Ghostbusters Quizzes

Ghostbusters Quiz 1

1 When was the film released?
1990

1982

1984

1987
2 Who directed the film?
Harold Ramis

Ivan Reitman

Paul Feig

Dan Aykroyd
3 Who produced the film?
Ivan Reitman

Tim Bevan

Harvey Weinstein

Dan Aykroyd
4 Where does the first scene of the film take place?
Columbia University

The New York Public Library

St John the Divine

A Broadway theater
5 Where do Peter, Ray and Egon work at the beginning of the film?
The Museum of Science

Columbia

The Museum of Natural History

NYU
6 What is Peter testing on the two students in the lab?
Positive reinforcement

Memory

Telekinesis

Ghost immunity
7 What is Peter's attitude towards the female student?
He is indifferent and thinks she's somewhat dumb

He thinks she is brilliant and wants to make her his assistant

He is very complimentary and flirtatious

He is needlessly mean
8 Who plays Peter Venkman?
Steve Martin

Bill Murray

John Belushi

Dan Aykroyd
9 What is Peter's personality like?
Happy-go-lucky and enthusiastic

Resentful and vengeful

Depressive and romantic

Dry and sarcastic
10 Who plays Ray?
Harold Ramis

Dan Aykroyd

Chevy Chase

Rick Moranis
11 Who wrote the screenplay?
Nora Ephron

Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd

Ivan Reitman

Jerry Zucker and Dave Zucker
12 Where does the film take place?
Los Angeles

Chicago

New York City

San Francisco
13 Who did the librarian's aunt think he was?
Louis XIV

Joan of Arc

St. Jerome

Ethel Merman
14 What is the librarian's name?
Alice

Jeanette

Joan

Carol
15 What do the men find on the card catalogue at the library?
Ectoplasmic Residue

A strange smoke that will not dissipate

A note from Gozer

Spilled purple ink
16 Who wrote the theme song?
Chaka Khan

Ray Parker Jr.

Lionel Richie

Huey Lewis
17 What television show were Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd both on?
M.A.S.H.

Mad TV

Cheers

Saturday Night Live
18 Which of the following movies is not a Bill Murray/Ivan Reitman collaboration?
Ghostbusters II

Stripes

Meatballs

Tootsie
19 What does the university administrator tell the trio when he shows up at their lab?
They are being given more money to start the Ghostbusters

They are being fired and their grant has been terminated

Columbia has gone bankrupt

The campus has been taken over by ghosts
20 Who plays Egon?
Rob Reiner

Bill Murray

Rick Moranis

Harold Ramis
21 How do the men get enough money to start the Ghostbusters?
Peter's grandmother dies and leaves him a bunch of money

Ray takes out a third mortgage on his family home

They use the money they saved from their grant

They steal money from a large bank
22 Where does Dana live?
Queens

The West Village

Central Park West

Murray Hill
23 Who plays Dana?
Annette Bening

Frances McDormand

Jessica Lange

Sigourney Weaver
24 What instrument does Dana play?
Guitar

Violin

Cello

Piano
25 Who plays Louis?
Steve Martin

John Belushi

Rick Moranis

John Candy

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