80s Halloween-Themed Music Quiz

What group released “The Ghost in You” in 1984?

What hair metal band’s second album is called Shout at the Devil?

Which Men at Work song includes the line “Ghosts appear and fade away”?

Since we’re on the subject . . . What 1983 Men at Work song (and accompanying video) recounts the story of a nerdy mad scientist who drinks one of his own potions and is transformed into a gregarious party-goer who is “cool in every way?”

Which singer appeared appeared as the Goblin King in the 1986 film Labyrinth?

Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” was famously featured in which 1986 Tom Cruise-Paul Newman film?

Which one of the following songs was NOT included on the soundtrack to the 1987 vampire flick, The Lost Boys?

Speaking of which, Echo and the Bunnymen covered which Doors song for the Lost Boys soundtrack?

What is the opening song of AC/DC’s Back in Black?

Dokken’s “Dream Warrior” was a single for the third film of what film series?

Which creepy Hooters song, released as a single in 1985, mentions Moses, Noah, and the Israelites?

12. I am a scary singer who played a werewolf, a mad scientist, and a dead man in a music video. I am known the world over for sinking my teeth into a bat’s head (although, in my defense, I thought it was a rubber bat). And I am nicknamed the “Prince of Darkness.” Who am I?

The trippy video for which Tom Petty song has an Alice in Wonderland theme, featuring the singer as the Mad Hatter, who serves up Alice, after she’s been magically transformed into a cake?

And now the “Ghostbusters” section of the quiz: Which of the following does not have a cameo in the Ghostbusters video?

It’s a two-parter: 1) Which 80s band sued Ray Parker Jr. for copyright infringement, citing similarities between one of their songs and “Ghostbusters”? And, 2) what was the song that this band deemed too similar to “Ghostbusters”?

Which singer/ actress appeared as single mom Alexandra Medford in the film The Witches of Eastwick?

The Charlie Daniels’ song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” appeared in which 1980 film featuring John Travolta, Debra Winger, and a mechanical bull?

The video for which 1987 Grateful Dead song depicts the band as instrument-playing skeletons?

Which Oak Ridge Boys song was a hit on the country AND pop charts back in 1981 and shares its name with the so-called “Mistress of the Dark,” a character played by actress Cassandra Peterson?

What INXS song observes, “It’s hard to believe we need a place called Hell”?

Allegedly, Sting’s song “Moon over Bourbon Street” was inspired by Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire. On what album did “Moon over Bourbon Street” first appear?

Which Police album (released in 1981) contains the songs “Spirits in the Material World,” “Invisible Sun,” and “Everything Little Thing She Does Is Magic”?

Which demon from the Faust legend is name-dropped in “Wrapped around Your Finger”?

What sign of the zodiac completes the following lines from Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You”: “No ______________ sun/ No Halloween”?

What classic horror film is mentioned in the lyrics of Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me”?

The nonsensical video for which song features Bonnie Tyler as a teacher in a Gothic school populated with prancing ninjas and boys with creepy glowing eyes?

Morris Day (yes, of the Time) covered “Somebody’s Watching Me” for the soundtrack of a 2003 Walt Disney film starring Eddie Murphy. (The film is based on a Disney amusement ride.) What is this movie?

In addition to writing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” Rod Temperton wrote what decidedly non-Halloween-themed James Ingram/ Michael McDonald hit?

What number completes the following line from the Vincent price section of “Thriller”” “the funk of ____________________ years”?

In addition to directing the “Thriller” video, John Landis was one of four directors for a 1983 sci-fi/ horror film that gained infamy due to the fact that Vic Morrow and two child actors died on the set from a tragic helicopter accident. What was the film?

Which song, ranked #8 on VH1’s “100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s,” was the biggest hit for new wave group Bow Wow Wow?