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50 free Fantastic Beasts trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Fantastic Beasts trivia questions with answers. The Fantastic Beasts films took the Wizarding World back to 1920s New York and then across Europe, and this quiz covers all three of them. Forty questions run through Newt Scamander's suitcase and the creatures inside it, Tina and Queenie Goldstein, Jacob Kowalski and his bakery, MACUSA and President Picquery, Credence and the Obscurial, Percival Graves and the Grindelwald reveal, the blood pact, Leta Lestrange, Nagini and Nicolas Flamel in Paris, the qilin and the election in Bhutan, and the truth about Aurelius Dumbledore. It also covers the making of the series: J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut, the 2001 charity book, the Oscar for costume design, the Depp-to-Mikkelsen recast, the box office slide and the plan for five films that stopped at three. Easy questions ask which house Newt was in and what a No-Maj is; the hard ones want the goblin who runs the Blind Pig, the prison in Berlin and the year Newt was born. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and characters, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who plays Newt Scamander?
Eddie Redmayne
Eddie Redmayne plays Newt Scamander in all three films; he was cast in 2015, months after winning the Best Actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything.
Q 02In what year does the first Fantastic Beasts film take place?
1926
The first film is set in late 1926, when Newt arrives in New York; the sequel picks up in 1927 with Grindelwald's escape.
Q 03For which charity was the original Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them book written in 2001?
Comic Relief
Rowling wrote Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2001 for Comic Relief, alongside Quidditch Through the Ages, under the pen name Newt Scamander.
Q 04The first film marked whose debut as a screenwriter?
J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling made her screenwriting debut with the first film; Steve Kloves, who adapted the Potter books, joined her as co-writer only on the third.
Q 05What is the American wizarding word for a non-magical person?
No-Maj
No-Maj, short for 'no magic', is the American term for a Muggle; Rappaport's Law barred US wizards from befriending or marrying them, which complicates Queenie and Jacob.
Q 06Which creature escapes Newt's suitcase in the bank and starts all the trouble?
A Niffler
The Niffler, a mole-like creature obsessed with shiny things, escapes into the bank; chasing it, Newt collides with Jacob Kowalski and the two swap suitcases.
Q 07What is Jacob Kowalski's dream job?
Baker
Jacob Kowalski dreams of being a baker and is refused a bank loan for his shop the same day he meets Newt; by the end he has opened the bakery.
Q 08What does the acronym MACUSA stand for?
Magical Congress of the United States of America
MACUSA stands for the Magical Congress of the United States of America, the wizarding government headquartered inside New York's Woolworth Building.
Q 09What is Tina's full first name?
Porpentina
Tina's full name is Porpentina Goldstein; played by Katherine Waterston, she was demoted from Auror for attacking Mary Lou Barebone in defence of Credence.
Q 10What magical ability does Queenie Goldstein have?
She is a Legilimens
Alison Sudol plays the mind-reading younger sister who falls for Jacob.
Q 11What is an Obscurial?
A magical child whose suppressed powers become a destructive parasite
Those afflicted rarely live past ten; Credence survives to adulthood only because his magic is so strong.
Q 12What is the name of the anti-witch group led by Mary Lou Barebone?
The New Salem Philanthropic Society
The New Salem Philanthropic Society, whose followers are nicknamed Second-Salemers, campaigns to expose witches from its derelict church, where Mary Lou raises Credence, Chastity and Modesty.
Q 13Which actor plays Percival Graves, the MACUSA official who turns out to be Grindelwald in disguise?
Q 21Which Hogwarts house was Newt Scamander sorted into?
Hufflepuff
Newt was a Hufflepuff and wears the house scarf in the first film; he was expelled after taking the blame for his Slytherin friend Leta Lestrange's dangerous Jarvey experiment.
Q 22During the First World War, Newt worked on a secret Ministry programme involving what?
Ukrainian Ironbelly dragons
Newt tells the Ministry he worked mostly with Ukrainian Ironbelly dragons on the Eastern Front during the First World War; his mother, by contrast, bred hippogriffs.
Q 23In what year was Newt Scamander born?
1897
Newt Scamander was born on 24 February 1897, making him 29 when he lands in New York in late 1926.
Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell plays Percival Graves, MACUSA's Director of Magical Security, until a Revelio charm exposes him as Grindelwald, briefly shown as Johnny Depp.
Q 14Who plays Seraphina Picquery, the President of MACUSA?
Carmen Ejogo
Carmen Ejogo plays Seraphina Picquery, MACUSA's president, who orders Credence's Obscurus destroyed; Gemma Chan appears as the Chinese ambassador Madam Ya Zhou.
Q 15What is the name of the goblin gangster, voiced by Ron Perlman, who runs the speakeasy the Blind Pig?
Gnarlak
Gnarlak, a goblin gangster played by Ron Perlman through motion capture, runs the Blind Pig speakeasy and sells Newt the Demiguise's whereabouts before tipping off MACUSA.
Q 16How is New York's memory of the magical chaos wiped at the end of the first film?
Newt's Thunderbird spreads a potion as rain
Wizards are immune to the extract and repair the damage while the city forgets.
Q 17Which Academy Award did the first film win, the first Oscar for any Wizarding World movie?
Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood won Best Costume Design at the 89th Academy Awards for the film's 1920s wardrobe, the franchise's first Oscar after eight Potter films went without.
Q 18How much did the first Fantastic Beasts film gross worldwide?
$814 million
The first film grossed about $814 million worldwide on a $175 million budget, finishing as the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2016.
Q 19Which English city stood in for 1920s New York during filming?
Liverpool
Liverpool's Cunard Building and St George's Hall were dressed as 1920s New York for the shoot, which otherwise took place at Leavesden Studios.
Q 20How many films was the series announced to run to in October 2016?
Five
In October 2016 Rowling announced the series would run to five films, though only three had been released by 2022's The Secrets of Dumbledore.
Q 24In which city is most of The Crimes of Grindelwald set?
Paris
Most of The Crimes of Grindelwald unfolds in 1927 Paris, from the Circus Arcanus to Grindelwald's Père Lachaise rally, and the film held its world premiere in Paris.
Q 25Who plays the young Albus Dumbledore in the second and third films?
Jude Law
Jude Law plays Albus Dumbledore, then Hogwarts' Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, in The Crimes of Grindelwald and The Secrets of Dumbledore.
Q 26Who plays Newt's brother Theseus, an Auror engaged to Leta Lestrange?
Callum Turner
Callum Turner plays Theseus Scamander, a war-hero Auror; the Ministry offers Newt his travel ban lifted if he joins Theseus in hunting Credence.
Q 27Which future Voldemort companion appears in The Crimes of Grindelwald as a cursed circus performer?
Nagini
Nagini, played by Claudia Kim, is a Maledictus doomed to become a snake permanently; she flees the Circus Arcanus with Credence.
Q 28What kind of vow has Yusuf Kama made regarding Corvus Lestrange V?
An Unbreakable Vow
Yusuf Kama swore an Unbreakable Vow to his dying father to kill Corvus Lestrange V, avenging his mother Laurena, whom Corvus Lestrange IV abducted under the Imperius Curse.
Q 29How did Leta Lestrange unintentionally cause the death of her half-brother Corvus?
She swapped him with another baby on a ship that sank
Unable to bear his crying, she switched him with Credence; the boy she swapped drowned.
Q 30What does Newt's light-fingered creature steal from Grindelwald that Newt gives Dumbledore in the second film?
A vial containing their blood pact
The pact stops the two men from duelling each other; Dumbledore believes it can be destroyed.