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50 free Gargoyles trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Disney's Gargoyles arrived in 1994 looking like nothing else on afternoon television. Its heroes were winged warriors from medieval Scotland who turned to stone at sunrise and woke, after a thousand-year sleep, on top of a Manhattan skyscraper. The stories that followed mixed Shakespeare, world mythology and science fiction with long-running character arcs, and the show has kept a devoted following ever since. This quiz covers the whole world of the series: Goliath and his clan, their human allies and their best villains, the voice actors behind them, the writers and producers, and the episodes fans still talk about. It also steps outside the cartoon, with questions on the home-video movie, the video game, the 1972 TV horror film of the same name, and the real carved gargoyles that have watched over cathedrals for centuries. It is written for fans who grew up with the show, for newcomers finding it on streaming, and for anyone putting together a 1990s cartoon round for quiz night. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01In Disney's Gargoyles, a wizard's curse keeps the clan asleep as statues until Castle Wyvern does what?
Rises above the clouds
Rises above the clouds sounded impossible in 994, but a billionaire met the condition a thousand years later by rebuilding the castle on top of a Manhattan skyscraper.
Q 02Which actor, later Disney's Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog, voiced Goliath in Gargoyles?
Keith David
Keith David has named Goliath one of his three favorite voice roles, alongside Spawn and the villain Dr. Facilier.
Q 03Which actor, famous as Commander Riker, voiced scheming billionaire David Xanatos in Gargoyles?
Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Frakes inspired the role as well as voicing it: Xanatos was modeled on his Riker. Fans later named a trope after the character, for a plan in which every outcome is a win.
Q 04What job does Elisa Maza, the first human friend of the awakened clan in Gargoyles, hold in New York?
Police detective
Police detective Elisa Maza finds the clan while investigating a battle at the castle, and by the end of season two she and Goliath are a couple.
Q 05Which Star Wars villain's head sits among the gargoyles and carved monsters of Washington National Cathedral?
Darth Vader
Darth Vader got there through a 1980s children's design contest, in which a boy's drawing of him placed third. He sits so high that binoculars are needed to spot him.
Q 06On a Gothic cathedral such as Notre-Dame, what practical job is a true gargoyle carved to do?
Spout rainwater off the roof
To spout rainwater off the roof, a trough is cut along the creature's back and the flow leaves through its open mouth. The longer the neck, the farther from the wall it lands.
Q 07Which Shakespearean king is bound to Demona in Gargoyles by a spell that only one killing the other can end?
Macbeth
Macbeth here is based on the real historical ruler as well as the stage one. In the 1990s he hides behind the alias Lennox Macduff, borrowed from two characters in the play.
Q 08Which horror filmmaker pitched Disney his own Gargoyles film in 2018, only for the studio not to pick it up?
Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele made his pitch in June 2018. Disney had toyed with a Gargoyles film since the show first aired, at one point hiring Rick Baker to create concept art.
Q 09Which real-life news event, broadcast live through 1995, drew viewers away from the second season of Gargoyles?
The O. J. Simpson trial
The O. J. Simpson trial often knocked the show off the air entirely. By the time it ended, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers had grown into the stronger brand.
Q 10Which Rocky Horror Picture Show star voiced the gleefully mad geneticist Anton Sevarius in Gargoyles?
Tim Curry
Tim Curry played him as a hammy send-up of the mad scientist, a hired gun whose experiments create the winged Mutates and a whole clan of clones.
Q 11Which Lou Grant star, later Carl in Pixar's Up, voiced the elder gargoyle Hudson in Gargoyles?
Ed Asner
Ed Asner played the clan's former leader, who chose his own name from the river after Elisa explained that almost everything in the modern world has one.
Q 12Which actress, best known as Counselor Deanna Troi, voiced the vengeful gargoyle Demona in Gargoyles?
Marina Sirtis
Marina Sirtis also voiced the yuppie Margot Yale, one of the unlucky New Yorkers who keep running into the clan.
Q 13Which trickster is revealed to be the true form of Owen Burnett, the stiff personal assistant in Gargoyles?
Puck
Puck took the dull disguise for the novelty of playing the straight man. He offered his boss a choice of immortality or a lifetime of service, and Xanatos chose the service.
Q 21What is the proper name for a carved cathedral monster that is purely decorative, unlike a working gargoyle?
A grotesque
A grotesque is what most of the famous brooding figures on Notre-Dame in Paris really are. They are not medieval either: they date from a 19th-century restoration.
Q 22A gargoyle added to Scotland's Paisley Abbey in the 1990s resembles the monster from which science-fiction film?
Alien
Alien got its stone tribute when an Edinburgh stonemason replaced twelve crumbling gargoyles during a restoration. A photo of the carving went viral in 2013.
Q 23The 1972 TV horror film Gargoyles won an Emmy for the first screen make-up by which future effects legend?
Stan Winston
Q 14Which gargoyle accidentally shoots Elisa Maza with her own gun in the Gargoyles episode Deadly Force?
Broadway
Broadway had just watched a western and was playing with the weapon. The guilt leaves him with a lasting dislike of guns.
Q 15Which New York borough gives its name to the dog-like gargoyle beast kept by the clan in Gargoyles?
The Bronx
The Bronx lends its name to the clan's four-legged companion, whose growls were performed by Frank Welker. He also supplied the sounds of the gargoyle beast Boudicca.
Q 16Which gargoyle, who joins the clan midway through season two of Gargoyles, is the daughter of Goliath and Demona?
Angela
Angela hatched from one of the rescued castle eggs and was raised by humans, far from her parents. That upbringing leaves her much quicker to trust people than her mother is.
Q 17On which legendary island are the rescued Castle Wyvern eggs hatched and raised in Gargoyles?
Avalon
Avalon belongs to the fairy lord Oberon, who had exiled his own subjects from it for a thousand years. That left the island free for a princess, a wizard and a clutch of eggs.
Q 18Which sleeping hero of legend does Elisa Maza wake in Gargoyles to help defeat the sorcerer known as the Archmage?
King Arthur
King Arthur wakes with no sword, no wizard and no knights, yet still wins a duel against an immortal swordsman. He then sets off to explore the modern world on his own.
Q 19Which team of TV action heroes, secretly mercenaries assembled by David Xanatos, stalks the clan in Gargoyles?
The Pack
The Pack starred in a hit show of their own before turning to real hunts. Most of the members later had themselves rebuilt with cybernetic or genetic upgrades.
Q 20In Gargoyles, Demona names the clan's clones after places in which city, spoofing the heroes' New York names?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles supplies Malibu, Brentwood, Hollywood and Burbank, four doubles artificially aged into their twenties to give them a physical edge.
Stan Winston shared the 1973 Emmy for the film's creature make-up, then went on to the Terminator films and the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park.
Q 24Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken, a 1995 home video, was edited together from which episodes?
The five-part pilot
The five-part pilot, a story called Awakening, was trimmed to about 92 minutes for the tape. That meant cutting scenes, reordering others and changing some dialogue.
Q 25Which network aired the third and final season of Gargoyles on Saturday mornings, after two seasons in syndication?
ABC
ABC retitled the show The Goliath Chronicles, cut the order to thirteen episodes and held it to stricter broadcast standards. The season was produced with Canada's Nelvana.
Q 26Which producer, later behind Young Justice and The Spectacular Spider-Man, calls himself a co-creator of Gargoyles?
Greg Weisman
Greg Weisman first pitched the show as a comedy before it turned dark. Since 1997 he has answered fans' questions about it online, and he keeps a timeline hundreds of pages long.
Q 27Gargoyles' first-season writers Michael Reaves and Brynne Chandler Reaves had just written for which superhero cartoon?
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman: The Animated Series had won Michael Reaves an Emmy, and the pair brought its darker tone with them, writing twelve of the first thirteen Gargoyles episodes.
Q 28Which Disney crossover video game series considered, then scrapped, a world based on Gargoyles?
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts never got its Manhattan rooftops. The clan did reach other games: Goliath and Demona are playable in the mobile title Disney Heroes: Battle Mode.
Q 29Which Gargoyles villain is a clone of Goliath, grown in a lab and schooled to think like David Xanatos?
Thailog
Thailog is nearly the hero's name spelled backwards. He fakes his own kidnapping, pockets the 20 million dollar ransom and stages his death to escape his makers.
Q 30Which cyborg gargoyle, voiced by Michael Dorn, do Demona and David Xanatos raise from the dead in Gargoyles?
Coldstone
Coldstone was built by mixing science and sorcery, from the shattered remains of three gargoyles smashed in the Viking raid. All three minds wake up inside the one body.