American Horror Story Trivia
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116 free American Horror Story trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
62 free American Horror Story trivia questions with answers. American Horror Story reinvents itself every season, which makes it perfect trivia territory: there is a whole new cast of characters, a new setting and a new monster to remember each year. This quiz walks through all twelve seasons, from the Harmons moving into Murder House to Kim Kardashian's publicist in Delicate, plus the spin-off American Horror Stories. Expect questions on the settings and years, the villains (Bloody Face, Twisty, the Countess, the Butcher, Mr. Jingles), the repertory players who keep coming back, the crossover season, the musical numbers, the real-life killers who wandered into the story, and the Emmys and Golden Globes the cast collected. Easy ones ask who created the show; the hard ones want the mansion where season one was filmed and which season broke the anthology rule first. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series and each individual season, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who created American Horror Story?
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk began the series as a deliberate swerve: Murphy said that after running an upbeat musical comedy he wanted to make something challenging and dark.
Q 02On which network did American Horror Story premiere in October 2011?
FX
American Horror Story premiered on FX on 5 October 2011, drawing about 3.2 million viewers; the network renewed it for a second season within the month.
Q 03What is the subtitle of the first season of American Horror Story?
Murder House
The first season gained the subtitle Murder House only retroactively, once Asylum established the anthology format; on air in 2011 it was simply called American Horror Story.
Q 04The Harmon family in season one moves to Los Angeles from which city?
Boston
The Harmons leave Boston for Los Angeles after Vivien loses a baby and Ben has an affair with a student, hoping a fresh start in the old house will save their marriage.
Q 05What is Ben Harmon's profession in season one?
Psychiatrist
Ben Harmon is a psychiatrist who sees patients in the house's study, which is how one troubled teenage patient becomes entangled with his daughter Violet.
Q 06Evan Peters plays which troubled teenager in season one?
Tate Langdon
Evan Peters plays Tate Langdon, the ghost of a teenage school shooter who becomes Violet Harmon's boyfriend; Peters returned as Kit Walker in Asylum and Kyle Spencer in Coven.
Q 07Which famous real-life murder case is depicted in season one's episode 'Spooky Little Girl'?
The Black Dahlia
'Spooky Little Girl' reimagines the Black Dahlia case: Mena Suvari plays Elizabeth Short, who in the show's telling died in a dentist's chair inside the house in 1947; her real body was found in a Leimert Park lot that January.
Q 08The pilot of American Horror Story was shot on location at which historic Los Angeles house?
The Rosenheim Mansion
The Rosenheim Mansion, designed by architect Alfred Rosenheim as his own home, hosted the pilot; the rest of the season was shot on sets built as an exact replica of the house.
Q 09The Rubber Man suit in season one was originally bought by which character?
Chad Warwick
Chad Warwick, played by Zachary Quinto, bought the fetish suit to spice up his relationship, before Tate put it to darker use.
Q 10Season two, Asylum, is set in which year?
1964
Asylum's main story unfolds in 1964 at Briarcliff Manor, a fictional Massachusetts institution run by the Catholic Church, with framing scenes set in 2012.
Q 11Which character does Jessica Lange play in Asylum?
Sister Jude Martin
Sister Jude Martin is the stern nun who runs Briarcliff; before her vows she was Judy Martin, a hard-drinking bar singer who ran over a young girl while driving drunk.
Q 12Sarah Paulson plays which ambitious journalist in Asylum?
Lana Winters
Sarah Paulson's Lana Winters is committed to Briarcliff for being a lesbian and later escapes to write a best-seller, Maniac, about her captivity by the killer Bloody Face.
Q 13Who turns out to be the serial killer Bloody Face in Asylum?
Dr. Oliver Thredson
Dr. Oliver Thredson, the seemingly kindly doctor played by Zachary Quinto, is revealed as the skin-mask-wearing killer Bloody Face, who framed Kit Walker for his murders.
Q 21The Coven premiere set what was then a series record with how many viewers?
5.54 million
Coven's premiere, 'Bitchcraft', drew 5.54 million viewers on 9 October 2013, the series' largest audience to that point.
Q 22Emma Roberts joined American Horror Story in Coven as which spoiled movie star turned witch?
Madison Montgomery
Emma Roberts plays Madison Montgomery, a teenage actress who can move objects with her mind; she uses the power to flip a bus full of fraternity brothers, and later fails the divination trial in the contest for Supreme.
Q 23Season four, Freak Show, is set in 1952 in which Florida town?
Jupiter
Jupiter, Florida is where Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities, one of the last freak shows in America, is camped in 1952 when a string of murders puts the town under curfew.
Q 14Which actor won an Emmy for playing Dr. Arthur Arden in Asylum?
James Cromwell
James Cromwell won the 2013 supporting-actor Emmy as Dr. Arthur Arden, the asylum physician whom a patient claiming to be Anne Frank recognises as the Nazi doctor Hans Grüper.
Q 15Asylum's 17 Emmy nominations edged which rival?
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones earned 16 nominations to Asylum's 17; the horror anthology still lost the top miniseries prize to the Liberace film Behind the Candelabra.
Q 16Which 1960s hit becomes a hallucinated song-and-dance number in American Horror Story: Asylum?
The Name Game
The Name Game, Shirley Ellis's rhyming hit, erupts after electroshock therapy leaves Briarcliff's deposed head dazed: she imagines leading the whole common room in song around a new jukebox.
Q 17Season three, Coven, is set in which city?
New Orleans
New Orleans is home to Miss Robichaux's Academy, where descendants of witches who fled Salem shelter while feuding with the city's voodoo practitioners.
Q 18Which real 19th-century socialite and torturer does Kathy Bates play in Coven?
Delphine LaLaurie
Delphine LaLaurie tortured enslaved people in her Royal Street mansion until an 1834 fire exposed her; in Coven she is cursed with immortality, buried alive and dug up in the present day.
Q 19Which musician plays herself in American Horror Story: Coven, performing at the piano for the witches of Miss Robichaux's Academy?
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks sings 'Rhiannon' for Misty Day, the swamp witch who idolises her; Fiona arranges the visit to show Misty what a Supreme can enjoy.
Q 20Who is crowned the new Supreme at the end of Coven?
Cordelia Goode
Cordelia Goode, Fiona's daughter and the academy's headmistress, enters the Seven Wonders late at a mentor's urging, passes all seven and is crowned Supreme; she then goes public to draw young witches to the academy.
Q 24Sarah Paulson plays which two characters in Freak Show?
Bette and Dot
Bette and Dot Tattler are conjoined twins who share a body but not a temperament: Bette is a starstruck dreamer, Dot guarded and stern, and Dot hopes for surgery to separate them.
Q 25Who plays Twisty the Clown in Freak Show?
John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch plays Twisty, a killer clown who murders a boy's parents and locks the children he kidnaps in an old bus, a captive audience for his act.
Q 26Which David Bowie song does Elsa perform in the Freak Show premiere?
Life on Mars?
Elsa performs David Bowie's 'Life on Mars?' in the premiere 'Monsters Among Us', two decades before Bowie released it in 1971; the season leaned into such anachronistic numbers.
Q 27Which actor plays the strongman Dell Toledo in Freak Show?
Michael Chiklis
Michael Chiklis, the star of The Shield, plays strongman Dell Toledo, who turns up asking for work at the very show where his estranged son, lobster-boy Jimmy Darling, performs.
Q 28Season five is set in which fictional Los Angeles establishment?
Hotel Cortez
Season five is set in the Hotel Cortez, a fictional downtown Los Angeles hotel loosely inspired by the real Cecil Hotel, notorious for its deaths and disappearances.
Q 29Which pop star plays the vampiric Countess in Hotel and won a Golden Globe for it?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga plays Elizabeth, the Countess, a vampire-like fashion icon who abducts children and keeps them ageless in a hidden room of the hotel; the role won her a 2016 Golden Globe.
Q 30Who built the Hotel Cortez as a place to torture and murder people, in Hotel's backstory?
James Patrick March
Evan Peters plays James Patrick March, the 1920s tycoon who designed the Cortez with hidden chutes and sealed rooms for his murders; his ghost hosts the annual Devil's Night dinner.