Ghost Whisperer Trivia
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48 free Ghost Whisperer trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ghost Whisperer ran five seasons on CBS Friday nights, killed off its leading man halfway through and brought him back in another man's body. These Ghost Whisperer trivia questions cover Melinda Gordon's gift and her antiques shop, Jim, Andrea, Delia and Ned, Professors Payne and James, the dark spirits of Grandview, the webisodes, the video game and the cancellation fans never forgave. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01On which network did Ghost Whisperer air from 2005 to 2010?
CBS
CBS. Variety noted how oddly a ghost story led by one young woman sat among the network's gritty crime procedurals, and the sudden axe in 2010 fell after shooting had wrapped, so no true finale was ever made.
Q 02Which war had the ghost in Ghost Whisperer's 2005 pilot fought?
Vietnam
Vietnam. Sergeant Paul Adams went missing there in 1972 while his wife was expecting, and Melinda has to win over the grown son he never met, who takes her for a fraud, before the soldier can rest.
Q 03Which actress starred as the title character of Ghost Whisperer?
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt. She also produced the show and directed three episodes, the 100th among them, and years later said she would back a revival only if she kept her 'Ghost Whisperer throne'.
Q 04Which Prison Break star played the soldier's ghost in the Ghost Whisperer pilot?
Wentworth Miller
Wentworth Miller. His sergeant cannot move on until he has seen the son who was born after he vanished, a guest role that aired in 2005, the year Prison Break made Miller a star.
Q 05In which fictional New York town is Ghost Whisperer set?
Grandview
Grandview. An older version of the town lies buried beneath the modern one, and in season three Melinda is trapped in its tunnels until an ancestor's ghost guides her rescuers to her.
Q 06What kind of business does Melinda Gordon own on Ghost Whisperer?
An antiques shop
An antiques shop. She runs it with her best friend, who is in on the secret and minds the till whenever Melinda has to run off after a ghost.
Q 07On Ghost Whisperer, what is Melinda's store called?
Same as It Never Was
Same as It Never Was. Melinda runs it with her friend Andrea, and after Andrea's death she offers a job to the mother of a boy she has just caught shoplifting there.
Q 08On Ghost Whisperer, which relative taught the young Melinda how to use her gift?
Her grandmother
Her grandmother. She took the girl along to funerals to pass on messages from the dead, and her death left Melinda without the one person who had never thought her crazy.
Q 09On Ghost Whisperer, what is Jim Clancy's job when the series begins?
Paramedic
Paramedic. Jim took up the work after watching his older brother die when they were boys, unable to save him, and he later goes back to school to become a doctor.
Q 10Which actor plays Melinda's husband, Jim Clancy, on Ghost Whisperer?
David Conrad
David Conrad. He and the show's star are the only actors to appear in all 107 episodes, a run that outlasts even his character's death in season four.
Q 11Which actress plays Andrea Marino, Melinda's best friend in season one of Ghost Whisperer?
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler. Her Andrea had been a New York lawyer before moving to town to help run the shop, and Tyler left when the character was killed off at the end of season one, returning once as a ghost.
Q 12How does Andrea die in the season one finale of Ghost Whisperer?
A plane crash
A plane crash. Andrea was not on board: her car lay in the path of the falling aircraft, and she goes on thinking it is her brother who has died until he runs straight past her.
Q 13Who plays Delia Banks, Melinda's business partner from season two of Ghost Whisperer?
Camryn Manheim
Q 21After a near-death experience, what ability does Eli James gain?
He can hear ghosts but not see them
He can hear ghosts but not see them. Eli dies in a campus fire and is revived, and he blames the voices on his own shaken mind until one of them turns out to be someone he knew who has died.
Q 22What subject does Eli James teach on Ghost Whisperer?
Psychology
Psychology. Eli's first verdict on Melinda is that she is crazy, and he holds to it until he finds he can do almost the same thing himself.
Q 23Who created Ghost Whisperer?
John Gray
John Gray. He wrote and directed the pilot after coffee with a real ghostbuster-for-hire, who told him spirits were standing around them in the Starbucks, a moment he put straight into the script.
Camryn Manheim. The Practice star plays a sceptic who, on learning Melinda's secret, calls her crazy and walks out of the shop, and who never quite stops hunting for a rational explanation.
Q 14On Ghost Whisperer, what was Delia's job before she joined Melinda's store?
Real estate agent
Real estate agent. Delia found selling houses so stressful that Melinda offered her a place at the shop soon after they met; later in the series she returns to the trade with an agency of her own.
Q 15On Ghost Whisperer, what is the name of Delia's teenage son?
Ned
Ned. He overhears Melinda and learns about her gift before his mother does, and by the last season he is studying the occult at college and using what he learns to help with her ghosts.
Q 16On Ghost Whisperer, what does Delia's son try to shoplift from Melinda's store in season two?
Grateful Dead memorabilia
Grateful Dead memorabilia. Melinda works out that a spirit has been egging the boy on, and her call to his mother about the theft is how she meets her future business partner.
Q 17Which comedian plays Professor Rick Payne on Ghost Whisperer?
Jay Mohr
Jay Mohr. He left after the season-four premiere, his professor packed off on sabbatical, because Mohr had won the lead in the sitcom Gary Unmarried.
Q 18On Ghost Whisperer, where do Professors Payne and James teach?
Rockland University
Rockland University. A fire on its campus in the season-four opener briefly kills Eli James before he is revived, and by the last season Delia's son is among its students.
Q 19Where does Rick Payne go on expedition when he leaves Ghost Whisperer?
The Himalayas
The Himalayas. The trip writes the professor out because the actor playing him had landed the lead in a sitcom, and the same season-four premiere brings in his successor, Eli James.
Q 20Which actor plays Professor Eli James on Ghost Whisperer?
Jamie Kennedy
Jamie Kennedy. He joined in season four as the sceptic who becomes Melinda's ally, and although the two characters stay strictly friends, he and the show's leading lady were a couple for a year off screen.
Q 24Ghost Whisperer was based in part on the work of which real-life paranormal investigator?
Mary Ann Winkowski
Mary Ann Winkowski. The former pet groomer from Ohio is paid to coax lingering spirits out of people's homes, and the producers hired her as a consultant after a famous medium friend brought her to Hollywood's notice.
Q 25Which celebrity medium served as co-executive producer and consultant on Ghost Whisperer?
James Van Praagh
James Van Praagh. Television had already told his life story in the miniseries Living with the Dead, and it was he who led the show's makers to the Midwestern ghostbuster whose cases shaped the pilot.
Q 26On whose Los Angeles back lot was Ghost Whisperer filmed?
Universal Studios
Universal Studios. The town square is the lot's Courthouse Square, better known as Hill Valley in Back to the Future, and before the sets came down the star filmed a farewell tour of them for fans.
Q 27On which night of the week did Ghost Whisperer air?
Friday
Friday. Variety called it a low-visibility slot, yet by its fourth season the show was winning its 8 p.m. hour every week with the biggest audiences of its run.
Q 28On Ghost Whisperer, which book of fateful dates passes into Eli James's keeping at the end of season four?
The Book of Changes
The Book of Changes. Its pages hold dates that matter, past deaths and even the day Melinda's baby is due, and its last guardian, Eli's former girlfriend, hands it on to him as a ghost.
Q 29Which network showed interest in picking up Ghost Whisperer after its cancellation, then passed?
ABC
ABC. Its sister studio co-owned the series, and its scheduling chief admitted the network had 'talked a lot about' taking it, but the deal fell through nine days after the cancellation.
Q 30On Ghost Whisperer, what does Melinda's mother do with her gift?
Represses it
Represses it. She can see ghosts but will not admit it, and her refusal to accept the same gift in her daughter kept the two estranged for years.