Who you gonna quiz? These 120 Ghostbusters questions cover Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore, proton packs, Ecto-1, Slimer, Stay Puft, Gozer, Dana Barrett, Zuul, the firehouse, Ghostbusters II, pink slime, Vigo, Afterlife, Frozen Empire, practical effects, theme songs, New York locations, and the important scientific principle that crossing the streams is usually bad until it suddenly is not.
The Original Team, Firehouse & First Ghosts
Q: Who plays Peter Venkman?
A: Bill Murray.
Q: Who plays Ray Stantz?
A: Dan Aykroyd.
Q: Who plays Egon Spengler?
A: Harold Ramis.
Q: Who plays Winston Zeddemore?
A: Ernie Hudson.
Q: Where do the first three work at the start?
A: Columbia University.
Q: What happens to their university jobs?
A: They lose their funding/positions.
Q: What business do they start?
A: Ghostbusters.
Q: What building becomes headquarters?
A: Old firehouse.
Q: What New York firehouse exterior was used?
A: Hook & Ladder Company 8 in Tribeca.
Q: What car do they use?
A: Ecto-1.
Q: What kind of car is Ecto-1?
A: Modified 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance/hearse-style vehicle.
Q: What logo is on the car?
A: Red crossed-out ghost symbol.
Q: What equipment captures ghosts?
A: Proton packs and ghost traps.
Q: What do proton packs fire?
A: Proton streams/particle beams.
Q: What rule does Egon give?
A: Don't cross the streams.
Q: Why?
A: He warns it could cause total protonic reversal and catastrophic effects.
Q: What is the team's containment unit?
A: Storage system for captured ghosts in the firehouse.
Q: Who shuts it down?
A: EPA inspector Walter Peck's actions lead to shutdown.
Q: Who plays Peck?
A: William Atherton.
Q: What happens when containment fails?
A: Captured ghosts are released across New York.
Q: Who is the Ghostbusters' secretary?
A: Janine Melnitz.
Q: Who plays Janine?
A: Annie Potts.
Q: What does Janine ask Egon about?
A: Hobbies.
Q: What does Egon collect?
A: Spores, molds, and fungus.
Q: What is Peter's personality?
A: Sarcastic, charming, opportunistic, and skeptical.
Q: What is Ray's personality?
A: Enthusiastic believer in paranormal lore.
Q: What is Egon's personality?
A: Highly analytical and eccentric scientist.
Q: What perspective does Winston bring?
A: Practical outsider who joins for a job and becomes essential.
Q: What is the first ghost they encounter professionally?
A: Library ghost appears before the business, while Slimer is among the first hotel captures.
Q: Where do they capture Slimer?
A: Sedgewick Hotel.
Dana, Gozer, Stay Puft & the 1984 Finale
Q: Who is Dana Barrett?
A: Musician whose apartment becomes a supernatural focal point.
Q: Who plays Dana?
A: Sigourney Weaver.
Q: What instrument does Dana play professionally?
A: Cello.
Q: Who is Dana's neighbor?
A: Louis Tully.
Q: Who plays Louis?
A: Rick Moranis.
Q: What supernatural name possesses Dana?
A: Zuul.
Q: What title does Zuul have?
A: Gatekeeper.
Q: What possesses Louis?
A: Vinz Clortho.
Q: What title does Vinz have?
A: Keymaster.
Q: What happens when Keymaster and Gatekeeper unite?
A: They open the way for Gozer.
Q: Who is Gozer?
A: Ancient destructive deity/entity.
Q: What question does Gozer's heralding setup ask?
A: The Destructor form is chosen from the team's thoughts.
Q: Who accidentally chooses the form?
A: Ray.
Q: What does he think of?
A: Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Q: Why does Ray choose it mentally?
A: He tries to think of something harmless from childhood.
Q: How large does Stay Puft become?
A: Giant building-sized mascot.
Q: What ultimately defeats Gozer?
A: Ghostbusters cross the proton streams at the portal.
Q: Why do they break Egon's rule?
A: It is their last chance to reverse the dimensional gateway.
Q: What happens to Stay Puft?
A: Explodes into marshmallow goo.
Q: Who gets covered heavily?
A: Walter Peck and much of the street.
Q: What famous question is asked repeatedly by possessed characters?
A: “Are you the Keymaster?” and related Gatekeeper exchange.
Q: What building is Dana's apartment in?
A: 550 Central Park West in the story.
Q: What architectural feature makes it occult?
A: It was designed by fictional cult architect Ivo Shandor as a supernatural antenna.
Q: Who is Ivo Shandor?
A: Cult leader and architect connected to Gozer worship.
Q: What does Venkman say after getting slimed?
A: He reports the ghost slimed him.
Q: What nickname did later media give that green ghost?
A: Slimer.
Q: Was the name Slimer heavily used in the first film itself?
A: No, it became standard through later merchandising and animation.
Q: What Ray Parker Jr. song became the theme?
A: “Ghostbusters.”
Q: What response follows “Who you gonna call?”
A: “Ghostbusters!”
Q: What did the first film mix unusually well?
A: Horror imagery, science-fiction gadgets, workplace comedy, improv, and New York disaster spectacle.
Ghostbusters II, Afterlife & Frozen Empire
Q: In what year was Ghostbusters II released?
A: 1989.
Q: What supernatural substance runs beneath New York?
A: Psychomagnotheric slime, often called mood slime.
Q: What affects the slime?
A: Human emotions.
Q: What does negative emotion do?
A: Makes it more dangerous.
Q: What villain inhabits a painting?
A: Vigo the Carpathian.
Q: What museum worker falls under Vigo's influence?
A: Dr. Janosz Poha.
Q: Who plays Janosz?
A: Peter MacNicol.
Q: What does Vigo want?
A: Possess Dana's baby Oscar.
Q: What giant landmark do the Ghostbusters animate?
A: Statue of Liberty.
Q: What makes it move?
A: Positive mood slime and music.
Q: What song plays during that sequence?
A: “Higher and Higher.”
Q: What 2021 film is titled Ghostbusters: Afterlife?
A: Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
Q: Who directs it?
A: Jason Reitman.
Q: What is his connection to the original?
A: Son of original director Ivan Reitman.
Q: Who is Phoebe Spengler?
A: Egon's granddaughter.
Q: Who plays Phoebe?
A: Mckenna Grace.
Q: Who is her brother?
A: Trevor.
Q: Who plays Trevor?
A: Finn Wolfhard.
Q: Who is their mother?
A: Callie Spengler.
Q: What town do they move to?
A: Summerville, Oklahoma.
Q: What classic car do they discover?
A: Ecto-1.
Q: What ghost helps Phoebe silently?
A: Egon's spirit.
Q: How was Harold Ramis represented respectfully after his death?
A: Visual effects, stand-in performance, likeness work, and family/filmmaker collaboration created a silent ghostly Egon.
Q: What original villain returns?
A: Gozer.
Q: What original team members return?
A: Venkman, Ray, Winston, and other legacy characters.
Q: What 2024 film follows?
A: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
Q: Where does the family return?
A: New York City firehouse.
Q: What icy threat emerges?
A: Garraka, an ancient entity capable of supernatural freezing.
Q: What does Frozen Empire combine?
A: Original team, younger Spenglers, new Ghostbusters infrastructure, and expanded supernatural lore.
Q: What role has Winston grown into?
A: Wealthy supporter who funds advanced Ghostbusters research and operations.
Production, Animation, Props & Hard Ghostbusters Trivia
Q: Who directed the original Ghostbusters?
A: Ivan Reitman.
Q: Who wrote the screenplay?
A: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
Q: What was Aykroyd's original concept like?
A: Much larger, more futuristic, and filled with interdimensional ghost-catching teams.
Q: What did Ramis and Reitman help do?
A: Ground the concept in contemporary New York and a startup-business comedy.
Q: Who was originally envisioned for Venkman by Aykroyd?
A: John Belushi before Belushi's death.
Q: What made Bill Murray's performance special?
A: Dry improvisational comedy and refusal to treat paranormal chaos too seriously.
Q: What practical problem did proton packs create?
A: They were heavy.
Q: What warning did crew need around packs?
A: Props were cumbersome and required careful handling.
Q: What animated series followed the movies' success?
A: The Real Ghostbusters.
Q: Why include “Real” in the title?
A: A separate Filmation property called Ghostbusters already existed.
Q: What ghost became a mascot in the cartoon?
A: Slimer.
Q: What later cartoon emphasized him in the title?
A: Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters.
Q: What 2016 reboot features an all-female central team?
A: Ghostbusters: Answer the Call.
Q: Who directs it?
A: Paul Feig.
Q: Name one main Ghostbuster in that film.
A: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, or Leslie Jones.
Q: Does it share direct continuity with the original films?
A: No, it is a separate reboot continuity.
Q: What actor plays their receptionist Kevin?
A: Chris Hemsworth.
Q: What is funny about Kevin?
A: He is handsome but comically incompetent.
Q: What building remains the franchise's most famous real location?
A: Hook & Ladder 8.
Q: What New York library appears in the opening?
A: New York Public Library's main branch exterior.
Q: What hotel hosts Slimer?
A: Fictional Sedgewick Hotel, with exterior/interior filming in real locations.
Q: What cereal and merchandise phenomenon followed?
A: Ghostbusters toys, cereal, cartoons, slime products, and Ecto branding became major 1980s merchandise.
Q: Why are proton packs so iconic?
A: They turn paranormal investigation into physical blue-collar equipment.
Q: What makes the firehouse work as headquarters?
A: It feels like a messy small business rather than a sleek superhero base.
Q: Why is Ghostbusters especially deep trivia material?
A: Improv, New York locations, props, ghosts, gadgets, animation, multiple continuities, legacy actors, songs, and practical effects create huge range.
Q: What is the central comedy premise?
A: Treat supernatural apocalypse like an inconvenient service call.
Q: What is the most important safety advice?
A: Don't cross the streams.
Q: When is that advice ignored?
A: When crossing the streams is the only way to close Gozer's portal.
Q: What is the franchise's perfect business phone response?
A: “Who you gonna call?”
Q: What is the answer?
A: Ghostbusters.
How Did You Score?
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