50 free Fantastic Beasts trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Fantastic Beasts trivia questions with answers. The Fantastic Beasts films took the Wizarding World back to 1920s New York and then across Europe, and this quiz covers all three of them. Forty questions run through Newt Scamander's suitcase and the creatures inside it, Tina and Queenie Goldstein, Jacob Kowalski and his bakery, MACUSA and President Picquery, Credence and the Obscurial, Percival Graves and the Grindelwald reveal, the blood pact, Leta Lestrange, Nagini and Nicolas Flamel in Paris, the qilin and the election in Bhutan, and the truth about Aurelius Dumbledore. It also covers the making of the series: J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut, the 2001 charity book, the Oscar for costume design, the Depp-to-Mikkelsen recast, the box office slide and the plan for five films that stopped at three. Easy questions ask which house Newt was in and what a No-Maj is; the hard ones want the goblin who runs the Blind Pig, the prison in Berlin and the year Newt was born. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and characters, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Who plays Newt Scamander?
Eddie Redmayne
Rowling wanted a subtle, understated British hero, and British critics warmed to him more than American ones did.
Q 02In what year does the first Fantastic Beasts film take place?
1926
Newt arrives in New York the year before Grindelwald's escape kicks off the sequel in 1927.
Q 03For which charity was the original Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them book written in 2001?
Comic Relief
It was published under the pen name Newt Scamander as a real copy of Harry's Care of Magical Creatures textbook.
Q 04The first film marked whose debut as a screenwriter?
J.K. Rowling
Steve Kloves, who adapted the Potter books, only joined as co-writer on the third film.
Q 05What is the American wizarding word for a non-magical person?
No-Maj
American law also forbids witches and wizards from any social relationship with them, which complicates Queenie and Jacob.
Q 06Which creature escapes Newt's suitcase in the bank and starts all the trouble?
A Niffler
Chasing it, Newt bumps into Jacob Kowalski and the two swap suitcases.
Q 07What is Jacob Kowalski's dream job?
Baker
Newt secretly gives him silver Occamy eggshells so he can open his bakery, where the pastries look like magical beasts.
Q 08What does the acronym MACUSA stand for?
Magical Congress of the United States of America
Tina Goldstein is a demoted Auror there when she arrests Newt.
Q 09What is Tina's full first name?
Porpentina
Katherine Waterston plays her; she was demoted for trying to protect Credence from Mary Lou Barebone.
Q 10What magical ability does Queenie Goldstein have?
She is a Legilimens
Alison Sudol plays the mind-reading younger sister who falls for Jacob.
Q 11What is an Obscurial?
A magical child whose suppressed powers become a destructive parasite
Those afflicted rarely live past ten; Credence survives to adulthood only because his magic is so strong.
Q 12What is the name of the anti-witch group led by Mary Lou Barebone?
The New Salem Philanthropic Society
Its followers are nicknamed Second-Salemers; Samantha Morton plays Mary Lou.
Q 13Which actor plays Percival Graves, the MACUSA official who turns out to be Grindelwald in disguise?
Q 21Which Hogwarts house was Newt Scamander sorted into?
Hufflepuff
He was later expelled after taking the blame for a Jarvey experiment by his Slytherin friend Leta Lestrange.
Q 22During the First World War, Newt worked on a secret Ministry programme involving what?
Ukrainian Ironbelly dragons
He served on the Eastern Front; his mother had bred hippogriffs when he was a boy.
Q 23In what year was Newt Scamander born?
1897
That makes him 29 when he lands in New York.
Q 24In which city is most of The Crimes of Grindelwald set?
Colin Farrell
Johnny Depp appears only briefly as the real Grindelwald once the disguise is stripped away.
Q 14Who plays Seraphina Picquery, the President of MACUSA?
Carmen Ejogo
Gemma Chan plays the Chinese ambassador Madam Ya Zhou.
Q 15What is the name of the goblin gangster, voiced by Ron Perlman, who runs the speakeasy the Blind Pig?
Gnarlak
His tip helps the four recapture the last two escaped creatures.
Q 16How is New York's memory of the magical chaos wiped at the end of the first film?
Newt's Thunderbird spreads a potion as rain
Wizards are immune to the extract and repair the damage while the city forgets.
Q 17Which Academy Award did the first film win, the first Oscar for any Wizarding World movie?
Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood's 1920s wardrobe took the prize at the 89th Academy Awards.
Q 18How much did the first Fantastic Beasts film gross worldwide?
$814 million
It cost $175 million to make plus $150 million in marketing, and was the eighth-biggest film of 2016.
Q 19Which English city stood in for 1920s New York during filming?
Liverpool
The Cunard Building and St George's Hall were dressed for the period after two months at Leavesden studios.
Q 20How many films was the series announced to run to in October 2016?
Five
Only three were made; The Secrets of Dumbledore is billed as the third and final instalment.
Paris
Filming took place at Leavesden, in London, Switzerland and Paris itself, and the film premiered in Paris.
Q 25Who plays the young Albus Dumbledore in the second and third films?
Jude Law
He is a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts in this era; Richard Coyle plays his brother Aberforth.
Q 26Who plays Newt's brother Theseus, an Auror engaged to Leta Lestrange?
Callum Turner
Newt is asked to help Theseus find Credence in exchange for having his travel ban lifted.
Q 27Which future Voldemort companion appears in The Crimes of Grindelwald as a cursed circus performer?
Nagini
Claudia Kim plays the woman doomed to become a snake permanently; she escapes the Circus Arcanus with Credence.
Q 28What kind of vow has Yusuf Kama made regarding Corvus Lestrange V?
An Unbreakable Vow
He is avenging his mother, kidnapped by Corvus Lestrange IV with the Imperius Curse.
Q 29How did Leta Lestrange unintentionally cause the death of her half-brother Corvus?
She swapped him with another baby on a ship that sank
Unable to bear his crying, she switched him with Credence; the boy she swapped drowned.
Q 30What does Newt's light-fingered creature steal from Grindelwald that Newt gives Dumbledore in the second film?
A vial containing their blood pact
The pact stops the two men from duelling each other; Dumbledore believes it can be destroyed.