City of the Dead Trivia Quiz

Answer: Christopher Lee

Lee's first picture for Hammer Studios was "The Curse of Frankenstein" playing the part of the monster. Lee played a history professor in "City of the Dead". His students are unaware that he practices what he preaches.

Answer: Research material for her college thesis

Nan was one of Driscoll's students. After a lecture, she decided that visiting an old New England town would provide her with a better feel for life there and perhaps pay additional dividends with new "findings" about witchcraft.

Answer: Dr. Driscoll

Among the students attending the lecture, Nan seemed to be the one interested in pursuing further knowledge about witchcraft. Without giving it another thought, she immediately made plans to spend her vacation in a remote New England village.

Answer: A witch

Elizabeth was a reincarnated witch burned at the stake in 1692. Salem, MA will live on in infamy as the town that put to death many of its own family and friends, believing that they made a pact with the devil. In the movie, Selwyn, while burning and before dying put a curse on the town.

Answer: She was sacrificed by the witches.

According to Nan's research, both the bird and woodbine marked the witch's intended sacrificial victim. Up to this time in the movie, Nan exhibited no concern at all about the odd things occurring.

Answer: Nan's bracelett

Lottie was the Inn's housekeeper. She was not deaf but could not speak. For all her efforts to warn people of pending danger, she ended up dead at the hands of the witches.

Answer: Got in a car accident

Bill is not wild about Nan's decision to go to Whitewood thinking that they would be spending their vacation together. Alarmed by Nan's absence at the birthday party, he decides to follow Nan's brother to Whitewood.

Answer: Called operator to get the Inn's number and learned that it was not listed.

Richard visited Dr. Driscoll to find out more information about the Inn and Whitewood. He decided to go to Whitewood to search for Nan.

Answer: The Reverend

Pat was the Reverend's granddaughter. She was in town to sort through her Grandmother's belongings after her recent death.

Answer: To find out where Nan's brother lived

Pat lent Nan a book entitled, "A Treatipede on Devil-Worship in New England". When Nan failed to return the book, Pat stops by the Inn and learned that Nan was no longer staying there. Dr. Driscoll offered to bring the item to Nan's brother but Pat wisely decided to do so herself.

Answer: False

After Richard left, Pat found the witches calling cards, a dead bird and woodbine on the door. Her grandfather insisted that they leave Whitewood at once and immediately both head for her car which would not start. Finding that the witches have tampered with the car engine, they headed back to the house but was too late.

Answer: A trap door leading into the basement of the Inn

After finding the Woodbine on her door, Nan heard chanting coming from the basement and tried to open the trap door. Her brother found the same door leading to the basement steps. With gun in hand, he descended into the basement, found the dead body of Lottie and stumbled onto a coven of witches about to kill Pat.

Answer: Fight the witches using the shadow of a cross

Back at the Inn, Richard got a call from a very upset Pat. The call was interrupted by screaming, prompting Richard to jump into action and run to the Reverend's house. He was too late, the witches had taken her.

Answer: Nan's boyfriend

Although severely wounded as a result of the car accident and a knife stuck in his back, Bill managed to pull out a cross from the graveyard and staggered towards the witches. One by one they all went up in flames, except for Mrs. Newless.

Answer: She died

Her burned body was discovered by Pat and Richard, slumped in a chair in the Raven's Inn at the site of her demise in 1692. Failing to fulfill her pact with Lucifer, Elizabeth was reduced to the burnt corpse she was 260 years ago.