Vampire Trivia
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119 free Vampire trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
67 free Vampire trivia questions with answers. Vampires have been dying and coming back for three hundred years, from the Serbian exhumations that gave English the word to the sparkling teenagers of Forks, Washington. This quiz covers the whole span: the folklore (garlic, poppy seeds, why corpses looked well fed), the real people behind the legends (Vlad the Impaler, the Blood Countess), the books that built the myth (Polidori, Carmilla, Dracula, Anne Rice, Stephen King) and the screen versions from Nosferatu and Bela Lugosi to Buffy, True Blood, Twilight and What We Do in the Shadows. The vampire bats get a few questions too. It starts easy and ends with questions only a committed Stoker scholar or a Hammer completist will get. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia and primary-source pages and carries a linked citation, so if a friend insists Dracula's ship was the Persephone, you can settle it. Good for Halloween parties, a themed pub-quiz round, or a horror-fan showdown.
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Q 01Which pungent plant is the classic folk ward against vampires?
Garlic
Garlic is the classic ward: in Stoker's Dracula, Van Helsing hangs garlic flowers around Lucy's room and neck to keep the Count out, borrowing an old folk belief.
Q 02Which actor played the Count in Universal's 1931 film Dracula?
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi played the Count with almost no make-up and his own Hungarian accent, and the role typecast him as a horror villain for the rest of his career.
Q 03In Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels, what do vampires do when the sun hits them?
They glitter
They glitter like diamonds in direct sun instead of burning, which is why Meyer needed, in her words, 'someplace ridiculously rainy' for her vampires to live.
Q 04What follows each time Sesame Street's Count von Count finishes counting?
Thunder and lightning
Thunder and lightning crash at every finished tally, even on sunny days; in his first sketches the Count was more sinister, stunning other Muppets with a hypnotic wave of his hands, an edge the show later toned down.
Q 05Vampire bats are native to which part of the world?
Latin America
Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina and Chile, is their home range; the bats were named after the vampires of European folklore, not the other way round.
Q 06Buffy the Vampire Slayer is set in which fictional California town?
Sunnydale
Buffy is set in Sunnydale, California, whose high school sits on the Hellmouth, a gateway to demon realms; the school is blown up in the season-three graduation finale.
Q 07In which year was Bram Stoker's Dracula first published?
1897
Dracula was published by Archibald Constable and Company in London on 26 May 1897, while Stoker was business manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre; his working notes date from 1890.
Q 08Which comedian voiced Count Dracula in the first three Hotel Transylvania films?
Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler's Drac runs a human-free hotel to keep his daughter Mavis safe, until a backpacker wanders in; Brian Hull took over the voice for the fourth film.
Q 09Who played the vampire Lestat opposite Brad Pitt in the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire?
Tom Cruise
Anne Rice publicly objected to Tom Cruise's casting, then took out a two-page ad praising his performance after seeing the film.
Q 10True Blood, following telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse in small-town Louisiana, aired on which US network from 2008 to 2014?
HBO
HBO's series is named after Tru Blood, the bottled synthetic blood whose invention lets its vampires 'come out of the coffin' and live openly among humans.
Q 11Kiefer Sutherland led a gang of teenage vampires in which 1987 film?
The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys (1987) stars Kiefer Sutherland as gang leader David; the title nods to Peter Pan's boys who never grow up, and the boardwalk scenes were shot in Santa Cruz.
Q 12In Bram Stoker's novel, Jonathan Harker visits Count Dracula's castle in which mountain range?
Carpathians
The Carpathians reached Stoker only through library books and travellers' accounts: he never set foot in Transylvania or anywhere else in Eastern Europe.
Q 13The TV series The Vampire Diaries is set in which fictional Virginia town?
Mystic Falls
Mystic Falls is the TV show's invention: L. J. Smith's novels are set in Fell's Church, and the series filmed its town square in Covington, Georgia, which now runs fan tours.
Q 21In Stoker's Dracula, the Count arrives in England aboard a ship named after which Greek goddess?
Demeter
The Demeter, a Russian schooner, runs aground in a storm with its dead captain tied to the wheel, and an immense dog leaps ashore from the wreck.
Q 22Which British studio's 1958 Dracula starred Christopher Lee as the Count and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing?
Hammer
Hammer's film reached American cinemas as Horror of Dracula, retitled so that nobody would confuse it with Universal's 1931 film.
Q 23In the FX series What We Do in the Shadows, what kind of creature is Colin Robinson?
Energy vampire
Colin Robinson is an energy vampire, played by Mark Proksch: he feeds by boring and irritating people and lives in the basement of the Staten Island house.
Q 14In Twilight, Bella Swan moves to which rainy Washington town?
Forks
Forks, on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, was chosen after Meyer searched for the rainiest place in the United States; the town later built a tourism trade around the books.
Q 15The 1922 German silent film Nosferatu renamed the vampire Dracula as what?
Count Orlok
F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu renamed Dracula as Count Orlok, played by Max Schreck; Stoker's widow Florence sued anyway, and a German court ordered every print destroyed.
Q 16The 2014 mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows follows vampire flatmates in which city?
Wellington
The flatmates share a house in Wellington, New Zealand; Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement wrote, directed and starred, and the film later spawned an American TV series.
Q 17Which anti-hero, played by Wesley Snipes in 1998, is a human-vampire hybrid with vampire strengths but none of the weaknesses?
Blade
Blade's 1998 success, two years before X-Men, convinced studios that a Marvel character could carry a film; Stephen Dorff played its upstart villain, Deacon Frost.
Q 18Who directed the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Gary Oldman?
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola directed Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), banning computer effects in favour of in-camera tricks from early cinema; it won three Oscars, including costume design.
Q 19In Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, which vampire, made by Lestat, tells his life story to a reporter?
Louis
Louis de Pointe du Lac tells a 200-year story; Rice wrote the novel after her daughter Michele died of leukaemia at five, and the child vampire Claudia was inspired by her.
Q 20The hairy-legged and white-winged vampire bats feed mainly on which animals?
Birds
Birds, including chickens and other poultry, are their main prey; only the third species, the common vampire bat, makes mammals such as livestock its usual meal.
Q 24Stephen King's 1975 vampire novel 'Salem's Lot is set in which US state?
Maine
'Salem's Lot is set in the fictional town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine; it was King's second published novel, written after he taught Dracula to high-school students.
Q 25Which 'Blood Countess' was accused of killing hundreds of girls between 1590 and 1610?
Elizabeth Bathory
Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian countess, was confined in Csejte Castle from 1610 until her death; the tale that she bathed in virgins' blood was first written down over a century later.
Q 26According to Stephenie Meyer, the Twilight vampire idea came to her in what form?
A dream
A dream on 2 June 2003 showed Meyer an ordinary girl and a vampire talking in a meadow; she began writing it down that day, and the scene became chapter 13 of Twilight.
Q 27Which family member of Vlad III earned the name 'Dracul' through the Order of the Dragon?
His father
His father, Vlad II, joined the order in 1431, sworn to fight the Ottomans, yet was later forced to leave young Vlad and his brother Radu at the Ottoman court as hostages.
Q 28Which flatmate in the film What We Do in the Shadows is 8,000 years old and sleeps in a stone coffin?
Petyr
Petyr, played by Ben Fransham, looks like the vampire of the silent film Nosferatu and keeps to the basement; he turns dinner guest Nick into the flat's newest vampire.
Q 29Bram Stoker was born in which city?
Dublin
Dublin-born Stoker was bedridden with an unexplained illness until he was seven, then grew into an outstanding athlete at Trinity College.
Q 30The 2004 vampire novel Let the Right One In comes from which country?
Sweden
Sweden's John Ajvide Lindqvist set the story in Blackeberg, the Stockholm suburb where he was born; the 2008 Swedish film was remade in America two years later as Let Me In.