Comedy Classics Pub Quiz

Ghosts Quiz

A Ghosts quiz ·15 questions · Difficulty: Hard· 2019-2023. Circle one answer per question.

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1. What is the name of the country estate the ghosts haunt?

A) Button House
B) Crawley Manor
C) Higham Hall
D) Thorne Court
2. How does Alison gain the ability to see the ghosts?

A) After a car crash
B) After being pushed from a window and briefly dying
C) After an electric shock
D) After nearly drowning in the lake
3. Julian, the disgraced MP, is famously missing which item of clothing?

A) His jacket
B) One shoe
C) His trousers
D) His tie
4. What was Thomas Thorne in life?

A) A painter
B) A soldier
C) A composer
D) A Regency-era poet
5. How did Thomas Thorne die in 1824?

A) Shot in a duel
B) Consumption
C) Drowning
D) A sword wound
6. How did Pat, the 1980s scout leader, meet his end?

A) A snakebite on a camping trip
B) An arrow through the neck during an archery lesson
C) A camping stove fire
D) A fall from a cliff
7. How did Robin, the prehistoric caveman ghost, die?

A) Eaten by a bear
B) A rockfall
C) Freezing to death
D) Struck by lightning
8. What is unusual about Elizabethan ghost Sir Humphrey Bone?

A) He can walk through the living
B) He speaks only French
C) His head and body are separate, as he was beheaded
D) He is invisible to the other ghosts
9. How did Mary, the 17th-century ghost, die?

A) Burned at the stake, accused of witchcraft
B) Drowned in a witch trial
C) Died of the plague
D) Hanged for theft
10. How did Lady Fanny Button die in 1912?

A) She fell down the stairs
B) She was pushed out of a window by her husband George
C) She was poisoned by a servant
D) She died in childbirth
11. What killed Georgian noblewoman Kitty in 1780?

A) Smallpox
B) A riding accident
C) A bee sting
D) A venomous spider bite, from a spider hidden on a pineapple
12. What was the Captain's cause of death, finally revealed in series 5?

A) Killed in battle
B) A heart attack
C) A wartime bombing raid
D) Influenza
13. The ghosts confined to the cellar of Button House all died of what?

A) Cholera
B) A great fire
C) The plague
D) Starvation
14. Ghosts was created by the same core troupe behind which children’s sketch show?

A) Horrible Histories
B) That Mitchell and Webb Look
C) The Fast Show
D) Sorry, I've Got No Head
15. In the final 2023 Christmas special, what becomes of Button House after Alison and Mike leave?

A) It is demolished
B) It becomes a museum
C) It burns down
D) It is turned into a hotel

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Answer Sheet

Ghosts Quiz: Answers

1. A - Button House
2. B - After being pushed from a window and briefly dying
3. C - His trousers
4. D - A Regency-era poet
5. A - Shot in a duel
6. B - An arrow through the neck during an archery lesson
7. D - Struck by lightning
8. C - His head and body are separate, as he was beheaded
9. A - Burned at the stake, accused of witchcraft
10. B - She was pushed out of a window by her husband George
11. D - A venomous spider bite, from a spider hidden on a pineapple
12. B - A heart attack
13. C - The plague
14. A - Horrible Histories
15. D - It is turned into a hotel