A Ghost of a Chance

1 Who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the film Ghost?

2 Which 1979 film was advertised with the line, For God’s Sake Get Out?

3 Which was the first ghost to visit Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?

4 Which British TV series was screened in the USA under the title of My Partner the Ghost?

5 Which children’s TV show featured the characters of Timothy Claypole and Hazel the McWitch?

6 Who performed the theme for Ghostbusters?

7 In which 1982 film did the Freeling family move to a haunted house?

8 Who has three uncles called Fatso, Stretch and Stinkie?

9 Which singer had a 1974 hit with the song There’s A Ghost in my House?

10 Which ghost haunts the girl’s toilets in the Harry Potter novels?

11 Which car company produced a model called the Silver Ghost?

12 In which 1999 film did the character of Cole Sear say, “I see dead people”?

13 What were the first names of the characters played by Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in Ghost?

14 In which 2001 film did Nicole Kidman live in a haunted house on the island of Jersey?

15 What P word is the name given to the fear of ghosts?

16 Which actor’s surname means “white ghost” in Russian?

17 Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features the song Music of the Night?

18 In folklore which ghost ship haunts the Cape of Good Hope?

19 Which musical tells the story of a ghostly Scottish village that appears once every hundred years?

20 Which author is said to haunt the grounds of Rochester Castle?

21 Who wrote the novella The Canterville Ghost?

22 Which pop trio recorded the 1981 album, Ghost In the Machine?

23 How many ghosts in total visited Ebenezer Scrooge?

24 What E word is the name given to the study of ghosts?

25 What takes its name from the French and German words for yes?

ANSWERS

1 Whoopi Goldberg
2 The Amityville Horror
3 Jacob Marley
4 Randall & Hopkirk Deceased
5 Rent A Ghost
6 Ray Parker Jnr
7 Poltergeist
8 Casper
9 R Dean Taylor
10 Moaning Myrtle
11 Rolls Royce
12 The Sixth Sense
13 Sam and Molly
14 The Others
15 Phasmophobia
16 David Duchovny
17 Phantom of the Opera
18 The Flying Dutchman
19 Brigadoon
20 Charles Dickens
21 Oscar Wilde
22 The Police
23 Four
24 Eidology
25 Ouija board