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50 free Team StarKid trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Team StarKid began as a group of drama students with a parody script and a video camera. They put their Harry Potter spoof online, millions watched, and a campus in-joke turned into a working theatre company with a worldwide fanbase. More than a decade later the troupe has sent up superheroes, Disney villains and a classic educational computer game, and built its own horror-comedy world in the cursed town of Hatchetfield. This quiz covers the whole run. Expect questions on the Potter trilogy and its running jokes, the songs and characters of The Trail to Oregon!, Twisted, Starship and the Hatchetfield musicals, and the performers and writers who have been with the company since the early days. There is some company history too: where it all began, how the shows are funded and what the cast did next. It is written for fans who know the cast recordings by heart and for newcomers who found the troupe through a single viral clip. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01In A Very Potter Musical, a poster of which actor turns out to be Voldemort's last Horcrux?
Zac Efron
Zac Efron is the face on the poster Dumbledore keeps in his office, and Ron is the one who destroys it. Voldemort even posts an online review of the actor's film 17 Again.
Q 02Students at which university founded Team StarKid in 2009 after staging A Very Potter Musical?
Michigan
Michigan theatre students put the parody on for three nights on campus in April 2009. Most early members came from its School of Music, Theatre and Dance.
Q 03Which TV series made StarKid co-founder Darren Criss famous as Warblers lead singer Blaine Anderson?
Glee
Glee introduced him in 2010 as Blaine, the lead voice of the Dalton Academy glee club. His first number on the series became its biggest one-week seller.
Q 04In A Very Potter Musical, Pigfarts is a prestigious wizarding academy located on which planet?
Mars
Mars is where Pigfarts sits, which is why one student bargains with Voldemort for a rocket to get there.
Q 05StarKid's stage Harry Potter, Darren Criss, replaced which film actor in a Broadway musical in 2012?
Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe handed him the lead in the revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The three-week stint was among the revival's most lucrative.
Q 06In The Trail to Oregon!, which disease finishes off the family member the audience votes to kill?
Dysentery
Dysentery strikes just as the family reaches the state line, where a doctor names the victim. The crowd makes its choice earlier in the evening.
Q 07What does Harry Potter use to tame the Hungarian Horntail dragon in A Very Potter Musical?
A guitar serenade
A guitar serenade lulls the beast into submission after Harry skips his tournament training. The number is simply called The Dragon Song.
Q 08Which Harry Potter film actress played Luna Lovegood again on stage in A Very Potter Senior Year?
Evanna Lynch
Evanna Lynch joined the StarKid cast for the 2012 staged reading, opposite the troupe's own Harry. A different singer took her part on the soundtrack.
Q 09Which StarKid actress first found fame playing Draco Malfoy in A Very Potter Musical?
Lauren Lopez
Lauren Lopez returned as Draco in the sequel and stayed with the troupe as both an actor and its company manager.
Q 10Which StarKid actor played Ron Weasley in A Very Potter Musical and Peter in Nerdy Prudes Must Die?
Joey Richter
Joey Richter was an undergraduate when the Potter parody went viral, and he later recurred as Officer Petey on Disney Channel's Jessie.
Q 11Which StarKid actor played Voldemort in A Very Potter Musical and Dolores Umbridge in its sequel?
Joe Walker
Joe Walker also pitched the idea that grew into the space musical Starship, in which he played Commander Up.
Q 12In A Very Potter Musical, Voldemort spends Act I attached to the back of which professor's head?
Quirinus Quirrell
Quirinus Quirrell and his unwanted passenger bicker like roommates, then grow so close that the Dark Lord is heartbroken when they part.
Q 13Which A Very Potter Musical duet do Ron and Draco sing at the Yule Ball?
Granger Danger
Granger Danger was the seed of the whole show: the writers imagined a bully hiding a crush, and a full Potter parody grew from that one idea.
Q 21In The Trail to Oregon!, the flirtatious stranger McDoon is secretly which feared outlaw?
The Bandit King
The Bandit King is unmasked by accident when his own sidekick blurts out the truth. He takes revenge by setting fire to the family's ride west.
Q 22In The Trail to Oregon!, Grandpa claims he battled which sea creatures back in 1812?
Lobsters
Lobsters, in his tall tale, were banished to the sea and took revenge by stealing a million-dollar bill with his face on it. One of them later rescues the whole family.
Q 23Who wrote the songs for The Trail to Oregon! and also starred as the Father on stage?
Jeff Blim
Jeff Blim wrote the music and lyrics, shared the script credit and led a cast of just six actors.
Q 14In A Very Potter Sequel, which candy does Ron Weasley offer to trick the traitor Peter Pettigrew?
Red Vines
Red Vines are Ron's snack of choice in the sequel, and the bait works. In the first show the pianist handed him a rival licorice brand instead.
Q 15In A Very Potter Sequel, which of his father's magical devices does Draco use to rescue his friends?
A Time-Turner
A Time-Turner lets Lucius hunt Harry as a first-year, and Draco later borrows the same gadget to rewind an hour and save his friends.
Q 16In A Very Potter Sequel, who does Lucius Malfoy reveal to be Draco's real father?
Dobby
Dobby the house-elf had an affair with Lucius's wife years earlier, a secret Lucius blurts out when his son finally stands up to him.
Q 17The Trail to Oregon! ran in repertory with Ani, StarKid's parody of which film franchise?
Star Wars
Star Wars gets the StarKid treatment in Ani, which centres on Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi who becomes Darth Vader.
Q 18Whose catchphrases in the 1960s Batman TV series inspired the title of Holy Musical B@man!?
Robin
Robin, played on television by Burt Ward, met each new crisis with a pun that began with the word Holy.
Q 19In The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, what crashes into a theater and sets off the singing plague?
A meteor
A meteor carries the blue contagion to town, and the hero's last hope is to blow it up with grenades.
Q 20Which The Trail to Oregon! song has the kidnappers try to float across the Columbia River?
Caulk the Wagon
Caulk the Wagon is sung by the two outlaws and their captive with a line of backup singers. The crossing fails when they strike a rock and tumble out.
Q 24In The Trail to Oregon!, the family begins the journey west in which real Missouri town?
Independence
Independence welcomes the family with a chorus of honest but gloomy advice from its townspeople, and a store owner there swindles the Father over a deformed ox.
Q 25In The Trail to Oregon!, the farming family skips food at the general store and stocks up on what?
Bullets
Bullets are their one planned purchase, on the logic that farmers never need to buy food. The plan collapses once the youngest child eats the reserves.
Q 26Which song in The Trail to Oregon! is performed by whichever family member the audience has doomed?
You Gotta Go
You Gotta Go changes singer from night to night, so every actor in the family has to be ready to deliver the farewell.
Q 27The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals was loosely inspired by which 1956 science-fiction horror film?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers lent the show its premise of neighbours being taken over one by one, here by a hive mind that makes them sing and dance.
Q 28In The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, which real hit show does Paul refuse to see with Bill?
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! is the show he turns down, citing his distaste for the whole genre. That refusal keeps him out of the audience on the night the trouble starts.
Q 29In The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, what job does Paul's crush Emma Perkins hold at Beanie's?
A barista
A barista by day, Emma is working her way through community college and hates her job, her town and musicals alike.
Q 30StarKid's Twisted borrows its villain's-eye-view premise from which hit Broadway musical set in Oz?
Wicked
Wicked retold a famous tale from its witch's side, and Twisted does the same for a royal vizier whose good intentions go unnoticed.