El Internado
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50 free El Internado trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
El Internado turned a remote Spanish boarding school into one of the country's most gripping television mysteries. Over seven seasons, a group of pupils and a handful of staff dig into disappearances, hidden passages and a conspiracy far older than any of them. This quiz leans on season 1, the six episodes that introduce the newcomers, the missing children and the teacher who knew too much, before moving on to the later seasons' twists, the actors who became stars and the remakes the show inspired. It is written for fans who watched it on Spanish television or caught up later on streaming, and for anyone revisiting the series before trying the reboot. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which future Hollywood star played the student Carolina in El Internado after moving to Madrid at 18?
Ana de Armas
Ana de Armas won her first film role at 16 in Cuba, and a director who watched her in the series later asked her to audition in Los Angeles.
Q 02According to the title of El Internado's very first episode, what do monsters not do?
Tickle
Tickle is the missing verb in 'Los monstruos no hacen cosquillas', the episode in which Marcos and Paula arrive and a teacher who has learned the truth tries to warn two pupils.
Q 03How did the parents of Marcos and Paula Novoa vanish before the siblings arrive in El Internado?
Lost at sea
Lost at sea is how the Novoa parents disappear, and headmaster Héctor de la Vega takes custody of both children as their guardian.
Q 04From what kind of institution has María escaped just before she takes the cleaning job in El Internado?
A psychiatric hospital
A psychiatric hospital is where María had been confined; when police come looking for her, housekeeper Jacinta offers to stay silent if she leaves for good.
Q 05What kind of creature does little Paula Novoa say she has befriended in the first season of El Internado?
A gnome
A gnome is what Paula calls him, yet her drawing of the figure looks unpleasantly familiar to Fermín, a sign that her friend is real.
Q 06The founders of the secret project beneath the school in El Internado once served which regime?
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany is the founders' past: eight of them once met in a hidden room under the hermitage, and the last survivors are arrested in the finale.
Q 07Which future star of Money Heist had an early television role as Manuela Portillo in El Internado?
Úrsula Corberó
Úrsula Corberó played Manuela Portillo in 2008, the year she began Física o Química, and found worldwide fame as Tokyo in Money Heist from 2017.
Q 08Which streaming service launched El Internado: Las Cumbres, the reboot about troubled teenagers, in 2021?
Prime Video
Prime Video released it on 19 February 2021; filming had been halted by the Covid-19 lockdown in early 2020 and resumed that summer.
Q 09Which Spanish network first broadcast all seven seasons of El Internado between 2007 and 2010?
Antena 3
Antena 3 showed all 71 episodes, ending on 13 October 2010; in 2017 the same channel became the first home of Money Heist.
Q 10What traps staff and pupils inside the school for the whole final season of El Internado?
An army quarantine
An army quarantine seals the grounds after a lethal virus spreads, and the colonel in command proves to be one of the secret project's founders.
Q 11Where does the teacher Alfonso ask two pupils to meet him at night in El Internado's opening episode?
The cemetery
The cemetery beside the school is the meeting place, but Alfonso never arrives: he has been seized and left to die in the tunnels below.
Q 12What was the school building in El Internado back when five children vanished from it?
An orphanage
An orphanage stood there, and a journalist tells the students that its five children disappeared back in the 1970s.
Q 13What grisly find do the students make in the attic reached through Alfonso's wardrobe in El Internado?
Eyes in formaldehyde
Q 21Which actor, later the lead of Gran Hotel, played wealthy rebel Iván Noiret in El Internado?
Yon González
Yon González won an ACE Award as best new actor for the part and was nominated for a Golden Nymph at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
Q 22Which actress joined El Internado in its second season as Julia Medina, the pupil who later sees ghosts?
Blanca Suárez
Blanca Suárez made her screen debut as Julia and stayed until the finale, and the part earned her a Fotogramas de Plata award.
Q 23Which Goya-nominated star of The Blind Sunflowers played newcomer Marcos Novoa in El Internado?
Martiño Rivas
Martiño Rivas, son of the writer Manuel Rivas, was nominated for the Goya for best new actor while the series was still on air.
Eyes in formaldehyde sit among old photographs and newspapers in the attic, which is why the third episode is titled 'Ojos que no ven'.
Q 14In El Internado's first season, María combs the pupils' medical files for which clue to her son?
A rare blood type
A rare blood type is what María's son has, so the files could settle which boy he is; he turns out to be Iván, the rich bully of the class.
Q 15Whose dismembered body does Héctor find in the lake in the fifth episode of El Internado?
Ricardo Montoya
Ricardo Montoya's body turns up in pieces, and the students realise their only proof of the five children's deaths has gone.
Q 16Which young pupil falls into a well during a teacher's forest outing in El Internado's first season?
Evelyn
Evelyn hurts her arm in the fall, and her mother demands that Amelia, the teacher in charge, be dismissed at once.
Q 17Which saint's night gives El Internado's first-season finale its title and its school-wide dinner?
Isabel
Saint Isabel is honoured with a dinner where pupils and staff share one table, and María has to organise it while the housekeeper is away.
Q 18Which of the student investigators becomes the first main character killed off in El Internado?
Cayetano
Cayetano's body is found as the second season opens, and he later returns as a ghost seen by a classmate; Fernando Tielve of The Devil's Backbone played him.
Q 19El Internado is also known by a longer title that adds which name of the school?
Laguna Negra
Laguna Negra means 'black lagoon', and the dark lake beside the school gives up a body late in the first season.
Q 20What job does Fermín hold at the school in El Internado as cover for a secret mission?
The cook
The cook is only Fermín's cover: he reports to a hidden boss, and in season two he has to get rid of a contact found shot dead in a car.
Q 24Which star of Aquí no hay quien viva played headmaster Héctor de la Vega in El Internado?
Luis Merlo
Luis Merlo, the son of two actors, was named best television actor at the Islantilla festival in 2008 for playing Héctor.
Q 25Which veteran actress, loved as Sole in 7 Vidas, played the housekeeper Jacinta in El Internado?
Amparo Baró
Amparo Baró won the TP de Oro for best actress as Jacinta, and in December 2007 Spain awarded her its Gold Medal for Merit in Work.
Q 26Which of the original friends is unmasked as the traitor who killed Carolina in El Internado?
Roque
Roque is exposed in the final season, after Carolina was killed for working out his secret, and he dies soon afterwards.
Q 27Fermín learns in El Internado that his father killed three founders of which secret project?
Gemini
Project Gemini also blackmails the teacher Amelia: her brother was injected with a virus and promised the cure only if she helped.
Q 28Which animals does the badly burned Camilo train in the forest for his revenge in El Internado?
Wolves
Wolves obey Camilo in season six, when the children think a wild animal is raiding the kitchen; it is really him, alive after the fire.
Q 29Headmaster Héctor de la Vega is finally revealed as which relative of Marcos and Paula in El Internado?
Their uncle
Their uncle is the truth: Héctor was born Samuel Espí, brother of the children's mother, who had been living as Sandra Pazos.
Q 30Who takes over as head of the school when Héctor resigns in El Internado's second season?
Elsa
Elsa accepts the post on a condition from the parents that Héctor never hears about: she must expel the students he resigned to protect.