Today I'm back to a trivia quiz about another extremely popular movie, "Ghostbusters." The original 1984 one, which in my humble opinion is the only film in the series worth watching. (Maybe "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," due out this November, will change my mind, but I'm not optimistic.) Anyway, as always, these are very detailed questions, so don't feel bad if you don't know the answers to most of them. Also, obviously there are SPOILERS to the movie. I'll ask the questions first, and then have the answers below, in case you want to write your guesses down. Additionally, "Ghostbusters" has had several sequels, and it's also been made into television shows, comic books, etc. All the trivia presented here is only from the movie itself, no other medium. So here we go.
Questions:
1) What building houses the office/lab for Dr. Venkman, Dr. Stanz, and Dr. Spengler?
2) There is a graffiti message written in red on the door to this office/lab. What does it say?
3) What is the stated purpose of the test that Venkman is running with the two students?
4) How has the female student, Jennifer, performed on the test so far? Both Venkman's claim, and what we the audience have seen.
5) How much are the students being paid for participating in the experiment?
6) There is a picture of a famous person by the door to the office/lab. Who is it?
7) According to Ray, how many people witnessed the ghost at the library?
8) Before they investigate the library, what paranormal event does Ray say he's witnessed?
9) What is the name of the library administrator?
10) What's the name of the librarian who we see witnessing the ghost?
11) In response to Venkman's question about mental illness in the family, the librarian says her uncle thought he was a famous person? Who was it?
12) What does the symmetrical book stacking remind Egon and Ray of?
13) What is the room number of Egon, Ray, and Peter's office/lab?
14) According to Egon, just the interest payments alone for the next five years on Ray's parent's thrice-mortgaged house will come to what dollar amount?
15) What is the stated reason for Louis Tully's upcoming party?
16) What is Dana Barrett's apartment number?
17) What is the Ghostbusters' phone number?
18) How much did Ray pay for the Ghostbusters' vehicle (the Ectomobile)?
19) What does Janine the receptionist say her hobbies are?
20) And what does Egon say his hobbies are?
21) Name the three occult/paranormal reference books mentioned throughout the movie.
22) The Ghostbusters' first job is at what business?
23) Where does the gluttonous green ghost that resides there appear most of the time?
24) How much do the Ghostbusters charge for removing this ghost?
25) What married entertainment couple both have credited roles in the movie?
26) Besides one of the people asked about in the previous question, what 3 people play themselves in the movie, and are listed in the credits?
27) During the montage showing the Ghostbusters becoming famous and successful, what 2 newspapers are shown carrying stories about them?
28) Also during the montage, what 3 magazines printing Ghostbusters articles are shown?
29) What is the name of the dance club that the Ghostbusters cleanse of a poltergeist, and then stay to party at?
30) According to Venkman, when were Gozer, Zuul, et. al. first worshipped?
31) Who worshipped them?
32) According to Venkman, what field is his doctorate in?
33) In Egon's analogy, how big is the Twinkie representing the current amount of spiritual energy in the New York City area?
34) In lieu of Tylenol or Excedrin, what painkiller does Louis keep on hand?
35) Just before all Hell breaks loose at Louis's party, what is the name of the couple that arrives, and are introduced to everyone?
36) Outside what famous restaurant does Louis get attacked, and possessed, by the Terror Dog?
37) The Gatekeeper, who's possessing Dana, is named Zuul. What is the name of the Keymaster, who possesses Louis?
38) What is the address of Dana and Louis's apartment building?
39) According to the Keymaster, what two forms has Gozer taken before?
40) What structural oddities were used to build Dana's building, in order to attract and concentrate spiritual energy?
41) What Bible verse does Ray recall, while talking to Winston?
42) Who was the architect for Dana's building?
43) What is EPA employee Walter Peck's theory about how the Ghostbusters' business plan works?
44) What is the Mayor's name?
45) What is the Archbishop's name?
46) During the final encounter, a police car rolls into a giant hole that erupts in front of Dana's building. What precinct is it from?
47) Where does Ray reminisce about eating Stay Puft marshmallows as a kid?
48) What is Winston's salary? (He states it near the end.)
49) We hear 5 titles for Gozer in the movie. Name them.
50) We see four individual ghosts in the movie. Describe them. (I'm not counting Gozer and his minions, nor the beams of spiritual energy/light that fly out of the Ghostbusters' headquarters and soar around the city.)
51) Which singer/musician appears briefly at a birthday party held in the restaurant where Louis gets attacked and possessed? (This person is uncredited, but it seems to be legitimate.)
52) As for product placement, who won the Coke/Pepsi war for this movie?
53) Why does Venkman bring at least 300 ccs of Thorazine to a business meeting/dinner date?
Answers:
1) Weaver Hall.
2) "Venkman Burn in Hell."
3) The effects of negative reinforcement on ESP ability.
4) He claims she's guessed a perfect 5 out of 5. Although we see her go 0 for 2.
5) $5. Which the male student refuses, as he leaves the test early.
6) A pinup of Marilyn Monroe.
7) 10.
8) An undersea, unexplained, mass sponge migration.
9) Roger Delacorte.
10) Alice.
11) St. Jerome. Reportedly the patron saint of libraries.
12) The Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.
13) 205A, according to what's printed on the door.
14) $95,000.
15) It's to celebrate Louis's 4th anniversary of being an accountant.
16) 2206.
17) 555-2368.
18) $4,800.
19) Reading and racquetball.
20) Collecting spores, molds, and fungus.
21) Spates Catalog, Tobin's Spirit Guide, the Roylance Guide.
22) The Sedgewick Hotel.
23) The 12th floor.
24) $5,000. $4,000 for entrapping the ghost, and $1,000 for proton charging and storage of the ghost.
25) Casey and Jean Kasem. Casey's role is a voice one as himself--he's most noted for his radio countdown shows. Jean is the tall blonde who briefly dances with Louis at his party. She's arguably best known for playing Loretta Tortelli on television's "Cheers," and later on the spinoff series "The Tortellis."
26) Journalists/hosts Roger Grimsby, Joe Franklin, and Larry King.
27) The USA Today and the New York Post.
28) Time, Omni, and The Atlantic.
29) The Rose.
30) 6,000 B.C.
31) The Sumerians, Mesopotamians, and the Hittites.
32) He claims he earned 2 Ph. D's, in parapsychology and psychology.
33) 35 feet long, and weighing approximately 600 pounds.
34) Acetylsalicylic acid. The generic kind. (This is just a more scientific name for aspirin.)
35) Ted and Annette Fleming.
36) Tavern on the Green, which was located within Central Park.
37) Vinz Clortho.
38) 550 Central Park West. (The street is mentioned several times, and you can see the number briefly at the very end. By the way, the real number of this building is 55 Central Park West.)
39) A large and moving Torb, and a giant Sloar.
40) The roof cap is made from a magnesium-tungsten alloy, and its made with cold-riveted girders with cores of pure selenium.
41) Revelation 7:12. (Actually Ray is misremembering, as the verse that features the opening of the sixth seal is really Revelation 6:12.)
42) Ivo Shandor, who was also a homicidal surgeon and Gozer worshipper.
43) Peck thinks the Ghostbusters use sense and nerve gases to give people hallucinations, so people think they're seeing ghosts. Then the Ghostbusters remove the "ghosts" using a fake electric light show.
44) In the movie we only hear his (presumed) first name, Lennie, from the archbishop. So his full first name is probably Leonard. It's also not listed in the credits. However, other entertainment media provide his last name as "Clotch," probably mocking real life NYC mayor Ed Koch.
45) As with the mayor, we only hear his apparent first name, familiarized--Mike.
46) The 41st.
47) Camp Wokanda.
48) $11,500 per year.
49) The Gozerian, the Traveler, the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, and the Lord of the Sebouillia.
50) The library ghost (presumably a deceased librarian), the gluttonous green blob, later named "Slimer," an unnamed spirit who emerges from the subway entrance, and the unnamed spirit who forms into a zombie shape and then (badly) drives the taxi cab.
51) Debbie Gibson, best known as a teen singer in the late 1980's.
52) Clearly Coca-Cola, since we see many Coke cans, and at least one Diet Coke can, and a couple other sodas from their corporation, like Sprite and Tab.
53) There's no non-creepy answer to this one! The 80's were a different time.
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