A Quiet Place
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50 free A Quiet Place trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
A Quiet Place turned a $17 million creature feature with almost no dialogue into one of the defining horror series of its decade. John Krasinski directed his wife Emily Blunt as the Abbott parents, cast a deaf actress as their daughter, bought twenty tons of corn from local farmers and asked audiences to stop eating their popcorn. These 50 questions cover the whole franchise. The first film: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods's college concept, the Cloverfield crossover that almost happened, the Millbrook farm, the red lights, the upright nail, the hearing-aid feedback that becomes a weapon and the SXSW premiere. Part II: Cillian Murphy's Emmett, the Norwalk Islands, the Beyond the Sea broadcast, the Western New York locations and the fourteen months of pandemic postponements. Day One: Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, the cat Frodo played by two cats, Patsy's pizza and a New York rebuilt on a backlot outside London. Early questions stick to the main cast and premise; the hardest ask about cinematographers, bridges, sound editors and release dates. 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 movie night.
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Q 01In A Quiet Place, what do the Abbotts pour along their paths so they can walk silently?
Sand
Sand marks every route the barefoot family takes, so that no leaf or twig crunches underfoot; the director said the paths were among the first ideas he added when he rewrote the script.
Q 02Who plays Evelyn Abbott, the mother, in A Quiet Place?
Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt had been suggesting other actresses for the role until she read the script on a flight and told her husband, the film's director, that it had to be her.
Q 03Which sense do the alien creatures in A Quiet Place lack?
Sight
Sight: the creatures hunt purely by hearing, and the effects team was told to make them look like predators that had evolved until they no longer needed eyes.
Q 04How do the Abbotts mainly communicate without making noise in A Quiet Place?
American Sign Language
American Sign Language even took over a key father-daughter scene first scripted as speech: the young actress signed it for the director, who found her gestures 'so much more cinematic' than words.
Q 05Which two screenwriters conceived the story of A Quiet Place while in college?
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods were watching silent comedies by Chaplin, Keaton and Tati in college and wanted to make sound itself the monster, 'the equivalent of the shark in Jaws'.
Q 06Which franchise did the writers of A Quiet Place say it might once have crossed over with?
Cloverfield
Cloverfield crossed the writers' minds while they wrote the script, but the studio took the finished screenplay as a film of its own, and the director later said a tie-in was never raised with him.
Q 07Who plays Regan, the Abbotts' deaf daughter, in A Quiet Place?
Millicent Simmonds
Millicent Simmonds is deaf herself: the director refused to cast a hearing actress pretending, saying he wanted someone who lives it and could teach him about it on set.
Q 08Who plays Marcus Abbott, the elder son, in A Quiet Place?
Noah Jupe
Noah Jupe caught the director's eye in The Night Manager; he then asked George Clooney for an early look at Suburbicon so he could see more of the boy's work before casting him.
Q 09Which board game do the Abbott children play in near silence in A Quiet Place?
Monopoly
Monopoly: the writers said the scene of the children playing it and accidentally making a noise was one of the first images they had for the script, and it went into the first trailer.
Q 10Which toy leads to Beau's death early in A Quiet Place?
A Space Shuttle
A Space Shuttle model: Lee takes out its batteries in the store, but Beau quietly pockets them, and the toy's electronic noise on the walk home brings a creature within seconds.
Q 11What does Evelyn step on as she heads to the basement in labour in A Quiet Place?
A nail
A nail sticking up from a basement stair goes into her bare foot just as labour begins; she swallows the scream, but the photo frame she drops still brings a creature into the house.
Q 12What colour do the lights around the Abbott farm turn when Evelyn flips a basement switch in A Quiet Place?
Red
Red was the family's silent alarm, an emergency lighting system the Abbotts had rigged up because, with a baby on the way, they knew a night like this was coming.
Q 13What does Evelyn set off to distract the creature in the basement in A Quiet Place?
An egg timer
An egg timer: the sound editors said the scene only worked once the film showed the creature's ear reacting first and then the ticking timer, so the audience could follow what it was hearing.
Q 21At which festival did A Quiet Place premiere in March 2018?
South by Southwest
South by Southwest made it the opening-night film in Austin, and the reviews there were so strong that it held a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score until the week of its release.
Q 22The writers of A Quiet Place modelled its farmland setting on their childhood in which state?
Iowa
Iowa is where the two writers grew up as childhood friends; the film itself was shot in upstate New York, where the production paid local farmers to grow its crops and bought 20 tons more.
Q 23Which composer scored A Quiet Place?
Marco Beltrami
Marco Beltrami's music earned a Golden Globe nomination; the director kept a traditional score so that audiences would feel they were at the movies rather than inside an experiment in silence.
Q 14In A Quiet Place, what does Marcus fall into while he and Regan are signalling to their father?
A corn silo
A corn silo: the producers said nothing stood on the farm but a house and a barn, so they built the silo and planted the corn around it for the scene in which the children sink into the grain.
Q 15What ultimately hurts the creatures and exposes their vulnerable flesh in A Quiet Place?
A high-pitched sound
A high-pitched sound, the feedback from the hearing device Lee kept failing to fix for Regan, makes them recoil and open their armoured heads; she amplifies it through a microphone.
Q 16What does Lee tell Regan just before he sacrifices himself in A Quiet Place?
I have always loved you
'I have always loved you' was the young actress's idea: the script had only 'I love you', and she asked for 'always' to cover the pair's earlier quarrel, a suggestion that made the director cry.
Q 17What weapon does Evelyn use to kill the creature in the final scene of A Quiet Place?
A pump shotgun
A pump shotgun, her husband's, finishes the stricken creature at close range, and the film cuts to black on Evelyn racking it again as more of them close in on the house.
Q 18Who performed the motion capture for the creatures in A Quiet Place?
John Krasinski
John Krasinski, the film's director, co-writer and male lead, played them himself; at a test screening the unfinished effects showed him roaring in a tight suit and trainers, and the audience burst out laughing.
Q 19Which effects house created the creatures for A Quiet Place?
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic first gave the creatures rhinoceros-like horns, then redesigned them in about two months because the early version was not scary enough.
Q 20Which blockbuster director's company, Platinum Dunes, produced A Quiet Place on a $17 million budget?
Michael Bay
Michael Bay, the Transformers director, rang the head of the studio to insist it make the film, the writers recalled; the $17 million film went on to gross about $340 million worldwide.
Q 24Which animal behaviour did a sound editor on A Quiet Place name as the model for the creatures' clicks?
Bat echolocation
Bat echolocation: editor Ethan Van der Ryn said the creatures were given vocal sonar signals, clicks that they send out and then hear bouncing back off the space around them.
Q 25Which Bong Joon-ho film did the writers of A Quiet Place cite as a significant influence?
The Host
The Host, Bong's 2006 monster film, also follows one family: a father and his relatives fight to rescue his daughter after a river creature snatches her, which the writers said fed into their script.
Q 26Which author tweeted that A Quiet Place was 'an extraordinary piece of work', leaving its director blown away?
Stephen King
Stephen King praised the acting but said the main thing was the silence, 'and how it makes the camera's eye open wide in a way few movies manage', in a tweet on the film's release day.
Q 27Which Dwayne Johnson film knocked A Quiet Place off the top of the US box office after its $50 million opening?
Rampage
Rampage opened at number one a week later, but A Quiet Place, which had debuted at double its forecast, took the top spot back in its third weekend.
Q 28Which prize did the actress who plays Evelyn win for A Quiet Place?
A SAG Award
A SAG Award for supporting actress went to her in 2019, on a night when she was also up for the lead prize for another film; she thanked her husband, who had directed her.
Q 29Where are the Abbotts walking when Beau's toy goes off in A Quiet Place?
On an old railway bridge
On an old railway bridge, filmed on the Springtown Truss Bridge in New Paltz, New York: the toy starts up as the family crosses, and a creature reaches the boy before his sprinting father can.
Q 30Who plays Emmett in A Quiet Place Part II?
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy said Emmett, a family friend who has lost everyone, stands for a world that has finally given up, until Regan arrives and 'allows you to believe in more'.