60 free Peter Pan trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
He was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, in 1860 to a weaver's family 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
Nina Boucicault, daughter of playwright Dion Boucicault, was the first Peter.
Q 03In which 1902 novel written for adults did the character of Peter Pan first appear?
The Little White Bird
Its Peter Pan chapters were spun off 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
Hodder & Stoughton published it in Britain on 18 October 1911, three days before Scribner's did in the US.
Q 05What does Peter lose in the Darling nursery, prompting his return and his meeting with Wendy?
His shadow
Wendy sews it back on with needle and thread, and Peter learns she knows lots of bedtime stories.
Q 06When Wendy offers Peter a 'kiss', what does she actually give him?
A thimble
He gives her an acorn button in return; it later stops an arrow and saves her life.
Q 07What did the crocodile swallow that lets Captain Hook hear it coming?
A ticking clock
It had already eaten Hook's hand after Peter cut it off, and wants the rest of him.
Q 08What breed of dog is Nana, the Darling children's nursemaid?
Newfoundland
After the children vanish, Mr Darling sleeps in her kennel as penance, and even travels to work in it.
Q 09According to Peter, what are the directions to Neverland?
'Second to the right, and straight on till morning'
Barrie notes Peter said 'anything that came into his head'; 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
Their captain is Peter; Barrie names one of them the most unfortunate because adventures happen while he has 'stepped round the corner'.
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
Her voice was a collar of bells, two of them brought by Barrie from Switzerland.
Q 13What does Peter ask the audience to do to save Tinker Bell's life?
Clap if they believe in fairies
It is the play's most famous moment of breaking the fourth wall.
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
He died in a skating accident the day before his 14th birthday; 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?
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 school does Captain Hook imply he attended, with his dying words 'Floreat Etona'?
Eton
He is also said to be Blackbeard's bo'sun and 'the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid'.
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
He is also 'a man who stabbed without offence', though films play him as a lovable dolt; Bob Hoskins and Jim Gaffigan have both had the role.
Q 18Tiger Lily is the daughter of Great Big Little Panther, chief of which fictional Neverland people?
The Piccaninny tribe
Rooney Mara played her in the 2015 film Pan; Anna May Wong took the part in the 1924 silent.
Q 19To which institution was the copyright to Peter Pan given in 1929?
Great Ormond Street Hospital
He asked that the value of the gift never be disclosed, and a 1988 Act gives the hospital royalties in the UK 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
Their mother Sylvia was a du Maurier, which made Daphne du Maurier their cousin.
Overnight, secretly, without permission
He wanted children to think fairies had put it there, and ran a notice in The Times the next morning promising 'a surprise'.
Q 24Who sculpted the Kensington Gardens Peter Pan statue?
Sir George Frampton
He made six more casts for cities including Brussels and St John's, Newfoundland.
Q 25Who voiced Peter in Disney's 1953 animated Peter Pan?
Bobby Driscoll
He was the first male ever cast as Peter, breaking the stage tradition of women in 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
She 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
It was going to be a song called 'Beyond the Laughing Sky'; Sammy Cahn and Sammy Fain wrote the songs.
Q 29Disney's Peter Pan was the last film on which which group all worked together as directing animators?
The Nine Old Men
It was also the last Disney feature distributed by RKO before Walt set up his own distribution company.
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.