Labyrinth Trivia
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100 free Labyrinth trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
44 free Labyrinth trivia questions with answers. Labyrinth flopped in American cinemas in 1986 and then became one of the most loved cult films of the decade, thanks to Jim Henson's puppets, Brian Froud's goblins and David Bowie in the tightest trousers in fantasy cinema. This quiz covers the film front to back: the thirteen-hour deadline, Hoggle, Ludo, Sir Didymus and Ambrosius, the Bog of Eternal Stench, the Escher staircase, the five Bowie songs, the auditions, the puppeteers inside the creatures and the comics that continued the story. It finishes with a short round on the original labyrinth of Greek myth and the famous mazes that followed. The easy questions ask who plays Jareth and what Sarah wishes away. The hard ones want which Monty Python member wrote the script, which pop stars were considered before Bowie, whose son played baby Toby, how many puppeteers it took to run Hoggle and which children's author nearly stopped production. Ideal for movie nights, 80s quizzes and anyone who still says 'you have no power over me' at inconvenient moments. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its makers and the mythology, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who directed Labyrinth?
Jim Henson
Jim Henson. The Muppets' creator watched it take barely half its budget in American cinemas, and it proved to be the last feature film he directed.
Q 02Which member of Monty Python wrote the screenplay for Labyrinth?
Terry Jones
Terry Jones. He received the only screenplay credit, yet he clashed with the director over the story and later said the finished film never felt much like his own.
Q 03Who plays Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth?
David Bowie
David Bowie. He took the part because the script made him laugh and he liked the idea of setting it to music, and he ended up writing five songs for the film.
Q 04In Labyrinth, which complaint of Sarah's makes Jareth wonder 'what your basis for comparison is'?
It's not fair
It's not fair. The labyrinth agrees with her: when she says it at a dead end, the door guards laugh and reply, 'That's right, it's not fair, but that's only half of it.'
Q 05In Labyrinth, Hoggle explains that an oubliette is a place where people are put to be what?
Forgotten
Forgotten. The word is a real one: a dungeon whose only opening is in the ceiling, named from the French verb oublier, to forget.
Q 06In Labyrinth, how long does Jareth give Sarah to solve the labyrinth?
13 hours
13 hours. She does not even get all of them: when she boasts that the labyrinth is 'a piece of cake', he turns the clock forward and takes some away.
Q 07In Labyrinth, what is the name of Sarah's treasured teddy bear, given to Toby?
Lancelot
Lancelot. She starts the film furious that the bear has been given to her baby brother, and ends it by handing it to him herself.
Q 08In Labyrinth, what kind of creature does Jareth call Hoggle?
A dwarf
A dwarf. 'The dwarf' is about the politest thing Jareth calls him: he keeps getting the name wrong, trying Hedgewart, Higgle and Hogbrain.
Q 09In Labyrinth, what does Jareth order Hoggle to give Sarah?
An enchanted peach
An enchanted peach. One bite and she forgets everything, drifting into a dream of a masked ball while her time runs out.
Q 10In Labyrinth, what is the name of the flatulent swamp that Sarah has to cross?
The Bog of Eternal Stench
The Bog of Eternal Stench. Set one foot in it, Hoggle warns Sarah, and you will smell bad for the rest of your life, because the stink never washes off.
Q 11In Labyrinth, Sir Didymus is what kind of animal?
A fox terrier
A fox terrier. The tiny knight fears nothing and rides into battle on a sheepdog who is as cowardly as he is brave, and who keeps turning tail.
Q 12In Labyrinth, what is Ludo's special ability?
Summoning rocks
Summoning rocks. When he howls, boulders roll to his call: they become stepping stones for Sarah when a bridge gives way, and later scatter the goblin army.
Q 13Which artist's work inspired the staircase set in Labyrinth's climax?
M. C. Escher
M. C. Escher. Sarah chases Toby across stairs that run sideways and upside down and has to jump off them to reach him, and the end credits thank the artist's estate.
Q 21In Labyrinth, one door leads to the castle, the other to what?
Certain death
Certain death. One guard always lies and one always tells the truth, so Sarah asks one what the other would say, picks her door with confidence, and falls straight down a hole.
Q 22In Labyrinth, what does Sarah trade to Hoggle for his help through the maze?
A plastic bracelet
A plastic bracelet. Hoggle hoards jewellery, so the cheap trinket buys his help, until Jareth spots 'that plastic thing' on his wrist and works out whose side he is on.
Q 23In Labyrinth, what do the wild, dancing Fireys try to take off Sarah?
Her head
Her head. The Fireys pull off their own heads and limbs for fun and want hers to come off too; when she throws their heads away, they protest that it is against the rules.
Q 14In Labyrinth, what is the final line Sarah must remember to defeat Jareth?
You have no power over me
You have no power over me. It ends a speech from her book that she can never finish, and it comes back just as Jareth offers to be her slave if she will only fear him, love him and obey.
Q 15In Labyrinth, into which animal does Jareth transform?
A barn owl
A barn owl. One is already watching Sarah rehearse in the park before she ever makes her wish, and at the end it watches her party through the window, then flies off.
Q 16Who designed Labyrinth's creatures?
Brian Froud
Brian Froud. The screenwriter built whole scenes around his goblin sketches, and the artist supplied one more cast member: his baby son, Toby, plays the stolen child.
Q 17In Labyrinth, which small creature invites Sarah to 'come inside and meet the missus'?
A worm
A worm. It shows Sarah a hidden opening in the wall, then kindly warns her off the turning that leads straight to the castle, never guessing that is where she wants to go.
Q 18Which earlier film did Labyrinth's director and creature designer make together?
The Dark Crystal
The Dark Crystal. It had no human characters at all and came out heavier than its makers meant, so their next fantasy got two human leads and far more comedy.
Q 19In Labyrinth, which creatures is Hoggle spraying like garden pests when Sarah first meets him?
Fairies
Fairies. Sarah feels sorry for one and it promptly bites her: she had assumed they did nice things, like granting wishes.
Q 20In Labyrinth, Sarah falls down a shaft whose walls are made of what?
Hands
Hands. They catch her, arrange themselves into talking faces and ask whether she wants to go up or down; she picks down, and they drop her into a dungeon.
Q 24In Labyrinth, which talking animal does the old Wiseman wear as a hat?
A bird
A bird. It heckles every piece of wisdom the old man offers, asks Sarah for a contribution once he nods off, and calls her and Hoggle 'suckers' as they walk away.
Q 25Which Star Wars performers appear among Labyrinth's Goblin Corps?
Kenny Baker and Warwick Davis
Kenny Baker and Warwick Davis, the men inside R2-D2 and Wicket the Ewok. Davis later founded an agency for short actors with another of the Goblin Corps, Peter Burroughs, who had become his father-in-law.
Q 26In Labyrinth, where was the juggler standing while he spun Jareth's crystal balls?
Behind the actor
Behind the actor. Juggler Michael Moschen reached round to roll Jareth's crystals for him, working entirely by feel because he could not see them.
Q 27In Greek myth, on which island did King Minos keep the Minotaur in its Labyrinth?
Crete
Crete. When Arthur Evans dug up the sprawling palace of Knossos there from 1900, he called the lost civilisation he found 'Minoan', after the king in the story.
Q 28Which Labyrinth song do the Fireys sing as they dance around Sarah?
Chilly Down
Chilly Down. The Fireys' voice actors sing it in place of the film's star, whose own demo went unheard for thirty years until one of those actors, Danny John-Jules, released it in 2016.
Q 29Which Last of the Mohicans composer wrote Labyrinth's score?
Trevor Jones
Trevor Jones. He had resolved to write music for films as a small boy, and here he scored everything around the star's five songs.
Q 30Which children's author does Labyrinth thank in its end credits for its debt to his books?
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak. In his Outside Over There, goblins steal a baby while the sister minding her is not paying attention, and a copy sits in Sarah's bedroom beside Where the Wild Things Are.