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184 free Hocus Pocus trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
75 free Hocus Pocus trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Hocus Pocus fan? Put your knowledge of the Sanderson Sisters and their magical Salem adventures to the test with our comprehensive 184-question trivia quiz. From iconic spells to memorable quotes, this challenge covers everything about the cult classic Halloween film that continues to enchant audiences worldwide.
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Q 01In the opening scene, Winifred says 'another glorious morning' makes her what?
Sick
Sick: 'Oh, look, another glorious morning,' Winifred sneers at the dawn of October 31, 1693, just as young Emily Binx is led into the sisters' house.
Q 02To lure the witches at school, Max poses as a game-show host named after which horror star?
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff: 'I'm your host, Boris Karloff Jr.,' Max announces, greeting the sisters as his 'contestants' before the children shut them in the pottery kiln.
Q 03Max Dennison has just been dragged to Salem by his parents from which city?
Los Angeles
Max moved from Los Angeles, which is why the bullies nickname him 'Hollywood' and he says people back home are 'very health conscious'.
Q 04The role of Winifred Sanderson was originally written with which actress in mind?
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman was the Winifred producer David Kirschner pictured, because he loved her in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein; the film only went ahead once Bette Midler took an interest in 1992.
Q 05How does Max fake an early sunrise to rescue Dani from the Sanderson cottage?
With car headlights
With car headlights: Max aims his parents' car at the cottage window, the sisters shriek that the sun has come up early, and he frees Dani and Binx in the panic.
Q 06Although set in Salem, most of Hocus Pocus was shot on sound stages in which city?
Burbank, California
Burbank, California, is where Disney has its studio lot: the flying scenes were done on wires on a soundstage there, and only daytime exteriors were shot on location in Massachusetts.
Q 07Under Winifred's curse, who must light the candle in the cottage for the sisters to return?
A virgin
A virgin must light the candle on All Hallows' Eve, which is exactly what Max does to show off, earning a weary 'Nice going, airhead' from Binx.
Q 08Winifred's musical number at the town Halloween party enchants the adults to do what?
Dance until they die
Winifred's 'I Put a Spell on You' makes the adults dance until they die; the spell breaks with the witches at sunrise and the parents stagger home exhausted.
Q 09In the original Hocus Pocus, how does Binx describe Billy Butcherson's relationship to Winifred?
Her ex-lover
Her ex-lover is how Binx introduces Billy at his graveside; raised to hunt the children, the zombie turns on Winifred the moment he can speak and fights on their side.
Q 10What fate befell Thackery Binx's younger sister, Emily, at the hands of the Sanderson Sisters?
Her life force was drained.
Her life force was drained. The sisters lured Emily to their cottage and fed her a potion so that they could breathe in her youth, growing young again as she died.
Q 11What was the original working title for the film 'Hocus Pocus'?
Disney's Halloween House
Disney's Halloween House was the title on Mick Garris's original script, a darker tale whose heroes were all 12; rewrites made it funnier and turned two of them into teenagers.
Q 12Which future star auditioned for Max Dennison and impressed the director, but chose another film instead?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio impressed Ortega but passed on Max to make What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the role that earned him his first Oscar nomination.
Q 13What unique ability does Mary Sanderson possess?
Smell children
Q 21How does Salem put the Sanderson sisters to death in the 1693 prologue?
Hanging
Hanging is the town's sentence, but Winifred gets the last word: from the gallows she calls out the curse that will one day bring the sisters back.
Q 22What bursts out of Billy Butcherson's mouth when he finally cuts it open to speak?
Moths
Moths, and real ones: a wrangler tucked live insects into a latex pocket fixed to Doug Jones's dentures, and he had to do it twice after a light blew during the first take.
Q 23Approximately how old was Omri Katz (Max) when he was filming 'Hocus Pocus'?
16
Born in May 1976, Omri Katz was 16 when he shot the film between October 1992 and February 1993; he later left acting altogether.
Smell children is what Mary does, like a bloodhound: on waking in 1993 she sniffs out a hidden girl and guesses her age from scent alone, 'seven, maybe eight, and a half'.
Q 14Lost in modern Salem, the sisters accept a lift from a smitten driver in which vehicle?
A bus
A bus: its driver promises to convey 'gorgeous creatures such as yourselves' to their 'most forbidden desires', and even lets Sarah take the wheel.
Q 15What unconventional item does Mary Sanderson use for flight, instead of a traditional broomstick?
A vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner is Mary's stand-in because trick-or-treaters have walked off with the sisters' brooms, and she is still riding it in the film's final battle.
Q 16What do the bullies Ice and Jay take from Max when they first corner him?
His shoes
His shoes: Ice admires Max's new cross-trainers, asks to try them on and simply walks off in them, later jeering that 'the shoes fit great'.
Q 17What is the last name of Allison, Max's classmate and crush?
Watts
Allison's full name is Allison Watts, whose family has a historical connection to the Sanderson Sisters.
Q 18In Miss Olin's class, Max claims that Halloween was invented by whom?
Candy companies
Candy companies, Max tells the class, calling it 'a conspiracy'; Allison puts him right, tracing Halloween to All Hallows' Eve, when the spirits of the dead return.
Q 19To get Dani to visit the Sanderson house, Max agrees to trick-or-treat next year as which pair?
Wendy and Peter Pan
Wendy and Peter Pan is Dani's price, 'with tights, or it's no deal', and Max pays it because the trip is his chance to impress Allison, 'the girl of my dreams'.
Q 20What does Allison sprinkle around Billy's open grave to keep Dani safe from the witches?
Salt
Salt works because Allison has read that only a circle of it protects the witches' victims; when it stops the sisters at Max's house, Winifred sneers at 'a clever little white witch'.
Q 24In Hocus Pocus, which real Salem building served as the exterior for the Halloween party where the witches perform?
Old Town Hall
Old Town Hall, in Derby Square, lent only its outside: the party room where Winifred sings 'I Put a Spell on You' was a set, and no interiors were filmed there.
Q 25Hocus Pocus's 1693 opening, with Thackery Binx still human, was filmed at which historic Salem site?
Pioneer Village
Pioneer Village opened in 1930 as a recreation of Salem in its first years, billed as America's first living history museum, so the film's 1693 settlement came ready-made.
Q 26In the Sanderson cottage, what does Max convince the witches is a 'burning rain of death'?
The sprinklers
The sprinklers go off when Max holds a lighter up to one; the sisters cower from his 'burning rain of death' until one of them notices that 'it is but water'.
Q 27After his curse, what does Thackery Binx resolve to do for the next 300 years?
Guard the Sanderson cottage
Guard the Sanderson cottage: Binx watches it every Halloween for three centuries so that nobody lights the candle, and still cannot stop Max.
Q 28Which real graveyard in neighbouring Marblehead is where Ice and Jay first corner Max?
Old Burial Hill
Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, not a Salem graveyard, is where the bullies stop Max on his way home and ask for cash and cigarettes.
Q 29Max and Allison sit through Miss Olin's class at which high school?
Jacob Bailey High
Jacob Bailey High is where Miss Olin tells the Sanderson legend on Halloween, and where the witches, lured in that night, decide the place must be 'a prison for children'.
Q 30In Hocus Pocus, Sarah Sanderson's siren song is commonly known by what title?
Come Little Children
'Come Little Children' is heard in the opening scene, drawing Emily Binx to the cottage, and returns when Sarah calls out all of Salem's young; the soundtrack lists it as 'Sarah's Theme'.