It Movie Trivia
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97 free It Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free It Movie trivia questions with answers. It floated past $700 million to become the highest-grossing horror film ever made, and this quiz covers the whole Derry saga. It starts with the 2017 film: Georgie's paper boat and the storm drain, the seven Losers and their fears, the Barrens, the Bowers gang, the well under the house on Neibolt Street, the Deadlights, the blood oath and the kiss, then the making of it: Cary Fukunaga's exit, Will Poulter's departure and Bill Skarsgard's arrival, the Toronto and Port Hope shoot, the September opening records and the Thursday-preview record it took from Deadpool. Then It Chapter Two: the adult Losers played by James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader, Adrian Mellon, the Ritual of Chud, the spider form, and the cameos by Stephen King and Peter Bogdanovich. It finishes with the source material and the earlier version: the 1986 novel and its two timelines, the Turtle, 'Bob Gray', the 27-year cycle, and Tim Curry's 1990 ABC miniseries. Easy questions cover the clown, the kids and the sewer. Medium ones ask about cast, records and plot detail. Hard ones want the composer, the actor first cast as Pennywise, the film's Thursday preview gross and which director cameos as the director of Bill's book adaptation. Every answer has been checked against reference articles on the films, the miniseries and the novel, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Who directed the 2017 film It?
Andy Muschietti
Andy Muschietti, fresh from Mama, took over in mid-2015 after Cary Fukunaga walked away from three years of development; Fukunaga still shares the writing credit.
Q 02What color raincoat does Georgie wear when he meets Pennywise?
Yellow
Yellow is the color of Georgie's raincoat, and of the film's saddest prop: at the end Bill finds what is left of the coat in It's lair and finally accepts his brother is gone.
Q 03Who plays Pennywise the Dancing Clown in It (2017) and its sequel?
Bill Skarsgård
Bill Skarsgård was kept away from the child actors until their first scene with the clown, so their shock on meeting him was real; brothers Alexander and Gustaf also act.
Q 04Which actor was cast as Pennywise under Cary Fukunaga but left after the director changed?
Will Poulter
Will Poulter won the role in May 2015, weeks before Fukunaga quit; he later dropped out, citing his schedule and his loyalty to the first director's vision.
Q 05In the opening of It (2017), what does Georgie chase down a rainy street to a storm drain?
A paper sailboat
Georgie chases a paper sailboat that Bill folded and waxed for him; it washes into the storm drain where Pennywise waits.
Q 06In which season of 1989 do the Losers confront Pennywise in It (2017)?
Summer
Summer is when the Losers fight back, months after Georgie vanishes one rainy October; the film moves the childhood story three decades on from the novel's 1958.
Q 07In It (2017), how often does the creature wake from hibernation to feed on Derry's children?
Every 27 years
It wakes every 27 years to feed; the sequel picks up exactly one cycle after the Losers first drive It off, when Mike calls the others home.
Q 08In It (2017), where is the entrance the Losers use to reach It's sewer lair?
A well under the house on Neibolt Street
A well under the house on Neibolt Street leads down to the lair; Bill works it out from old sewer blueprints he lays out for the others in his garage.
Q 09Which Loser is chased by a rotting leper?
Eddie
Eddie, the hypochondriac, meets his fear of disease in person as a rotting leper; in the sequel he fights it again and nearly chokes it to death.
Q 10In It (2017), who leads the gang of bullies that torments the Losers Club?
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers, played by Nicholas Hamilton, leads the gang; driven mad by Pennywise, he kills his own father before attacking the Losers.
Q 11How is Beverly revived after being left catatonic by looking into It's mouth?
Ben kisses her
Ben kisses her and she wakes; he is the secret author of the love poem she treasures, though it takes her until the sequel to be sure it was not Bill.
Q 12Who plays Bill Denbrough, the stuttering leader of the Losers, in It (2017)?
Jaeden Lieberher
Jaeden Lieberher plays Bill Denbrough; by the time the sequel came out he had taken his mother's surname and was credited as Jaeden Martell.
Q 13Which Stranger Things actor plays the foul-mouthed Richie Tozier?
Finn Wolfhard
Finn Wolfhard was first cast as Richie under Cary Fukunaga; when that version collapsed he went off to make Stranger Things, then had to audition all over again.
Q 21Which studio division ended up producing It (2017) after the project moved in 2014?
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema took the project over from parent Warner Bros. and greenlit it at $30 million; Cary Fukunaga left a year later after clashing with the studio.
Q 22Who plays adult Bill in It Chapter Two?
James McAvoy
James McAvoy plays the adult Bill, now a successful novelist who cannot escape complaints about his endings, in the 2019 sequel.
Q 23Who plays the adult Beverly Marsh in It Chapter Two?
Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain plays the adult Beverly Marsh, reuniting with the director of her 2013 film Mama; the first film's young Beverly had already named her as the dream choice.
Q 14Who plays Beverly Marsh as a child?
Sophia Lillis
Sophia Lillis plays young Beverly Marsh; she has said the child cast was not allowed to see the clown before their scenes, because they wanted the horror to be real.
Q 15In which region was the 2017 film It shot?
The Greater Toronto Area
The Greater Toronto Area hosted the 2016 shoot; lakeside Port Hope played Derry because the director wanted an idyllic town to contrast with the story.
Q 16Who composed the score for It (2017)?
Benjamin Wallfisch
Benjamin Wallfisch built the score on big, old-fashioned adventure themes, then wrote a quiet, whispered tune for Pennywise meant to infect all the other melodies.
Q 17Roughly how much did It (2017) gross worldwide in its original run?
$700 million
It took about $700 million worldwide on a $35 million budget, making it, at the time, the highest-grossing horror film unadjusted for inflation.
Q 18The $13.5 million Thursday previews for It (2017) took the R-rated record from which film?
Deadpool
Deadpool had held the mark; a day later It nearly matched in a single day what Paranormal Activity 3, the old R-rated horror record-holder, made in a whole opening weekend.
Q 19The 2017 film It set the record for the biggest opening weekend in which month?
September
September had never seen anything like it: the debut of roughly $123 million more than doubled the month's previous best, Hotel Transylvania 2's $48 million.
Q 20Producer Dan Lin compared the bond between the kids of It (2017) to which earlier Stephen King adaptation?
Stand by Me
Stand by Me was his touchstone: Lin called It an homage to 1980s movies and said each Loser, like the kids of that film or The Goonies, has a very specific personality.
Q 24Which comedian plays the adult Richie Tozier in It Chapter Two?
Bill Hader
Bill Hader plays the adult Richie Tozier; asked after the first film who should play his grown-up self, the young Richie had picked Hader.
Q 25The sequel It Chapter Two opens in 2016 with Pennywise killing which character?
Adrian Mellon
Adrian Mellon is beaten by a gang at a carnival and thrown from a bridge to where Pennywise waits; King modeled the scene on a real 1984 killing in Maine.
Q 26In It Chapter Two, what is the name of the ceremony Mike believes can destroy It?
The Ritual of Chüd
The Ritual of Chüd has the Losers burn tokens from their past; Mike keeps quiet about the fact that it failed, fatally, for the tribe he learned it from.
Q 27Stephen King cameos in It Chapter Two as what?
A pawn shop owner
Stephen King plays a pawn shop owner who sells the adult Bill back his childhood bike, Silver; Peter Bogdanovich cameos as a film director.
Q 28In It Chapter Two, how did It arrive on Earth?
On a meteorite millions of years ago
On a meteorite millions of years ago, an origin Bill sees for himself when a friend drugs his water to bring on a vision of Derry's distant past.
Q 29Derry in King's It is his portrait of which Maine city?
Bangor
Bangor is the model, King has said: he drew on the lore around its sewer system for It, which went on to be America's best-selling hardcover novel of 1986.
Q 30In King's novel It, set in 1958, the creature attacks Richie as which 1950s movie monster?
The Teenage Werewolf
The Teenage Werewolf is what Richie had just watched at the cinema, so It wears that shape, varsity jacket and all, when he and Bill explore an abandoned house.