Monster Trivia
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110 free Monster trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
51 free Monster trivia questions with answers. Monsters come from myth, from novels, from movies and from campfire cryptid tales, and this quiz rounds up the lot. Fifty questions cover the classic horror monsters (Frankenstein's creature, Dracula, the Mummy, the werewolf, the vampire, the zombie), the beasts of Greek mythology (Medusa, the Minotaur, the Hydra, Cerberus, the Cyclops, the Sphinx), the movie giants Godzilla and King Kong, and the modern cryptids from Bigfoot and Nessie to the Chupacabra, Mothman and the Jersey Devil. Easy questions ask who wrote Dracula and where Bigfoot supposedly roams; the hard ones want the year Godzilla first appeared, what the Hydra does when you cut off a head, and which real prince inspired Count Dracula. Perfect for Halloween, a horror-movie night or a mythology round. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the creatures involved, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who wrote the 1818 novel that introduced Frankenstein's monster?
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley began the story at 18, after Lord Byron challenged his guests, kept indoors near Geneva by the wet summer of 1816, to each write a ghost story.
Q 02In the 1818 novel Frankenstein, what does the creature demand that its maker build for it?
A female companion
A female companion: Victor starts making her on a remote Orkney island, then tears her to pieces in horror, and the creature answers by killing his bride on their wedding night.
Q 03Which actor's 1931 portrayal fixed the flat-headed, bolt-necked image of Frankenstein's monster?
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff wore Jack Pierce's makeup for the role; the famous neck 'bolts' were meant as electrodes, the terminals for the electricity that shocks the stitched-up body to life.
Q 04Who wrote the 1897 novel Dracula?
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker first called his villain 'Count Wampyr', then came across the name Dracula in a history of Wallachia and took it, believing it meant 'devil'.
Q 05Which real 15th-century ruler, notorious for his cruelty, gave Count Dracula his name?
Vlad the Impaler
Vlad the Impaler, prince of Wallachia, was known as Dracula, 'son of Dracul', because his father had joined a knightly order called the Order of the Dragon.
Q 06How does Dracula turn other people into vampires?
By biting them
By biting them: in the 1897 novel Lucy Westenra wastes away after his night-time bites to her throat, dies, and rises from her tomb to prey on children.
Q 07A lycanthrope is a person who transforms into which animal?
A wolf
A wolf: the word joins Greek lykos (wolf) and anthropos (man), and in Ovid's telling Zeus turned King Lycaon into one for serving him human flesh.
Q 08In modern films, a werewolf's transformation is usually triggered by what?
A full moon
A full moon is missing from the famous rhyme in The Wolf Man (1941), which says only that 'the autumn moon is bright'; in Universal's 1943 sequel its cursed hero changes when the full moon rises.
Q 09Modern fiction makes werewolves, otherwise resistant to injury, especially vulnerable to weapons made of which metal?
Silver
Silver: in Universal's The Wolf Man (1941), Larry Talbot buys a silver-headed cane, and his own father later clubs the werewolf dead with it, not knowing the beast is his son.
Q 10A vampire is a creature that survives by feeding on what?
Blood
Blood: in European folklore vampires are undead humans who leave the grave at night to drink the blood of the living.
Q 11Which plant is a classic folk protection against vampires?
Garlic
Garlic: in the 1897 novel Dracula, Van Helsing fills Lucy's room with garlic flowers, but her mother, finding the smell stifling, clears them away and opens the window.
Q 12What was driven through suspected vampire Arnold Paole's exhumed corpse in 1720s Serbia?
A stake
A stake: the Austrian army surgeons' report says the body groaned and bled when pierced and was then burned, and their account carried the vampire scare to western Europe.
Q 13The zombie comes from the folklore of which country?
Haiti
Haiti: in its folklore a sorcerer called a bokor raises a corpse to serve him as a slave with no will of its own, an idea thought to go back to the island's sugar plantations.
Q 21The Jersey Devil is said to haunt which region of New Jersey?
The Pine Barrens
The Pine Barrens: in one week of January 1909, newspapers printed hundreds of claimed sightings across South Jersey, and the alarm was such that some schools closed and workers stayed home.
Q 22The kraken is a giant sea monster from the folklore of which country?
Norway
Norway: Bergen's bishop Erik Pontoppidan wrote down the fishermen's tales in the 1750s: a beast that rose like an island, drew shoals of fish, and could drag down the largest ship.
Q 23The kraken's legend is thought to have originated from sightings of what real animal?
The giant squid
Q 14The Loch Ness Monster is said to live in a lake in which country?
Scotland
Scotland: Loch Ness lies in the Scottish Highlands, and the modern legend took off in 1933, after a new road along the shore gave passing drivers a clear view of the water.
Q 15Bigfoot is said to roam the forests of which US region in particular?
The Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest: the name Bigfoot dates from 1958 reports of giant footprints at a logging site, which logger Ray Wallace's family said in 2002 he had faked with carved wooden feet.
Q 16In the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin film's best-known frame, what is Bigfoot doing?
Looking back
Looking back: as the figure strides away along Bluff Creek, California, it glances toward the camera; skeptics see a man in an ape costume, and the argument has run for more than half a century.
Q 17Which legendary creature has been nicknamed the Abominable Snowman since a 1921 Everest expedition?
The Yeti
The Yeti got the nickname from journalist Henry Newman, who heard of footprints found by the expedition and mistranslated the local name for their maker as 'abominable snowman'.
Q 18What does the cryptid name 'chupacabra' literally mean in Spanish?
Goat-sucker
Goat-sucker: chupar means 'to suck' and cabra 'goat', a name earned by reports of livestock found drained of blood.
Q 19The first widely publicised Chupacabra sightings came in 1995 from which island?
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: investigator Benjamin Radford traced the creature's look to its first eyewitness, whose 1995 description closely matched the alien in the film Species, which she had just seen.
Q 20Mothman was reportedly seen in 1966-67 around which town?
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Point Pleasant, West Virginia: sightings began in November 1966, and John Keel's 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies linked them to the collapse of the town's Ohio River bridge in December 1967.
The giant squid was long known only from carcasses washed ashore or found in the stomachs of sperm whales; the first images of a live one in its habitat were taken in 2004.
Q 24In Greek myth, Medusa had what in place of her hair?
Snakes
Snakes: in Ovid's telling Athena turned Medusa's hair into living serpents, and a single look at her turned onlookers to stone.
Q 25Which Greek hero cut off Medusa's head?
Perseus
Perseus beheaded Medusa while watching her reflection in a polished shield, and in the usual telling gave the head to Athena, who fixed it to the centre of her own shield.
Q 26The Minotaur had the body of a man and the head of what?
A bull
A bull: the Minotaur was born to Queen Pasiphaë of Crete and a bull, and was kept at the centre of Daedalus's Labyrinth.
Q 27Which hero killed the Minotaur, guided by Ariadne's thread?
Theseus
Theseus sailed home but forgot to swap his black sail for the white one that meant success; his father Aegeus saw it, believed him killed and took his own life.
Q 28In Greek myth, who forged the thunderbolts that Zeus used in his war against the Titans?
The Cyclopes
The Cyclopes had been locked away in Tartarus; Zeus set them free, and in thanks they armed him with thunder and lightning and his brother Poseidon with a trident.
Q 29Which Cyclops did Odysseus blind in the Odyssey?
Polyphemus
Polyphemus was told by Odysseus that his name was 'Nobody', then put to sleep with strong wine and blinded; the giant had promised, as a favour, to eat Nobody last.
Q 30What did Heracles and Iolaus apply to the Hydra's severed necks to stop new heads growing?
Fire
Fire: in the usual telling, as Heracles cut, Iolaus seared each stump with a burning brand so nothing could sprout, and the one immortal head was buried under a huge rock.