A Word With:
Mel Homer from Three’s The Cafe.
Scary movies, blood-sucking vampires and things that go bump in the night. There’s something about horror and the supernatural that have been frightening and delighting audiences in equal parts for decades. But how much do you know about the subject? Test out your knowledge in our bumper quiz.
1. What did Buffy slay?
2. Sam and Dean Winchester are fictional characters in which show?
3. Who doesn’t appear in What We Do In The Shadows – a) Taika Waititi, b) Jemaine Clement, c) Julian Dennison?
4. Who played Patrick Swayze’s love interest in the 1990 film Ghost?
5. The dog Scooby-Doo and his pals solve supernatural mysteries. What breed of canine is he?
6. Suzie Stackhouse is the central character in which TV series?
7. New Moon and Eclipse were sequels to which movie?
8. Sir Malcolm Murray and Ethan Chandler are characters in which TV series set in Victorian London?
9. In the novel written by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein was – a) a werewolf, b) a monster, c) a scientist?
10. Lady Gaga plays which character in American Horror Story – a) Lana Winters, b) Elizabeth, c) Violet Harman?
11. Which spellbinding character links actresses Melissa Joan Hart and Kiernan Shipka?
12. The mockumentary horror series Wellington Paranormal is a spin-off from which movie?
13. Teenager Elena Gilbert is torn
between two vampire brothers in which TV series?
14. A girl in Stranger Things is known only by which number?
15. The actor William Henry Pratt portrayed Frankenstein’s monster in several 1930s movies. What name was he better known by?
16. Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont are central characters in which TV show?
17. In the 1981 film, in which city did an American werewolf stalk his victims?
18. Which iconic horror film actor was buried in his trademark Count Dracula cape?
19. Shadow and Wednesday are characters in which TV series?
20. Rod Serling was in the zone in which 1960s TV series?
21. The series Lucifer is set in which city?
22. Scott Howard was the main character in the 1985 movie Teen Wolf. Who played him?
23. Which British film studio nailed it with a series of 1960s gothic horror films?
24. The truth is out there in which long-running TV series?
25. Angel is a spin-off from which series?
26. World War II nurse Claire Randall goes back in time to Scotland’s Jacobite Rising in which TV series?
27. R.L. Stine’s horror books for children were made into which 1990s TV series?
28. The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones is adapted from a novel by – a) J K Rowling, b) Cassandra Clare, c) Stephen King?
29. Annabelle and Chucky feature in horror films. What are they?
30. The Gecko brothers feature in which film and TV series?