50 free It Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free It Movie trivia questions with answers. It floated past $700 million to become the highest-grossing horror film ever made, and this quiz covers the whole Derry saga. It starts with the 2017 film: Georgie's paper boat and the storm drain, the seven Losers and their fears, the Barrens, the Bowers gang, the well under the house on Neibolt Street, the Deadlights, the blood oath and the kiss, then the making of it: Cary Fukunaga's exit, Will Poulter's departure and Bill Skarsgard's arrival, the Toronto and Port Hope shoot, the September opening records and the Thursday-preview record it took from Deadpool. Then It Chapter Two: the adult Losers played by James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader, Adrian Mellon, the Ritual of Chud, the spider form, and the cameos by Stephen King and Peter Bogdanovich. It finishes with the source material and the earlier version: the 1986 novel and its two timelines, the Turtle, 'Bob Gray', the 27-year cycle, and Tim Curry's 1990 ABC miniseries. Easy questions cover the clown, the kids and the sewer. Medium ones ask about cast, records and plot detail. Hard ones want the composer, the actor first cast as Pennywise, the film's Thursday preview gross and which director cameos as the director of Bill's book adaptation. Every answer has been checked against reference articles on the films, the miniseries and the novel, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Who directed the 2017 film It?
Andy Muschietti
Fukunaga developed it for years and shares a writing credit, but left in May 2015; Muschietti had made Mama.
Q 02In which fictional Maine town is It set?
Derry
Stephen King based its sewer lore partly on the real system in Bangor, Maine.
Q 03How many children make up the Losers Club?
Seven
Bill, Richie, Eddie, Stan, Ben, Beverly and Mike.
Q 04Who plays Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 film and its sequel?
Bill Skarsgård
The Swede was born in 1990, the year the miniseries aired; his brothers Alexander, Gustaf and Valter are also actors.
Q 05Which actor was originally cast as Pennywise under Fukunaga but dropped out?
Will Poulter
Rylance, Weaving, Swinton, Jenny Slate and Ben Mendelsohn were all considered; Mendelsohn balked at a pay cut.
Q 06In the opening scene, what does Georgie chase down the rainy street into a storm drain?
A paper sailboat
Bill made it for him; Pennywise bites off Georgie's arm and drags him into the sewer.
Q 07In what year is the 2017 film's main story set?
1989
Georgie vanishes in October 1988 and the Losers' summer follows; the novel's childhood timeline was the late 1950s.
Q 08How often does It wake from hibernation to feed on Derry's children?
Every 27 years
The sequel is set 27 years after the first film, and It Chapter Two arrived 27 years after the 1990 miniseries' events on screen too.
Q 09Where in Derry does It's lair lie, reached through the sewers?
A well under the house on Neibolt Street
The abandoned house on Neibolt Street is where the Losers first confront Pennywise together.
Q 10Which Loser is chased by a rotting leper?
Eddie
Ben sees a headless boy, Stan a painting come alive, Mike his parents burning, and Beverly a sink spewing blood.
Q 11Who is the leader of the bullies who torment the Losers?
Henry Bowers
Driven mad by Pennywise, he murders his father; Mike pushes him down the well.
Q 12How is Beverly revived after being left catatonic by looking into It's mouth?
Ben kisses her
Ben, the shy newcomer, has been in love with her all summer.
Q 13How does the Losers Club end the 2017 film?
They swear a blood oath to return if It comes back
Beverly has had a vision of them fighting It again as adults; Bill and Beverly then kiss.
Q 21It's opening weekend set the record for the biggest opening in which month?
September
The roughly $124 million opening also topped every previous fall release, beating Gravity's $55 million.
Q 22Muschietti cited which 1980s films as inspiration for the movie's tone?
The Goonies and Stand by Me
He also named The Howling, The Thing and Near Dark, and the influence of Steven Spielberg.
Q 23Which studio division ended up producing It after the project moved in 2014?
New Line Cinema
New Line greenlit the film at $30 million; Fukunaga reportedly quit over budget cuts and creative differences.
Q 14Who plays Bill Denbrough, the stuttering leader of the Losers, in the 2017 film?
Jaeden Lieberher
He studied Colin Firth in The King's Speech to develop the stutter; he is credited as Jaeden Martell in the sequel.
Q 15Which Stranger Things actor plays the foul-mouthed Richie Tozier?
Finn Wolfhard
He was the only actor cast in both Fukunaga's and Muschietti's versions.
Q 16Who plays Beverly Marsh as a child?
Sophia Lillis
The young cast were kept away from Skarsgård until their scenes so the fear would be real.
Q 17Where was the 2017 film shot?
The Greater Toronto Area
Locations included Port Hope, Oshawa and Riverdale, between June and September 2016.
Q 18Who composed the score for It (2017)?
Benjamin Wallfisch
He was hired in March 2017 and later scored the sequel too.
Q 19Roughly how much did It (2017) gross worldwide in its original run?
$700 million
That made it the highest-grossing horror film ever, unadjusted for inflation, and the third-biggest R-rated film at the time.
Q 20It's $13.5m Thursday previews took the R-rated record from which film?
Deadpool
Its $51 million first day also beat Deadpool's single-day record for an R-rated film.
Q 24It Chapter Two was released in which year?
2019
It grossed $473 million on a $79 million budget, to more mixed reviews.
Q 25Who plays the adult Beverly Marsh in It Chapter Two?
Jessica Chastain
James McAvoy is the adult Bill and Bill Hader the adult Richie.
Q 26Which comedian plays the adult Richie Tozier?
Bill Hader
James Ransone is the adult Eddie and Isaiah Mustafa the adult Mike.
Q 27It Chapter Two opens in 2016 with Pennywise's return signalled by the killing of which character?
Adrian Mellon
Adrian and his boyfriend Don are attacked by a gang at a carnival; Xavier Dolan plays Adrian.
Q 28What is the name of the ceremony Mike believes can destroy It?
The Ritual of Chüd
It fails at first, and It emerges as a giant Pennywise-spider hybrid.
Q 29Stephen King cameos in It Chapter Two as what?
A pawn shop owner
Director Andy Muschietti appears as a pharmacy customer and Peter Bogdanovich plays the director adapting Bill's novel.
Q 30According to Chapter Two, how did It arrive on Earth?
On a meteorite millions of years ago
In the novel it hails from the Macroverse; the Turtle Maturin is its benevolent opposite.