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50 free Nosferatu trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Nosferatu was never meant to last. The silent film that gave cinema its most unsettling bloodsucker was made on a shoestring in 1922, borrowed its story without asking and landed its makers in court. A century later the bald, long-fingered Count is still one of the most recognisable figures the movies have produced. This quiz covers the whole legend. Expect questions on the original's plot, characters and filming locations, the people who made it and the legal fight that followed, then the 1979 remake and the 2024 retelling that carried the tale to new generations, along with the cameos, tributes and spin-offs it inspired. It is pitched for film fans of every stripe: newcomers who met the Count through the 2024 film, silent-cinema devotees, and quiz hosts after a ready-made round for a spooky night in. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave knowing more than when you arrived.
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Q 01Which cartoon series ended a 2002 episode with the vampire from Nosferatu playfully flicking a light switch?
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants slipped him into the episode Graveyard Shift in place of an original character first planned for the gag. The writer meant it as a tribute to a monster magazine he had loved as a child.
Q 02Which author's widow sued the makers of the 1922 film Nosferatu for adapting a novel without permission?
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker's widow Florence only learned the film existed from an anonymous letter posted in Berlin. She fought the case to the end without ever watching it.
Q 03The 1922 film Nosferatu was the first to depict a vampire dying from exposure to what?
Sunlight
Sunlight only weakened vampires in earlier stories such as the novel Dracula, whose Count walks the streets by day. The film turned that weakness into a death sentence.
Q 04What did a court order to be done with every print of Nosferatu after the 1922 film's makers lost a lawsuit?
Destroyed
Destroyed was the fate the ruling set for every copy, negative included. Several prints survived anyway, which is the only reason the film can still be watched.
Q 05Which pop star was cast in the 2024 remake of Nosferatu opposite Anya Taylor-Joy but left the project in 2021?
Harry Styles
Harry Styles dropped out citing scheduling concerns, and Anya Taylor-Joy was later replaced too. The film finally went before the cameras in 2023 with two different leads.
Q 06Which feature did the 2024 Nosferatu give its vampire because noblemen of his homeland and era all wore one?
A mustache
A mustache was a must for the director, since any man of that old culture who could grow one did. The vampire's costume borrowed from the military dress of the 1500s and 1600s.
Q 07Which animals did Delft refuse to let the 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre release in their thousands?
Rats
Rats, 11,000 of them, were wanted for one scene, so part of the shoot moved to nearby Schiedam. A biologist hired to handle the animals walked out over how they were treated.
Q 08Which institution named the 1922 vampire film Nosferatu on its 1995 list of 45 important films worth watching?
The Vatican
The Vatican issued the list to mark a century since the Lumière brothers first screened their films. Its picks were sorted under religion, values and art.
Q 09Which actor spent up to six hours a day in prosthetic makeup to play the vampire in the 2024 Nosferatu?
Bill Skarsgård
Bill Skarsgård first auditioned for the hero, Thomas Hutter, and was offered that part. His turn as Pennywise in the It films then persuaded the director to recast him as the monster.
Q 10On which holiday did the 2024 remake of Nosferatu open in cinemas across the United States?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day brought it $11.55 million in a single day. The film went on to gross $182 million worldwide, more than its director's three earlier films put together.
Q 11Which little-known actor was cast as the vampire in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu after another star declined?
Max Schreck
Max Schreck was so obscure that rumours later claimed he did not exist at all. The name was said to be a pseudonym for a far better-known actor.
Q 12In the 1922 film Nosferatu, which name does the vampire Count go by in place of Dracula?
Orlok
Orlok was one of many names changed from the novel, yet the German title cards still admitted the story came from Dracula. Some later rereleases simply changed the name back.
Q 13Which director of The Witch and The Lighthouse released his long-planned remake of Nosferatu in 2024?
Robert Eggers
Q 21Which German director remade Nosferatu in 1979, calling the 1922 original his country's greatest film?
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog saw his remake as a bridge between the silent-era masters and Germany's postwar film revival. He shot it with a crew of just 16 people.
Q 22What is Thomas Hutter's profession in the 1922 Nosferatu, the job that sends him to the vampire's castle?
Estate agent
Estate agent is his trade, and the derelict house he is sent to sell stands directly across from his own home.
Q 23The 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre was filmed twice over to exist in German and which other language?
English
English was the American distributor's request, so most dialogue scenes were shot once in each language. The director later called the German cut the more authentic of the two.
Robert Eggers announced the project in 2015 and meant it to be his second film. It ended up as his fourth, after years of delays.
Q 14Which actor played the vampire in the 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre, in makeup modelled on the original?
Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski sat through four-hour makeup sessions without his usual outbursts, having taken to the Japanese artist who applied it. It was the second of his five films with the director.
Q 15Which German director made the 1922 film Nosferatu before leaving for Hollywood four years later?
F. W. Murnau
F. W. Murnau sketched every scene in advance and rewrote twelve pages of the script himself, including the ending. In 1926 he joined the Fox studio in America.
Q 16Which actress replaced Anya Taylor-Joy as Ellen Hutter in the 2024 remake of Nosferatu?
Lily-Rose Depp
Lily-Rose Depp won the part at an audition that changed the mind of a casting director who had doubted her. The director later gave her Ellen's prop locket to keep.
Q 17Which actor plays the occult scholar Professor von Franz in the 2024 Nosferatu, his third film for its director?
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe had history with the story: in a film from 2000 he played the actor behind the original vampire, and earned an Oscar nomination for it.
Q 18What does the vampire bring to Thomas Hutter's home town in the 1922 Nosferatu, a twist absent from Dracula?
A plague
A plague arrives with the vampire's ship, and the town's doctors never suspect its true cause. The screenwriter added the idea, and the 1979 and 2024 remakes both kept it.
Q 19The 1922 silent film Nosferatu is a landmark of which German art and cinema movement?
Expressionism
Expressionism runs through the film's eerie imagery and its rhythmic script, yet much of it was shot outdoors in real harbour towns, forests and mountains.
Q 20To which region does Thomas Hutter travel to meet the vampire in the 1922 film Nosferatu?
Transylvania
Transylvania's villagers recoil at the mere mention of his client's name, and his coachman refuses to go beyond the mouth of the mountain pass. Hutter walks on alone until after sunset.
Q 24The 2024 remake of Nosferatu was shot mainly at Barrandov Studios in which European capital?
Prague
Prague hosted the shoot from February to May 2023, and an entire village set went up outside the city. Its design drew on folk-architecture museums in Romania.
Q 25Where on the body does the vampire feed in the 2024 Nosferatu, following folklore rather than film habit?
The chest
The chest was chosen because old folk tales often pictured vampires drinking from just above the heart. Thomas Hutter wakes in the castle to find the bite marks there.
Q 26In which form did the future director of the 2024 Nosferatu first adapt the vampire story as a teenager?
A stage show
A stage show came first, written and performed with a classmate at their high school. It impressed one onlooker enough that he invited the pair to restage it at a professional theatre.
Q 27Which actor plays Thomas Hutter in the 2024 Nosferatu, a part first offered to the man who became its vampire?
Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult said he felt real fear when the wolves on set had to be restrained before his chase scenes. He kept one of the vampire's prosthetics and had it framed.
Q 28Which Hollywood star produced the 2000 film about the making of Nosferatu, at first hoping to play its vampire?
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage handed the role to another actor who asked for it and stayed on as producer through his own company, Saturn Films.
Q 29Which film from 2000 imagines that the star of the 1922 Nosferatu really was one of the undead?
Shadow of the Vampire
Shadow of the Vampire grew from a legend spread by a 1953 French film book, which claimed that nobody knew who had really played the monster. The actor playing its vampire earned an Oscar nomination.
Q 30In which mountain range does the vampire's castle stand in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu?
The Carpathians
The Carpathians hide a castle said to have been forgotten by the world for centuries. The local peasants fear phantoms and werewolves and never venture out after dark.