Classic Horror Trivia Quiz

It's October and our thoughts turn to horror movies.  If you like the old horror movies, I hope you'll enjoy this trivia quiz I've created.

1.  Which of the following movies did not have an appearance by Count Dracula?

     a. Horror of Dracula
     b. The Return of Dracula
     c. House of Frankenstein
     d. Brides of Dracula
     e. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

2.  In The Son of Dracula, Lon Chaney played the title role.  What name did he use in the movie?

     a. Count Dracula
     b. Baron Meinster
     c. Dr. Seward
     d. Count Alucard
     e. Mr. Browning

3.  Of the following actors, who never played Dracula?

     a. Francis Lederer
     b. Basil Rathbone
     c. Jack Palance
     d. Frank Langella
     e. John Carradine

4.  In early Universal movies such as Dracula and the Mummy, what musical score was used for the opening credits?

      a. The Magic Flute Overture by Mozart
      b. Cemetery Gates by Pantera
      c. Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
      d. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
      e. Die Moritat von Mackie Messer by Brecht and Weill

5.  The original Night of the Living Dead was filmed near what city?

     a. Newark
     b. Pittsburgh
     c. Los Angeles
     d. Detroit
     e. Toronto

6.  What do Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and TV's Gunsmoke have in common?

     a. James Arness had a small role in the Abbott and Costello movie
     b. Bud Abbott appeared on an episode of Gunsmoke
     c. Lou Costello appeared on an episode of Gunsmoke
     d. They both had the same writers
     e. The same actor played Sam the Bartender and the Frankenstein Monster

7.  Who played the werewolf in I Was a Teenage Werewolf?

     a. James Dean
     b. Sal Mineo
     c. Michael Landon
     d. Bobby Darin
     e. David Peel

8.  What was the first movie in which Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff performed together?

     a. The Mummy
     b. Isle of the Dead
     c.The Black Cat
     d. Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
     e. Son of Frankenstein

9.  In The Wolfman which actor played the werewolf who attacked Lon Chaney and caused him to become a werewolf?

     a. Ralph Bellamy
     b. Bela Lugosi
     c. Lionel Atwill
     d. David Manners
     e. Edward Van Sloan

10.   In The Tingler, what drug does Vincent Price's character take?

      a. cocaine
      b. morphine
      c. digitalis
      d. phenobarbitol
      e. lsd

11. In Dracula, Prince of Darkness, how is Dracula destroyed?

       a. a wooden stake
       b. a silver bullett
       c. water
       d. sunlight
       e. impaled by a cross

Answers:

  1.   d
  2.   d
  3.   b
  4.   c 
  5.   b
  6.   e
  7.   c
  8.   c
  9.   b
10.   e
11.   c