Edward Scissorhands Trivia
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107 free Edward Scissorhands trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Edward Scissorhands trivia quiz is devoted to Tim Burton's 1990 Gothic fairy tale (for questions across Burton's whole career, from Beetlejuice to Wednesday, take our Tim Burton quiz). It covers the story of the unfinished man with scissor blades for hands, the Avon lady who brings him down from the mansion, the pastel cul-de-sac, the topiary and the hairdressing, Jim's break-in, the ice angel and the snow that never fell on the town before. The easy questions are ones any fan knows: who plays Edward and Kim, who the Inventor is, what Peg sells and how the film ends. From there it works through the making of it: the teenage drawing that started it, Caroline Thompson's 'love poem' screenplay, why Warner Bros. let it go to Fox, Tom Cruise's request for a happier ending, the other actors considered, Stan Winston's scissor hands and Bo Welch's four house colours, the Florida town of Lutz, Danny Elfman's 79-piece orchestra and the three Tom Jones songs. There are questions on its awards, its box office, its critics, the Matthew Bourne dance version, the IDW comics sequel, the Super Bowl ad with Timothee Chalamet and the Cambrian fossil named after Depp's claws. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the film, its cast and its crew before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Fans may also like our Beetlejuice and Nightmare Before Christmas quizzes.
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Q 01What do the curious neighbours pressure Peg into hosting so they can meet Edward?
A barbecue
A barbecue. Joyce turns up at Peg's door and asks what time it begins before Peg has invited anyone, so the Boggses have to throw one to introduce their guest.
Q 02In Bill's ethics quiz, what would Edward do with a suitcase of money he found?
Give it to his loved ones
Give it to his loved ones. Bill is fishing for 'turn it in to the police', but Kim takes Edward's side and says his answer is the nicer thing to do.
Q 03Which screenwriter wrote Edward Scissorhands from a story she devised with Tim Burton?
Caroline Thompson
Caroline Thompson and Burton were clients of the same agency, which paired them up; Fox then paid for the script and let the two write it with no studio input.
Q 04What is Peg Boggs's job when she discovers Edward?
Door-to-door Avon saleswoman
Peg is a door-to-door Avon saleswoman. After a fruitless day on her rounds she drives up to the mansion on the hill and finds Edward alone in the attic.
Q 05Who plays Peg Boggs?
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest was the first actor to sign on, and Burton said that once she had given the script her stamp of approval, others soon got interested.
Q 06Who plays the Inventor, Edward's creator?
Vincent Price
Vincent Price had narrated Burton's 1982 short Vincent, a tribute to him, and eight years later played Edward's creator. The director's childhood idol became the father of his hero.
Q 07Why was Edward left with scissors instead of hands?
The Inventor died before finishing him
The Inventor died before finishing him, collapsing at the very moment he was about to fit Edward with real hands. Edward was left alone in the mansion, unfinished.
Q 08Who plays Kim's jealous boyfriend Jim?
Anthony Michael Hall
Anthony Michael Hall, famous as the geek of John Hughes's teen comedies, was trying to shake off that typecasting and here plays the film's villain.
Q 09Who plays Bill Boggs, Kim's father?
Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin plays Bill Boggs, Kim's father. He admitted the script left him 'a bit baffled', and that nothing made sense to him until he saw the sets.
Q 10Who plays Joyce, the neighbour who tries to seduce Edward?
Kathy Baker
Kathy Baker plays Joyce Monroe, the neighbour who makes a pass at Edward. She saw the part as a good chance to break into comedy.
Q 11What is the name of the religious fanatic neighbour who distrusts Edward?
Esmeralda
Esmeralda warns the neighbours that Edward has been sent to tempt them and calls him a 'perversion of nature', which only makes Joyce find him more exciting.
Q 12How does Edward first repay the neighbourhood's kindness?
By trimming hedges into topiaries
By trimming hedges into topiaries, starting in the Boggs' own back yard. His work then moves from plants to pets to people: the neighbours' dogs, then the women's hair.
Q 13What business does Joyce offer to help Edward open?
A hair salon
Q 21How does Jim die?
Edward stabs him and pushes him from a window
Edward stabs him and pushes him from a window of the mansion, but only after Jim has followed Kim there with a gun and fired at him while she tried to stop the attack.
Q 22What does Kim tell the neighbours after Jim's death?
That Jim and Edward killed each other
Kim tells them that Jim and Edward killed each other, holding up a spare scissor hand from the Inventor's workshop as proof, so Edward is left alone in the mansion.
Q 23Who is the elderly woman telling Edward's story to her granddaughter?
Kim
A hair salon, the natural next step once Edward has moved from hedges to dogs to the neighbourhood women's hair. The bank refuses him a loan.
Q 14What lie does Joyce tell the neighbourhood women about Edward?
That he tried to rape her
That he tried to rape her. Jilted when Edward fled her advances, Joyce turns the story round, and the neighbours who had queued for his haircuts turn against him.
Q 15Why does Jim rope Edward into the break-in?
To steal his father's electronics to buy a van
Jim plans to steal his father's electronics to buy a van, so he has Edward pick the lock of the locked room. A burglar alarm traps Edward inside while the others flee.
Q 16Why do the police decide Edward cannot be charged for the break-in?
Isolation left him without any morality
Isolation left him without any morality, a psychologist tells the police, so the charges are dropped. Edward takes the blame alone and never tells them that Kim and Jim were there.
Q 17What does Edward carve in the Boggs' garden at Christmas?
An ice sculpture modelled on Kim
An ice sculpture modelled on Kim, carved for the family's Christmas party. Kim walks out into the garden and twirls in the shavings that fly from his blades.
Q 18How does Kim get injured during the ice-carving scene?
Jim startles Edward, who cuts her hand
Jim startles Edward, who cuts her hand by accident as he turns. Jim calls it an attack and drives him off, and Kim tells Jim she no longer loves him.
Q 19What does Kim ask Edward to do when he returns to the house?
Hold her
Kim asks Edward to hold her. He answers 'I can't', so she steps into his arms and arranges the blades herself so they can embrace.
Q 20Whom does Edward push out of the path of a drunk driver?
Kevin
Kevin, Kim's little brother: Edward pushes him clear of a vehicle driven by Jim's drunk friend, scratching the boy as he does, and onlookers think he is attacking him.
Kim, who never saw Edward again after the night the town chased him back up the hill. She stayed away so he would remember her as she was in her youth.
Q 24Why does the elderly narrator believe Edward is still alive?
Because it would not be snowing without him
Because it would not be snowing without him. It never snowed in the town before Edward came down from the mansion, so to her every flake since is proof that he is still up there.
Q 25What inspired the character of Edward, by Burton's account?
A drawing he made as a teenager in Burbank
A drawing he made as a teenager in Burbank: a man with long blades for fingers, which Burton said came from how hard he found it to communicate with the people around him.
Q 26Which Beetlejuice character had Winona Ryder played for Burton before he cast her as Kim?
Lydia Deetz
Lydia Deetz, the goth teenager of Burton's 1988 comedy. He said he approached Ryder for Kim because the two had worked so well together on that film.
Q 27Which later film did the Edward Scissorhands screenwriter also write?
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas. She took over from an earlier writer when most of the songs were already written, so her script had to be built around them.
Q 28What did the Edward Scissorhands screenwriter call the script, written for Burton?
A 'love poem'
A 'love poem'. She called the script her love poem to Burton, the most articulate person she knew, she said, though she could not repeat one complete sentence of his.
Q 29Which studio passed on Edward Scissorhands before 20th Century Fox agreed to finance it?
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. had made all three of Burton's earlier features but passed on this one; his own agent admitted the story 'didn't jump off the page as a hit picture'.
Q 30Which future Backstreet Boy was an uncredited child extra in Edward Scissorhands?
Nick Carter
Nick Carter. Aged ten, he is one of the children playing on a Slip 'N Slide in the background as Edward gets his first look at the suburb.