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50 free The Backrooms trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Backrooms began as one reply in a 2019 4chan thread: a photo of an empty yellow room and a paragraph about noclipping out of reality into six hundred million square miles of damp carpet. Five years later a Discord community traced the photo to a furniture store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and by 2026 a teenager's Blender short film had become A24's highest-grossing movie ever. These 50 questions follow that whole arc: the /x/ thread and the original description, the levels and entities fans invented, the liminal-space aesthetic and the Severance connection, the HobbyTown renovation blog that solved the photo mystery, Kane Parsons' found-footage series and the Async Research Institute, the American Horror Stories episode, the video games from Pie on a Plate to Escape the Backrooms, and the 2026 film with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. Easy questions cover the colour, the concept and the creator; the hard tier asks about camera models, working titles and box-office records. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a horror-night round.
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Q 01On which imageboard did the Backrooms originate in 2019?
4chan
The thread was on /x/, the site's paranormal board, and asked for images that 'just feel off'.
Q 02Which 4chan board hosted the original Backrooms thread?
/x/
The board is dedicated to the paranormal; the first reply gave the place its name and description.
Q 03In which US city was the original Backrooms photograph taken?
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
The origin stayed unknown until a Discord community found it on an archived 2003 web page in May 2024.
Q 04What kind of business had the photographed building formerly been?
A furniture store
Rohner's Home Furnishings had occupied the Oregon Street address for much of the 20th century.
Q 05Which hobby shop chain was renovating the building when the photo was taken?
HobbyTown
Its Oshkosh branch's renovation blog posted the interior views in March 2003.
Q 06What camera took the original photo on June 12, 2002?
A Sony Cyber-shot
The file was uploaded as 'Dsc00161.jpg' and captioned as a view of 'the East (Oval) room'.
Q 07What did the photographed room later become?
A radio-controlled car track
The water-damaged interior in the photo no longer exists.
Q 08Roughly how much did the building owner raise in 2024 to preserve the site?
More than $24,000
The renovation was estimated at about $78,000; the building was sold in 2025.
Q 09What video-game verb describes how you enter the Backrooms in the original post?
Noclip
The term comes from a cheat mode that lets players pass through walls.
Q 10How many square miles of empty rooms does the original post claim?
About 600 million
The same paragraph warns that anything wandering nearby 'sure as hell has heard you'.
Q 11What do fans call the themed floors that expand the Backrooms?
Levels
Hostile 'entities' roam them, and purists who preferred the original split off into r/TrueBackrooms.
Q 12Which subreddit was created for fans who wanted only the original version?
r/TrueBackrooms
A user named Litbeep started it as r/backrooms kept inventing new levels.
Q 13Which collaborative horror wiki are the Backrooms wikis often compared to?
The SCP Foundation
ABC News and Le Monde grouped both into an 'emerging genre of collaborative online horror'.
Q 21How old was Parsons when he released the first Backrooms short?
16
By the film's release in May 2026 he was 20 and became the youngest director to open at number one.
Q 22Which 2019 video game did Dread Central and Nerdist compare the short to?
Control
Otaku USA filed it under analog horror, and Kotaku praised its restraint.
Q 23Which earlier creepypasta's 'dismal' 2018 film did Boing Boing predict the Backrooms would echo?
Slender Man
Rob Beschizza expected 'a slick but dismal 2-hour Hollywood movie'; A24 got $393 million instead.
Which ceremony gave Parsons a 2022 Creator Honors for his shorts?
Q 14The creator of which Apple TV+ series listed the Backrooms among his influences?
Severance
Dan Erickson named it; critics later compared Kane Parsons' film to the show too.
Q 15The Backrooms are a famous example of which internet aesthetic?
Liminal spaces
The #liminalspaces hashtag has drawn nearly 100 million TikTok views.
Q 16Which Lovecraft location did PC Gamer compare the Backrooms to?
R'lyeh
The same piece invoked The City from the manga Blame! and called it 'an uncanny valley of place'.
Q 17A 2022 TikTok trend used which tool to 'find' entrances to the Backrooms?
Google Earth
Users zoomed in on real locations to reveal a supposed way in.
Q 18Which rapper's posthumous 2024 video 'Party By Myself' was Backrooms-inspired?
Juice Wrld
The song is from the album The Party Never Ends.
Q 19Who created the viral 2022 short 'The Backrooms (Found Footage)'?
Kane Parsons
He was 16, from Northern California, and goes by Kane Pixels online.
Q 20Which 3D software did Parsons use to build his Backrooms short?
Blender
He paired it with Adobe After Effects and made the video over about a month.
The Streamy Awards
The honour was presented by The Game Theorists.
Q 25Which studio released the Backrooms film adaptation?
A24
It co-financed the film with Chernin Entertainment for under $10 million.
Q 26Who stars as Clark, the store owner in the 2026 film?
Chiwetel Ejiofor
He entered negotiations in May 2025 alongside Cristin Milioti, whose deal fell through.
Q 27Who plays Clark's therapist Mary in the film?
Renate Reinsve
She replaced Cristin Milioti in June 2025, a month before shooting.
Q 28Who plays Phil, the Async scientist, in the film?
Mark Duplass
Avan Jogia, a fan of the web series, plays the lost explorer Naren Warne.
Q 29Who wrote the final screenplay for the film?
Will Soodik
Roberto Patino had the job first and stayed on as a producer.
Q 30Where was the film shot in summer 2025?
Vancouver
Much of the 37,000 square feet of wallpaper was sourced in Canada to avoid tariffs.