Q 01/05

Which Dracula actor is declared dead in the title of a 1979 single often called goth's first record?

A) Christopher Lee

B) Frank Langella

C) Bela Lugosi

D) John Carradine

Answer · why

C) Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian-born star of 1931's Dracula, died in 1956. The song named after him was its band's debut single, released on the Small Wond...

Q 02/05

Which Yorkshire seaside town, a setting of Bram Stoker's Dracula, hosts a twice-yearly Goth Weekend?

A) Whitby

B) Scarborough

C) Saltburn

D) Bridlington

Answer · why

A) Whitby

Whitby's Goth Weekend grew out of a 1994 meet-up of about forty pen-pals. Organiser Jo Hampshire picked the town for its Dracula connections.

Q 03/05

Which actress choreographed her own viral dance as Wednesday Addams in the Netflix series Wednesday?

A) Christina Ricci

B) Jenna Ortega

C) Emma Myers

D) Sadie Sink

Answer · why

B) Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega built the routine from Bob Fosse moves and footage of 1980s goth club dancers. Christina Ricci, Wednesday in the 1990s films, plays a tea...

Q 04/05

Which British queen's black mourning dress and jet jewellery are seen as a root of goth style?

A) Elizabeth I

B) Mary II

C) Alexandra

D) Victoria

Answer · why

D) Victoria

Victoria wore jet while mourning Prince Albert, and the black stone became the fashion for grief. Writer Cintra Wilson traces goth style to that 19th-...

Q 05/05

Which American author of 'The Raven', a giant of Gothic literature, died mysteriously in Baltimore?

A) Edgar Allan Poe

B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

C) Washington Irving

D) Herman Melville

Answer · why

A) Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was 40 when he died in 1849, and the cause has never been established. His poems and horror tales made him one of the Gothic authors t...