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This quiz focuses on classic horror cinema from the 1930s through the 1970s. The ten questions cover directors, writers, cast members, plot details and production facts drawn from well-documented films. Readers will encounter a range of difficulty levels across the set.

10 Trivia Questions

Question 1: Who directed the 1973 film The Exorcist?

A. Roman Polanski
B. William Friedkin
C. George A. Romero
D. Alfred Hitchcock

Question 2: In the 1960 film Psycho, what is the name of the central motel proprietor?

A. Sam Loomis
B. Marion Crane
C. Norman Bates
D. Lila Crane

Question 3: Which actor portrayed Count Dracula in the 1931 Universal film?

A. Boris Karloff
B. Bela Lugosi
C. Lon Chaney Jr.
D. Vincent Price

Question 4: Who directed the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead?

A. John Carpenter
B. Wes Craven
C. George A. Romero
D. Tobe Hooper

Question 5: In the 1980 film The Shining, what is the name of the isolated hotel?

A. The Stanley Hotel
B. The Overlook Hotel
C. The Bates Motel
D. The Amity Inn

Question 6: Who wrote the 1971 novel on which The Exorcist is based?

A. Stephen King
B. Ira Levin
C. William Peter Blatty
D. Anne Rice

Question 7: Who directed the 1978 film Halloween?

A. Wes Craven
B. John Carpenter
C. David Cronenberg
D. Dario Argento

Question 8: Which actress played Rosemary Woodhouse in the 1968 film Rosemary’s Baby?

A. Mia Farrow
B. Sharon Tate
C. Faye Dunaway
D. Jane Fonda

Question 9: The 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was directed by whom?

A. Wes Craven
B. John Carpenter
C. Tobe Hooper
D. George A. Romero

Question 10: Who directed the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds?

A. Alfred Hitchcock
B. William Castle
C. Roger Corman
D. Jacques Tourneur

Answers

  1. B. William Friedkin – Friedkin directed The Exorcist after the studio selected him for his recent work on The French Connection. Polanski, Romero and Hitchcock did not helm the project.
  2. C. Norman Bates – Anthony Perkins played Norman Bates, the motel owner who lives with his mother. The other three names belong to different characters in the same film.
  3. B. Bela Lugosi – Lugosi originated the screen role of Dracula in the 1931 Universal production. Karloff, Chaney Jr. and Price appeared in other horror films of the era but not as this Dracula.
  4. C. George A. Romero – Romero wrote and directed Night of the Living Dead on a low budget in Pittsburgh. Carpenter, Craven and Hooper made their own landmark horror films in later years.
  5. B. The Overlook Hotel – The Overlook is the name used throughout the film and in Stephen King’s source novel. The Stanley Hotel inspired the book but is not the name in the movie.
  6. C. William Peter Blatty – Blatty wrote the novel and the screenplay, drawing from reported exorcism cases. King, Levin and Rice authored different well-known horror works.
  7. B. John Carpenter – Carpenter directed, co-wrote and scored the original Halloween. Craven, Cronenberg and Argento each directed other influential horror titles.
  8. A. Mia Farrow – Farrow starred as Rosemary opposite John Cassavetes. Tate, Dunaway and Fonda were not cast in the lead role.
  9. C. Tobe Hooper – Hooper directed and co-wrote The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Craven, Carpenter and Romero directed separate horror classics released around the same period.
  10. A. Alfred Hitchcock – Hitchcock directed The Birds after Psycho. Castle, Corman and Tourneur worked on other genre films but did not direct this title.

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