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50 free Welcome to Night Vale trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Welcome to Night Vale began in 2012 as a podcast styled as community radio bulletins from a small Southwestern town where every strange thing is treated as routine. Its calm narrator, Cecil Palmer, reads the news, the traffic and the community calendar while hooded figures, secret police and things nobody should look at go about their business. This quiz covers the people of the town and the voices behind them, the rules residents live by, the places they are told to avoid, famous episodes and long-running storylines, plus the spin-off novels and the real-world story of how a low-budget audio drama found a huge audience. The early questions suit anyone who has heard a few episodes; later ones are for listeners who know the recurring characters by name. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so new listeners will pick up plenty along the way.
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Q 01In Welcome to Night Vale's first episode, which new facility does the City Council forbid every resident from entering?
A dog park
A dog park opens at the corner of Earl Road and Somerset, yet neither dogs nor people are allowed in, and residents are not even meant to acknowledge that it exists.
Q 02What kind of creature is Hiram McDaniels, the blogger and fugitive who runs for office in Welcome to Night Vale?
A five-headed dragon
A five-headed dragon standing eighteen feet tall, Hiram became a fugitive after he was pulled over for speeding and handed the Sheriff's Secret Police an obviously fake driver's license.
Q 03Which entity tries to conquer Night Vale by telepathy, then settles down and becomes president of the school board?
The Glow Cloud
The Glow Cloud rained dead armadillos, lizards and crows on the town, then came back to join the school board because it judged Night Vale the ideal place to raise its offspring.
Q 04Which public servants in Welcome to Night Vale are feared as deadly, clawed creatures that prey on their visitors?
Librarians
Librarians in Night Vale are monsters with gnarled yellow teeth, pincers and wings, and during one summer programme they trapped nearly 100 children inside their building.
Q 05Which role at Night Vale Community Radio is a running joke for how rarely the people who fill it survive?
Interns
Interns at the station die or vanish so often that only a handful, Cecil himself and Dana Cardinal among them, are known to have come through the programme alive.
Q 06John Peters, the farmer of Welcome to Night Vale, collects a yearly subsidy for an imaginary crop of what?
Corn
Corn that exists only in the imagination earns John Peters an annual subsidy of $500,000, while the peach orchard he owns has never produced a single peach.
Q 07Which landforms does Cecil Palmer flatly insist do not exist during the early episodes of Welcome to Night Vale?
Mountains
Mountains are a matter of local debate, and Dana Cardinal even calls herself a good unbeliever in them, though Cecil eventually takes his denial back.
Q 08A Night Vale law makes it a misdemeanor not to eat once a week at which local restaurant?
Big Rico's Pizza
Big Rico's Pizza is the only pizzeria in town that was not burned to the ground in an unsolved arson case, and the City Council then made a weekly visit mandatory.
Q 09Which costly project did the Night Vale Business Association build although the town is landlocked and bone dry?
A harbor and boardwalk
A harbor and boardwalk went up with only sagebrush and rocks to look at, and when the venture failed the association declared it a hallucination shared by the whole town.
Q 10In Welcome to Night Vale, what animal is Khoshekh, the pet found floating motionless in the station's men's bathroom?
A cat
A cat fixed about four feet off the ground beside the sink, Khoshekh is kept alive by staff who leave the tap running for water and set food on the counter within reach.
Q 11Which Night Vale resident is the brother-in-law Cecil Palmer despised on air for years before coming to respect him?
Steve Carlsberg
Steve Carlsberg is the husband of Cecil's sister Abby, and he is one of the few townspeople who sees past the City Council's lies, much to Cecil's annoyance.
Q 12Dana Cardinal survives the dangers of working at Night Vale Community Radio and goes on to hold which office?
Mayor
Mayor Dana Cardinal won the election without ever being a candidate, which is why the two declared candidates refused to accept the result and attempted a coup.
Q 13Kevin, the relentlessly cheerful and gore-loving radio host, broadcasts from which rival town of Night Vale?
Desert Bluffs
Q 21Which actor took over the voice of Carlos the scientist in Welcome to Night Vale after a co-creator played him first?
Dylan Marron
Dylan Marron replaced co-creator Jeffrey Cranor in the role, and he went on to win an Audio Verse Award for the supporting performance in 2015.
Q 22Which actress voices Night Vale's Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home and narrates the novel about her?
Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson plays a being who lives in every resident's home at once, and the third Night Vale novel is devoted to the character's backstory.
Q 23What name is shared by every one of the angels in Welcome to Night Vale?
Erika
Erika, spelled with a K, is what every angel is called, and the town did not legally recognise that angels existed at all until 2017.
Desert Bluffs has a baseball team called the Sunbeams and seemed a much nicer place than its neighbour, though it was owned outright by a corporation rather than run by a council.
Q 14Which corporation quietly buys Night Vale's businesses, including the radio station, before the town revolts against it?
StrexCorp
StrexCorp, in full StrexCorp Synernists Incorporated, held the town for a short period in 2014 before the residents rose up and drove it out.
Q 15Which regular segment of Welcome to Night Vale is in fact a song by an independent musician each episode?
The Weather
The Weather has nothing to do with forecasts: Cecil simply hands over to a track by a different independently published artist every episode.
Q 16Which well-read Night Vale girl beheads a monster at twelve and later leads a militia of teenagers?
Tamika Flynn
Tamika Flynn walked out of the building at the head of the other children, carrying the creature's severed head, and on her sixteenth birthday she appointed herself to the City Council.
Q 17A miniature underground city of tiny, hostile people is discovered beneath which Night Vale business?
A bowling alley
A bowling alley owned by Teddy Williams housed the tiny people in a parallel dimension under Lane 5, an early plot point that resurfaced years later.
Q 18Which foodstuff does Night Vale's City Council ban, with all its by-products, after it turns into venomous snakes?
Wheat
Wheat then transformed again into malevolent spirits, and residents took refuge in a shelter the City Council had built in advance on the strength of a prophecy.
Q 19Which Night Vale resident, living out near the car lot, is first to report that angels have visited her house?
Old Woman Josie
Old Woman Josie, voiced by Retta, said the angels helped her change a light bulb, and she chaired the Night Vale Opera for many years.
Q 20What do Cecil Palmer and Carlos do in the one hundredth episode of Welcome to Night Vale?
They get married
They get married, long after Cecil spent the whole first year of the podcast fawning over the newly arrived scientist on air before the two began dating.
Q 24What is Deb, the visitor who reads sponsors' advertisements on Night Vale Community Radio?
A sentient patch of haze
A sentient patch of haze, Deb was created so that Meg Bashwiner, who reads the credits, could take a bigger part in the live shows.
Q 25In Welcome to Night Vale, the schoolgirl Megan Wallaby was born as what?
An adult man's hand
An adult man's hand is all there was of Megan until a body donor missing his left hand arrived as a gift from the town's sister city.
Q 26Which real Hollywood actor is a Night Vale celebrity who celebrated his thirtieth birthday every day for years?
Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin finally turned 31 once time in the town was put back to normal, a change he himself was responsible for in the Year Seven finale.
Q 27Which guest star voices Earl Harlan, the scout master and chef who grew up with Cecil in Welcome to Night Vale?
Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton plays Earl as a sombre sous chef at the fine dining restaurant Tourniquet, a man who has trouble remembering his own past.
Q 28What is the name of Cecil Palmer's niece in Welcome to Night Vale, who captains a wheelchair basketball team?
Janice
Janice was born with spina bifida, rides a stealth wheelchair of her own design and went on to set a state record for assists.
Q 29Michelle Nguyen, who scorns any music that becomes popular, owns which Night Vale store?
Dark Owl Records
Dark Owl Records hides or destroys any record a customer has actually heard of, and the ghost of Buddy Holly occasionally appears there.
Q 30What is the name of the son Cecil Palmer and Carlos adopt and keep secret from Night Vale listeners for two years?
Esteban
Esteban is named after his uncle and loves strawberries and giraffes; his fathers kept him off the air to hold back some of their personal life.