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55 free Jumanji trivia questions with answers. Jumanji started as a 32-page picture book about two bored kids and a lion in the bedroom, and grew into a franchise that has taken more than two billion dollars at the box office. This quiz covers all of it: Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 book, the 1995 Robin Williams film with its stampede through Brantford and its 26-year time jump, the animated series, the Zathura spin-off, and the Dwayne Johnson era of Welcome to the Jungle and The Next Level with its body-swapping avatars. The early questions are easy enough for anyone who has seen the films once. Later ones dig into production details, box office numbers, casting stories and the differences between book and screen, so a movie-night group can find its expert. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the book, the films and their author, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. Fifty-five questions, free, no signup.
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Q 01Who plays the adult Alan Parrish in the 1995 film?
Robin Williams
TriStar would only finance the film on condition he starred, and he turned down the first script before rewrites won him over.
Q 02Who directed the 1995 film Jumanji?
Joe Johnston
He had reservations about casting the star because of his reputation for improvising, but the actor stuck to the tightly structured script.
Q 03The 1995 film is based on a 1981 picture book by which author?
Chris Van Allsburg
He won the Caldecott Medal for it, and again for The Polar Express four years later.
Q 04In which fictional New Hampshire town is Jumanji set?
Brantford
Keene, New Hampshire stood in for the town during filming in late 1994.
Q 05For how many years is Alan trapped inside the game?
26
He vanishes in 1969 and is released in 1995, the year the film came out.
Q 06What kind of business does Alan's father Sam run in town?
A shoe factory
Its closure after Sam abandons it to search for his son sends the whole town into decline.
Q 07Who plays Judy Shepherd?
Kirsten Dunst
She had already played the child vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire the year before.
Q 08What roll of the dice releases the lion and the adult Alan?
A five
In the book, by contrast, the lion arrives when Peter rolls a seven.
Q 09Which sound leads young Alan to the buried game at a construction site?
Tribal drumbeats
The same sound is heard by two French-speaking girls on a beach in the film's final shot.
Q 10How long had the game been buried when Alan dug it up in 1969?
100 years
The film's ending has Alan and Sarah throw it into a river, only for it to wash up on a beach.
Q 11Peter is gradually transformed into what animal for cheating at the game?
A baboon
Bradley Pierce spent three and a half hours in prosthetic makeup every day for two and a half months to film it.
Q 12What was Sarah Whittle doing for a living when Alan, Judy and Peter track her down in 1995?
Working as a fortune-teller
Bonnie Hunt and Robin Williams were allowed to shoot duplicate improvised takes of their scenes together.
Q 13Which actor plays both the hunter Van Pelt and Alan's father Sam Parrish?
Jonathan Hyde
The doubling is deliberate: the hunter who stalks Alan through the film wears his stern father's face.
Q 21Which New Hampshire town stood in for the film's fictional setting during filming?
Keene
An old woolen mill in North Berwick, Maine played the Parrish shoe factory, and much of the rest was shot in Vancouver.
Q 22Which studio released the 1995 film?
TriStar Pictures
The studio agreed to finance the film only on condition that Robin Williams took the lead.
Q 23Roughly how much did the 1995 film gross worldwide?
$263 million
About $101 million came from the US and Canada and $162 million from overseas.
What was the 1995 film's production budget?
Q 14What job does Carl Bentley hold in 1995 after being fired by Sam Parrish in 1969?
Police officer
David Alan Grier plays him; in the reset timeline he is rehired as a trusted employee once Alan admits he damaged the shoe.
Q 15Who plays Aunt Nora, Judy and Peter's guardian?
Bebe Neuwirth
She returned for a cameo at the end of Jumanji: The Next Level in 2019.
Q 16How did Judy and Peter's parents die the previous winter?
A skiing accident
In the reset ending Alan talks their parents out of the trip, averting their deaths.
Q 17Judy's roll summons a stampede that includes which unlikely birds?
Pelicans
The 2019 sequel would open with an ostrich stampede instead.
Q 18Who composed the score for the 1995 film?
James Horner
He would win two Oscars two years later for Titanic.
Q 19Which visual effects house created the film's computer-generated animals?
Industrial Light & Magic
Two new software tools were written for the film, one for animal facial expressions and one for realistic digital hair on the monkeys and lion.
Q 20What was the name of the ILM software written to give the CG animals realistic facial expressions?
iSculpt
The other new program created digital hair for the first time, used on the monkeys and lion.
$65 million
It opened at number one with roughly $11 million in its first weekend.
Q 25Which critic gave the film 1.5 stars, calling it as suitable for small children as Jaws?
Roger Ebert
He specifically objected to the film's PG rating and to Peter's monkey transformation, which he said made him look like a Wolf Man.
Q 26What Rotten Tomatoes score did the 1995 film hold as of 2025?
56%
Its consensus calls it a feast for the eyes with a somewhat malnourished plot.
Q 27Where did the film hold its premiere on December 10, 1995?
Culver City
That is where Sony Pictures Entertainment, TriStar's parent company, was based.
Q 28Where does the 1995 film rank among best-selling home videos in the US for 1996?
7th
In the UK the DVD was later sold bundled with a Jumanji board game.
Q 29Between which years did the animated Jumanji TV series air?
1996 to 1999
In the series Alan is sucked into the game in 1972 rather than 1969, and Sarah Whittle never appears.
Q 30Which 2005 film was marketed as a spiritual successor to Jumanji, based on another Van Allsburg book?
Zathura: A Space Adventure
Its two young heroes, Danny and Walter, are the boys seen carrying the game away at the end of the original book.