VAMPIRES IN MOVIES
In the Twilight film series, what is the name of the teenage girl who falls in love with vampire Edward Cullen?
Bella Swan
What is the name of the vampire-slaying heroine played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the television series that ran from 1997 to 2003?
Buffy Summers
Which Irish author wrote the 1897 Gothic novel that introduced Count Dracula to a wide readership?
Bram Stoker
Which region of modern-day Romania is strongly associated with the historical figure who inspired many aspects of Dracula's legend?
Transylvania
What can repel vampires?
Garlic
In the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which actor plays the infamous Count Dracula?
Gary Oldman
In The Vampire Diaries, what are the first names of the Salvatore brothers, both of whom fall in love with Elena Gilbert?
Stefan and Damon
In Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels, what is the name of the vampire family whose members sparkle in sunlight rather than burn?
The Cullen family
What is the name of the fifteenth-century Wallachian ruler whose reputation for impaling enemies helped inspire the Dracula legend?
Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Țepeș
Vampire comes from the Albanian word 'dhampir', which means what?
to drink with teeth
In the 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys, what California seaside town becomes a hunting ground for a gang of young vampires?
Santa Carla
In True Blood, what is the name of the Louisiana waitress who can hear people's thoughts and becomes romantically involved with vampire Bill Compton?
Sookie Stackhouse
In Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, which vampire narrates his life story to a journalist?
Louis de Pointe du Lac
In eighteenth-century Europe, reports of supposed vampire outbreaks led authorities to investigate graves and corpses. Which modern-day country was the site of the famous 1732 case involving Arnold Paole?
Serbia, then part of the Habsburg Monarchy
In ancient Mesopotamian mythology, what female demon, often associated with storms, disease, and infant mortality, is sometimes linked to the broader history of supernatural beings that prey on humans?
Lilith
In Interview with the Vampire (1994), which actor plays the vampire Lestat, opposite Brad Pitt?
Tom Cruise
In the TV series The Originals, Klaus Mikaelson is known as the Original Hybrid because he is both a vampire and what other supernatural creature?
A werewolf
"The Vampyre", which is considered the first romantic vampire story, was written in 1819 by a British writer and physician John William Polidori with the protagonist being an unflattering parody of one of his famous patients. Who was the patient?
George Gordon Byron
What term describes the eighteenth-century European panic involving alleged attacks by the undead, which sometimes led communities to exhume and mutilate corpses?
The vampire controversy, or the eighteenth-century vampire panic
What is a group of vampires called?
Brood
What is the name of the 1922 German silent horror film about the vampire Count Orlok, an unauthorised adaptation of Dracula?
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which vampire character is notable for having a soul restored to him as punishment for a terrible act, setting up one of the series' most complex romances?
Angel
Popularized by Alexander Pushkin and Aleksey K. Tolstoy, this variant refers to undead creatures—often originating in Balkan or Slavic oral traditions—that prey on their own loved ones and turn them.
Vourdalak (вурдалак)
What was the name of the Hungarian countess whose legend became associated with bathing in the blood of young women to preserve her beauty, earning her a place in popular vampire lore despite the disputed historical evidence?
Elizabeth Báthory
In which year did the word 'vampire' appear in the Oxford Dictionary?
1834