Monster House Trivia
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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 01Monster House opened the same weekend as which M. Night Shyamalan film?
Lady in the Water
Lady in the Water also opened on July 21, 2006, and the animated newcomer out-earned it that weekend, $22.2 million to $18 million.
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 voices Nebbercracker, who collapses on his own lawn early on, leaving the boys convinced they have killed him until he comes back from the hospital.
Q 04Who voices D.J. Walters, the boy who spies on the house across the street?
Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Musso voices D.J., the boy who finally destroys the house with dynamite; at the time he was also playing Oliver on Disney Channel's Hannah Montana.
Q 05What is D.J.'s best friend Chowder's real first name?
Charles
Charles is Chowder's real first name; it is he and D.J. who dash across the street and pull Jenny clear just before the house can swallow her.
Q 06Who voices Chowder in Monster House?
Sam Lerner
Sam Lerner voices Chowder and supplied his movements too, acting out each scene while wired to motion-capture sensors.
Q 07Which actress voices Jenny in Monster House?
Spencer Locke
Spencer Locke voices Jenny, the trio's quick thinker: she knows what a uvula does, and a pull on the house's makes it throw the children back out.
Q 08Who voices Zee, D.J.'s teenage babysitter, in Monster House?
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal voices Zee, who throws out her boyfriend Bones early on and has taken up with the gamer Skull by the closing credits.
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 13Where does Reginald 'Skull' Skulinski, the kids' supernatural expert in Monster House, have his day job?
A pizza parlor
A pizza parlor employs Skull, though the kids find him lost in an arcade game he plays without even looking at the screen; by the epilogue he is 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
Selling candy for her school: once the boys pull her free it is Jenny who calls the police, though the house plays dead when the two officers arrive.
Q 14Which Napoleon Dynamite cast member voices Skull in Monster House?
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 begins on the eve of which occasion?
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 24In Monster House, how did Nebbercracker's wife die while their house was being built?
Buried in wet cement
Buried in wet cement: taunted by children, she fell into the unfinished basement and a concrete mixer emptied over her; her spirit then merged with the finished 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 wrote the original Monster House script?
Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab
Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab wrote the original script; Harmon later told a seven-year-old fan the film had given nightmares that other writers changed his story, and that the result was 'dumb'.
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 earlier film?
The Polar Express
The Polar Express (2004) pioneered the motion-capture process Monster House used, in which the cast acted out each scene while wired to sensors.
Q 30At the start of Monster House, what does Nebbercracker take from a little girl who strays onto his lawn?
A tricycle
A tricycle: Nebbercracker seizes it in the opening scene, and D.J., who has been watching from across the street, runs to tell his mother the old man 'took another tricycle'.