"The Haunting" (1963) Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mrs. Lance

Mrs. Dudley is the housekeeper and Mrs. Sanderson is Luke's aunt. She holds the lease to Hill House. Grace Markway appears later in the movie much to the annoyance of her husband Dr. Markway, because she doesn't believe in the paranormal. Mrs. Lance or Nell's mother is only mentioned but never appears.

Answer: What's wrong? Too much Vermouth?

Nell and Theo freeze after hearing a strange noise approaching, when Luke walks in stirring martinis in a jug! This is the strange noise they heard. He later explains how he 'majored' in martinis at college. This comment shows that Luke is the fun character and he doesn't take the scientific experiment seriously.

Answer: Boston to Hill House

Eleanor lives in Boston with her sister and brother-in-law when she gets invited to Hill House to do a scientific study of the paranormal. The story is set in New England but is filmed in England. When Eleanor comes out of the parking lot in Boston, we can clearly see two English Bobbies through the rear window.

Answer: A dog

They think they hear a dog go past their bedroom and chase it outside, then the banging on the door starts in Nell and Theo's room. The 'dog' noise is created by Hill House and is intended to separate Luke and Dr. Markway from Nell and Theo.

Answer: play gin with him

Dr. Markway obtains the keys of Hill House from the present owner Mrs. Sanderson, so he can undertake his experiment into the paranormal. She mentions that Luke is going because one day he hopes to inherit the house. Then she warns him about Luke's card playing talent. Dr. Markway thinks he might have natural ESP abilities.

Answer: Valentine Dyall

Valentine Dyall plays the hostile country caretaker and he only appears in the one scene near the beginning to let Nell in through the gates. Nell says that she's going to 'report' his threatening behaviour.
Nelson Gidding wrote the screenplay, Richard Johnson plays Dr.Markway and Claude Jones is the parking lot attendant.

Answer: To turn it into a nightclub

He thinks Hill House is prime real estate and one of the acts for the nightclub would be a line of beautiful chorus girls dancing down the spiral staircase. This is when we find out about the fragility of the staircase. Luke mimics the dancing girls and the staircase begins to shake.

Answer: Help, Eleanor come home

Luke finds the writing on the wall in the hallway. Nell gets scared that the house knows her name, then she thinks one of the other people in the house might have written it just to play with her.

Answer: A harp

The harp in the music room occasionally 'hums' or 'vibrates' all by itself. This is one of the many phenomena in Hill House that the group are studying.

Answer: Mrs. Markway

Nell is leaving when suddenly the house takes control of the car. When Nell starts drifting off into a daze, suddenly we see Grace run behind a tree in front of the car. The shock of seeing Grace Markway makes her lose control of the car and plough it into the tree.