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50 free Netflix Movies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Netflix started out mailing DVDs and now bankrolls some of the most talked-about films around. Its originals have filled awards ballots, launched teen-romance stars and turned a quiet night of scrolling into a shared event, which makes them rich ground for a quiz. This quiz covers the films people actually watched: blockbuster thrillers and heist comedies, holiday favourites, animated hits, prestige dramas that went to the Oscars and documentaries that made headlines. Expect questions on who starred, who directed, what happens and the stories behind the productions. It suits a movie night, a pub quiz round or anyone who wants to find out how much of their watch history stuck. Every question comes with its answer and a short explanation.
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Q 01In Netflix's Bird Box, what must Sandra Bullock's character wear whenever she goes outside to stay alive?
A blindfold
A blindfold is the only defence, because anyone who looks at the film's unseen entities dies. Netflix said 89 million households watched the film in its first four weeks.
Q 02Which director made the Netflix gangster epic The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro as a mob hitman?
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese delivered the longest film of his career at 209 minutes, using digital effects to make De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci appear younger.
Q 03Which actor plays detective Benoit Blanc in Netflix's Greek island whodunit Glass Onion?
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig's detective was at the heart of a $469 million deal, the sum Netflix paid in 2021 for the rights to two Knives Out sequels.
Q 04Which action star plays John Hartley alongside Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot in Netflix's Red Notice?
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson's Hartley chases the thief of a jewelled egg, one of three that the film says Mark Antony gave Cleopatra as a wedding gift.
Q 05In Netflix's satire Don't Look Up, what do two astronomers find heading straight for Earth?
A comet
A comet big enough to end civilisation drives the plot, which director Adam McKay meant as an allegory for the threat of climate change.
Q 06Which actor plays Sherlock Holmes opposite Millie Bobby Brown in Netflix's Enola Holmes?
Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill's warm portrayal prompted a lawsuit: the Conan Doyle Estate claimed that a Sherlock who shows emotion about his relationships was still under copyright.
Q 07Netflix's El Camino follows which Breaking Bad character on the run after the show's finale?
Jesse Pinkman
Jesse Pinkman, played again by Aaron Paul, ends the film starting over in Alaska. Filming began in secret in New Mexico and lasted nearly 50 days.
Q 08Which former US president executive-produced Netflix's Leave the World Behind through Higher Ground Productions?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama had put the source novel on his 2021 summer reading list, and he gave director Sam Esmail his thoughts on the screenplay while it was being written.
Q 09Netflix released The Cloverfield Paradox by surprise immediately after which televised event in 2018?
The Super Bowl
The Super Bowl carried a surprise trailer saying the film would stream as soon as the game ended. Even the cast only learned of the plan that morning.
Q 10Ron Howard's Netflix drama Hillbilly Elegy adapts a memoir by which later US vice president?
JD Vance
JD Vance published his memoir in 2016, and Imagine Entertainment won the film rights at an auction the following year.
Q 11Chris Hemsworth plays mercenary Tyler Rake, sent to rescue a kidnapped boy in Dhaka, in which Netflix film?
Extraction
Extraction was adapted from the graphic novel Ciudad, and its director Sam Hargrave also appears on screen as one of the mercenaries.
Q 12Which actor plays fake boyfriend Peter Kavinsky in Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before?
Noah Centineo
Noah Centineo's Peter proposes the pretend romance to make his ex-girlfriend jealous. The film adapts Jenny Han's novel, first optioned by Will Smith's production company.
Q 13Which actress plays Elle Evans, who falls for her best friend's older brother, in Netflix's The Kissing Booth?
Joey King
Q 21In which Netflix film does Ryan Reynolds's time-travelling pilot team up with his 12-year-old self?
The Adam Project
The Adam Project spent a decade in development: it began in 2012 with Tom Cruise attached to star, then stalled until Netflix acquired the rights.
Q 22Which Netflix thriller pits Ryan Gosling's CIA agent Sierra Six against Chris Evans's mercenary?
The Gray Man
The Gray Man sends its hero on the run after he uncovers his own superior's corrupt secrets; its $200 million budget ranks among Netflix's largest.
Q 23In Bong Joon-ho's Netflix film Okja, what kind of genetically modified animal is Okja?
A super pig
Joey King's teen rom-com grew out of a novel that teenage author Beth Reekles first published on the story-sharing site Wattpad.
Q 14Which Netflix drama won Alfonso Cuarón Oscars for both directing and cinematography?
Roma
Roma was actually filmed in colour and converted to black and white afterwards, and it draws on Cuarón's own childhood in a Mexico City neighbourhood.
Q 15Which actress won an Oscar as divorce lawyer Nora Fanshaw in Netflix's Marriage Story?
Laura Dern
Laura Dern won the only Oscar from the film's six nominations, playing the high-profile lawyer hired after the couple had agreed to split without lawyers.
Q 16Which song from Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters won the Oscar for Best Original Song?
Golden
Golden is performed in the film by the girl group Huntrix, and the soundtrack became the first to place four songs in the Billboard Hot 100's top ten at once.
Q 17Which actress plays Adam Sandler's wife in Netflix's yacht whodunit Murder Mystery?
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston plays a hairdresser hooked on mystery novels. Netflix said 30.9 million households watched in the first 72 hours, at the time its biggest opening weekend for a film.
Q 18Which Hollywood veteran plays Santa Claus in Netflix's family adventure The Christmas Chronicles?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell's Santa has a familiar Mrs. Claus: she is played by Goldie Hawn, his partner off screen since 1983.
Q 19Netflix's zombie heist film Army of the Dead sends mercenaries to empty a casino vault in which city?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas has been overrun by zombies, and the crew must recover $200 million from the vault before the military drops a nuclear bomb on the city.
Q 20In Netflix's Bright, Will Smith's LAPD officer is partnered with a member of which mythical race?
Orcs
Orcs are outcasts in the film's Los Angeles: Joel Edgerton's Nick Jakoby, the first orc police officer in the US, is detested by fellow officers and by his own kind.
A super pig bred by a corporation is raised for ten years by a teenage girl before the company comes to collect; the film competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
Q 24Guillermo del Toro's animated Netflix Pinocchio moves the wooden puppet's story to which historical setting?
Fascist Italy
Fascist Italy gives the tale a darker edge: a strict government official, having seen the puppet revive, wants to turn him into a soldier.
Q 25Netflix's All Quiet on the Western Front, winner of four Oscars, follows a teenage soldier from which country?
Germany
Germany made this version itself, the third film of Erich Maria Remarque's novel after the 1930 and 1979 ones, and it won the Oscar for Best International Feature.
Q 26Which composer does Bradley Cooper play in the Netflix biopic Maestro, which he also directed?
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein's marriage to Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan, is the film's centre; Cooper's large prosthetic nose drew criticism before release.
Q 27Netflix's survival drama Society of the Snow recreates a 1972 plane crash in which mountain range?
The Andes
The Andes crash stranded a Uruguayan rugby team on a glacier. The film cast Uruguayan and Argentine newcomers and was shot mainly in Spain's Sierra Nevada.
Q 28Which actress leads a team of immortal mercenaries in Netflix's action film The Old Guard?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron plays Andromache of Scythia, known as Andy, in a film that Greg Rucka scripted from his own comic book series.
Q 29Netflix's interactive film Bandersnatch let viewers steer the plot within which anthology series?
Black Mirror
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker built it from 250 segments of footage, which gave viewers over one trillion possible paths and five main endings.
Q 30What breed is Monchi, the family dog in Netflix's animated The Mitchells vs. the Machines?
Pug
Pug sounds for Monchi came from Doug the Pug, a real dog popular on social media, in what is believed to be a first for an animated film.