Quiz – Witches and Wizards and Ghosts – Oh, My!
Quiz – Witches and Wizards and Ghosts – Oh, My!
Literature abounds with the supernatural and this Halloween quiz is all about everything spooky – the good, bad, funny and just plain scary!
Literature abounds with the supernatural and this Halloween quiz is all about everything spooky – the good, bad, funny and just plain scary!
Which Pratchett novel begins with the lines:‘The night was as black as the inside of a cat…”When shall we three meet again?” There was a pause. “Well I can do next Tuesday.”
In The Witches by Roald Dahl, the young narrator is turned into what animal?
Which witch says these lines: ‘The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.’
Who is Deputy Headmistress, head of Gryffindor House, Transfiguration professor, and later Headmistress at Hogwarts?
Which novel is set in 1960s Rhode Island and follows the witches Alexandra, Jane and Sukie whose coven is upset by the arrival of the enigmatic Daryl Van Horne?
Who wrote Hansel and Gretel in which the protagonists are kidnapped by a cannibalistic witch living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and confectionery?
In which fairy tale does the wicked witch utter these words, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?”
Which Shakespearean protagonist is persuaded by three witches – and his wife - to kill King Duncan?
Who in Shakespeare ends his magic with the words, ‘I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.’
Who says: ‘I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.”
Merlin is possibly the most famous wizard in literature – but where in the UK does his name originate from?
Which Henry James gothic ghost story was published in 1898 and follows a young governess sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children?
Which ghost story features Arthur Kipps, Eel Marsh House and the Nine Lives Causeway?
In Dickens’ A Christmas Carol which ghost is the first to visit Scrooge?
Whose second novel was Her Fearful Symmetry, published in 2009, and is a 21st Century ghost story about love, loss and identity?
Which 1820 short ghost story by Washington Irving is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially at Halloween?
Which Shakespearean ghost speaks these words: ‘Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural.’
Which Gothic horror novel was published in 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker?
Which wizard is a member of the Istari order, the leader of the Fellowship of the Ring and of the army of the West?
Which Sarah Waters novel is a ghost story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire, England in the 1940s?