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50 free Jeepers Creepers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Every 23rd spring, for 23 days, it gets to eat. Jeepers Creepers turned a rusted 1941 truck, an abandoned church and a hummed 1938 jazz standard into one of the most durable horror franchises of the 2000s, and this quiz covers all four films: the 2001 original with Gina Philips and Justin Long, the school-bus siege of Jeepers Creepers 2, the long-delayed Jeepers Creepers 3, and the 2022 reboot Reborn. The 50 questions run from easy (what the Creeper does with the body parts it takes, who plays it, what the siblings see being dumped down the pipe) to genuinely hard (which real Michigan case the opening resembles, which actor the role was written for, why the third act was rewritten mid-shoot, which director's harpoon-and-monster finale inspired the second film, and who sued over the reboot). It also covers the song itself, the Louis Armstrong recording and the Oscar it lost. Every answer has been checked against a source, and each question shows its explanation and citation once you answer.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed the original Jeepers Creepers in 2001?
Victor Salva
He wrote the script in a single month, down from his usual six, and also directed the first two sequels.
Q 02Which two actors play the siblings Trish and Darry Jenner in the first film?
Gina Philips and Justin Long
Francis Ford Coppola talked American Zoetrope out of casting A-list names in favour of the two relative unknowns.
Q 03Who plays the Creeper in the first three films?
Jonathan Breck
He shaved his head for the audition, took part in a 'sniff test' on the casting crew, and told them the creature wouldn't have hair.
Q 04The film takes its title from a song written for a movie in which year?
1938
Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer wrote it for Going Places, and Louis Armstrong sang it to a racehorse called Jeepers Creepers.
Q 05Whose recording of the song is heard in the 2001 film?
Paul Whiteman
Armstrong premiered the song on screen, but the film uses the bandleader's version.
Q 06The song 'Jeepers Creepers' lost the 1938 Academy Award for Best Original Song to which standard?
Thanks for the Memory
The phrase itself is a minced oath for 'Jesus Christ' and predates the song; Mercer said he took the title from a Henry Fonda line.
Q 07In the first film, Trish and Darry are driving home from college for what?
Spring break
The Florida countryside setting was shot around Ocala and Dunnellon in the summer heat of August 2000.
Q 08What do the siblings see the truck driver doing beside an abandoned church?
Dumping bodies wrapped in sheets down a pipe
Darry climbs down the pipe and finds a basement with hundreds of corpses sewn to the walls and ceiling.
Q 09What urban legend do Trish and Darry discuss on the drive, before finding the pair's bodies in the lair?
Kenny and Darla, prom-goers who vanished in 1978
Jeepers Creepers 3 later reveals Kenny's mother Gaylen and the severed Creeper hand he buried.
Q 10According to the psychic Jezelle, the Creeper wakes every 23rd spring to feed for how long?
23 days
It eats human body parts to absorb them into itself, and chooses its victims by the smell of their fear.
Q 11How does the Creeper choose which people to take?
By the smell of their fear
A waitress reports that the driver broke into the siblings' car and sniffed their laundry.
Q 12Who plays Jezelle Gay Hartman, the psychic who phones the siblings at the diner?
Patricia Belcher
Her warning that they will meet a cat lady and hear the song comes true almost exactly.
Q 13Which veteran actress plays the cat lady whom the Creeper kills?
Eileen Brennan
Salva cast her on the strength of her turn in the short film Nunzio's Second Cousin.
Q 21Which classic monster movie did Salva cite as his favourite film and inspiration?
Creature from the Black Lagoon
He also borrowed from Night of the Living Dead, Duel and the restraint of Hitchcock's The Birds.
Q 22In which US state was the first film shot?
Florida
The church was a former St. James Church in Ocala, and a demolished meatpacking plant stood in for the factory finale.
Q 23On roughly what budget was the first Jeepers Creepers made?
$10 million
It grossed about $59 million and set a Labor Day opening record that its own sequel later broke.
Q 14Which sibling does the Creeper carry off through the window at the end of the first film?
Darry
Salva planted red herrings so audiences would assume Trish was the one doomed to die.
Q 15In the final shot, the Creeper is seen looking through what?
The holes where Darry's eyes used to be
Justin Long himself played the Creeper in that shot, peering through a plaster cast of his own body.
Q 16The opening of the film is widely believed to echo a real 1990 case involving which Michigan killer?
Dennis DePue
Siblings saw him dump a bloody blanket behind an abandoned school and were tailgated for two miles; the case featured on Unsolved Mysteries.
Q 17The role of the Creeper was originally written for which actor, who dropped out?
Lance Henriksen
Salva had directed him in The Nature of the Beast and Powder in 1995.
Q 18Which famous director served as executive producer and helped Salva get the film made?
Francis Ford Coppola
He had financed Salva's debut Clownhouse and was criticised for backing him again after Salva's conviction for abusing a child actor on that film.
Q 19Why was the original third act, in which Darry drives the truck into a train, cut?
An unforeseen $1 million budget cut
The sequence had already been storyboarded; the two leads were allowed to improvise the rewritten finale, and some cut scenes resurfaced in the sequel.
Q 20What model is the Creeper's rusted truck?
A 1941 Chevy COE
It began life as a flatbed; the production designer built the back section, and the old engine kept dying between takes.
Q 24The first film broke the Labor Day weekend opening record, previously held by which 1996 sequel?
The Crow: City of Angels
It made $15.8 million in four days, beating Rush Hour 2 to the top spot.
Q 25Jeepers Creepers 2 is set how long after the first film?
Three days
It is the Creeper's 22nd day of feeding, and cheerleader Minxie has visions of Darry warning her.
Q 26What vehicle does the Creeper besiege in Jeepers Creepers 2?
A school bus carrying a sports team
It disables the bus by blowing out the tyres with hand-crafted shurikens made from bone.
Q 27Which actor plays Jack Taggart, the farmer who hunts the Creeper with a harpoon after it takes his son?
Ray Wise
His jacket caught fire during a take of the welding sequence, and Salva had originally written a part for Meat Loaf.
Q 28After Rhonda drives a javelin through its skull in the sequel, what does the Creeper do?
It tears off its own head and takes Dante's
The creature can swap in body parts from its victims, which is the whole point of its feeding.
Q 29How does Jeepers Creepers 2 end?
An elderly Jack keeps the hibernating Creeper as a sideshow, waiting for it to wake
Asked if he is waiting for something, he says 'About three more days, give or take a day or two.'
Q 30The final act of Jeepers Creepers 2, with its harpoons and hunters, was inspired by which film?
Jaws
Three real buses were destroyed during production, and a fourth was built inside an aircraft hangar.