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50 free Beetlejuice trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Beetlejuice fan? Put your knowledge of Tim Burton's cult classic to the test with our comprehensive 120-question trivia quiz. From iconic quotes to behind-the-scenes facts, this quiz covers everything about the 1988 horror-comedy masterpiece. See how many questions you can answer correctly!
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Q 01Which 1985 comedy was the only feature film Tim Burton had directed before Beetlejuice?
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Pee-wee's Big Adventure made money and made Burton bankable, yet the scripts he was then offered left him disheartened until the Beetlejuice draft came along.
Q 02Which actor played Adam Maitland, the ghostly husband, in Beetlejuice (1988)?
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin played Adam Maitland, whose hobby is a scale model of his town; the model ends up housing Betelgeuse, who lurks in its tiny graveyard waiting to be called.
Q 03In Beetlejuice, which party game does Betelgeuse use to tell Lydia his name without saying it?
Charades
Charades is his workaround: claiming he cannot tell her his name, he acts out a beetle and then juice, and Lydia works it out just before the Maitlands burst in to stop her.
Q 04Who composed the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical "Beetlejuice"?
Eddie Perfect
Eddie Perfect, an Australian musical comedian, won the job by writing songs for the producers on spec, unpaid, and his score went on to earn a 2019 Tony nomination for Best Original Score.
Q 05In Beetlejuice, what do the Maitlands' afterlife instructions tell them to draw in case of emergency?
A door
A door: Adam sketches one on the wall and knocks three times, and it opens onto the afterlife's waiting room, where a receptionist scolds the couple for having no appointment.
Q 06In Beetlejuice, which horror film does Betelgeuse claim to have seen 167 times?
The Exorcist
The Exorcist 'keeps getting funnier every single time', he roars; the boast caps the bogus list of qualifications he reels off when Adam asks what makes him fit for the job.
Q 07In Beetlejuice, dead players of which sport keep pestering Juno, mistaking her for their coach?
Football
Football players killed together in a crash trail Juno through her office asking for the men's room; she snaps that she is not their coach, because he survived.
Q 08How did the animated series change the relationship between Beetlejuice and Lydia Deetz from the film?
They were best friends.
They were best friends in the cartoon, which toned him down from the film's villain, who tries to force Lydia into marriage, to her prank-loving partner in adventures.
Q 09In Beetlejuice, Betelgeuse twists a Clint Eastwood line by growling 'Go ahead, make my' what?
Millennium
Millennium replaces Eastwood's 'day' because he reckons in centuries: he snarls it at the Maitlands after his snake stunt, complaining he has been cooped up for 600 years.
Q 10Whose calypso music features in the "Dinner Party" scene of Beetlejuice (1988)?
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte's records took the place of the R&B songs an earlier script had called for; four of his recordings play in the film, though only two made the soundtrack album.
Q 11In Beetlejuice, which boast does Betelgeuse make when he first introduces himself to Lydia?
The ghost with the most
The ghost with the most, 'babe', is how he sells himself to Lydia from inside the model town, before coaxing her to help him get out of it.
Q 12Which talk-show host played Bernard, Delia's art agent, in Beetlejuice (1988)?
Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett's Bernard admits he has lost money on Delia's art for years, yet the moment ghosts liven up her dinner party he insists that any deal goes through him.
Q 13The 1988 film Beetlejuice won its only Academy Award in which craft category?
Best Makeup
Q 21The writers of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice also created which Netflix series directed in part by Tim Burton?
Wednesday
Wednesday was created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar; after Burton directed half of its first season, he had the pair write his long-delayed Beetlejuice sequel.
Q 22Beetlejuice's outdoor scenes were shot in the village of East Corinth, in which US state?
Vermont
Vermont doubled for Connecticut: East Corinth played the fictional Winter River, and the crew built a shell of the Maitland house and the covered bridge there.
Q 23In Beetlejuice, Betelgeuse mockingly calls Lydia the daughter of which writer?
Edgar Allan Poe
Best Makeup went to Ve Neill, Steve LaPorte and Robert Short for the film's ghouls, shrunken heads and Betelgeuse's moldy look; Burton wanted the effects to look deliberately cheap, like the B movies he grew up on.
Q 14How is Betelgeuse summoned in the 1988 film Beetlejuice?
Saying his name three times
Saying his name three times is the only way to call him up, the Maitlands' caseworker warns; they try it anyway and find themselves shrunk into the model town beside his grave.
Q 15In Beetlejuice, Otho boasts that he was once one of New York's leading what?
Paranormal researchers
Paranormal researchers, he says, 'until the bottom dropped out in '72'; the Deetzes' interior designer later acts on the boast by casting the spell that conjures the Maitlands.
Q 16In Beetlejuice, what is the title of the book the Maitlands find in their home after their deaths?
Handbook for the Recently Deceased
Handbook for the Recently Deceased baffles Adam, who grumbles that it reads like stereo instructions, yet Lydia later reads it and says she can follow it.
Q 17The animated series "Beetlejuice" originally premiered on which television network?
ABC
ABC ran the cartoon on Saturday mornings from September 1989 and kept it for three seasons, even as a rival network began airing new episodes every weekday in 1991.
Q 18Beetlejuice's title ghost, Betelgeuse, is named after a giant star in which constellation?
Orion
Orion is home to the star Betelgeuse, said much like the film's title; writer Michael McDowell was impressed by how many viewers made the connection.
Q 19In Beetlejuice, what kind of shop does Adam Maitland run in Winter River?
A hardware store
A hardware store is Adam's business; the couple's fatal drive is an errand to it, and Charles later plans to turn the empty building into an insect zoo.
Q 20In Beetlejuice, what is the profession of Lydia's father, Charles, when he buys the Maitlands' house?
Real estate developer
Real estate developer Charles has fled New York for peace after a breakdown, yet once the haunting amuses his dinner guests he schemes to sell Winter River as a supernatural attraction.
Edgar Allan Poe's daughter is his name for the gloomy Lydia; sulking after the Maitlands cut short his haunting, he says she is the only one in the house who understands him.
Q 24What is the primary goal of Adam and Barbara Maitland after they realize they are ghosts?
Scare the new owners out
The Maitlands want to scare the new owners out of their house, but Charles and Delia cannot even see them; the possessed dinner party they stage only delights the guests.
Q 25Who was Tim Burton's original choice to play Betelgeuse before Michael Keaton?
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. was Burton's first pick for Betelgeuse; producer David Geffen then suggested Michael Keaton, whose work Burton did not know until the two met.
Q 26In Beetlejuice's epilogue, Betelgeuse tries to steal a numbered ticket in the afterlife waiting room from whom?
A witch doctor
A witch doctor shrinks Betelgeuse's head in revenge; Burton filmed the epilogue after test screenings, so that audiences got more of Michael Keaton's character.
Q 27Which actress played Barbara Maitland, Adam's wife, in the 1988 film Beetlejuice?
Geena Davis
Geena Davis is absent from the 2024 sequel: she reasoned that ghosts cannot be seen to age, and Tim Burton said the Maitlands had found a loophole and moved on.
Q 28Which actress plays Astrid, Lydia's estranged teenage daughter, in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?
Jenna Ortega
Jenna Ortega's Astrid wants little to do with her ghost-seeing mother, until a boy she befriends turns out to be dead and tries to use her to return to the living.
Q 29In Beetlejuice, what does Lydia notice is missing when she photographs the disguised Maitlands?
Their feet
Their feet are nowhere in her snapshots, which tells Lydia the moaning figures are not her parents playing a prank; she is curious rather than frightened.
Q 30Which composer wrote the score for the 1988 film Beetlejuice?
Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman's main theme travelled with the character: it was reworked for the animated series, and he came back 36 years later to score the sequel.