T313 A GHOST OF A CHANCE QUIZ
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:46 pm1 Who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the film Ghost?
WHOOPI GOLDBERG
2 Which 1979 film was advertised with the line, For God’s Sake Get Out?
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR
3 Which was the first ghost to visit Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?
JACOB MARLEY
4 Which British TV series was screened in the USA under the title of My Partner the Ghost?
RANDALL AND HOPKIRK DECEASED
5 Which children’s TV show featured the characters of Timothy Claypole and Hazel the McWitch?
RENT A GHOST
6 Who performed the theme for Ghostbusters?
RAY PARKER JR.
7 In which 1982 film did the Freeling family move to a haunted house?
POLTERGEIST
8 Who has three uncles called Fatso, Stretch and Stinkie?
CASPER
9 Which singer had a 1974 hit with the song There’s A Ghost in my House?
R. DEAN TAYLOR
10 Which ghost haunts the girl’s toilets in the Harry Potter novels?
MOANING MYRTLE
11 Which car company produced a model called the Silver Ghost?
ROLLS ROYCE
12 In which 1999 film did the character of Cole Sear say, “I see dead people”?
THE 6TH SENSE
13 What were the first names of the characters played by Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in Ghost?
SAM AND MOLLY
14 In which 2001 film did Nicole Kidman live in a haunted house on the island of Jersey?
THE OTHERS
15 What P word is the name given to the fear of ghosts?
PHASMOPHOBIA
16 Which actor’s surname means “white ghost” in Russian?
DAVID DUCHOVNY
17 Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features the song Music of the Night?
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
18 In folklore which ghost ship haunts the Cape of Good Hope?
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
19 Which musical tells the story of a ghostly Scottish village that appears once every hundred years?
BRIGADOON
20 Which author is said to haunt the grounds of Rochester Castle?
CHARLES DICKENS
21 Who wrote the novella The Canterville Ghost?
OSCAR WILDE
22 Which pop trio recorded the 1981 album, Ghost In the Machine?
THE POLICE
23 How many ghosts in total visited Ebenezer Scrooge?
FOUR
24 What E word is the name given to the study of ghosts?
EIDOLOGY
25 What takes its name from the French and German words for yes?
OUIJA BOARD
WHOOPI GOLDBERG
2 Which 1979 film was advertised with the line, For God’s Sake Get Out?
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR
3 Which was the first ghost to visit Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?
JACOB MARLEY
4 Which British TV series was screened in the USA under the title of My Partner the Ghost?
RANDALL AND HOPKIRK DECEASED
5 Which children’s TV show featured the characters of Timothy Claypole and Hazel the McWitch?
RENT A GHOST
6 Who performed the theme for Ghostbusters?
RAY PARKER JR.
7 In which 1982 film did the Freeling family move to a haunted house?
POLTERGEIST
8 Who has three uncles called Fatso, Stretch and Stinkie?
CASPER
9 Which singer had a 1974 hit with the song There’s A Ghost in my House?
R. DEAN TAYLOR
10 Which ghost haunts the girl’s toilets in the Harry Potter novels?
MOANING MYRTLE
11 Which car company produced a model called the Silver Ghost?
ROLLS ROYCE
12 In which 1999 film did the character of Cole Sear say, “I see dead people”?
THE 6TH SENSE
13 What were the first names of the characters played by Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in Ghost?
SAM AND MOLLY
14 In which 2001 film did Nicole Kidman live in a haunted house on the island of Jersey?
THE OTHERS
15 What P word is the name given to the fear of ghosts?
PHASMOPHOBIA
16 Which actor’s surname means “white ghost” in Russian?
DAVID DUCHOVNY
17 Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features the song Music of the Night?
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
18 In folklore which ghost ship haunts the Cape of Good Hope?
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
19 Which musical tells the story of a ghostly Scottish village that appears once every hundred years?
BRIGADOON
20 Which author is said to haunt the grounds of Rochester Castle?
CHARLES DICKENS
21 Who wrote the novella The Canterville Ghost?
OSCAR WILDE
22 Which pop trio recorded the 1981 album, Ghost In the Machine?
THE POLICE
23 How many ghosts in total visited Ebenezer Scrooge?
FOUR
24 What E word is the name given to the study of ghosts?
EIDOLOGY
25 What takes its name from the French and German words for yes?
OUIJA BOARD
