The Munsters Trivia
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48 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
CBS carried The Munsters for two seasons, from its September 1964 premiere to the May 1966 finale, in the same years its rival The Addams Family ran on a competing network.
Q 02What is the Munsters' street address?
1313 Mockingbird Lane
The Munsters' home is 1313 Mockingbird Lane, a doubled unlucky 13 for a family of monsters; the house facade was a standing set on the studio's Colonial Street backlot.
Q 03What kind of creature is the family pet, Spot?
A fire-breathing dragon
Spot is a fire-breathing dragon who lives under the Munsters' staircase; he is rarely seen in full, usually announcing himself with a jet of flame from beneath the steps.
Q 04Who plays Herman Munster?
Fred Gwynne
Fred Gwynne, a Harvard graduate who had been president of the Harvard Lampoon, stood six feet five inches and wore platform boots and heavy makeup to play Herman.
Q 05Herman and Grandpa were played by two actors who had just co-starred in which police sitcom?
Car 54, Where Are You?
The two actors had played Officers Muldoon and Schnauser on Car 54, Where Are You?, the police comedy that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, which helped win them the roles of Herman and Grandpa.
Q 06Which classic movie monster is Grandpa based on?
Count Dracula
Grandpa is a vampire modelled on Count Dracula, complete with cape and a Transylvanian pedigree; Al Lewis played him as a comic mad-scientist version of the Bela Lugosi film character.
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
In the unaired 1964 colour pilot the wife was called Phoebe and played by Joan Marshall, who was judged to look too much like Morticia Addams; the part was recast and renamed Lily.
Q 09Who took over the role of niece Marilyn from Beverley Owen after episode 13?
Pat Priest
Pat Priest replaced Beverley Owen as Marilyn from the fourteenth episode and stayed through the series; a third actress, Debbie Watson, played Marilyn in the 1966 film Munster, Go Home!
Q 10Who plays Eddie Munster?
Butch Patrick
Butch Patrick played Eddie, the family's werewolf boy, throughout the series; a different child actor had played Eddie as a nasty brat in the unaired pilot before the part was recast and softened.
Q 11Which voice actor supplied the voice of the raven in the Munsters' cuckoo clock?
Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, voiced the raven in the cuckoo clock with its cry of 'Nevermore'; Bob Hastings took over the bird in some episodes.
Q 12Where does Herman work?
At a funeral parlor
Herman works at a funeral parlor, Gateman, Goodbury and Graves; his boss Mr. Gateman was played in several episodes by horror veteran John Carradine.
Q 13What is the name of Grandpa's pet bat?
Igor
Grandpa's pet bat is named Igor; he hangs around the laboratory in the basement and turns up in several episodes as a sidekick to Grandpa's experiments.
Q 21DRAG-U-LA, the dragster Grandpa builds, was made from what?
A coffin
DRAG-U-LA's body is a coffin, a real one bought for the build; in the episode Hot Rod Herman, Grandpa races it to win back the Koach after Herman loses it in a drag race.
Q 22Which rocker's 1998 single took its title from Grandpa's dragster?
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie's 1998 single 'Dragula', the first single from his debut solo album Hellbilly Deluxe, takes its name from Grandpa's dragster DRAG-U-LA.
Q 23Who composed the show's instrumental theme, nominated for a Grammy in 1965?
Jack Marshall
Jack Marshall wrote the twangy surf-guitar instrumental theme, which earned a 1965 Grammy nomination; lyrics were written for it but were never broadcast.
Q 14The Munsters' producers had previously created which wholesome family sitcom?
Leave It to Beaver
The show's producing team had created Leave It to Beaver, the 1957-63 sitcom about the Cleavers, which is why The Munsters parodies the well-meaning-dad, nurturing-mom formula so precisely.
Q 15The idea of a family of comical monsters was first pitched to Universal in the 1940s by which animator?
Bob Clampett
Bob Clampett, the Looney Tunes director behind Porky Pig and Tweety cartoons, developed the monster-family idea 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
Charles Addams had drawn his macabre family for The New Yorker since 1938; the studio reworked the borrowed premise around the classic monsters whose film likenesses it already controlled.
Q 17Which show's arrival on ABC is blamed for the ratings collapse that got The Munsters cancelled in 1966?
Batman
Batman premiered on a rival network in January 1966 in the same half-hour slot and drained the audience; 'Batman just came along and took our ratings away,' the actor who played Eddie later said.
Q 18How many episodes of the original series were produced?
70
The Munsters produced 70 half-hour episodes across two seasons, 38 in 1964-65 and 32 in 1965-66, before cancellation.
Q 19The Munster Koach and DRAG-U-LA were built by which celebrated car customiser?
George Barris
George Barris's North Hollywood customising shop built both the Munster Koach and the DRAG-U-LA dragster for the series, and the same shop turned out many other 1960s television cars.
Q 20The Munster Koach was built on the lengthened chassis of what car?
A 1926 Ford Model T
The Munster Koach sat on a 1926 Ford Model T chassis stretched to 18 feet long; in the story Lily had it built as a birthday present for Herman.
Q 24Which band sampled the theme's guitar riff in the song 'Uma Thurman'?
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy built the 2015 single 'Uma Thurman', from the album American Beauty/American Psycho, around the twangy surf-guitar riff of The Munsters theme.
Q 25The Munster house on the Universal backlot was originally built for which 1946 film?
So Goes My Love
The house went up in 1946 for So Goes My Love, a Myrna Loy and Don Ameche comedy; after The Munsters it was restored and reused on the Colonial Street backlot for other series.
Q 26The family's home is described as what style of mansion?
Second Empire Victorian Gothic
The Munster home is a decaying Second Empire Victorian Gothic mansion with a mansard-roofed tower, kept deliberately cobwebbed; when Lily 'dusts', her vacuum blows dust onto surfaces rather than off them.
Q 27Which makeup artist was credited with the show's monster makeup?
Bud Westmore
Bud Westmore, who succeeded Jack Pierce as head of the studio's makeup department, was credited for the series; Herman's look followed Pierce's 1931 Frankenstein design, which the studio owned.
Q 28The 1965 Golden Globe for Best Television Series went not to The Munsters but to which show?
The Rogues
The Rogues, the caper series starring David Niven, Charles Boyer and Gig Young, took the 1965 Golden Globe for television; The Munsters was among the nominees it beat.
Q 29The lost 1965 Easter special saw the family visit which attraction to buy Eddie a pet?
Marineland of the Pacific
The special, titled Marineland Carnival, had the family tour Marineland of the Pacific near Los Angeles in search of a pet for Eddie; it aired once in April 1965 and was long thought lost.
Q 30In Munster, Go Home! (1966), Herman inherits a title and a manor in which English county?
Shroudshire
Herman becomes Lord Munster of Munster Hall in the fictional county of Shroudshire; his scheming cousins, played by Terry-Thomas and Hermione Gingold, run a counterfeiting ring from the manor's basement.