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98 free Teen Wolf trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
53 free Teen Wolf trivia questions with answers. Teen Wolf means two very different things depending on when you grew up: Michael J. Fox surfing on a van and hitting free throws for the Beavers, or Tyler Posey's Scott McCall keeping Beacon Hills alive through six seasons of Alphas, kanimas, nogitsunes, Dread Doctors and Ghost Riders. This quiz covers both, plus Teen Wolf Too, the 1986 cartoon and Teen Wolf: The Movie on Paramount+, with the MTV series taking the bigger share. Questions start easy (who plays Scott, what sport he plays in each version, what Lydia is) and climb to genuinely hard ones about the cartoon's town, the pilot's director, Stiles's real first name and who composed the score. Every answer was checked against a documented source and the citation is shown under each explanation, so a pack argument about which season had 24 episodes can be settled on the spot. Play it solo, or use it as a Teen Wolf round for a rewatch party with people who still have opinions about the finale.
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Q 01Who plays Scott Howard, the high-schooler who discovers he is a werewolf, in the 1985 film Teen Wolf?
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox squeezed the four-week shoot into a break from his sitcom Family Ties, opened up when co-star Meredith Baxter Birney went on maternity leave.
Q 02In the 1985 film Teen Wolf, which sport does Scott Howard become a star at as a werewolf?
Basketball
Basketball is where the Wolf takes over, turning his school's losing team into winners; yet Scott chooses to play the championship game as himself, and still wins it.
Q 03How does Teen Wolf's Scott Howard first learn he is a werewolf?
He transforms in his bathroom at home
He transforms in his bathroom at home, and the bigger shock follows: his seemingly ordinary father is a werewolf too, and had hoped the family curse would pass his son by.
Q 04Director Rod Daniel said Teen Wolf was really about what?
Father and son
A father and son, he said, while every other candidate answered 'a werewolf'; he added that much of the film was who he wished his own father had been.
Q 05Who plays Harold Howard, Scott's werewolf father, in the 1985 film Teen Wolf and its sequel?
James Hampton
James Hampton plays Harold as a seemingly ordinary dad who had hoped the family curse would pass his son by; in the sequel he steers a nephew through the same change.
Q 06The 1987 sequel Teen Wolf Too swapped the original's sport for which one?
Boxing
Boxing is the sport at the college where Scott's cousin Todd wolfs out mid-fight and starts winning; like Scott before him, he takes the final as himself.
Q 07Which future Arrested Development star made his feature-film debut as Todd Howard in Teen Wolf Too?
Jason Bateman
Jason Bateman, 18 and already a sitcom regular, made his film debut in a sequel that his own father, Kent Bateman, produced.
Q 08The 1986 animated Teen Wolf series moved Scott and his werewolf family to a town called what?
Wolverton
Wolverton is the cartoon's town; the series also gave Scott a little sister, Lupe, and grandparents he never had in the film.
Q 09Which actor plays the brooding werewolf Derek Hale in the MTV series?
Tyler Hoechlin
Tyler Hoechlin plays Derek Hale; he left the regular cast after season four, then returned in the final season and for Teen Wolf: The Movie.
Q 10Who developed the 2011 MTV Teen Wolf series?
Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis, the creator of Criminal Minds, pitched MTV a thriller in the spirit of The Lost Boys instead of a remake of the 1985 comedy.
Q 11The MTV series premiered on June 5, 2011, immediately after what broadcast?
The MTV Movie Awards
The MTV Movie Awards handed Teen Wolf its launch audience on a Sunday; the second episode followed the very next night.
Q 12Which title closed Teen Wolf's hundred-episode run?
The Wolves of War
'The Wolves of War' closed the show: the pack and old allies fight Gerard's army of hunters, and a last scene shows Scott recruiting a new young beta, Alec.
Q 13In the MTV series, Scott McCall plays which sport for his high school?
Lacrosse
Scott plays lacrosse for his high school; after the bite he goes from the bench to first line, and team captain Jackson resents the sudden attention he gets.
Q 21Derek Hale's family died when their house was burned down by whom?
Kate Argent
Kate Argent dated a teenage Derek to learn about his family before the fire; Peter later tears out her throat, yet the wound turns her into a werejaguar.
Q 22At the end of season 1, how does Derek Hale become an Alpha?
By killing his uncle Peter
Derek becomes an Alpha by killing his uncle Peter in the season finale: the power passes to whoever kills its holder, which is how Peter had taken it from Derek's sister Laura.
Q 23What supernatural creature does Lydia Martin turn out to be?
A banshee
Q 14The MTV series is set in which fictional California town?
Beacon Hills
The series is set in Beacon Hills, a fictional California town whose Nemeton, a sacred druid tree stump, draws supernatural creatures to it.
Q 15Where were the first two seasons of the MTV series filmed before production moved to Los Angeles?
Atlanta
Seasons one and two were shot in Atlanta, Georgia; the production moved to Los Angeles for season three after winning a California film and TV tax credit.
Q 16Teen Wolf's pilot director made the first clip MTV aired, for which song?
Video Killed the Radio Star
'Video Killed the Radio Star' was directed by Russell Mulcahy, who opened Teen Wolf with its pilot and closed it too, with the last episode and the 2023 film.
Q 17Who plays Scott McCall in the MTV series?
Tyler Posey
Tyler Posey plays Scott McCall in every episode, and from the fifth season the show's star was also one of its co-producers.
Q 18Stiles's real first name, finally revealed in the sixth season of the MTV series, is what?
Mieczyslaw
Stiles's real name is Mieczyslaw; as a toddler he could only manage 'Mischief', which became his mother Claudia's nickname for him.
Q 19Who bites Scott McCall in the woods in the pilot, turning him into a werewolf?
Peter Hale
Peter Hale spends most of the first season apparently comatose in hospital while secretly being the creature behind the attacks; he bit Scott to start building a pack.
Q 20What makes Scott McCall a 'True Alpha' in the MTV series?
He rose without killing anyone for it
He rose without killing anyone for it: Scott becomes an Alpha by sheer force of will and strength of character, which Deaton calls extremely rare.
Lydia Martin is a banshee: an Alpha's bite neither turns nor kills her, and her screams announce that a death is near.
Q 24In season 2 Jackson Whittemore's bite goes wrong and he becomes what reptilian shapeshifter?
A kanima
Jackson becomes a kanima, a lizard-like creature that seeks a master; Matt Daehler and then Gerard Argent control him until Lydia's love turns him into a werewolf.
Q 25How does Scott wreck Gerard's plan to be cured by the bite?
He swapped his pills for mountain ash
He swapped his pills for mountain ash: when Gerard forces Derek to bite him to cure his cancer, his body rejects it and he spews black fluid before disappearing.
Q 26Which three teens does Derek bite to build his pack in season 2?
Isaac, Erica and Boyd
Isaac, Erica and Boyd take Derek's bite, but the Alpha Pack kills Erica and later forces Boyd onto Derek's own claws.
Q 27In the MTV series, the Alpha Pack of season three is led by which blind 'Demon Wolf'?
Deucalion
Deucalion, the self-styled 'Demon Wolf', leads the Alpha Pack; blinded by Gerard Argent years earlier, he has his sight restored by the Darach at the end of 3A.
Q 28The Darach, season three's druid killing in threes, is which high-school teacher?
Jennifer Blake
Jennifer Blake, the new English teacher played by Haley Webb, is the Darach; she dates Derek while sacrificing victims in threes to gain power.
Q 29In the MTV series, what Japanese spirit possesses Stiles late in season three?
A nogitsune
A nogitsune, a dark fox spirit that feeds on chaos and strife, possesses Stiles; it returns as the villain of Teen Wolf: The Movie in 2023.
Q 30Why was Scott's first love killed off in season three of the MTV series?
The actress wanted to leave
The actress wanted to leave: Crystal Reed, 29 and playing a 17-year-old, asked the showrunner to let her move on, so her character was written a death scene.