The Munsters Trivia
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47 free The Munsters trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free The Munsters trivia questions with answers. The Munsters ran for just two seasons on CBS, from 1964 to 1966, and lost its timeslot war to Batman, yet the family at 1313 Mockingbird Lane has never really gone off the air. This quiz covers the original series and everything that grew out of it: the colour pilot with a different wife and a bratty Eddie, the Universal monster makeup the show was allowed to borrow, the George Barris cars, the Grammy-nominated surf-rock theme, and the spin-offs, from Munster, Go Home! to The Munsters Today and Rob Zombie's 2022 film. There are questions on the cast too: Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis's earlier partnership on Car 54, Where Are You?, Yvonne De Carlo's Hollywood career before Lily, Al Lewis's run for governor of New York, and what became of Butch Patrick. Difficulty ranges from things every rerun viewer knows, like the family address and the pet dragon, to production details like which soundstage the house came from. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the show, the films and the cast, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01On which network did The Munsters originally air, from 1964 to 1966?
CBS
CBS carried The Munsters for two seasons from September 1964, then cancelled it in 1966 after its ratings sank to a series low.
Q 02What is the Munsters' street address?
1313 Mockingbird Lane
1313 Mockingbird Lane doubles the unlucky number 13, and in 2012 NBC named its Munsters reboot pilot Mockingbird Lane after the address.
Q 03What kind of creature is the family pet, Spot?
A fire-breathing dragon
A fire-breathing dragon, Spot lives under the staircase and is rarely seen whole; like any dog called Spot he chases cars, but he sometimes catches them.
Q 04Who plays Herman Munster?
Fred Gwynne
Fred Gwynne's height, about six feet five, helped win him the part of Herman; at Harvard he had been president of the Lampoon humour magazine.
Q 05Herman and Grandpa were played by two actors who had just co-starred in which police sitcom?
Car 54, Where Are You?
The two actors had played Officers Muldoon and Schnauser on Car 54, Where Are You?, the police comedy that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, which helped win them the roles of Herman and Grandpa.
Q 06Which classic movie monster is Grandpa based on?
Count Dracula
Count Dracula is Grandpa's model, cape and Transylvanian roots included; Universal co-produced the show, so it could borrow the studio's own classic monsters.
Q 07Which actress played Lily Munster in the original 1960s series?
Yvonne De Carlo
Yvonne De Carlo was a Hollywood film star who had played Moses's wife in The Ten Commandments before she took the role of the vampire housewife Lily.
Q 08In the first unaired pilot for The Munsters, Herman's wife went by what name?
Phoebe
Phoebe was the wife in the 1964 pitch pilot; the actress was judged to look too much like a rival sitcom's Morticia, so the part was recast and renamed Lily.
Q 09Who took over the role of niece Marilyn from Beverley Owen after episode 13?
Pat Priest
Pat Priest played Marilyn from episode 14 after Beverley Owen left the show to get married; the 1966 film then recast the role with Debbie Watson.
Q 10Who plays Eddie Munster?
Butch Patrick
Butch Patrick played Eddie, the family's werewolf boy, throughout the series; a different child actor had played Eddie as a nasty brat in the unaired pilot before the part was recast and softened.
Q 11Which voice actor supplied the voice of the raven in the Munsters' cuckoo clock?
Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, played Charlie the raven, who heckles Herman from the clock until Herman throws things at him; Bob Hastings also voiced the bird.
Q 12Where does Herman work?
At a funeral parlor
At a funeral parlor: Herman, the family's sole wage-earner, works for the aptly named Gateman, Goodbury and Graves, where he started out as a box boy.
Q 13What is the name of Grandpa's pet bat?
Igor
Igor is Grandpa's pet Transylvanian bat and hangs around his laboratory; the 2022 film makes him a human servant who is turned into a bat so he can travel to America.
Q 21DRAG-U-LA, the dragster Grandpa builds, was made from what?
A coffin
A coffin: one could not legally be sold without a death certificate, so the builders paid a funeral director in cash and collected it from his back door after dark.
Q 22Which rocker's 1998 single took its title from Grandpa's dragster?
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie named 'Dragula' after Grandpa's dragster, yet in the song's video he drives the family's other car, the Munster Koach.
Q 23The Munsters theme, a Grammy nominee in 1965, is built around a riff on which instrument?
Electric guitar
Electric guitar: composer Jack Marshall was himself a jazz guitarist, and his riff replaced the light music from a Doris Day film that the pitch pilot had used.
Q 14The Munsters' producers had previously created which wholesome family sitcom?
Leave It to Beaver
Leave It to Beaver came from the same producing team, and The Munsters sends up that wholesome formula: the well-meaning father, the nurturing mother, the precocious child.
Q 15How is Grandpa related to the rest of the Munster household?
He is Lily's father
He is Lily's father, so the popular name 'Grandpa Munster' is wrong: Munster is the surname of his son-in-law Herman.
Q 16Writer Allan Burns admitted the 1963 proposal 'sort of stole the idea' from whose New Yorker cartoons?
Charles Addams
Charles Addams had drawn his macabre family for The New Yorker since 1938; the studio reworked the borrowed premise around the classic monsters whose film likenesses it already controlled.
Q 17Which show, new on a rival network, is blamed for the ratings collapse that got The Munsters cancelled in 1966?
Batman
Batman premiered on a rival network in January 1966 and drained the audience; 'Batman just came along and took our ratings away,' the actor who played Eddie later said.
Q 18What do the Munsters pity about niece Marilyn?
Her looks
Her looks: Marilyn is a pretty all-American blonde, which her monstrous relatives see as a misfortune, and she has grown up agreeing that she is the odd one out.
Q 19The Munster Koach and DRAG-U-LA were built by which celebrated car customiser?
George Barris
George Barris's shop built only one Koach for the series and the 1966 film; when an unauthorised copy was later offered to him, he declined to buy it.
Q 20On screen, Lily has the Munster Koach built by joining a hot rod to which other vehicle?
A hearse
A hearse: Lily has a used hot rod and a hearse customised into one car as Herman's birthday present; the real Koach was built from three Model T bodies and ran 18 feet long.
Q 24Which band sampled the Munsters theme in its 2015 single 'Uma Thurman'?
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy built the 2015 single 'Uma Thurman' around a sample of the Munsters theme, so the theme's writers share the songwriting credit.
Q 25Herman's actor played the kindly neighbour Jud Crandall in which 1989 Stephen King film?
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary cast him as Jud Crandall, the Maine neighbour who leads the Creed family to the burial ground behind their home; Stephen King wrote the screenplay himself.
Q 26The Munsters' home is described as what style of mansion?
Second Empire Victorian Gothic
The Munster home is a decaying Second Empire Victorian Gothic mansion, kept deliberately cobwebbed: when Lily 'dusts', her vacuum blows dust onto the surfaces rather than off them.
Q 27Herman's flat-headed look copies the makeup worn by which actor in the 1931 film Frankenstein?
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff wore Jack Pierce's flat-headed monster makeup in 1931; Universal owned the design and co-produced The Munsters, so Herman could copy it.
Q 28What did the 1966 film Munster, Go Home! give audiences that the TV series never had?
The family in colour
The family in colour: the series was shot in black and white, and the Technicolor film was made partly to introduce the Munsters to audiences abroad.
Q 29A 1965 Easter special sent the Munsters to which attraction to pick out a pet for Eddie?
Marineland of the Pacific
Marineland of the Pacific, an oceanarium at Palos Verdes, hosted the special Marineland Carnival, where the family went looking for something cuddly for Eddie, such as a shark.
Q 30In Munster, Go Home! (1966), Herman inherits a title and a manor in which English county?
Shroudshire
Shroudshire is the fictional home of Munster Hall, where Herman becomes Lord Munster; his cousin Freddie, played by Terry-Thomas, poses as a ghost to scare the family off, then bolts at the sight of Herman.