Question 1

What is Neil Howie's police rank?

Accepted Answer

Sergeant

Question 2

How does Howie travel to Summerisle?

Accepted Answer

By seaplane

Question 3

What is the name of the missing girl?

Accepted Answer

Rowan Morrison

Question 4

What brings Howie to the island?

Accepted Answer

An anonymous letter with a photo of Rowan

Question 5

What is the name of Howie's fiancée?

Accepted Answer

Mary Bannock

Question 6

What is the name of the inn where Howie stays?

Accepted Answer

The Green Man

Question 7

Who is the landlord of the inn?

Accepted Answer

Alder MacGregor

Question 8

What song do the pub regulars sing about Willow?

Accepted Answer

The Landlord's Daughter

Question 9

How does Willow try to seduce Howie?

Accepted Answer

She sings and dances naked in the next room

Question 10

What is Miss Rose's job?

Accepted Answer

Schoolteacher

Question 11

What does Miss Rose teach the children the maypole represents?

Accepted Answer

A phallic symbol

Question 12

What creature does Howie find tethered to a nail on a pupil's desk?

Accepted Answer

A beetle

Question 13

Why does a woman put a frog in her daughter's mouth?

Accepted Answer

To cure a sore throat

Question 14

Who is Rowan's mother?

Accepted Answer

May Morrison

Question 15

What is the name of Rowan's younger sister?

Accepted Answer

Myrtle

Question 16

What does Howie find when he digs up Rowan's grave?

Accepted Answer

A dead hare

Question 17

What crop is Summerisle famous for?

Accepted Answer

Apples

Question 18

What did Lord Summerisle's grandfather do?

Accepted Answer

Bred fruit for the climate and revived the old gods

Question 19

Why do the islanders need a sacrifice this year?

Accepted Answer

Last year's harvest failed

Question 20

What state is the island's church in?

Accepted Answer

In ruins, with no minister

Question 21

What does Howie see at the stone circle at night?

Accepted Answer

Naked young women leaping over a fire

Question 22

How does Howie join the May Day procession?

Accepted Answer

He knocks out Alder and takes the Punch costume

Question 23

How is Lord Summerisle dressed in the procession?

Accepted Answer

In a long wig and a woman's dress

Question 24

What is Rowan's real role in the plot?

Accepted Answer

She's bait who leads Howie to his captors

Question 25

The sacrifice must come of his own free will, have a king's power, be a virgin, and be what?

Accepted Answer

A fool

Question 26

Why can't Howie fly back to the mainland?

Accepted Answer

His plane has been sabotaged

Question 27

What else is burned inside the wicker man with Howie?

Accepted Answer

Animals

Question 28

What does Howie sing as he burns?

Accepted Answer

The Lord's My Shepherd

Question 29

What song do the islanders sing in reply?

Accepted Answer

Sumer Is Icumen In

Question 30

What is the film's final image?

Accepted Answer

The wicker man's head collapsing against the sunset

The Ultimate The Wicker Man Trivia Quiz

2) How does Howie travel to Summerisle?

3) What is the name of the missing girl?

4) What brings Howie to the island?

5) What is the name of Howie's fiancée?

6) What is the name of the inn where Howie stays?

7) Who is the landlord of the inn?

8) What song do the pub regulars sing about Willow?

9) How does Willow try to seduce Howie?

10) What is Miss Rose's job?

11) What does Miss Rose teach the children the maypole represents?

12) What creature does Howie find tethered to a nail on a pupil's desk?

13) Why does a woman put a frog in her daughter's mouth?

14) Who is Rowan's mother?

15) What is the name of Rowan's younger sister?

16) What does Howie find when he digs up Rowan's grave?

17) What crop is Summerisle famous for?

18) What did Lord Summerisle's grandfather do?

19) Why do the islanders need a sacrifice this year?

20) What state is the island's church in?

21) What does Howie see at the stone circle at night?

22) How does Howie join the May Day procession?

23) How is Lord Summerisle dressed in the procession?

24) What is Rowan's real role in the plot?

25) The sacrifice must come of his own free will, have a king's power, be a virgin, and be what?

26) Why can't Howie fly back to the mainland?

27) What else is burned inside the wicker man with Howie?

28) What does Howie sing as he burns?

29) What song do the islanders sing in reply?

30) What is the film's final image?