How to Train Your Dragon Trivia
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89 free How to Train Your Dragon trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
57 free How to Train Your Dragon trivia questions with answers. Since a scrawny Viking shot down a Night Fury in 2010, How to Train Your Dragon has grown into three animated films, a live-action remake, a dozen novels, more than 200 episodes of television and a theme-park land. This quiz covers the lot: the cast (Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett), the directors Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, John Powell's Oscar-nominated score, the dragons of Berk and their riders, Valka and Drago, the Light Fury and the Hidden World, and the surprisingly different Toothless of Cressida Cowell's original books. About a third of the questions are easy enough for a ten-year-old who has watched the films twice (what does Hiccup name his dragon and why, what colour is Stormfly). The rest push into production and box-office detail: which film premiered at Cannes, who was recast as Tuffnut and why, how much the remake grossed, and what Cowell became in 2019. Every answer is checked against the Wikipedia articles for the films, books, series and franchise, and the sentence that establishes it is shown under each question.
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Q 01In How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup is apprenticed to which village craftsman?
The blacksmith
The blacksmith. Judged too weak to fight dragons, Hiccup works Gobber's forge instead, and that is where he builds the bolas launcher that starts the whole story.
Q 02What kind of dragon does Hiccup shoot down with a bolas launcher?
A Night Fury
A Night Fury. Nobody believes he hit one, so Hiccup tracks it into the forest alone, then finds he can't bring himself to kill it and cuts it free.
Q 03Why does Hiccup name his dragon Toothless?
Its teeth are retractable
Its teeth are retractable. The dragon looks toothless until they snap out to take the fish Hiccup offers, a peace offering that starts to win its trust.
Q 04Why can't Toothless fly on his own after Hiccup brings him down?
He lost half his tail fin
He lost half his tail fin. Hiccup builds a replacement that he works with a pedal from the saddle, so Toothless can fly again only with Hiccup on his back.
Q 05Who is Hiccup's father, chief of Berk?
Stoick the Vast
Stoick the Vast. He disowns Hiccup for befriending a dragon, then rescues Toothless himself in the final battle and tells his son he is proud of him.
Q 06Who voices Hiccup in the animated How to Train Your Dragon trilogy?
Jay Baruchel
Jay Baruchel. He kept the role for the TV spin-off series between the films as well, so his voice followed Hiccup from awkward teenager to chief.
Q 07Which actress voices Astrid in the animated How to Train Your Dragon films?
America Ferrera
America Ferrera. Her Astrid begins as the star pupil who resents Hiccup's sudden success in dragon training and ends the trilogy married to him.
Q 08Who voices Gobber the Belch in the How to Train Your Dragon films?
Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson. An early draft of the sequel killed Gobber off, until Guillermo del Toro persuaded director Dean DeBlois that Stoick should be the one to die instead.
Q 09Which Doctor Who star voices Spitelout Jorgenson, Snotlout's father, in the first How to Train Your Dragon film?
David Tennant
David Tennant. It is a small part for the man who voices everyone in the books: he narrates the audiobook editions of the original novels.
Q 10Which cinematographer was hired as visual consultant on How to Train Your Dragon (2010) to give it a live-action feel?
Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins. Hiring a live-action cameraman was an unusual step for a cartoon; the Coen brothers regular supervised its lighting and look, and stayed on for both sequels.
Q 11Who composed the score for the animated How to Train Your Dragon trilogy?
John Powell
John Powell. The first film's score brought him his first Oscar nomination, and he came back in 2025 to score the live-action remake as well.
Q 12How to Train Your Dragon (2010) lost the Best Original Score Oscar to which film?
The Social Network
The Social Network. The Oscar went to a rock star: Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, who wrote its electronic score with Atticus Ross and won again a decade later for Pixar's Soul.
Q 13How to Train Your Dragon (2010) lost the Best Animated Feature Oscar to which film?
Toy Story 3
Q 21In How to Train Your Dragon, Snotlout's dragon Hookfang is which species?
Monstrous Nightmare
Monstrous Nightmare. The breed has, as Hiccup puts it, a nasty habit of setting itself on fire, and Hookfang is the very dragon he was ordered to kill in his final exam.
Q 22In How to Train Your Dragon, what are the two heads of the twins' Hideous Zippleback called?
Barf and Belch
Barf and Belch. The names fit the job: Barf breathes out a cloud of explosive gas and Belch lights it with a spark, so the twins have to cooperate to make fire.
Q 23Which actor voices Fishlegs in the animated How to Train Your Dragon films?
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Toy Story 3. The result flipped at the Annie Awards, which Disney and Pixar boycotted that year: How to Train Your Dragon beat it to Best Animated Feature and won ten prizes in all.
Q 14When Hiccup wakes at the end of How to Train Your Dragon, what does Astrid do just before kissing him?
Punches him
Punches him, for scaring her. It is her way: after their first flight she hits his arm 'for kidnapping me', then kisses his cheek 'for everything else'.
Q 15Which film knocked How to Train Your Dragon (2010) off the top of the US box office after one weekend?
Clash of the Titans
Clash of the Titans. How to Train Your Dragon had the last laugh, climbing back to number one in its fifth weekend.
Q 16Which giant dragon rules the nest and is destroyed at the end of the first How to Train Your Dragon film?
The Red Death
The Red Death. It is the reason dragons raid the village at all: the smaller ones must bring it food or be eaten themselves.
Q 17What does Hiccup lose in the final battle of the first How to Train Your Dragon film?
His left foot
His left foot. He wakes to find Gobber has made him a metal replacement, then steps outside to a village that has invited the dragons to move in.
Q 18In How to Train Your Dragon, what does Hiccup plan to do instead of taking his final exam?
Run away with Toothless
Run away with Toothless. Astrid follows him to the cove first and discovers the dragon, so he takes her flying to prove that Toothless is friendly.
Q 19What species is Astrid's dragon Stormfly?
Deadly Nadder
Deadly Nadder. Stormfly turns the sequel's tide: when she shields an enemy dragon trapper from execution, he changes sides and helps the captured riders escape.
Q 20In How to Train Your Dragon, what is the name of Fishlegs' Gronckle?
Meatlug
Meatlug. Fed the right mix of rocks and ore in the TV series, she coughs up a valuable new metal that the Vikings name Gronckle Iron.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse. His Fishlegs is the biggest of the trainees and the most timid, a dragon scholar who reels off each species' stats like a role-playing game.
Q 24In How to Train Your Dragon 2, what do Berk's dragon racers carry to the nets to score points?
Sheep
Sheep. The sequel opens five years after the first film to show how far Berk has come: the livestock that dragons once stole is now the ball in the village's favourite sport.
Q 25Who voices Valka, Hiccup's long-lost mother, in How to Train Your Dragon 2?
Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett. Her Valka was presumed dead after a dragon carried her off in a raid; in fact she had spent the years since living among dragons and rescuing them.
Q 26Who is the warlord villain of How to Train Your Dragon 2, played by Djimon Hounsou?
Drago Bludvist
Drago Bludvist. He wants a dragon army to conquer the world, and gives his reason: dragons burned his village and took his family when he was a boy.
Q 27What kind of giant, ice-breathing dragon rules other dragons as an alpha in How to Train Your Dragon 2?
A Bewilderbeast
A Bewilderbeast. The film has two: the gentle one that built an ice nest for rescued dragons is killed by the villain's, and Toothless then beats that one to become alpha himself.
Q 28How does Stoick die in How to Train Your Dragon 2?
He shields Hiccup from a hypnotised Toothless
He shields Hiccup from a hypnotised Toothless. A rival alpha dragon ordered the blast, and the grieving Hiccup drives Toothless away before accepting it was never his dragon's fault.
Q 29At which film festival did How to Train Your Dragon 2 have its world premiere in 2014?
Cannes
Cannes. Ahead of the screening, DreamWorks paraded a Toothless along the Croisette with the voice cast, a stunt staged for the festival's photographers.
Q 30Director Dean DeBlois cited which famous sequel as a main inspiration for How to Train Your Dragon 2?
The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back. DeBlois loved how it 'expanded Star Wars in every direction' and hoped his sequel could sit beside it on the shelf; his other touchstone was My Neighbor Totoro.