Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Carnival Horror Stories?
6 quiz questions to test your knowledge of carnival horror stories
Carnival horror stories play on our natural fear of the unknown.
Living in a travelling carnival sounds like an exotic lifestyle, but it also feels unsettling. Who are these people, always on the move? We don’t really trust them but we’re happy to take the cheap entertainment they offer us once a year.
Carnivals are supposed to be fun spaces, which is what makes a great setting for horror.
Test your knowledge of horror stories and carnivals with these six quiz questions.
Contents
1. Book: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) by Ray Bradbury
Which attraction causes people to age or become younger?
The mirror maze
Nope. Try again. People see strange things in the mirror maze but their age isn’t affected.
The rollercoaster
Nope. Try again.
The carousel
Yes. Riding the carousel while it goes in reverse, makes you younger. Riding it the normal way, makes you older.
What this book’s about
See: 13 Carnival Horror Books That’ll Take You For a Wild Ride: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
2. Movie: Freaks (1932)
Wo is Daisy, the conjoined twin, married to?
The Human Skeleton
Nope. Try again.
Roscoe the clown
Yes. Daisy is married to Roscoe, the stuttering clown. Her conjoined twin, Violet, becomes engaged to the circus owner.
Hercules the strongman
Nope. Try again. Cleopatra is having an affair with Hercules and Hans finds out at their wedding.
What this movie’s about
“The story of the love life of the sideshow.”
Freaks is a drama carnival horror movie.
Cleopatra, a beautiful trapeze artist, marries Hans, a little person, after learning of his large inheritance. At the wedding, Cleopatra shows her true colors and has to deal with Hans’s true friends.
3. TV: American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014)
Who’s soul does Edward Mordrake take?
Elsa
Nope. Try again. Elsa begs Mordrake to take her but he declines.
Twisty
Yes. Mordrake listens to the stories and, after seeing the pain and grief Twisty the clown has suffered, kills him and adopts him into his spiritual troupe.
Ethel
Nope. Try again. Mordrake listens to Ethel’s past history but doesn’t take her.
What this TV show’s about
American Horror Story: Freak Show is a drama carnival body horror story. It’s the fourth season of the American Horror Story anthology series and aired from 2014 to 2015.
In 1952, a struggling freak show sets up in small town Jupiter in Florida. Elsa has been looking for a permanent home for her people, however, they’re always persecuted by how they look. It soon becomes clear that other people in this town have their own plans for them.
4. TV: Carnivàle’ (2003 – 2005)
What is Ben called in the revival meetings?
Reverend Benjamin St. John
Yes. Once Ben is identified as the healer of the lame girl, Samson opens a revival featuring Ben as the famous Reverend Benjamin St. John.
Brother Justin Crowe
Nope. Try again. Brother Justin Crowe was a small-town preacher who made a church attendee spew coins.
Pastor Henry Scudder
Nope. Try again. Henry Scudder was Ben’s father, and he was not a pastor.
What this TV show’s about
“Into each generation is born a creature of light and a creature of darkness.”
Carnivàle is a supernatural carnival horror series of two seasons that ran from 2003 to 2005.
During the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy and a charismatic minister become key players in a proxy war being fought between Heaven and Hell.
5. Movie: Santa Sangre (1989)
What is Fenix’s father’s act in the circus?
Knife-thrower
Yes. Orgo, Fenix’s father, is the knife-thrower and is having an affair with the tattooed woman who is his target.
Trapeze artist
Nope. Try again. Concho, Fenix’s mother, is the trapeze artist.
Tightrope walker
Nope. Try again. Alma, one of Fenix’s closest friends, is the tightrope walker.
What this movie’s about
“Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen”
Santa Sangre is a surreal slasher carnival horror movie.
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to re-join his armless mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes “her arms”.
6. Book: Nightmare Alley (1946) by William Lindsay Gresham
Who is the psychologist that seduces and controls Stan?
Molly
Nope. Try again. Molly is the electric girl Stan leaves the carnival with.
Dorrie
Nope. Try again. Molly plays Dorrie, the dead college sweetheart of Ezra Grindle, the rich man Stan is trying to swindle.
Lilith
Yes. The stress of leading a false life leads Stan to seek the help of a psychologist, Lilith Ritter, who seduces and then begins controlling him.
What this book’s about
See: 13 Carnival Horror Books That’ll Take You For a Wild Ride: Nightmare Alley (1946)
Published: 5 November 2022
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