50 free Addams Family trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
44 free Addams Family trivia questions with answers. The Addams Family has been creepy and kooky for nearly ninety years, and this quiz covers every incarnation: Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons, the 1964 ABC sitcom with its harpsichord theme and finger snaps, the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, the 1991 and 1993 films with Raul Julia and Christina Ricci, the Broadway musical, and Netflix's record-breaking Wednesday with Jenna Ortega. Easy questions are for anyone who can snap along to the theme. The hard ones ask which characters the TV producer invented rather than Addams, when the family got their names, why the New Yorker banned the cartoons, which studio dumped the 1991 film mid-production, and where Charles Addams got married. Good for a Halloween party or a pop-culture round. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the franchise, the series, the films and Charles Addams himself, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01The Addams Family began as single-panel cartoons in which magazine?
The New Yorker
Charles Addams drew about 1,300 cartoons for the magazine between 1932 and his death in 1988; the first family gag ran in 1938.
Q 02Which cartoonist created the family?
Charles Addams
He was born in Westfield, New Jersey, in 1912, and as a boy liked to wander the local Presbyterian cemetery wondering what it was like to be dead.
Q 03For how long were the family members nameless in the cartoons?
Until the 1960s
The daughters got their names with a 1962 doll line; the father and son were named when the TV series debuted in 1964.
Q 04Which two family members were named for a 1962 doll collection?
Morticia and Wednesday
Gomez and Pugsley had to wait until the 1964 television series to be christened.
Q 05On which network did the original black-and-white sitcom premiere in September 1964?
ABC
It ran only two seasons and 64 episodes, debuting the same week as The Munsters.
Q 06How many episodes did the 1964 series run?
64
It aired Friday nights at 8:30 for both of its seasons.
Q 07Who composed and sang the finger-snapping theme song?
Vic Mizzy
ABC wanted cheap library music; producer David Levy insisted on Mizzy, and Ted Cassidy punctuated the lyrics with "neat," "sweet" and "petite."
Q 08The theme's sound is dominated by which instrument?
Harpsichord
A bass clarinet supplies the low end under the harpsichord.
Q 09What is the family's address in the 1964 series?
0001 Cemetery Lane
1313 Mockingbird Lane belongs to the Munsters, the other macabre sitcom family that debuted the same week.
Q 10Who played Gomez in the 1964 series?
John Astin
He returned to voice Gomez in the 1992 animated series, nearly thirty years later.
Q 11Which former child star of Chaplin's The Kid played Uncle Fester on TV?
Jackie Coogan
He and Ted Cassidy were the only original cast members to return for the 1973 animated series.
Q 12Ted Cassidy played the towering butler Lurch and also provided which other character?
Thing, the disembodied hand
Thing grew out of a shadowy figure in a 1954 cartoon; showrunner David Levy expanded it into a hand that pops out of boxes.
Q 13Which two characters were invented by the TV showrunner rather than by the original cartoons?
Thing (as a hand) and Cousin Itt
Q 21Who played Wednesday in the 1991 film and its 1993 sequel?
Christina Ricci
Three decades later she joined the Netflix series Wednesday as botany teacher Marilyn Thornhill.
Q 22Which studio started the 1991 film but sold it to Paramount during production?
Orion Pictures
Costs rose from $25 million to $30 million; the filmmakers learned of the sale from a journalist.
Q 23Which rapper's 'Addams Groove' was the 1991 film's theme song and won a Razzie for Worst Original Song?
MC Hammer
Carel Struycken, who played Lurch, showed up to accept the award on behalf of the cast.
David Levy later sued over the 1991 film's use of them and settled after a sequel was greenlit.
Q 14What is the name of Morticia's carnivorous plant?
Cleopatra
Aristotle is Pugsley's pet octopus and Kitty Kat is the family lion; all three arrived in 1964.
Q 15Why did the magazine cartoons stop in 1964?
Editor William Shawn banned the characters
Shawn reportedly felt the TV show cheapened them; the cartoons resumed after his tenure.
Q 16Which future Oscar winner voiced Pugsley in the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated series, aged around ten?
Jodie Foster
Astin and Jones did not return; Lennie Weinrib and Janet Waldo voiced Gomez and Morticia.
Q 17The Addamses first crossed over into animation in 1972 with which cartoon gang?
Scooby-Doo
Four original cast members returned for the mystery, which led to the family's own 1973 animated series.
Q 18Who debuted as director on the 1991 film after the first choice left for Batman Returns?
Barry Sonnenfeld
It was Sonnenfeld's directorial debut; he blacked out on set during the troubled shoot.
Q 19Who played Gomez in the 1991 film?
Raul Julia
He loved that "even his depressions are wonderful"; his death in 1994 ended plans for a third film.
Q 20Anjelica Huston based aspects of her Morticia on which friend, to give the character warmth?
Jerry Hall
She called the shoot "long and arduous" in her memoir Watch Me.
Q 24Roughly how much did the 1991 film gross worldwide?
$191 million
It opened at number one with $24 million, Paramount's biggest non-holiday opening at the time.
Q 25Which baby was introduced in the 1993 sequel Addams Family Values?
Pubert
The sequel was written by Paul Rudnick, one of many hands who rewrote the first film.
Q 26What kept the 1991 film's script from getting a third installment in 1994?
Raul Julia's sudden death
A script had already been prepared when the actor died that year.
Q 27Who stars as Wednesday in the streaming series that premiered in November 2022?
Jenna Ortega
She choreographed her own dance to the Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck" and shot it while awaiting a COVID test result.
Q 28Which school does Wednesday attend in the 2022 series?
Nevermore Academy
It is her parents' alma mater, in Jericho, Vermont, a school for outcasts and monsters.
Q 29Which director helmed four episodes of each season of Wednesday, his first TV directing work?
Tim Burton
He had been considered to direct the 1991 film and had a stop-motion Addams project at Illumination in 2010 that never materialised.
Q 30Wednesday set an English-language streaming record with how many hours viewed in week one?
341 million
That beat Stranger Things 4's 335 million and reached more than 50 million households.