SCP Foundation Trivia
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46 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
SCP stands for Special Containment Procedures, the heading of the section that opens every article; 'Secure, Contain, Protect' is the Foundation's separate motto.
Q 02The SCP Foundation answers only to which shadowy leadership body?
The O5 Council
The O5 Council, thirteen Overseers numbered O5-1 through O5-13, is the Foundation's supreme authority, with no national government above it.
Q 03What are 'D-class personnel'?
Disposable human test subjects, usually convicts
D-class personnel are disposable human test subjects, usually death-row convicts, who are made to handle dangerous SCPs so that regular staff are not put at risk.
Q 04The Foundation typically erases witnesses' memories with what?
Amnestic drugs
Amnestic drugs, graded into classes such as A, B and C by strength, wipe witnesses' memories so the world keeps running under a veil of normalcy.
Q 05Which rival group is a splinter of ex-Foundation defectors who weaponise SCPs?
The Chaos Insurgency
The Chaos Insurgency broke away from the Foundation in 1924 in the main canon and uses captured anomalies as weapons instead of containing them.
Q 06The Global Occult Coalition is a secret paramilitary arm of which real organisation?
The United Nations
The Global Occult Coalition operates under the United Nations, formed after the Second World War from occult groups, and destroys supernatural threats rather than containing them.
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
Euclid is the default class for anything autonomous or sapient, because unpredictable behaviour makes containment less than fully reliable.
Q 09A Keter classification means an anomaly is what?
Exceedingly difficult to contain
Keter means exceedingly difficult to contain: the class measures the cost and unreliability of containment, not how dangerous the object is, a distinction fans love to argue.
Q 10Thaumiel-class objects are special because the Foundation uses them for what?
Containing other SCPs
Thaumiel-class objects are used by the Foundation for containing other SCPs or counteracting their effects; their very existence is classified at the highest level.
Q 11Which class is given to anomalies that cannot be contained or are about to breach imminently?
Apollyon
Apollyon is an esoteric class for anomalies that cannot be contained or are about to breach, as with the entity behind SCP-2317's door; a breach usually means an end-of-the-world scenario.
Q 12SCP-173, the first SCP ever written, is a statue that does what?
Attacks when nobody is looking at it
SCP-173 attacks when nobody is looking at it: it stays frozen under direct observation but moves fast enough to snap necks the instant eye contact breaks; it is concrete, rebar and spray paint.
Q 13The original SCP-173 post appeared in June 2007 on which website?
Q 21SCP-426 is a toaster with what peculiar rule?
It can only be referred to in the first person
SCP-426 can only be referred to in the first person, so its article reads 'I am a toaster'; people who discuss it at length begin to believe they are the toaster.
Q 22SCP-999, the friendly orange slime, smells like what?
Whatever the person finds most comforting
SCP-999 smells like whatever the person finds most comforting, differing from subject to subject; its touch induces euphoria, so the Foundation uses it to treat depression.
Q 23SCP-1247 depicts a man who sees every animal as which actor?
4chan's /x/ board
SCP-173 was first posted anonymously to 4chan's paranormal board /x/ on 22 June 2007, a year before the dedicated wiki existed.
Q 14The photo that illustrated SCP-173 for years showed a sculpture by which Japanese artist?
Izumi Kato
Izumi Kato's sculpture 'Untitled 2004' was the face of SCP-173 for years; he reluctantly permitted non-commercial use in 2014, and the wiki removed the photo in 2022.
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
SCP-049 looks like a medieval plague doctor in a black robe and beaked mask; its touch kills anyone it believes carries 'the pestilence', and it then reanimates the corpse.
Q 17SCP-096, the 'Shy Guy', hunts down anyone who does what?
Sees its face, even in a photo
SCP-096 pursues and kills anyone who sees its face, even in a photograph or drawing; the tall, pale humanoid is otherwise docile and apparently indestructible.
Q 18SCP-087 is an apparently endless what?
Descending staircase
SCP-087 is an unlit descending staircase with no apparent bottom, home to 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
SCP-055 is impossible to remember: an 'antimeme' that no one can recall once they look away, describable only by what it is not, such as the fact that it is 'not round'.
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.
Shia LaBeouf
SCP-1247 is a man who perceives every animal as the actor Shia LaBeouf, one of the wiki's light-hearted entries that leaven its usual grimness.
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
SCP-1609 was a benevolent teleporting chair that appeared wherever someone needed a seat, until the Global Occult Coalition fed it through a woodchipper and left hostile, lung-invading mulch.
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
SCP content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0, so anyone may sell merchandise or make games as long as they credit the authors and share alike.
Q 28SCP-682, one of the wiki's most infamous entries, is nicknamed what?
Hard-to-Destroy Reptile
SCP-682, the 'Hard-to-Destroy Reptile', is a huge, adaptive and intensely hostile creature kept in a tank of acid; the Foundation's many attempts to kill it have all failed.
Q 29The wiki's first writing contest, in 2011, decided which article would get what number?
SCP-1000
The 2011 SCP-1000 contest was the wiki's first, and the winning entry made SCP-1000 a hidden population of Bigfoot-like hominids.
Q 30The Wanderer's Library, a sister site to the SCP Wiki, differs how?
It hosts fantastical stories rather than scientific reports
The Wanderer's Library hosts fantastical stories rather than scientific reports: it shares the SCP setting but swaps the clinical file format for tales kept in an endless library.