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50 free The Conjuring trivia questions with answers. Hide and clap. This quiz covers the whole Conjuring Universe: the 2013 original with the Perron family in Rhode Island, The Conjuring 2 and the Enfield poltergeist, The Devil Made Me Do It and the Arne Johnson trial, Last Rites and the Smurl haunting, plus the Annabelle trilogy, The Nun films and the real Ed and Lorraine Warren behind all of it. Fifty questions cover plots, casts, directors, filming locations, box-office records and the strange stories from the sets. Easy questions ask who plays the Warrens and what time the clocks stop in the Perron house; the hard ones want the demon's name scratched into Lorraine's Bible, the film system James Wan replaced mid-production, the pub the crew filmed around in Maida Vale and which film in the franchise actually grossed the most. It suits anyone who has sat through every entry and anyone who wants ammunition for a horror movie night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films, the franchise and the Warrens, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which two actors play Ed and Lorraine Warren in the four main Conjuring films?
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga
Both spent three days at Lorraine Warren's Connecticut home before shooting the first film, and she visited the set; a 2027 prequel casts younger actors.
Q 02Who directed the first two Conjuring films?
James Wan
Wan handed the third and fourth main films to Michael Chaves, who had impressed him on The Curse of La Llorona.
Q 03The Perron family in the first film move into a farmhouse in which US state?
Rhode Island
The real Perron case dates to 1971 in Harrisville; the town of Enfield in the sequel is in London.
Q 04At what time does every clock in the Perron house stop?
3:07 a.m.
It is the exact minute the witch Bathsheba killed herself in 1863 after cursing the land.
Q 05What is the name of the accused witch whose spirit possesses Carolyn Perron?
Bathsheba Sherman
The script makes her a relative of Mary Towne Eastey, one of the women hanged at Salem; some critics found that premise offensive.
Q 06How many daughters do Roger and Carolyn Perron have in the film?
Five
Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cindy and April, plus a dog called Sadie who refuses to enter the house.
Q 07Which haunted object does Ed add to the Warrens' artifact room at the end of the first film?
A music box
The zoetrope arrives after Enfield, the altar cup after the Glatzel case and the shattered mirror after the Smurls.
Q 08The Conjuring was shot chronologically over 38 days mostly in and around which city?
Wilmington, North Carolina
Part of it was filmed at UNC Wilmington while the campus was on spring break.
Q 09What working title did James Wan briefly give the first film before it reverted to The Conjuring?
The Warren Files
Producer Tony DeRosa-Grund had spent almost 14 years trying to get his treatment made under the original title.
Q 10Composer Joseph Bishara did more than score the first film. Which entity did he play on screen?
Bathsheba
He had already appeared as a demon in Wan's Insidious, and heard 'brass clustering' as his first response to the script.
Q 11The MPAA gave the first film an R rating for an unusual reason. What was it?
It was simply too scary
Executive producer Walter Hamada said the board could find no specific scene to cut to earn a PG-13.
Q 12Roughly how much did the first film gross worldwide on a $20M budget?
$320M
Deadline estimated a total profit of $161.7 million once all costs were counted.
Q 13The Conjuring was the first horror film ever to receive which grade from CinemaScore audiences?
A−
The sequel matched it three years later; Last Rites managed only a B.
Whose 1980 book The Demonologist led to a lawsuit claiming the films breached his Warrens deal?
Q 21Why did the producers have a priest bless the set of The Conjuring 2 before filming?
Strange events on the first film's shoot
The blessing came from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Q 22The London shoot for The Conjuring 2 was based in and around a pub in which residential district?
Maida Vale
The Warrington pub stood in for the streets around the Hodgson house; the crew also shot at Marylebone station.
Q 23Which haunted toy from the Hodgson house joins the Warrens' collection at the end of the sequel?
A Crooked Man zoetrope
Gerald Brittle
Warner Bros. settled with him in December 2017; his later book The Devil in Connecticut fed the third film.
Q 15The Conjuring 2 sends the Warrens to which London borough to investigate a poltergeist?
Enfield
In the UK the film was released as The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Case.
Q 16Which infamous American haunting do the Warrens investigate in the opening of The Conjuring 2?
The Amityville house
The seance there gives Lorraine her first vision of the demon nun and of Ed being impaled.
Q 17What is the name of the elderly man whose spirit speaks through Janet Hodgson?
Bill Wilkins
He turns out to be only a pawn of the real demon, which is using him to break Janet's will.
Q 18What name does Lorraine scratch into her Bible in a trance, and later use to banish the demon nun?
Valak
Speaking the demon's name gives her dominion over it and sends it back to Hell.
Q 19Which song does Patrick Wilson perform on guitar for the Hodgson children in The Conjuring 2?
Can't Help Falling in Love
The soundtrack also uses London Calling by the Clash and the Bee Gees' I Started a Joke.
Q 20Before reshoots in March 2016, what did the sequel's main antagonist originally look like?
A demonic figure with wings
Wan felt the design did not fit and reshot it as a nun, casting Bonnie Aarons, to keep the film grounded.
A spin-off film about the Crooked Man was announced in 2017 but Wan later said it had stalled.
Q 24Until It (2017), The Conjuring 2 was the second highest-grossing horror film behind which title?
The Exorcist
It made $323 million worldwide, about 0.5% more than the first film, and did better internationally.
Q 25The Devil Made Me Do It is based on the 1981 trial of which man, who claimed demonic possession?
Arne Cheyenne Johnson
He was convicted of manslaughter and served five years, marrying Debbie Glatzel while in prison.
Q 26How old is David Glatzel, whose exorcism opens The Devil Made Me Do It?
Eight
Julian Hilliard, who plays him, returns as a wedding guest in Last Rites.
Q 27In the third film, who turns out to be the occultist behind the curse?
Kastner's daughter Isla
The former priest Kastner had secretly raised her, and his own occult research drew her in.
Q 28Where was The Devil Made Me Do It filmed in mid-2019?
Atlanta, Georgia
Farmiga wrapped her scenes that August; COVID-19 then pushed the reshoots and the release back to June 2021.
Q 29Alongside cinemas, The Devil Made Me Do It streamed for one month on which service?
HBO Max
It was part of Warner Bros.' plan for its entire 2021 slate.
Q 30Which director took over the main series for The Devil Made Me Do It and Last Rites?
Michael Chaves
Wan chose him after they worked together on The Curse of La Llorona.