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80 free Haunted Mansion trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
75 free Haunted Mansion trivia questions with answers. Disney's Haunted Mansion has been welcoming foolish mortals since the 1960s, and it has picked up more lore than almost any theme park ride: a portrait gallery that is not what it seems, a ghost that flopped on opening week and returned decades later, a bride with a dark past, a Western-flavoured Paris cousin and two very different Hollywood adaptations. This quiz covers all of it, from the Disneyland original to the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo versions, Phantom Manor, Haunted Mansion Holiday, the Muppets special and the 2003 and 2023 films. It is built for anyone who hums the theme song on the way to the parking tram, whether you know the Ghost Host's spiel by heart or just love a good ghost story. Easy questions cover the ride's most famous moments; the hard ones dig into the Imagineers, the composers and the odd production stories behind the effects. Every answer has been checked against a primary reference such as the encyclopaedia entry for the ride, the film or the Imagineer in question, so the facts here are as solid as the mansion's foundations, if not its residents.
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Q 01Which land at Disneyland is home to the Haunted Mansion?
New Orleans Square
The park's official page bills it as an eerie tour through a house of happy haunts, with no minimum height requirement.
Q 02What are the ride vehicles of Disney's Haunted Mansion called?
Doom Buggies
The black clamshell cars can rotate to face any direction, so the Imagineers control exactly what guests see and hear at every moment.
Q 03In which year did the Haunted Mansion finally open to all guests at Disneyland?
1969
The public opening came on August 12, after employee previews, two soft-opening days and a midnight press event.
Q 04According to the Ghost Host, how many happy haunts live in the mansion?
999
He adds that there is room for one more, and volunteers are always welcome.
Q 05At Disneyland, the octagonal stretching portrait gallery secretly functions as what?
An elevator
It lowers guests beneath the railroad berm to the show building, which is why the room appears to stretch upward.
Q 06The portrait corridor in the original California ride is really a tunnel passing beneath what?
The Disneyland Railroad
The visible mansion facade is only a front; the actual ride sits in a large show building on the other side of the tracks.
Q 07Who originally voiced the unseen Ghost Host?
Paul Frees
The same booming voice says "dead men tell no tales" in Pirates of the Caribbean and played Burgermeister Meisterburger in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town.
Q 08When the stretching room goes dark, how are the Ghost Host's remains revealed in the cupola?
Hanging from a noose
A shriek and the sound of shattering bones follow, after which he apologises for frightening guests prematurely.
Q 09How many times does the demonic grandfather clock chime as its minute hand spins backwards?
Thirteen
The shadow of a claw passes over the clock face at the same time, just before guests enter the séance room.
Q 10The séance medium in the crystal ball took her name and face from which Imagineer?
Leota Toombs
The original attraction opened on her 44th birthday, and she was named a Disney Legend in 2009.
Q 11Which actress, famous as the voice of Maleficent, provided Madame Leota's incantations?
Eleanor Audley
She also voiced Lady Tremaine, so Disney's two iciest villainesses and its most famous medium share one voice.
Q 12The Imagineer whose face was filmed for the séance medium also supplied the voice of which figure?
Little Leota
The Imagineers wanted a high voice for the tiny bride at the exit, and hers sounded like a little girl's, so they kept it.
Q 13What two-word plea does the tiny bride ghost make to guests riding the exit escalator?
Hurry back
She also reminds departing mortals to bring their death certificates if they decide to join the household.
Q 21The phrase "grim-grinning ghost" that names the theme song comes from a poem by which writer?
William Shakespeare
It appears in Venus and Adonis, where Venus scolds Death itself for stealing her lover's breath.
Q 22To get the unsettling discord the composer wanted, what did the organist do when recording the theme?
Played it backwards
The organ part you hear in the finished song is that reversed performance played forwards.
Q 23Which real San Jose landmark, with stairs to nowhere, captivated Walt Disney while the Haunted Mansion was planned?
Winchester Mystery House
Q 14The ballroom full of translucent waltzing spirits is the most famous use of which stage illusion?
Pepper's Ghost
Real animatronics hidden above and below the guests are reflected in a huge sheet of glass, which is why the ghosts look transparent.
Q 15How many ghosts thumb for a ride in the crypt near the end of the attraction?
Three
A mirror trick then shows one of them sitting in the vehicle beside the guests, following them home.
Q 16How many singing busts belt out the theme song in the graveyard at Disneyland?
Five
The 2003 film trimmed the group to a quartet, sung by the Dapper Dans.
Q 17Which bass singer, better known as Tony the Tiger, leads the graveyard's singing busts?
Thurl Ravenscroft
His bust is the cracked one second from the left; he was also the uncredited growl behind Frosted Flakes for more than 50 years.
Q 18The broken singing bust is frequently misidentified as a likeness of whom?
Walt Disney
It is actually the projected face of the singer who voiced it, filmed for a loop that has run since 1969.
Q 19Who composed the music of the theme song "Grim Grinning Ghosts"?
Buddy Baker
He also scored Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and Tokyo DisneySea's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Q 20Which Imagineer wrote the ride's script and theme lyrics, and yells from inside the conservatory coffin?
X Atencio
He also wrote the words to "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" for Pirates of the Caribbean.
Walt had already rejected the idea of a run-down building in his park, insisting the mansion's exterior stay pristine.
Q 24Ken Anderson's early antebellum design was based on the Shipley-Lydecker House in which city?
Baltimore
His version was overgrown with weeds and topped by a screeching-cat weathervane, a look Walt refused to put in his park.
Q 25Handbills given out at Disneyland in 1961 promised the mansion would open in which year?
1963
The exterior was actually finished on that schedule and then sat empty for six years while the inside was redesigned.
Q 26Disney's involvement in which event was a major reason the mansion's opening slipped by six years?
The 1964–65 New York World's Fair
The other reason was a redesign after Walt's death in December 1966, which killed the walk-through concept.
Q 27Coffin clocks, candle men and a mirror with a face were designed for a never-built section called what?
The Museum of the Weird
Marvel later mined the unused designs for the 2014 comic miniseries Seekers of the Weird.
Q 28Which Imagineer, an ex-background painter, argued the ride should be frightening, not funny?
Claude Coats
His moody endless hallways and corridors of doors form the ride's first half before the tone turns to comic ghosts.
Q 29Marc Davis, who drew the mansion's comical ghosts, belonged to which famous group of Disney animators?
The Nine Old Men
Walt called him his Renaissance man for being able to do story, character, animation and show design alike.
Q 30Which character is named for the Imagineer whose Pirates of the Caribbean fire illusion alarmed the fire department?
Master Gracey
Yale Gracey's flames looked so real that Disneyland's fire department asked for an emergency switch to turn them off; he also devised the mansion's ghost illusions.