The Haunting of Bly Manor
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50 free The Haunting of Bly Manor trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Haunting of Bly Manor is a ghost story that turns out to be a love story. A young American arrives at an English country house to look after two orphaned children, and finds that the people who died there never really left. This quiz is built around the characters: the staff who keep the house running, the two children and their absent guardian, the spirits on the grounds and the secrets each of them carries. It also covers the cast, the classic tales the series draws on and how it was made. The opening questions suit anyone who has watched the series once. Later ones reward fans who caught every twist and remember who played whom.
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Q 01The wedding guest narrating The Haunting of Bly Manor is revealed as an older version of which character?
Jamie
Jamie, the gardener who loved Dani, is the storyteller, played in middle age by a different actress. She tells the tale on the eve of a wedding, two decades after the events at the house.
Q 02Amelie Bea Smith, who plays Flora in The Haunting of Bly Manor, became the voice of which cartoon character?
Peppa Pig
Peppa Pig got a new voice in 2020 when Amelie Bea Smith took over from Harley Bird, the same year she played Flora.
Q 03Which character in The Haunting of Bly Manor is revealed to have been a ghost ever since Dani arrived?
Hannah Grose
Hannah Grose was killed moments before Dani reached the house and carried on with her duties without realising she had died.
Q 04Which former child star of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial plays the guardian of Flora in The Haunting of Bly Manor?
Henry Thomas
Henry Thomas, who was Elliott in E.T., had already played the young father in The Haunting of Hill House before returning in this new role.
Q 05What do the ghosts trapped at Bly Manor slowly lose, along with their sense of who they were?
Their faces
Their faces fade the longer they stay, which is why the oldest spirits of the house appear with smooth, featureless heads.
Q 06The Haunting of Bly Manor is adapted mainly from which 1898 ghost story by Henry James?
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw follows a governess who comes to believe the two children in her care are haunted. The series also borrows from several other James tales.
Q 07In The Haunting of Bly Manor, where does Flora keep the handmade figures of everyone living at the manor?
A dollhouse
A dollhouse modelled on the mansion is her pride, and she fills it with effigies she makes of everyone living there.
Q 08Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, who plays Miles in The Haunting of Bly Manor, later voiced which Disney title character?
Pinocchio
Pinocchio in Disney's 2022 live-action remake was voiced by Ainsworth, two years after his first major screen role as Miles.
Q 09In The Haunting of Bly Manor, American Dani Clayton takes which live-in job with two children in England?
Au pair
Au pair is the post Henry Wingrave gives her, caring for two orphaned children at the family's country estate, where the last holder of the job had died.
Q 10How does Dani save Flora from the Lady in the Lake in The Haunting of Bly Manor?
Lets the ghost possess her
Dani lets the ghost possess her, which frees every soul that had been trapped on the grounds over the centuries.
Q 11Which character in The Haunting of Bly Manor is the cook who often leaves to care for his ailing mother?
Owen Sharma
Owen Sharma arrives at the house alongside Dani on her first day, and years later he is running a restaurant of his own.
Q 12Which character in The Haunting of Bly Manor held Dani's job before her and fell in love with Peter Quint?
Rebecca Jessel
Rebecca Jessel started at the house a year before Dani and was already dead when Dani arrived, though her spirit still appears to Flora.
Q 13Henry Wingrave, who hires Dani in The Haunting of Bly Manor, is what relation to young Miles?
His uncle
Q 21In The Haunting of Bly Manor, how does Dani's fiancé Edmund die moments after they argue in a car?
Hit by a truck
Hit by a truck as he steps out of the car in anger, he returns as a spectre that Dani first sees at the hospital.
Q 22In The Haunting of Bly Manor, the Lady in the Lake roams the house each night searching for whom?
Her daughter
Her daughter Isabel was taken away from the estate by her husband long ago, but the spirit keeps looking and kills anyone in her path.
Q 23Which heiress of Bly Manor became the Lady in the Lake after being murdered by her own sister?
Viola
Viola was the original mistress of the house centuries ago, and her refusal to move on is what holds every later spirit on the grounds.
His uncle took charge of both children when their parents died, yet he stays away from the estate and leaves them to the staff.
Q 14In The Haunting of Bly Manor, why is young Miles living at home instead of away at boarding school?
He was expelled
He was expelled after picking fights and killing small animals, behaviour that seems designed to get him sent back to his sister.
Q 15Which horror filmmaker, born in Salem, Massachusetts, created The Haunting of Bly Manor and directed its first episode?
Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan directed only the opening episode, handing the rest to guest directors while he ran the series as showrunner.
Q 16Which streaming service released every episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor on the same day in October 2020?
Netflix
Netflix released the whole series on October 9, 2020, two years after The Haunting of Hill House appeared on the same service.
Q 17Which actress won an MTV award for Most Frightened Performance as Dani in The Haunting of Bly Manor?
Victoria Pedretti
Victoria Pedretti won it in 2021, having earlier been nominated for the same prize for a different ghost story by the same creator.
Q 18The actress who plays Dani in The Haunting of Bly Manor also played Love Quinn in which thriller series?
You
You cast her as Love Quinn for its second and third seasons, which were released either side of her starring turn as Dani.
Q 19To which city has Dani moved from the United States when Henry Wingrave hires her in The Haunting of Bly Manor?
London
London is where she had gone after her fiancé's death, having planned to leave her own country without telling anyone.
Q 20The Haunting of Bly Manor follows The Haunting of Hill House, which was based on a 1959 novel by which author?
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson wrote the novel behind the first series, so the anthology moved from one classic author's haunted house to another's.
Q 24In The Haunting of Bly Manor, which sister smothers the future Lady in the Lake and then marries her widower?
Perdita
Perdita had wanted her sister's husband from the start, and some time after the murder she is killed in turn by her sister's spirit.
Q 25The episode The Jolly Corner in The Haunting of Bly Manor reveals that Henry Wingrave is secretly what to Flora?
Her father
Her father is Henry, who had an affair with her mother. When his brother worked it out, he cut Henry off from the family.
Q 26In The Haunting of Bly Manor, the parents of Flora and Miles die in an accident while travelling in which country?
India
India was meant to be the trip that saved their marriage after a family betrayal came to light. Instead it left both children orphaned.
Q 27Which belonging of her dead fiancé does Dani keep, and finally burn, in The Haunting of Bly Manor?
His glasses
His glasses were handed to her by his mother before she left home, and the sight of Flora trying them on gives Dani a panic attack.
Q 28How does the housekeeper of Bly Manor die at the hands of young Miles while Peter Quint controls him?
Pushed down a well
Pushed down a well on the grounds, she does not grasp that she has died until she is led back to the spot by her killer.
Q 29In The Haunting of Bly Manor, how does Peter Quint kill the woman he loves?
Walks her into the lake
Peter walks her into the lake once she agrees to share her body with him, then argues that the two children could host them both.
Q 30In The Haunting of Bly Manor, the cook offers to take the housekeeper away to which European city?
Paris
Paris is the offer he makes her one night at the estate, and she agrees too late, in a memory she keeps drifting back to.