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50 free Jason Voorhees trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Jason Voorhees was never supposed to be the star. Victor Miller wrote him as a drowned boy seen in a nightmare, and it took a sequel, a sack, and a Detroit Red Wings goalie mask grabbed for a lighting test to turn him into the most recognizable slasher in film. This quiz covers that history: the name built from Miller's sons, Tom Savini's design, Ari Lehman's 'Can you swim?' audition and the VacuForm that enlarged the mask. It also walks through the men behind the mask from Richard Brooker to Kane Hodder, Ken Kirzinger and Derek Mears, the space-set Jason X, Freddy vs. Jason's box office, the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award, Alice Cooper and Eminem, the Commodore 64 and Mortal Kombat X cameos, the 2017 game and the A24 prequel series Crystal Lake. Every answer is sourced from Wikipedia pages on the character, the films and the people who made them, kept to production facts rather than gore. Play in sets of ten, then try the Friday the 13th quiz.
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Q 01Who is the killer in the original 1980 Friday the 13th?
Pamela Voorhees
Jason's mother, a camp cook played by Betsy Palmer, seeks revenge for her son's drowning.
Q 02Who played the young Jason in the 1980 film?
Ari Lehman
Lehman was cast on sight by Sean Cunningham and later formed the horror punk band First Jason.
Q 03Who created the character of Jason Voorhees?
Victor Miller
Miller, the original screenwriter, has never seen the sequels and objects to Jason being made the villain.
Q 04The name 'Jason' was formed from the names of whose two sons?
Victor Miller's
Josh and Ian became Jason; 'Voorhees' came from a girl Miller knew in high school.
Q 05Where did the surname 'Voorhees' come from?
A girl Miller knew at school
Miller simply thought it was a 'creepy-sounding name' that suited the character.
Q 06Which makeup artist designed Jason's original deformed look?
Tom Savini
Savini based the face on someone he knew as a child whose eyes and ears did not line up straight.
Q 07In which film did Jason first wear his trademark hockey mask?
Friday the 13th Part III
In Part 2 he hid his face under a sack; the mask arrived in 1982 and has defined him ever since.
Q 08The first hockey mask used on set belonged to a fan of which NHL team?
Detroit Red Wings
3D effects supervisor Martin Jay Sadoff pulled a goalie mask from his hockey bag for a lighting test.
Q 09What prompted the crew to throw a mask on Jason in Part III?
A lighting check
Nobody wanted to apply makeup just for the light check, and director Steve Miner loved the look.
Q 10What material was used to enlarge the too-small hockey mask?
VacuForm
Makeup artist Doug White made a new mold, and the red triangles and holes were added afterward.
Q 11Who added the red triangles to Jason's hockey mask?
Terry Ballard
The markings and hole pattern were changed so the prop differed from Sadoff's real goalie mask.
Q 12How many consecutive films did Kane Hodder play Jason in?
Four
He was the first actor to play Jason more than once, from The New Blood through Jason X.
Q 13Which film was Kane Hodder's first as Jason?
Part VII: The New Blood
Director John Carl Buechler pushed for him after working together on the film Prison.
Besides Jason, Kane Hodder played which horror slasher in the Hatchet films?
Q 21Which 1985 film features Jason only as a psychological threat, with a copycat killer?
A New Beginning
The real culprit is Roy Burns; stuntman Tom Morga wore the mask for most scenes.
Q 22Which producer suggested bringing Jason back for the first sequel?
Phil Scuderi
The sequel pretended Alice never saw the 'real' Jason in her dream and that he had survived his drowning.
Q 23In 1992, Jason received a Lifetime Achievement Award from which network?
MTV
He was the first of only three fictional characters so honored, followed by Godzilla and Chewbacca.
Victor Crowley
He also did stunts as Leatherface in Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
Q 15In the 1993 'Final Friday' film, Hodder also played which body part of Freddy Krueger?
His clawed glove hand
Freddy's glove grabs Jason's mask in the film's final shot, teasing a crossover that took a decade to arrive.
Q 16Who was the first actor to wear Jason's hockey mask on screen?
Richard Brooker
The British former trapeze artist said the mask finally made him feel like Jason.
Q 17Which Part 2 actor had his name removed from the credits of The Final Chapter?
Ted White
White disliked the shoot and clashed with the director over a co-star kept in a cold lake for long stretches.
Q 18Which stuntman played Jason in Freddy vs. Jason?
Ken Kirzinger
At 6 ft 5 in, the Canadian was chosen to tower over Robert Englund's 5 ft 10 in Freddy.
Q 19Who played Jason in the 2009 reboot?
Derek Mears
Mears compared playing Jason to Greek mask work, with mask and actor as separate entities.
Q 20Since which film has the character had superhuman strength and near-invulnerability?
Part VI: Jason Lives
Director Tom McLoughlin reimagined him as a supernatural force rather than a drowning survivor.
Q 24IGN named Jason what in October 2021?
Greatest Movie Slasher of All Time
Wizard magazine had earlier ranked him No. 26 among its 100 greatest villains.
Q 25Which horror punk band did the original 1980 child actor go on to found?
First Jason
The band's name honors his role, and one of its songs is 'Jason is Watching'.
Q 26Which rapper sometimes wears a hockey mask in concert and references Jason in 'Criminal'?
Eminem
His songs 'Amityville' and 'Off the Wall' sample the series' 'ki, ki, ki... ma, ma, ma' motif.
Q 27The famous 'ki ki ki, ma ma ma' sound is derived from which two words?
Kill and mommy
The composer spoke them into an echo machine after hearing a Penderecki choral piece.
Q 28Who composed the score for the original Friday the 13th?
Harry Manfredini
He chose to play music only when the killer was present, borrowing the idea from Jaws.
Q 29In which US state was the original Friday the 13th filmed?
New Jersey
The camp scenes used Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Hardwick Township, which is still in operation.
Q 30Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, the 1980 filming location, belongs to which organization?
The Boy Scouts
Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Hardwick is still in use, and the lake scenes were shot on its grounds.