Fantasy Movie Trivia
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49 free Fantasy Movie trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This fantasy movie trivia quiz sweeps across the whole genre, from Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in the 1960s to modern Oscar winners. It covers the record-setting Lord of the Rings trilogy shot in New Zealand, The Princess Bride and André the Giant, Jim Henson's Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, Miyazaki's Spirited Away and the eight-film Harry Potter series. Expect questions on directors and stars, on famous creatures and props, on the books these films came from and the records they set. There are easy ones any movie fan will get and hard ones about box office, awards and behind-the-scenes trivia. Questions run from easy to expert, and every answer has been checked against a reliable source. No spoilers beyond what the posters already gave away.
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Q 01Which fantasy film first won Best Picture?
The Return of the King
The Return of the King won at the third attempt, sweeping all 11 of its nominations in 2004: the trilogy's first two films had each been nominated for Best Picture and lost.
Q 02In which country were the three Lord of the Rings films shot back-to-back?
New Zealand
New Zealand is Peter Jackson's home country, and the Shire village set built on a farm near Matamata was later rebuilt to last and now takes visitors round on guided tours.
Q 03Which director made the 1987 film The Princess Bride?
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner got it made only after years of false starts under other directors: Norman Lear, his old boss on All in the Family, put up the money.
Q 04Which wrestler played the gentle strongman Fezzik in The Princess Bride?
André the Giant
André the Giant was in such back pain during the shoot that he could not catch Robin Wright in his arms, so cables held her up.
Q 05Which musician played Jareth the Goblin King in the 1986 film Labyrinth?
David Bowie
David Bowie was picked from a shortlist of rock stars that also had Sting, Prince and Michael Jackson on it, and he wrote and sang the film's songs.
Q 06What is the name of the luckdragon in The NeverEnding Story?
Falkor
Falkor swoops in to save Atreyu as he sinks into the Swamps of Sadness with Gmork closing in, then carries him on toward the Southern Oracle.
Q 07Which actor played the title dwarf farmer in the 1988 fantasy film Willow?
Warwick Davis
Warwick Davis had been George Lucas's choice for Willow since 1982, when the boy was playing the Ewok Wicket in Return of the Jedi.
Q 08Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth is set in 1944 in which country?
Spain
Spain under Franco is the setting, five years after its civil war; del Toro wrote the English subtitles himself because he disliked the translation of his earlier film The Devil's Backbone.
Q 09In L. Frank Baum's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, what colour are the magic shoes that MGM later made ruby red?
Silver
Silver shoes carry Dorothy home in the 1900 book; the film-makers made them red to take advantage of the new Technicolor process.
Q 10Which visual-effects pioneer created the famous seven-skeleton battle in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)?
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen had to pose seven model skeletons by hand for every frame, and on some days he finished only 13 or 14 frames, less than a second of film.
Q 11Who played the barbarian hero in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger got the part after the producers saw him in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron, and the film launched his Hollywood career.
Q 12Which actor played the devil-like Darkness in Ridley Scott's 1985 film Legend?
Tim Curry
Tim Curry once grew so impatient that he tore the Darkness makeup off without soaking it loose and took his own skin with it, and Ridley Scott had to film around him for a week.
Q 13The 1982 film The Dark Crystal is populated entirely by what?
Puppets
Puppets play every part, with no human on screen; the villains at first spoke an invented language, which was re-voiced in English after preview audiences reacted badly.
Q 21In the 1985 film Ladyhawke, Isabeau is a hawk by day; what does her lover Navarre become each night?
A wolf
A wolf by night and a hawk by day, the lovers are never human together: the Bishop of Aquila cursed them because he wanted Isabeau for himself.
Q 22Who plays the White Witch in 2005's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton's White Witch has plunged Narnia into endless winter, and she tempts Edmund with Turkish delight and the promise of a crown so that he will bring her his brother and sisters.
Q 23Which band recorded the soundtrack songs for the 1986 film Highlander?
Queen
Queen's Brian May wrote 'Who Wants to Live Forever' in the car on the way home from seeing early footage of the film, in which the immortal hero's wife grows old and dies in his arms.
Q 14The 2007 film Stardust is based on a novel by which author?
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman's novel has no Captain Shakespeare: Robert De Niro's cross-dressing sky pirate was built for the film out of a captain the book barely mentions.
Q 15Which actor plays the title character in the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands?
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp, then a teen idol from TV's 21 Jump Street, was the director's choice, but the studio wanted a bigger star and made him meet Tom Cruise first.
Q 16Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water was inspired by which classic monster film?
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon left the six-year-old del Toro aching for the Gill-man and the heroine to end up together, so he made a film in which the creature gets the girl.
Q 17Which Studio Ghibli film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003?
Spirited Away
Spirited Away won, but Hayao Miyazaki stayed away from the ceremony; he said years later that he had not wanted to visit a country that was bombing Iraq.
Q 18Which actress plays the sorceress Morgana in John Boorman's 1981 Arthurian film Excalibur?
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson, the film's Merlin, had fallen out during a stage Macbeth years earlier; Boorman cast them as enemies anyway, hoping the friction would show.
Q 19Which Monty Python member directed the 1981 fantasy Time Bandits?
Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin's script joked that Agamemnon should be 'Sean Connery or an actor of equal but cheaper stature'; Connery was offered the part and took it.
Q 20In the 1981 film Clash of the Titans, what does Perseus ride to save Andromeda?
The winged horse Pegasus
The winged horse Pegasus is the film's twist on the myth: in the old Greek tellings the horse springs from Medusa's blood when Perseus beheads her, and it is Bellerophon who tames it.
Q 24Who played Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films?
Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman knew what his directors did not: years before the books ended, J. K. Rowling took him aside and told him Snape's secret history, and he shaped the whole performance around it.
Q 25The first Harry Potter film was retitled Sorcerer's Stone for the US; what was the original British title?
Philosopher's Stone
Philosopher's Stone stayed on British prints; because the American title differed, every scene that names the stone was filmed twice, once with each word.
Q 26Which Harry Potter actor won his role after sending in a video of himself rapping?
Rupert Grint
Rupert Grint sent the casting team a home-made tape with a rap, a sketch in which he dressed up as his drama teacher, and some of Ron Weasley's lines, and it got him a meeting.
Q 27Who played Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy?
Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman's Bilbo carried three films spun from one short novel: the project was being made as two until July 2012, when Jackson announced a third.
Q 28Which actor plays Sir Gawain in David Lowery's 2021 film The Green Knight?
Dev Patel
Dev Patel's film lost its 2020 premiere to the pandemic, and David Lowery, unhappy with his cut, spent six months re-editing it before it opened in 2021.
Q 29Which director made the 2003 film Big Fish?
Tim Burton
Tim Burton signed on in 2002, not long after his own father died, and this story of a son making peace with a dying father had special meaning for him.
Q 30Which actress plays the fairytale princess Giselle in Disney's 2007 film Enchanted?
Amy Adams
Amy Adams was a little-known actress when she was cast, and the part made her a star: Enchanted was her first hit in a leading role.