1. What does Lestat mean by the term "Savage Garden"?
A: Savage Garden is another name for nature, but a nature that embraces such monsters as vampires.

2. What are the principles, according to Lestat, that govern the Savage Garden?
A: Aesthetic principles; only beauty is consistent.

3. Who coined the term "Children of Darkness"?
A: Santino's Coven

4. Who were the Children of the Millennia?
A: Ancient vampires, such as Marius, Pandora, and Mael. They are considered outlaws by the Roman coven.

5. What is distinctive about a vampire's fingernails?
A: The fingernails are highly polished and look like glass.

6. When Louis questioned Armand about the meaning of their existence, he referred to a figure in a picture in Armand's room. Who was that figure?
A: The Devil's Road

7. Before he joined the Talamasca, David Talbot apprenticed himself to an unusual type of shaman in Brazil. What was the name of his religion?
A: Candomble

8. What was the name that Marius used for Armand when painting him?
A: Amadeo

9. Who put Akasha and Enkil into the sun?
A: The Elder

10. Which of Lestat's music videos did Khayman favor?
A: Requiem for the Marquise

11. Who told Pandora she could find Marius in the frozen north of the New World?
A: Azim

12. Armand gave Daniel an amulet to protect him from other vampires. What did it contain?
A: Armand's Blood

13. Where did Marius finally reunite with Armand?
A: the Sonoma Compound

14. What did Louis use to cut off Santiago's head?
A: a Scythe

15. What was the name of the rock band that Lestat joined?
A: Satan's Night Out

16. Who was Lestat's first vampire child?
A: His Mother, Gabrielle

17. What kind of dogs did Lestat have as a mortal?
A: Mastiffs

18. What was the name of Lestat's German Shepherd?
A: Mojo

19. What is Lestat's favorite material to wear?
A: Velvet

20. What word did Armand give Louis as an amulet against other vampires in Paris?
A: Beware

21. What did Santino give to Jesse that disappeared within days?
A: An Emerald Ring

22. What is Azim's name for Marius?
A: Stealer of the Mother and the Father

23. To what character from French Pantomime did Khayman compare himself?
A: Pierrot

24. What famous composer gave Nicolas violin lessons?
A: Mozart

25. In which dessert did Lestat fly into the sun?
A: The Gobi

26. Where did Louis and Claudia dump Lestat's remains when they thought he was dead?
A: Bayou St. John

27. Who named the Theater of the Vampires?
A: Nicolas

28. What name did Louis call Santiago when he first met him?
A: Buffoon

29. What do vampires call the place they sleep?
A: A lair

30. What did the Egyptians call vampires?
A: Drinkers of the Blood

31. Where was Baby Jenks originally from?
A: Gun Barrel City, Texas

32. Who was David Talbot's young lover in Brazil?
A: Carlos

33. Which vampire in Armand's coven was jealous of Claudia's beauty?
A: Celeste

34. What color were Daniel's eyes?
A: Violet

35. Who was the groupie that followed Lestat's rock band from New Orleans to San Francisco?
A: Salamander

36. Where did Lestat first learn the power of flight?
A: The Auvergne

37. Why does Lestat think the power of flight is terrible for vampires?
A: The lose their humanity

38. At the Gather of the Immortals in Maharet's compound, which of the vampires did Akasha describe as the most predatory?
A: Louis

39. Who was Lestat's lover on the Parisian stage when he played Lelio?
A: Flaminia

40. When Lestat and Nicolas engaged in a drunken discussion, what did Lestat name the moment of Supreme Clarity?
A: The Golden Moment

41. When Akasha went on her rampage, whose dreams did the vampires receive?
A: Mekare's

42. What is Lestat's favorite type of flower?
A: Queen's Wrath

43. Who referred to vampirism as a "white fire from the moon"?
A: Claudia

44. To what God did Daniel compare Armand's innocent appearance?
A: Dionysus

45. Lestat described Armand in terms of the work of what artist?
A: Caravaggio

46. What cemetery is Louis' gravestone in?
A: St. Louis Cemetery

47. What did Amel fling at Khayman's house to torment him for raping the witches Maharet and Mekare?
A: The mumified corpse of Khayman's father

48. What did Mael give to Jesse before she left Maharet's Compound?
A: A silver bracelet

49. How many years did Lestat, Louis and Claudia live together?
A: 65

50. What was the Fang Gang's slang words for a vampire?
A: Dead Guy

51. When Lestat first saw Akasha, what did he use to wake her?
A: Violin

52. Which vampire failed to recieve the dream of the twins?
A: Pandora

53. Who claimed to have been a vampire in another life before being born as a mortal?
A: Pandora

54. Who made a videotape of himself in his coffin so he could watch his hair grow?
A: Armand

55. When the mortal Daniel discovered the house he believed to be Lestat's, what did he find that confirmed it?
A: A gold pocket watch

56. Whose hands did Armand cut off?
A: Nicolas

57. What was the name of Baby Jenks' first victim who was 12 years old?
A: Parker

58. What did Maharet call her mortal descendants?
A: Great Family

59. What was happening in Europe when Santino was Born to Darkness?
A: The Black Death

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True or False:

1. Eleni called Nicolas Our Violinist in her letters to Lestat.
A: True

2. Maharet changed her name several times to hide her identity from members of her mortal family.
A: False

3. When Marius described other types of immortals to Lestat, he included Ramses.
A: True

4. David Talbot's name for a pesty spirit was astral tramp?
A: True

5. Maharet claimed that the human species' primary enemy is the abstract divorced from the material.
A: True

6. Maharet told Jesse that ghosts are quite powerful and should be avoided at all costs.
A: False

7. Marius advised Lestat to keep his vampire children as human as possible.
A: True

8. Lestat's aspiration was to act in the Comedie Francaise.
A: True

9. Louis allowed his portrait to be painted, then killed the artist in the Latin Quarter.
A: False

10. Armand's coven chased Lestat and Gabrielle into the famous Sacre Coeur.
A: False

11. Lestat's arrival in Paris as a "Vampire for a New Age" Prefigured such changes as the closing of the cemetery of les Innocents.
A: True

12. Lestat used his newfound wealth to move Nicholas to the Ile St.-Louis.
A: True

13. Lestat encountered Armand at the royal ball in the Tuileries.
A: False

14. Lestat witnessed executions in the Place de Greve.
A: True

15. Armand's name for his favorite type of victim was Those Who Cannot Resist.
A: False

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The Vampire Vittorio:

1. What part of Italy was Vittorio in as he wrote his book?
A: Tuscany

2. How old was Vittorio when he was made a vampire?
A: 16

3. What were Vittorio's younger brother and sister's names?
A: Matteo and Bartola

4. How many children was Vittorio sure that he had fathered during his mortal life?
A: 1

5. Who was Vittorio's favorite painter?
A: Fra Filippo Lippi

6. What year was Vittorio made a vampire?
A: 1450

7. What Italian word meaning "witch" did Vittorio call Ursula?
A: Strega

8. Who was the "most feared and comical" of the village witches?
A: Gattena

9. What part of Ursula did Vittorio cut off with his sword?
A: Right forearm

10. What name did Vittorio use to get into the town of Santa Maddalana?
A: Antonio De' Bardi

11. What setting would Vittorio always envision when Ursula pricked him with her teeth?
A: A meadow

12. In what bank was the di Rainiari fortune?
A: Medici

13. In the town of Santa Maddalana, what did the priests say never happened?
A: Anything bad

14. What direction did everyone tell Vittorio not to travel out of Santa Maddalana?
A: North

15. What item did Vittorio buy in the porcelain shop? 16. What was the name of the vampire that made Ursula?
A: Florian

17. Who was the Elder of the 'Court of the Ruby Grail'?
A: Godric

18. What color did all of the Court wear?
A: Burgundy

19. In 'The Coop', what was the broth "spiced" with?
A: Blood

20. What were the names of the first two angels that Vittorio could see?
A: Ramiel and Setheus

21. What painting did Vittorio compare the two angels with?
A: Annunciation

22. To what monastery did the two men take Vittorio to get well?
A: San Marco

23. What device of torture was being used on the painter, Fra Filippo Lippi?
A: The Rack

24. While Vittorio was sick in the monastery, what did he try to drink that he said tasted "rancid and unnatural"?
A: Water

25. What was the third Angel's name that Vittorio described as "the angel that can avenge"?
A: Mastema

26. How old did Vittorio have to be before he could inherit the wealth of his family?
A: 24

27. When the Priest asked Vittorio why he had failed his Angels, what was his answer?
A: for love and honor

28. What did Vittorio and Ursula refuse from the Priest before they left the town of Santa Maddalana?
A: absolution

29. What was the name of the nun that Fra Filippo Lippi ran off with?
A: Lucrezia Buti

30. What did Mastema curse Vittorio with having to see in every human being?
A: a spark of the Creator/a golden light

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The actor Raymond Huntley, who played the part of Dracula in a popular touring play from 1924 to 1927 wore a cape with a tall collar which made him appear to vanish as he actually disappeared down a trap door. This was how the tradition of Dracula wearing a high-collard cape originated.

Bram Stoker never went to Transylvania. Instead he researched the area through a number of books. Stoker took meticulous notes and incorporated considerable detail from his reading about Transylvania into his novel.

Originally, Anne Rice envisioned Rutger Hauer in the role of the vampire Lestat, after seeing him in the movie Blade Runner.

Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print since its publication in 1897.

The first motion picture to show bite marks was the Spanish-language version of Dracula (1931). In the American version there was much talk of these marks but they were never shown.

The Alice Cooper song "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" is a tribute to the actor who played Renfield in the 1931 film version of Dracula.

Nathan Miller, in his book "Spying for America: The Hidden History of US Intelligence tell about an incident in the 1950's during a battle against communist insurgents in the Philippines. The native people had a famous superstitious dread of vampires. The US Airforce arranged for the body of a man killed in an ambush to have his neck punctured as though by fangs, and drained of blood and left at a crossroads. The stunt worked effectively, and the area was completely abandoned.

In folklore, the vampire's first victim would often be his wife. This is why, in some cultures, when a husband died, the wife would change her appearance, i.e., she would stop wearing make-up, would cut her hair, and would wear black for the entire period of mourning. These things were done with the intention of deceiving the vampire, should he return.

In some cultures, it was believed that those who were denied a formal burial would return as vampires. Strangely enough, among those denied a formal burial were alcoholics, criminals and anyone deemed to be a great sinner. Therefore, or so it seems, if you were "morally weak," you could expect to live forever.

Gravestones were erected at the head of the plot to prevent the deceased from sitting up.

Although it is particularly associated with Europe, vampire hunting was also a regular practice in America.

Vampire bats were named after vampires, not vice versa.

Although this is still a topic hotly debated amongst scholars, it is commonly believed that Bram Stoker based his novel, "Dracula," on Vlad Tepes, a historical figure from Romania who lived in the 1400's.

In some cultures, the white rose was thought to repel vampires as effectively as garlic.

Ash, juniper, and hawthorn wood were the most popularly prescribed for staking a vampire.

Seeds and knots were often placed in coffins. It was thought that the vampire would become absorbed with counting the seeds and untangling the knots, and thus be distracted from rising and going after the living.

It is said that the first wife of Adam, named Lilith, hunts the children of Adam and Eve (humans) for their blood. This belief may or may not be based on a Babylonian called "Lilitu."

In many cultures it was believed that vampires could not cross water. The reason is linked to that of vampires having no reflection, because at the point of time where this belief sprung up, most mirrors were no better than a standing stream of water.

In legend, the half-human offspring of a vampire and it's victim was called a dhampir, and considered to be the perfect vampire hunter, as they could supposedly sense where a vampire lay and slay them.

In ages past, vampires were known to bite victims on the chest, rather than the neck. Many examples of ancient pottery and drawings depict this sort of attack.

The word vampire comes from the part of the world most famous in literature and history as the home of the vampire: Transylvania. The Magyar (Hungarian) word is vampyr, but there are many variations in that part of the world: Russian, upyr; Polish, upier; Turkish, obour. The Danes and the Swedes adopted the Magyar vampyr; the French put their own stamp on it: le vampire; and the Dutch called it vampir. But the Greeks had a vampire tradition of their own, and their word for the creature is vrykolakas.

The first known English use of the word occurred in 1734 in a travel book published in London, The Travels of Three English Gentlemen, whose authors said that vampires found in central Europe were supposed to be "bodies of deceased persons, animated by evil spirits, which come out of the graves in the nighttime, suck the blood of many of the living and thereby destroy them." Following the publication of that book, the word gained circulation throughout England, just as it was doing on the European continent. But the concept, if not the word, was centuries old in England, as it was elsewhere.

There are written records of vampire legends from as far back as 125 AD, when one of the first known vampire stories occurred. It's origin was Greek.

The actual castle of Dracula is in the northern Wallachian town of Tirgoviste.

Vlad the Impaler, or "Dracula" was born in Transylvania in 1431 in the town of Sighisoara. Sighisoara was then a German settlement called Schassburg.

If it is suspected that someone is likely to become a vampire, it's supposedly possible to prevent the change by burying the body face downwards.

In Greek Mythology it was very common that redheads after death would turn into vampires. Red hair was also said to be the Mark of Set (the devil) of the Egyptian Mythology.

If a person has died and an animal (normally a cat) jumps over the body before it has been properly buried, the person can supposedly become a vampire. In Romania this could be cured by putting a piece of iron into the corpse's hand, or by placing some Hawthorn in the coffin.

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Different Types Of Vampires Around the World:

Afrit:
In Arabian lore, an afrit is the vampiric spirit of a murdered man who seeks to avenge his death. The demon rises up like smoke from the blood of the victim. The afrit can be stopped by driving a nail into the bloodstained ground.

Asanbosam:
Asanbosam are African vampires. They are normal vampires except that they have hooks instead of feet. They tend to bite their victims on the thumb.

Aswang manananggal:
Shape-shifting Philippine viscera suckers, aswang manananggals fly about as bodiless heads with trailing entrails and feed on human flesh, blood, organs, and mucus, especially that of fetuses and newborns. They are accompanied by small birds who act as familiars and reconnaissance, locating prey. By day, aswang are either men or women who are likely to be respected members of their communities.

Baital:
Baital is an Indian race of vampires their natural form is half man, half bat, standing roughly one and a half meter tall.

Baobhan Sith:
The Baobhan Sith (buh-van she) is an evil Scottish fairy who appear as a beautiful young woman and will dance with men they find, until the men are exhausted; they then feed upon them. It can be killed by cold iron.

Bhuta:
In India a bhuta is a malignant spirit or demon or a spirit of the dead. If the latter, they usually are the restless souls of men who died untimely deaths. Bhutas are flesh eaters who haunt forests and empty dwellings by day and night. They are flickering lights or misty apparitions that cast no shadows and hover above the ground. Thus, they can be avoided by lying flat on the ground. In particular, they plague living people who do not perform the proper funerary rights for the dead. Like the European vampire, bhutas are blamed for blighted crops, diseased livestock, natural and domestic calamities, accidents, illness, plagues, and insanity. They can enter human bodies and make victims sicken and die.

Ch'Iang Shih:
In China there are vampire-like creatures called Ch'Iang Shih; they are created by having a cat jumping over the corpse of a dead person. They appear livid and may kill with poisonous breath in addition to draining blood. If a Ch'Iang Shih encounters a pile of rice, it must count the grains before it can pass on. Their immaterial form is a sphere of light, much like will-o'-the-wisps.

Dearg-Due:
In Ireland many druids speak of Dearg-Dues which has to be killed by building a cairn of stones upon the grave. The Dearg-Dues can't change their shape.

Ekiminu:
Ekiminus are assyiran malignant spirits (half ghost, half vampire) caused by no proper burial. They are naturally invisible and are capable of possessing humans. They can be destroyed by using wooden weapons or by exorcism.

Kathakano:
The Crete vampire Kathakano is much like the originals, but it can only be killed by chopping its head off and boiling it in vinegar.

Krvopijac:
These are Bulgarian vampires and are also known as Obours. They look like regular vampires, but have only one nostril and a pointed tongue. A krvopijac can be immobilized by placing roses around their graves. It can be destroyed by letting a magician order it into a bottle and throwing it into a bonfire.

Lamia:
Lamias were known in ancient Rome and Greece. They were exclusively female vampires, which often appeared half human, half animal (most often a snake and always the lower part) form. They ate the flesh of their victims as well as drinking the blood. Lamias could be attacked and killed with normal weapons.

Nosferatu:
Nosferatu is another name for the original vampire, which is also called vampyre.

Rakshasa:
Rakshasa is a powerful Indian vampire and magician. They usually appear as humans with animal features (claws, fangs, slit eyes, etc.) or as animals with human features (feet, hands, flattened nose, etc.). The animal side is very often a tiger. They eat the victim's flesh in addition to drinking their blood. Rakshasas may be destroyed by burning, sunlight or exorcism.

Strigoiul:
This is the Romanian vampire. Strigoiuls are much like the original vampires, but they like to attack in flocks. They can be killed by putting garlic into its mouth or removing its heart.

Succubus:
This is a lesser known European race of vampires. The general way they feed is by having sexual relations with the victim, exhausting them and then feeding on the energy released during sex. They may enter homes uninvited and can take on the appearance of other persons. They will often visit the same victim more than once. The victim of a Succubus will experience the visits as dreams. The male version of a Succubus is an Incubus.

Vlokoslak:
Serbia vampires, also called Mulos. They normally appear as people wearing white clothes. They are active both day and night and can assume the shape of horses and sheep. They eat their victims as well as drinking their blood. They can be killed by cutting off their toes, or by driving a nail through the neck.

Vyrkolakas:
The Greek term for vampire, is generally the revenant of a man that rises from the grave, preys upon humans and animals for their blood, and tears out the livers of its victims.

Upierczi:
These vampires have origin in Poland and Russia and is also called Viesczy. They have a sting under the tongue instead of the fangs. They are active from noon to midnight and can only be destroyed by burning. When burned, the body will burst, giving rise to hundreds of small, disgusting animals (maggots, rats, etc.). If any of these creatures escape then the Upierczi's spirit will escape too and will return to seek revenge.

*Contributions -- Ursula and Leila