Vampire Lore
Despite its long use as protection from evil, Bram Stoker popularized this plant as a weapon against the undead.
What is garlic?
In “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, Anthony Hopkins played this vampire-hunting professor.
Though featured in “Dracula”, one of these is not a widely-accepted weakness of vampires:
A) Garlic
B) Holy symbols
C) Roses
D) Sunlight
What is C) Roses?
This “Sesame Street” character is supposed to be a vampire.
Who is Count von Count?
In “Dracula”, which character drives a stake through Lucy’s heart?
Who is Arthur Holmwood?
Though featured in “Dracula”, one of these is not a widely-accepted weakness of vampires:
A) Garlic
B) Holy symbols
C) Roses
D) Sunlight
What is C) Roses?
Though they played opposite each other in the 1994 film, “Interview with the Vampire”, these two actors have vowed never to work together again.
Who are Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt?
The idea that vampires are weak to garlic may have come about from the idea that this small insect hates garlic.
What is a mosquito?
The locale for the blood-sucking Salvatore brothers in the CW’s show “The Vampire Diaries”.
What is Mystic Falls?
The century in which the word “vampire” first appeared in literature.
What is the 18th century/1700s?
One method of identifying a vampire’s grave involved this animal (usually black, though in Albania, it should be white) leading a virgin boy through a graveyard.
What is a horse?
Benjamin Walker stepped into the presidential shoes for this 2012 metafiction monster mash-up movie.
A) Hamilton: The Werewolf
B) Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer
C) V for Vendetta
D) American Werewolf
What is B) Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer?
Though Count Dracula is a fictional character created by Bram Stoker, the character was inspired by this real-life 15th-century war-lord in modern day Romania.
Who is Vlad the Impaler?
A) Dark Shadows
B) True Blood
C) The Vampire Diaries
D) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
What is A) Dark Shadows?
These are the names of the three “bad” vampires in the “Twilight” series.
What are James, Laurent, and Victoria?
The medieval Roman Catholic Church held that a vampire could not do this because they are servants of the devil.
What is enter someone’s home?
In this 1987 movie staring Kiefer Sutherland, two brothers move to California, where they meet a group of young vampires.
What is The Lost Boys?
Mercy Brown was the first suspected vampire in colonial America after an outbreak of this deadly disease in New England. Her corpse was dug up and dealt with as a suspected vampire.
What is tuberculosis?
The HBO show “True Blood” takes place in this fictional southern town.
What is Bon Temps, Louisiana?
John William Polidori’s short story, “The Vampyre” is taken from a story told by Lord Byron as part of a horror story contest out of which this popular novel was also born.
What is “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley?
In Irish folklore, this attracts vampires to a particular location.
A) Crosses
B) Strong emotions
C) Moonlight
D) Sacred artifacts
What is B) Strong emotions?
Released in 1922, this film directed by F.W. Murnau is considered the first ever vampire film.
What is Nosferatu?
The psychological term for the fear or hatred of vampires.
A) Lupophobia
B) Nosferatophobia
C) Sanguivoriphobia
D) Vestiphobia
What is C) Sanguivoriphobia?
According to the CW show “Supernatural”, it’s possible to cure a vampire who hasn’t yet drank any human blood by drinking this.
What is a potion of garlic, sage, and the blood of the vampire that cured them?
This American essayist documented a Vermont vampire hunt in an 1859 journal entry.
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson
B) Mark Twain
C) Thomas Paine
D) Henry David Thoreau
Who is D) Henry David Thoreau?