50 free Midsommar trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Midsommar is a horror film that happens almost entirely in daylight. Ari Aster's 2019 follow-up to Hereditary sends a grieving American student and her checked-out boyfriend to a once-in-90-years festival in rural Sweden, and lets the Hårga's flower crowns and white linen slowly reveal what the commune actually does to outsiders. This quiz covers the whole film: the plot beats and the fates of every visitor, the Hårga's rituals and the real Swedish legends behind them, the cast and who they play, and the making of the film, from Aster's breakup-movie pitch and the Budapest shoot to the fight over the rating, the 171-minute director's cut and the record price paid for the May Queen dress. There are a few questions on the wider careers of Aster and Florence Pugh, too. Questions range from easy plot recall to details only repeat viewers will catch. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the film, its director, its star and the folklore it borrows from, and each question links to its source.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed Midsommar?
Ari Aster
It was his second feature after Hereditary, and like that film it was released by A24.
Q 02Who plays Dani, the grieving student at the centre of the film?
Florence Pugh
It was one of three breakout roles for her in 2019, alongside Fighting with My Family and Little Women.
Q 03Who plays Christian, Dani's increasingly distant boyfriend?
Jack Reynor
The Irish actor pushed for as much full-frontal nudity as possible in the final ritual, wanting to embrace the character's humiliation.
Q 04In which country is the festival set?
Sweden
Most of it was actually shot in Hungary, partly because Sweden limits daily film shoots to eight hours.
Q 05What is the name of the commune that hosts the visitors?
The Hårga
Aster and his production designer visited the real Hälsingland region to develop the community's look and traditions.
Q 06How often does the Hårga's great midsummer festival take place?
Once every 90 years
Josh regards it as a once-in-a-lifetime chance for his thesis on European midsummer customs.
Q 07How many days does the festival last?
Nine
Nine is also the number of human sacrifices the commune must offer at the end.
Q 08Which Swedish friend invites the American students to his ancestral commune?
Pelle
He was orphaned when his parents died in a fire, and tells Dani the commune became his new family.
Q 09How does Dani's sister Terri kill herself and their parents at the start of the film?
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Terri has bipolar disorder, and the murder-suicide is the trauma the whole film grows out of.
Q 10What is the name of the cliff-jumping senicide ceremony the visitors witness on their first full day?
Ättestupa
The term entered Swedish in the 17th century, inspired by an episode in the Old Icelandic Gautreks saga.
Q 11At what age does elder Siv say every Hårga member ends their life?
72
The mallet used to finish off the survivor was a replica of one in a Stockholm museum.
Q 12What does the surviving elder have done to him after the fall fails to kill him?
His head is crushed with a mallet
The commune members mimic his wails of pain first, a habit of shared feeling that returns during Dani's breakdown.
Q 13Who plays Mark, the crude friend who urinates on a sacred tree?
Will Poulter
He is lured away by Inga afterwards, and his skinned face turns up on the man who kills Josh.
Q 21How many human sacrifices must the commune offer in the final ceremony?
Nine
Four are outsiders, four are commune members, and the May Queen chooses the last.
Q 22Christian is placed inside the body of which animal before the temple is set alight?
A bear
The costume Jack Reynor wore later sold at an A24 charity auction for $4,760.
Q 23Which two Hårga members volunteer to join the elders as sacrifices from within the commune?
Ingemar and Ulf
The rest of the commune mimics Ulf's screams as the temple burns.
Q 24What does Dani do in the film's final shot as the temple collapses?
Q 14Who plays Josh, the student writing his thesis on European midsummer festivities?
William Jackson Harper
He is bludgeoned to death after sneaking out to photograph the Hårga's sacred texts.
Q 15What is Mark doing when he inadvertently desecrates a Hårga ancestral tree?
Urinating on it
It is the offence that gets him lured away by Inga and, eventually, skinned.
Q 16Which Hårga woman lures Mark away after his offence against the sacred tree?
Inga
Julia Ragnarsson plays her; Maja is the girl the elders have picked out for Christian.
Q 17Which British couple, invited by Pelle's commune-brother, also visit the commune?
Simon and Connie
Archie Madekwe and Ellora Torchia play them; both end up among the nine sacrifices.
Q 18What torture method has been used on Simon when Christian finds him barely alive in a barn?
The blood eagle
The commune has told Connie he simply left for the train station without her.
Q 19What title does Dani win by outlasting everyone in the maypole dance?
May Queen
The competition is inspired by the Hårgalåten myth, in which a devilish fiddler makes the young dance until they drop.
Q 20Which Hårga girl is Christian drugged into impregnating in the sex ritual?
Maja
Isabelle Grill, in her first feature role, plays her; the scene was filmed on the very last day of the shoot.
She slowly smiles
Aster has said the film begins with Dani losing a family and ends with her gaining one, 'in true fairy tale fashion'.
Q 25Which studio released Midsommar in the United States?
A24
Aster's previous film Hereditary was the company's highest-grossing release worldwide at the time.
Q 26What genre had the producers who first approached Aster wanted him to make?
A slasher set among cultists
He initially turned it down, then found his way in by building it around a couple on the verge of a breakup.
Q 27Aster described the finished picture as 'a breakup movie dressed in the clothes of' what?
Folk horror
He also called it 'The Wizard of Oz for perverts' and cited Albert Brooks's Modern Romance as an inspiration.
Q 28In which country was most of the film shot?
Hungary
Financial constraints were the main reason, along with Sweden's eight-hour daily limit on film shoots.
Q 29Which insects were a major nuisance on the summer 2018 shoot?
Wasps
William Jackson Harper called the shoot 'arduous' because of the heat.
Q 30Under what stage name is composer Bobby Krlic better known?
The Haxan Cloak
Aster wrote the script while listening to his 2013 album Excavation and hired him before filming began.