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40 free Finn Wolfhard trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Finn Wolfhard was a child actor with a handful of credits when Stranger Things made him one of the most recognisable faces of his generation. Since then he has kept adding jobs: film actor, voice actor, band frontman, solo songwriter, and director of his own shorts and features. This quiz tests how well you know him. It covers where he comes from, how he landed his best-known parts, the characters he has played on screen and in animation, the people he has worked with, the awards he has picked up, and the music he has released. It is written for fans who have followed him since the first season in Hawkins, and for anyone who knows him as Mike Wheeler and wants to see how much of the rest they can get. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler in Stranger Things, was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Vancouver is where Finn Wolfhard was born on December 23, 2002, and where he got his first acting job, a 2012 music video for a local band.
Q 02Which bespectacled, loud-mouthed character did Finn Wolfhard play in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's It?
Richie Tozier
Richie Tozier was Finn Wolfhard's feature film debut; the 1990 miniseries of the same novel had cast Seth Green in the part.
Q 03Finn Wolfhard plays Trevor, the grandson of which original Ghostbuster, in Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire?
Egon Spengler
Egon Spengler is the estranged father of Trevor's mother, and Finn Wolfhard's character gets his late grandfather's Ecto-1 running again to chase a ghost through town.
Q 04Finn Wolfhard fronted which indie rock band from 2017 to 2019, named after a character in To Kill a Mockingbird?
Calpurnia
Calpurnia is the housekeeper in Harper Lee's novel; Finn Wolfhard sang lead and played rhythm guitar, and the band's only EP was titled Scout.
Q 05Finn Wolfhard voiced Candlewick, a fascist official's son, in Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion film of which tale?
Pinocchio
Pinocchio let Finn Wolfhard record some lines in the same room as the boy voicing the puppet, because he feels he does voice work better with people around than alone in a booth.
Q 06Finn Wolfhard said in 2017 that which comedian should play his It character as an adult, a wish that came true?
Bill Hader
Bill Hader was Finn Wolfhard's pick in a July 2017 interview and went on to play the part in It Chapter Two; co-star Sophia Lillis got her wish as well, with Jessica Chastain.
Q 07Finn Wolfhard and his bandmates starred in which rock band's 2019 music video for a cover of a-ha's Take On Me?
Weezer
Weezer cast Finn Wolfhard as a young version of frontman Rivers Cuomo, in a video that pays tribute to a-ha's 1980s original.
Q 08Finn Wolfhard's character Mike Wheeler was modelled on Elliott, the young hero of which Steven Spielberg film?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was the template: Elliott hides an alien from the adults, and Finn Wolfhard's Mike hides a girl with psychic powers in his basement.
Q 09Finn Wolfhard and his Stranger Things castmates won which 2017 prize for best ensemble in a drama series?
SAG Award
A SAG Award went to Finn Wolfhard and the whole cast in 2017; they were nominated for the same ensemble prize in 2018 and 2020 without winning again.
Q 10Which Addams Family character did Finn Wolfhard voice in the 2019 animated film?
Pugsley
Pugsley has to perform the Sabre Mazurka in front of the whole clan, and Finn Wolfhard voiced him opposite Chloë Grace Moretz as his sister Wednesday.
Q 11Finn Wolfhard voiced Player, a white-hat hacker who helps plan heists, in which Netflix animated series?
Carmen Sandiego
Carmen Sandiego ran from 2019 to 2021, and Finn Wolfhard's Player, a boy from Niagara Falls, was named for the people playing the original computer games.
Q 12Which actress played the shelter-running mother of Finn Wolfhard's Ziggy in When You Finish Saving the World?
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard play a mother and son who cannot connect; he had first voiced Ziggy in the 2020 audio drama the film is based on.
Q 13Finn Wolfhard and six young castmates in It shared an MTV award for playing which group of friends who battle Pennywise?
The Losers Club
Q 21Finn Wolfhard directed a stop-motion music video for Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) by which former Beatle?
Harrison
George Harrison took the song to number one in the United States in 1973, and Finn Wolfhard's animated video for it arrived in December 2025, more than fifty years later.
Q 22Finn Wolfhard's near-perfect Russian accent at audition won him the part of young Boris in which literary adaptation?
The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch director John Crowley had wanted an authentic Russian actor for Boris until he heard Finn Wolfhard's audition.
Q 23In which 2020 gothic horror film did Finn Wolfhard play Miles, an orphan placed in the care of a new governess?
The Turning
The Losers Club won Best On-Screen Team at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards, where Finn Wolfhard was also nominated in the same category with his Stranger Things co-stars.
Q 14Which sibling duo cast Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler in Stranger Things, noting he was already a 1980s movie buff?
The Duffer Brothers
The Duffer Brothers reckon they saw about a thousand child actors for the show, and had the hopefuls read lines from Stand by Me.
Q 15Which actress plays Nancy, the older sister of Finn Wolfhard's Mike Wheeler, in Stranger Things?
Natalia Dyer
Natalia Dyer's Nancy starts out as the studious, rule-abiding Wheeler and ends up investigating Hawkins Lab; the family also has a younger sister, Holly.
Q 16Which magazine named Finn Wolfhard to its 30 Under 30 list for Hollywood and entertainment, class of 2020?
Forbes
Forbes put Finn Wolfhard on the list in the same year he made his directing debut with a short comedy, while he was still a teenager.
Q 17A real attempted robbery interrupted filming of which Finn Wolfhard-directed short about a convenience store hold-up?
Night Shifts
Night Shifts was shot in 12 hours at a real convenience store, and Finn Wolfhard had raised its budget from fans online in a single day.
Q 18Finn Wolfhard co-wrote and co-directed which slasher comedy about camp counselors stalked by a devil-masked killer?
Hell of a Summer
Hell of a Summer was Finn Wolfhard's first feature as a director, and he also appears in it as a counselor named Chris.
Q 19After his first band split in 2019, Finn Wolfhard formed which group with its drummer, Malcolm Craig?
The Aubreys
The Aubreys made their debut on the soundtrack of a horror film Finn Wolfhard starred in, weeks after his first band announced it was parting ways.
Q 20Which director cast Finn Wolfhard in Ghostbusters: Afterlife and again as an NBC page in the film Saturday Night?
Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman was the director Finn Wolfhard feared would not even look at his audition tape, because Mike Wheeler had already dressed as a Ghostbuster on Stranger Things.
The Turning moves Henry James's 1898 ghost story to 1994, with Finn Wolfhard as one of two children whose parents have been killed.
Q 24Which actor wrote and directed When You Finish Saving the World, casting Finn Wolfhard as a livestreaming musician?
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg wrote the story first as an Audible original with Finn Wolfhard in the cast, then made the screen version his first feature as a director.
Q 25Which actor plays Maxim, the hunter who raised Finn Wolfhard's Petro, in the A24 fantasy film The Legend of Ochi?
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe's Maxim leads a band of boys hunting the creatures of a Black Sea island, until Finn Wolfhard's Petro, his adopted son, finally stands up to him.
Q 26Finn Wolfhard and three Stranger Things co-stars competed against each other in a 2017 episode of which celebrity show?
Lip Sync Battle
Lip Sync Battle pitted Finn Wolfhard against Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin in an episode billed as The Cast of Stranger Things.
Q 27Which title did Finn Wolfhard give his debut solo album, released in 2025 after a fifty-song writing challenge?
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday came out in June 2025 through AWAL; Finn Wolfhard chose its songs after challenging himself to write fifty before the end of 2022.
Q 28Finn Wolfhard had to audition again for the 2017 film It after which director replaced Cary Fukunaga?
Andy Muschietti
Andy Muschietti kept Finn Wolfhard, the only actor cast in both versions; losing the part the first time had left him free to take Stranger Things.
Q 29Which actress plays Phoebe, the science-minded younger sister of Finn Wolfhard's Trevor, in Ghostbusters: Afterlife?
Mckenna Grace
Mckenna Grace was an avid fan of the films before she was cast, and her Phoebe is the one who ends up fighting Gozer with her grandfather's proton pack.
Q 30Finn Wolfhard made his modeling debut in a Fall/Winter 2019 campaign for which luxury fashion house?
Saint Laurent
Saint Laurent's campaign came out in May 2019, a year in which Finn Wolfhard also appeared in three feature films.