Casper Trivia
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This Casper trivia quiz has 47 free questions with answers and covers the friendliest ghost in cartoons from his 1945 Paramount debut to the 1995 movie and beyond. The film questions take in Whipstaff Manor and Friendship, Maine, Kat and Dr. Harvey, Carrigan and Dibs, the Ghostly Trio, the Lazarus machine, how Casper died, what the treasure really was, the cameo Steven Spielberg cut, the Ghostbuster who turns up, the eight-month CGI scene and the actor who played Casper alive for a single dance. The history questions go back further: the two men who both claimed to have created him, the $175 the rights sold for, the New York accent of the first short, the Harvey Comics redesign that gave him feet, Wendy the Good Little Witch, the Hanna-Barbera series that parodied Charlie's Angels, the Apollo capsule named after him and the sequels that starred Hilary Duff. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia pages for the character and the films, and each explanation adds one detail worth remembering.
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Q 01In the 1995 film, Casper haunts a mansion called Whipstaff Manor in which small town?
Friendship, Maine
Some location footage was shot in Camden, Maine, but the manor itself was mostly a studio set.
Q 02Which actress plays Kat Harvey, the teenager Casper falls for?
Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci plays Kat Harvey, coming off her two Addams Family films as Wednesday; she appeared in Now and Then later the same year.
Q 03Who plays Dr. James Harvey, the 'ghost therapist' hired to clear out the manor?
Bill Pullman
Bill Pullman plays Dr. James Harvey, a widowed therapist to the 'living impaired' who takes the Whipstaff job hoping to reach his late wife; Pullman played the US president in Independence Day a year later.
Q 04Who plays Carrigan Crittenden, the greedy heiress who inherits only the haunted manor?
Cathy Moriarty
Cathy Moriarty, an Oscar nominee for Raging Bull, plays Carrigan Crittenden; she returned to the series as Geri, one of the witch aunts, in Casper Meets Wendy (1998).
Q 05Which Monty Python member plays Dibs, Carrigan's lawyer?
Eric Idle
Eric Idle plays Dibs, Carrigan's lawyer and sidekick, who is flung out of a window when he tries to double-cross her over the treasure.
Q 06Who voices Casper in the 1995 film?
Malachi Pearson
Malachi Pearson voiced Casper in the 1995 film and continued in the role for the animated series The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper.
Q 07Which young actor plays Casper in human form for the dance with Kat?
Devon Sawa
Devon Sawa appears as the human Casper for the dance with Kat; later in 1995 he played Scott Wormer in the coming-of-age film Now and Then.
Q 08According to the film, how did the 12-year-old Casper McFadden die?
Pneumonia after playing in the cold
It is the only Casper story ever to address his death directly; some 1960s comics had him born a ghost to ghost parents.
Q 09What is the name of the machine Casper's inventor father built to bring the dead back to life?
The Lazarus
The Lazarus, built by Casper's father J.T. McFadden in a hidden laboratory beneath Whipstaff Manor, has only one dose of the formula needed to bring someone back.
Q 10The 'treasure' hidden in Whipstaff Manor turns out to be what?
A baseball signed by Duke Snider
The treasure map was part of a game Casper played with his dad; Carrigan gets ejected into the afterlife the moment she grabs it.
Q 11Casper gives up his one chance to live again in order to do what?
Bring Dr. Harvey back to life
Casper uses the machine's single dose to bring Dr. Harvey back to life after the doctor's fatal fall, giving up his own return.
Q 12Which of Casper's three uncles is voiced by Joe Alaskey in the 1995 film?
Stinkie
Stinkie, the uncle with the foul breath, is voiced by Joe Alaskey, who also voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for Warner Bros. in the 1990s and 2000s.
Q 13Which future Everybody Loves Raymond star voices Fatso?
Brad Garrett
Brad Garrett, a year before he began playing Robert Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, voiced the gluttonous Fatso; all three uncle voices returned for the animated spin-off series.
Q 21Who composed the film's score, including the track 'One Last Wish'?
James Horner
James Horner composed Casper's score, including the cue 'One Last Wish'; Horner, an Oscar winner for Titanic two years later, also scored Apollo 13 that same summer.
Q 22Which pop star's first major film role was Wendy the Good Little Witch in Casper Meets Wendy (1998)?
Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff, then ten, played Wendy in Casper Meets Wendy, released direct to video by Fox on September 22, 1998, six days before her 11th birthday.
Q 23Which 1997 direct-to-video prequel has Casper falling off a ghost train into Deedstown?
A Spirited Beginning
Q 14Which Ghostbuster turns up, uncredited, after Carrigan calls in help to clear the manor?
Ray Stantz
Dan Aykroyd's Ray flees with the line 'Who ya gonna call? Someone else'; Father Guido Sarducci tries an exorcism first.
Q 15Who directed Casper, in his feature debut?
Brad Silberling
Brad Silberling, a television director on series such as NYPD Blue, made Casper his feature debut; his next film was City of Angels (1998).
Q 16Which studio produced the computer-animated Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000)?
Mainframe Entertainment
Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000), the first all-CGI Casper feature, was animated by Mainframe Entertainment, the Vancouver studio known for ReBoot and Beast Wars: Transformers, and released direct to video.
Q 17Which future Lost co-creator did an uncredited rewrite of the Casper script?
J. J. Abrams
J. J. Abrams, then a young screenwriter with Regarding Henry and Forever Young behind him, did an uncredited rewrite on Casper a decade before co-creating Lost.
Q 18Besides Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Rodney Dangerfield, who appears in Dr. Harvey's mirror transformations?
The Crypt Keeper
The mirror gags end with Dr. Harvey turning into the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt, voiced by John Kassir, after Clint Eastwood, Rodney Dangerfield and Mel Gibson.
Q 19Which effects house created Casper's CGI ghosts, making it the first film with a fully computer-generated lead?
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic, which had just done Jurassic Park's dinosaurs, animated Casper and his uncles as fully computer-generated characters sharing the frame with live actors.
Q 20Which singer performed 'Remember Me This Way,' the ballad over Casper's closing credits?
Jordan Hill
'Remember Me This Way,' written by David Foster and Linda Thompson and sung by Jordan Hill, plays over Casper's closing credits; Little Richard's version of the Casper theme also features.
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997) shows Casper arriving in Deedstown after tumbling off a ghost train and befriending Chris Carson, ignoring the 1995 film's account of his origin.
Q 24Casper made his debut in a 1945 Paramount short with what title?
The Friendly Ghost
The Friendly Ghost (1945), the Noveltoon that introduced Casper, has him despair at frightening everyone and lie on a railway track before two children befriend him.
Q 25Which Paramount cartoon unit produced the original Casper theatrical shorts?
Famous Studios
Famous Studios, Paramount's in-house unit formed in 1942 after it took over Fleischer Studios, produced the Casper theatrical shorts from 1945 to 1959.
Q 26How much did Joe Oriolo receive when he sold the rights to the Casper storybook to Paramount?
$175
Joe Oriolo sold the Casper rights to Paramount for a flat $175 in the 1940s and earned no royalties from the character's later success.
Q 27Which publisher took over Casper in 1952 and bought the character outright in 1959?
Harvey Comics
Harvey Comics licensed Casper in 1952 and bought the character outright from Paramount in 1959; its artist Warren Kremer gave him the rounded redesign seen in the comics.
Q 28In the 1995 film, at what hour does Casper's borrowed human form expire?
Ten o'clock
The angel turns Casper human only until ten o'clock; when the clock strikes ten during the party dance he reverts to a ghost, after a kiss with Kat.
Q 29Which 'tuff little ghost' with a derby hat was one of the three popular spin-offs from the Casper comics?
Spooky
Spooky and his girlfriend Poil later starred in the CGI film Casper's Haunted Christmas.
Q 30Which network aired Matty's Funday Funnies, the 1959 show that brought Casper cartoons to television?
ABC
Matty's Funday Funnies, sponsored by Mattel, ran on ABC from 1959 to 1961 and showed the old Paramount cartoons of Casper, Little Audrey and Baby Huey.