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72 free Hotel Transylvania trivia questions with answers. Hotel Transylvania is Sony Pictures Animation's biggest franchise before the Spider-Verse: four films, a prequel TV series, three shorts and more than a billion dollars at the box office. This quiz covers the whole run, from Drac hiding a human backpacker named Johnny in the 2012 original, through Dennis's fifth birthday, the monster cruise to Atlantis and the human-versus-monster switch of Transformania. The easy questions are for kids who have seen the films a dozen times: who voices Mavis, what a zing is, what Frank is scared of, what Dennis's giant puppy is called. The harder ones are for the grown-ups on the couch beside them: which singer was cast as Mavis first, which director created Samurai Jack, why Adam Sandler was not in the fourth film, and where the first Hotel Transylvania theme-park ride opened. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the films, the characters, the TV series and the franchise, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which actor voices Count Dracula in the first three films?
Adam Sandler
Sandler co-wrote the second film as well, and much of his real family turns up in the cast: his wife voices Martha and his daughters voice Winnie and baby Dennis.
Q 02Who voices Mavis, Dracula's daughter, in the films?
Selena Gomez
She joined the franchise in 2012 and by the fourth film was also one of its executive producers.
Q 03Which singer was originally announced to voice Mavis in 2011, before leaving the project?
Miley Cyrus
She was announced in November 2011 and dropped from the film in February 2012, and the role went to the actress who has voiced Mavis ever since.
Q 04Who voices Johnny, the human backpacker who stumbles into the hotel?
Andy Samberg
Samberg also co-wrote and performed the song 'Sweet 118' for the first film's birthday-party scene.
Q 05Who voices Frankenstein in the first three films?
Kevin James
James and Sandler had already made Grown Ups and Paul Blart-era comedies together, which is part of why the cast feels like a reunion.
Q 06Steve Buscemi voices which of Drac's friends?
Wayne the werewolf
In the video game Monsters Overboard the part went to his brother, Michael Buscemi.
Q 07David Spade's character Griffin can only be seen by what?
His brown glasses
Griffin is naked the whole time, and when the fourth film's ray finally makes him visible he is revealed to be middle-aged and pot-bellied.
Q 08Fran Drescher voices which character?
Eunice, Frank's wife
Like her husband, she can be taken apart and reassembled without harm, which is why the couple simply mail themselves to the hotel.
Q 09Mel Brooks joined the cast of the second film as which relative of Dracula?
His father
Vlad turns up for Dennis's fifth birthday and, in a twist, is the one who insists the boy is simply a 'late fanger' like Drac was.
Q 10Who directed the first three Hotel Transylvania films?
Genndy Tartakovsky
The first film was his feature directing debut, and he was the sixth director attached to the project after five others came and went.
Q 11Before Hotel Transylvania, the franchise's director created which Cartoon Network series?
Samurai Jack
He also created Dexter's Laboratory and directed the 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars shorts, and he stepped away from Sony between the second and third films to finish Samurai Jack's final season.
Q 12In the first film, which birthday is Mavis celebrating?
Her 118th
She was born in 1894, so the 2012 party lines up with the film's release year, and 'Sweet 118' is the song Johnny performs for her.
Q 13What word do the monsters use for love at first sight?
Zing
Drac believes it only happens once in a lifetime, which is why falling for a ship captain in the third film throws him so badly.
Q 21The first film's $42.5 million opening broke which movie's record for the biggest September debut?
Sweet Home Alabama
The record lasted three years until the sequel opened to $48.5 million on the same weekend of the calendar.
Q 22The first film was nominated for Best Animated Film at which awards?
The Golden Globes
It lost to Pixar's Brave, and critics were far cooler than audiences: a 45% Rotten Tomatoes score against an A-minus CinemaScore.
Q 23Which comedy writer created the concept, based on his own book of the same name?
Todd Durham
He walked an unsolicited package into Columbia Pictures that already sketched out films, TV, games, merchandise and even a hotel chain and theme parks.
Q 14When Drac disguises Johnny as a monster, what name does he give him?
Johnnystein
He is passed off as Frank's cousin, and to keep him around Drac then improvises that he is a party planner hired to liven up Mavis's birthday.
Q 15Which hotel employee first works out that Johnny is a human and tries to cook him?
Quasimodo, the chef
Drac magically freezes him to keep him quiet, and he is still frozen at the end of the film, being licked by werewolf pups.
Q 16What is the name of the chef's pet rat, who can sniff out humans?
Esmeralda
The name is a nod to The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, in which Esmeralda is the woman Quasimodo loves.
Q 17In what year did Drac build the hotel, after Martha was killed by a human mob?
1895
That makes the hotel well over a century old by the anniversary party that opens Transformania.
Q 18How do Drac and his friends learn that Johnny is heading for the airport?
Winnie the werewolf pup tracks his scent
Winnie has a very sensitive nose, and she is the only one of Wayne's several hundred pups who actually listens to him.
Q 19How does Drac deliver his apology to Johnny once the plane has taken off?
He hypnotizes the pilot to speak over the PA
Drac chases the plane as a bat while burning in the sunlight, then makes the pilot turn the plane back to Transylvania.
Q 20At which film festival did the first film premiere in September 2012?
Toronto
The third film went the other way and premiered at Annecy, the world's biggest animation festival, in June 2018.
Q 24The hand-drawn short Goodnight Mr. Foot stars which hotel guest?
Bigfoot
It was the studio's first traditionally animated film and was drawn in about four weeks in the style of Tex Avery and Chuck Jones.
Q 25Which studio produces the Hotel Transylvania films?
Sony Pictures Animation
The same studio later made the Spider-Verse films and KPop Demon Hunters, but for years the third film was its highest-grossing fully animated release.
Q 26What nickname does Drac insist on calling his grandson Dennis?
Dennisovich
Dennis looks like his dad but has his mother's blue eyes, and he shows no vampire traits at all until the end of the second film.
Q 27In the second film, Mavis and Johnny visit his parents in which California town?
Santa Cruz
Johnny's mom tries to make Mavis feel at home by covering the guest room in Halloween decorations, which does not go well.
Q 28Dennis's favorite TV monster, a cake-loving parody of Cookie Monster, is called what?
Kakie
Vlad possesses the man in the costume to scare Dennis's fangs out, and the actor's first worry afterwards is bad Yelp reviews.
Q 29Vlad's bat-like servant, who attacks Dennis and Winnie, is named after which classic actor?
Bela Lugosi
Bela is voiced by Rob Riggle and ends the film shrunk down to a harmless size to be a plaything for the werewolf pups.
Q 30Drac takes Dennis to his old childhood summer camp in the second film. What is it called?
Winnepacaca
The camp has gone soft and safety-conscious since Drac's day, and the director, voiced by Dana Carvey, points out that vampires cannot hypnotize other vampires.