50 free The Munsters trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free The Munsters trivia questions with answers. The Munsters ran for just two seasons on CBS, from 1964 to 1966, and lost its timeslot war to Batman, yet the family at 1313 Mockingbird Lane has never really gone off the air. This quiz covers the original series and everything that grew out of it: the colour pilot with a different wife and a bratty Eddie, the Universal monster makeup the show was allowed to borrow, the George Barris cars, the Grammy-nominated surf-rock theme, and the spin-offs, from Munster, Go Home! to The Munsters Today and Rob Zombie's 2022 film. There are questions on the cast too: Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis's earlier partnership on Car 54, Where Are You?, Yvonne De Carlo's Hollywood career before Lily, Al Lewis's run for governor of New York, and what became of Butch Patrick. Difficulty ranges from things every rerun viewer knows, like the family address and the pet dragon, to production details like which soundstage the house came from. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the show, the films and the cast, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01On which network did The Munsters originally air, from 1964 to 1966?
CBS
It aired Thursdays at 7:30 and drew higher ratings than The Addams Family, which ran at the same time on ABC.
Q 02What is the Munsters' street address?
1313 Mockingbird Lane
An earlier draft put them at 43 Mockingbird Lane in Camelot, New Jersey; the fictional city became Mockingbird Heights.
Q 03What kind of creature is the family pet, Spot?
A fire-breathing dragon
He lives under the stairs and mostly makes his presence known with a jet of flame.
Q 04Who plays Herman Munster?
Fred Gwynne
The Harvard graduate and former Lampoon president was over six and a half feet tall before the platform boots.
Q 05Herman and Grandpa were played by two actors who had just co-starred in which police sitcom?
Car 54, Where Are You?
Their chemistry as Officers Muldoon and Schnauser got them cast first, in February 1964, before the rest of the family.
Q 06Which classic movie monster is Grandpa based on?
Count Dracula
The show could use Universal's copyrighted monster designs because the studio co-produced it.
Q 07Which actress plays Lily Munster?
Yvonne De Carlo
The Vancouver-born star had played Moses's wife in The Ten Commandments and later introduced 'I'm Still Here' in Sondheim's Follies.
Q 08The unaired colour pilot featured Herman's wife under what name?
Phoebe
Joan Marshall played her but was judged to look too much like Morticia Addams, so the part was recast and renamed.
Q 09Two actresses played niece Marilyn during the series. Who took over from Beverley Owen after episode 13?
Pat Priest
A third Marilyn, Debbie Watson, appeared in the 1966 film Munster, Go Home!
Q 10Who plays Eddie Munster?
Butch Patrick
The original pilot's Eddie was played as a nasty brat by a different boy and recast; the new Eddie later starred in a Krofft show.
Q 11Which voice actor, famous as Bugs Bunny, voiced Charlie the Raven in the cuckoo clock?
Mel Blanc
Bob Hastings also voiced the bird in some episodes.
Q 12Where does Herman work?
At a funeral parlor
His boss, Mr. Gateman, was played by horror veteran John Carradine.
Q 13According to the episode 'Happy 100th Anniversary', in what year were Herman and Lily married?
1865
Which puts their centenary in the show's own 1965.
Q 14The show's producers, Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, had previously created which wholesome family sitcom?
Q 21DRAG-U-LA, the dragster Grandpa builds, was made from what?
A coffin
Barris said a real one was bought for the build; Grandpa races it to win back the Koach after Herman loses it.
Q 22Which rocker's 1998 single took its title from Grandpa's dragster?
Rob Zombie
The same musician wrote and directed the 2022 Munsters film, shot in Hungary.
Q 23Who composed the show's instrumental theme, nominated for a Grammy in 1965?
Jack Marshall
One writer called it a 'Bernard-Herrmann-meets-Duane-Eddy sound'; the lyrics written for it were never broadcast.
Leave It to Beaver
Which is why The Munsters is such a precise parody of the well-meaning-dad, nurturing-mom formula.
Q 15The idea of a family of comical monsters was first pitched to Universal in the 1940s by which animator?
Bob Clampett
The Looney Tunes director developed it as a cartoon series between 1943 and 1945; it went nowhere until 1963.
Q 16Writer Allan Burns admitted the 1963 proposal 'sort of stole the idea' from whose New Yorker cartoons?
Charles Addams
Universal simply swapped in the Frankenstein and Dracula characters it already owned the movie rights to.
Q 17Which show's arrival on ABC is blamed for the ratings collapse that got The Munsters cancelled in 1966?
Batman
'Batman just came along and took our ratings away,' the actor who played Eddie said; the show made only 70 episodes.
Q 18How many episodes of the original series were produced?
70
Two seasons; the first tied with Gilligan's Island at number 18 in the Nielsens.
Q 19The Munster Koach and DRAG-U-LA were built by which celebrated car customiser?
George Barris
The same shop built the 1966 Batmobile; both Munster cars were designed by Tom Daniel.
Q 20The Munster Koach was built on the lengthened chassis of what car?
A 1926 Ford Model T
The finished car was 18 feet long, cost almost $20,000 and, in the story, was Lily's birthday present to Herman.
Q 24Which band sampled the theme's guitar riff in the song 'Uma Thurman'?
Fall Out Boy
Type O Negative also credited the show's composer for the scene-transition music behind their track 'Thir13teen'.
Q 25The Munster house on the Universal backlot was originally built for which 1946 film?
So Goes My Love
After the show it was restored and later appeared in Coach and, remodelled again, Desperate Housewives.
Q 26The family's home is described as what style of mansion?
Second Empire Victorian Gothic
When Lily 'dusts', her vacuum cleaner blows clouds of dust onto surfaces rather than off them.
Q 27Which makeup artist was credited with the show's monster makeup?
Bud Westmore
Herman's look was the Jack Pierce Frankenstein design from 1931; Pierce's successor at Universal handled the series.
Q 28The 1965 Golden Globe for Best Television Series went not to The Munsters but to which show?
The Rogues
Decades later the show collected TV Land Award nominations, including Most Uninsurable Driver for Herman.
Q 29The lost 1965 Easter special saw the family visit which attraction to buy Eddie a pet?
Marineland of the Pacific
Shot on videotape and aired once, it was thought lost until a copy surfaced at the Paley Center in 1997.
Q 30In Munster, Go Home! (1966), Herman inherits a title and a manor in which English county?
Shroudshire
The scheming cousins were played by Terry-Thomas and Hermione Gingold, and the basement hid a counterfeiting ring.