The Blair Witch Project Trivia
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49 free The Blair Witch Project trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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
Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez were creeped out by 1970s paranormal documentaries such as In Search of..., so they set out to make a horror film that looked like one.
Q 02In The Blair Witch Project, the three students head into the woods near which real Maryland town?
Burkittsville
Burkittsville is a real town, but the abandoned township of Blair that it was supposedly built on never existed: the directors invented it for the legend.
Q 03What hangs from the trees in The Blair Witch Project?
Stick figures
Stick figures. One of the directors said the image of a stick figure hanging from a tree had creeped him out for years, and he built the story around it.
Q 04In the Blair Witch legend, who did Rustin Parr say made him murder seven children?
A ghost
A ghost, he told police: an old woman's spirit that haunted the woods near his house. He had walked into a local shop to announce he was 'finally finished', and was soon convicted and hanged.
Q 05In the Blair Witch legend, Rustin Parr made one child do what while he killed another?
Stand in a corner facing the wall
Stand in a corner facing the wall. The interview that tells this story was filmed after the festival premiere, so that the last shot of Mike standing in a corner would make sense.
Q 06In the Blair Witch legend, what was eerie about the old woman Robin Weaver met?
Her feet never touched the ground
Her feet never touched the ground. Robin Weaver came home on her own, but one of the search parties sent out to find her never returned.
Q 07In The Blair Witch Project, which landmark do the students hike to on their first day in the woods?
Coffin Rock
Coffin Rock is where, in the legend, five men from a search party were found tied together and gutted. By the time help arrived, the bodies had vanished.
Q 08In The Blair Witch Project, what appears beside the students' tent after a night of strange noises?
Piles of rocks
Piles of rocks: three of them, which the directors crept up to build in the dark. The actors heard them coming, and the crew had to shout the code word 'taco' to keep them in the tent.
Q 09In The Blair Witch Project, what does Mike admit he did with Heather's map?
Kicked it into a creek
Kicked it into a creek. Without it, the three hike south by compass all day, only to arrive back at the river they had already crossed.
Q 10The bundle of twigs Heather finds outside the tent contains a scrap of Josh's shirt wrapped around what?
Bloodied teeth and hair
Bloodied teeth and hair. Some of the teeth were real ones from a dentist and the hair was the actor's own; Heather at first threw the bundle away unopened, and the crew had to send her back to look.
Q 11In The Blair Witch Project, Heather's tearful close-up apology is addressed to whom?
The three students' mothers
The three students' mothers. It became the film's most parodied moment, and the actor said years later how glad she was that it had stopped being the first thing people thought of when they met her.
Q 12The Blair Witch Project ends in a ruined house whose walls bear what?
Children's bloody handprints
Children's bloody handprints. Fans carted off pieces of the real house as souvenirs, and within months of the film's release the authorities had ordered it demolished.
Q 13In The Blair Witch Project, what is the forest where the three students get lost called?
Q 21The makers of The Blair Witch Project named their company after which film about witchcraft?
Häxan
Häxan, a 1922 Scandinavian film whose title means 'The Witch'. Before shooting a frame, Haxan Films made an eight-minute teaser that a cable TV show presented as if the footage were real.
Q 22In the Blair Witch legend, what did the townspeople do to accused witch Elly Kedward?
Banished her
Banished her, in a harsh winter, and gave her up for dead. Soon afterwards, the legend says, her accusers and half the town's children vanished, and the settlement was abandoned.
Q 23The Blair Witch Project's makers say they never show the witch partly for which reason?
They couldn't afford special effects
Black Hills Forest
Black Hills Forest is the legend's name for the woods. Everything there except the climax was really filmed in Maryland's Seneca Creek State Park, along a route the directors had plotted by GPS.
Q 14What did The Blair Witch Project's actors have to make up themselves?
Their dialogue
Their dialogue. The directors' outline had none: they let the actors decide how to play each scene, and say they stepped in only when they wanted something toned down.
Q 15At her Blair Witch audition, Heather Donahue told a mock parole board what?
She shouldn't be released
She shouldn't be released. One of the directors says the plan had been to cast three men, until that answer made them cast her.
Q 16Joshua Leonard says he was cast in The Blair Witch Project largely because he could already do what?
Operate a film camera
Operate a film camera. No camera operator followed them into the woods, so the three actors shot the film themselves, which made one who already knew a 16mm camera essential.
Q 17The Blair Witch actors found their daily instructions hidden inside what, left in milk crates in the woods?
35 mm film cans
35 mm film cans, one for each actor with a name on it. The three were told not to show each other their notes, which carried private prompts such as 'Heather's driving me crazy'.
Q 18Blair Witch producer Gregg Hale based the actors' ordeal in the woods on his memories of what?
Military training
Military training. On an Army survival course Hale had been chased through the wild for days by mock enemy soldiers, so the crew harassed the actors at night and fed them less and less.
Q 19After fleeing their tent in the night, the Blair Witch students return to find Josh's gear covered in what?
Slime
Slime. It is Josh's gear that gets coated, and the next morning he becomes the first of the three to vanish.
Q 20The colour video footage in The Blair Witch Project was shot on what kind of consumer camera?
A Hi8 camcorder
A Hi8 camcorder. Heather Donahue had never used a camera and got only a two-day crash course, which she blamed for the footage being so jumpy in places.
They couldn't afford special effects. Their producer said he would love to call it a grand theory of horror, but mostly 'we couldn't afford to show anything'.
Q 24The Blair Witch Project premiered as a midnight screening at which festival in January 1999?
Sundance
Sundance. The directors thought they would be lucky to get a cable or video deal; instead the queue for the midnight screening ran around the block, and a distributor bought the film.
Q 25Which distributor bought The Blair Witch Project after its midnight festival premiere?
Artisan Entertainment
Artisan Entertainment then asked for a clearer ending, because test audiences were confused. The directors went back and shot four alternatives, but the original stayed.
Q 26During The Blair Witch Project's first year, IMDb listed its three lead actors as what?
Missing, presumed dead
Missing, presumed dead. The hoax worked so well that the actors' families took condolence calls, and one was sent a sympathy card by a relative.
Q 27In 1999 the unknown stars of The Blair Witch Project made the cover of which magazine?
Newsweek
Newsweek. One of the actors was still moving furniture for a living, and his boss kept asking why; the three say they were struggling to pay their rent at the time.
Q 28Which cable network aired Curse of the Blair Witch, the mockumentary presenting the film's backstory as fact, in 1999?
The Sci-Fi Channel
The Sci-Fi Channel special was closer to the directors' first plan for the film itself: a mock documentary about the legend, in which the students' footage would have been only one part.
Q 29What do Heather and Mike hear in the night after Josh vanishes in The Blair Witch Project?
His screams
His screams. They had been recorded in a studio and were played back in the woods that night, by which time the actor, his part over, was on a bus home.
Q 30The three lead characters in The Blair Witch Project share what with the actors who play them?
Their real names
Their real names. The directors wanted nobody to break character while hungry, lost and yelling at each other, and Heather Donahue has since said she regrets agreeing to it.