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This Over the Garden Wall trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and walks all ten chapters of Patrick McHale's 2014 Cartoon Network miniseries: the Old Grist Mill, Pottsfield's harvest festival, Miss Langtree's school, the tavern, Quincy Endicott's mansion, the frog ferry, Auntie Whispers and Lorna, the cloud city, the Halloween flashback and the final confrontation with the Beast. It also covers the voice cast — Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Lloyd, Samuel Ramey and more — the Blasting Company's songs, the show's origins as Tome of the Unknown, its Emmy, the comics and the Aardman anniversary short. Early questions suit anyone who rewatches it every October; later ones reward fans who know what the frog is finally named, what really burns in the lantern, and which board game inspired the art. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who created Over the Garden Wall?
Patrick McHale
He had been creative director on Adventure Time and a storyboard artist on Flapjack before the network asked him for a pilot.
Q 02Where did the miniseries air in November 2014?
Cartoon Network
It was the network's first ever miniseries, running over five consecutive nights.
Q 03How many episodes make up the miniseries?
Ten
McHale had envisioned eighteen chapters before budget and time cut it down.
Q 04What was the forest called in McHale's original 2006 pitch, before it became the Unknown?
The Land of the In-Between
That version had brothers Walter and Gregory chasing pages of a lost book after a deal with a devil named Old Scratch.
Q 05Who voices Wirt, the anxious older brother?
Elijah Wood
Wood said that if the show were a record it would be played on a phonograph.
Q 06What kind of animal is Beatrice, the irritable travelling companion voiced by Melanie Lynskey?
A bluebird
She was once human; her whole family was cursed into birds.
Q 07Which Back to the Future star voices the Woodsman?
Christopher Lloyd
He believes his daughter's soul burns in his lantern, which is why he keeps chopping Edelwood.
Q 08Which opera singer voices the Beast?
Samuel Ramey
McHale drew on classic American opera singing for the music; Ramey sings 'Come Wayward Souls'.
Q 09What do the Beast's victims turn into once they lose hope?
Edelwood trees
Their oil is what feeds the lantern — the Woodsman has been unwittingly keeping the Beast alive.
Q 10What are Wirt's two secret passions?
Clarinet and poetry
The tape he made for Sara contains both, which is why he is so desperate to get it back.
Q 11What running gag involves the frog the younger brother carries?
He keeps trying to name it
Wirt finally settles the matter in the last episode.
Q 12What name does Wirt finally give Greg's frog in the last episode?
Jason Funderburker
It is the name of the boy back home who was going to ask out Wirt's crush.
Q 13How did the brothers end up in the Unknown?
They fell into a pond after fleeing a graveyard on Halloween
Q 21In 'Lullaby in Frogland', what instrument does Wirt reluctantly play in the ferry band?
Bassoon
Greg's frog then unexpectedly starts to sing, and their disguise holds.
Q 22What did Beatrice originally plan to trade the brothers to the 'good woman of the woods' for?
A pair of scissors to lift her curse
Wirt discovers the betrayal, and it sends him into the hopelessness the Beast feeds on.
Q 23How does Auntie Whispers control the girl Lorna?
With a magic bell
Greg's frog eats the bell, and Wirt uses it to command the demon out of Lorna's body.
They jumped a cemetery wall to escape a police officer, dodged a train and rolled unconscious into the water.
Q 14What is Wirt trying to retrieve on Halloween night in the flashback episode?
A cassette tape he made for Sara
Sara is actually delighted to see him; he is the only one who cannot tell.
Q 15In 'The Old Grist Mill', what turns out to be the 'beast' that chases the brothers?
A dog that swallowed a turtle
Once it coughs up the turtle it reverts to a calm domestic dog — but the mill is already destroyed.
Q 16In Pottsfield, what are the residents dressed as when the brothers arrive at the harvest festival?
Pumpkins and straw
They really are skeletons under the pumpkins; the brothers are told they arrived 'too early'.
Q 17What is the name of the Pottsfield village leader who sentences the brothers to manual labour?
Enoch
He jokes about putting them to death but only makes them help dig in the field — from which skeletons then rise.
Q 18In 'Schooltown Follies', what does Greg add to the bland mashed potatoes to cheer everyone up?
Molasses
The students are all animals; the human teacher Miss Langtree mistakes Wirt for one of them.
Q 19What is the name of the talking horse Wirt steals from the tavern?
Fred
Fred later helps Quincy Endicott search his mansion for a ghost.
Q 20Why do the brothers pretend to be Quincy Endicott's nephews?
To steal two cents for the ferry
Endicott's 'ghost' turns out to be his business rival Margueritte Grey, whose mansion connects to his.
Q 24What does Greg wish for from the Queen of the Clouds after defeating the North Wind?
To take Wirt's place with the Beast
His first wish was to find the way home, but the Queen tells him Wirt is already covered in Edelwood branches.
Q 25What does Wirt realise is really inside the Woodsman's lantern?
The Beast's own soul
He hands the lantern back to the Woodsman, who blows it out.
Q 26What is the title of the show's theme song, sung by Jack Jones?
Into the Unknown
Jones, the crooner of the Love Boat theme, also voices Greg's frog.
Q 27Which group composed the soundtrack?
The Blasting Company
Their 32-track album was pressed on 180-gram vinyl by Mondo in 2016.
Q 28What was the working title of McHale's original pitch and pilot?
Tome of the Unknown
The 2006 pitch had brothers Walter and Gregory chasing pages of a book after a Faustian deal with Old Scratch.
Q 29Which award did Over the Garden Wall win in 2015?
An Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program
Rotten Tomatoes' consensus called it 'a whimsically witty series for viewers of all ages'.
Q 30Which studio produced the stop-motion short released for the 10th anniversary in 2024?
Aardman Animations
McHale, Elijah Wood and Melanie Lynskey all returned for the three-minute film.