50 free SCP Foundation trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free SCP Foundation trivia questions with answers. The SCP Foundation began as one anonymous 4chan post about a concrete statue that moves when you blink, and grew into what may be the largest collaborative writing project in history: more than 10,000 SCP files, thousands of Foundation Tales, sixteen language branches and a licence dispute that reached the Russian courts. This quiz covers the fiction and the real-world story behind it. On the fiction side: the object classes from Safe to Apollyon, the O5 Council, D-class personnel and amnestics, the Chaos Insurgency and the Global Occult Coalition, and the famous entries themselves, from the plague doctor and the shy giant to the coffee machine that dispenses abstract concepts and the man who sees Shia LaBeouf everywhere. On the real side: who wrote SCP-173, whose sculpture it borrowed, why the wiki is Creative Commons by accident, the great 2009 purge, the trademark troll, and the games and books it spawned, from Containment Breach to Control and There Is No Antimemetics Division. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the SCP Wiki's own object-class page, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01In the SCP Foundation universe, what do the letters SCP stand for?
Special Containment Procedures
The motto is 'Secure, Contain, Protect', but the acronym itself refers to the procedures written up in every file.
Q 02The SCP Foundation answers only to which shadowy leadership body?
The O5 Council
Also called the Overseers; the Foundation is depicted as independent of any national government.
Q 03What are 'D-class personnel'?
Disposable human test subjects, usually convicts
They are forced to interact with dangerous SCPs so that regular staff are not put at risk.
Q 04The Foundation typically erases witnesses' memories with what?
Amnestic drugs
The goal is to keep the world functioning under a masquerade of normalcy.
Q 05Which rival group is a splinter of ex-Foundation defectors who weaponise SCPs?
The Chaos Insurgency
The GOC is a UN paramilitary that destroys anomalies rather than containing them, and the Serpent's Hand campaigns for anomalies' rights.
Q 06The Global Occult Coalition is a secret paramilitary arm of which real organisation?
The United Nations
Unlike the Foundation, it specialises in destroying supernatural threats.
Q 07Which object class covers anomalies that are easily and reliably contained?
Safe
The wiki stresses that this class does not mean harmless, only that containment is straightforward.
Q 08Any SCP that is autonomous or sapient is, by default, usually classified as what?
Euclid
It is the class with the widest scope, the default for anything that does not fit elsewhere.
Q 09A Keter classification means an anomaly is what?
Exceedingly difficult to contain
The class is about the cost and complexity of containment, not the danger level, a distinction fans love to argue about.
Q 10Thaumiel-class objects are special because the Foundation uses them for what?
Containing other SCPs
Their very existence is classified at the highest level, known to few outside the Overseers.
Q 11Which class is given to anomalies that cannot be contained or are about to breach imminently?
Apollyon
'Explained' is for things that turned out to be mundane or hoaxes; 'Neutralized' for anomalies that have stopped being anomalous.
Q 12SCP-173, the first SCP ever written, is a statue that does what?
Attacks when nobody is looking at it
It is made of rebar, concrete and spray paint and can cross several metres in the time it takes to blink.
Q 13The original SCP-173 post appeared in June 2007 on which website?
4chan's /x/ board
Q 21SCP-426 is a sentient toaster with what peculiar rule?
It can only be referred to in the first person
The article is therefore written as 'I am a toaster', and so is this explanation's source.
Q 22SCP-999, the friendly orange slime, smells like what?
Whatever the person finds most comforting
It induces happiness on contact, so the Foundation actually uses it as a tool.
Q 23SCP-1247 depicts a man who sees every animal as which actor?
Shia LaBeouf
The anonymous author was later identified as Wesley 'Moto42' Williams.
Q 14The photo that illustrated SCP-173 for years showed a sculpture by which Japanese artist?
Izumi Kato
He reluctantly allowed non-commercial use in 2014; the wiki removed the image in 2022 and left the article deliberately unillustrated.
Q 15Why was no replacement image added to SCP-173 after the sculpture photo was removed in 2022?
Its author asked that readers imagine it themselves
The community responded with a flood of original interpretations of the statue.
Q 16SCP-049 resembles what?
A medieval plague doctor
It kills anyone it believes carries 'the pestilence' and reanimates the corpses; ScreenRant called it the perfect entry for beginners.
Q 17SCP-096, the 'Shy Guy', hunts down anyone who does what?
Sees its face, even in a photo
The tall, thin, apparently immortal humanoid suffers extreme scopophobia, a fear of being looked at.
Q 18SCP-087 is an apparently endless what?
Descending staircase
Its resident is a floating face with no mouth, nostrils or pupils; a short 2012 game let players walk down it.
Q 19SCP-055 is famous for being what?
Impossible to remember
The 'anti-meme' can only be described by what it is not; its author qntm spun the idea into There Is No Antimemetics Division.
Q 20SCP-294 is a vending machine that dispenses what?
Any liquid, including abstract concepts
The paper cups are somehow never damaged, whatever gets poured into them.
One of the site's more light-hearted entries, of the sort io9 praised for stopping the wiki from becoming relentlessly grim.
Q 24SCP-3008 is an infinite version of what kind of building?
An IKEA store
The staff-like creatures inside turn violent when the lights go off; a planned game, The Store is Closed, drew legal threats from IKEA.
Q 25SCP-1609 is a hostile pile of mulch that used to be what?
A benevolent teleporting chair
The Global Occult Coalition put it through a woodchipper; now it teleports into the lungs of anyone in formal attire.
Q 26The SCP Wiki moved to Wikidot in 2008 for what reason?
Its previous home, EditThis, started charging
New Wikidot sites defaulted to a Creative Commons licence, which the SCP staff 'accidentally' adopted for the whole project.
Q 27Under which licence is SCP content released?
Creative Commons BY-SA
That is why anyone can sell SCP merchandise or make SCP games, and why a Russian trademark filing caused such a fight.
Q 28What happened to a large number of early SCP articles between September and December 2009?
They were reviewed and 'decommissioned'
The purge of low-quality posts is preserved at SCP Classic, and the review culture that followed kept standards high.
Q 29As of early 2026, roughly how many SCP objects had articles on the wiki?
Over 10,400
Plus more than 6,300 Foundation Tales; a 2022 journal article suggested it may be the largest collaborative writing project in history.
Q 30The wiki's first writing contest, in 2011, decided which article would get what number?
SCP-1000
A 2014 'Dystopia Contest' asked for stories of the Foundation in a degraded world.