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60 free The Cabin in the Woods trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Cabin in the Woods is the horror movie that explains every other horror movie: five college students, one remote cabin, and a control room full of technicians betting on which monster the kids will let out of the cellar. This Cabin in the Woods trivia quiz covers all of it, from Dana, Curt, Jules, Holden and Marty and the archetypes they are forced into, to Sitterson, Hadley, the Harbinger, the Director and the Ancient Ones waiting underneath. It also digs into how the film got made and nearly didn't: Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon writing the script in three days, the Vancouver shoot in 2009, MGM's bankruptcy shelving it for years, Lionsgate's rescue, the surprise Butt-Numb-A-Thon screening, the box office, the reviews and the awards it picked up in 2013. Fifty-four questions run from easy for anyone who has seen it once to expert for people who paused the whiteboard. Every answer is checked against documented production and release records rather than fan wikis, so you can use these for a horror movie night or a Halloween round with confidence.
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Q 01Who directed The Cabin in the Woods, in his feature directorial debut?
Drew Goddard
Goddard had written for Buffy, Angel, Alias and Lost, and penned Cloverfield, before stepping behind the camera here.
Q 02Goddard and Whedon famously wrote the screenplay in how long?
Three days
They described the script as an attempt to revitalize the slasher genre and a critical satire on torture porn.
Q 03Which student is designated 'The Virgin' by the facility?
Dana Polk
Kristen Connolly plays Dana; the archetype is required to die last or survive for the ritual to work.
Q 04Marty, the eccentric stoner played by Fran Kranz, is slotted into which archetype?
The Fool
Marty's survival is exactly what breaks the ritual, since the Fool was supposed to die before the end.
Q 05Which student is the facility's 'Athlete'?
Curt Vaughan
Curt is a sociology major, a detail the film uses to undercut the dumb-jock label the chemicals push him toward.
Q 06Holden McCrea, 'The Scholar', is introduced as Curt's what?
Football teammate
Jesse Williams, then of Grey's Anatomy, plays Holden, the newcomer to the group.
Q 07Which future Thor actor plays Curt?
Chris Hemsworth
Filming wrapped in 2009, so the film sat on a shelf while Hemsworth became a Marvel star.
Q 08Sigourney Weaver's character is credited only by what title?
The Director
Her unnamed leader of the facility appears only in the final act to explain the ritual.
Q 09Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford play which pair of facility technicians?
Sitterson and Hadley
Critics singled the two veterans out; The A.V. Club said they 'clearly delight in the verbose script'.
Q 10Amy Acker, a Whedon regular from Angel, plays which facility employee?
Wendy Lin
Lin is the technician who runs the chemistry side of the operation.
Q 11Mordecai, the gas station owner who works for the facility, has which designation?
The Harbinger
Tim de Zarn plays him, and his ominous speakerphone call to the control room is one of the film's best jokes.
Q 12Tom Lenk, Andrew from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, appears as which facility character?
Ronald the Intern
Lenk appeared in 27 episodes of Buffy and two of Angel before this reunion with Whedon.
Q 13Dana awakens the undead killers by reading aloud from whose diary?
Patience Buckner
Jodelle Ferland, Alessa from Silent Hill, plays the Buckner girl.
Q 21How does the facility nudge the students into their horror-movie roles?
Chemicals pumped through the vents
Marty, whose heavy weed use makes him resistant to the drugs, is the one who sees through it.
Q 22In the temple beneath the facility, what is Dana urged to do to complete the ritual?
Kill Marty
Because the Fool survived, the sacrifices are out of sequence and the ritual is incomplete.
Q 23What mortally wounds Dana before she can decide whether to save the world?
A werewolf
Marty kills the creature, and the two decide humanity does not deserve saving through endless ritual murder.
Q 14Who kills Jules after she and Curt wander outside?
The zombie Buckners
Chemicals released into the woods nudge the couple outside, which is exactly what the technicians were betting on.
Q 15How does Curt die?
His motorcycle jump hits an invisible force field
The jump across the ravine looks like the classic action-hero escape until the barrier reveals the whole valley is a cage.
Q 16Holden is killed while the survivors try to flee in what vehicle?
An RV
The vehicle then crashes into the lake, leaving Dana to struggle ashore alone.
Q 17What are the 'Ancient Ones' the ritual is meant to appease?
Colossal beings living beneath the earth
The Lovecraftian reveal reframes every slasher cliché as a rule of the sacrifice.
Q 18Which country's operation unexpectedly collapses, leaving the American team as humanity's last hope?
Japan
The Japanese scenario, a classroom of schoolgirls versus a ghost, fails when the girls turn the spirit into a frog.
Q 19What decides which monsters get unleashed on the students?
The relics they handle in the cellar
That is why the technicians can only wager rather than choose; the kids pick their own doom.
Q 20While the friends explore the cabin, what do the technicians do among themselves?
Bet on which monster will be released
The betting-pool whiteboard, listing every creature in the facility, became the film's most-paused frame.
Q 24How does the film end?
One of the Ancient Ones rises and the world ends
A giant hand smashes up through the cabin in the very last shot.
Q 25Where was the film shot?
Vancouver
Principal photography ran from March 9 to May 2009.
Q 26In which year was the film actually shot?
2009
It reached cinemas three years later, in April 2012, after MGM's collapse.
Q 27What was the film's estimated production budget?
$30 million
It went on to gross more than double that worldwide.
Q 28Roughly how much did the film gross worldwide?
$66.5 million
About $42.1 million of that came from the United States and Canada.
Q 29Which studio eventually picked up distribution after MGM shelved the film?
Lionsgate
Goddard called it 'a dream', noting most of the films that inspired Cabin were released by the same company.
Q 30Why was the finished film shelved indefinitely in 2010?
MGM's financial difficulties
MGM's new chiefs later tried to sell both Cabin and the Red Dawn remake, the last films from the previous regime.