Addams Family Trivia
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99 free Addams Family trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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
The New Yorker printed the first one in 1938: a vacuum-cleaner salesman making his pitch in a haunted mansion. The brood he met there would stay nameless for decades.
Q 02In the first episode of Netflix's Wednesday, what does Wednesday Addams release into her school's pool to avenge Pugsley?
Piranhas
Piranhas, two bagfuls of them, tipped in on the water polo team that bullied her brother. The stunt gets her expelled and packed off to her parents' old boarding school.
Q 03Which two Addams Family members were first given names for a 1962 line of dolls?
Morticia and Wednesday
Morticia and Wednesday were christened for the dolls. The rest stayed anonymous until the 1964 sitcom's producer told Charles Addams that every character would need a name.
Q 04Which network premiered The Addams Family in September 1964?
ABC
ABC put it on Friday nights from September 18, 1964, one evening after unveiling Bewitched, so the network's witch and its ghoulish family arrived in the same week.
Q 05In the Addams Family sitcom, which language from Morticia drives Gomez wild?
French
French sends his ardour soaring at a single word: he seizes her arm and covers it in kisses. In a running gag he mistakes other languages for it and does the same.
Q 06Vic Mizzy wrote The Addams Family's finger-snapping theme and, a year later, the tune for which sitcom about a lawyer turned farmer?
Green Acres
Green Acres followed in 1965. For the Addams theme, Mizzy sang the vocals himself, overdubbed three times, because the production company refused to pay for singers.
Q 07The theme's sound is dominated by which instrument?
Harpsichord
A bass clarinet supplies the low end under the harpsichord.
Q 08What is the Addams Family's street address in the 1964 sitcom?
0001 Cemetery Lane
0001 Cemetery Lane was a change from the cartoons: instead of a crumbling wreck, the sitcom's mansion became, as the theme song puts it, a museum crammed with oddities.
Q 09Who played Gomez in the 1964 sitcom The Addams Family?
John Astin
John Astin settled the character's name as well: Charles Addams had floated 'Repelli', a play on repellent, but Astin went with Gomez.
Q 10Which former child star of Chaplin's The Kid played Uncle Fester in the 1964 Addams Family sitcom?
Jackie Coogan
Jackie Coogan earned millions as a boy, only to find his mother and stepfather had spent nearly all of it. The scandal led California to pass the 'Coogan Act' protecting child actors' pay.
Q 11Ted Cassidy played Lurch in the 1964 Addams Family sitcom and also performed which other character?
Thing, the disembodied hand
Thing, the disembodied hand, was usually Cassidy's own arm reaching out of a box. When Lurch and the hand shared a scene, a crew member's arm stood in.
Q 12Which Addams Family relative was devised for the 1964 sitcom at its producer's suggestion?
Cousin Itt
Cousin Itt, a walking curtain of hair, was producer David Levy's idea. Addams went on to draw the character himself.
Q 13Morticia's man-eating plant in the 1964 Addams Family sitcom shares its name with which Egyptian queen?
Cleopatra
Q 21Which cash-strapped studio sold The Addams Family to Paramount while the 1991 film was still shooting?
Orion Pictures
Orion Pictures held the rights because it had bought Filmways, the sitcom's producer, but it was so short of money that it sold mid-shoot. The crew heard the news from a journalist.
Q 22Which rapper's 'Addams Groove' was the 1991 film's theme song and won a Razzie for Worst Original Song?
MC Hammer
MC Hammer's 'Addams Groove' was a hit regardless: it reached the US top ten, with a video shot around the mansion alongside most of the film's cast.
Q 23Who played Uncle Fester in the 1991 film The Addams Family?
Christopher Lloyd
Cleopatra is an African Strangler with a taste for red meat: Morticia feeds her zebra burgers and yak meatballs.
Q 14Why did Addams Family cartoons vanish from their home magazine in 1964?
Editor William Shawn banned the characters
Editor William Shawn banned the characters while the sitcom was on air, unwilling to see his magazine linked to a network comedy.
Q 15Which future Oscar winner, then about ten, voiced Pugsley in Hanna-Barbera's 1973 Addams Family cartoon?
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster voiced the boy years before Taxi Driver, in a series that sent the Addamses across America in a camper built to look like their creepy mansion.
Q 16The Addams Family made its animated debut in 1972 as guest stars alongside which Hanna-Barbera characters?
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo and the gang are tricked into minding the mansion in 'Wednesday Is Missing', while Gomez and Morticia slip away on a second honeymoon.
Q 17Which former Coen brothers cinematographer made his directing debut with The Addams Family in 1991?
Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld had shot Big, Misery and Miller's Crossing but never directed, and the strain of the troubled shoot was such that he once passed out on set.
Q 18Who played Gomez in the 1991 film The Addams Family?
Raul Julia
Raul Julia returned for the 1993 sequel although his health was visibly failing during the shoot, and he died in October 1994, less than a year after it opened.
Q 19Which actress played Morticia in 1991's The Addams Family, modelling the character's warmth on her friend Jerry Hall?
Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston said she was surprised to be offered the part ahead of Cher. It brought her Golden Globe nominations for both the film and its sequel.
Q 20Who played Wednesday in the 1991 film The Addams Family and its 1993 sequel?
Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci came back three decades later in the series Wednesday, this time as a kindly teacher, Marilyn Thornhill, who turns out to be the villain.
Christopher Lloyd, Doc Brown himself, returned for the 1993 sequel, in which Fester falls for a bride who keeps trying to kill him.
Q 24What is the name of the moustachioed baby born to Gomez and Morticia in Addams Family Values?
Pubert
Pubert was the name Charles Addams first proposed for Pugsley in 1964, until network censors judged it too risqué. The 1993 film finally put it to use.
Q 25In the 1991 film The Addams Family, which dance 'taught to us by our Cossack cousins' do Gomez and Fester perform?
The Mamushka
The Mamushka was a much longer number until a test audience turned against it and the studio trimmed it. The film's 2021 re-release restored an extended version.
Q 26Who stars as Wednesday Addams in the Netflix series Wednesday, which premiered in November 2022?
Jenna Ortega
Jenna Ortega learned the cello, fencing and German for the part, and had her hair cut and dyed black.
Q 27Which school for outcasts does Wednesday Addams attend in the Netflix series Wednesday?
Nevermore Academy
Nevermore Academy is her parents' old school. They send her there after she is expelled from her previous school for taking revenge on the boys who bullied her brother.
Q 28Which director made four episodes in each of the first two seasons of Netflix's Wednesday?
Tim Burton
Tim Burton had passed on directing the 1991 film and later walked away from a stop-motion Addams movie, so Wednesday was third time lucky.
Q 29Netflix's Wednesday sends Wednesday Addams to school in Vermont, but season one was filmed in which European country?
Romania
Romania's Cantacuzino Castle, in the Carpathian town of Bușteni, supplied the school's exterior. The production then moved to Ireland for season two.
Q 30Wednesday Addams's dance in Netflix's Wednesday went viral on TikTok set to which Lady Gaga song instead of the original track?
Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary, an album track from 2011, was sped up by fans and then sent to radio as a single eleven years late. On screen she dances to the Cramps' 'Goo Goo Muck'.