70 free American Horror Story trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
The pair had just launched Glee together and pitched the horror show as its opposite.
Q 02On which network did American Horror Story premiere in October 2011?
FX
Its first season was the most-viewed new cable series of 2011.
Q 03What is the subtitle of the first season of American Horror Story?
Murder House
The subtitle was applied retroactively; the season was simply called American Horror Story when it aired.
Q 04The Harmon family in season one moves to Los Angeles from which city?
Boston
They relocate after Vivien's miscarriage and Ben's affair, hoping for a fresh start.
Q 05What is Ben Harmon's profession in season one?
Psychiatrist
He sees patients in the house, which is how Tate Langdon first enters the family's life.
Q 06Evan Peters plays which troubled teenager in season one?
Tate Langdon
It began a run of ten seasons for him, tied for the most of any cast member.
Q 07Which famous unsolved 1940s Los Angeles murder case is depicted in a season one episode?
The Black Dahlia
Mena Suvari played Elizabeth Short, who in the show's telling died on the dentist's chair inside the house.
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
Briarcliff Manor, the fictional Massachusetts institution, is run by the Catholic Church.
Q 11Which character does Jessica Lange play in Asylum?
Sister Jude Martin
The whisky-loving nun runs Briarcliff with a cane and a red negligee in her closet.
Q 12Sarah Paulson plays which ambitious journalist in Asylum?
Lana Winters
She is committed to Briarcliff for being a lesbian and later escapes to write a bestseller.
Q 13Who turns out to be the serial killer Bloody Face in Asylum?
Dr. Oliver Thredson
Zachary Quinto's kindly psychiatrist is the mask-wearing killer who framed Kit.
Q 21The Coven premiere set what was then a series record with how many viewers?
5.54 million
The episode was titled Bitchcraft.
Q 22Emma Roberts joined the cast in Coven as which spoiled movie star turned witch?
Madison Montgomery
She has since returned for Apocalypse, 1984 and Delicate.
Q 23Season four, Freak Show, is set in 1952 in which Florida town?
Jupiter
Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities is one of the last freak shows in America.
Q 24Sarah Paulson plays which two characters in Freak Show?
Q 14Which actor won an Emmy for playing Dr. Arthur Arden in Asylum?
James Cromwell
His character is a former Nazi doctor experimenting on the 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
The hallucinated dance number, complete with a chorus of patients, became one of the show's most-shared scenes.
Q 17Season three, Coven, is set in which city?
New Orleans
The witches are descendants of Salem who fled south, and voodoo queen Marie Laveau is their rival.
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 appears as herself in Coven, playing for the witches of Miss Robichaux's Academy?
Stevie Nicks
Misty Day worships her, 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
Fiona's daughter passes all Seven Wonders and opens the academy to every young witch in the country.
Bette and Dot Tattler
The conjoined twins were created with a mix of green-screen work and a body double.
Q 25Who plays Twisty the Clown in Freak Show?
John Carroll Lynch
The actor returned in season nine as another masked killer, Mr. Jingles.
Q 26Which David Bowie song does Elsa perform in the Freak Show premiere?
Life on Mars?
The season leaned into anachronistic songs; Elsa's rendition arrives in the premiere, decades before Bowie wrote it.
Q 27Which actor plays the strongman Dell Toledo in Freak Show?
Michael Chiklis
The Shield star's character is secretly Jimmy Darling's father.
Q 28Season five is set in which fictional Los Angeles establishment?
Hotel Cortez
It is loosely based on 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
It was her first major acting role, two years before A Star Is Born.
Q 30Who built the hotel in 1926 as a place to torture and murder people, in Hotel's backstory?
James Patrick March
Evan Peters played the 1920s tycoon, whose Devil's Night dinner reunites America's most famous serial killers.