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41 free Monster House trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
46 free Monster House trivia questions with answers. Monster House is the 2006 motion-capture film about a suburban house that eats anything that lands on its lawn, and it has grown from a modest hit into a Halloween staple. This quiz covers the whole thing: D.J., Chowder and Jenny, the tragic backstory of Mr. Nebbercracker and his wife, the voice cast (Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jon Heder, Kathleen Turner), the plan involving a dummy full of cold medicine, and the showdown at the construction site. It also goes behind the scenes: the Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab script, the Zemeckis and Spielberg connection, the rendering firsts, the Oscar nomination, the THQ video game and the reviews. Every answer is checked against the film's reference pages, so you can argue with confidence. The easier questions suit anyone who has seen the movie once; the harder ones are for people who watch it every October.
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Q 01In what year did the animated film Monster House open in US theaters, in late July?
2006
2006: it opened on July 21, the same weekend as Clerks II and Lady in the Water.
Q 02Who directed Monster House, his feature directorial debut?
Gil Kenan
Gil Kenan, a recent UCLA film-school graduate, made his feature debut here after his stop-motion thesis short The Lark caught the producers' attention.
Q 03Which actor voices the grumpy old neighbor Mr. Nebbercracker in Monster House?
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi also voiced Randall Boggs in Monsters, Inc., another 2000s animated favorite.
Q 04Who voices D.J. Walters, the boy who spies on the house across the street?
Mitchel Musso
Musso was also starring on Disney Channel's Hannah Montana around the same time.
Q 05What is D.J.'s best friend Chowder's real first name?
Charles
Chowder's real first name is Charles; Chowder is only a nickname, and it is what D.J. and Jenny call him throughout the film.
Q 06Who voices Chowder?
Sam Lerner
Sam Lerner voices Chowder; he later played Geoff Schwartz on ABC's The Goldbergs.
Q 07Which actress voices Jenny Bennett, the prep-school girl who joins the boys?
Spencer Locke
Locke went on to play K-Mart in the Resident Evil films.
Q 08Who voices D.J.'s teenage babysitter Zee?
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal voices Zee, D.J.'s goth babysitter; two years later she played Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight.
Q 09What is Mr. Nebbercracker's first name?
Horace
Horace fakes cruelty toward the neighborhood children to keep them safe from what his house might do.
Q 10What is the name of Nebbercracker's late wife, whose spirit possesses the house?
Constance
Constance was Nebbercracker's wife, a carnival performer he rescued and married; after her death her spirit animates the house.
Q 11What was the freak-show billing of Nebbercracker's wife before he helped her escape?
The Giantess
'The Giantess' was an unwilling performer; Nebbercracker helped her flee and start a new life with him.
Q 12Which actress voices the house itself, Nebbercracker's wife?
Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner had already voiced one iconic animated woman: Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Q 13What is the day job of Reginald "Skull" Skulinski, the local supernatural expert?
Pizza delivery man
He is also a hardcore gamer, and in the epilogue he ends up dating Zee.
Q 21What do the kids stuff inside their dummy to knock the house out?
Cold medicine
They fill a homemade dummy with cold medicine to put the house to sleep, but the police arrive and spoil the plan.
Q 22What household fixture serves as the house's uvula?
A chandelier
The chandelier hangs in the house's throat like a uvula; yanking it makes the house gag and spit the kids back out onto the lawn.
Q 23What is Jenny doing when the boys rescue her from the house's front porch?
Selling candy for her school
Jenny is going door to door selling candy for her prep school when the house grabs her on the porch; the boys pull her free.
Q 14Which Napoleon Dynamite star voices Skull?
Jon Heder
Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite himself, voices Skull, who tells the kids the house can only be stopped by striking its heart.
Q 15Who voices Bones, Zee's rude boyfriend who gets swallowed by the house in Monster House?
Jason Lee
Jason Lee was starring in My Name Is Earl at the time, and had voiced the villain Syndrome in The Incredibles two years earlier.
Q 16Which two comedians voice police officers Landers and Lister?
Kevin James and Nick Cannon
Kevin James voices Officer Landers and Nick Cannon voices Officer Lister; the house plays dead when they arrive, then swallows their cruiser.
Q 17The story of the animated film Monster House takes place on the day before which holiday?
Halloween
Halloween: D.J. thinks he has outgrown trick-or-treating, then goes anyway with Chowder at the end.
Q 18In Monster House, what does Chowder lose on Nebbercracker's front lawn, setting the plot in motion?
A basketball
A basketball: Nebbercracker confronts D.J. over it, faints, and is taken away by paramedics.
Q 19What childhood toy of Bones' had Nebbercracker confiscated years earlier?
A kite
Bones spots his old kite in the house's doorway, grabs for it, and is swallowed.
Q 20In Monster House, what do the kids decide is the heart of the living house?
The furnace
The furnace is the house's heart: the kids plan to sedate the house with a dummy and then put the fire out, but the police interrupt.
Q 24How did Nebbercracker's wife die, according to his story?
She fell into the unfinished basement and was buried by a concrete mixer
She fell into the unfinished basement and was buried by a concrete mixer: children taunting her one autumn night set off the fall, and her spirit merged with the house.
Q 25Where do the kids lure the walking house for the final showdown?
A construction site
They lead the house to a construction site, where Chowder battles it from an excavator and D.J. blows it up with dynamite.
Q 26What does the house use to lift itself off its foundation and give chase?
A pair of trees
The house rips a pair of trees from its yard and walks on them, chasing the kids and Nebbercracker through the neighborhood.
Q 27Which two writers, later of Community and The Sarah Silverman Program, wrote the original Monster House script?
Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab
Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab wrote the original script; Harmon later created Community and co-created Rick and Morty.
Q 28Which two filmmakers served as executive producers on Monster House?
Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg
Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg executive-produced it through their ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment banners, respectively.
Q 29Monster House's human characters used an animation technique pioneered on which Zemeckis film?
The Polar Express
The Polar Express (2004) pioneered the performance-capture process Monster House used, with actors wired to sensors on a bare stage.
Q 30Monster House was the first animated feature to use which rendering software?
Arnold
Arnold, Marcos Fajardo's path-tracing renderer, was used on Monster House before any other animated feature; Autodesk bought it in 2016.