Peter Pan Trivia
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110 free Peter Pan trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
51 free Peter Pan trivia questions with answers. Peter Pan first flew across a London stage in 1904 and has never really landed. This quiz covers the whole story: J. M. Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him, the play and the 1911 novel, the copyright he gave to a children's hospital, and every big adaptation since, from Disney's 1953 cartoon and Mary Martin's TV musical to Hook, Finding Neverland, Pan and Peter Pan & Wendy. Easy questions cover the crocodile, the thimble kiss, and who plays Hook in Hook. Harder ones get into which dog breed Nana is, why Barrie erected a statue in Kensington Gardens without permission, which actor traditionally doubles as Mr Darling and Hook, and where the name Wendy came from. Every answer has been checked against a published source and carries a link, so you can settle any nursery argument on the spot. Good for family movie nights, drama classes and anyone who still claps for Tinker Bell.
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Q 01J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, was born in which country?
Scotland
Scotland: Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, in 1860, the son of a handloom weaver, and was made a baronet by George V in 1913.
Q 02Where in London did the play Peter Pan premiere on 27 December 1904?
The Duke of York's Theatre
The Duke of York's Theatre in St Martin's Lane staged the premiere on 27 December 1904, with Nina Boucicault, daughter of playwright Dion Boucicault, as the first Peter.
Q 03In which 1902 novel written for adults did the character of Peter Pan first appear?
The Little White Bird
The Little White Bird (1902), an adult novel, introduced Peter as a week-old baby in Kensington Gardens; those chapters were reissued in 1906 as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Q 04What was the title of the 1911 novelisation of the play?
Peter and Wendy
Peter and Wendy, published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton in Britain and Charles Scribner's Sons in the US, is Barrie's own novelisation of the 1904 play.
Q 05What does Peter lose in the Darling nursery, prompting his return and his meeting with Wendy?
His shadow
His shadow: Nana snapped the window shut on it, Mrs Darling kept it in a drawer, and Wendy sews it back on with needle and thread when Peter returns.
Q 06In Peter and Wendy, when Wendy offers Peter a 'kiss', what does she actually give him?
A thimble
She gives him a thimble; he returns an acorn button, which she wears round her neck and which later stops an arrow and saves her life.
Q 07What did the crocodile swallow that lets Captain Hook hear it coming?
A ticking clock
A ticking clock: the crocodile that ate Hook's severed hand also swallowed a clock, and its tick-tock warns Hook whenever it is near.
Q 08What breed of dog is Nana, the Darling children's nursemaid?
Newfoundland
Newfoundland: Nana was modelled on Barrie's own Newfoundland, Luath; after the children vanish, Mr Darling sleeps in her kennel as penance and rides to work in it.
Q 09According to Peter, what are the directions to Neverland?
'Second to the right, and straight on till morning'
'Second to the right, and straight on till morning' is the route; Barrie notes Peter said 'anything that came into his head', and the line even turns up at the end of Star Trek VI.
Q 10How did the Lost Boys end up in Neverland?
They fell out of their prams and went unclaimed
They fell out of their prams and went unclaimed: Barrie says Lost Boys are children who fell out of their perambulators while the nurse looked away and, unclaimed for seven days, were sent to the Neverland.
Q 11Which Lost Boy shoots Wendy with an arrow after Tinker Bell tricks him into thinking she is a bird?
Tootles
He then asks Peter to kill him; the acorn button around Wendy's neck saves her.
Q 12How was Tinker Bell represented in the original stage productions?
By a darting light from a mirror
A darting light from a mirror: a small mirror held offstage bounced a spot of lamplight around the set, while her voice was a collar of bells.
Q 13What does Peter ask the audience to do to save Tinker Bell's life?
Clap if they believe in fairies
Q 21Which family tragedy is thought to have inspired the idea of a boy who would never grow up?
The death of Barrie's brother David at 13
The death of Barrie's brother David at 13: he died in a skating accident the day before his 14th birthday, and their mother took comfort that he would stay a boy forever.
Q 22The play is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Where is it thought to have come from?
A five-year-old friend's word 'fwendy'
She reportedly called him her 'fwendy'; the name was very rare in English before the play.
Q 23How was the Peter Pan statue installed in Kensington Gardens in 1912?
Clap if they believe in fairies: after Tinker Bell drinks Hook's poison, Peter turns to the audience and their applause revives her, the play's most famous fourth-wall break.
Q 14Which two roles are traditionally doubled by one actor in stage productions of Peter Pan?
Mr Darling and Captain Hook
Gerald du Maurier, uncle of the Llewelyn Davies boys, doubled the parts in the original production; Hans Conried did the same for Disney.
Q 15Which famous public school is Captain Hook said to have attended?
Eton
Eton: in the play Hook goes to the crocodile crying 'Floreat Etona', the school's motto, and Barrie gave a 1927 speech at the school titled 'Captain Hook at Eton'.
Q 16Which literary obsessive did the author say Hook's fixation on the crocodile was an English version of?
Captain Ahab
There are other borrowings from Melville too; Hook's own great fears are the crocodile and the sight of his own blood.
Q 17How does the novel describe Smee, Hook's bo'sun?
Irish, the crew's only Nonconformist
Irish, the crew's only Nonconformist: the novel calls Smee the Irish bo'sun and 'the only Non-conformist in Hook's crew', a man who 'stabbed without offence'; Bob Hoskins and Jim Gaffigan have both played him.
Q 18Tiger Lily is the daughter of Great Big Little Panther, chief of which fictional Neverland people?
The Piccaninny tribe
The Piccaninny tribe: Barrie's novel gives Tiger Lily's people that name; Anna May Wong played her in the 1924 silent film and Rooney Mara in 2015's Pan.
Q 19To which institution was the copyright to Peter Pan given in 1929?
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital: Barrie gave it the rights in 1929, asking that their value never be disclosed; the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act grants it UK royalties in perpetuity.
Q 20Which family's sons were the inspiration for Peter Pan, with their parents' friend becoming their guardian after both died?
The Llewelyn Davies boys
The Llewelyn Davies boys: Barrie met George, Jack, Peter, Michael and Nico in Kensington Gardens and became their guardian after Arthur died in 1907 and Sylvia, a du Maurier, in 1910.
Overnight, secretly, without permission
Overnight, secretly, without permission: Barrie had it put up during the night before May Day 1912 so children would think fairies had left it, then ran a Times notice promising 'a surprise'.
Q 24Who sculpted the Kensington Gardens Peter Pan statue?
Sir George Frampton
Sir George Frampton cast the 1912 bronze and made six more for Liverpool, Brussels, Camden, Perth, Toronto and St John's, Newfoundland.
Q 25Who voiced Peter in Disney's 1953 animated Peter Pan?
Bobby Driscoll
Bobby Driscoll, Disney's child star from Song of the South and Treasure Island, voiced Peter and was filmed as live-action reference, a rare male Peter when women usually took the role.
Q 26Which star did Disney first offer the voice of Captain Hook to before casting Hans Conried?
Cary Grant
Conried ended up voicing both Hook and Mr Darling, following the stage tradition.
Q 27Who was the live-action model for Disney's Tinker Bell, often wrongly said to be Marilyn Monroe?
Margaret Kerry
Margaret Kerry was filmed as Tinker Bell's live-action reference model and also voiced one of the mermaids; Kathryn Beaumont voiced Wendy.
Q 28The melody of 'The Second Star to the Right' was originally written for which other Disney film?
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland: Sammy Fain's tune was written as 'Beyond the Laughing Sky' for that 1951 film, then given new Sammy Cahn lyrics for Peter Pan.
Q 29Which group all worked together as directing animators for the last time on Disney's Peter Pan?
The Nine Old Men
The Nine Old Men: Peter Pan was the last feature on which all nine of Disney's core animators served as directing animators, and the last Disney film RKO distributed.
Q 30In Disney's 2002 sequel Return to Never Land, who is taken to Neverland?
Wendy's daughter Jane
It is set during the Blitz; Wendy has married a soldier named Edward and has two children, Jane and Danny.