100 free Ghost Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Ghost movies are the one horror subgenre that also does romance, comedy and Oscar bait, and this quiz covers all of it. There are 56 ghost movie trivia questions with answers, starting with the 1990 blockbuster Ghost itself (the pottery wheel, Oda Mae Brown, the actor who turned down Patrick Swayze's part) and moving through Poltergeist, The Shining, Beetlejuice, The Sixth Sense, The Others, The Ring and its Japanese original, The Conjuring, Insidious, Paranormal Activity and Crimson Peak. The classics get their due too: The Uninvited, Topper, Blithe Spirit, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Innocents, The Haunting and Kwaidan, along with the friendlier end of the spectrum in Casper, Ghostbusters, Ghost Town, Field of Dreams and Scrooged. Questions run from easy to expert, with the difficulty marked on each one, so a casual viewer and a horror obsessive can play the same set. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia's article on the film in question and each question shows its citation, so when the group chat argues about who directed Poltergeist, you can point at the source.
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Q 01What was the profession of Patrick Swayze's Sam Wheat in Ghost (1990)?
Banker
His best friend Carl Bruner turns out to have arranged the mugging to get Sam's book of bank passwords.
Q 02Who won Best Supporting Actress for playing psychic con artist Oda Mae Brown in Ghost?
Whoopi Goldberg
Neither the director nor the writer wanted her at first; Swayze pushed for the casting.
Q 03Ghost (1990) was directed by Jerry Zucker, previously best known for which comedy?
Airplane!
Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin was worried Zucker would turn his script into a comedy.
Q 04Which actor turned down the lead in Ghost, later calling himself a 'knucklehead' for passing?
Bruce Willis
He was married to co-star Demi Moore at the time; that summer his Die Hard 2 sat at number two behind Ghost at the box office.
Q 05The vocal version of Unchained Melody heard in Ghost was recorded in 1965 by which act?
The Righteous Brothers
Bobby Hatfield sang the lead; the song itself dates to 1955 with music by Alex North.
Q 06What one-word reply does Sam give Molly in Ghost whenever she says she loves him?
Ditto
Oda Mae relays it to a sceptical Molly and it finally lands.
Q 07Ghost was the highest-grossing film of 1990. Roughly how much did it take worldwide?
$505 million
On a budget of about $22 million, it was briefly the third-highest-grossing film ever made.
Q 08Poltergeist (1982) is credited to Tobe Hooper, but which producer, who wrote the story, is thought to have shaped it?
Steven Spielberg
He was contractually barred from directing another film while making E.T., so Hooper was hired.
Q 09In Poltergeist, five-year-old Carol Anne first talks to the spirits through what household object?
The television set
Her line 'They're here' became one of horror's most quoted moments.
Q 10The Freelings' haunted subdivision in Poltergeist, Cuesta Verde, was built on top of what?
A cemetery
The developer moved the headstones but not the bodies, as the climax reveals.
Q 11In The Sixth Sense, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe works with young Cole in which city?
Philadelphia
M. Night Shyamalan set most of his early films in his home region; the film took over $672 million worldwide.
Q 12Which actor played Cole Sear, the boy who sees dead people, earning an Oscar nomination at age 11?
Haley Joel Osment
Shyamalan initially thought his audition tape showed a 'sweet cherub' rather than the brooding kid he'd imagined.
Q 13The Others (2001), starring Nicole Kidman, is set in 1945 on which island?
Jersey
Her children are photosensitive, so the manor is kept dark; the film won eight Goya Awards including Best Film.
Q 21The 1995 film Casper is set in Whipstaff Manor in a town called Friendship, in which state?
Maine
Christina Ricci's Kat moves in when her paranormal-therapist father is hired to clear the house.
Q 22Casper (1995) holds what distinction in film history?
First feature with a fully CGI lead character
Brad Silberling made his feature directing debut on it, four years before Toy Story-style CGI leads were routine.
Q 23In The Shining, the Overlook Hotel's chef warns Danny to stay away from which room?
237
Stephen King's novel used room 217; the Timberline Lodge in Oregon supplied the hotel exteriors and asked for the change.
Q 14Who wrote, directed and scored The Others?
Alejandro Amenábar
It was the first English-language film with no Spanish dialogue to win Best Film at Spain's Goyas.
Q 15In The Conjuring (2013), Ed and Lorraine Warren help the Perron family in a farmhouse in which state?
Rhode Island
The film opens with the Annabelle doll case, seeding an entire cinematic universe.
Q 16Which actors play Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring films?
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga
The real Warrens' case files also inspired The Amityville Horror.
Q 17In Beetlejuice, how many times must the title character's name be said to summon him?
Three
Adam and Barbara Maitland find his ad in the Handbook for the Recently Deceased.
Q 18Beetlejuice won a single Academy Award. In which category?
Best Makeup
Its calypso numbers came from Harry Belafonte's albums Calypso and Jump Up Calypso.
Q 19The Maitlands' caseworker in Beetlejuice tells them they must stay in their house for how many years?
125
They have to put up with the Deetzes and their teenage daughter Lydia in the meantime.
Q 20The 2024 sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened which film festival before its September release?
Venice
Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe and Monica Bellucci joined the returning Keaton, Ryder and O'Hara; it grossed $452 million.
Q 24Exterior shots of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining were filmed at which real place?
Timberline Lodge, Oregon
The Ahwahnee inspired the interiors and the Stanley inspired King's novel, but the establishing shots are Mount Hood.
Q 25In The Ring (2002), how long do viewers of the cursed videotape have left to live?
Seven days
Naomi Watts plays the journalist who watches it; the film's success triggered a wave of American remakes of Asian horror.
Q 26The Ring is a remake of a 1998 Japanese film directed by whom?
Hideo Nakata
Ringu was shot back to back with its sequel Spiral, and both opened in Japan on the same day.
Q 27In Ju-On: The Grudge, the curse begins when Takeo Saeki murders his wife. What is her name?
Kayako
Their son Toshio and even the cat die too; anyone entering the Nerima house is doomed.
Q 28Which director made both Insidious and The Conjuring?
James Wan
Insidious co-writer Leigh Whannell also plays one of the ghost hunters; the film's astral realm is called The Further.
Q 29In Insidious, what is the name of the purgatory-like realm where Dalton's spirit becomes trapped?
The Further
The boy isn't in a coma at all; he was born able to astral project and wandered too far.
Q 30Paranormal Activity (2007) was famously shot for roughly how much?
$15,000
Oren Peli produced, wrote, directed, shot and edited it himself, and it is often called the most profitable film ever made.