Q 01/05

In Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible, which day is the highest holiday of a Satanist's year, outranking Halloween?

A) Friday the thirteenth

B) Their own birthday

C) The winter solstice

D) New Year's Eve

Answer · why

B) Their own birthday

Their own birthday comes first because LaVey taught that each Satanist is their own god. Walpurgisnacht, the spring night of witches, comes next in im...

Q 02/05

Which Rat Pack entertainer befriended Anton LaVey and was made an honorary warlock of the Church of Satan?

A) Dean Martin

B) Frank Sinatra

C) Sammy Davis Jr.

D) Humphrey Bogart

Answer · why

C) Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr. met LaVey after starring in the 1973 comedy pilot Poor Devil, and described the friendship years later in his autobiography.

Q 03/05

What did each pair of Lil Nas X's 2021 Satan Shoes reportedly contain, mixed with ink by the art collective MSCHF?

A) Human blood

B) Holy water

C) Cemetery soil

D) Volcanic ash

Answer · why

A) Human blood

Human blood, one drop per pair, came from about six MSCHF staff. Critics compared the stunt to a 1977 Kiss comic book printed with the band's own bloo...

Q 04/05

Which tabletop role-playing game did Patricia Pulling's 1980s group BADD accuse of drawing teenagers into Satanism?

A) Tunnels & Trolls

B) Call of Cthulhu

C) Middle-earth Role Playing

D) Dungeons & Dragons

Answer · why

D) Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons became Pulling's target after her son's death in 1982. Game writer Michael Stackpole later picked her group's evidence apart in a s...

Q 05/05

In which New England city did The Satanic Temple open its headquarters in a charcoal-painted former funeral home?

A) Providence

B) Hartford

C) Salem

D) Portland

Answer · why

C) Salem

Salem, the Massachusetts town famous for its 1692 witch trials, is home to the building, which also operates as an art gallery open to visitors.