Ghost Movie Trivia
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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
Sam Wheat is a Banker at a Manhattan bank; his colleague and best friend Carl Bruner arranged the mugging to get the password book Sam used for the accounts Carl was laundering money through.
Q 02Who won Best Supporting Actress for playing psychic con artist Oda Mae Brown in Ghost?
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Oda Mae Brown; neither the director nor the writer wanted her at first, and Patrick Swayze pushed for her casting.
Q 03Ghost (1990) was directed by Jerry Zucker, previously best known for which comedy?
Airplane!
Jerry Zucker co-directed the 1980 spoof Airplane! with Jim Abrahams and David Zucker, which is why Ghost's screenwriter feared his supernatural romance would be turned into a comedy.
Q 04Which actor turned down the lead in Ghost, later calling himself a 'knucklehead' for passing?
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis passed on the role, saying he could not see how a dead man could carry a love story; he was married to co-star Demi Moore at the time.
Q 05The vocal version of Unchained Melody heard in Ghost was recorded in 1965 by which act?
The Righteous Brothers
The Righteous Brothers cut the 1965 version used in Ghost, with Bobby Hatfield singing lead alone; the song itself dates to 1955, with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret.
Q 06What one-word reply does Sam give Molly in Ghost whenever she says she loves him?
Ditto
Sam's reply is 'Ditto', never the words themselves; when Oda Mae passes 'Ditto' on to a sceptical Molly, it convinces her that Sam is really in the room.
Q 07Roughly how much did Ghost, 1990's highest-grossing film, take at the worldwide box office?
$505 million
Ghost grossed about $505 million worldwide on a budget near $22 million, making it the top film of 1990 and briefly the third-highest-grossing film ever released.
Q 08Poltergeist (1982) is credited to Tobe Hooper, but which producer, who wrote the story, is thought to have shaped it?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg produced Poltergeist and wrote its story; his E.T. contract barred him from directing another film at the same time, so Tobe Hooper was hired to direct.
Q 09In Poltergeist, five-year-old Carol Anne first talks to the spirits through what household object?
The television set
The television set is her channel to the spirits: Carol Anne talks to the static after the station signs off, then turns to her family and announces 'They're here.'
Q 10The Freelings' haunted subdivision in Poltergeist, Cuesta Verde, was built on top of what?
A cemetery
A cemetery lay beneath Cuesta Verde: developer Mr. Teague moved the headstones but left the bodies, which is why coffins erupt from the ground in the climax.
Q 11In The Sixth Sense, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe works with young Cole in which city?
Philadelphia
The Sixth Sense is set and shot in Philadelphia, the city where Shyamalan grew up and where he also set his follow-up Unbreakable.
Q 12Which actor played Cole Sear, the boy who sees dead people, earning an Oscar nomination at age 11?
Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment played Cole Sear and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2000 Oscars, where the award went to Michael Caine for The Cider House Rules.
Q 13The Others (2001), starring Nicole Kidman, is set in 1945 on which island?
Jersey
The Others takes place on Jersey in 1945, just after the German occupation of the Channel Islands ended; Grace keeps the manor dark because her children are photosensitive.
Q 21The 1995 film Casper is set in Whipstaff Manor in a town called Friendship, in which state?
Maine
Whipstaff Manor stands in Friendship, Maine; Christina Ricci's Kat moves in when heiress Carrigan Crittenden hires her ghost-therapist father to clear the house.
Q 22Casper (1995) holds what distinction in film history?
First feature with a fully CGI lead character
Casper is credited as the First feature with a fully CGI lead character: Industrial Light & Magic animated the ghost, voiced by Malachi Pearson, months before Toy Story became the first all-CGI feature.
Q 23In The Shining, the Overlook Hotel's chef warns Danny to stay away from which room?
237
Q 14Who wrote, directed and scored The Others?
Alejandro Amenábar
Alejandro Amenábar wrote, directed and composed the score for The Others, as he had for his earlier Spanish-language films Tesis and Open Your Eyes.
Q 15In The Conjuring (2013), Ed and Lorraine Warren help the Perron family in a farmhouse in which state?
Rhode Island
The Perron farmhouse is in Harrisville, Rhode Island, where the real family moved in 1971; the film opens with the Annabelle doll case that seeded the wider series.
Q 16Which actors play Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring films?
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga play the Warrens in every Conjuring film; the real couple also investigated the Amityville house, the case that opens The Conjuring 2.
Q 17In Beetlejuice, how many times must the title character's name be said to summon him?
Three
Saying his name Three times summons him: the Maitlands do it in Adam's model of the town, and Lydia later repeats it to bring him back during Otho's séance.
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
Caseworker Juno tells the Maitlands they are bound to the house for 125 years, during which they must put up with the Deetz family moving in.
Q 20The 2024 sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened which film festival before its September release?
Venice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice premiered as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival on 28 August 2024, with Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe and Monica Bellucci joining the returning cast.
Kubrick's film uses room 237; Stephen King's novel had room 217, and the lodge that supplied the exterior shots asked him not to use the number of one of its real rooms.
Q 24Exterior shots of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining were filmed at which real place?
Timberline Lodge, Oregon
Timberline Lodge, Oregon, on the slopes of Mount Hood, supplied the Overlook's establishing shots; the interiors were built at Elstree Studios in England.
Q 25In The Ring (2002), how long do viewers of the cursed videotape have left to live?
Seven days
After the tape ends, a phone call tells the viewer they have Seven days; Naomi Watts plays Rachel Keller, the journalist who watches it and races that deadline.
Q 26The Ring is a remake of a 1998 Japanese film directed by whom?
Hideo Nakata
Hideo Nakata directed Ringu, released in Japan in January 1998, and later went to Hollywood himself to direct the American sequel The Ring Two in 2005.
Q 27In Ju-On: The Grudge, what is the name of the wife murdered by Takeo Saeki?
Kayako
Kayako Saeki is killed by her jealous husband Takeo, along with their son Toshio; her rage becomes the curse that dooms anyone who enters the house.
Q 28Which director made both Insidious and The Conjuring?
James Wan
James Wan directed Insidious in 2010 and The Conjuring in 2013, reuniting on the first with Leigh Whannell, his co-writer on Saw, who also appears as ghost hunter Specs.
Q 29In Insidious, what is the name of the purgatory-like realm where Dalton's spirit becomes trapped?
The Further
The Further is the dark astral realm where Dalton, born able to astral project, wandered too far and became trapped, leaving his body unresponsive.
Q 30Paranormal Activity (2007) was famously shot for roughly how much?
$15,000
Oren Peli made Paranormal Activity for about $15,000 in his own San Diego house, writing, directing, shooting and editing it himself; it went on to gross over $190 million worldwide.