Jason Voorhees Trivia
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50 free Jason Voorhees trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Jason Voorhees was never supposed to be the star. Victor Miller wrote him as a drowned boy seen in a nightmare, and it took a sequel, a sack, and a Detroit Red Wings goalie mask grabbed for a lighting test to turn him into the most recognizable slasher in film. This quiz covers that history: the name built from Miller's sons, Tom Savini's design, Ari Lehman's 'Can you swim?' audition and the VacuForm that enlarged the mask. It also walks through the men behind the mask from Richard Brooker to Kane Hodder, Ken Kirzinger and Derek Mears, the space-set Jason X, Freddy vs. Jason's box office, the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award, Alice Cooper and Eminem, the Commodore 64 and Mortal Kombat X cameos, the 2017 game and the A24 prequel series Crystal Lake. Every answer is sourced from Wikipedia pages on the character, the films and the people who made them, kept to production facts rather than gore. Play in sets of ten, then try the Friday the 13th quiz.
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Q 01Who is the killer in the original 1980 Friday the 13th?
Pamela Voorhees
Pamela Voorhees. Betsy Palmer said she took the part only because her car had broken down on the way home from Broadway and the fee would buy her a new one.
Q 02Who played the young Jason in the original 1980 Friday the 13th?
Ari Lehman
Ari Lehman. He had sneaked into an audition for Sean Cunningham's soccer comedy Manny's Orphans, and months later the director rang to offer him the boy in the lake.
Q 03Who is credited with creating the character of Jason Voorhees?
Victor Miller
Victor Miller. He blended the names of his sons, Josh and Ian, to make Jason, and borrowed Voorhees from a girl at his school because he thought the name sounded creepy.
Q 04Which future Hollywood star dies with an arrow through his throat in the original Friday the 13th?
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon. He was really crouched under the bed with only his head poking up through the mattress, joined to a fake neck and chest that the arrow could be pushed through.
Q 05Which future Goonies star played Tommy Jarvis, the boy who kills Jason in The Final Chapter?
Corey Feldman
Corey Feldman. His Tommy shaves his head to pass for the young Jason, which stalls the killer long enough for the machete blow; filming The Goonies then kept him to a cameo in the next film.
Q 06Which makeup artist designed Jason's original deformed look?
Tom Savini
Tom Savini. He came back for The Final Chapter because, having brought Jason to life, he wanted to be the one who killed him off.
Q 07In which film did Jason first wear his trademark hockey mask?
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part III. The script gave the mask to Shelly, a prankster who uses it to scare his friends; Jason takes it from him and has worn one ever since.
Q 08Jason's original hockey mask was a goalie mask of which NHL team?
Detroit Red Wings
Detroit Red Wings. A hockey-mad crew member pulled the white mask with a red stripe from his own kit bag; the effects team then enlarged it, punched holes in it and changed the markings.
Q 09Jason first wore a hockey mask because nobody would apply his full makeup for what?
A camera test
A camera test. Told to check how Jason would look on film, the crew skipped his long makeup job and put a goalie mask on him instead; director Steve Miner liked it so much that it stayed.
Q 10Which horror director has a cameo as a doctor Jason kills near the start of Jason X?
David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg. He took the cameo for the director, Jim Isaac, a friend who had worked on his films The Fly, Naked Lunch and eXistenZ.
Q 11In a 1988 Friday the 13th sequel, Jason meets his match in Tina, a teenager with which power?
Telekinesis
Telekinesis. Writer Daryl Haney noticed that a lone teenage girl always faced Jason at the end, and pitched one with powers of her own.
Q 12In a famous Friday the 13th kill, Jason swings a camper against a tree while she is still inside what?
A sleeping bag
A sleeping bag. Censors cut the scene from a string of blows down to one, and Kane Hodder, the Jason who swung it, thinks the single hit plays better.
Q 13Which film was Kane Hodder's first as Jason?
Part VII: The New Blood
Q 21Which 1985 film features Jason only as a psychological threat, with a copycat killer?
A New Beginning
A New Beginning. The man behind the mask turns out to be Roy Burns, a paramedic who snaps after collecting the body of his own murdered son and starts killing in Jason's image.
Q 22Where does most of Jason Takes Manhattan take place?
On a cruise ship
On a cruise ship. The budget allowed only a short shoot in New York, so the story stays at sea and Vancouver doubles for the city; even its director says it is really Jason Takes a Cruise Ship.
Q 23In 1992, Jason received a Lifetime Achievement Award from which network?
MTV
Part VII: The New Blood. Its director had watched Hodder on the film Prison, where he volunteered to rise from a grave with live worms spilling out of his mouth, and wanted that commitment for Jason.
Q 14After Jason, Kane Hodder played the swamp killer Victor Crowley in which slasher series?
Hatchet
Hatchet. Hodder plays two parts in the first film: the deformed Victor Crowley and, without the makeup, the father whose blow with a hatchet accidentally killed him.
Q 15In the final shot of 1993's The Final Friday, Kane Hodder also plays which part of Freddy Krueger?
His clawed glove hand
His clawed glove hand. It bursts from the ground to drag Jason's mask under, a tease for a crossover that then took another ten years to reach cinemas.
Q 16Who was the first actor to wear Jason's hockey mask on screen?
Richard Brooker
Richard Brooker. The British former trapeze artist answered a casting advert, and director Steve Miner hired him after a single chat.
Q 17Which Jason actor had his name kept off the credits of The Final Chapter?
Ted White
Ted White. He asked for his name to be left off, and by his account had threatened to walk off the shoot unless a freezing co-star was let out of the lake.
Q 18Which stuntman played Jason in Freddy vs. Jason?
Ken Kirzinger
Ken Kirzinger. The Canadian stuntman had worn the mask before, briefly doubling for Jason in Jason Takes Manhattan, and said that experience helped him land the part.
Q 19Who played Jason in the 2009 Friday the 13th reboot?
Derek Mears
Derek Mears. The producers feared he was too pleasant to be frightening; he told them he cage-fought and had a lot of dad issues, so yes, he could switch it on.
Q 20A lightning bolt first makes Jason an undead, near-unstoppable killer in which film?
Part VI: Jason Lives
Part VI: Jason Lives. Director Tom McLoughlin borrowed the lightning from Frankenstein, reasoning that once audiences accepted Jason as the walking dead, nothing would need to stop him.
MTV. At its first Movie Awards Jason collected the prize in a tuxedo and gave a speech through the mask, which was then pulled off to reveal comedian Jon Lovitz.
Q 24Which rock star recorded 'He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)' for a 1986 Friday the 13th sequel?
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper. The studio recruited him to give the series a lighter, more mainstream push, and the single's video became the first music video Jason ever appeared in.
Q 25The child actor from the original Friday the 13th later founded which horror punk band?
First Jason
First Jason. He formed the band for horror fans after they sought him out and drew him onto the convention circuit.
Q 26Which rapper took the stage in a Jason-style hockey mask, carrying a chainsaw, on his early-2000s tours?
Eminem
Eminem. The entrance was his tribute to the horror films he loved, and his song 'Criminal' mentions Jason by name.
Q 27Friday the 13th's famous 'ki ki ki, ma ma ma' sound is taken from which two words?
Kill and mommy
Kill and mommy. The composer barked the two syllables into a microphone himself and ran them through an echo unit.
Q 28Who composed the score for the original Friday the 13th?
Harry Manfredini
Harry Manfredini. Because the killer stays unseen for most of the film, he gave the stalker a musical signature, as Jaws did its shark, and played music only when the killer was near.
Q 29In which US state was the original Friday the 13th filmed?
New Jersey
New Jersey. The crew took over a lakeside summer camp there once the season's campers had gone home, and in 2011 former campers began running tours of it for the film's fans.
Q 30Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, where the original Friday the 13th was shot, belongs to which organization?
The Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts. The odd name is short for North Bergen Boy Scouts, and because the camp was full of scouts all summer, the film crew could move in only once that year's campers had left.