American Horror Story Trivia
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117 free American Horror Story trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
62 free American Horror Story trivia questions with answers. American Horror Story reinvents itself every season, which makes it perfect trivia territory: there is a whole new cast of characters, a new setting and a new monster to remember each year. This quiz walks through all twelve seasons, from the Harmons moving into Murder House to Kim Kardashian's publicist in Delicate, plus the spin-off American Horror Stories. Expect questions on the settings and years, the villains (Bloody Face, Twisty, the Countess, the Butcher, Mr. Jingles), the repertory players who keep coming back, the crossover season, the musical numbers, the real-life killers who wandered into the story, and the Emmys and Golden Globes the cast collected. Easy ones ask who created the show; the hard ones want the mansion where season one was filmed and which season broke the anthology rule first. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series and each individual season, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who created American Horror Story?
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk created the anthology for FX in 2011, pitching it as the dark opposite of the upbeat series they were then running together.
Q 02On which network did American Horror Story premiere in October 2011?
FX
American Horror Story premiered on FX on 5 October 2011, drawing about 3.2 million viewers; the network renewed it for a second season within the month.
Q 03What is the subtitle of the first season of American Horror Story?
Murder House
The first season gained the subtitle Murder House only retroactively, once Asylum established the anthology format; on air in 2011 it was simply called American Horror Story.
Q 04The Harmon family in season one moves to Los Angeles from which city?
Boston
The Harmons leave Boston for Los Angeles after Vivien's miscarriage and Ben's affair with a student, hoping a fresh start in the old house will save their marriage.
Q 05What is Ben Harmon's profession in season one?
Psychiatrist
Ben Harmon is a psychiatrist who sees patients in the house's study, which is how one troubled teenage patient becomes entangled with his daughter Violet.
Q 06Evan Peters plays which troubled teenager in season one?
Tate Langdon
Evan Peters plays Tate Langdon, the ghost of a teenage school shooter who becomes Violet Harmon's boyfriend; Peters returned as Kit Walker in Asylum and Kyle Spencer in Coven.
Q 07Which famous real-life murder case is depicted in season one's episode 'Spooky Little Girl'?
The Black Dahlia
'Spooky Little Girl' reimagines the Black Dahlia case: Mena Suvari plays Elizabeth Short, who in the show's telling died in a dentist's chair inside the house in 1947; her real body was found in a Leimert Park lot that January.
Q 08Season one was shot on location at which historic Los Angeles house?
The Rosenheim Mansion
The 1908 house was designed by architect Alfred Rosenheim, and later owners sued over the fans it attracted.
Q 09The Rubber Man suit in season one was originally bought by which character?
Chad Warwick
Zachary Quinto's Chad bought the fetish suit to spice up his relationship, before Tate put it to darker use.
Q 10Season two, Asylum, is set in which year?
1964
Asylum's main story unfolds in 1964 at Briarcliff Manor, a fictional Massachusetts institution run by the Catholic Church, with framing scenes set in 2012.
Q 11Which character does Jessica Lange play in Asylum?
Sister Jude Martin
Jessica Lange plays Sister Jude Martin, the whisky-loving nun who runs Briarcliff with a cane and keeps a red negligee in her closet; before taking vows she was Judy Martin, a nightclub singer.
Q 12Sarah Paulson plays which ambitious journalist in Asylum?
Lana Winters
Sarah Paulson's Lana Winters is committed to Briarcliff for being a lesbian and later escapes to write a best-seller, Maniac, about her captivity by the killer Bloody Face.
Q 13Who turns out to be the serial killer Bloody Face in Asylum?
Dr. Oliver Thredson
Q 21The Coven premiere set what was then a series record with how many viewers?
5.54 million
Coven's premiere, 'Bitchcraft', drew 5.54 million viewers on 9 October 2013, the series' largest audience to that point.
Q 22Emma Roberts joined American Horror Story in Coven as which spoiled movie star turned witch?
Madison Montgomery
Emma Roberts plays Madison Montgomery, a Hollywood starlet sent to Miss Robichaux's Academy; the character returned in Apocalypse, and Roberts went on to play different roles in 1984 and Delicate.
Q 23Season four, Freak Show, is set in 1952 in which Florida town?
Jupiter
Freak Show is set in Jupiter, Florida, in 1952, where Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities is one of the last freak shows left in America.
Dr. Oliver Thredson, the seemingly kindly psychiatrist played by Zachary Quinto, is revealed as the skin-mask-wearing killer Bloody Face, who framed Kit Walker for his murders.
Q 14Which actor won an Emmy for playing Dr. Arthur Arden in Asylum?
James Cromwell
James Cromwell won the 2013 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Dr. Arthur Arden, a former Nazi doctor who experiments on Briarcliff's patients.
Q 15How many Primetime Emmy nominations did Asylum receive?
17
It made the season one of the most-nominated programmes of the year.
Q 16Which 1960s novelty song does Sister Jude perform in a musical number in Asylum?
The Name Game
After electroshock treatment, Sister Jude hallucinates leading the patients in Shirley Ellis's 1964 hit 'The Name Game', in the episode of the same name; the number became one of the show's most-shared scenes.
Q 17Season three, Coven, is set in which city?
New Orleans
Coven is set in New Orleans, where the witches, descendants of Salem survivors who fled south, run Miss Robichaux's Academy and feud with the voodoo queen Marie Laveau.
Q 18Which real 19th-century socialite and torturer does Kathy Bates play in Coven?
Delphine LaLaurie
The real LaLaurie's mansion on Royal Street remains a fixture of the city's ghost tours.
Q 19Which musician plays herself in American Horror Story: Coven, performing at the piano for the witches of Miss Robichaux's Academy?
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks is worshipped by the swamp witch Misty Day, and she plays two of her Fleetwood Mac songs at the piano.
Q 20Who is crowned the new Supreme at the end of Coven?
Cordelia Goode
Cordelia Goode, Fiona's daughter (credited as Cordelia Foxx in Coven), passes all Seven Wonders and is crowned Supreme; she then reveals the coven publicly and opens the academy to every young witch in the country.
Q 24Sarah Paulson plays which two characters in Freak Show?
Bette and Dot Tattler
Sarah Paulson plays the conjoined twins Bette and Dot Tattler, created with green-screen compositing and a body double; the two heads have opposite temperaments, one sunny and one sour.
Q 25Who plays Twisty the Clown in Freak Show?
John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch plays Twisty, the murderous clown with a shattered jaw; Lynch returned as the camp killer Mr. Jingles in 1984 and reprised Twisty in Cult.
Q 26Which David Bowie song does Elsa perform in the Freak Show premiere?
Life on Mars?
Elsa performs David Bowie's 'Life on Mars?' in the premiere 'Monsters Among Us', two decades before Bowie released it in 1971; the season leaned into such anachronistic numbers.
Q 27Which actor plays the strongman Dell Toledo in Freak Show?
Michael Chiklis
Michael Chiklis, the star of The Shield, plays strongman Dell Toledo, who is secretly the father of Evan Peters's lobster-boy Jimmy Darling.
Q 28Season five is set in which fictional Los Angeles establishment?
Hotel Cortez
Season five is set in the Hotel Cortez, a fictional downtown Los Angeles hotel loosely inspired by the real Cecil Hotel, notorious for its deaths and disappearances.
Q 29Which pop star plays the vampiric Countess in Hotel and won a Golden Globe for it?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga plays Elizabeth, the Countess, and won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series; it was her first major acting role, nearly three years before A Star Is Born.
Q 30Who built the Hotel Cortez as a place to torture and murder people, in Hotel's backstory?
James Patrick March
Evan Peters plays James Patrick March, the 1920s tycoon who designed the Cortez with hidden chutes and sealed rooms for his murders; his ghost hosts the annual Devil's Night dinner.