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50 free Escape the Night trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Escape the Night turned a costume party into one of YouTube's biggest original series. Host Joey Graceffa invites fellow creators to a night in another era, where they play assigned personas, hunt for artifacts and send one another into death challenges that only some of them walk away from. This quiz covers all four seasons and The Lost Tapes, with the most questions on season 3 and its 1970s town. Expect questions on who died and how, which monsters guarded what, the twists hidden in the rules, and the production secrets Joey has shared since, such as which exits were planned before the cameras rolled. It is written for fans who have watched every episode and for newer viewers catching up on the series. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something about the show.
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Q 01Who was the first guest ever to die in Escape the Night, poisoned at the opening dinner party?
Shane Dawson
Shane Dawson's death was fixed in advance by production: the antidote riddle was built so that it could not be cracked in the time allowed.
Q 02What is the name of the 1970s town where Escape the Night's third season traps its guests?
Everlock
Everlock was frozen on the night of its fair to hold back the season's villain, and the guests have only until sunrise to save it.
Q 03Escape the Night awards no prize, so who is regarded as the winner of a season?
Every guest who survives
Every guest who survives the night counts as a winner, and each of the four seasons ended with exactly two of Joey's invited guests alive.
Q 04Which persona does host Joey Graceffa play in every season of Escape the Night?
The Savant
The Savant is a fictionalized Joey whose entanglement with supernatural forces keeps trapping his friends in other eras.
Q 05Who became the first guest to return from the dead in Escape the Night, during its third season?
MatPat
MatPat, credited as Matthew Patrick, was beaten to death in the fifth episode and brought back after the group won two hidden coins.
Q 06A whole town is locked in time to hold back which villain in Escape the Night's third season?
The Carnival Master
The Carnival Master draws his power from eight artifacts hidden around the town, each protected by one of his monstrous guardians.
Q 07Which famous newcomer joined four returning guests in the 2025 miniseries Escape the Night: The Lost Tapes?
JoJo Siwa
JoJo Siwa played the Burnout and reached the second episode, where a cult killed her after she failed its last initiation task.
Q 08Who stabs Joey Graceffa's character to death in the finale of Escape the Night's second season?
The Sorceress
The Sorceress stabbed him with her dying strength, a death that Joey says was only decided the night before filming.
Q 09Which newcomer joined eight guests returning from the dead in Escape the Night's fourth season?
Bretman Rock
Bretman Rock was brought along against Joey's instructions, played the Playboy, and ended up escaping the Museum of the Dead.
Q 10How does Justine Ezarik die in Escape the Night's first season after the group's vote goes against her?
Buried alive
Buried alive by her own friends, she was the only guest of that season killed by a vote alone, with no death challenge to fight through.
Q 11Which guest wins the last death challenge of Escape the Night's third season by shooting friend Manny MUA?
Nikita Dragun
Nikita Dragun reached a pink gun first and was free to turn it on herself or her rival, then escaped the town at sunrise.
Q 12Which instrument do the guests strum three times to raise a dead friend in Escape the Night's third season?
A harp
A harp named for Lazarus stayed sealed until the group earned two coins in side tasks, the first resurrection device in the series.
Q 13What must the guests do to each of the eight artifacts hidden around town in Escape the Night's third season?
Cleanse it
Cleanse it before sunrise, or the season's villain is released and the town destroyed; every cleansing also reveals new places on the town map.
Q 21In the Funhouse episode of Escape the Night's third season, which guest was secretly marked to die?
Whoever voted for the winner
Whoever voted for the winner was the hidden rule, so Safiya Nygaard died without ever competing, caught in the lounge thought to be safe.
Q 22Willy, the caretaker in Escape the Night season 3, has heads for joy, anger, sadness and what else?
Fear
Fear completes the set of four heads on Willy, a failing salesman remade by the season's villain to run the funhouse.
Q 23Who played the Journalist and escaped the first season of Escape the Night alongside Oli White?
Eva Gutowski
Q 14Which 1970s persona did Manny MUA play as a guest in the third season of Escape the Night?
The Record Producer
The Record Producer made the final four and died in the ninth episode, the last guest killed that season.
Q 15Which guardian kills Roi Fabito, the Daredevil, in the third season of Escape the Night?
The Snake Woman
The Snake Woman, once a jilted townswoman named Cindy, poisoned and bit him after he lost a race to finish a mosaic.
Q 16In Escape the Night season 3, which object kept by the Twin Dolls claims a guest by direct vote?
The Maiden of Madness
The Maiden of Madness impaled the guest sealed inside, in the only episode of that season where the group voted directly on who would die.
Q 17What does Joey Graceffa's secret contract promise him for saving the town in Escape the Night's third season?
His life back
His life back was the reward, but the bargain's price was his friends' deaths, a term he hid from the nine guests he invited.
Q 18Which ally of the guests frees the villain in the finale of Escape the Night's third season?
Mortimer
Mortimer, the mayor's son, was corrupted by the Psychedelic Swirl and killed by the very villain he set loose.
Q 19In the last death challenge of Escape the Night season 3, two straitjacketed guests search a pool of what?
Popcorn
Popcorn filled the pool where both finalists hunted for the means to free themselves, in a contest set by the villain's daughter, Lucy.
Q 20Which creatures overrun the town fair in the two-part premiere of Escape the Night's third season?
Killer clowns
Killer clowns throw the mayor from a balcony, and their leader later finishes the season's first death challenge with thrown knives.
Eva Gutowski formed the season's first open alliance, siding with Oli White after learning that Joey planned to vote for her.
Q 24Which member of the estate's staff is unmasked as the traitor in Escape the Night's first season?
Arthur the butler
Arthur the butler had steered the whole night so that Joey would end up holding the house, and his own imprisoned brother finally killed him.
Q 25Which classic game was crossed with Russian roulette for a death challenge in Escape the Night season 1?
Battleship
Battleship supplied the hidden grids: every hit forced the struck player to fire a revolver at their own head.
Q 26In Escape the Night season 1, former estate owner Madison had been turned into which creature?
A mermaid
A mermaid chained in an upstairs room, Madison was released once the guests returned her daughter's doll.
Q 27Which 1920s persona did Lele Pons play in the first season of Escape the Night?
The Hustler
The Hustler was voted into three death challenges and died in the last, electrocuted by an overloading chair in the ninth episode.
Q 28In the exorcism challenge of Escape the Night's first season, which item kills whoever is made to wear it?
A rosary
A rosary doomed its wearer, and Matt Haag hung it on Sierra Furtado when he could have chosen to put it on himself.
Q 29Why was Liza Koshy's death in Escape the Night's second season arranged in advance by production?
A scheduling conflict
A scheduling conflict forced her exit after five episodes, one of several deaths Joey has admitted were planned rather than played out.
Q 30Escape the Night's second season sends its guests to a masquerade ball at an estate from which era?
Victorian
Victorian personas such as the Thespian and the Outlaw came with each invitation, and only guests in costume could see the carriage sent for them.