Q 01/05

Which 1985 comedy was the only feature film Tim Burton had directed before Beetlejuice?

A) Back to the Future

B) Pee-wee's Big Adventure

C) The Breakfast Club

D) Desperately Seeking Susan

Answer · why

B) Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Pee-wee's Big Adventure made money and made Burton bankable, yet the scripts he was then offered left him disheartened until the Beetlejuice draft cam...

Q 02/05

Which actor played Adam Maitland, the ghostly husband, in Beetlejuice (1988)?

A) Alec Baldwin

B) Chevy Chase

C) Tom Hanks

D) Bill Murray

Answer · why

A) Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin played Adam Maitland, whose hobby is a scale model of his town; the model ends up housing Betelgeuse, who lurks in its tiny graveyard wai...

Q 03/05

In Beetlejuice, which party game does Betelgeuse use to tell Lydia his name without saying it?

A) Charades

B) Pictionary

C) Twenty Questions

D) Hangman

Answer · why

A) Charades

Charades is his workaround: claiming he cannot tell her his name, he acts out a beetle and then juice, and Lydia works it out just before the Maitland...

Q 04/05

Who composed the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical "Beetlejuice"?

A) Tim Minchin

B) Tom Kitt

C) Eddie Perfect

D) David Yazbek

Answer · why

C) Eddie Perfect

Eddie Perfect, an Australian musical comedian, won the job by writing songs for the producers on spec, unpaid, and his score went on to earn a 2019 To...

Q 05/05

In Beetlejuice, what do the Maitlands' afterlife instructions tell them to draw in case of emergency?

A) A door

B) A circle

C) A window

D) A staircase

Answer · why

A) A door

A door: Adam sketches one on the wall and knocks three times, and it opens onto the afterlife's waiting room, where a receptionist scolds the couple f...

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