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40 free Bird Box trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Bird Box turned a simple rule into one of the most talked-about thrillers of its decade: whatever is out there, do not look at it. The story of a mother guiding two small children to safety without the use of her sight began as a debut novel and became a streaming phenomenon that launched memes, a risky internet craze and a follow-up film set in Europe. This quiz covers both versions of the story. Expect questions on the plot and the people sheltering in the house, the actors who play them, the director, writer and composers, and how the film was made and received. Readers get their own share: the book's characters and setting, what the adaptation changed, and where the sequel novel takes the family next. It is written for anyone who watched through their fingers as well as for book club readers. The opening questions are friendly to casual viewers, and the later ones reward fans who know the page as well as the screen.
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Q 01In the film Bird Box, what do most people do after looking at the mysterious entities?
They take their own lives
They take their own lives, often within moments, which is why the survivors cover every window and never step outside without a blindfold.
Q 02Which star of Speed and Gravity plays Malorie, the pregnant survivor at the heart of Bird Box?
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock signed on in July 2017, the month Netflix announced it had bought the rights to the 2014 novel and would make the film itself.
Q 03In the film Bird Box, what does Malorie call the two children she raises for five years?
Boy and Girl
Boy and Girl are the only names they get until the three reach safety, where Malorie finally names them properly and declares that she is their mother.
Q 04At the end of the film Bird Box, the safe community in the forest turns out to be a former what?
School for the blind
A school for the blind is the sanctuary in the novel too, where Malorie is welcomed by Rick, a sightless survivor who first reached her by telephone.
Q 05Why do survivors in the film Bird Box keep caged birds beside them outdoors?
They grow agitated near entities
They grow agitated near entities, a living alarm. The production filmed real birds where it could and used digital ones for the scenes in which they had to panic.
Q 06The horror film Bird Box began streaming on Netflix in 2018 just days before which holiday?
Christmas
Christmas was four days away when it arrived on December 21, and Netflix said more than 45 million accounts watched within the first week.
Q 07Which internet star appeared to drive blindfolded in his own 24-hour Bird Box challenge video?
Jake Paul
Jake Paul's stunt made the news on January 7, 2019, the same day a 17-year-old in Utah drove into oncoming traffic and crashed while attempting the challenge.
Q 08In Bird Box, Greg dies after testing whether the entities can safely be viewed through what?
Surveillance cameras
Surveillance cameras offer no protection, as Greg proves at the cost of his life. In the novel the same test is run with recorded video by George, the house's original owner.
Q 09Which Spanish city is the setting of the 2023 Netflix spin-off film that followed Bird Box?
Barcelona
Barcelona hosts what was announced as the first of several local-language spin-offs, following a father and his daughter through the same outbreak.
Q 10Which novelist, also a singer in the rock band The High Strung, wrote Bird Box as his 2014 debut?
Josh Malerman
Josh Malerman had already written fourteen manuscripts without ever sending one to a publisher before Bird Box became his first book in print.
Q 11Which American Horror Story regular plays Jessica, Malorie's sister, in the film Bird Box?
Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson's character does not last long: Jessica glimpses something while driving Malorie away from a prenatal check-up and deliberately crashes the car.
Q 12Which star of the Oscar-winning Moonlight plays Tom, Malorie's partner, in Bird Box?
Trevante Rhodes
Trevante Rhodes plays the man who pulls Malorie off the street on the first day and, five years on, holds off a band of attackers so she and the children can escape.
Q 13Which Dangerous Liaisons star plays Douglas, who wants the stranger Gary kept out, in Bird Box?
John Malkovich
Q 21Which Danish director, an Emmy winner for The Night Manager, made the 2018 Netflix film Bird Box?
Susanne Bier
Susanne Bier had also directed In a Better World, the drama from Denmark that won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
Q 22Bird Box screenwriter Eric Heisserer earned an Oscar nomination for which 2016 alien-contact film?
Arrival
Arrival was adapted from a Ted Chiang novella, and Heisserer was in talks to write Bird Box before the book it is based on had even been published.
Q 23Trent Reznor, co-composer of the Bird Box score, founded which American rock band in 1988?
Nine Inch Nails
John Malkovich's character is proved right about the stranger, but only after the other housemates knock him out and lock him in the garage.
Q 14Which rapper plays Felix, who steals the housemates' car with Lucy, in the Netflix film Bird Box?
Machine Gun Kelly
Machine Gun Kelly joined the cast in November 2017 and is billed in the film under his real name, Colson Baker.
Q 15Which Get Out actor plays Charlie, who calls the entities demons of the end times, in Bird Box?
Lil Rel Howery
Lil Rel Howery's character dies on the supply run, sacrificing himself when a crazed former coworker attacks the group.
Q 16Which actor, Cutler Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean, plays the stranger Gary in Bird Box?
Tom Hollander
Tom Hollander's Gary says he is fleeing a gang who force people to look, but he has already seen the entities himself, and he tears the covers off the windows.
Q 17Which Australian star of Dumplin' plays the second pregnant survivor to reach the house in Bird Box?
Danielle Macdonald
Danielle Macdonald's character goes into labour at the same moment as Malorie, and her baby becomes one of the two children Malorie raises.
Q 18Which housemate lets the stranger Gary into the house against Douglas's wishes in the film Bird Box?
Olympia
Olympia pays for the decision: when the stranger exposes the windows during the double birth, she fails to look away.
Q 19Vivien Lyra Blair, a five-year-old star of Bird Box, later played which Star Wars character in Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Leia Organa
Leia Organa, played as a child, earned her critical praise in 2022, five years after her screen debut in Band Aid.
Q 20What does Malorie do with the three birds on reaching the sanctuary at the end of Bird Box?
Sets them free
Malorie sets them free, then recognises a face from before the outbreak among the survivors who have taken her in.
Nine Inch Nails first sold the soundtrack through the band's own website, and Reznor later complained that the film had buried the music low in the mix.
Q 24Before Netflix took over Bird Box, which director of the 2017 hit It was attached to the project?
Andy Muschietti
Andy Muschietti was lined up when the rights were first sold in 2013, the year his debut feature Mama came out and a year before the novel reached bookshops.
Q 25Which Dwayne Johnson action comedy displaced Bird Box as the most-watched film on Netflix in 2021?
Red Notice
Red Notice drew 364 million hours of viewing in its first 28 days, well clear of the 282 million that had kept Bird Box at the top of Netflix's all-time film chart.
Q 26Netflix cut news footage from Bird Box that showed a real 2013 rail disaster in which Canadian province?
Quebec
Quebec's town of Lac-Mégantic lost 47 people in the derailment, and Netflix replaced the clip with an outtake from a cancelled American TV series.
Q 27Which effects company founded by George Lucas created the visual effects for the film Bird Box?
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic's London and Singapore studios did most of the work under the film's effects supervisor, Marcus Taormina, and it earned a Visual Effects Society nomination for supporting effects.
Q 28Which Hollywood studio optioned the film rights to Bird Box in 2013, before the novel came out?
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures lost the project when its producer Scott Stuber became head of Netflix's film division and the streamer acquired the rights.
Q 29The final scene of the film Bird Box was shot at which women's college in Claremont, California?
Scripps
Scripps College stood in for the refuge, while the wilderness scenes were filmed at the opposite end of the state on the Smith River.
Q 30Netflix cancelled the red carpet at which festival premiere of Bird Box because of the Woolsey Fire?
AFI Fest
AFI Fest hosted the world premiere on November 12, 2018, and the red carpet was also dropped out of respect for victims of the Thousand Oaks shooting.