Ghostbusters (2016)
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
7correct to beat the crowd
50 free Ghostbusters (2016) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few films have arrived with as much noise as the 2016 Ghostbusters. The reboot swapped the familiar heroes for a new quartet of women, gave them a new villain and a new New York to save, and found itself at the centre of an argument before a single ticket had been sold. Behind the noise is a big, effects-filled comedy packed with nods to the films that came before it. This quiz covers the film from every side: who plays whom, what the heroes drive and build, where the story takes them, and which famous faces drop in along the way. There are also questions on the soundtrack, the shoot, the box office and what happened to the franchise next. The opening questions are ones anyone who has seen the film can manage, so the quiz works for a casual movie evening. The later ones are for fans who know the stories from behind the camera.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Which Hollywood star plays Kevin Beckman, the receptionist the team hires in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Chris Hemsworth
Chris Hemsworth won Favorite Movie Actor at the 2017 Kids' Choice Awards for the part, one of three prizes the film took home from that ceremony.
Q 02Which star of the original films cameos in the 2016 Ghostbusters as Martin Heiss, a debunker of the paranormal?
Bill Murray
Bill Murray had refused for years to commit to a third Ghostbusters, one reason the series was rebooted. He later said he took the cameo out of friendship with two of its stars.
Q 03Which character from the earlier films steals the Ecto-1 for a joyride through New York in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Slimer
Slimer gets a girlfriend this time, Lady Slimer, voiced by the puppeteer who wore the green suit in Ghostbusters II. The pair end up crashing the car into the portal.
Q 04What kind of vehicle does Patty Tolan borrow from her uncle to become the Ecto-1 in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
A hearse
A hearse keeps up a tradition, since the 1984 Ecto-1 was an old ambulance conversion. The new car holds on to its red roof even after the team repaint it.
Q 05Which monster from the 1984 original returns as a possessed parade balloon in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
The Marshmallow Man
The Marshmallow Man pins three of the heroes to the ground until Erin Gilbert bursts him. On set, the cast acted against giant real balloons that stood in for the effects.
Q 06In the 2016 Ghostbusters, villain Rowan North grows into a giant monster shaped like which familiar figure?
The team's logo ghost
The team's logo ghost becomes the final enemy once Rowan gives up Kevin's body and swells to kaiju size. The effects house MPC built the creature for the last battle.
Q 07Which comedian plays Jillian Holtzmann, the engineer who builds the proton packs, in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Kate McKinnon
Kate McKinnon won Best Comedic Actress from the Women Film Critics Circle for Holtzmann, and a Critics' Choice nomination went with it.
Q 08How did YouTube viewers greet the first trailer for the 2016 Ghostbusters when it appeared that March?
A record count of dislikes
A record count of dislikes made it the most disliked film trailer on the site by May 2016, with over a million thumbs down against 280,000 likes.
Q 09Three of the four leads of the 2016 Ghostbusters had been cast members on which American sketch comedy show?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live also supplied one of its producers, Steve Higgins, who plays a college dean, while a former writer for the series plays the villain.
Q 10Which Hollywood star makes a late cameo as Rebecca Gorin, mentor to Holtzmann, in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver played Dana Barrett in the first two films, but here she is someone new, like every returning face: the reboot shares no story with its predecessors.
Q 11Which comedy star plays Abby Yates, who never stopped researching the paranormal, in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy had signed on before any co-star was confirmed, and the film gave her the biggest opening weekend of her career up to that point.
Q 12Which actress plays Erin Gilbert, the physics professor who loses her shot at tenure, in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Kristen Wiig
Kristen Wiig's character is passed over once a video of her ghost hunt goes viral. The actress later said the row over an all-women cast had left her disheartened.
Q 13Which stand-up comedian plays Patty Tolan, the fourth recruit to the team, in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Leslie Jones
Q 21Which veteran actor cameos near the end of the 2016 Ghostbusters as the uncle who lent Patty Tolan a car?
Ernie Hudson
Ernie Hudson played Winston Zeddemore, the fourth Ghostbuster of the first two films, and joined the new stars on a chat show to help promote the reboot.
Q 22What job does Dan Aykroyd's cameo character do in the 2016 Ghostbusters, despite knowing plenty about the paranormal?
Taxi driver
Taxi driver is the day job of a character oddly well versed in parapsychology. Aykroyd, who co-wrote the 1984 film, was also an executive producer on the reboot.
Q 23Which late comedy star is honoured with a bust outside Erin Gilbert's office in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Harold Ramis
Leslie Jones replied to critics who called Patty a stereotype by asking why a regular person couldn't be a Ghostbuster. The role brought her a Black Reel Award nomination.
Q 14Where is Patty Tolan working when she first sees a ghost and contacts the team in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
In a subway station
Patty works in a subway station built under a former prison, and the team first fire their prototype proton packs there. The scenes were shot on a soundstage, not on real platforms.
Q 15In the 2016 Ghostbusters, the team's first headquarters is a set of rooms above what kind of business?
A Chinese restaurant
A Chinese restaurant, long closed, sits below their first base, which they kit out with equipment taken from the institute that sacked two of them.
Q 16At the end of the 2016 Ghostbusters, quiet funding from the mayor lets the heroes move into what kind of building?
A disused firehouse
A disused firehouse was also home to the 1984 heroes, so the reboot ends where the original began. There the women build new gear, including a containment unit.
Q 17Which filmmaker behind Bridesmaids, The Heat and Spy directed and co-wrote the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot?
Paul Feig
Paul Feig turned down a straight sequel first, feeling a hand-over from the old heroes would keep his new cast out of the spotlight. That talk produced the idea of a reboot.
Q 18Whose original 1984 version of the theme song sits beside three new covers on the 2016 Ghostbusters soundtrack?
Ray Parker Jr.
Ray Parker Jr. wrote the song for the first film and took it to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, his only number one on that chart.
Q 19Which 2021 Ghostbusters film returned to the original story after Sony dropped its sequel to the 2016 reboot?
Afterlife
Afterlife ignores the events of the reboot entirely, though its director said he admired the 2016 film and meant no snub by leaving it out.
Q 20Which subtitle did the studio add to the 2016 Ghostbusters in its end credits to set it apart from the original?
Answer the Call
Answer the Call was the studio's pick after the director rejected a subtitle built on the release year, which he felt would date the film. He asked only that it stay off the opening.
Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the 1984 film and played Egon Spengler, died in 2014. His son Daniel also appears in the reboot, in the crowd at a music festival.
Q 24Which rock band teamed with Missy Elliott to cover the theme song for the 2016 Ghostbusters soundtrack?
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy put the cover out as a single three weeks before the film opened, and critics gave it harsh reviews.
Q 25Which a cappella group sang a new version of the theme song on the soundtrack of the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Pentatonix
Pentatonix were one of three acts to remake the theme for the album, which RCA released on the same day the film opened in America.
Q 26At which Ivy League university is Erin Gilbert in line for tenure when the 2016 Ghostbusters begins?
Columbia
Columbia is the real thing on screen: after weeks of shooting elsewhere, the crew filmed outside the university's New York campus just before production wrapped.
Q 27What is the title of the book on the paranormal that Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert co-wrote in the 2016 Ghostbusters?
Ghosts from Our Past
Ghosts from Our Past drives the plot twice: its reissue reunites the estranged friends, and the villain's own annotated copy explains how he matched their technology.
Q 28Which name from the 1984 original does Patty Tolan hear among spirit voices as the 2016 Ghostbusters ends?
Zuul
Zuul was one of the Terror Dogs of the 1984 film, so the closing word teased a sequel that the cast had signed up for but never got to make.
Q 29The 2016 Ghostbusters is set in Manhattan, but in which other American city did principal photography begin?
Boston
Boston hosted the shoot from June 2015, and the production did not reach New York itself until the final week of filming that September.
Q 30Which animated film kept the 2016 Ghostbusters off the top of the American box office on its opening weekend?
The Secret Life of Pets
The Secret Life of Pets took $50.8 million that weekend against $46 million for the newcomer, which was still the best opening of its director's career to that date.