Pan's Labyrinth
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50 free Pan's Labyrinth trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth sets a fairy tale inside a war story. In the Spain of 1944, a girl named Ofelia follows a faun's instructions through a ruined maze while her mother's new husband, a fascist captain, hunts rebels in the hills around them. The film lets each viewer decide whether the magic is real, which its director has called a matter of personal discussion. This quiz covers the whole film: the tasks Ofelia is set and the creatures she meets, the soldiers and spies in the house above, the actors under the makeup, and how the monsters were built. It also covers the festival premiere, the awards run and the projects that grew out of it. It is aimed at people who have seen the film at least once. The early questions keep to the story most viewers remember, and the later ones reward fans who know the production history.
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Q 01Which body part holds the eyes of the child-eating Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth?
His hands
His hands hold the Pale Man's eyes, a feature shared with the Tenome, a monster of Japanese folklore whose name means hand eyes.
Q 02Which creature holds a key in its belly in the first task Ofelia faces in Pan's Labyrinth?
A toad
A toad swallowed the key, and Guillermo del Toro performed the giant creature's noises himself.
Q 03Which forbidden food does Ofelia eat at the Pale Man's feast in Pan's Labyrinth, waking the monster?
Grapes
Grapes tempt Ofelia despite the faun's warning to eat nothing, and the woken Pale Man devours two of her fairy guides.
Q 04At which film festival did Pan's Labyrinth premiere to a standing ovation lasting 22 minutes?
Cannes
Cannes hosted the premiere in May 2006, and the film then waited until October for its first cinema release, in Spain.
Q 05Captain Vidal, the fascist officer of Pan's Labyrinth, is which relation to the young heroine Ofelia?
Her stepfather
Her stepfather is a Civil Guard officer sent to hunt rebels in the hills, and Ofelia arrives with her pregnant mother Carmen to join him.
Q 06Guillermo del Toro wanted the Faun of Pan's Labyrinth played less like David Bowie and more like which rock star?
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger was the model, with the director asking for a glam rocker's swagger from a creature made of earth, moss, vines and tree bark.
Q 07Which fantasy film did Guillermo del Toro turn down the chance to direct in order to make Pan's Labyrinth?
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia went to another director, and del Toro later called his own film his version of that universe of children's literature.
Q 08Which creature, which Ofelia takes for a fairy, leads her into the stone maze in Pan's Labyrinth?
A stick insect
A stick insect later appears in Ofelia's bedroom, where it changes into a fairy and guides her to the faun.
Q 09Which dictator rules Spain during Pan's Labyrinth, set five years after his victory in the Spanish Civil War?
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco held power until his death in 1975, and the film's guerrillas are still fighting his regime from the hills in 1944.
Q 10The actor behind the Faun in Pan's Labyrinth later played the Amphibian Man in which Guillermo del Toro film?
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Guillermo del Toro.
Q 11Which gift from the faun in Pan's Labyrinth reveals the three tasks Ofelia must complete?
A book
A book called the Book of Crossroads sets out the tasks, and one limited DVD edition of the film was packaged to look like it.
Q 12Whom does the faun tell Ofelia to bring into the maze for her third and final task in Pan's Labyrinth?
Her brother
Her brother, a newborn, is wanted for a little innocent blood to open the portal, and Ofelia refuses to let him be harmed.
Q 13Which object must Ofelia steal from the Pale Man's lair in her second task in Pan's Labyrinth?
A dagger
A dagger is what the faun sends her to fetch, and she sets out with three fairy guides to help her find it.
Q 21Which actor plays both the Faun and the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth, spending five hours a day in makeup?
Doug Jones
Doug Jones spoke no Spanish and learned his lines anyway, though a theatre actor's voice was later dubbed over his performance.
Q 22Which country, rather than Spain, submitted Pan's Labyrinth for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar?
Mexico
Mexico entered the film, which reached the final five nominees and won three Oscars in craft categories.
Q 23Besides Art Direction and Makeup, which third Oscar did Pan's Labyrinth win, collected by Guillermo Navarro?
Cinematography
Cinematography went to Navarro, who had to work with a largely unfamiliar Spanish crew because his usual team was unavailable.
Q 14Which plant root does the faun give Ofelia to place under her sick mother's bed in Pan's Labyrinth?
Mandrake
Mandrake seems to ease Carmen's illness while Ofelia feeds it drops of blood, until Carmen throws it into the fire.
Q 15Which magic item does Ofelia carry, along with three fairy guides, into her second task in Pan's Labyrinth?
A piece of chalk
A piece of chalk lets Ofelia draw her own door into the lair, and she barely escapes after waking the monster that dwells there.
Q 16Which keepsake does the dying Captain Vidal hope to smash in Pan's Labyrinth, just as his own father did?
A pocket watch
A pocket watch would tell his son the hour of his death, as his own father's did, but the rebels refuse the request and shoot him.
Q 17The Rotten Tomatoes consensus calls Pan's Labyrinth a grown-up version of which children's fantasy classic?
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland is the comparison, and Lewis Carroll's Alice stories were among the works Guillermo del Toro drew on for the film.
Q 18What job does Mercedes hold under Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth while secretly aiding the rebels?
Housekeeper
Housekeeper Mercedes passes a second copy of the granary key to the guerrillas, who use it to raid the Captain's stockpiled supplies.
Q 19What is the profession of Ferreiro, shot by Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth for ending a tortured rebel's suffering?
Doctor
Doctor Ferreiro serves the Captain while secretly opposing the regime, and he ends the captive's life at the man's own urging.
Q 20In the fairy tale that opens Pan's Labyrinth, what blinds the runaway princess and wipes her memory?
Sunlight
Sunlight strikes her in the human world, where she turns mortal and dies, so her father builds labyrinths as portals for her spirit's return.
Q 24Which job did Guillermo del Toro do himself on Pan's Labyrinth after hating the results on his previous Spanish film?
Writing the subtitles
Writing the subtitles took him a month with two helpers, because he did not want audiences to feel they were watching a subtitled film.
Q 25The sagging skin of the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth was inspired by which change in Guillermo del Toro's own body?
Losing weight
Losing weight gave the director the idea for the saggy-skinned monster, whose legs were attached over the performer's green leotard.
Q 26Guillermo del Toro nearly lost his notebook of ideas for Pan's Labyrinth by leaving it where in London?
In a taxi
In a taxi is where it went missing, and the cabbie returned it two days later; del Toro had kept such notebooks for twenty years.
Q 27American producers offered to double the budget of Pan's Labyrinth if Guillermo del Toro made which change?
Shooting it in English
Shooting it in English, in the United States, would have doubled his money, but del Toro refused and the film became an independent project.
Q 28Composer Javier Navarrete built his entire Oscar-nominated score for Pan's Labyrinth around which kind of tune?
A lullaby
A lullaby runs through the whole score, and del Toro had all of it put on the soundtrack album, including music cut from the film.
Q 29The title Pan's Labyrinth names a god from which mythology, though the original Spanish title just says faun?
Greek
Greek myth supplies the goat-legged god Pan, yet del Toro has said the faun in his film is not that god at all.
Q 30Pan's Labyrinth is a spiritual successor to which earlier ghost story set in a wartime orphanage?
The Devil's Backbone
The Devil's Backbone came out in 2001, and the two boys who led its cast return in Pan's Labyrinth as unnamed guerrilla soldiers.