SCP Foundation Trivia
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46 free SCP Foundation trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free SCP Foundation trivia questions with answers. The SCP Foundation began as one anonymous 4chan post about a concrete statue that moves when you blink, and grew into what may be the largest collaborative writing project in history: more than 10,000 SCP files, thousands of Foundation Tales, sixteen language branches and a licence dispute that reached the Russian courts. This quiz covers the fiction and the real-world story behind it. On the fiction side: the object classes from Safe to Apollyon, the O5 Council, D-class personnel and amnestics, the Chaos Insurgency and the Global Occult Coalition, and the famous entries themselves, from the plague doctor and the shy giant to the coffee machine that dispenses abstract concepts and the man who sees Shia LaBeouf everywhere. On the real side: who wrote SCP-173, whose sculpture it borrowed, why the wiki is Creative Commons by accident, the great 2009 purge, the trademark troll, and the games and books it spawned, from Containment Breach to Control and There Is No Antimemetics Division. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the SCP Wiki's own object-class page, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01On the SCP Wiki, the letters SCP began as an initialism for what?
Special Containment Procedures
Special Containment Procedures is the heading under which each file sets out how to hold its object; the motto 'Secure, Contain, Protect' was coined later as a backronym.
Q 02The SCP Foundation answers only to which shadowy leadership body?
The O5 Council
The O5 Council's Overseers are known only by number, O5-1 to O5-13, and are kept away from the anomalies themselves for fear of contamination.
Q 03What are 'D-class personnel'?
Disposable human test subjects, usually convicts
D-class personnel are disposable human test subjects, usually convicts, sent to handle dangerous SCPs so regular staff are spared; the wiki's writers disagree on whether they all come from death row.
Q 04The Foundation typically erases witnesses' memories with what?
Amnestic drugs
Amnestic drugs, graded by strength into lettered classes, wipe what witnesses saw so the world keeps running under a veil of normalcy; mnestics are the opposite, bringing erased memories back.
Q 05Which rival group is a splinter of ex-Foundation defectors who weaponise SCPs?
The Chaos Insurgency
The Chaos Insurgency turns stolen anomalies into weapons; the wiki offers rival accounts of its birth, including one in which it began as a deniable Foundation task force that turned on its masters.
Q 06The Global Occult Coalition is a secret paramilitary arm of which real organisation?
The United Nations
The Global Occult Coalition operates under the United Nations, formed after the Second World War from occult groups, and destroys supernatural threats rather than containing them.
Q 07In the SCP Wiki's class guide, a button that would destroy the universe if pressed gets which object class?
Safe
Safe describes the containment, not the object: the class means an anomaly is easily and reliably held, and handling or activating a Safe item can still pose a threat.
Q 08Any SCP that is autonomous or sapient is, by default, usually classified as what?
Euclid
Euclid is the default class for anything autonomous or sapient, because unpredictable behaviour makes containment less than fully reliable.
Q 09A Keter classification means an anomaly is what?
Exceedingly difficult to contain
Keter means exceedingly difficult to contain: the class measures how costly and unreliable containment is, so the guide stresses that a Keter object is not necessarily dangerous.
Q 10Thaumiel-class objects are special because the Foundation uses them for what?
Containing other SCPs
Containing other SCPs is the point of a Thaumiel: in the wiki's locked-box test for sorting anomalies, a Thaumiel is not something shut in the box but the box itself.
Q 11Which class is reserved for anomalies about to break containment, usually with world-ending results?
Apollyon
Apollyon marks anomalies that cannot be contained or are expected to break out imminently; because that usually means a world-ending event, each one demands a massive effort from the Foundation.
Q 12SCP-173, the first SCP ever written, is a statue that does what?
Attacks when nobody is looking at it
SCP-173 attacks when nobody is looking at it: it stays frozen under direct observation but moves fast enough to snap necks the instant eye contact breaks; it is concrete, rebar and spray paint.
Q 13The original SCP-173 post appeared in June 2007 on which website?
Q 21SCP-426 is a toaster with what peculiar rule?
It can only be referred to in the first person
It can only be referred to in the first person, so its file's description begins 'Hello, I am SCP-426'; people kept near it for over two months start to identify as toasters themselves.
Q 22SCP-999, the friendly orange slime, smells like what?
Whatever the person finds most comforting
Whatever the person finds most comforting: recorded scents include chocolate, fresh laundry and bacon, and its touch brings a mild euphoria that has left even severely depressed people with a brighter outlook.
Q 23SCP-1247 depicts a man who sees every animal as which actor?
4chan's /x/ board
4chan's /x/ board, its paranormal forum, got SCP-173 as an anonymous one-off post; so many imitations followed that fans built a wiki to stop the threads from vanishing.
Q 14The photo that illustrated SCP-173 for years showed a sculpture by which Japanese artist?
Izumi Kato
Izumi Kato's sculpture 'Untitled 2004' was the face of SCP-173 for years; unhappy at the unlicensed use, he still let the photo stay as long as nobody used it commercially.
Q 15Why did SCP-173 get no new image after its photo's removal?
Its author asked that readers imagine it themselves
Its author asked that readers imagine it themselves, so nothing replaced the photo, and the community answered with a flood of its own redesigns of the statue.
Q 16SCP-049 resembles what?
A medieval plague doctor
SCP-049 looks like a medieval plague doctor, but its robes and mask have grown out of its body; its touch kills anyone it believes carries 'the Pestilence', and it then reanimates the corpse.
Q 17SCP-096, the 'Shy Guy', hunts down anyone who does what?
Sees its face, even in a photo
Anyone who sees its face, even in a photo, sends SCP-096 into screaming, weeping distress before it runs them down wherever they are; left unseen, it is docile and simply paces its cell.
Q 18SCP-087 is an apparently endless what?
Descending staircase
SCP-087 is an unlit descending staircase with no known bottom: a child's cries seem to rise from far below, yet no descent brings explorers closer, and a face with no mouth, nostrils or pupils waits on the way.
Q 19SCP-055 is famous for being what?
Impossible to remember
SCP-055 is impossible to remember: an 'antimeme' that no one can recall once they look away, describable only by what it is not, such as the fact that it is 'not round'.
Q 20SCP-294 is a vending machine that dispenses what?
Any liquid, including abstract concepts
Any liquid, including abstract concepts, can be ordered: one agent asked for 'a cup of pertinent medical knowledge' during a breach, drank it and began treating wounded colleagues.
Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf is what SCP-1247 perceives in place of every animal, at life size: a bird appears as the actor flying by flapping his arms, and a horse as LaBeouf galloping on all fours.
Q 24SCP-3008 is a seemingly endless version of what kind of building?
An IKEA store
An IKEA store, endless inside: its faceless 'staff' turn violent when the lights go out, announcing that the store is now closed, a line that named a fan game IKEA's lawyers objected to.
Q 25The Global Occult Coalition made SCP-1609, a kindly teleporting chair, vengeful by doing what?
Feeding it through a woodchipper
Feeding it through a woodchipper left SCP-1609 as a heap of mulch that teleports into the lungs of anyone it takes for a threat, above all people in Coalition uniform.
Q 26The SCP Wiki moved to Wikidot in 2008 for what reason?
Its previous home, EditThis, started charging
Its previous home, EditThis, started charging: the host was short of money and told its wikis to pay or be deleted, so one fan copied every article across to Wikidot by hand.
Q 27Under which licence is SCP content released?
Creative Commons BY-SA
SCP content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0, so anyone may sell merchandise or make games as long as they credit the authors and share alike.
Q 28The SCP Wiki lists SCP-682 under what title?
Hard-to-Destroy Reptile
'Hard-to-Destroy Reptile' is the title of SCP-682, a huge, hostile creature kept submerged in acid to hold it down; nothing the Foundation has tried can destroy it, only damage it.
Q 29A 2011 SCP Wiki contest gave which coveted number to its winner, an article revealing Bigfoot as an anomaly?
SCP-1000
SCP-1000 went to thedeadlymoose's contest winner, in which Bigfoot is real and the Foundation itself bankrolled hoaxes and comedies so that people would find the idea laughable.
Q 30The Wanderer's Library, the SCP Wiki's sister site, differs how?
It hosts fantastical stories rather than scientific reports
It hosts fantastical stories rather than scientific reports, and the Library is itself a place in the SCP stories: a building reached through portals scattered around the world.