It Movie Trivia
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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 02What color raincoat does Georgie wear when he meets Pennywise?
Yellow
Georgie wears a yellow raincoat in the rainy opening scene; the small figure in yellow beside the storm drain became the film's poster image.
Q 03How many children make up the Losers Club?
Seven
Seven kids make up the Losers Club; Mike Hanlon joins last, after the rock fight in the Barrens, in the 2017 film.
Q 04Who plays Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 film and its sequel?
Bill Skarsgård
Bill Skarsgård, born in 1990, the year the miniseries aired, plays Pennywise in both films; his brothers Alexander, Gustaf and Valter also act.
Q 05Which actor was originally cast as Pennywise under Fukunaga but dropped out?
Will Poulter
Will Poulter was cast as Pennywise in 2015 while Cary Fukunaga was attached to direct, and left the project after Fukunaga quit; the role was recast.
Q 06In the opening scene, what does Georgie chase down the rainy street into a storm drain?
A paper sailboat
Georgie chases a paper sailboat that Bill folded and waxed for him; it washes into the storm drain where Pennywise waits.
Q 07In what year is the 2017 film's main story set?
1989
The 2017 film moves the childhood story to 1989: Georgie vanishes in October 1988 and the Losers' fight with It unfolds the following summer.
Q 08How often does It wake from hibernation to feed on Derry's children?
Every 27 years
It wakes every 27 years to feed; the sequel picks up 27 years after the Losers' childhood summer, when Mike calls the others home.
Q 09Where in Derry does It's lair lie, reached through the sewers?
A well under the house on Neibolt Street
It's lair is a cistern reached down a well under the house on Neibolt Street, where the Losers first fight Pennywise together.
Q 10Which Loser is chased by a rotting leper?
Eddie
Eddie, the germophobic hypochondriac, is chased by a rotting leper; Ben, Stan, Mike and Beverly each meet a fear of their own.
Q 11Who is the leader of the bullies who torment the Losers?
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers, played by Nicholas Hamilton, leads the gang; driven mad by Pennywise, he kills his own father before attacking the Losers.
Q 12How is Beverly revived after being left catatonic by looking into It's mouth?
Ben kisses her
Ben kisses her and she wakes; the shy newcomer wrote her the 'January embers' haiku and has loved her all summer.
Q 13How does the Losers Club end the 2017 film?
They swear a blood oath to return if It comes back
Q 21It's opening weekend set the record for the biggest opening in which month?
September
It opened to roughly $123 million in September 2017, the biggest September and biggest fall opening to that point, ahead of Gravity's $55 million.
Q 22The director cited which 1980s films as inspiration for the movie's tone?
The Goonies and Stand by Me
The Goonies and Stand by Me, both 1980s adventures about a gang of kids, were named by the director as the model for the Losers' summer.
Q 23Which studio division ended up producing It after the project moved in 2014?
New Line Cinema
They swear a blood oath to return if It comes back, cutting their palms with a shard of glass; Beverly has seen them fighting It as adults.
Q 14Who plays Bill Denbrough, the stuttering leader of the Losers, in the 2017 film?
Jaeden Lieberher
Jaeden Lieberher plays Bill Denbrough; he is credited as Jaeden Martell in the sequel, having taken his mother's surname before the sequel.
Q 15Which Stranger Things actor plays the foul-mouthed Richie Tozier?
Finn Wolfhard
Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler in Stranger Things, is the wisecracking Richie; he reprises the role in flashbacks in It Chapter Two.
Q 16Who plays Beverly Marsh as a child?
Sophia Lillis
Sophia Lillis plays young Beverly Marsh; the following year she played the young Camille in Sharp Objects, and she later led Gretel & Hansel.
Q 17Where was the 2017 film shot?
The Greater Toronto Area
The 2017 film was shot in the Greater Toronto Area over the summer of 2016, with Ontario towns standing in for Maine and stages at Pinewood Toronto Studios.
Q 18Who composed the score for It (2017)?
Benjamin Wallfisch
Benjamin Wallfisch wrote the score, joining in March 2017 after composing Annabelle: Creation, and returned for the sequel.
Q 19Roughly how much did It (2017) gross worldwide in its original run?
$700 million
It took about $700 million worldwide on a $35 million budget, making it, at the time, the highest-grossing horror film unadjusted for inflation.
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.
New Line greenlit the film at $30 million; Fukunaga reportedly quit over budget cuts and creative differences.
Q 24It Chapter Two was released in which year?
2019
It Chapter Two reached cinemas in 2019, two years after the first film, and grossed about $473 million on a $79 million budget.
Q 25Who plays the adult Beverly Marsh in It Chapter Two?
Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain plays the adult Beverly Marsh, having starred in the director's 2013 debut Mama; James McAvoy plays the adult Bill.
Q 26Which comedian plays the adult Richie Tozier?
Bill Hader
Bill Hader, the Saturday Night Live alumnus, plays the adult Richie Tozier; Isaiah Mustafa plays the adult Mike Hanlon.
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
The Ritual of Chüd, which Mike learned from a local tribe, calls for the Losers to burn tokens from their past; it fails at first.
Q 29Stephen King cameos in It Chapter Two as what?
A pawn shop owner
Stephen King plays a pawn shop owner who sells the adult Bill back his childhood bike, Silver; Peter Bogdanovich cameos as a film director.
Q 30According to Chapter Two, how did It arrive on Earth?
On a meteorite millions of years ago
Mike's vision in It Chapter Two shows It crashing to Earth on a meteorite millions of years ago, landing where the town would later stand.