Over the Garden Wall Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
8correct to beat the crowd
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.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Who voices Beatrice, the brothers' sharp-tongued guide through the Unknown?
Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Lynskey took over the part for the series; in the 2013 pilot short the character had been voiced by comedian Natasha Leggero.
Q 02Which channel first aired Over the Garden Wall in November 2014?
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network had never ordered a miniseries before; creator Patrick McHale said the short run let him make something of higher quality than a regular series would allow.
Q 03Over the Garden Wall first aired across five consecutive what?
Nights
Nights: two eleven-minute chapters filled a half-hour each evening from November 3 to 7. The creator had first planned eighteen chapters, before budget and time cut them to ten.
Q 04What was the forest called in McHale's original 2006 pitch, before it became the Unknown?
The Land of the In-Between
The Land of the In-Between was where the pitch's brothers, then called Walter and Gregory, had to hunt down the scattered pages of a storybook after signing a devil's contract.
Q 05Who voices Wirt, the anxious older brother, in Over the Garden Wall?
Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood summed up why the show sounds so old: 'If this show were a record, it would be played on a phonograph', a nod to songs that all draw on music from before the 1950s.
Q 06In Over the Garden Wall, what kind of animal is the brothers' irritable companion Beatrice?
A bluebird
A bluebird is what Beatrice was turned into after she threw a rock at one, and her whole family was changed along with her.
Q 07Which Back to the Future star voices the Woodsman in Over the Garden Wall?
Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd's Woodsman was first sketched as a friendly helper who was secretly the villain; the finished series flipped him into a frightening figure who means no harm.
Q 08Which field made Samuel Ramey, voice of Over the Garden Wall's Beast, a star?
Opera
Opera runs through the show's music, and its creator sought out bass Samuel Ramey, long acclaimed for playing stage devils such as Mefistofele, to give the Beast his voice.
Q 09In Over the Garden Wall, what do the Beast's victims turn into once they lose hope?
Edelwood trees
Edelwood trees ooze a black oil, and the Woodsman grinds them down to keep his lantern lit, never knowing where the trees come from.
Q 10In Over the Garden Wall, what are Wirt's two secret passions?
Clarinet and poetry
Clarinet and poetry are things Wirt hides for fear of being mocked; his creator called the anxious, self-analysing boy a caricature of sides of himself and of a college friend.
Q 11In Over the Garden Wall, Greg's spouted metal hat makes him which animal for Halloween?
An elephant
An elephant is his costume, with the spout as the trunk; early drawings dressed him as a sailor instead, until there was concern that he looked too much like Flapjack.
Q 12What name does Greg's frog finally get in the last episode of Over the Garden Wall?
Jason Funderburker
Jason Funderburker is borrowed from the classmate Wirt fears as a rival, though the frog's name is spelled with a 'u' and the boy's with an 'e'.
Q 13How do Wirt and Greg end up in the Unknown in Over the Garden Wall?
They fall into a pond
Q 21In Over the Garden Wall, which instrument does Wirt reluctantly play in the ferry band?
Bassoon
Bassoon playing is forced on Wirt when the stowaway brothers hide in the ferry's band; Beatrice talks him into it, Greg's frog bursts into song, and their cover holds.
Q 22What reward was Beatrice promised for delivering the brothers as servants in Over the Garden Wall?
Scissors to lift her curse
Scissors to lift her curse were the price of two child servants; she backs out of the deal, and in the end Wirt takes the scissors himself and hands them to her.
Q 23In Over the Garden Wall, how does Auntie Whispers control the girl Lorna?
With a magic bell
They fall into a pond after leaping a cemetery's garden wall, the leap the title points to, to escape a policeman and then dodging a train.
Q 14What is Wirt trying to get back on Halloween night in Over the Garden Wall?
A cassette tape he made for Sara
A cassette tape he made for Sara is what he chases all night, never noticing that she is delighted to see him and has no interest in his supposed rival.
Q 15In Over the Garden Wall's first chapter, what is the 'beast' chasing the brothers?
A dog that swallowed a turtle
A dog that swallowed a turtle: once it coughs the turtle up it is a gentle pet again, but by then the fight has wrecked the Woodsman's mill.
Q 16In Over the Garden Wall's Pottsfield, what are the townsfolk wearing at their harvest festival?
Pumpkins and straw
Pumpkins and straw hide the truth: the townsfolk are skeletons, and the holes the brothers dig as punishment let more of them climb out to join the party.
Q 17In Over the Garden Wall, which Pottsfield leader sentences the brothers to a few hours of manual labour?
Enoch
Enoch teases the brothers with a murder charge before handing down a few hours of farm work, and waves them off with a promise that they will join the town one day.
Q 18In Over the Garden Wall, what does Greg add to the school's bland mashed potatoes to cheer everyone up?
Molasses
Molasses turns the meal into the song 'Potatoes and Molasses', which Greg and the animal pupils strike up again once their fundraising concert has saved the school.
Q 19In Over the Garden Wall, what is the talking horse that Wirt takes from the tavern called?
Fred
Fred admits he loves stealing, yet he ends up going straight: he stays behind at a rich man's mansion to earn an honest living making deliveries.
Q 20Why do the brothers pose as Quincy Endicott's nephews in Over the Garden Wall?
To steal two cents for the ferry
To steal two cents for the ferry was the plan, but when Greg is handed two pennies as thanks he throws them both into a fountain.
With a magic bell she keeps Lorna hard at work, to hold down the flesh-eating spirit inside the girl; Wirt later uses the same bell to order the spirit out for good.
Q 24What does Greg finally ask the Queen of the Clouds for?
To take Wirt's place with the Beast
To take Wirt's place with the Beast is his second request: he first asks to go home, but the Queen tells him his despairing brother has already been claimed.
Q 25In Over the Garden Wall, what does Wirt realise is really inside the Woodsman's lantern?
The Beast's own soul
The Beast's own soul burns there, so the tale of a trapped daughter was a trick to keep the flame fed; when the Woodsman blows it out, the Beast is finished.
Q 26Which song, sung by Jack Jones, opens Over the Garden Wall as its theme?
Into the Unknown
Into the Unknown was written by the show's creator and sung by crooner Jack Jones, who also voices Greg's frog, so the frog seems to be singing and narrating his own tale.
Q 27Which group composed the soundtrack of Over the Garden Wall?
The Blasting Company
The Blasting Company was started by two half-brothers, a fitting match for the story, and played the whole score on real instruments rather than synthesisers.
Q 28Which Rocky Horror Picture Show star voices Auntie Whispers in Over the Garden Wall?
Tim Curry
Tim Curry makes the big-eyed old woman sound like a monster, yet she is the gentle one of the story: she works her ward Lorna hard only to protect her, and weeps when the girl is cured.
Q 29Which award did Over the Garden Wall win in 2015?
An Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program
An Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program went to the ten-part children's serial in 2015, ahead of The Simpsons, South Park, Archer and Bob's Burgers.
Q 30Which studio made the stop-motion Over the Garden Wall short released for the show's tenth anniversary in 2024?
Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace & Gromit, made the short as an anniversary gift to fans; it went out free online on November 3, ten years to the day after the premiere.