MERCURY NEWS (San Jose, California) 14 August 06 Snakes in a quiz - 'Tis Better To Recall Than Recoil: Celluloid Hiss-Tory Is Crawling With Trivia, So Test Your Knowledge (Glenn Lovell)
``I hate snakes, Jock! I HATE 'EM!''
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones is attempting a fast getaway by plane at the beginning of ``Raiders of the Lost Ark.'' He looks down at his boots and what should appear but the pilot's pet boa, Reggie.
The sick grimace says it all.
Snakes! Who isn't phobic about them?
Hollywood, of course, feels your pain and capitalizes on it with some regularity. In ``Snakes on a Plane'' (opening Friday), federal agent Samuel L. Jackson battles a plane full of vipers and pythons, unleashed this time to put the bite on a government witness being transported from Honolulu to Los Angeles.
Some of Hollywood's most memorable snakes are featured in our snake quiz. How many do you remember? A perfect score and you've got a career ahead as a herpetologist. Eighteen to 25 correct and you're a real (snake) charmer. More than seven wrong -- tread softly when you enter the woods.

FANGS FOR THE MEMORIES
1. Before he took on the partisan snakes of Sacramento, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the mythic warrior -------------, who battles Thulsa Doom and the Snake Cult.
2. Moses (Charlton Heston) demonstrates his God's power for Pharaoh by transforming a ------- into a cobra in the Cecil B. DeMille classic ``The Ten Commandments.''
3. Poisonous snakes are the preferred method of assassination in the eighth James Bond thriller, ``---------------,'' starring Roger Moore as 007 in Haiti.
4. In ``The Snake Pit,'' a 1948 Oscar winner with Olivia de Havilland, the title refers to what?
5. A fanatical high priest gives Cary Grant and his pals the slip by leaping into a vipers' pit in ``----------------,'' an adventure classic named for a Rudyard Kipling poem.
6. In ``Escape from New York'' and its sequel, this actor donned an eye patch to play a future-world ex-con named ``Snake'' Plissken. Name the actor.
7. Passing a pet store that's on fire, ----------, played by Paul Reubens, musters up the courage to rush in and gather up an armful of snakes.
8. In last year's Hong Kong hit, ``Kung Fu Hustle,'' would-be gangster Sing is bitten by a pair of snakes on a particularly tender part of his anatomy, his -------.
9. Oscar winner ----------- is swallowed whole and then -- oh, mama! -- regurgitated by a giant Amazonian snake in the 1997 cult hit ``Anaconda.''
10. -----------, the python that mesmerizes Mowgli in Disney's animated ``Jungle Book,'' was hissed in grand style by British actor Sterling Holloway.
11. The outrageous British comedy troupe ----------, responsible for ``Life of Brian'' and other screen satires, was partially named for a large constrictor.
12. Before teaming for ``Jaws'' and ``The Sting,'' producers David Brown and Richard Zanuck made ``------------,'' a low-budget shocker about a mad scientist whose serum has side effects. Can you say ``terminal psoriasis''?
13. In ``Clash of the Titans'' (1981), the valiant Perseus battles --------------, known for her stony stare and head full of serpents.
14. En route to the ---------, Indy and Short Round sup with the young Maharajah, who serves up eye soup, chilled monkey brains and, as the main course, a giant snake, which, when slit open, releases eel-like babies.
15. Distraught over her beloved Marc Antony's death, Queen of the Nile Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) takes her own life with an --------, hidden in a bowl of figs.
16. ``Poison,'' directed by Alfred Hitchcock and one of the best episodes of the ``Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' TV show, featured a particularly venomous snake called a krait. The story was written by -----------, best known for ``Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.''
17. A giant ------------, the underwater equivalent of a snake, chomps down on the head of Louis Gossett Jr. in ``The Deep.''
18. As she belts ``Let Me Entertain You'' in the hit musical ``Gypsy,'' Natalie Wood's Gypsy Rose Lee strips down to a white feather ------.
19. In ``The 7th Voyage of Sinbad'' (1958), an evil magician delights the Sultan and his guests by turning a vain servant woman into a ----------.
20. In ``Harry Potter and ---------------,'' a monstrous basilisk (legendary snake) chases the boy wizard through subterranean tunnels.
21. In a 1933 fantasy classic, ------------, the 8th Wonder of the World, returns to his Skull Island lair to find the granddaddy of all snakes. They battle to the death.
22. ``One sting and you can say goodbye to all your friends,'' sings snake-in-the-grass Bob Fosse in ``-------------,'' the 1974 musical adaptation of a much-loved children's fantasy.
23. Wes Craven took time out from Freddy Krueger nightmares to deal with black magic and voodoo in the underrated ``The ---------- and the Rainbow,'' released in 1988.
24. Zhora (Joanna Cassidy), the exotic snake dancer in the cult sci-fi'er ``Blade Runner,'' has a secret. She's really a -------------.
25. In ``Kill Bill, Vol. 2,'' the one-eyed Elle pays off the bushwhacking Budd with a case full of money and a -------------, a.k.a. ``death incarnate.''

Answers
1. Conan the Barbarian
2. staff
3. ``Live and Let Die''
4. insane asylum
5. ``Gunga Din''
6. Kurt Russell
7. Pee-wee Herman
8. lips
9. Jon Voight
10. Kaa
11. Monty Python
12. ``Sssssss''
13. Medusa
14. Temple of Doom
15. asp
16. Roald Dahl
17. moray eel
18. boa
19. blue four-armed snake-woman whose tail almost strangles her
20. ``. . . the Chamber of Secrets''
21. King Kong
22. ``The Little Prince''
23. Serpent
24. deadly replicant
25. black mamba
Snakes in a quiz