Rhonda notes that they predate the fossil record.
44) False. Val yells it at the first killed worm's corpse.
45) Early versions of the script, and a deleted scene, indicate that Melvin's parents are degenerate gamblers, who often leave their son alone when they go to Las Vegas for days at a time. But the version released to theaters doesn't provide an explanation.
46) They don't really. We can be sure that Nancy, Mindy, Walter, Burt, Heather, Nestor, Miguel, Melvin, Earl, and Val are definitely included in the count of 14 on the town sign. That's 10 people. But, we also have Edgar, Fred, Dr. Jim, and Megan. Plus Melvin has to have at least 1, if not 2 parents, which would be 15 or 16. Rhonda doesn't count, presumably, since she's only there temporarily, for the semester. So, either Fred and/or Edgar live too far out of the town proper to count, or Dr. Jim and Megan just moved in (they're building their house, after all) and so aren't counted yet.
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