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53 free Teen Wolf trivia questions with answers. Teen Wolf means two very different things depending on when you grew up: Michael J. Fox surfing on a van and hitting free throws for the Beavers, or Tyler Posey's Scott McCall keeping Beacon Hills alive through six seasons of Alphas, kanimas, nogitsunes, Dread Doctors and Ghost Riders. This quiz covers both, plus Teen Wolf Too, the 1986 cartoon and Teen Wolf: The Movie on Paramount+, with the MTV series taking the bigger share. Questions start easy (who plays Scott, what sport he plays in each version, what Lydia is) and climb to genuinely hard ones about the cartoon's town, the pilot's director, Stiles's real first name and who composed the score. Every answer was checked against a documented source and the citation is shown under each explanation, so a pack argument about which season had 24 episodes can be settled on the spot. Play it solo, or use it as a Teen Wolf round for a rewatch party with people who still have opinions about the finale.
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Q 01Who plays Scott Howard, the high-schooler who discovers he is a werewolf, in the 1985 film Teen Wolf?
Michael J. Fox
The film came out on August 23, 1985, just weeks after Back to the Future had made him the biggest star of the summer.
Q 02In the 1985 film, which sport does Scott Howard's werewolf strength turn him into a star at?
Basketball
His team, the Beavers, borrowed its mascot logo from Oregon State University.
Q 03The 1985 Teen Wolf was made for about $4M. Roughly how much did it gross worldwide?
$80M
It took $33 million in the US alone, and the distributor had spent as much on advertising as on the film itself.
Q 04How does Scott Howard first learn the truth about himself in the 1985 film?
He transforms in his bathroom at home
His father Harold, also a werewolf, then explains it as a family curse.
Q 05Who directed the original 1985 Teen Wolf?
Rod Daniel
It was written by Jeph Loeb and Matthew Weisman, who also created the 1986 cartoon; Loeb went on to run Marvel Television.
Q 06Who plays Scott's werewolf father Harold in the 1985 film and Uncle Harold in the sequel?
James Hampton
Jerry Levine played Stiles, and Jay Tarses was Coach Finstock; both character names were carried into the MTV series.
Q 07The 1987 sequel Teen Wolf Too swapped the original's sport for which one?
Boxing
It was Jason Bateman's feature-film debut, playing Scott's cousin Todd at Hamilton University; it holds an 8 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.
Q 08Which future Arrested Development star made his feature-film debut as Todd Howard in Teen Wolf Too?
Jason Bateman
Siskel and Ebert gave it two emphatic thumbs down; it made just $7.9 million.
Q 09The 1986 animated Teen Wolf series moved Scott and his werewolf family to a town called what?
Wolverton
It ran for 21 episodes on CBS and gave Scott a little sister, Lupe, and werewolf grandparents who never appeared in the film.
Q 10Who voiced Scott Howard in the 1986 animated series?
Townsend Coleman
Coleman was simultaneously voicing Michelangelo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
Q 11Who developed the 2011 MTV Teen Wolf series?
Jeff Davis
Davis, who had created Criminal Minds, wanted 'a darker, sexier and edgier version' of the 1985 film.
Q 12The MTV series premiered on June 5, 2011, immediately after what broadcast?
The MTV Movie Awards
The premiere drew 2.17 million viewers, and the show ended up averaging up to eight million online streams an episode.
Q 13How many episodes did MTV's Teen Wolf run for across its six seasons?
100
The finale aired on September 24, 2017; the split third season alone accounted for 24 of them.
Q 21What makes Scott a 'True Alpha', a status he reaches in the third season?
He rose without killing anyone for it
It is treated as happening only once in a hundred years, and it is why the Alpha Pack wants him.
Q 22Derek Hale's family died when their house was burned down by whom?
Kate Argent
Kate seduced a teenage Derek to get inside; she is later killed by Peter, then resurrected as a werejaguar.
Q 23At the end of season 1, how does Derek Hale become an Alpha?
By killing his uncle Peter
Q 14In the MTV series, Scott McCall plays which sport for his high school?
Lacrosse
Coach Finstock, played by comedian Orny Adams, runs the team.
Q 15The MTV series is set in which fictional California town?
Beacon Hills
Real filming moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles for the third season.
Q 16Where were the first two seasons of the MTV series filmed before production moved to Los Angeles?
Atlanta
The move west came after the show won conditional approval for a California film and TV tax credit.
Q 17Who directed the pilot of the MTV series and later returned to direct Teen Wolf: The Movie?
Russell Mulcahy
Mulcahy is best known for Highlander and a stack of 1980s music videos, including 'Video Killed the Radio Star.'
Q 18Who plays Scott McCall in the MTV series?
Tyler Posey
Posey has said he wrote a sequel script to the 2023 movie and wants to keep the franchise going.
Q 19Dylan O'Brien plays Scott's best friend Stiles, whose real first name is revealed in season 6 to be what?
Mieczyslaw
Nobody could pronounce it, so his mother's nickname stuck. His father is Sheriff Noah Stilinski, played by Linden Ashby.
Q 20Who bites Scott McCall in the woods in the pilot, turning him into a werewolf?
Peter Hale
Peter, Derek's uncle, is the season-one Alpha, lying apparently comatose in the hospital between attacks.
The season also ends with Jackson asking Derek for the bite, which sets up the kanima storyline.
Q 24What supernatural creature does Lydia Martin turn out to be?
A banshee
Her screams announce approaching death; in season 4 another banshee, Meredith Walker, turns out to be the Benefactor behind the dead pool.
Q 25The Argent family, whose name is French for silver, comes from a long line of what?
Werewolf hunters
Chris Argent is the reluctant hunter dad; his father Gerard and sister Kate are the ones who go bad.
Q 26In season 2 Jackson Whittemore's bite goes wrong and he becomes what reptilian shapeshifter?
A kanima
He is controlled first by classmate Matt Daehler, then by Gerard Argent, before Lydia's love turns him into a werewolf.
Q 27How does Scott foil the elder Argent's plan to cure his cancer by taking the bite?
He swapped his pills for mountain ash
The bite rejects him spectacularly, and Gerard oozes black blood before escaping to return in later seasons.
Q 28Which three teens does Derek bite to build his pack in season 2?
Isaac, Erica and Boyd
Erica and Boyd do not survive the Alpha Pack; Isaac, played by Daniel Sharman, leaves for France with Chris Argent.
Q 29The first half of the third season pits the pack against the Alpha Pack, led by which blind 'Demon Wolf'?
Deucalion
He returns in season 5, still blind, to help take down the Beast of Gévaudan.
Q 30The Darach, season three's druid killing in threes, is which high-school teacher?
Jennifer Blake
Haley Webb played the English teacher who was also dating Derek at the time.