Hotel Transylvania Trivia
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79 free Hotel Transylvania trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
72 free Hotel Transylvania trivia questions with answers. Hotel Transylvania is Sony Pictures Animation's biggest franchise before the Spider-Verse: four films, a prequel TV series, three shorts and more than a billion dollars at the box office. This quiz covers the whole run, from Drac hiding a human backpacker named Johnny in the 2012 original, through Dennis's fifth birthday, the monster cruise to Atlantis and the human-versus-monster switch of Transformania. The easy questions are for kids who have seen the films a dozen times: who voices Mavis, what a zing is, what Frank is scared of, what Dennis's giant puppy is called. The harder ones are for the grown-ups on the couch beside them: which singer was cast as Mavis first, which director created Samurai Jack, why Adam Sandler was not in the fourth film, and where the first Hotel Transylvania theme-park ride opened. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the films, the characters, the TV series and the franchise, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01In the first Hotel Transylvania film, Drac explains away the disguised Johnny by saying he was hired as what?
A party planner
A party planner: Drac claims he brought Johnny in to freshen up his own traditional, boring parties, and the newcomer is soon more popular with the guests than his host.
Q 02Who voices Mavis, Dracula's daughter, in the Hotel Transylvania films?
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez has voiced Mavis in all four films: a vampire raised to fear humans who promptly falls for one when he wanders into the hotel. By the fourth film Gomez was an executive producer too.
Q 03Which singer was announced in 2011 as the voice of Hotel Transylvania's Mavis but was replaced before release?
Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus was reported at the time to have left the project; in 2019 she said she had in fact been kicked off the family film over a photo of her with a rude birthday cake.
Q 04Who voices Johnny, the human backpacker who stumbles into Hotel Transylvania?
Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg plays the only human in the building, whom Drac hurriedly disguises as a monster because he fears his guests would never come back if they knew.
Q 05Who voices Frankenstein in the first three Hotel Transylvania films?
Kevin James
Kevin James voices Frank, who in the third film gambles away his own hands behind his wife's back and carries on with a pair of claws instead.
Q 06Steve Buscemi voices which of Drac's friends in Hotel Transylvania?
Wayne the werewolf
Wayne the werewolf can barely control his huge litter of pups, yet when he is overrun in the second film's battle he calls them and the whole pack comes to his rescue.
Q 07In Hotel Transylvania, David Spade's character Griffin can only be seen by what?
His brown glasses
His brown glasses are all anyone can see of Griffin, who goes naked because he is invisible, until the fourth film turns him human and reveals a middle-aged man with a pot belly.
Q 08Fran Drescher voices which Hotel Transylvania character?
Eunice, the monster's wife
Eunice, the monster's wife, is modelled on the Bride of Frankenstein; in the third film she catches her husband gambling behind her back because he has lost his hands at it and is wearing claws instead.
Q 09Mel Brooks joined the cast of Hotel Transylvania 2 as which relative of Dracula?
His father
His father, Vlad, arrives for Dennis's fifth birthday hating humans even more than Drac once did, so the family dresses the human party guests up as monsters.
Q 10Who directed the first three Hotel Transylvania films?
Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky was the sixth director attached to the first film, his feature debut, and said arriving was 'like being dropped into combat'; he stayed for two sequels.
Q 11Before Hotel Transylvania, the franchise's director created which Cartoon Network series?
Samurai Jack
He also created Dexter's Laboratory and directed the 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars shorts, and he stepped away from Sony between the second and third films to finish Samurai Jack's final season.
Q 12In the first Hotel Transylvania film, which birthday is Mavis celebrating?
Her 118th
Her 118th: Mavis wants to mark it by finally seeing the human world, so Drac lets her go and secretly stages a fake village to frighten her straight back home.
Q 13In Hotel Transylvania, what word do the monsters use for love at first sight?
Zing
Zing: Drac insists it happens only once in a lifetime, so he is thrown when he falls at first sight for a ship's captain in the third film.
Q 21In Hotel Transylvania 3, Ericka secretly spikes Drac's guacamole with what, hoping to kill him?
Garlic
Garlic turns out to be harmless to him: instead of dropping dead, Drac just breaks wind at the dinner table, one of several murder attempts that flop before she falls for him.
Q 22The first Hotel Transylvania missed out on an Oscar nomination but was up for Best Animated Film at which awards?
The Golden Globes
The Golden Globes put it up against Brave, which won; not bad for a film that had burned through five directors in six years before a sixth finished it.
Q 23In Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, what excuse does Drac invent to avoid handing the hotel to Johnny?
Q 14In Hotel Transylvania, what name does Drac give Johnny when he disguises him as a monster?
Johnnystein
Johnnystein is passed off as a cousin of Frank's after Drac frantically makes him up as a Frankenstein-style monster to hide the fact that a human has got in.
Q 15In Hotel Transylvania, which member of the hotel's staff is first to work out that Johnny is a human?
Quasimodo
Quasimodo, the hotel's chef, kidnaps Johnny to cook him, so Drac magically freezes him to keep the secret, and he is still frozen when the film ends.
Q 16In Hotel Transylvania, what is the name of the chef's pet rat, who can sniff out humans?
Esmeralda
Esmeralda keeps catching Johnny's smell, and even after Drac freezes her master solid she helps expose Johnny as a human in front of the guests at Mavis's party.
Q 17Who killed Drac's wife, driving him to build Hotel Transylvania?
A human mob
A human mob killed his wife, Martha, so Drac built the hotel as a refuge from people and raised their daughter Mavis inside it on scary stories about humans.
Q 18How does Drac learn that Johnny is heading for the airport?
Winnie the werewolf pup tracks his scent
Winnie the werewolf pup tracks his scent to a flight about to leave, the only one of the unruly litter who listens when their father asks the pups for help.
Q 19How does Drac apologize to Johnny after his plane takes off?
He hypnotizes the pilot to speak over the PA
He hypnotizes the pilot to speak over the PA after chasing the plane as a bat, burning in the sunlight, then has him turn the flight back to Transylvania.
Q 20In the first Hotel Transylvania, how does a crowd of humans react when Frank roars at them?
They cheer and applaud
They cheer and applaud: the town is holding a Monster Festival, and its costumed fans even shade Drac from the sun as he races to stop Johnny leaving.
A monster real-estate law
A monster real-estate law, he claims, stops a human from inheriting the hotel, so Johnny goes off to get himself turned into a monster to qualify.
Q 24Which Hotel Transylvania guest just wants a quiet sleep in a 2012 short?
Bigfoot
Bigfoot stars in Goodnight Mr. Foot, checking in for a peaceful sleep that an over-eager witch maid disturbs; the short played in cinemas before the first film.
Q 25What do Johnny and Mavis watch together from the hotel roof in the first Hotel Transylvania?
A sunrise
A sunrise: Johnny realizes she has never seen one, because sunlight burns vampires, so he keeps her in the shade to watch it safely.
Q 26What nickname does Drac insist on calling his grandson Dennis?
Dennisovich
Dennisovich shows no vampire traits for most of the second film; his fangs finally sprout in a burst of anger when his friend Winnie is hurt.
Q 27In Hotel Transylvania 2, Mavis considers raising Dennis in which US state, where Johnny grew up?
California
California wins her over on a visit to Johnny's parents in Santa Cruz, where she is dazzled by an all-night mini-mart and its dozens of slushie flavors.
Q 28Dennis's favorite TV monster in Hotel Transylvania 2, a parody of Cookie Monster, is called what?
Kakie
Kakie preaches sharing and eats cake on Dennis's favorite show; at the boy's party Vlad possesses the hired performer inside the Kakie suit to try to scare his fangs out.
Q 29In Hotel Transylvania 2, Vlad's bat-like servant, who attacks Dennis and Winnie, is named after which classic actor?
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi was Hollywood's Dracula in the 1931 film; his namesake Bela ends this one shrunk to a harmless size by Vlad and handed to the werewolf pups as a toy.
Q 30In Hotel Transylvania 2, what does Drac use to try to make Dennis fly?
A tall tower
A tall tower at Camp Winnepacaca: Drac hurls the boy from the rickety platform to force a bat transformation, then has to swoop down and catch him when nothing happens.