A Nightmare on Elm Street Trivia
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56 free A Nightmare on Elm Street trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
62 free A Nightmare on Elm Street trivia questions with answers. A Nightmare on Elm Street began with a few newspaper clippings about men who died in their sleep and ended up building a studio. This quiz covers the whole franchise: Wes Craven's original, the sequels from Freddy's Revenge through Freddy's Dead, the meta twist of New Nightmare, the long-delayed crossover with Jason Voorhees, the 2010 remake and the syndicated series Freddy's Nightmares. Easy questions cover the man behind the glove, the address on Elm Street and the colours of the sweater. Harder ones dig into how the rotating-room scene was shot, which studios turned the script down, who almost played Freddy, why the sweater clashes, which metal band wrote the Dream Warriors theme, and what the Dream Master's dog did to bring Freddy back. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia or an official source, and the citation is shown under each question so you can settle an argument without falling asleep. Good for horror-movie nights, Halloween parties and anyone who still checks under the bed for a striped sweater.
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Q 01Who played Freddy Krueger in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street and every sequel through 2003?
Robert Englund
Robert Englund won Craven over after other actors auditioning for Freddy seemed too quiet and too compassionate towards children.
Q 02Which actress played Nancy Thompson, the teenager who fights Freddy in the original?
Heather Langenkamp
Heather Langenkamp says Craven cast her because she really was like Nancy, an earnest student, and he wanted someone very non-Hollywood.
Q 03Which future star made his film debut in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street as Nancy's boyfriend Glen?
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp bombed his audition and was crossed off, until Craven's daughter took a shine to him.
Q 04In the final shock of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, what does Freddy pull Nancy's mother through?
The front-door window
The front-door window: at the same moment, the car Nancy has climbed into locks her inside and drives off.
Q 05In which real city is the private house used as Nancy's home?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles: the film was shot on a shoestring, as one backer after another pulled out of funding it.
Q 06The fictional town of Springwood, where the A Nightmare on Elm Street films are set, is in which state?
Ohio
Ohio: by Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Freddy has killed nearly every child and teenager in Springwood.
Q 07What two colours are the stripes on Freddy's sweater?
Red and green
Red and green: the same stripes cover the convertible roof in the final scene, Craven's compromise in a dispute over the ending.
Q 08Craven chose Freddy's sweater colours after reading an article in which magazine?
Scientific American
Scientific American: Craven said the 1982 article called the pairing the most clashing colours for the human retina.
Q 09What kind of hat does Freddy Krueger wear?
Fedora
Fedora: in the original, Nancy pulls it out of her dream and finds the name Fred Krueger written inside.
Q 10Which real-world source did Wes Craven say sparked A Nightmare on Elm Street?
Newspaper reports of refugee deaths
Newspaper reports of refugee deaths: one told of a young man who stayed awake for days to escape his nightmares, then died in the middle of one.
Q 11Which British actor was originally cast as Freddy before dropping out?
David Warner
David Warner: make-up tests had already been shot when a scheduling conflict forced him to drop out of the role.
Q 12Which actor was considered for Glen but reportedly wanted too much money?
Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen: he had actually been offered the role first, before it went to someone else.
Q 13Which rapper told of a run-in with Freddy on 'A Nightmare on My Street'?
Will Smith
Will Smith: the films' studio sued over the song, and the music video made for it was pulled.
Q 21Young Wes Craven saw the man who inspired Freddy from where?
His window
His window: a man walking on the sidewalk outside stopped and looked up at the startled boy.
Q 22In Freddy's Revenge (1985), which teenager moves into Nancy's old house and is possessed by Freddy?
Jesse Walsh
Jesse Walsh: after his gym coach is murdered, Jesse becomes convinced that he, not Freddy, was the killer.
Q 23What is Freddy driving in the opening nightmare of Freddy's Revenge?
A school bus
A school bus: Craven had refused to put Freddy in the driver's seat in the first film, but this sequel was made without him.
Q 14In the original Nightmare on Elm Street, what does Nancy see Tina in after dozing off in class?
A body bag
A body bag: Nancy follows its trail of blood to a boiler room, where she burns her arm on a pipe to wake up, and the burn is real.
Q 15What did Craven do with the rejection letter Universal sent him?
Framed it on his office wall
Framed it on his office wall: every major studio passed, and it took Craven about three years of shopping the script around to get it made.
Q 16Which independent studio agreed to make A Nightmare on Elm Street, becoming 'The House That Freddy Built'?
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema: it started out distributing films like Reefer Madness to college campuses, and Freddy's success turned it into an industry powerhouse.
Q 17Which producer wanted the original Nightmare on Elm Street to end with Freddy driving off with the kids?
Robert Shaye
Robert Shaye: Craven refused to let Freddy drive, so as a compromise the convertible's roof came down striped like Freddy's sweater.
Q 18What let Freddy push through Nancy's bedroom wall in the original Nightmare on Elm Street?
Spandex
Spandex: there was so little money for effects that the crew improvised the stretchy wall with Lycra.
Q 19Which director friend doubted audiences would buy Craven's dream-killer script?
Sean Cunningham
Sean Cunningham: the same friend had launched Craven's horror career by producing The Last House on the Left.
Q 20How does Nancy finally make Freddy vanish at the end of the original Nightmare on Elm Street?
Turns her back on him
Turns her back on him: realising he feeds on his victims' fear, she tells him she's taking back every bit of energy she gave him.
Q 24Which actress played Kristen Parker, the girl who can pull others into her dreams, in Dream Warriors?
Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette: Freddy's dream attack is mistaken for a suicide attempt, so Kristen is sent to a psychiatric hospital.
Q 25Dream Warriors is largely set in which psychiatric hospital?
Westin Hills
Westin Hills: its young patients try group hypnosis there so they can share one dream and face Freddy together.
Q 26Which future Hollywood director co-wrote the screenplay for Dream Warriors?
Frank Darabont
Frank Darabont: he and director Chuck Russell rewrote the story that Wes Craven and Bruce Wagner had first drafted for the film.
Q 27Which heavy metal band wrote and performed the theme song for Dream Warriors?
Dokken
Dokken: in the song's music video the band drives Freddy off, and he wakes up in bed asking who those guys were.
Q 28In Dream Warriors, Freddy catches Nancy off guard by coming to her disguised as whom?
Her father
Her father: Freddy stabs Nancy as she embraces him, and she dies, until the actress came back playing herself in New Nightmare.
Q 29In Dream Warriors, Freddy's mother Amanda Krueger is revealed to have been what?
A nun
A nun: as Sister Mary Helena, she was accidentally locked in with the asylum's patients over the holidays, and Freddy was the child born of her ordeal.
Q 30In The Dream Master (1988), who replaced the original actress as Kristen?
Tuesday Knight
Tuesday Knight: her Kristen dies early in the film, but not before passing her dream power on to her friend Alice.