Peter Pan Trivia
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110 free Peter Pan trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
51 free Peter Pan trivia questions with answers. Peter Pan first flew across a London stage in 1904 and has never really landed. This quiz covers the whole story: J. M. Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him, the play and the 1911 novel, the copyright he gave to a children's hospital, and every big adaptation since, from Disney's 1953 cartoon and Mary Martin's TV musical to Hook, Finding Neverland, Pan and Peter Pan & Wendy. Easy questions cover the crocodile, the thimble kiss, and who plays Hook in Hook. Harder ones get into which dog breed Nana is, why Barrie erected a statue in Kensington Gardens without permission, which actor traditionally doubles as Mr Darling and Hook, and where the name Wendy came from. Every answer has been checked against a published source and carries a link, so you can settle any nursery argument on the spot. Good for family movie nights, drama classes and anyone who still claps for Tinker Bell.
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Q 01J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, was born in which country?
Scotland
Scotland: Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, a handloom weaver's son, and turned the town into 'Thrums' in the early sketches and novels that first made his name.
Q 02Where in London did the play Peter Pan premiere on 27 December 1904?
The Duke of York's Theatre
The Duke of York's Theatre staged the premiere on 27 December 1904, and a day later the Manchester Guardian's critic predicted that 'all the world and his wife' would go and take their children.
Q 03In which 1902 novel written for adults did the character of Peter Pan first appear?
The Little White Bird
The Little White Bird (1902), an adult novel, introduced Peter as a week-old baby in Kensington Gardens; those chapters were reissued in 1906 as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Q 04As the tide rises around him in the Mermaids' Lagoon, what does Peter say dying will be?
An awfully big adventure
An awfully big adventure: stranded on a rock, Peter declares 'To die will be an awfully big adventure', and is saved when the Never Bird pushes her floating nest across to him.
Q 05What does Peter lose in the Darling nursery, prompting his return and his meeting with Wendy?
His shadow
His shadow: Nana snapped the window shut on it, Mrs Darling kept it in a drawer, and Wendy sews it back on with needle and thread when Peter returns.
Q 06In Peter and Wendy, when Wendy offers Peter a 'kiss', what does she actually give him?
A thimble
She gives him a thimble; he returns an acorn button, which she wears round her neck and which later stops an arrow and saves her life.
Q 07What did the crocodile swallow that lets Captain Hook hear it coming?
A ticking clock
A ticking clock: Peter cut off Hook's hand and threw it to the crocodile, which liked the taste so much that it has followed him ever since, ticking a warning as it comes.
Q 08In Barrie's novel, what breed of dog is Nana, the Darling children's nursemaid?
Newfoundland
Newfoundland: Barrie calls Nana 'a prim Newfoundland dog'; after the children fly away, Mr Darling moves into her kennel as penance and is carried to his office in it each day.
Q 09In Barrie's novel, the way to Neverland is 'second to the right, and straight on till' when?
Morning
Morning: Barrie adds that Peter 'just said anything that came into his head', and Disney's film slipped a 'star' into the line, the version Captain Kirk quotes to close Star Trek VI.
Q 10How did the Lost Boys reach Neverland?
They fell out of their prams and went unclaimed
They fell out of their prams and went unclaimed: after seven days such children are sent to the Neverland, and Peter says there are no lost girls because girls are far too clever to fall out.
Q 11Who shoots Wendy out of the sky with an arrow?
Tootles
Tootles fires because Tinker Bell tells the boys that Peter wants 'the Wendy' shot; he then bares his chest and asks Peter to strike him, but an acorn button round her neck had stopped the arrow.
Q 12How was Tinker Bell represented in the original stage productions?
By a darting light from a mirror
By a darting light from a mirror: a hand mirror offstage bounced lamplight around the set, yet the programme credited a 'Miss Jane Wren' as Tinker Bell, a joke that later drew her a tax demand.
Q 13What does Peter ask the audience to do to save Tinker Bell's life?
Clap if they believe in fairies
Q 21Which childhood tragedy is thought to have inspired Barrie's boy who never grows up?
His brother David's death at 13
His brother David's death at 13 in a skating accident left their mother to take comfort in the thought that he would stay a boy for ever, and the young Barrie dressed in David's clothes to console her.
Q 22Barrie is said to have taken the name Wendy from which source?
A small girl's nickname for him
A small girl's nickname for him: the story goes that Margaret Henley, a poet friend's daughter, could not say her Rs and so called Barrie her 'fwendy'; she died in childhood.
Q 23How was the Peter Pan statue installed in Kensington Gardens in 1912?
Clap if they believe in fairies: Tinker Bell drinks the poison Hook left for Peter in order to save him, and at the 1904 premiere 'a hearty round of applause' duly restored her.
Q 14Which two roles are traditionally doubled by one actor in stage productions of Peter Pan?
Mr Darling and Captain Hook
Mr Darling and Captain Hook have shared an actor since Gerald du Maurier played both at the 1904 premiere, and Disney kept the custom by giving both voices to Hans Conried.
Q 15Which famous public school is Captain Hook said to have attended?
Eton
Eton: in the play Hook goes over the side to the crocodile murmuring 'Floreat Etona', the school motto, and Barrie later wrote a speech titled 'Captain Hook at Eton'.
Q 16Critics have read Hook's feud with the crocodile that took his hand as a satire on which obsessed literary figure?
Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab lost a leg to the white whale as Hook lost a hand to the crocodile, and each man's obsession with the beast that maimed him ends in his own death at sea.
Q 17How does Barrie's novel describe Smee, Captain Hook's bo'sun?
Irish, the crew's only Nonconformist
Irish, the crew's only Nonconformist: Barrie's oddly genial bo'sun survives the final battle and ends up making a living by saying he was the only man Hook ever feared.
Q 18Whom does Peter save from drowning on Marooners' Rock by imitating Captain Hook's voice?
Tiger Lily
Tiger Lily: from the dark Peter calls 'Set her free' in Hook's voice and the pirates obey, and her grateful people then guard the boys' underground home night and day.
Q 19To which institution was the copyright to Peter Pan given in 1929?
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital: asked in 1929 to join a fundraising committee, Barrie declined, said he hoped to find another way to help, and two months later gave it the rights; a 1988 Act made the royalties perpetual.
Q 20Which family's sons were the inspiration for Peter Pan, with their parents' friend becoming their guardian after both died?
The Llewelyn Davies boys
The Llewelyn Davies boys: Barrie met George and Jack, out with their nurse, in Kensington Gardens, and became guardian to all five brothers after their father died in 1907 and their mother in 1910.
Overnight, secretly, without permission
Overnight, secretly, without permission: Barrie had it put up during the night before May Day 1912 so children would think fairies had left it, then ran a Times notice promising 'a surprise'.
Q 24What is Captain Hook's first name?
James
James: he signs himself 'Jas. Hook', though Barrie hints that Hook was not his true name and that revealing it 'would even at this date set the country in a blaze'.
Q 25Who voiced Peter in Disney's 1953 animated Peter Pan?
Bobby Driscoll
Bobby Driscoll, Disney's child star from Song of the South and Treasure Island, voiced Peter and was filmed as live-action reference, a rare male Peter when women usually took the role.
Q 26Which star did Disney first offer the voice of Captain Hook to before casting Hans Conried?
Cary Grant
Cary Grant was said to be intrigued by the offer, but the part went to Hans Conried, a radio veteran who also acted out Hook's scenes on film for the animators to copy.
Q 27Disney's Tinker Bell is often wrongly said to have been modelled on which Hollywood star?
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe is the myth; animator Marc Davis really worked from film of actress Margaret Kerry, who mimed Tinker Bell's scenes on a bare sound stage for the animators.
Q 28The melody of 'The Second Star to the Right' was originally written for which other Disney film?
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland: Sammy Fain wrote the tune as Alice's ballad 'Beyond the Laughing Sky'; when that song was dropped from the film, Sammy Cahn gave it new words for Peter Pan.
Q 29Which group all worked together as directing animators for the last time on Disney's Peter Pan?
The Nine Old Men
The Nine Old Men: Walt Disney jokingly borrowed the label then used for the nine ageing justices of the US Supreme Court, a joke, as his own star animators were decades younger than the judges.
Q 30In Disney's 2002 sequel Return to Never Land, who is taken to Neverland?
Wendy's daughter Jane
Wendy's daughter Jane, a wartime London girl who no longer believes her mother's stories, is carried off by Captain Hook, who mistakes her for Wendy and wants her as bait for Peter.