Ghostbusters II
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50 free Ghostbusters II trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ghostbusters II arrived in the summer of 1989 with a great deal to live up to. The original had been the biggest comedy of its day, and the sequel brought back the whole team to face a new villain, Vigo the Carpathian, and a river of slime running under New York. Reviews were cool at the time, but the film has since won a loyal following of its own. This quiz covers the sequel from every side: the plot and its set pieces, the returning characters and where the story finds them, the new faces and surprise cameos, the songs on the soundtrack, and the effects work behind the ghosts. There are also questions on how the film was written, shot and reshot, and on how it fared against a crowded summer of rivals. The opening questions are ones anyone who has seen the film can answer, so the quiz works for a casual movie night. The later ones are for fans who know their way around the production.
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Q 01Which New York landmark do the heroes of Ghostbusters II bring to life with slime and pilot through the streets?
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was Dan Aykroyd's idea: he liked making something famously still get up and move, and compared it to seeing the Eiffel Tower walk.
Q 02Which famous lost ship finally reaches New York, decades late, when ghosts overrun the city in Ghostbusters II?
The Titanic
The Titanic beat an idea to show the Hindenburg arriving with its passengers and luggage in flames. The effects crew moved the name on their model so viewers could read it.
Q 03Which song do the crowds outside the museum sing to weaken Vigo the Carpathian at the climax of Ghostbusters II?
Auld Lang Syne
Auld Lang Syne does the job because the villain feeds on ill will: the finale falls on the last night of December, and the singing crowd's goodwill drains his power.
Q 04What colour is the river of slime under New York in Ghostbusters II, picked by the director over green and blue?
Pink
Pink won after the effects crew mocked up batches in several colours. The production got through about 100,000 gallons of the stuff, made fresh each day because it spoiled quickly.
Q 05Which ghost from the first film returns in Ghostbusters II, redesigned to look friendlier for young fans?
Slimer
Slimer was kept in largely for youngsters who loved the cartoon spin-off, yet test audiences barely reacted to him, so he was trimmed to two short appearances.
Q 06When Ghostbusters II begins, former Ghostbuster Peter Venkman is earning his living as the host of what?
A psychic talk show
A psychic talk show is how far he has fallen: the team was sued over the damage from its first big case and barred from ghost work, so nobody pays him to catch anything.
Q 07Which nervous tax accountant from the first film represents the team at its trial in Ghostbusters II?
Louis Tully
Louis Tully got his law degree at night school, and the trial is his first court case. He later borrows a jumpsuit and proton pack to try to join the fight himself.
Q 08Ghostbusters II was moved a week earlier to avoid opening on the same day as which rival blockbuster?
Batman
Batman flattened it anyway: opening a week later, it took $43.6 million in a weekend and knocked the Ghostbusters off the top spot, which they never won back.
Q 09What is the name of Dana Barrett's baby son, whom the villain wants as his new body in Ghostbusters II?
Oscar
Oscar grew out of an old Harold Ramis idea for a horror film about an infant with an adult's agility and focus. In early drafts the boy was Peter Venkman's son.
Q 10What comes alive and attacks Dana Barrett in her apartment when the slime invades it in Ghostbusters II?
Her bathtub
Her bathtub began in the script as a bubble-bath monster with eyes in every bubble, but the director preferred the slime itself to be the creature.
Q 11As Ghostbusters II opens, which former Ghostbuster is running lab experiments on people's feelings?
Egon Spengler
Egon Spengler puts that research to use later: when his colleagues start brawling after a dip in the slime, he is the one who works out what is driving them.
Q 12Which actress returns as Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters II, now a single mother working at an art museum?
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver's character has left Peter Venkman, married, had a child and divorced since the first film, a change Bill Murray pushed for to keep the story on the team.
Q 13What do the heroes of Ghostbusters II accidentally cause while digging up a street to reach the slime?
A citywide blackout
Q 21What job does Dana Barrett do at the Manhattan Museum of Art, where Ghostbusters II finds Vigo's portrait?
Art restorer
Art restorer puts her in the same building as the villain: his portrait hangs where she works, and her boss Janosz Poha, who is besotted with her, falls under its spell.
Q 22Which studio, hungry for a hit after a run of flops, pushed to get Ghostbusters II made?
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures had endured a long series of box-office failures since the first film, and its new president was told that getting the sequel moving was a priority.
Q 23Who plays Janosz Poha, Dana Barrett's lovestruck boss with the unplaceable accent, in Ghostbusters II?
Peter MacNicol
A citywide blackout follows when Ray Stantz, attacked by the slime, breaks a pipe that falls onto a power line. It lands the team in court, charged with the damage.
Q 14In Ghostbusters II, what has built up beneath New York to create the river of slime that feeds Vigo?
Negative human emotions
Negative human emotions were the writers' point: Harold Ramis saw the slime as a metaphor for urban decay, and liked the comedy of New Yorkers having to be nice for two days.
Q 15Which R&B star plays the mayor's doorman in Ghostbusters II, a cameo promised for recording its hit single?
Bobby Brown
Bobby Brown agreed to the soundtrack only in exchange for a part. Filming was nearly over, so the director wrote him a quick scene on the mayor's doorstep.
Q 16Which hip-hop group recorded a new version of the famous theme song for Ghostbusters II?
Run-DMC
Run-DMC worked from an update that Ray Parker Jr. helped develop of his own 1984 hit. Their version never won the lasting following of the original.
Q 17In Ghostbusters II, what kind of shop does Ray Stantz own after the team is forced out of business?
An occult bookstore
An occult bookstore is only one of his jobs: he and Winston Zeddemore also work birthday parties as entertainers, where the kids have no time for has-been ghost catchers.
Q 18In Ghostbusters II, what item of clothing comes to life on a woman's back and runs off down the street?
A mink coat
A mink coat had waited five years for its moment: the gag was written for the first film, went unused, and was revived for the sequel with four coats fitted with motors.
Q 19Where does the mayor's aide Jack Hardemeyer have the team locked up in Ghostbusters II to keep them quiet?
A psychiatric hospital
A psychiatric hospital is his way of protecting the mayor's political interests. When the mayor finds out, he fires the aide and has the team released.
Q 20What carries Dana Barrett's baby into busy traffic all by itself in the opening of Ghostbusters II?
His stroller
His stroller was really five radio-controlled copies with hidden motors and brakes, steered through the traffic from up to 75 feet away by a champion model-car driver.
Peter MacNicol invented the accent himself, borrowing from a Czech friend and from staff at a Romanian tourist agency. The script never said the character had one.
Q 24Which actor supplied the voice of Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters II, recording every line in one day?
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow replaced the voice of the man seen on screen, whose speech was slurred by a split lip. That actor reportedly found out at the premiere and stormed out.
Q 25Which song from the Ghostbusters II soundtrack climbed to number two on the Billboard Hot 100?
On Our Own
On Our Own stayed on the chart for 20 weeks and went one better on the R&B listing, where it reached number one. Its video squeezed in Christopher Reeve and two Ramones.
Q 26Which comedian makes a late cameo as a dock supervisor in Ghostbusters II, a scene added during reshoots?
Cheech Marin
Cheech Marin was not in the first cut at all: his scene was one of several shot in spring 1989, two months before release, after test audiences wanted a bigger threat.
Q 27Which future director of Ghostbusters: Afterlife plays the rude boy at the birthday party in Ghostbusters II?
Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman was the son of the film's director, and his sister Catherine appears too, as a girl taking part in a laboratory experiment.
Q 28Which fast-food chain recalled millions of Ghostbusters II noisemaker toys over a battery hazard?
Hardee's
Hardee's had handed out about 2.8 million Ghostblasters through 3,100 restaurants before reports came in of children swallowing the small batteries inside.
Q 29What name does the team's upgraded car carry in Ghostbusters II, with its extra roof gear and scrolling signs?
Ecto-1A
Ecto-1A adds digital announcement boards on each side and yellow-and-black stripes. Before the refit, the old car had been reduced to ferrying two of the team to birthday gigs.
Q 30Which Jackie Wilson hit sets slime dancing inside a toaster in Ghostbusters II and returns for the climax?
Higher and Higher
Higher and Higher is heard twice: Wilson's original for the toaster, and a cover by Howard Huntsberry when the team needs to lift the whole city's mood.