Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Ghosts and Horror Fiction?
6 questions to test your knowledge of ghostly fiction
Ghost stories are fascinating and have been around for longer than anyone knows.
Fictional ghost stories can be just as scary as the ‘true’ ones because they feel so real and relatable. In ghost fiction, usually the living come out on top. But not always.
How many ghost stories have you read and watched in your lifetime?
These six quiz questions will test your knowledge of ghost stories.
Contents
1. TV: Supernatural
What type of ghost was the very first episode about?
Woman in White
Yes. Constance Welch is a woman in white. Women in white are ghosts who wear white dresses and kidnap people. When they were alive, they had children, whom they drowned, then they committed suicide. They spend eternity looking for their children.
Poltergeist
Nope. Try again. A poltergeist is a ghost that tries to get as much attention as possible from the people it haunts.
Revenant
Nope. Try again. Revenants are ghosts that have risen but don’t know they’re dead. They’ve usually forgotten or suppressed the events of their deaths.
What this TV show’s about
Supernatural is a dark fantasy road trip horror series that ran from 2005 to 2020.
Sam and Dean Winchester follow their father’s footsteps and travel America hunting supernatural beings. They deal with a plethora of monsters, including ghosts, demons, angels, gods, vampires, werewolves, and just about every other mythical creature you can name.
2. Movie: Ghost Ship (2001)
What is the name of the ghost ship?
Arctic Warrior
Nope. Try again. The Arctic Warrior is the name of the salvage boat.
Lorelei
Nope. Try again. Lorelei is the name of the sinking ship that the ocean liner rescued the gold and one survivor from.
Antonia Graza
Yes. The Italian ship, Antonia Graza, has been missing since 1962. Everyone, except for one young girl, died when a wire cord was snapped across the dance floor, cutting everyone in half.
What this movie’s about
A marine salvage crew find an ocean liner that has been missing for forty years. They board it and find boxes of gold bars. Their own ship is damaged before they can get back to it and they have no choice but to repair the old ocean liner to get home.
Ghosts of the dead passengers and crew start to haunt them and people start to die. They learn what happened to the original passengers and crew and they have to try to stop it before they all meet the same fate as the original travellers.
3. Book: Ghost Story by Peter Straub
What is the name of the group of four elderly men who gather regularly to tell each other stories?
The Chowder Society
Yes. The members of the Chowder Society are: John Jaffrey, a doctor; Lewis Benedikt, a retired businessman; Sears James, a lawyer; Ricky Hawthorne, a lawyer; and, Edward Wanderley, who died a year before the book begins.
The Fellows Society
Nope. Try again.
The Ghostlore Society
Nope. Try again.
What this book’s about
Four old men gather to tell each other stories. However, one story from their pasts is coming back to haunt them.
4. Movie: Ghost (1990)
What was the occupation of Sam Wheat (played by Patrick Swayze)?
Artist
Nope. Try again. Molly (played by Demi Moore) was the artist.
Banker
Yes. Sam was a banker who found anomalies in some bank accounts. He tells his co-worker/friend and is killed later that night by a mugger.
Police officer
Nope. Try again.
What this movie’s about
A young man is killed during a mugging. He returns as a ghost and works with a psychic to find his murderer and to save his fiancée.
5. Book: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
What is the name of the man who designed and built Hill House?
Luke Sanderson
Nope. Try again. Luke Sanderson is the man that will inherit the house when his aunt dies.
John Montague
Nope. Try again. John Montague is the parapsychologist conducting the study of the house.
Hugh Crain
Yes. Crain designed the house in confusing concentric circles like a maze that’s almost impossible to navigate.
What this book’s about
A parapsychologist rents Hill House for the summer hoping to find scientific evidence of the supernatural. He invites several people to join him, chosen because of their history of experiencing paranormal events. Two women accept his invitation and they stay there with the scientist and the heir to the house. All four inhabitants start to experience strange phenomena but one of the women starts to spiral into madness.
This book has been adapted into two movies, a play, a radio drama, and a TV series.
6. TV: American Horror Story: Murder House
How did Tate die?
Shot by a high school shooter
Nope. Try again. Tate was the high school shooter.
Shot by police
Yes. Tate was shot in the stomach in his bedroom by the SWAT team after his high school massacre.
Shot by his mother
Nope. Try again.
What this TV show’s about
American Horror Story: Murder House is season one of the American Horror Story series.
The Harmon family move into a restored mansion unaware that the ghosts of former residents and their victims haunt the house.
Published: 16 September 2022
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