Ghost Movie Trivia
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100 free Ghost Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Ghost movies are the one horror subgenre that also does romance, comedy and Oscar bait, and this quiz covers all of it. There are 56 ghost movie trivia questions with answers, starting with the 1990 blockbuster Ghost itself (the pottery wheel, Oda Mae Brown, the actor who turned down Patrick Swayze's part) and moving through Poltergeist, The Shining, Beetlejuice, The Sixth Sense, The Others, The Ring and its Japanese original, The Conjuring, Insidious, Paranormal Activity and Crimson Peak. The classics get their due too: The Uninvited, Topper, Blithe Spirit, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Innocents, The Haunting and Kwaidan, along with the friendlier end of the spectrum in Casper, Ghostbusters, Ghost Town, Field of Dreams and Scrooged. Questions run from easy to expert, with the difficulty marked on each one, so a casual viewer and a horror obsessive can play the same set. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia's article on the film in question and each question shows its citation, so when the group chat argues about who directed Poltergeist, you can point at the source.
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Q 01What was the profession of Patrick Swayze's Sam Wheat in Ghost (1990)?
Banker
Sam Wheat is a Banker at a Manhattan bank; his colleague and best friend Carl Bruner arranged the mugging to get the password book Sam used for the accounts Carl was laundering money through.
Q 02Who won Best Supporting Actress for playing psychic con artist Oda Mae Brown in Ghost?
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg won the Oscar as Oda Mae Brown, though the screenwriter had told casting agents 'anybody but Whoopi' until her audition tape won him over.
Q 03Ghost (1990) was directed by Jerry Zucker, previously best known for which comedy?
Airplane!
Jerry Zucker co-directed the 1980 spoof Airplane! with Jim Abrahams and David Zucker, which is why Ghost's screenwriter feared his supernatural romance would be turned into a comedy.
Q 04Which actor, then married to Ghost star Demi Moore, turned down the lead role of Sam Wheat?
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis passed, saying he couldn't see how a dead man could carry a romance, and later called himself a knucklehead for it.
Q 05The vocal version of Unchained Melody heard in Ghost was recorded in 1965 by which act?
The Righteous Brothers
The Righteous Brothers cut it in 1965 as a Bobby Hatfield solo, and the film sent that recording back to the top of Billboard's adult contemporary chart 25 years later.
Q 06What one-word reply does Sam give Molly in Ghost whenever she says she loves him?
Ditto
Sam's reply is 'Ditto', never the words themselves; when Oda Mae passes 'Ditto' on to a sceptical Molly, it convinces her that Sam is really in the room.
Q 07Which film finished second to Ghost at the worldwide box office among 1990 releases?
Home Alone
Home Alone took about $477 million worldwide to Ghost's $500 million-plus, although the Christmas comedy comfortably out-earned Ghost in North American cinemas.
Q 08Poltergeist (1982) is credited to Tobe Hooper, but which producer, who wrote the story, is thought to have shaped it?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg produced Poltergeist and wrote its story; his E.T. contract barred him from directing another film at the same time, so Tobe Hooper was hired to direct.
Q 09In Poltergeist, five-year-old Carol Anne first talks to the spirits through what household object?
The television set
The television set is her channel to the spirits: she talks to its static after the station signs off, and the next night a ghostly hand reaches out and she announces 'They're here.'
Q 10The Freelings' haunted subdivision in Poltergeist, Cuesta Verde, was built on top of what?
A cemetery
A cemetery lay beneath Cuesta Verde: the developer moved the headstones but left the bodies, which is why coffins erupt from the ground in the climax.
Q 11In The Sixth Sense, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe works with young Cole in which city?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the film's setting; Shyamalan, raised in the nearby suburb of Penn Valley, also set his follow-up Unbreakable in the city.
Q 12Which actor earned an Oscar nomination at 11 for playing Cole Sear, who sees dead people, in The Sixth Sense?
Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment lost the supporting-actor Oscar to Michael Caine, who told him from the stage: 'Haley, when I saw you I thought, well, that's me out of it.'
Q 13The Others (2001), starring Nicole Kidman, is set in 1945 on which island?
Jersey
The Others takes place on Jersey in 1945, just after the German occupation of the Channel Islands ended; Grace keeps the manor dark because her children are photosensitive.
Q 21The 1995 film Casper is set in Whipstaff Manor in a town called Friendship, in which state?
Maine
Whipstaff Manor stands in Friendship, Maine; Christina Ricci's Kat moves in when heiress Carrigan Crittenden hires her ghost-therapist father to clear the house.
Q 22Casper (1995) holds what distinction in film history?
First feature with a fully CGI lead character
Casper is credited as the First feature with a fully CGI lead character: Industrial Light & Magic animated the ghost, voiced by Malachi Pearson, months before Toy Story became the first all-CGI feature.
Q 23In Kubrick's film of The Shining, the Overlook Hotel's chef warns Danny to stay out of which room?
237
Q 14Who wrote, directed and scored The Others?
Alejandro Amenábar
Alejandro Amenábar wrote, directed and scored it, and although it was shot in English it won Best Film at Spain's Goya Awards.
Q 15In The Conjuring (2013), Ed and Lorraine Warren help the Perron family in a farmhouse in which state?
Rhode Island
The Perron farmhouse is in Harrisville, Rhode Island, where the real family moved in 1971; the film opens with the Annabelle doll case that seeded the wider series.
Q 16Which actors play Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring films?
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga play the Warrens in every Conjuring film; the real couple also investigated the Amityville house, the case that opens The Conjuring 2.
Q 17In Beetlejuice, how many times must the ghost Betelgeuse's name be said to summon him?
Three
Saying his name Three times summons him: the Maitlands do it in Adam's model of the town, and Lydia later repeats it to bring him back during Otho's séance.
Q 18Beetlejuice won its only Academy Award in which category?
Best Makeup
Best Makeup went to Ve Neill, Steve La Porte and Robert Short, whose ghouls were built by hand and mostly filmed live on set with old-style tricks.
Q 19In Beetlejuice, what creatures prowl the desert the dead Maitlands find outside their front door?
Sandworms
Sandworms chase the couple back indoors whenever they step outside, and their caseworker Juno tells them they must stay in the house for 125 years.
Q 20The 2024 sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened which film festival before its September release?
Venice
Venice opened with Tim Burton's sequel, which he had stripped back to basics, leaning on puppets and practical effects to keep it feeling handmade.
Kubrick's film uses room 237 where Stephen King's novel had 217; the hotel used for the exterior shots is said to have asked for a number none of its own rooms carried.
Q 24Exterior shots of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining were filmed at which real place?
Timberline Lodge, Oregon
Timberline Lodge, Oregon, on the slopes of Mount Hood, supplied the Overlook's establishing shots; the interiors were built at Elstree Studios in England.
Q 25In The Ring (2002), how long do viewers of the cursed videotape have left to live?
Seven days
After the tape ends, a phone call tells the viewer they have Seven days; Naomi Watts plays Rachel Keller, the journalist who watches it and races that deadline.
Q 26The Ring is a remake of a 1998 Japanese film directed by whom?
Hideo Nakata
Hideo Nakata directed Ringu, released in Japan in January 1998, and later went to Hollywood himself to direct the American sequel The Ring Two in 2005.
Q 27In Ju-On: The Grudge, what is the name of the wife murdered by Takeo Saeki?
Kayako
Kayako Saeki is killed by her jealous husband Takeo, along with their son Toshio; her rage becomes the curse that dooms anyone who enters the house.
Q 28Which director made both Insidious and The Conjuring?
James Wan
James Wan directed Insidious in 2010 and The Conjuring in 2013, reuniting on the first with Leigh Whannell, his co-writer on Saw, who also appears as ghost hunter Specs.
Q 29In Insidious, what is the name of the purgatory-like realm where Dalton's spirit becomes trapped?
The Further
The Further is the dark astral realm where Dalton, born able to astral project, wandered too far and became trapped, leaving his body unresponsive.
Q 30Paranormal Activity (2007) was famously shot for roughly how much?
$15,000
Oren Peli made Paranormal Activity for about $15,000 in his own San Diego house, writing, directing, shooting and editing it himself; it went on to gross over $190 million worldwide.