50 free The Blair Witch Project trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Blair Witch Project trivia quiz covers the 1999 film that made found footage a genre: the legend Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez invented (Elly Kedward, Rustin Parr, Coffin Rock), the eight-day shoot in the Maryland woods where the actors were fed clues in film cans and starved by night, the website that convinced half the internet the students were really missing, and the numbers behind the sleeper hit that returned more than 4,000 times its budget. It also covers Book of Shadows, Adam Wingard's 2016 sequel, the video games, the parodies and the actors' long fight over pay. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has seen the film, a third are medium, and the rest are for people who know which real Maryland state park doubled as the Black Hills. Use it for a Halloween party, a horror movie night or a pub quiz round. Every answer was checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Which two film-school friends wrote, edited and directed The Blair Witch Project?
Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
They met at the University of Central Florida and decided that paranormal documentaries were scarier than horror films, so they combined the two.
Q 02The three students head into the woods near which real Maryland town?
Burkittsville
In the invented legend the town was once called Blair, and it was overrun by fans after the film's release.
Q 03In what year is the students' ill-fated documentary shoot set?
1994
The sequel Book of Shadows opens in November 1999, with tourists descending on the town after the movie's release.
Q 04According to the townsfolk, hermit Rustin Parr abducted and murdered how many children in 1941?
7
The name began as an anagram of Rasputin; the film's chilling final shot echoes his ritual.
Q 05Parr killed his victims in pairs while making a third child do what?
Stand in a corner facing the wall
That detail pays off in the film's final shot, which Sánchez says was invented only days before it was filmed.
Q 06Robin Weaver, who vanished in 1888, returned describing an old woman whose what never touched the ground?
Her feet
The search party that went looking for her was later found gutted and displayed on a rock in the forest, and the bodies vanished before they could be buried.
Q 07What is the name of the landmark the students hike to on their first day in the woods?
Coffin Rock
The second Blair Witch computer game of 2000 was subtitled The Legend of Coffin Rock.
Q 08In the old graveyard the trio finds seven small cairns; which of them accidentally knocks one over?
Josh
The next night the stick-snapping starts, and by morning three new cairns have appeared beside the tent.
Q 09Mike admits he did what with Heather's map, sparking the fight that confirms they are lost?
Kicked it into a creek
They then navigate south by compass, only to find the same river they crossed earlier and realise they have walked in circles.
Q 10The bundle of twigs Heather finds outside the tent contains a scrap of Josh's shirt wrapped around what?
Bloodied teeth and hair
The teeth were real, obtained from a Maryland dentist; Heather hides the discovery from Mike.
Q 11In her famous tearful close-up, Heather records an apology addressed to whom?
The three students' mothers
The shot has been parodied endlessly, from spoof movies to a Scooby-Doo Halloween special.
Q 12The final scenes take place in the ruins of a house whose walls bear what?
Children's bloody handprints
The location was the 150-year-old Griggs House in Patapsco Valley State Park; fans chipped it apart for souvenirs and it was demolished within months of release.
Q 13How long was the film's principal photography?
8 days
It began on October 23, 1997 and wrapped on Halloween, with roughly 20 hours of footage to cut down.
Q 21The 'found footage' itself was shot on what kind of consumer camera?
A Hi8 camcorder
The black-and-white 16 mm material came from a CP-16 provided by cinematographer Neal Fredericks; Donahue had two days of camera training.
Q 22Haxan Films took its name from a 1922 Danish-Swedish silent film about what subject?
Witchcraft
Benjamin Christensen's Häxan is subtitled Witchcraft Through the Ages.
Q 23In what year does the legend say Elly Kedward was banished from Blair Township and left to die?
1785
Her name is a near-anagram of Edward Kelley, the 16th-century mystic; the backstory nods to Salem and Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Q 14Most of the woodland scenes were shot in which real Maryland location?
Seneca Creek State Park
The Black Hills Forest of the legend is fictional; the real park is in Montgomery County, near Washington, D.C.
Q 15How long was the directors' screenplay, with all dialogue to be improvised?
35 pages
The casting call in Backstage magazine asked for strong improvisers and drew about 2,000 hopefuls.
Q 16At her audition, Heather Donahue was asked why she deserved parole after how many years of a nine-year sentence?
7
The improvised parole-board question was the whole audition; the directors wanted people who could think on their feet in character.
Q 17Which of the three leads said he was cast largely because he knew how to operate a camera?
Joshua Leonard
No outside camera was used, so the actors shot everything except one interview added later about the Parr murders.
Q 18The actors received their daily instructions hidden inside what, left in milk crates in the woods?
35 mm film cans
They found the crates using satellite navigation units, then improvised the day's action from individual notes.
Q 19Producer Gregg Hale's method of marching, harassing and starving the actors came from his memories of what?
Military training
In his training, 'enemy soldiers' had hunted a trainee through wild terrain for three days.
Q 20The pale figure seen as Heather flees the tent was the art director wearing what over his head?
Pantyhose
Ricardo Moreno's costume is revealed in the directors' commentary; the witch herself is never shown, an approach borrowed from Jaws.
Q 24The directors named which blockbuster as their major influence, because it hides its monster for so long?
Jaws
Documentary-style influences included In Search of..., Chariots of the Gods and The Legend of Boggy Creek.
Q 25The film premiered as a midnight screening at which festival in January 1999?
Sundance
The filmmakers had only hoped for a cable-TV sale and were stunned by the bidding that followed.
Q 26Which distributor bought the film after its festival breakout for a reported $1.1m?
Artisan Entertainment
The company wanted to change the ending because test audiences were confused; the directors shot four alternates but kept the original.
Q 27During the film's first year, IMDb listed the three lead actors as what?
Missing, presumed dead
Missing-person flyers were handed out at festivals, and the actors' real childhood photos went up on the website to sell the hoax.
Q 28By August 1999 the film's official website had received roughly how many hits?
160 million
It is thought to be the first widely released film marketed primarily via the internet, complete with fake police reports.
Q 29Which cable network aired Curse of the Blair Witch, the mockumentary presenting the film's backstory as fact, in 1999?
The Sci-Fi Channel
Curse of the Blair Witch used manufactured newspaper articles, newsreels and staged interviews.
Q 30A 40-second trailer for the film ran in June 1999 in front of which blockbuster?
Star Wars: Episode I
An earlier trailer had leaked on Ain't It Cool News in April, and the film was screened at 40 colleges to build word of mouth.