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50 free Scream 2 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Scream 2 reached cinemas less than a year after the original and had to do what its own characters argue about in class: be a sequel worth watching. It sent Sidney Prescott to college, put a film about her ordeal on screen, and let a copycat in a Ghostface costume start the killing afresh. This quiz covers the whole film: the opening at the Stab preview, the suspects at Windsor College, who was behind the mask and why, plus the cast, the music, the troubled script and the box-office run. It is written for horror fans and for anyone putting together a film quiz night. Some questions need only one viewing; others are for people who know the production stories.
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Q 01Scream 2 posted the biggest December weekend gross on record until which film beat it two weeks later?
Titanic
Titanic took the December weekend record within two weeks, yet the slasher sequel's own debut stayed the biggest December opening until 2000.
Q 02In Stab, the film within Scream 2, which actress plays Sidney Prescott, paying off a joke from the original?
Tori Spelling
Tori Spelling got the part because Sidney had sarcastically predicted in the first film that Spelling would play her, and the cameo earned a Golden Raspberry nomination.
Q 03The cinema deaths of Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens in Scream 2 are satirized in which parody film?
Scary Movie
Scary Movie has its noisy filmgoer Brenda killed in the middle of a screening, though there it is the fed-up audience that silences her.
Q 04Which actor, in his first leading film role, plays the Scream 2 film student unmasked as Ghostface?
Timothy Olyphant
Timothy Olyphant plays Mickey, a horror buff who actually wants to be caught so that the trial will make him famous.
Q 05In Scream 2, reporter Debbie Salt is unmasked as the vengeful mother of which character from the original film?
Billy Loomis
Billy Loomis was shot dead by Sidney at the end of Scream, and the mother who had abandoned him years earlier comes to Windsor College to settle the score.
Q 06Which actress, fresh from I Know What You Did Last Summer, plays doomed sorority sister Cici Cooper in Scream 2?
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar agreed to the part without reading the script, and squeezed the shoot in between filming Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Q 07At the Stab preview in Scream 2, what does the rowdy audience mistake the dying Maureen Evans's cries for?
A publicity stunt
A publicity stunt is the crowd's guess, so nobody helps her; the killer had simply sat down beside her in her boyfriend's seat.
Q 08In Scream 2, Mickey wants to be arrested so that he can blame his killing spree on what at trial?
Movie violence
Movie violence is the scapegoat Mickey has picked, expecting the court case to make him a celebrity, but his partner shoots him before he can try it.
Q 09In Scream 2's film-within-a-film Stab, Heather Graham plays Casey Becker, a part first played by which star?
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore's character died in the first film's opening scene, and the sequel's makers credited her casting with making serious actors eager to do horror.
Q 10Which director returned for Scream 2 despite fearing that he would be trapped by a horror franchise?
Wes Craven
Wes Craven wavered for so long that a replacement was lined up, but he decided he could not leave the sequel to anyone else.
Q 11Which actress returns as Sidney Prescott in Scream 2, having signed for a sequel before the original was filmed?
Neve Campbell
Neve Campbell was the only cast member contracted that early, because Sidney was the one character certain to survive the first film.
Q 12Which actress plays Gale Weathers, the reporter whose book on the Woodsboro killings became Stab, in Scream 2?
Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox won a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for the sequel, in which Gale finally chooses the wounded Dewey's ambulance over filing her report.
Q 13Which screenwriter wrote Scream 2 from a five-page sequel outline first used to help sell the original script?
Kevin Williamson
Q 21Which actress plays Maureen Evans, the Scream 2 opening victim stabbed in front of a cheering cinema crowd?
Jada Pinkett
Jada Pinkett took the cameo after the makers had first approached Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler to appear in the opening sequence.
Q 22Where is Phil Stevens when Ghostface kills him during the Stab preview at the start of Scream 2?
In the restroom
In the restroom, he presses his ear to the stall divider to hear odd whimpering next door, and a blade is driven through it.
Q 23The star playing Sidney Prescott won Best Female Performance for Scream 2 at which annual ceremony?
MTV Movie Awards
Kevin Williamson attached the outline so that studios would feel they were bidding on a whole franchise, not just a single script.
Q 14In Scream 2, Derek embarrasses Sidney with a public serenade of which chart-topping 1970 hit?
I Think I Love You
I Think I Love You, the Partridge Family's debut single, doubled as the audition piece: every actor trying out for Derek had to perform the scene.
Q 15Where at Windsor College is Randy Meeks murdered in broad daylight while on the phone in Scream 2?
Inside a news van
Inside a news van is where Ghostface drags him while Gale and Dewey search nearby, a death the screenwriter later said he regretted.
Q 16Which Scream 2 character saves Sidney by shooting Debbie Salt, in exchange for a television interview?
Cotton Weary
Cotton Weary, cleared of murdering Sidney's mother, is hungry for fame, and Sidney repays him by pointing the waiting press his way.
Q 17In Scream 2, Sidney is drawn by music to which Windsor College building, where the killers reveal themselves?
The campus theater
The campus theater is where Sidney finds her boyfriend tied up, and where one killer betrays the other by shooting him on stage.
Q 18In Stab, the film within Scream 2, which sitcom actor is said to play Deputy Dewey Riley?
David Schwimmer
David Schwimmer is the name given for Stab's Dewey, a wink at the Friends co-star of the actress who plays Gale.
Q 19During production of Scream 2, who reportedly leaked a full script of the film onto the Internet?
One of the extras
One of the extras posted it, so later drafts were printed on paper that resisted photocopying and the killers' reveal reached actors only on the day.
Q 20Randy Meeks dies in Scream 2, so how does the character still manage to appear in Scream 3?
In a videotaped message
In a videotaped message, recorded in case he did not survive, he lays out the rules of a trilogy, because his death had been too conclusive to undo.
MTV Movie Awards voters gave her the 1998 prize, whereas the Saturn Awards only nominated her, and she lost there to Jodie Foster for Contact.
Q 24In Scream 2, Sidney's rescuer shoots Debbie Salt on condition of a joint interview with which real-life TV anchor?
Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer is the name he asks for, holding the pair at gunpoint while the killer tries to talk him into shooting Sidney instead.
Q 25Which actress, just off a nine-year run on the sitcom Roseanne, plays reporter Debbie Salt in Scream 2?
Laurie Metcalf
Laurie Metcalf earned the director's praise for how convincingly she played the character's deranged side once the reporter act was dropped.
Q 26Which actor won the role of Sidney's boyfriend Derek in Scream 2 after auditioning with a song?
Jerry O'Connell
Jerry O'Connell was starring in a television series of his own at the time, one of several leads whose schedules the shoot had to work around.
Q 27Which director agreed to take over Scream 2 while its original director wavered, then made The Faculty instead?
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez was sounded out by the writer and producers and was willing to do it, until the first film's director found he could not let the sequel go.
Q 28Which film composer wrote the choral piece Cassandra Aria, heard when Sidney acts in a play in Scream 2?
Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman's aria was a late addition to another composer's score, and it is reprised during the finale.
Q 29Dewey's guitar theme in Scream 2 was lifted from Hans Zimmer's score for which 1996 action film?
Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow's twanging Duane Eddy guitar was only a placeholder at a test screening, but the audience liked it so much that the studio kept it.
Q 30Which California university doubled for parts of the fictional Windsor College in Scream 2?
UCLA
UCLA lent its grounds to the sequel, and Scream 3 went back there to film Gale's seminar in one of its classrooms.