Q 01/05

In which year was The Exorcist released in US cinemas?

A) 1971

B) 1975

C) 1973

D) 1968

Answer · why

C) 1973

It opened the day after Christmas, on 30 screens, and ran for 105 weeks.

Q 02/05

Who directed The Exorcist (1973)?

A) William Friedkin

B) Roman Polanski

C) Stanley Kubrick

D) John Boorman

Answer · why

A) William Friedkin

The producer insisted on him after The French Connection, over the studio's choice of Mark Rydell.

Q 03/05

Who wrote the 1971 novel The Exorcist and won an Oscar for adapting it?

A) Peter Straub

B) William Peter Blatty

C) Robert Bloch

D) Richard Matheson

Answer · why

B) William Peter Blatty

He was a comic novelist and screenwriter first, and only tackled the story after seeing Rosemary's Baby in 1968.

Q 04/05

Who played the possessed 12-year-old Regan MacNeil?

A) Jamie Lee Curtis

B) Linda Blair

C) Denise Nickerson

D) Pamelyn Ferdin

Answer · why

B) Linda Blair

Her mother brought her in unannounced; Janet Leigh would not let Jamie Lee Curtis audition and Nickerson's family found the script too dark.

Q 05/05

In which Washington, D.C. neighbourhood is The Exorcist set?

A) Georgetown

B) Capitol Hill

C) Adams Morgan

D) Dupont Circle

Answer · why

A) Georgetown

The author heard about the real 1949 case as a Georgetown student in the class of 1950, so he set the story by the campus.