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49 free Fear Street trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Fear Street was R.L. Stine's first horror series, three years before Goosebumps, and it was always the nastier one: older teens, more blood, a town called Shadyside and a street named for a family that changed its name from Fier because the letters spelled 'fire'. Eighty million books later, Netflix turned it into a trilogy shot back-to-back in Georgia and released one film a week in July 2021, then followed with Prom Queen in 2025. These 49 questions cover both halves of the story. From the books: The New Girl, the Goode curse, Fear Island, the birdless woods, Division Street, the Ghosts of Fear Street and Cheerleaders spin-offs, the 2014 revival and the 1998 ABC pilot nobody remembers. From the films: Leigh Janiak, Chernin and the Fox-to-Netflix move, Deena and Sam, Sunnyvale, Camp Nightwing, Sadie Sink, the settlement of Union, Solomon Goode and the onscreen title tricks of Part Three, plus Prom Queen's Wolfpack and Toronto shoot. Easy questions stick to the town and the films' basics; the hard tier asks about Red Buttons, Kate Trefry and The Milkman. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation that adds one more detail.
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Q 01Who wrote the Fear Street books?
R. L. Stine
He started the teen series in 1989, three years before Goosebumps.
Q 02In what year did the Fear Street series begin?
1989
The first book was The New Girl.
Q 03What was the first Fear Street book?
The New Girl
Its hero, Cory Brooks, pops up in several later novels.
Q 04The street is named after which family?
The Fears
The family name was originally spelled Fier.
Q 05Why did Simon Fier change the family name to Fear?
The letters could spell 'fire'
He was told the family was cursed; the curse followed them to Shadyside after the Civil War.
Q 06In the books, who placed the curse on the Fier family?
William Goode
Benjamin and Matthew Fier had sentenced his wife and daughter, Martha and Susannah, to burn for witchcraft.
Q 07In which era did the books' curse begin?
Puritan times
The Fear Street Sagas spin-off tells the 17th-century backstory.
Q 08What sits in the middle of the lake in the books?
Fear Island
Much of the series' paranormal activity happens on the street, in the woods or on the island.
Q 09What unexplained feature do the Fear Street woods have in the books?
No birds
Scientists in the series could not explain it.
Q 10Which road cuts the town into north and south halves?
Division Street
The local mall sits on it; Fear Street lies in the southern half.
Q 11What was the old mill at the end of Old Mill Road reopened as?
A teen dance club
It's called The Mill and predates the town itself.
Q 12Which neighbourhood is described as the nicest in Shadyside, with big houses and tended lawns?
North Hills
Waynesbridge is a separate town about 20 minutes' drive away.
Q 13What was the 1995 spin-off for younger readers called?
Ghosts of Fear Street
Those books were more like Goosebumps, with monsters, aliens and twist endings.
Q 21Which veteran comic actor played Grandpa in the 1998 pilot?
Red Buttons
Ken Kwapis directed the pilot for Viacom and Parachute Entertainment.
Q 22Which studio first acquired Fear Street film rights in 1997?
Hollywood Pictures
It was to be a Scream-like franchise; nothing materialized.
Q 23Who directed all three films in the 2021 Fear Street trilogy?
Leigh Janiak
She had originally been set to direct only the first and third, with Alex Ross Perry on the second.
Q 24Which streaming service released the trilogy in July 2021?
Q 14Which spin-off did Stine write in 1999 before pausing the series?
Fear Street Seniors
He returned in 2005 with the three-part Fear Street Nights.
Q 15Roughly how many Fear Street books had been sold as of 2010?
80 million
Individual titles hit the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists.
Q 16Which 2014 novel revived Fear Street after publishers had shown no interest?
Party Games
St. Martin's Press editor Kat Brzozowski contacted Stine after he complained on Twitter.
Q 17How did Stine say the 2014 revival books differed from the originals?
Longer, more adult and more violent
He argued young adult fiction had changed since 1989.
Q 18What was the 1992 Fear Street sub-series about a cursed squad called?
Cheerleaders
It ran The First Evil, The Second Evil and The Third Evil in one year.
Q 19What are the three books of the Fear Street Saga trilogy?
The Betrayal, The Secret, The Burning
All three were published in 1993 and tell the Fier family's origin story.
Q 20Which network aired the unsold Fear Street TV pilot in July 1998?
ABC
Titled Ghosts of Fear Street, it posted ABC's worst rating on record in its slot.
Netflix
20th Century Fox was originally to distribute before Chernin Entertainment's deal changed in 2020.
Q 25How were the three films released?
Weekly, one per week
Part One arrived July 2, Part Two July 9 and Part Three July 16, 2021.
Q 26In which US state was the trilogy filmed?
Georgia
The 106-day shoot in Atlanta and East Point wrapped in September 2019.
Q 27Who produced the films and moved them from Fox to a streamer?
Chernin Entertainment
Chernin signed a multi-year first-look deal with Netflix in April 2020.
Q 28Why was the trilogy's planned June 2020 theatrical release abandoned?
The COVID-19 pandemic
Netflix acquired the films in August 2020 after Disney bought Fox.
Q 29Who plays Deena, the trilogy's lead?
Kiana Madeira
Olivia Scott Welch plays her girlfriend Sam and Benjamin Flores Jr. her brother Josh.
Q 30What is the name of Shadyside's wealthy, safe neighbouring town in the films?
Sunnyvale
The original settlement was called Union before it split in two.