Fear Street Trivia
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46 free Fear Street trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Fear Street was R.L. Stine's first horror series, three years before Goosebumps, and it was always the nastier one: older teens, more blood, a town called Shadyside and a street named for a family that changed its name from Fier because the letters spelled 'fire'. Eighty million books later, Netflix turned it into a trilogy shot back-to-back in Georgia and released one film a week in July 2021, then followed with Prom Queen in 2025. These 46 questions cover both halves of the story. From the books: The New Girl, the Goode curse, Fear Island, the birdless woods, Division Street, the Ghosts of Fear Street and Cheerleaders spin-offs, the 2014 revival and the 1998 ABC pilot nobody remembers. From the films: Leigh Janiak, Chernin and the Fox-to-Netflix move, Deena and Sam, Sunnyvale, Camp Nightwing, Sadie Sink, the settlement of Union, Solomon Goode and the onscreen title tricks of Part Three, plus Prom Queen's Wolfpack and Toronto shoot. Easy questions stick to the town and the films' basics; the hard tier asks about Red Buttons, Kate Trefry and The Milkman. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation that adds one more detail.
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Q 01R. L. Stine, the author of Fear Street, is often called the "Stephen King" of what?
Children's literature
Children's literature: yet Fear Street was written for teenagers and launched in 1989, three years before his Goosebumps books for younger readers.
Q 02What was the first Fear Street book?
The New Girl
The New Girl: Cory Brooks falls for a pale new classmate nobody else seems to have seen, then goes to her house on Fear Street and is told that she is dead.
Q 03In the Fear Street Super Chiller Goodnight Kiss, what is preying on teenagers at the beach?
Vampires
Vampires: victims turn weak and pale with two puncture wounds in the neck while bats circle the beach, and a sequel sent the undead back to the resort town of Sandy Hollow.
Q 04In Fear Street Part One: 1994, which supermarket machine does one of the killers use to murder Kate?
A bread slicer
A bread slicer: Kate, a valedictorian who sells drugs to fund her way out of Shadyside, dies in the supermarket's bakery, and the police then pin the night's killings on her and Simon.
Q 05In the Fear Street trilogy, which severed part of Sarah Fier's body do the teenagers try to reunite with her bones?
Her hand
Her hand: it was cut off in 1666, and when Deena finally lays it with the bones the curse doesn't lift; instead she finds herself living the witch's last days.
Q 06Fear Street Part One: 1994 opens with a massacre in which kind of place, where the trilogy's final battle is also fought?
A shopping mall
A shopping mall: the first victim dies after closing up a bookshop there, and in Part Three the heroes rig the same building with traps to turn the undead killers on their real enemy.
Q 07Which Community star plays the reclusive survivor C. Berman in Fear Street Part One: 1994?
Gillian Jacobs
Gillian Jacobs: her C. Berman lived through a massacre in 1978, and her late-night phone call, warning that there is no escaping the witch, comes just before the first film's final twist.
Q 08In the Fear Street trilogy, Deena spends all three films fighting to save which character, her ex-girlfriend?
Sam
Sam: by the end of the first film she is possessed and tied up, and Deena spends the next two digging through Shadyside's past for a way to free her.
Q 09In Fear Street Part Two: 1978, which weapon does the possessed counsellor Tommy Slater turn on his fellow campers?
An axe
An axe: by day Tommy is cleaning the mess hall with his girlfriend, and by night he has killed a friend and is hunting the camp's Shadyside teenagers.
Q 10The Fear Street films place Shadyside in which US state, the home state of author R. L. Stine?
Ohio
Ohio: Stine was born in Columbus and studied at Ohio State University, where he spent three years editing the campus humour magazine before he ever wrote horror.
Q 11What was the 1995 Fear Street spin-off for younger readers called?
Ghosts of Fear Street
Ghosts of Fear Street: it swapped the main series' murder mysteries for monsters, aliens and twist endings, much closer to the Goosebumps formula.
Q 12Which actor from The White Lotus plays Deena's friend Simon in Fear Street Part One: 1994?
Fred Hechinger
Fred Hechinger: his Simon is attacked by a resurrected killer from 1965 and survives, only to die when the friends make their last stand in a supermarket.
Q 13Roughly how many copies have R. L. Stine's Fear Street books sold?
80 million
80 million: yet when Stine tried to bring the series back, publishers turned him down, calling it outdated in a market that wanted dystopias and the paranormal.
Q 21In the mid-credits scene that ends the Fear Street trilogy, what does an unseen thief take from the tunnels?
The widow's satanic book
The widow's satanic book: it is the volume of black magic used in 1666 to strike the bargain behind Shadyside's curse, and whoever takes it is never identified.
Q 22In Fear Street Part Two: 1978, which older sister of Ziggy Berman sacrifices herself as the killers close in?
Cindy
Cindy: both sisters are killed that night but only Ziggy is brought back, so the survivor known in 1994 as C. Berman is not the sister people assume.
Q 23How did Netflix release the three films of its 2021 Fear Street trilogy?
Weekly, one per week
Q 14R. L. Stine revived Fear Street in 2014 after telling fans on which social network that no publisher wanted it?
Twitter: an editor at St. Martin's Press saw him tell readers that nobody would publish new Fear Street books, got in touch, and signed him for three, a deal later doubled to six.
Q 15How did R. L. Stine say his 2014 Fear Street revival would differ from the originals?
Longer, more adult and more violent
Longer, more adult and more violent: he said the change reflected how much young adult fiction had moved on since the 1990s.
Q 16Which Fear Street sub-series opened in 1992 with a book called The First Evil?
Cheerleaders
Cheerleaders: sisters Bobbi and Corky Corcoran make the Shadyside High squad, and a mysterious accident near the Fear Street cemetery starts the deaths that follow.
Q 17In Fear Street Part One: 1994, what does the killer who stalks the opening scene wear over his face?
A skull mask
A skull mask: behind it is the first victim's own friend and co-worker, who is shot dead that night and then returns from the grave as one of the witch's killers.
Q 18What became of the Fear Street TV series after ABC aired its pilot in July 1998?
It was never picked up
It was never picked up: the one-off Friday broadcast drew ABC's lowest rating on record for its slot, and the planned series was never made.
Q 19In Fear Street Part Three: 1666, how is Sarah Fier put to death?
She is hanged
She is hanged: innocent of witchcraft, she confesses anyway so that the girl she loves is spared, and swears vengeance on the man who framed her.
Q 20In Party Games, the novel that revived Fear Street, where do the birthday guests find themselves trapped with a killer?
On Fear Island
On Fear Island: Rachel Martin ignores a friend's warning and goes to Brendan Fear's party at his family's estate, where the guests start dying one by one.
Weekly, one per week: the films had been planned for cinemas a month apart, but Netflix put them out on three consecutive Fridays in July 2021, more like a miniseries.
Q 24In which US state was Netflix's Fear Street trilogy filmed, back to back, in 2019?
Georgia
Georgia: the three films were not shot in story order, with the middle chapter, Part Two: 1978, the last one in front of the cameras.
Q 25Which actress plays Vice Principal Brekenridge in Fear Street: Prom Queen?
Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor: her vice principal hopes the prom will repair Shadyside's reputation, and her devout son becomes the first suspect once the candidates start disappearing.
Q 26Which studio made the Fear Street trilogy for cinemas before the pandemic and a takeover sent it to Netflix?
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox: it had the films set for June 2020, but cinemas closed, Disney had bought the studio, and the producers took all three to Netflix that August.
Q 27Who plays Deena, the lead of Netflix's Fear Street trilogy?
Kiana Madeira
Kiana Madeira: she ends up with two roles, because the final film sends Deena back to 1666 to live out the story of Sarah Fier in the accused witch's own skin.
Q 28In the Fear Street films, what is the name of Shadyside's wealthy, safe neighbouring town?
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale: its luck is no accident, because in the trilogy every piece of the town's good fortune turns out to be paid for by a tragedy next door.
Q 29In Fear Street Part One: 1994, what do the media dub the town of Shadyside?
Murder capital of the US
Murder capital of the US: the news treats one more massacre as normal for the town, and its teenagers blame a witch executed there three centuries earlier.
Q 30Which Stranger Things actress appears in the opening of Fear Street Part One: 1994?
Maya Hawke
Maya Hawke: her Heather is stabbed to death by her own friend, who is shot dead by police before the night is out.