50 free Maze Runner trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free Maze Runner trivia questions with answers. The Maze Runner started as James Dashner's 2009 novel and became a five-book series and a film trilogy that grossed close to a billion dollars. This quiz covers both. Forty-two questions run through the Glade and its rules, the Grievers and the Runners, WICKED and the Flare, the Scorch and the Cranks, the Right Arm and the Last City, and the prequels and sequel trilogy, alongside the films: Wes Ball's debut, Dylan O'Brien's Thomas, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Newt, Ki Hong Lee's Minho, Kaya Scodelario's Teresa, Will Poulter's Gally, and the on-set injury that pushed the final film back a year. Easy questions ask what the boys call their home and who leads them; hard ones want the code the maze spells out, where the first film was shot and how many years the sequel trilogy jumps forward. It suits readers of the books, fans of the films and anyone who has ever shouted 'shuck' at a screen. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the novels, films and cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who wrote The Maze Runner novels?
James Dashner
He grew up in Georgia and earned a master's degree in accounting before turning to fiction.
Q 02In what year was the first Maze Runner novel published?
2009
It came out from Delacorte Press on October 6 of that year and won the Georgia Peach Book Award.
Q 03What do the boys call the walled area they live in at the centre of the maze?
The Glade
The Homestead is the building inside it where they sleep, and the Box is the elevator that delivers supplies.
Q 04How often does the elevator box bring a new boy to the Glade?
Every month
Supplies come up weekly, but the new arrival is a monthly event, always with only his first name remembered.
Q 05Which two boys run the Glade when Thomas arrives?
Alby and Newt
The leader is helped by his second-in-command, and the pair keep order with a few simple rules.
Q 06What are the deadly part-metal, part-flesh creatures that roam the maze called?
Grievers
A sting from one triggers 'the Changing', which brings back fragments of memory.
Q 07What name do the Gladers give to the boys who map the maze each day?
Runners
They race the walls before the doors close at night, memorising every change.
Q 08Who is the first and only girl delivered to the Glade?
Teresa
She arrives clutching a note that says she is the last one ever to be sent.
Q 09What is the name of the disease that has devastated the world of The Maze Runner?
The Flare
The survivors immune to it become WICKED's test subjects.
Q 10What is the name of the organisation that controls the world and runs the maze experiments in the books?
WICKED
The films shorten it to WCKD, the World Catastrophe Killzone Department.
Q 11In the novel, what six-word code do the Gladers discover the maze spells out?
FLOAT CATCH BLEED DEATH STIFF PUSH
Chuck works out that the last word means to push a button rather than being part of the code.
Q 12In the first novel, how do the Gladers escape the maze?
They go down the Griever Hole
Almost half of them die fighting the creatures on the way to the machine that takes the code.
Q 13Who dies saving Thomas from a knife thrown by Gally at the end of the first book?
Chuck
The youngest Glader's death is one of the series' most-remembered moments in both book and film.
Q 21The Kill Order, the first prequel, follows which pair of teenagers in New York City?
Mark and Trina
It is set 13 years before The Maze Runner, as the sun flares strike and the virus first spreads.
Q 22The Fever Code (2016) reveals that Thomas was originally called what before the organisation renamed him?
Stephen
The prequel also shows Newt being taken as a control subject alongside his sister Lizzy.
Q 23The Maze Cutter sequel trilogy is set how many years after The Death Cure?
73
It began in 2022 and continued with The Godhead Complex and The Infinite Glade.
Q 14What is the second book of the trilogy called?
The Scorch Trials
It came out in 2010, one year after the first novel and one before the third.
Q 15In the books, what are the zombie-like people driven mad by the virus called?
Cranks
The infected who reach 'past the Gone' are beyond help, and the worst are locked in Crank Palaces.
Q 16In the second novel, Aris explains he was the only boy in which parallel maze experiment?
Group B
His group was all girls, mirroring Teresa's arrival as the lone girl among the Gladers.
Q 17What nickname do the boys give the organisation's scientist because of his appearance?
Rat Man
His real name, Janson, is revealed later; Aidan Gillen plays him in the films.
Q 18In The Death Cure novel, which of Thomas's friends is revealed not to be immune to the virus?
Newt
He later gives Thomas a note begging to be killed before the disease takes him fully.
Q 19In The Death Cure novel, the group travels to which real US city to have their control chips removed?
Denver
A former researcher named Hans performs the surgery there.
Q 20Which rebel group fighting the organisation does Gally join in the third book?
The Right Arm
The name refers to being the 'right arm' of the resistance against the organisation.
Q 24Who directed all three Maze Runner films, making his feature debut with the first?
Wes Ball
He later directed Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
Q 25The director got the job by showing Fox an animated short with a similar tone. What was it?
Ruin
The studio had originally lined up Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke for the adaptation.
Q 26Who plays Thomas in the Maze Runner films?
Dylan O'Brien
He was already known as Stiles Stilinski on MTV's Teen Wolf.
Q 27Before The Maze Runner, the actor who plays Thomas was best known as Stiles Stilinski on which MTV series?
Teen Wolf
He later led Love and Monsters and earned acclaim for the 2025 indie Twinless.
Q 28Which actor plays Newt in the film trilogy?
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
He was the boy Sam in Love Actually and later Benny Watts in The Queen's Gambit.
Q 29Which cartoon character did the actor who plays Newt voice for four seasons?
Ferb
He also played Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones and Sam in Love Actually.
Q 30Ki Hong Lee, who plays Minho, is also known for playing Dong Nguyen in which Netflix sitcom?
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
He was born in Seoul and cast as the keeper of the Runners in April 2013.