Jeepers Creepers Trivia
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50 free Jeepers Creepers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Every 23rd spring, for 23 days, it gets to eat. Jeepers Creepers turned a rusted 1941 truck, an abandoned church and a hummed 1938 jazz standard into one of the most durable horror franchises of the 2000s, and this quiz covers all four films: the 2001 original with Gina Philips and Justin Long, the school-bus siege of Jeepers Creepers 2, the long-delayed Jeepers Creepers 3, and the 2022 reboot Reborn. The 50 questions run from easy (what the Creeper does with the body parts it takes, who plays it, what the siblings see being dumped down the pipe) to genuinely hard (which real Michigan case the opening resembles, which actor the role was written for, why the third act was rewritten mid-shoot, which director's harpoon-and-monster finale inspired the second film, and who sued over the reboot). It also covers the song itself, the Louis Armstrong recording and the Oscar it lost. Every answer has been checked against a source, and each question shows its explanation and citation once you answer.
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Q 01Victor Salva, who wrote and directed Jeepers Creepers, earlier made which 1995 Disney drama about a pale outcast with strange powers?
Powder
Powder took about $31 million in US cinemas, but his biggest hits came later with the first two Jeepers Creepers films, each of which earned roughly twice that worldwide.
Q 02Which two actors play siblings Trish and Darry Jenner in the first Jeepers Creepers?
Gina Philips and Justin Long
Gina Philips and Justin Long. Philips auditioned twice alone, then read with a shortlist of would-be Darrys, and called Long a no-brainer because he felt like her own younger brother.
Q 03Who plays the Creeper in the first three Jeepers Creepers films?
Jonathan Breck
Jonathan Breck woke his roommate at 3 a.m. on audition day to shave his head, then told the casting director the character wouldn't have hair, and got the part.
Q 04Which star first sang the 1938 song 'Jeepers Creepers' on screen, to a racehorse?
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong plays a horse trainer in the comedy Going Places who sings the tune to calm a wild racehorse that is itself named Jeepers Creepers.
Q 05In Jeepers Creepers 2, who has psychic visions of the Creeper's earlier victims?
A cheerleader
A cheerleader, Minxie Hayes, dreams of Darry Jenner and a missing local boy frantically trying to warn her, and it is Darry who tells her how the monster feeds.
Q 06The song 'Jeepers Creepers' lost the Best Original Song Oscar to which tune from a Bob Hope comedy?
Thanks for the Memory
Thanks for the Memory: Hope first sang it in his feature debut, The Big Broadcast of 1938, and it became his signature tune.
Q 07In the first Jeepers Creepers, Trish and Darry are driving home from college for what?
Spring break
Spring break: to pass the miles the siblings play a game of decoding vanity licence plates, until an old truck with a plate of its own tries to run them off the road.
Q 08What is the truck driver doing beside the church in Jeepers Creepers?
Dumping bodies wrapped in sheets down a pipe
Dumping bodies wrapped in sheets down a pipe: Darry talks Trish into going back to look, slips down the pipe and lands in a cellar whose walls are lined with stitched corpses.
Q 09In Jeepers Creepers, the missing couple Kenny and Darla are said to have vanished after which event in 1978?
Their senior prom
Their senior prom: Darry laughs the story off as a tale told to frighten teenagers about drink-driving, then finds the pair stitched into the wall of the Creeper's lair.
Q 10In each of the first two Jeepers Creepers films, the Creeper stands motionless outdoors, posing as what?
A scarecrow
A scarecrow: in the first film the cat lady snaps 'That's not my scarecrow' and fetches her gun, and the sequel opens with one turning its head to watch a young boy.
Q 11In Jeepers Creepers, how does the Creeper choose which people to take?
By the smell of their fear
By the smell of their fear: the psychic says it needs to frighten people to find what it wants, and a waitress sees the truck driver sniffing the laundry in the siblings' car.
Q 12Which actress, later prosecutor Caroline Julian on Bones, plays the psychic Jezelle in Jeepers Creepers?
Patricia Belcher
Patricia Belcher's psychic rings a diner payphone to warn the siblings that they will meet a cat lady and hear an old song, and both come true before she reaches them in person.
Q 13Which veteran actress plays the cat lady in the first Jeepers Creepers?
Eileen Brennan
Q 21Which classic monster movie did the director of Jeepers Creepers name as his personal favourite?
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon stayed with him: he announced news of the third Creeper film under the heading The Creeper Walks Among Us, a title that echoes the Gill-man sequel The Creature Walks Among Us.
Q 22In Jeepers Creepers, what happens to the old church before the police can search it?
It burns down
It burns down: two officers are escorting the siblings back when word comes that the church is on fire, and soon afterwards the Creeper kills both of them on the road.
Q 23On roughly what budget was the first Jeepers Creepers made?
$10 million
Eileen Brennan, an Emmy winner as the tough captain in Private Benjamin, plays the old woman whose cats raise the alarm before the Creeper gets into her house.
Q 14At the climax of Jeepers Creepers, what does Trish do when the Creeper corners her and Darry?
Offers herself in his place
Offers herself in his place: the Creeper has already sniffed them both and thrown her aside, and it still flies off into the night with Darry.
Q 15What does the Creeper look through in Jeepers Creepers' final shot?
The holes where Darry's eyes used to be
The holes where Darry's eyes used to be: the actor who plays Darry stood in as the Creeper for that one shot, so that the eyes peering through the dead boy's face would be his own.
Q 16The opening of Jeepers Creepers closely mirrors a real 1990 Michigan murder case as re-enacted on which TV series?
Unsolved Mysteries
Unsolved Mysteries showed two witnesses catching sight of Dennis DePue and then being tailed by his van; he died after a police chase within about a day of the broadcast.
Q 17The role of the Creeper in Jeepers Creepers was originally written for which actor, who dropped out?
Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen had starred for the same director in the thriller The Nature of the Beast; when he dropped out, the part went to a little-known stage actor instead.
Q 18Which famous director was executive producer of Jeepers Creepers and helped get it made?
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola had bankrolled the director's first feature, the killer-clown film Clownhouse, and his company American Zoetrope went on to produce both Jeepers Creepers and its sequel.
Q 19Why was the original finale of Jeepers Creepers, with the Creeper's truck hitting a freight train, scrapped?
A sudden budget cut
A sudden budget cut shortly before filming killed the stunt, so the director built a quieter ending out of improvisations by his two lead actors.
Q 20In Jeepers Creepers, what does the truck's plate BEATNGU turn out to say?
Be eating you
Be eating you: Darry reads it as 'Beating you', and the psychic on the phone tells him to think about the plate again. The truck itself is a rusted 1941 Chevy.
$10 million: the film earned all of that back, and nearly $6 million more, over its opening holiday weekend alone.
Q 24The first Jeepers Creepers set a new opening-weekend record for which US holiday?
Labor Day
Labor Day: its $15.8 million four-day opening was the holiday's biggest yet, and the film that took the record away two years later was its own sequel.
Q 25In Jeepers Creepers, what bursts through the driver's coat after Trish runs him over?
A giant wing
A giant wing: Trish drives over him again and again outside the cat lady's house, the wing tears free of his coat, and the siblings run him down once more as they flee.
Q 26The stranded teenagers in Jeepers Creepers 2 are heading home from a championship in which sport?
Basketball
Basketball: the Bannon Bantams are singing their fight song as new champions when the first tyre blows, and the Creeper carries off the driver and both coaches before it turns to the players.
Q 27Which actor plays Jack Taggart, the father who hunts the Creeper in Jeepers Creepers 2 after it takes his son?
Ray Wise
Ray Wise, Laura Palmer's father in Twin Peaks, plays a man who watches the Creeper fly off with his younger boy and bolts a home-made harpoon gun to his pickup to go after it.
Q 28After a javelin pierces its skull in Jeepers Creepers 2, how does the Creeper repair itself?
It takes a victim's head
It takes a victim's head: the Creeper decapitates the player Dante, tears off its own ruined head and sets his in its place, where it reshapes into the monster's face.
Q 29At the end of Jeepers Creepers 2, where is the hibernating Creeper kept?
As a sideshow on a farm
As a sideshow on a farm: 23 years on, the Taggarts charge visitors to see their 'Bat Out of Hell', while old Jack sits beside it with a harpoon and says he expects it to stir in about three days.
Q 30Many of the stranded-highway scenes in Jeepers Creepers 2 were filmed on a set built inside what?
An aircraft hangar
An aircraft hangar at an old Boeing airfield held a full stretch of fake country road, with asphalt, grass verges, gnarled trees and a painted horizon, copied from the real ranch location.