Stranger Things Season 2
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50 free Stranger Things Season 2 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Stranger Things 2 picks up in Hawkins, Indiana, in the fall of 1984, almost a year after Will Byers came home. Something is spreading beneath the streets, Will's visions are getting worse, and a new shadow from the Upside Down has plans for him. This quiz covers the whole season: the newcomers Max, Billy and Bob, Dustin's unusual pet Dart, Eleven's search for where she came from, Steve's unlikely new friendships, and the fight against the Mind Flayer and its Demodogs. There are also questions on the actors, the music and how the Duffer Brothers made their follow-up. It is written for fans fresh from a rewatch and for anyone hosting a Stranger Things night. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few behind-the-scenes stories along the way.
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Q 01On Halloween in Stranger Things 2, Mike, Will, Dustin and Lucas wear matching costumes from which hit film?
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is the boys' new favorite movie as eighth grade begins: the season is set in the fall of 1984, only months after the film reached theaters that June.
Q 02In Stranger Things 2, Joyce's boyfriend Bob Newby runs the Hawkins branch of which electronics chain?
RadioShack
RadioShack is Bob's workplace, and the set dressers stocked it faithfully: an Armatron, a product the chain really sold at the time, sits on a shelf above his head.
Q 03In Stranger Things 2, which candy bar does Dustin feed the slimy creature he adopts, inspiring its name?
Three Musketeers
Three Musketeers nougat wins the creature over, so Dustin names it D'Artagnan, Dart for short. The same treat later persuades a much bigger Dart to let his friends pass.
Q 04In Stranger Things 2, how does the possessed Will secretly tell his family to close the gate?
Tapping out Morse code
Tapping out Morse code on his chair lets Will slip a message past the Mind Flayer while his family and Mike keep it busy with happy memories of his childhood.
Q 05Which star of The Goonies joined Stranger Things 2 as Joyce's kind-hearted boyfriend, Bob Newby?
Sean Astin
Sean Astin made his film debut as Mikey in The Goonies, one of the 1980s adventure films the Duffer Brothers name as an influence on the series.
Q 06In Stranger Things 2, which arcade game does new girl Max top, knocking Dustin off first place?
Dig Dug
Dig Dug shows Max's alias MADMAX above Dustin's old high score, which gives Chapter One its title. Chapter Five is named after the game itself.
Q 07Which chart-topping ballad plays as Mike and Eleven slow-dance at the end of Stranger Things 2?
Every Breath You Take
Every Breath You Take by The Police soundtracks the dance and the kiss that follows, a scene that won Best Musical Moment at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards.
Q 08In Stranger Things 2, where has Hopper been secretly hiding Eleven for almost a year?
A cabin in the woods
A cabin in the woods that once belonged to Hopper's grandfather becomes Eleven's home, on the strict condition that she never leaves it.
Q 09The Super Bowl teaser for Stranger Things 2 used a vintage 1980s ad for which brand loved by Eleven?
Eggo waffles
Eggo waffles maker Kellogg's had no part in the first season, but supplied the old commercial once it saw what the show was doing for the brand.
Q 10In Stranger Things 2, what do Joyce, Jonathan and Nancy use to drive the Mind Flayer out of Will's body?
Intense heat
Intense heat from a stove, space heaters and finally a red-hot poker forces the Mind Flayer out. The possessed Will had been demanding that his house be kept cold.
Q 11In Stranger Things 2, new student Max and her stepbrother Billy have moved to Hawkins from which state?
California
California is where Max lived until her parents divorced and her mother remarried, a move to Indiana that she and her volatile stepbrother both resent.
Q 12In Stranger Things 2, which crop mysteriously rots in fields around Hawkins as tunnels spread underground?
Pumpkins
Pumpkins are the first sign of trouble: Hopper inspects the blighted patches in the days before Halloween, then digs into one and finds a tunnel that looks like the Upside Down.
Q 13In Stranger Things 2, what weapon does Steve swing to protect Dustin, Lucas and Max from a pack of Demodogs?
A nail-studded bat
Q 21In Stranger Things 2, Eleven runs away to which big city, where she finds Kali and a gang of punk outcasts?
Chicago
Chicago is where Kali's gang hides out, and Eleven is the only main character who sets foot there: Mike and Hopper appear only in her visions and flashbacks.
Q 22In Stranger Things 2, what psychic ability does Kali, Hawkins Lab's subject 008, use to escape the police?
Casting illusions
Casting illusions lets Kali make pursuers see whatever she chooses: in the season's opening chase, a police driver swerves to a stop before a tunnel collapse that never happens.
Q 23In Stranger Things 2, which emotion does Kali teach Eleven to channel in order to strengthen her powers?
Anger
A nail-studded bat that Jonathan first made to fight the Demogorgon becomes Steve's signature weapon, known to his friends simply as The Bat.
Q 14In Stranger Things 2, what self-described job does Steve take on as he protects Dustin and the younger kids?
Babysitter
Babysitter is Steve's own word for his new role, and fans ran with it: the former king of Hawkins High became an internet meme as the group's protective mom or dad.
Q 15The kids of Stranger Things 2 name the Mind Flayer after a monster from which tabletop role-playing game?
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons shapes how the party understands every monster: Dustin and Mike borrow the name of an existing creature from the game for the shadow that possesses Will.
Q 16Stranger Things 2 reveals which first name Terry Ives gave her baby before the girl became known as Eleven?
Jane
Jane is what her mother called her, and by the season's end the name sits beside a new surname, once Hopper is able to adopt Eleven legally.
Q 17In Stranger Things 2, where does Dustin find the strange creature Dart after a night of trick-or-treating?
In his trash can
In his trash can, Dustin finds what he takes for an undiscovered species. He smuggles it to school the next day, where Will recognizes its cry from his visions.
Q 18In Stranger Things 2, what does a jealous Eleven do on finding Mike talking with Max at school?
Knocks Max off her skateboard
Eleven knocks Max off her skateboard from a distance with her mind. She has mistaken an argument for flirting, and she slips away before Mike ever sees her.
Q 19In Stranger Things 2, what do Will's hundreds of drawings form when Bob pieces them together?
A map of the town
A map of the town is what puzzle-lover Bob spots in the tangle of scribbles, and it leads Joyce to the exact spot where Hopper is trapped below ground.
Q 20In Stranger Things 2, what does Bob Newby volunteer to do at Hawkins Lab before the Demodogs kill him?
Reset the breakers
Bob offers to reset the breakers because nobody else knows how to bring the lights back and unlock the doors. His success lets Joyce, Hopper, Mike and Will escape.
Anger, summoned from a painful memory, lets Eleven move a railcar with her mind, and she draws on the same lesson to close the gate under Hawkins Lab.
Q 24In Stranger Things 2, which conspiracy theorist hired by Barb's parents helps Nancy and Jonathan expose the lab?
Murray Bauman
Murray Bauman persuades the pair to water their story down so that the public will believe it, then pushes them into admitting their feelings for each other.
Q 25In Stranger Things 2, what watered-down account of Barb's death do Nancy and Jonathan send to newspapers?
A chemical poisoning
A chemical poisoning blamed on the lab is the version readers will accept, and the scandal it causes is enough to force Hawkins Lab to close a month later.
Q 26In Stranger Things 2, what does Dr. Owens first blame for Will's terrifying visions of the Upside Down?
Post-traumatic stress
Post-traumatic stress is the diagnosis, which Dr. Owens ties to the approaching anniversary of the night Will vanished. The theory collapses once the shadow in those visions seizes him.
Q 27In Stranger Things 2, what advice from Bob backfires when Will tries it on the shadow monster?
Face his fears
Bob tells Will to face his fears without knowing what the boy is really seeing, so Will stands his ground and the shadow monster pours into him.
Q 28Which actress, a former Broadway Annie, joined Stranger Things 2 as the arcade champion Max Mayfield?
Sadie Sink
Sadie Sink was first judged too old for Max at 14, but she begged for more material to read and won the part after four callbacks.
Q 29Which Aliens actor plays Dr. Sam Owens, the scientist who takes charge of Hawkins Lab in Stranger Things 2?
Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser was in the plan from the start: the Duffer Brothers' pitch to Netflix simply called the character Paul Reiser, a nod to his villainous Carter Burke in Aliens.
Q 30Which Stranger Things 2 actor won MTV's Most Frightened Performance award as the possessed Will Byers?
Noah Schnapp
Noah Schnapp had only a recurring part in season one, when Will was missing for most of the story; his promotion to the main cast came just before this award-winning turn.