Ted Bundy
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50 free Ted Bundy trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ted Bundy is one of the most studied criminals in American history. He looked ordinary, held respectable jobs and moved in political circles, and the gap between how he appeared and what he did is why the case still fills books, documentaries and dramas decades after his death. The long hunt for him also showed how hard it was for investigators in different states to connect their cases. This quiz follows the documented record: his childhood and college years, the ruses he used to win strangers' trust, the detective work and the lucky breaks that led to his arrests, his escapes from custody, the courtroom scenes in Florida and his final interviews. A closing group of questions covers the authors, actors and filmmakers who have told the story since. It is written for true-crime readers, students of criminal justice and anyone who has watched a documentary about the case and wants to test what they remember. The questions stick to established facts about the investigation and the trials, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01By which method was Ted Bundy executed at Florida State Prison on the morning of January 24, 1989?
Electric chair
The electric chair at Florida State Prison ended a nine-year wait: the sentence carried out was Bundy's third, passed in 1980, and he declined a last meal.
Q 02Ted Bundy used an obscure Florida law to carry out which ceremony in court while questioning a witness?
A marriage
A marriage declared in court before a judge was legally binding in Florida, so when witness Carole Ann Boone accepted his proposal on the stand, Bundy announced they were wed.
Q 03To hide an unwed birth, Ted Bundy's family told him as a child that his mother was which relative?
His sister
His sister was the cover story because his grandparents were raising him as their own son. Accounts differ on when Bundy found his birth certificate and learned the truth.
Q 04Which tan car, later put on show in a Tennessee crime museum, did witnesses in several states link to Ted Bundy?
Volkswagen Beetle
The Volkswagen Beetle, a 1968 model, proved hard to pin down: witnesses called it tan or bronze, light brown or dark brown, metallic or not.
Q 05Ted Bundy worked in 1971 at which kind of Seattle telephone service, beside a future crime writer?
A suicide crisis hotline
A suicide crisis hotline in Seattle hired Bundy while he was a university honor student, and his co-worker there later described him as kind, solicitous and empathetic.
Q 06Which prop did Ted Bundy often wear to look harmless when asking women to carry things to his car?
An arm sling
An arm sling, or sometimes a plaster leg cast and crutches, made Bundy seem helpless as he asked for a hand with books, a briefcase or a sailboat.
Q 07Ted Bundy leapt from a second-floor courthouse window in June 1977 in which Rocky Mountain resort town?
Aspen
Aspen saw Bundy again six days later: lost, cold and limping on a sprained ankle, he drove a stolen car back into town and was pulled over for weaving across the road.
Q 08Ted Bundy posed as which kind of official when approaching Carol DaRonch at a Utah mall in 1974?
A police officer
A police officer named Roseland was his cover story, but DaRonch fought her way out of his car and later picked him out of a lineup, which led to his first conviction.
Q 09Which actor played Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, a film based on his girlfriend's memoir?
Zac Efron
Zac Efron starred opposite Lily Collins as Liz Kendall, in a drama that documentary maker Joe Berlinger premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Q 10From death row in 1984, Ted Bundy offered detectives advice on catching which then-unidentified murderer?
The Green River Killer
The Green River Killer stayed free for a further seventeen years after detectives took up the offer and interviewed Bundy, until Gary Ridgway was finally identified.
Q 11Ted Bundy graduated in 1972, as an honor student in psychology, from which Pacific Northwest school?
University of Washington
The University of Washington first enrolled him to study a foreign language. He dropped out in 1968, came back two years later and won over his professors.
Q 12Through which part of his jail cell did Ted Bundy escape in December 1977 after losing 35 pounds?
The ceiling
The ceiling had a hole about one foot square that Bundy cut between its steel bars, and an informant's reports of movement overhead at night were never investigated.
Q 13Which true-crime author knew Ted Bundy as a friend and co-worker before writing The Stranger Beside Me in 1980?
Ann Rule
Q 21What had Ted Bundy removed from his car, a detail a Utah patrolman noticed at the 1975 traffic stop?
The passenger seat
The passenger seat had been taken out and laid across the back, and a search turned up handcuffs, rope, a crowbar and a mask made from pantyhose.
Q 22While working for a Seattle crime advisory committee, Ted Bundy wrote a pamphlet for women on which subject?
Rape prevention
Rape prevention was his topic as the committee's assistant director, and he later worked at a state agency that was helping to search for the missing women.
Q 23Which room of the Pitkin County Courthouse did Ted Bundy ask to visit just before his 1977 window escape?
The law library
Ann Rule had been writing for True Detective magazine under the pen name Andy Stack, and the Bundy book was the first she published under her own name.
Q 14Which physical evidence, matched to casts by experts, helped convict Ted Bundy at his televised 1979 Miami trial?
Bite marks
Bite marks on one victim were matched to castings of Bundy's teeth, vital proof against a man whose fingerprints were never found at any crime scene.
Q 15Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes premiered in January 2019 on which streaming service?
Netflix
Netflix released the four-part series on the 30th anniversary of Bundy's execution, drawing on more than 100 hours of interviews and archive footage.
Q 16Most experts who examined Ted Bundy rejected an early bipolar diagnosis in favor of which condition?
Antisocial personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder fit his outward charm, his grasp of right and wrong that never changed his behavior, and his absence of guilt or remorse.
Q 17Ted Bundy grew up in which Pacific Northwest port city, where his mother settled with relatives in 1950?
Tacoma
Tacoma is where his mother met hospital cook Johnny Bundy at a church singles night in 1951. They wed that year and Johnny adopted the boy, giving him his surname.
Q 18Which actor, People's Sexiest Man Alive that year, played Ted Bundy in the 1986 miniseries The Deliberate Stranger?
Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon starred in the two-part NBC drama, based on a book by a Seattle Times reporter who had interviewed Bundy in 1972, when he was a campaign volunteer.
Q 19Ted Bundy was disciplined on death row for exchanging letters with which would-be presidential assassin?
John Hinckley
John Hinckley, who shot President Reagan in 1981, was a pen pal the prison had not approved. Shortly before, guards had moved Bundy to a new cell after finding an unauthorized mirror.
Q 20Which sorority's house at Florida State University did Ted Bundy enter before dawn on January 15, 1978?
Chi Omega
Chi Omega's house held more than thirty people who heard nothing, though detectives judged that the attacks on four women took less than fifteen minutes in all.
The law library was open to him because he was acting as his own attorney, a role that also excused him from handcuffs and leg shackles in court.
Q 24Ted Bundy was baptized in August 1975 into which denomination, which excommunicated him after a kidnapping conviction?
Latter-day Saints
Latter-day Saints baptized Bundy while he lived in Salt Lake City, though he was never an active member. Asked his religion after his arrest, he answered Methodist.
Q 25To avoid the stigma of confession, Ted Bundy described his crimes to two journalists in 1980 in which way?
In the third person
In the third person, Bundy could speculate about what the murderer might have done without admitting anything, and the tapes later fed two books and a documentary series.
Q 26In which Florida Panhandle city near the Alabama line was fugitive Ted Bundy finally arrested in February 1978?
Pensacola
Pensacola patrolman David Lee stopped a stolen car in the small hours and had to chase and tackle its driver, unaware the man was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
Q 27Ted Bundy waived which right, on his attorney's advice, when he faced a Utah kidnapping charge in 1976?
A jury trial
A jury trial seemed too risky after so much hostile publicity, so Judge Stewart Hanson alone heard four days of evidence and found Bundy guilty.
Q 28Which evangelical broadcaster taped a final interview with Ted Bundy on the afternoon before his 1989 execution?
James Dobson
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, heard Bundy blame violent pornography for his crimes, though he had told other interviewers it played a negligible role.
Q 29Ted Bundy's will asked for his ashes to be scattered in which mountain range of his home state?
The Cascades
The Cascades received his ashes at an undisclosed spot after a cremation in Gainesville, Florida, the state where his three death sentences were handed down.
Q 30Ted Bundy spent his first three years with his grandparents in the Roxborough neighborhood of which city?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia drew him back in 1969, when he enrolled for a semester at Temple University to be near his grandfather after a painful breakup.