Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
7correct to beat the crowd
50 free Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children begins with a teenager who has stopped believing his grandfather's stories about a house full of strange children, and ends with him rowing away from everything he knew. In between come time loops, a headmistress who is more than she seems, and monsters that only a few people can see. It is one of the most distinctive young adult fantasies of its decade, and it rewards readers who paid attention. This quiz works through the first novel: Jacob's family and the events that send him overseas, the island and its inn, each of the wards and their peculiarities, the rules of the loops, and the wights and hollowgast that hunt peculiars. A handful of questions cover the author, the sequels and the 2016 film, including the places where the film changes the story. It suits readers checking what they remember before a class test or a reading group, fans of the series, and anyone who has only seen the film and wants to know how the story began on the page. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01What unusual illustrations, gathered from collectors, fill the first Miss Peregrine novel?
Vintage photographs
Vintage photographs from collectors' archives shaped the story, which was first planned as a picture book until an editor suggested a novel.
Q 02Which director made the 2016 Miss Peregrine film, a number one US box office opener?
Tim Burton
Tim Burton directed it and gave himself a cameo as a funfair visitor who has a skeleton thrown at him.
Q 03Jacob Portman and his father go to an island off which country in the first Miss Peregrine novel?
Wales
Wales is home to the fictional island, where Jacob's grandfather grew up in a children's home during the war.
Q 04What can Emma Bloom conjure with her bare hands in the first Miss Peregrine novel?
Fire
Fire springs from Emma's hands, which first glowed red and grew painfully hot when she was ten years old.
Q 05What would destroy Miss Peregrine's home each night in 1940 if she did not reset her time loop?
An air-raid bomb
An air-raid bomb is due to hit the house on September 3, 1940, so Miss Peregrine winds the day back just before it lands.
Q 06What lives inside the stomach of Hugh, a ward in the Miss Peregrine novels?
Bees
Bees live in Hugh's stomach, and his peculiarity lets him talk to them and send them out on command.
Q 07In the Miss Peregrine novels, what fate awaits long-time loop residents who linger in the present?
Rapid aging
Rapid aging catches up with them within hours, as all the years they skipped inside the loop arrive at once.
Q 08Which actress plays the time-bending headmistress in the 2016 Miss Peregrine film?
Eva Green
Eva Green won the part in 2014, after Mischa Barton, Lucy Hale and Alison Sudol had also been considered.
Q 09Wights pass for ordinary people in the Miss Peregrine novels except for which telltale feature?
Blank white eyes
Blank white eyes with no pupils betray a wight, which is why the one hunting Jacob hides behind contact lenses and sunglasses.
Q 10In which US state does Jacob Portman live before going abroad in the first Miss Peregrine novel?
Florida
Florida is where Jacob lives with his parents, and where his grandfather is killed in the story's opening chapters.
Q 11Which former film student and Mental Floss blogger wrote the Miss Peregrine novels?
Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs wrote the first as his debut novel and went on to add five sequels about the peculiar children.
Q 12Which peculiarity lets Millard Nullings of the Miss Peregrine novels trail a fleeing wight unseen?
Invisibility
Invisibility is so complete for Millard that he goes about without clothes, dressing only for supper on Miss Peregrine's orders.
Q 13What does little Claire Densmore hide beneath her curls in the Miss Peregrine novels?
A second mouth
A second mouth with sharp teeth sits at the back of Claire's head, which makes the youngest ward shy about eating in company.
Q 21Few can see the hollowgast in the Miss Peregrine novels, but which trace of them can anyone spot?
Their shadows
Their shadows are the only sign most peculiars get, which is why Jacob's rare ability to see the creatures matters so much.
Q 22Hollow City, the 2014 Miss Peregrine sequel, sends the children to which wartime city?
London
London is hailed in the sequel as the peculiar capital of the world, and the children search St Paul's Cathedral for clues there.
Q 23Miss Peregrine, a delicate woman who adores her wards, enjoys which habit in the first novel?
Smoking a pipe
Smoking a pipe is Miss Peregrine's indulgence, an odd match for a headmistress who runs her house by strict rules.
Q 14Which peculiarity led Miss Peregrine's ward Bronwyn Bruntley to kill her stepfather by accident?
Immense strength
Immense strength let ten-year-old Bronwyn snap the abusive man's neck without meaning to, and her older brother shared the gift.
Q 15Which psychiatrist sends Jacob Portman to Miss Peregrine's island and is later unmasked as a wight?
Dr. Golan
Dr. Golan had stalked the Portman family for years under other identities before he began treating Jacob's nightmares.
Q 16Which organ does Enoch O'Connor of the Miss Peregrine novels transplant to bring the dead to life?
A heart
A heart taken from an animal lets Enoch revive a murdered islander just long enough to be questioned about his killer.
Q 17Which actor plays Barron, the shapeshifting leader of the wights, in the 2016 Miss Peregrine film?
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson plays Barron, who disguises himself on screen as Jake's psychiatrist and, later, as Jake himself.
Q 18What is the name of the fictional island where Jacob Portman finds Miss Peregrine's home?
Cairnholm
Cairnholm is a bleak fishing island whose only telephone sits inside the pub where Jacob and his father stay.
Q 19What were Miss Peregrine's brothers seeking in the experiment that created the hollowgast?
Immortality
Immortality without the limits of time loops was the goal, and hundreds of peculiars joined the brothers' cause.
Q 20Which actor plays the American teenager Jake Portman in the 2016 Miss Peregrine film?
Asa Butterfield
Asa Butterfield plays Jake, as the film calls Jacob, and also plays the villain whenever he takes on Jake's shape.
Q 24Where do the children corner the escaping wight and save Miss Peregrine at the first novel's climax?
A lighthouse
A lighthouse is where Jacob finally kills the wight with the villain's own gun, while other wights wait offshore to collect him.
Q 25With which farm tool does Jacob Portman kill a hollowgast in the first Miss Peregrine novel?
Sheep shears
Sheep shears, grabbed during a scuffle, give Jacob his first kill and prove he can fight the creatures his grandfather hunted.
Q 26Horace, the snappy dresser among Miss Peregrine's wards, has which peculiar gift?
Prophetic dreams
Prophetic dreams come to Horace only rarely, and mostly as nightmares so horrifying that they leave him in shock.
Q 27Fiona Frauenfeld, Hugh's quiet sweetheart in the Miss Peregrine novels, has power over what?
Plants
Plants grow and move at Fiona's command, though she rarely speaks and has a thick Irish accent when she does.
Q 28The family of Jacob Portman's mother in the Miss Peregrine novels owns 115 branches of what?
Drugstores
Drugstores made the family fortune, and Jacob is at work in one of them when his grandfather's alarming phone call comes.
Q 29What has happened to Miss Peregrine by the end of the first novel, after her wards rescue her?
Stuck in bird form
Stuck in bird form and unable to change back, she leaves the children to sail off in search of another ymbryne who can help.
Q 30The 2016 Miss Peregrine film swapped Emma Bloom's peculiarity with which other girl's?
Olive
Olive traded gifts with Emma on screen, so the film's Emma is the one who floats and has to wear lead shoes.