The Conjuring Trivia
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50 free The Conjuring trivia questions with answers. Hide and clap. This quiz covers the whole Conjuring Universe: the 2013 original with the Perron family in Rhode Island, The Conjuring 2 and the Enfield poltergeist, The Devil Made Me Do It and the Arne Johnson trial, Last Rites and the Smurl haunting, plus the Annabelle trilogy, The Nun films and the real Ed and Lorraine Warren behind all of it. Fifty questions cover plots, casts, directors, filming locations, box-office records and the strange stories from the sets. Easy questions ask who plays the Warrens and what time the clocks stop in the Perron house; the hard ones want the demon's name scratched into Lorraine's Bible, the film system James Wan replaced mid-production, the pub the crew filmed around in Maida Vale and which film in the franchise actually grossed the most. It suits anyone who has sat through every entry and anyone who wants ammunition for a horror movie night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films, the franchise and the Warrens, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which two actors play Ed and Lorraine Warren in the four main Conjuring films?
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. Before shooting the first film they spent about three days with the real Lorraine Warren, visiting her at home to absorb her manner and her style.
Q 02Who directed the first two Conjuring films?
James Wan
James Wan. He left horror to make the action blockbuster Furious 7, then returned for the sequel, saying he wanted to nurture 'my baby that I created'.
Q 03In The Conjuring, the Perron family move into a haunted farmhouse in which US state?
Rhode Island
Rhode Island. The real farmhouse stands in Harrisville, and in 2015 its owners sued the studio, saying the film had brought a siege of trespassing fans to their door.
Q 04In The Conjuring, at what time does every clock in the Perron farmhouse stop?
3:07 a.m.
3:07 a.m. is the minute the farmhouse's accused witch was pronounced dead, having hanged herself after cursing anyone who took her land.
Q 05In The Conjuring, what is the name of the accused witch whose spirit possesses Carolyn Perron?
Bathsheba Sherman
Bathsheba Sherman. On screen the witch is played by a man: Joseph Bishara, who also composed the film's score.
Q 06In The Conjuring, who refuses to enter the Perrons' new farmhouse?
The dog
The dog. Sadie will not cross the threshold on moving day, and the next morning the family finds her dead in the yard.
Q 07Which haunted object does Ed add to the Warrens' artifact room at the end of The Conjuring?
A music box
A music box. It was April Perron's, and she says that when its tune stops her unseen friend Rory appears in its glass, standing right behind you.
Q 08The Conjuring was shot in which North Carolina city, also the filming home of Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill?
Wilmington
Wilmington. The Warrens' lecture-hall scenes were filmed at the city's university while students were away on spring break, and the real Lorraine Warren sat among the extras in the audience.
Q 09Which game do the Perron girls play in The Conjuring, only for something unseen to join in?
Hide-and-clap
Hide-and-clap. The seeker may ask the hiders for three claps, and when Carolyn plays it with April she hears clapping from a spot where no child is hiding.
Q 10What do the Perrons find boarded up in their new farmhouse in The Conjuring?
A cellar
A cellar. Roger explores it by matchlight on the first night, and it is where Lorraine later sees the spirit of a mother who was made to kill her own child.
Q 11By its makers' account, why did the ratings board give The Conjuring an R?
It was simply too scary
It was simply too scary. Asked what could be cut for a PG-13, the board named no scene at all, which surprised the director: the film is neither gory nor especially violent.
Q 12The Conjuring cost about $20 million; roughly how much did it gross worldwide?
$320 million
$320 million, about sixteen times its budget. Test screenings had gone so well that the studio was already developing a sequel three days before the film opened.
Q 13Which service's opening-night audiences gave The Conjuring an A−, then rare for a horror film?
CinemaScore
Q 21Why did a priest bless The Conjuring 2's set on day one?
Strange events on the first film's shoot
Strange events on the first film's shoot. One producer said crew kept waking in the small hours and things on set broke or moved, so on day one a priest from New Mexico blessed the new set.
Q 22In The Conjuring 2, what turns the tree outside the Hodgsons' house into the spike from Lorraine's vision?
A lightning strike
A lightning strike. It leaves the sharpened stump on which Lorraine has foreseen Ed impaled, and moments later he is hanging from the window above it, holding on to Janet.
Q 23Which haunted toy from the Hodgson house joins the Warrens' collection at the end of The Conjuring 2?
CinemaScore. One of its analysts said a great grade for a horror film used to be a B−, 'even when they're good', and that an F for horror was like a B− for a comedy.
Q 14Author Gerald Brittle sued over the Conjuring films, citing his exclusive deal with the Warrens for which 1980 book?
The Demonologist
The Demonologist. Brittle claimed $900 million, saying the films drew on case files the Warrens had promised to him alone, and the studio settled with him in December 2017.
Q 15The Conjuring 2 sends the Warrens to which London borough to investigate a poltergeist?
Enfield
Enfield. The real case centred on two sisters aged 11 and 13, and investigators from the Society for Psychical Research spent the best part of two years in the family's council house recording it.
Q 16Which infamous American haunting do the Warrens investigate in the opening of The Conjuring 2?
The Amityville house
The Amityville house. During a seance there Lorraine relives the murders committed in the house, then has her first vision of the demon nun and of Ed being impaled.
Q 17In The Conjuring 2, what is the name of the elderly man whose spirit speaks through Janet Hodgson?
Bill Wilkins
Bill Wilkins. He says he went blind, had a haemorrhage and died in his chair, but he proves to be only a pawn of the demon that is breaking Janet's will.
Q 18In The Conjuring 2, what name does Lorraine scratch into her Bible, then later use to banish the demon nun?
Valak
Valak. Knowing a demon's name gives dominion over it, so the word Lorraine scrawled without knowing why becomes the weapon that sends it back to Hell.
Q 19Which Elvis Presley song does Ed Warren play on guitar for the Hodgson children in The Conjuring 2?
Can't Help Falling in Love
Can't Help Falling in Love. The children's father took the family's records when he left, so Ed buys them an Elvis album, and when the record player fails he picks up a guitar.
Q 20In The Conjuring 2, the demon nun charges at Lorraine out of which object in the Warrens' own home?
A painting
A painting. Ed had painted the nun after seeing her in a dream, unaware she was the figure in his wife's visions, and the demon brings the canvas to life.
A Crooked Man zoetrope
A Crooked Man zoetrope. It belongs to Billy, the youngest Hodgson, and the demon borrows the shape of the nursery-rhyme figure spinning inside it to stalk the boy.
Q 24In The Conjuring 2, what persuades the Warrens to walk away from the Hodgson case for a time?
A video of Janet faking it
A video of Janet faking it. A skeptical investigator films the girl wrecking the kitchen herself, and the Warrens are on the train home before they realise the haunting is real.
Q 25The Devil Made Me Do It is based on the 1981 trial of which man, who claimed demonic possession?
Arne Cheyenne Johnson
Arne Cheyenne Johnson. The judge refused to hear the possession defence, ruling it could never be proved, and Johnson served about five years for manslaughter.
Q 26In The Devil Made Me Do It, what does Ed suffer during the opening exorcism?
Heart attack
Heart attack. Ed has seen the demon leave the boy for a new host, but by the time he wakes in hospital his warning comes too late.
Q 27In The Devil Made Me Do It, who turns out to be the occultist behind the curse?
Kastner's daughter Isla
Kastner's daughter Isla. The retired priest had raised her in secret, and it was his own years of studying the occult that drew her into it.
Q 28Where was The Devil Made Me Do It filmed in mid-2019?
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia. Cameras rolled there in June 2019, but the pandemic stalled the reshoots and pushed the release back from September 2020 to June 2021.
Q 29Alongside cinemas, The Devil Made Me Do It streamed for one month on which service?
HBO Max
HBO Max. With many cinemas still shut or half-empty in the pandemic, Warner Bros. sent every film on its 2021 slate to the service on the same day it opened in theatres.
Q 30Which director took over the main series for The Devil Made Me Do It and Last Rites?
Michael Chaves
Michael Chaves. He had just made The Curse of La Llorona for one of the series' producers, who called him 'a perfect fit' for the next film, and he went on to direct The Nun II as well.