Knives Out Trivia
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50 free Knives Out trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Knives Out trivia quiz covers all three of Rian Johnson's Benoit Blanc mysteries: Knives Out (2019) and the Thrombey family, Glass Onion (2022) and Miles Bron's Greek island, and Wake Up Dead Man (2025) with its locked-room murder in an upstate New York church. Expect questions on the casts, the plots and their twists, the Radiohead, Beatles and U2 songs the titles come from, the Massachusetts and Spetses locations, the $469 million Netflix deal, and the Agatha Christie films Johnson was riffing on. Roughly a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has seen the films, a third are medium, and the rest dig into how Daniel Craig built Blanc's accent, where Harlan Thrombey's name came from, and which cameos slipped past you. If you have not seen Wake Up Dead Man yet, be warned that a few questions give away the ending. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Which Star Wars film did Rian Johnson write and direct just before Knives Out?
The Last Jedi
The Last Jedi. The online abuse it brought him went straight into Knives Out: the youngest Thrombey, a teenage internet troll, was inspired by the backlash.
Q 02Who plays the detective Benoit Blanc?
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig was on the director's wish list but tied to the next Bond film; when its shoot slipped three months he said yes at once, and Knives Out was filming six weeks later.
Q 03Rian Johnson borrowed the surname Thrombey from a 1981 whodunit in which children's book series?
Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure. Johnson loved the books as a boy and lifted the name from Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?; Blanc's first name came from a Canadian tutor of his called Benoit.
Q 04Which veteran actor plays the dead novelist at the centre of Knives Out, in one of his final film roles?
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer said he loved the script's 'irreverent darkness' the moment he read it; Harlan proved one of his last roles before his death in February 2021.
Q 05Who plays Marta Cabrera, Harlan's nurse, in Knives Out?
Ana de Armas
Ana de Armas, who had promised herself not to take Latin-specific roles, at first wasn't interested; reading the full script and seeing Marta's resilience changed her mind.
Q 06In Knives Out, what physical reaction does Marta have whenever she tells a lie?
She vomits
She vomits, so she tells the police only truths that leave things out; in the finale she holds one lie down just long enough to trick the killer into confessing.
Q 07Which Marvel star plays Harlan's spoiled grandson Ransom Drysdale?
Chris Evans
Chris Evans was cast against his Captain America image, which the director called ammunition, not baggage: an audience that wants to like Ransom helps the character's arc.
Q 08Who plays Linda Drysdale, Harlan's daughter and the self-made matriarch of the family in Knives Out?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis, herself the daughter of someone famous, said she knew Linda's defensiveness about privilege at first hand; on set she took to cooking meals in the mansion's kitchen.
Q 09Who plays Joni Thrombey, the lifestyle-guru widow of Harlan's late son?
Toni Collette
Toni Collette's Joni runs a Goop-like beauty brand called Flam while quietly stealing from Harlan; Collette and the director insist she is no direct parody of Gwyneth Paltrow.
Q 10Who plays Walt Thrombey, Harlan's youngest son and head of the family publishing house, in Knives Out?
Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon never auditioned for Walt: the director came to lunch in his old Brooklyn neighbourhood and, as Shannon tells it, he came away with a contract signed.
Q 11Which puppeteer and director plays Harlan's lawyer, Alan Stevens, in Knives Out?
Frank Oz
Frank Oz, the voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy, reads out the will that stuns the family: everything, the publishing house included, goes to Marta.
Q 12How does Harlan actually die in Knives Out?
He slits his own throat
He slits his own throat to shield Marta, who believes she has given him a fatal overdose; in fact her nurse's hands had picked the right vial, so there was nothing to cover up.
Q 13In Knives Out, when Ransom finally lunges at Marta with a knife from Harlan's collection, what happens?
It's a retractable stage prop
Q 21Who composed the orchestral score for Knives Out, recorded at Abbey Road?
Nathan Johnson
Nathan Johnson, the director's cousin, scored their first film on wine glasses and filing cabinets for want of a budget; this time he had an orchestra and wrote on set while the film was being shot.
Q 22Knives Out's only Academy Award nomination came in which category?
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay, for a script its self-described slow writer began in January 2018 and was filming by the end of October; the Golden Globes had given the film three nominations.
Q 23Which studio distributed Knives Out to US cinemas in November 2019?
Lionsgate
It's a retractable stage prop: tricked into confessing with the police listening, he snatches a knife from Harlan's collection and strikes, only for the blade to retract, and he is led away.
Q 14What is written on the mug Marta sips from in the final shot of Knives Out?
My House, My Rules, My Coffee!!
'My House, My Rules, My Coffee!!' sums up the ending: Marta sips from the mug on the balcony of what is now her mansion, while the Thrombeys are left gathered outside.
Q 15In Knives Out, what clue made Blanc suspect Marta from their first meeting?
A drop of blood on her shoe
A drop of blood on her shoe: asked when he knew, Blanc says ever since she first set foot in front of him, yet he let the case run and her own decent choices undid the frame-up.
Q 16Knives Out is named after a song by which band?
Radiohead
Radiohead. The 2001 song isn't in the film: the director, a fan, said the phrase had always stuck in his head as a great murder-mystery title, and joked that he couldn't afford the track.
Q 17Where was Knives Out mostly filmed?
Suburban Boston, Massachusetts
Suburban Boston, Massachusetts: one mansion gave the exterior and the Ames Mansion most interiors, but neither could fit Harlan's study upstairs, so it was built on a soundstage.
Q 18Which item of Ransom Drysdale's wardrobe in Knives Out went viral after the film's release?
A cream knitted sweater
A cream knitted sweater. The Aran knit caused such a stir that the film's official Twitter account briefly renamed itself a sweater fan account, and one cinema held a sweaters-only screening.
Q 19In Knives Out, Ransom mocks Benoit Blanc's drawl by likening it to which cartoon character's?
Foghorn Leghorn
Foghorn Leghorn. 'Shut up with that Kentucky-fried Foghorn Leghorn drawl!' is the line; the actor behind Blanc built the accent by studying the Civil War historian Shelby Foote.
Q 20Joni Thrombey and her late husband Neil are named after Joni Mitchell and which musician?
Neil Young
Neil Young. To keep the family straight, the director named the Thrombeys after 1970s musicians he likes, so Walt and Donna are Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.
Lionsgate came aboard after MRC agreed to finance the film; when the rights to two sequels were auctioned in 2021 it bid again, and lost them to a streaming service.
Q 24Which company paid more than $400 million in 2021 for the rights to two Knives Out sequels?
Netflix
Netflix beat Amazon, Apple and the first film's own backers at auction; one losing bidder called it 'a mind-boggling deal' whose maths didn't work.
Q 25Who plays the tech billionaire Miles Bron in Glass Onion?
Edward Norton
Edward Norton plays a self-styled genius whom Blanc finally unmasks as an idiot: he mangles words, mistakes the Aegean for the Ionian and did not even design his own puzzle boxes.
Q 26At the start of Glass Onion, which online game is a bored Benoit Blanc playing in the bath?
Among Us
Among Us. Stuck at home in lockdown, the great detective is caught as the imposter almost at once, and one famous friend tells him he expected him to be better at it.
Q 27Who plays twin sisters Andi and Helen Brand in Glass Onion?
Janelle Monáe
Janelle Monáe plays both: Helen, an Alabama schoolteacher, spends the party posing as her dead sister Andi so that Blanc can investigate, and survives a gunshot thanks to Andi's journal in her pocket.
Q 28In Glass Onion, what is Miles Bron's supposedly revolutionary, and actually dangerous, hydrogen fuel called?
Klear
Klear powers Miles's whole mansion, which is why a single piece of it thrown on a fire is enough to blow the place apart in the finale.
Q 29Which priceless artwork does Miles Bron have on loan in Glass Onion, and lose when his mansion explodes?
The Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa, on loan from the Louvre, burns with the mansion; with his reputation ruined by its loss, his friends at last agree to testify against him.
Q 30How does Miles kill Duke Cody in Glass Onion?
Pineapple juice in his drink
Pineapple juice in his drink: Duke is deathly allergic, and Miles slips it to him after Duke tries to blackmail him over Andi's death. Blanc's verdict on the method: 'It's just dumb!'