Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
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40 free Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is the sequel that changed what Jason Voorhees is. Released in 1986, it gave the series a sense of humor, a supernatural streak and a hero fans already knew, and many of them rank it as the high point of the franchise. This quiz covers the whole film: how Jason rises again, who crosses his path on the way to the camp, and how Tommy Jarvis tries to stop him for good. It also goes behind the scenes, with questions on the cast, the director's influences, the music, the endings that were filmed and what the critics made of it. It is for Friday the 13th fans, slasher completists and anyone who half-remembers the film from an old video rental. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the story of how the film was made as you play.
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Q 01What revives Jason in Jason Lives after Tommy Jarvis drives a metal fence post into his corpse?
Lightning
Lightning strikes the post twice and turns Jason into an undead revenant with superhuman strength. Tommy had dug him up only to make sure he could never return.
Q 02Which future star of Ghost and Scandal made his film debut as a doomed camp counselor in Jason Lives?
Tony Goldwyn
Tony Goldwyn plays Darren, a counselor who meets Jason on the road before he ever reaches camp. He went on to play the treacherous friend in Ghost and the president in Scandal.
Q 03Which rock star recorded the theme song for Jason Lives and appears with Jason in its music video?
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper recorded He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) for the film. In the video, Jason menaces teenagers at a midnight screening of the movie itself.
Q 04The opening credits of Jason Lives have Jason parody the famous intro of which film spy?
James Bond
James Bond's gun-barrel opening is the target: Jason strides into view, turns to face the camera and slashes at it, and blood runs down the screen.
Q 05Which Universal monster movie was the model for raising Jason from the dead in Jason Lives?
Frankenstein
Frankenstein, the 1931 film with Boris Karloff as a lumbering monster, was the template. The director steered the whole sequel toward the feel of an old studio horror picture.
Q 06Jason Lives is the only Friday the 13th film to contain none of which slasher-movie staple?
Nudity
Nudity was left out because the director wanted to shake the idea that these films punish premarital sex with death. Even the couple in the one sex scene stay fully clothed.
Q 07In Jason Lives, Crystal Lake and its summer camp have both been renamed what?
Forest Green
Forest Green is the name the locals have adopted, and Jason has faded into an urban legend there. Tommy Jarvis heads straight for the old cemetery anyway.
Q 08The self-referential humor of Jason Lives has been praised for prefiguring which 1990s slasher film series?
Scream
Scream made a hit of slasher characters who know the rules of horror films. Jason Lives had a counselor talk about those rules a decade earlier, and another character speak straight to the camera.
Q 09Which game are the executives playing in the woods when Jason ambushes them in Jason Lives?
Paintball
Paintball scenes were filmed on the first day, with stuntman Dan Bradley as Jason. He was replaced straight afterwards, but his footage stayed in the finished film.
Q 10What does Tommy Jarvis chain around Jason's neck to trap him at the bottom of the lake in Jason Lives?
A boulder
A boulder does the job: Tommy lures Jason out to a boat, gets the chain over his head and sinks him in the lake where he drowned as a boy.
Q 11Which weapon does Jason take from the office workers he kills in the woods in Jason Lives?
A machete
A machete is his prize after he wipes out all five weekend warriors, one of them by crushing the man's face into a tree.
Q 12Which Jason Lives character, the sheriff's daughter, breaks Tommy Jarvis out of jail?
Megan
Megan springs Tommy from the sheriff's own cells, then pulls him out of the lake and revives him with CPR.
Q 13Jason Lives followed which Friday the 13th film, whose masked killer proved to be a copycat?
A New Beginning
A New Beginning ended with a paramedic called Roy Burns behind the hockey mask, which disappointed fans. Its reviews were among the worst the series had received.
Q 21Who played Jason for most of Jason Lives after stuntman Dan Bradley was replaced early in the shoot?
C. J. Graham
C. J. Graham, a 6 ft 3 former soldier, had never planned to be an actor or a stuntman. He still chose to perform most of his own stunts in the role.
Q 22Which actor from The Return of the Living Dead took over as the adult Tommy Jarvis in Jason Lives?
Thom Mathews
Thom Mathews was chosen for his work in that zombie comedy, though the director only learned of his horror background after shooting began.
Q 23Which actress from the science fiction TV series V plays the sheriff's daughter in Jason Lives?
Jennifer Cooke
Q 14What do Tommy Jarvis and his friend plan to do with Jason's body when they dig it up in Jason Lives?
Cremate it
They mean to cremate it and end the nightmares Tommy has had since he killed Jason as a boy. A flashback at the graveside makes him attack the corpse instead.
Q 15At the start of Jason Lives, Tommy Jarvis is still haunted by Jason after a stay in what kind of place?
A mental institution
A mental institution is where Tommy has spent his time since facing Jason, and the flashbacks have not stopped. The sheriff uses that history to wave away his warnings.
Q 16The writer-director of Jason Lives was given free rein on the story apart from which single condition?
Return the real killer
The producers' only demand was to return the real killer, after the fifth film's stand-in had let fans down. Everything else, the humor included, was left to the director.
Q 17Jason's weakness in Jason Lives, tied to his home soil, comes from the lore of which monsters?
Vampires
Vampires and their tie to home soil inspired the rule: the director decided Jason really had drowned as a child, so sinking him in the lake again would leave him helpless.
Q 18The director of Jason Lives cited his love of Gothic horror, especially the work of which American author?
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was a touchstone for the director, who opens the film with two men digging up a grave in a thunderstorm.
Q 19Tommy Jarvis, the hero of Jason Lives, was first played by Corey Feldman in which earlier film?
The Final Chapter
The Final Chapter introduced Tommy as a twelve-year-old who makes monster masks and ends up killing Jason. Jason Lives was his last film as the hero, by then played by a third actor.
Q 20What is the young camper Nancy doing when Jason spares her life at the camp in Jason Lives?
Praying
Praying is how Jason finds Nancy, and he leaves her unharmed. The director drew on his Catholic upbringing, and the film has the only open references to God in the series.
Jennifer Cooke had played the half-alien Star Child on V, and that performance won her the lead. She left the screen for good after this film.
Q 24Ron Palillo, who plays Tommy's doomed friend in Jason Lives, was famous as Horshack on which 1970s sitcom?
Welcome Back, Kotter
Welcome Back, Kotter made Palillo a household face as the sweathog Arnold Horshack. In Jason Lives he lasts about five minutes before Jason punches his heart out.
Q 25In which US state was Jason Lives filmed, with the town of Covington standing in for Crystal Lake?
Georgia
Georgia was the location: the town and police station scenes were filmed in Covington, near Atlanta, and the camp scenes at a real camp just outside it.
Q 26Which Chicago Tribune critic called Jason Lives the best of the series but still gave it one and a half stars?
Gene Siskel
Gene Siskel enjoyed the self-referential humor but found the story essentially the same as in the previous five films.
Q 27Earlier sequels were cut to avoid an X rating; what did producers ask the director of Jason Lives to add?
More gore
More gore was the studio's request, the reverse of the usual fight with the censors. The director's first cut had thirteen deaths as an in-joke, and three more were added.
Q 28Which never-seen relative of Jason was scripted to appear at the end of Jason Lives but cut by the studio?
His father
His father, Elias Voorhees, was to turn up at the cemetery, implying he knew Jason had risen. The studio did not want to explain him in the following film, though he does appear in the novelization.
Q 29What does the closing shot of Jason Lives show, added so that a sequel was clearly possible?
A twitching eye
A twitching eye, in close-up underwater, was filmed because the producers disliked two earlier endings that left the killer's survival in doubt. One showed only his mask floating up.
Q 30What does the sheriff's daughter use to force Jason off her when he grabs her leg underwater in Jason Lives?
The outboard motor
The outboard motor of the wrecked boat cuts into Jason and sends him to the bottom of the lake. She then swims Tommy to shore.