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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

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

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

300

a. The Ghost in the Machine Curse

b. The Hide and Seek 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

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

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

400

What town does the Headless Horseman haunt?

a. Tarrytown, NY

b. Cooperstown, 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