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138 free Coraline trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
50 free Coraline trivia questions with answers. Are you a true fan of Neil Gaiman's haunting masterpiece Coraline? Put your knowledge to the test with our comprehensive 138-question trivia quiz covering characters, plot points, and fascinating details from both the novel and film adaptation. Whether you've read the book, watched the stop-motion movie, or experienced both, this quiz will challenge even the most dedicated Coraline enthusiasts.
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Q 01What do Coraline's parents write about for a living in the film?
Plants
Plants fill the catalogue her parents are racing to finish, though Coraline scoffs that they hate dirt; at the end her mother admits, 'You were right, Coraline. I really hate dirt!'
Q 02What did Miss Spink and Miss Forcible do with their pet dogs after they died?
Had them stuffed
Had them stuffed, because they couldn't bear to part with them, and the dogs now stand on display in their flat.
Q 03What is the name of the old house divided into flats that Coraline moves into with her parents?
Pink Palace Apartments
Pink Palace Apartments belongs to Wybie's grandmother, who won't rent to people with kids, so Wybie is surprised she let Coraline's family move in.
Q 04What does Wybie say he's hunting when Coraline accuses him of stalking her?
Banana slugs
Banana slugs are his quarry, and when he proudly shows off one he calls Slugzilla, Coraline snaps that he's just like her parents, who don't listen either.
Q 05What does Coraline's mother refuse to buy her while they shop for school uniforms?
Gloves
Gloves, a colorful pair Coraline models in the store, go back on the shelf, yet at the end her mother surprises her with them as a gift.
Q 06What does Coraline call the doll Wybie found in his grandmother's trunk?
Little Me
Little Me is her name for it, even though Coraline tells her mother she's way too old for dolls.
Q 07Inside what object does Coraline discover her kidnapped parents are trapped?
A snow globe
A snow globe holds them, so Coraline grabs it and races back through the door to escape home with it.
Q 08What color is Coraline's hair in the film adaptation?
Blue
Blue, and when a doll Wybie found turns up with the same blue hair, Coraline asks if he made it look like her.
Q 09What was Miss Spink and Miss Forcible's profession before they retired to the flat below Coraline's?
Stage actresses
Stage actresses in their day, the pair put on a show in the Other World where they unzip their old bodies to reveal their younger selves on trapezes.
Q 10Why did the Coraline film expand Wybie into a full character?
To give Coraline someone to talk to
To give Coraline someone to talk to, so she isn't always talking to herself; Wybie ends up rescuing her from the Other Mother's severed hand.
Q 11What does Coraline's mother say is really wrong with Mr. Bobinsky?
He's drunk
He's drunk, her mother insists, denying she ever called him crazy, yet by the end Coraline sets her straight: Mr. B's not drunk, just eccentric.
Q 12What do Miss Spink and Miss Forcible give Coraline, saying it's good for bad things?
An adder stone
An adder stone, found in a dish of 100-year-old candy, is good for lost things too, Miss Forcible insists, and Coraline uses it to spot what the Other Mother hid.
Q 13What is the full name of Coraline's busy, distracted mother in the film?
Melinda Jones
Melinda Jones, 'Mel' for short, keeps typing when Coraline says she nearly died yesterday, barely looking up from the catalog she's racing to finish.
Q 21What does the Other Mother call the Cat when Coraline brings him along?
Vermin
Vermin, she sneers when he turns up with Coraline, but Coraline shoots back that she brought a friend.
Q 22What does Coraline's dad tell her to go out and count?
Doors and windows
Doors and windows, and when he later spots her cut knee, he jokes that he asked her to count the windows, not put her knee through them.
Q 23Where do Coraline and her family move from at the start of the film?
Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac, Michigan, Coraline tells Wybie, after he guesses she's from Texas or Utah, 'someplace dried-out and barren'.
Q 14What creature is the Other Father's tractor built to look like?
A praying mantis
A praying mantis inspires the machine, and when the Other Mother turns him against Coraline, he attacks her from it while pleading that he doesn't want to hurt her.
Q 15What insect is Coraline's hair clip shaped like?
A dragonfly
A dragonfly, and in the Other World the paper dragonflies over her bed flutter to life to greet her.
Q 16What treat from Zanzibar does the Other Mother offer Coraline?
Cocoa beetles
Cocoa beetles, she purrs, since chocolate never hurts, but Coraline recoils in disgust and demands to be with her real mom and dad.
Q 17What do Coraline's trapped parents write for her on the fogged-up glass?
Help us
Help us, written backwards, tells Coraline the Other Mother has taken her parents, so she goes back to the Other World to rescue them.
Q 18In the Other World, what sets the Other Wybie apart from the real boy?
He is mute.
He is mute because the Other Mother thought Coraline would like him more if he spoke a little less, so she 'fixed' him, and Coraline says she likes it.
Q 19What does Coraline wear outdoors on her first day exploring her new home?
A yellow raincoat
A yellow raincoat, and she heads out in it with a forked stick, hunting for an old well.
Q 20What awaits Coraline on her first visit to the Other Mother's world?
A delicious meal
A delicious meal, yet the next morning her mother says Coraline only dreamed she ate all that chicken and tells her to take her multivitamin at least.
Q 24In her final showdown with Coraline, what does the Other Mother's true form resemble?
Something spider-like
Something spider-like: raging that Coraline is a horrible cheating girl, she turns the whole room into a vast trap of threads and dives down after her.
Q 25According to the ghosts Coraline meets, what did the Other Mother use her look-alike rag dolls to do?
Spy on unhappy kids
Spy on unhappy kids, and when Coraline warns Wybie the doll is her spy, he first thinks she means it spies for his grandma.
Q 26What is Coraline's father's name?
Charles Jones
Charles Jones, 'Charlie' for short, whispers to Coraline for some of her dream's magic mud to treat his writer's rash, until her mom clears her throat.
Q 27What does Mr. Bobinsky say is in the misdelivered mail Coraline brings up to him?
Cheese samples
Cheese samples, he explains, since his new songs go oompah but his performers only play toodle-toot, so he's switching to stronger cheese.
Q 28Which band performed the 'Other Father Song' in Coraline?
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants demoed several songs for the film, yet this is the only one that made it in.
Q 29Which Other World spot turns out to be a portrait of Coraline when she sees it from above?
The Amazing Garden
The Amazing Garden was the Other Mother's idea, the Other Father beams, since she knows Coraline like the back of her hand.
Q 30What is the surname of Wybie's grandmother, the landlady of Coraline's building?
Mrs. Lovat
Mrs. Lovat thinks the house is so dangerous that Wybie says she'd kill him if he ever went inside.