Highschool of the Dead
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40 free Highschool of the Dead trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Highschool of the Dead drops a handful of Japanese teenagers into the first hours of a zombie outbreak, then keeps the camera on the survivors as the world outside the classroom falls apart. Daisuke Satō's story and Shōji Satō's artwork found readers well beyond Japan, and the 2010 anime adaptation brought the series to a much wider audience. This quiz covers the whole of it: the students and the adults who travel with the survivors, the weapons they improvise and the vehicles they borrow, the villains they meet on the road, and the key moments of the anime from the opening outbreak to the last scene. It also looks behind the page and the screen, at the people who made the series, the companies that published and licensed it, and the real-world references hidden in its names. The questions run from easy openers any viewer can answer to details only careful manga readers will know, so it works as a quick solo test or as a round at an anime club night. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01What do the survivors in Highschool of the Dead call the zombies, since they differ from the movie kind?
Them
Them is the survivors' standing name for the undead, a euphemism coined by Hisashi Igo, who becomes one himself in the first episode.
Q 02Saya Takagi is among the first in Highschool of the Dead to realise the zombies react only to what?
Sound
Sound is all the undead can sense, which Takashi Komuro tests by slipping past a crowd of zombies quietly until another survivor's noise draws the horde.
Q 03Highschool of the Dead director Tetsurō Araki went on to direct the first season of which hit anime?
Attack on Titan
Attack on Titan arrived in 2013, three years after Araki's zombie series, and with Death Note it is the work he is best known for directing.
Q 04Why was the Highschool of the Dead manga, which published only one chapter after 2011, left unfinished?
Its writer died
Its writer died in March 2017: Daisuke Satō had been ill since 2008, and artist Shōji Satō agreed to leave the story where it had stopped.
Q 05What job does Shizuka Marikawa, the only adult in the main Highschool of the Dead group, hold on campus?
Nurse
Nurse Shizuka Marikawa is 27 and admits she is only a temporary hire still in training, yet she is the one who drives the group's getaway vehicles.
Q 06Which country's Ministry of Culture put Highschool of the Dead on a 2015 list of 38 banned anime and manga?
China
China had singled the series out months earlier too, when officials announcing a crackdown on violent and sexual anime described it as borderline pornographic.
Q 07Before he finds any firearms, Takashi Komuro fights his way out of school in Highschool of the Dead with what?
A baseball bat
A baseball bat sees Takashi through the escape; he later carries a revolver recovered from a dead policeman and then moves up to a shotgun.
Q 08As children, Takashi Komuro and Rei Miyamoto of Highschool of the Dead made which promise to each other?
To marry someday
To marry someday was the pinky promise, but Takashi's indecision led Rei to date his friend Hisashi Igo instead, a sore point when the outbreak begins.
Q 09Which studio, where director Tetsurō Araki began his career, animated Highschool of the Dead?
Madhouse
Madhouse made all twelve episodes and the 2011 OVA, and Araki had already directed Death Note for the same studio.
Q 10In the 2011 OVA episode of Highschool of the Dead, where do the survivors end up, supposedly safe from zombies?
A tropical island
A tropical island gives the cast a beach episode, though zombies still arrive: a closing scene reveals a tunnel linking it to the mainland.
Q 11Saeko Busujima, a third-year student in Highschool of the Dead, is president of which school club?
Kendo
Kendo explains the wooden practice blade Saeko fights with at first; her father is abroad at a martial arts tournament when the outbreak hits.
Q 12Where do Takashi Komuro and Rei Miyamoto barricade themselves in the first episode of Highschool of the Dead?
The rooftop
The rooftop gives the pair a view of military helicopters flying past toward the city, oblivious to the carnage in the school below.
Q 13Which vehicle do the Highschool of the Dead survivors borrow from the apartment of police sniper Rika Minami?
A Humvee
A Humvee parked outside the flat belongs to Rika, a friend of Shizuka Marikawa, and the group also helps itself to her private stock of firearms.
Q 21What is unusual about the Highschool of the Dead anime's closing themes, all sung by Maon Kurosaki?
Each episode has its own
Each episode has its own ending song, twelve in all, and the full set was released together on one CD in September 2010.
Q 22Kohta Hirano of Highschool of the Dead is modelled on the real creator of which vampire manga?
Hellsing
Hellsing author Kouta Hirano knows about his schoolboy namesake, and joked in an afterword that he had to go and kill zombies at his high school.
Q 23Uniforms worn by Rei and Saeko in Highschool of the Dead became downloadable costumes in which zombie game?
Lollipop Chainsaw
Q 14Saya Takagi, the pink-haired second-year in Highschool of the Dead, proudly describes herself as what?
A genius
A genius is Saya's own label, and she backs it up, using her deductions about the undead to steer the group out of danger.
Q 15Kohta Hirano of Highschool of the Dead improvises his first weapon in a classroom from which tool?
A nail gun
A nail gun, pieced together like a rifle in a classroom, is Kohta's weapon until real firearms turn up; Saya Takagi makes do with a drill.
Q 16Where do the survivors arrive on foot in the final scene of the Highschool of the Dead anime series?
A shopping mall
A shopping mall is where the anime leaves the group; the manga carries on from there to a police station and a school said to be a safe zone.
Q 17Separated from the bus by a tunnel crash, how do Takashi and Rei reach the city in Highschool of the Dead?
On a motorcycle
On a motorcycle taken from a zombie rider, the pair head into the city, even though Takashi has no licence to ride one.
Q 18Soichiro Takagi thanks Saeko Busujima for protecting his daughter in Highschool of the Dead with which gift?
A katana
A katana made from military-grade steel is Soichiro's thanks, and a nod to Saeko's father, who once trained him.
Q 19Where are Takashi Komuro and his classmates studying when the outbreak begins in Highschool of the Dead?
Fujimi High
Fujimi High is home to all five student survivors, from second-years like Takashi to third-year Saeko Busujima.
Q 20Which Highschool of the Dead character joins the survivors when Takashi Komuro rescues her along with a puppy?
Alice Maresato
Alice Maresato is seven when Takashi brings her to safety along the top of a fence, after her father, a reporter, is killed while seeking shelter.
Lollipop Chainsaw let players dress its cheerleader heroine Juliet Starling in both girls' uniforms, among costumes drawn from four anime series in 2012.
Q 24The illustrator of Highschool of the Dead, Shōji Satō, also writes and draws which vigilante manga?
Triage X
Triage X began in 2009, while the zombie series was stalled, and it became Satō's sole focus once that story was shelved for good.
Q 25Why does Rei Miyamoto of Highschool of the Dead despise the teacher Koichi Shido?
He held her back a year
He held her back a year at the request of his politician father, whom Rei's policeman father was investigating for corruption.
Q 26Rei Miyamoto of Highschool of the Dead trades her sharpened broomstick for a rifle fitted with what?
A bayonet
A bayonet lets Rei wield the rifle like a spear, and she later points it at Koichi Shido when he turns up at the Takagi estate.
Q 27Cut off from the group, where do Takashi Komuro and Saeko Busujima camp overnight in Highschool of the Dead?
A shrine
A shrine shelters the pair after a day spent drawing the horde away in an amphibious vehicle, and there Saeko confides the dark side she fears in herself.
Q 28In the Highschool of the Dead finale, what stalls Koichi Shido's bus so that it smashes open a barricade?
A nuclear EMP
A nuclear EMP from a high-altitude missile blast kills nearby electronics, and the crash lets the horde pour into the Takagi estate.
Q 29Soichiro Takagi, Saya's father in Highschool of the Dead, leads what kind of organisation?
A nationalist group
A nationalist group answers to Soichiro, and he shows its followers what they face by publicly executing a friend who has turned.
Q 30Which company released the English dub of Highschool of the Dead on DVD and Blu-ray in North America?
Sentai Filmworks
Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for a 2010 simulcast, then issued a dub directed by Steven Foster that gave Takashi Komuro a far fouler mouth.