Midsommar Trivia
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48 free Midsommar trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Midsommar is a horror film that happens almost entirely in daylight. Ari Aster's 2019 follow-up to Hereditary sends a grieving American student and her checked-out boyfriend to a once-in-90-years festival in rural Sweden, and lets the Hårga's flower crowns and white linen slowly reveal what the commune actually does to outsiders. This quiz covers the whole film: the plot beats and the fates of every visitor, the Hårga's rituals and the real Swedish legends behind them, the cast and who they play, and the making of the film, from Aster's breakup-movie pitch and the Budapest shoot to the fight over the rating, the 171-minute director's cut and the record price paid for the May Queen dress. There are a few questions on the wider careers of Aster and Florence Pugh, too. Questions range from easy plot recall to details only repeat viewers will catch. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the film, its director, its star and the folklore it borrows from, and each question links to its source.
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Q 01Midsommar's horror unfolds almost entirely in what?
Bright daylight
Bright daylight: the story unfolds under Sweden's midnight sun, an inversion of horror's usual darkness shot by Pawel Pogorzelski, who also filmed the director's debut.
Q 02Who plays Dani, the grieving student at the centre of Midsommar?
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh, who calls herself 'not a big crier', credited the actresses playing the commune's women with making Dani's breakdown scene possible.
Q 03Who plays Christian, Dani's increasingly distant boyfriend?
Jack Reynor
Jack Reynor, raised in Ireland, pushed for as much full-frontal nudity as possible in the mating ritual, saying he wanted to embrace Christian's humiliation.
Q 04Christian and Josh are graduate students in which discipline?
Anthropology
Anthropology: Josh is writing his thesis on midsummer customs, and Christian's decision to write his own on the commune, poaching the topic, fuels their falling-out.
Q 05Which personal date of Dani's does Christian forget during the trip?
Her birthday
Her birthday: Christian forgets it until prompted, while their host marks it with a hand-drawn portrait of Dani; the slight deepens the rift the film is built on.
Q 06How often does the Hårga's great midsummer festival take place?
Once every 90 years
Once every 90 years: the visitors are told the commune's great midsummer celebration comes round only once in 90 years, a once-in-a-lifetime chance for Josh's thesis on midsummer customs.
Q 07How many days does the Hårga's midsummer festival last in Midsommar?
Nine
Nine: the nine-day feast ends with nine human sacrifices, four outsiders, four from the commune and a ninth chosen by Dani.
Q 08Which Swedish friend invites the American students to his ancestral commune?
Pelle
Pelle, raised in the commune after his parents died in a fire, tells Dani that it became his new family; he is the one who invites the group.
Q 09How does Dani's sister Terri kill herself and their parents at the start of Midsommar?
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide poisoning: Terri, who has bipolar disorder, pipes car exhaust into the house with hoses, killing their parents and herself in the murder-suicide that starts the film.
Q 10What is the name of the cliff-jumping senicide ceremony the visitors witness on their first full day?
Ättestupa
Ättestupa: in Swedish legend the name marks cliffs where the old leapt, or were thrown, to their deaths once they could no longer support themselves; the film's elders jump willingly.
Q 11In Midsommar, the Hårga divide a person's life into four stages named after what?
Seasons
Seasons: each stage of life has its season, the visitors are told, from a childhood spring to an elder's final one, a cycle the commune closes at 72 on the cliff.
Q 12What happens to the elder who survives the cliff fall?
His head is crushed with a mallet
His head is crushed with a mallet: the commune finishes him with a large wooden mallet, a prop the designers copied from one they had seen in a Stockholm museum.
Q 13Who plays Mark, the crude friend along for the trip in Midsommar?
Will Poulter
Q 21What colour is the triangular temple the commune burns in Midsommar's finale?
Yellow
Yellow: the bright yellow temple, which the visitors are told no one may enter, is set alight with the sacrifices inside as the festival ends.
Q 22Christian is placed inside the body of which animal before the temple is set alight?
A bear
A bear: Christian, paralysed by a drug, is stitched inside a disembowelled bear carcass and burned with the other sacrifices in the temple.
Q 23Which two Hårga members volunteer to join the elders as sacrifices from within the commune?
Ingemar and Ulf
Ingemar and Ulf step forward as the commune's own offerings and are given a drink said to take away fear and pain, a promise their screams in the burning temple disprove.
Will Poulter plays Mark, whose skinned face later turns up worn by the commune member who bludgeons Josh.
Q 14Who plays Josh, the student writing his thesis on European midsummer festivities?
William Jackson Harper
William Jackson Harper, known as Chidi in The Good Place, plays Josh, who is bludgeoned after sneaking out at night to photograph the commune's sacred book.
Q 15What is Mark doing when he inadvertently desecrates a Hårga ancestral tree?
Urinating on it
Urinating on it: Mark relieves himself on the commune's ancestral tree without realising what it is, the offence that later gets him lured away and skinned.
Q 16What colour do the Hårga dress in for their festival in Midsommar?
White
White: Aster wanted the whole commune in white, handmade clothes, and each costume was embroidered with its own runic symbol to identify the wearer.
Q 17Which British couple also visit the commune as guests?
Simon and Connie
Simon and Connie, played by Archie Madekwe and Ellora Torchia, arrive as guests of another commune member; both are later killed for the final rite.
Q 18What torture method has been used on the visitor Christian finds barely alive in a barn?
The blood eagle
The blood eagle: the victim hangs in the barn with his back opened and his lungs drawn out like wings, a torture from the Norse sagas; the commune had claimed he simply left for the station.
Q 19What title does Dani win by outlasting every other dancer in the Hårga's contest?
May Queen
May Queen: Dani is crowned after outlasting every other dancer around the maypole; the contest replays a local legend of a fiddler who made the young dance until they dropped.
Q 20Which Hårga girl is Christian drugged into impregnating in the sex ritual?
Maja
Maja, played by Isabelle Grill in her first feature film, is to conceive with an outsider, the commune's guard against inbreeding; Christian is given a hallucinogenic tea before the ritual.
Q 24What does Dani do in Midsommar's final shot as the temple collapses?
She slowly smiles
She slowly smiles: Dani's grimace of grief gives way to a smile as the temple burns, the director framing the film as a fairy tale in which she loses one family and gains another.
Q 25Which studio released Midsommar in the United States?
A24
A24 agreed to finance and release the film in May 2018, a month before the director's debut had even opened in cinemas.
Q 26Swedish producers first approached Aster to make which kind of horror film set among cultists?
A slasher
A slasher: the producers wanted a straightforward slasher set among Swedish cultists; Aster turned it down, then took it on by building the story around a couple on the verge of breaking up.
Q 27Aster described the finished picture as 'a breakup movie dressed in the clothes of' what?
Folk horror
Folk horror: the full line was 'a breakup movie dressed in the clothes of a folk horror film', and he wrote it while going through a breakup of his own.
Q 28Although set in Sweden, most of Midsommar was shot in which country?
Hungary
Hungary: the commune scenes were filmed on the outskirts of Budapest in summer 2018 because, Aster said, the production could not afford to shoot in Sweden.
Q 29Midsommar's composer Bobby Krlic is better known under which stage name?
The Haxan Cloak
The Haxan Cloak: Krlic's 2013 album Excavation was on repeat while the script was written, and he was hired to score the film before shooting began.
Q 30What is the name of the inbred oracle whose scribbles form the commune's scripture?
Ruben
Ruben, deliberately bred from incest as the commune's oracle, produces the markings the elders interpret as holy writ; Josh dies trying to photograph the resulting book.