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40 free Satanism trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few subjects attract as much rumour as Satanism. For most of history it existed mainly as an accusation, thrown at heretics, witches and rival faiths. As a religion that people openly join, it dates only from the 1960s, and its best-known branches are not what most people expect. This quiz covers the whole story: Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, The Satanic Bible and its borrowed ideas, The Satanic Temple and its courtroom battles, Baphomet and other symbols, and the Satanic panic that gripped America in the 1980s. It also follows Satan through poetry, novels, horror films and heavy metal. The questions run from famous names and headlines to harder ones for readers who know their occult history. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through or print the lot for a quiz night.
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Q 01In Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible, which day is the highest holiday of a Satanist's year, outranking Halloween?
Their own birthday
Their own birthday comes first because LaVey taught that each Satanist is their own god. Walpurgisnacht, the spring night of witches, comes next in importance.
Q 02Which Rat Pack entertainer befriended Anton LaVey and was made an honorary warlock of the Church of Satan?
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. met LaVey after starring in the 1973 comedy pilot Poor Devil, and described the friendship years later in his autobiography.
Q 03What did each pair of Lil Nas X's 2021 Satan Shoes reportedly contain, mixed with ink by the art collective MSCHF?
Human blood
Human blood, one drop per pair, came from about six MSCHF staff. Critics compared the stunt to a 1977 Kiss comic book printed with the band's own blood in the ink.
Q 04Which tabletop role-playing game did Patricia Pulling's 1980s group BADD accuse of drawing teenagers into Satanism?
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons became Pulling's target after her son's death in 1982. Game writer Michael Stackpole later picked her group's evidence apart in a study called The Pulling Report.
Q 05In which New England city did The Satanic Temple open its headquarters in a charcoal-painted former funeral home?
Salem
Salem, the Massachusetts town famous for its 1692 witch trials, is home to the building, which also operates as an art gallery open to visitors.
Q 06Which blonde film star visited Anton LaVey's Church of Satan in 1966, the year before her fatal car crash?
Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield met LaVey while in town for a film festival. The press branded her a Satanist, though she publicly denied ever being one.
Q 07Which big cat, named Togare, did Anton LaVey acquire as a household pet in 1965?
Lion
Lion Togare lived with LaVey before the Church of Satan even existed, and was eventually handed over to a city zoo.
Q 08Which consumer goods giant dropped a moon-and-stars logo that Amway distributors had rumoured to be Satanic?
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble's trademark showed a man in the moon overlooking 13 stars, said to honour the original American colonies. The firm denied any link to the Church of Satan.
Q 09Which word best describes the official outlook of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan?
Atheistic
Atheistic is how scholars describe Anton LaVey's creed: members worship no deity at all, and Satan stands for individualism and personal freedom.
Q 10Which shock rocker wrote the foreword to Anton LaVey's book Satan Speaks and held an honorary priesthood?
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson was never ordained as a working minister, the Church of Satan later clarified: the honorary title recognised his real-world accomplishments.
Q 11In which California city did Anton LaVey found the Church of Satan in 1966, at the so-called Black House?
San Francisco
San Francisco was home to the Black House until 2001, when the building was demolished after church members failed to raise the money to buy it back.
Q 12Which medieval order of warrior monks was accused in 1307 of worshipping an idol named Baphomet?
Knights Templar
Knights Templar brothers were arrested across France on the orders of King Philip IV and tortured into confessions.
Q 13Which animal's head tops the winged figure of Baphomet in Éliphas Lévi's famous 1856 drawing?
Goat
Goat and man are fused in the winged figure, which Lévi called the Sabbatic Goat and designed as a union of opposites in perfect balance.
Q 21Which English occultist, often branded a Satanist by the press, revelled in the nickname 'the Beast 666'?
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was first called the Beast by his own mother and embraced the label, yet he denied being a Satanist because he rejected the Christian world view altogether.
Q 22Which New Testament book names 666 as the number of the beast, though some early manuscripts say 616?
Revelation
Revelation's figure is widely read by scholars as a coded reference to the Roman emperor Nero, an infamous persecutor of the early Christians.
Q 23Which Puritan poet's 1667 epic made Satan its protagonist, humanising the fallen angel as a proud rebel?
John Milton
Q 14In which 1968 Roman Polanski film does a pregnant New Yorker come to suspect her neighbours belong to a Satanic coven?
Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary's Baby was a favourite boast of Anton LaVey, who claimed to have been a consultant on the production and to have appeared on screen as the Devil.
Q 15Which English band titled a 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request, a pun on British passport wording?
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones followed it with Sympathy for the Devil, sung from Satan's point of view, which fed media rumours that the group were devil worshippers.
Q 16In which country did black metal musicians begin a wave of church arsons in 1992 with the Fantoft Stave Church?
Norway
Norway convicted several musicians over the fires. They showed no remorse in court, describing the arsons as symbolic retaliation against Christianity.
Q 17The Satanic Temple's bronze Baphomet statue was meant to stand by a Ten Commandments monument at which state capitol?
Oklahoma
Oklahoma never received it: the state's Supreme Court ordered the Ten Commandments removed, so the temple withdrew its request. The statue was first shown in Detroit.
Q 18After Anton LaVey's death, the Church of Satan moved its headquarters to which Manhattan neighbourhood?
Hell's Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen became the church's base once a new high priest was appointed, ending decades in which it had been run from California.
Q 19Which discredited 1980 bestseller by psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder helped ignite the Satanic panic over ritual abuse?
Michelle Remembers
Michelle Remembers was co-written with Pazder's patient Michelle Smith, whom he later married, and every investigation failed to corroborate its claims.
Q 20Which California preschool gave its name to a 1980s Satanic panic case that became America's longest criminal trial?
McMartin
McMartin family members faced hundreds of charges, yet seven years of proceedings ended without a single conviction, and many of the children later recanted.
John Milton was a devout Puritan, yet Romantic writers such as Shelley recast the Satan of Paradise Lost as a noble rebel against tyranny.
Q 24The upside-down cross, often used as a Satanic emblem, is traditionally the symbol of which apostle's martyrdom?
Peter
Peter, by Catholic tradition, asked to be crucified head-down because he felt unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus.
Q 25Which fraternal society did French hoaxer Léo Taxil falsely accuse of Devil worship in the 1890s?
Freemasons
Freemasons were the target of Taxil's invented exposés until 1897, when he called a press conference and announced that the whole story had been made up.
Q 26Which French king's mistress, Madame de Montespan, was accused of joining Black Masses in the Affair of the Poisons?
Louis XIV
Louis XIV had ordered the Paris police chief to root out poisoners, only for the accusations of witchcraft and blasphemous rites to reach his own inner circle.
Q 27By what popular name is Sir Francis Dashwood's 18th-century society of rakes, who met at Medmenham Abbey, remembered?
Hellfire Club
Hellfire Club meetings featured mock rituals, drinking and banqueting. The legends of Black Masses and demon worship only became attached to it in the late 19th century.
Q 28Army officer Michael Aquino left the Church of Satan in 1975 to found a temple named for which Egyptian god?
Set
Set was, Aquino claimed, the true name that Satan revealed to him during a ritual. The officer worked in military intelligence, specialising in psychological warfare.
Q 29Which Middle Eastern minority, devoted to the Peacock Angel, was long persecuted as supposed devil-worshippers?
Yazidis
Yazidis honour the angel Tawûsî Melek, whom outsiders wrongly equated with Satan, and the persecution drove their communities into the remote mountains of northwestern Iraq.
Q 30In which Arkansas city were three boys murdered in 1993, in what prosecutors called a Satanic ritual by three teenagers?
West Memphis
West Memphis gave the convicted teenagers their collective name, the West Memphis Three. They walked free in 2011 under a plea deal that let them keep asserting their innocence.