60 free Monster trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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
Its full title is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
Q 02In the novel, 'Frankenstein' is actually the name of whom?
The scientist who built it
People often use the name for the monster; strictly it belongs to Victor Frankenstein, its creator.
Q 03Which actor's 1931 portrayal fixed the flat-headed, bolt-necked image of Frankenstein's monster?
Boris Karloff
In the Universal film the character is credited only as 'The Monster'.
Q 04Who wrote the 1897 novel Dracula?
Bram Stoker
Count Dracula became the archetypal vampire of later fiction.
Q 05Which real 15th-century prince partly inspired Count Dracula?
Vlad the Impaler
Vlad III Dracula ruled Wallachia; Stoker may not even have known his gruesome nickname.
Q 06How does Dracula turn other people into vampires?
By biting them
The bite infects them with what the novel calls a vampiric disease.
Q 07A werewolf is a person who transforms into what?
A wolf
The word comes from Old English for 'man-wolf'; another name is lycanthrope.
Q 08In modern films, a werewolf's transformation is usually triggered by what?
A full moon
The change is also usually passed on by a bite or scratch.
Q 09Modern fiction says werewolves are especially vulnerable to weapons made of what?
Silver
The silver-bullet idea came from novelists retelling the Beast of Gévaudan story from 1935 on.
Q 10A vampire is a creature that survives by feeding on what?
Blood
European folklore treats them as undead humans who return to trouble the living.
Q 11Which plant is a classic folk protection against vampires?
Garlic
A branch of wild rose or hawthorn was also thought to harm them.
Q 12Suspected vampires' corpses were sometimes pierced with what?
A stake
An 18th-century wave of vampire hysteria in Eastern Europe drove the practice.
Q 13The word 'zombie' comes from the folklore of which country?
Haiti
There a bokor sorcerer is said to reanimate a corpse through magic.
Q 14The Loch Ness Monster is said to live in a lake in which country?
Q 21This cryptid is said to haunt which region of South Jersey and Philadelphia folklore?
The Pine Barrens
Legend calls it the thirteenth child of a 'Mother Leeds'.
Q 22The kraken is a giant sea monster from the folklore of which country?
Norway
Its legend probably grew from sightings of the giant squid.
Q 23The kraken's legend is thought to have originated from sightings of what real animal?
The giant squid
Jules Verne worked a kraken into Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
Q 24In Greek myth, Medusa had what in place of her hair?
Scotland
'Nessie' was brought to worldwide attention in 1933.
Q 15Bigfoot is said to roam the forests of which US region in particular?
The Pacific Northwest
It is also called Sasquatch, and described as a large hairy ape-like biped.
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, said to live in the Himalayas, is also known in the West as what?
The Abominable Snowman
Folklorists trace it to Sherpa tales and misidentified bears and yaks.
Q 18What does the cryptid name 'chupacabra' literally mean in Spanish?
Goat-sucker
It is blamed for draining the blood of livestock, especially goats.
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
John Keel's book The Mothman Prophecies linked it to the Silver Bridge collapse.
Snakes
A single look at her turned the onlooker to stone.
Q 25Which Greek hero cut off Medusa's head?
Perseus
He gave her head, still able to petrify, to the goddess Athena for her shield.
Q 26The Minotaur had the body of a man and the head of what?
A bull
It lived at the centre of the Labyrinth on Crete.
Q 27Which hero killed the Minotaur, guided by Ariadne's thread?
Theseus
King Minos had demanded youths from Athens as sacrifices to the beast.
Q 28The Cyclopes of Greek myth were giants with how many eyes?
One
Odysseus famously blinded the Cyclops Polyphemus in the Odyssey.
Q 29Which Cyclops did Odysseus blind in the Odyssey?
Polyphemus
The Cyclopes there are portrayed as uncivilised cave-dwelling shepherds.
Q 30The many-headed Hydra grew how many new heads for each one cut off?
Two
Heracles finally beat it by burning each neck with fire.