Monster Trivia
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110 free Monster trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
51 free Monster trivia questions with answers. Monsters come from myth, from novels, from movies and from campfire cryptid tales, and this quiz rounds up the lot. Fifty questions cover the classic horror monsters (Frankenstein's creature, Dracula, the Mummy, the werewolf, the vampire, the zombie), the beasts of Greek mythology (Medusa, the Minotaur, the Hydra, Cerberus, the Cyclops, the Sphinx), the movie giants Godzilla and King Kong, and the modern cryptids from Bigfoot and Nessie to the Chupacabra, Mothman and the Jersey Devil. Easy questions ask who wrote Dracula and where Bigfoot supposedly roams; the hard ones want the year Godzilla first appeared, what the Hydra does when you cut off a head, and which real prince inspired Count Dracula. Perfect for Halloween, a horror-movie night or a mythology round. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the creatures involved, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who wrote the 1818 novel that introduced Frankenstein's monster?
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 when she was twenty.
Q 02In the 1818 novel, who or what actually bears the name 'Frankenstein'?
The scientist who built it
The scientist who built it, Victor Frankenstein, owns the name; Shelley's subtitle compares him to the mythological Prometheus.
Q 03Which actor's 1931 portrayal fixed the flat-headed, bolt-necked image of Frankenstein's monster?
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff played the Monster in Universal's 1931 Frankenstein; Jack Pierce's makeup gave it the flat head and neck bolts.
Q 04Who wrote the 1897 novel Dracula?
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker, an Irish author and manager of London's Lyceum Theatre, published Dracula in 1897.
Q 05Which real 15th-century prince partly inspired Count Dracula?
Vlad the Impaler
Vlad the Impaler, Vlad III of Wallachia, was called Dracula, 'son of the dragon', after his father's membership of the Order of the Dragon.
Q 06How does Dracula turn other people into vampires?
By biting them
By biting them: in Stoker's novel Lucy Westenra rises as a vampire after Dracula repeatedly drains her blood through bites to the throat.
Q 07A lycanthrope is a person who transforms into which animal?
A wolf
A wolf: lycanthrope comes from Greek lykos (wolf) and anthropos (man); the Old English 'werwulf' likewise means man-wolf.
Q 08In modern films, a werewolf's transformation is usually triggered by what?
A full moon
A full moon triggers the change in most films, from Universal's 1940s Wolf Man sequels to An American Werewolf in London (1981).
Q 09Modern fiction makes werewolves, otherwise resistant to injury, especially vulnerable to weapons made of which metal?
Silver
Silver: the weakness was fixed in popular culture by Universal's The Wolf Man (1941), in which Larry Talbot is killed with a silver-headed cane.
Q 10A vampire is a creature that survives by feeding on what?
Blood
Blood: in European folklore vampires are undead humans who leave the grave at night to drink the blood of the living.
Q 11Which plant is a classic folk protection against vampires?
Garlic
Garlic: in Stoker's Dracula, Van Helsing hangs garlic flowers round Lucy Westenra's room and neck to keep the Count away.
Q 12Suspected vampires' corpses were sometimes pierced with what?
A stake
A stake: during the 18th-century vampire panics in Serbia, exhumed corpses such as Arnold Paole's were staked through the heart.
Q 13The word 'zombie' comes from the folklore of which country?
Haiti
Haiti: in Haitian Vodou folklore a bokor sorcerer is said to reanimate a corpse as a zombie, a word from Haitian Creole zonbi.
The Loch Ness Monster is said to live in a lake in which country?
Q 21The Jersey Devil is said to haunt which region of New Jersey?
The Pine Barrens
The Pine Barrens: the Jersey Devil is said to roam this million-acre pine forest of southern New Jersey; tradition dates the creature's birth to 1735.
Q 22The kraken is a giant sea monster from the folklore of which country?
Norway
Norway: the kraken of Norwegian sailors' lore was described in 1752 by Erik Pontoppidan, Bishop of Bergen, in his Natural History of Norway.
Q 23The kraken's legend is thought to have originated from sightings of what real animal?
The giant squid
The giant squid: Architeuthis can reach about 13 metres, and surfacing or washed-up specimens are thought to have seeded the kraken legend.
Scotland
Scotland: Loch Ness lies in the Scottish Highlands near Inverness; a May 1933 Inverness Courier report made 'Nessie' world-famous.
Q 15Bigfoot is said to roam the forests of which US region in particular?
The Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest: Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, is reported most often in the forests of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
Q 16The famous 1967 Bigfoot film was shot by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in which state?
California
It was filmed at Bluff Creek in Northern California.
Q 17The Yeti, the hairy humanoid said to roam the Himalayas, is known in Western pop culture by what name?
The Abominable Snowman
The Abominable Snowman is the Western name; folklorists trace the Yeti to Sherpa tales and misidentified bears and yaks.
Q 18What does the cryptid name 'chupacabra' literally mean in Spanish?
Goat-sucker
Goat-sucker: chupar means 'to suck' and cabra 'goat', a name earned by reports of livestock found drained of blood.
Q 19The first widely publicised Chupacabra sightings came in 1995 from which island?
Puerto Rico
It is often described there as reptilian, spiny and about the size of a small bear.
Q 20Mothman was reportedly seen in 1966-67 around which town?
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Point Pleasant, West Virginia: sightings began in November 1966, and John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies tied them to the town's Silver Bridge collapse of December 1967.
Q 24In Greek myth, Medusa had what in place of her hair?
Snakes
Snakes: in Ovid's telling Athena turned Medusa's hair into living serpents, and a single look at her turned onlookers to stone.
Q 25Which Greek hero cut off Medusa's head?
Perseus
Perseus beheaded Medusa using Athena's mirrored shield, then gave the head to the goddess, who set it on her aegis.
Q 26The Minotaur had the body of a man and the head of what?
A bull
A bull: the Minotaur was born to Queen Pasiphaë of Crete and a bull, and was kept at the centre of Daedalus's Labyrinth.
Q 27Which hero killed the Minotaur, guided by Ariadne's thread?
Theseus
Theseus killed the Minotaur and escaped the Labyrinth by following the thread Ariadne, King Minos's daughter, had given him.
Q 28The Cyclopes of Greek myth were giants with how many eyes?
One
One: the Cyclopes ('round-eyed') had a single eye in the middle of the forehead; in Hesiod they forge Zeus's thunderbolts.
Q 29Which Cyclops did Odysseus blind in the Odyssey?
Polyphemus
Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, trapped Odysseus's men in his cave; Odysseus got him drunk and blinded him with a sharpened stake.
Q 30The many-headed Hydra grew how many new heads for each one cut off?
Two
Two: Apollodorus says two heads grew for each one struck off, so Heracles's nephew Iolaus seared each neck stump with a torch.