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60 free How to Train Your Dragon trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
57 free How to Train Your Dragon trivia questions with answers. Since a scrawny Viking shot down a Night Fury in 2010, How to Train Your Dragon has grown into three animated films, a live-action remake, a dozen novels, more than 200 episodes of television and a theme-park land. This quiz covers the lot: the cast (Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett), the directors Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, John Powell's Oscar-nominated score, the dragons of Berk and their riders, Valka and Drago, the Light Fury and the Hidden World, and the surprisingly different Toothless of Cressida Cowell's original books. About a third of the questions are easy enough for a ten-year-old who has watched the films twice (what does Hiccup name his dragon and why, what colour is Stormfly). The rest push into production and box-office detail: which film premiered at Cannes, who was recast as Tuffnut and why, how much the remake grossed, and what Cowell became in 2019. Every answer is checked against the Wikipedia articles for the films, books, series and franchise, and the sentence that establishes it is shown under each question.
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Q 01What is the name of the Viking village where the story takes place?
Berk
In the third film the Berkians abandon it and settle a new island they call New Berk.
Q 02What kind of dragon does Hiccup shoot down with a bolas launcher?
A Night Fury
Nobody believes him, so he goes into the forest alone and finds it.
Q 03Why does Hiccup name his dragon Toothless?
Its teeth are retractable
In the books the name is literal: that Toothless is a tiny green dragon with no teeth at all.
Q 04Why can't Toothless fly on his own after Hiccup brings him down?
He lost half his tail fin
Hiccup builds a prosthetic fin and a harness so that the pair can fly together.
Q 05Who is Hiccup's father, chief of Berk?
Stoick the Vast
Gerard Butler is the only voice actor from the animated films to reprise his role in the 2025 live-action remake.
Q 06Who voices Hiccup in the animated trilogy?
Jay Baruchel
His full name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III; Jonah Hill voices Snotlout instead.
Q 07Which actress voices Astrid?
America Ferrera
Kristen Wiig is in the cast too, as Ruffnut.
Q 08Who voices Gobber the Belch, Berk's blacksmith?
Craig Ferguson
He is also the one who teaches the teenagers dragon training.
Q 09Which future Doctor Who star voices Spitelout Jorgenson, Snotlout's father, in the first film?
David Tennant
He is Stoick's aide and deputy.
Q 10Which cinematographer was hired as a visual consultant on the first film to give it a live-action feel?
Roger Deakins
He came back for the sequel and even joined the research trip to Svalbard.
Q 11Who composed the score for all the How to Train Your Dragon films?
John Powell
It earned him his first Academy Award nomination; he lost to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Q 12The 2010 film lost the Best Original Score Oscar to which film?
The Social Network
The film's other nomination that night was Best Animated Feature.
Q 13How many Academy Award nominations did the first film receive?
Two
It also picked up fourteen Annie Award nominations and won ten of them.
Q 14Where was the first film's premiere held on March 21, 2010?
Q 21Snotlout's dragon Hookfang is which species?
Monstrous Nightmare
In battle he coats himself in flammable saliva and sets himself on fire without harm.
Q 22The twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut share a two-headed Hideous Zippleback. What are the heads called?
Barf and Belch
One head breathes explosive gas and the other ignites it.
Q 23Which actor plays Fishlegs in the animated films?
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
His dragon lore comes out in role-playing-game stats.
The Gibson Amphitheatre
It had originally been scheduled for November 2009 but was pushed to avoid Planet 51 and other family films.
Q 15Roughly how much did the 2010 film gross worldwide?
$495 million
It opened at number one in North America with $43.7 million.
Q 16Which giant dragon controls the nest and is destroyed at the end of the first film?
The Red Death
In Cowell's books the equivalent monster is Merciless the Green Death.
Q 17What does Hiccup lose in the battle at the end of the first film?
His left foot
He wakes to find Gobber has made matching prosthetics for him and Toothless.
Q 18What kind of dragon does Hiccup face in his final exam?
A Monstrous Nightmare
Stoick enrages it into attacking, and Toothless is captured coming to the rescue.
Q 19What species is Astrid's dragon Stormfly?
Deadly Nadder
Sound designer Randy Thom voices both Toothless and Stormfly.
Q 20What is the name of Fishlegs' Gronckle?
Meatlug
Her stubby wings make her the slowest of the riders' dragons.
Q 24How to Train Your Dragon 2 is set how many years after the first film?
Five
The Hidden World then follows a year after Hiccup becomes chief.
Q 25Who plays Valka, Hiccup's long-lost mother, in the second film?
Cate Blanchett
She was presumed dead after a dragon carried her off during a raid; she had been rescuing dragons ever since.
Q 26Who is the warlord villain of How to Train Your Dragon 2, played by Djimon Hounsou?
Drago Bludvist
Kit Harington voices Eret, the dragon trapper who works for him.
Q 27What kind of giant, ice-breathing dragon controls other dragons as an alpha in the second film?
A Bewilderbeast
After Drago's Bewilderbeast is defeated, the dragons accept Toothless as their new alpha.
Q 28How does Stoick die in How to Train Your Dragon 2?
He shields Hiccup from a hypnotised Toothless
Hiccup is made chief of Berk at the end of the film.
Q 29At which festival did How to Train Your Dragon 2 premiere on May 21, 2014?
Cannes
It went on to win the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature.
Q 30Which two films did director Dean DeBlois cite as his main inspirations for the second film?
The Empire Strikes Back and My Neighbor Totoro
He agreed to return only on the condition that he could make a trilogy.