Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
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50 free Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle took a much-loved 1995 family film and turned its cursed board game into an old video game console. Four teenagers who would never normally speak to each other are pulled inside, and each wakes up in the body of an adult adventurer who is nothing like them. Watching famous actors play awkward teenagers made the film one of the biggest hits of 2017. This quiz follows the whole adventure: who ends up in which avatar, the strengths and weaknesses on each character's list, the rules about lives, the creatures and villains waiting on every level, and how the players finally get home. It also steps outside the game, to the actors behind the avatars, the people who made the film, where it was shot, how it performed in cinemas and how it connects to the original film and the book that started it all. The questions start easy enough for anyone who has seen the film once and work up to details for fans who know it scene by scene. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will learn something even when you guess.
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Q 01Which actor plays the avatar that popular teenager Bethany lands in during Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Jack Black
Jack Black spends the film as Professor Shelly Oberon, an overweight middle-aged map expert with a vain teenage girl inside. He also suggested the film's subtitle.
Q 02Which food makes Franklin 'Mouse' Finbar explode at the bazaar in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Cake
Cake is listed among Finbar's weaknesses beside speed and strength, so one bite of a market trader's pound cake blows him up. It costs Fridge one of his three lives.
Q 03Which animal swallows Bethany's avatar whole, costing the first life lost in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Hippo
A hippo takes Professor Oberon moments after the four arrive in the jungle. Her quick return is how the group learns that dying in the game is not final.
Q 04Which rock band recorded the 1987 song that gives Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle its subtitle?
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses opened their debut album, Appetite for Destruction, with the track, and it plays over the film's end credits. One of the cast suggested borrowing its name.
Q 05Which insects are the one weakness of Seaplane McDonough, the pilot avatar in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are so deadly to the pilot that Alex rings his treehouse hideout with citronella candles. A single bite near the end almost costs him his last life.
Q 06Which unusual strength is listed for Dr. Bravestone beside climbing and speed in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Smoldering intensity
Smoldering intensity sits on the avatar's stats screen with fearlessness and boomerang throwing, and he drops into a brooding stare on cue. The same screen lists no weaknesses at all.
Q 07In which US state, at a ranch often used by Hollywood, was the jungle of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle mostly filmed?
Hawaii
Hawaii hosted the shoot from September 2016, mostly at Kualoa Ranch, a private nature reserve whose valleys also appear in Jurassic Park. Filming finished on the mainland that December.
Q 08How do players with lives to spare return after dying in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
They fall from the sky
They fall from the sky a few seconds after dying. Spencer later turns the rule into a plan, sacrificing a teammate as a decoy, sure that he will drop back into their moving aircraft.
Q 09Which character from the 1995 film built the treehouse where Alex shelters in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Alan Parrish
Alan Parrish spent 26 years trapped inside the board game in the original film, and the sequel shows the shelter he left behind. Alex has been living in it ever since.
Q 10Which sound from the console makes the four friends destroy it at the end of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Drumbeats
Drumbeats have lured players to the game since the 1995 original, where a boy follows them to a building site. This time the friends wreck the console before anyone else can answer.
Q 11Which action star plays Dr. Bravestone, the avatar of nervous gamer Spencer, in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson plays a neurotic, unconfident teenager inside a hulking explorer, a reversal of his usual fearless heroes. He said the film was inspired by classic video games of the 1990s.
Q 12Which comedian plays Franklin Finbar, the avatar of towering athlete Fridge, in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart plays a towering athlete shrunk into a diminutive sidekick who carries the hero's weapons. The avatar is slower and weaker than everyone else in the party.
Q 13Which Scottish actress plays martial arts expert Ruby Roundhouse in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Karen Gillan
Q 21Which vehicle do the five players steal from the guarded transportation shed in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Helicopter
A helicopter is the prize, though Alex has stayed away from the shed since losing two lives and is down to his last. The group needs it to reach the shrine.
Q 22Which unusual combat skill is listed among Ruby Roundhouse's strengths in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Dance fighting
Dance fighting sits beside karate, t'ai chi and aikido on her stats, and it switches on when a 1994 reggae cover by Big Mountain starts to play. Martha uses it to flatten the shed's guards.
Q 23Which sport does Fridge play for Brantford High before he is shrunk in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Football
Karen Gillan, born in Inverness, was already known as Amy Pond in Doctor Who and as Nebula in Marvel's films. Her avatar hides Martha, a quiet and cynical student.
Q 14Which pop singer plays Alex, the gamer trapped for two decades, in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Nick Jonas
Nick Jonas found fame with his brothers in a pop rock band before playing the avatar Seaplane McDonough. Alex has been stuck since 1996 yet thinks only months have passed.
Q 15Which stolen jewel must be returned to a giant statue to end the game in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
The Jaguar's Eye
The Jaguar's Eye was taken by Van Pelt, a corrupt archaeologist, and the theft put a curse on the land. To go home, the players must also call out the game's name.
Q 16Which deadly snake guards the clue hidden in a basket at the bazaar in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Black mamba
A black mamba rears out of the basket, and the group survives because Finbar's zoology skill tells them how to remove its fangs. The four have to work together to do it.
Q 17Which animals stampede after the players' aircraft in the canyon in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Rhinos
Rhinos, a whole herd of albino ones, charge the aircraft as it struggles to climb out of the gorge. When the jewel falls among them, Spencer uses a teammate as bait to get it back.
Q 18Which animal does Finbar ride into the final battle at the shrine in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Elephant
An elephant, tamed with his zoology skill, carries Finbar in to scatter the villain's big cats. Its arrival also solves a riddle that told the players when to start climbing.
Q 19Which small animal startles Spencer out of a tree, costing Dr. Bravestone a life in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Squirrel
A squirrel screeches at him as he climbs near the shrine, and the fall leaves him at the mercy of a big cat. The avatar is listed as fearless, but Spencer's own nerves come along too.
Q 20What does Fridge use to smash the console in the final scene of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
A bowling ball
A bowling ball that the four found while clearing out the school basement does the job behind the building. Spencer later gathers up the pieces, which sets up the 2019 sequel.
Football defines Fridge at school, which makes losing his size inside the game sting. At the shrine he draws up the final assault like a set play.
Q 24Which weakness is listed for Professor Oberon, the avatar Bethany picks in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Endurance
Endurance is the one weakness on the professor's stats, so Bethany's avatar tires fast and is among the slowest in the party. Its strengths are all brainwork, led by map reading.
Q 25Fridge picks the avatar Finbar after its nickname is misread as which animal in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Moose
Moose is what Spencer reads off the selection screen, so Fridge expects to be huge. The nickname is really Mouse, and he arrives as the smallest member of the party.
Q 26Which listed weakness does Martha trigger on purpose to escape Van Pelt in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Venom
Venom is Ruby Roundhouse's only weakness, so a cornered Martha lets a snake bite her and returns to life with the jewel out of the villain's reach. It is the group's last trick before the win.
Q 27How does guide Nigel send each player home once the game is won in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
A handshake
A handshake from Nigel sends each player back to where they started. Alex goes first and lands in 1996 again, so his family never loses him.
Q 28Which video game term does Spencer use for the guide Nigel in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
An NPC
An NPC, or non-player character, has only a set pool of dialogue, so Nigel repeats himself whenever the teenagers ask something he was not written to answer. Spencer spots it first.
Q 29What lands Bethany in detention at the start of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
A video call
A video call made in the middle of a quiz puts Bethany in detention. Inside the game she has to manage without her phone for the first time.
Q 30Which member of staff does Martha insult, earning her detention in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
The gym teacher
The gym teacher, Coach Webb, hears Martha call physical education a waste of her time. In the game Martha becomes the group's most athletic fighter.