Curses!
Haunted Knoxville
Movies Made in the South
Houdini
Ghosts
100
a. curse of the Hope Diamond
b. curse of the purloined necklace
c. the Romanov Curse
a. curse of the Hope Diamond
100
This distillery on Jackson Avenue is haunted by a man named Jack McPherson.
a. Post Modern Spirits
b. Blythe Spirits
c. The Attic Tap House
a. Post Modern Spirits
100
This movie about Loretta Lynn filmed all its concert scenes at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN.
a. Sweet Bird of Youth
b. Fire on the Mountain
c. Coal Miner's Daughter
c. Coal Miner's Daughter
100
Houdini was born Eric Weisz in 1894 in this European city.
a. Budapest, Hungary
b. Constantinople, Turkey
c. Barcelona, Spain
a. Budapest, Hungary
100
This famous ghost haunted the Bell family in Roberston County, TN from 1815 to 1821 and is said to live in the cave below:
a. The Akins Witch
b. The Bell Witch
c. The Gorye Ghost
b. The Bell Witch
200
a. The 10th Plague Curse
b. The Mummy's Curse
c. The Curse of Isis
b. The Mummy's Curse
200
This cemetery located on Central in downtown Knoxville is haunted by a ghost named Abner Baker who was lynched by Union Soldiers in 1865.
a. The Union Cemetery
b. Lakeshore Cemetery for the Criminally Insane
c. The Old Grey Cemetery
c. The Old Grey Cemetery
200
The Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville is where the prison scenes for this movie were filmed.
a. The Longest Yard
b. The Green Mile
c. The Last Breath
b. The Green Mile
200
Houdini first became known as an escape artist and earned the nickname:
a. King of Handcuffs
b. Prince of Prison Cells
c. Master of Manacles
a. King of Handcuffs
200
What president is said to haunt the White House?
a. Kennedy
b. McKinley
c. Lincoln
c. Lincoln
300
a. The Ghost in the Machine Curse
b. The Hide and Seek Curse
c. The Poltergeist Curse
c. The Poltergeist Curse
300
This historic home is haunted by a former servant who fell into the fireplace one night and burned to death.
a. The Blount Mansion
b. The Ogle House
c. The Craighead Jackson House
c. The Craighead Jackson House
300
The Parthenon in Nashville played host to this 2010 mythological film based on a series of best selling books by Rick Riordan.
a. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
b. James Rollins: Map of Bones
c. Pablo Neruda: Nights in Peru
a. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
300
True or False:
During WWI, Houdini gave classes to doughboys (US soldiers) on how to escape capture from German soldiers.
TRUE
300
What famous movie star haunts the Knickerbocker Hotel in Manhattan?
a. Marilyn Monroe
b. Charlie Chaplin
c. Cary Grant
a. Marilyn Monroe
400
a. The Nixon Curse
b. The Kennedy Curse
c. The Martha's Vineyard Curse
b. The Kennedy Curse
400
This bridge across the Tennessee River is haunted by a man who fell from the bridge while running from a lynch mob in 1815.
a. The Gay Street Bridge
b. The Henley Street Bridge
c. The John Sevier Bridge
a. The Gay Street Bridge
400
Filmed in Dyersburg and Union City, TN in 1967, this film won 5 Academy Awards.
a. The French Connection
b. Salem's Lot
c. In the Heat of the Night
c. In the Heat of the Night
400
Houdini offered a $______ reward to any psychic who could produce "physical phenomena" that could not be explained rationally.
a. $2,000
b. $50,000
c. $10,000
c. $10,000
400
What town does the Headless Horseman haunt?
a. Tarrytown, NY
b. Cooperstown, NY
c. Sleepy Hollow, NY
c. Sleepy Hollow, NY
500
a. The Tecumseh Curse of 1840
b. The William Henry Harrison Curse of 1784
c. The Davy Crockett Curse of 1820
a. The Tecumseh Curse of 1840
500
The Bijou Theater on Gay Street in downtown was a hotel during the Civil War. It is haunted by General William Pitt Sanders who died in the ______ suite.
a. Presidential
b. Bridal
c. Executive
b. Bridal
500
The opening chase sequence of this movie features the Nashville, TN skyline.
a. John Wick
b. The Matrix
c. Timeline
b. The Matrix
500
Houdini died of a burst appendix after a college student punched him in the stomach without warning - testing Houdini's boast that he could withstand any blow to his stomach. On what day did he die?
a. Halloween
b. Christmas
c. Easter
a. Halloween
500
This farmouse served as a field hospital during a 3 day Civil War battle and is haunted to this day along with the battlefield itself. Which battle is this place associated with?
a. Antietam Creek
b. Shiloh
c. Gettysburg
c. Gettysburg