The Omen
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50 free The Omen trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Omen opened in 1976 and turned a quiet five-year-old called Damien into one of the most unsettling villains in horror. A diplomat slowly learns that the son he is raising is not his own, and that the people who get too close to the truth keep dying in freak accidents. This quiz covers the whole story: the plot and its famous death scenes, the cast on both sides of the camera, the music, how the film was made and sold, and what became of the people in it. Later questions follow Damien through the sequels, the 2006 remake, the television series and the 2024 prequel The First Omen. It is written for anyone who has seen the film, whether last week or decades ago on late-night television. The opening questions are the moments most viewers remember, and the harder ones are for fans who know the production stories. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which breed is the black dog that Mrs. Baylock keeps as Damien's watchdog in The Omen?
Rottweiler
A Rottweiler turns up at the Thorn house just before the first death. A whole pack later chases Robert Thorn out of a cemetery, where he gashes his arm on a spiked fence.
Q 02What is young Damien riding when he knocks Katherine Thorn off an upstairs landing in The Omen?
A tricycle
A tricycle, which he rides into the table she has climbed on to prune a plant. The actor who played Damien later took one along to horror conventions.
Q 03Who is Damien standing with in the final shot of The Omen, as he turns and smiles at the camera?
The US President
The US President and First Lady lead Damien away from his adoptive parents' funeral. South African censors cut the ending, removing Thorn's death and Damien's survival.
Q 04Why did the 2006 remake of The Omen open in cinemas on a Tuesday instead of the usual Friday?
The date was 6/6/06
The date was 6/6/06, a nod to the number of the beast. The studio even admitted nudging its first-day takings so that the reported figure ended in 666.
Q 05Which sitcom star turned down Robert Thorn in The Omen over its gore, a choice he later called stupid?
Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke passed because of the violence. Charlton Heston also refused the part, unwilling to spend a whole winter alone in Europe.
Q 06How did four-year-old Harvey Stephens win the part of Damien at his group audition for The Omen?
He attacked the director
He attacked the director, who had urged the boys to come at him, clawing his face and kicking him in the groin. More than 500 boys were seen for the role.
Q 07Which future Jurassic Park star plays the adult Damien Thorn in Omen III: The Final Conflict?
Sam Neill
Sam Neill plays Damien at 32, running the family conglomerate and plotting to stop the Second Coming. A journalist he becomes involved with finally kills him.
Q 08What animal's skeleton do Robert Thorn and Jennings dig up in the grave of Damien's mother in The Omen?
A jackal
A jackal lies in the grave, just as Father Brennan had claimed. The plot beside it holds a baby with a smashed skull: the Thorns' own son, killed so Damien could take his place.
Q 09Which animals attack Katherine Thorn's car when she drives Damien through a safari park in The Omen?
Baboons
Baboons swarmed the car only after a zoo official put the troop's alpha baboon on the back seat. The terror on the actress's face in the scene was reportedly real.
Q 10In The Omen, Robert Thorn is sent to Megiddo, the place that gives its name to which final battle?
Armageddon
Armageddon is a Greek rendering of the Hebrew for Mount Megiddo. In the film an old archaeologist there shows Thorn the only way the child can be killed.
Q 11Which screen hero plays Robert Thorn in The Omen, though the studio feared he'd be rejected as a child killer?
Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck liked the script as a psychological thriller rather than a horror film, and was relieved to find the finished death scenes restrained rather than exploitative.
Q 12In The Omen, Robert Thorn is the American ambassador to which country when the deaths around Damien begin?
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is his posting, so the Thorns settle in an English country manor. In the third film the grown-up Damien arranges to be given the very same job.
Q 13In which city is Damien born and swapped for the Thorns' dead baby at the start of The Omen?
Rome
Q 21What does the archaeologist Bugenhagen hand Robert Thorn as the only means of killing Damien in The Omen?
Seven daggers
Seven daggers with crucifix handles, to be used on consecrated ground. Thorn throws them away in disgust, and Jennings is killed moments after running to fetch them.
Q 22Who shoots Robert Thorn dead on a church altar in the closing minutes of The Omen?
A police officer
A police officer fires as Thorn hesitates over the pleading boy. The chase began minutes earlier, when Thorn's speeding car almost hit a policeman.
Q 23At which family occasion does Damien's young nanny die in front of the guests in The Omen?
His birthday party
Rome is where a hospital priest persuades Robert Thorn to take the orphan without telling his wife. Five years later the hospital has burned down, and its records with it.
Q 14In The Omen, what falls from a church roof during a sudden storm and impales Father Brennan?
A lightning rod
A lightning rod, struck by a bolt, spears him outside a church whose doors are all barred. A photograph taken earlier had shown a spear-like flaw through his body.
Q 15What decapitates Keith Jennings in Israel, in one of the most famous death scenes in The Omen?
A sheet of glass
A sheet of glass slides off a runaway truck and takes his head off. Jennings had photographed himself with a flaw across his neck, just like the marks on the earlier victims.
Q 16Which composer, nominated for eighteen Oscars, won his only one for the choral score of The Omen?
Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith struggled for ideas until, his wife recalled, he announced one evening that he could hear voices. He came back to score the next two films in the series.
Q 17Which director had his breakthrough with The Omen before making Superman and Lethal Weapon?
Richard Donner
Richard Donner wanted viewers left unsure whether Damien was evil or the deaths were a string of accidents. The writer and the producer overruled him.
Q 18Which star of a 1968 devil-child classic plays the nanny Mrs. Baylock in the 2006 remake of The Omen?
Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow, the mother in Rosemary's Baby, was widely praised even where the remake was not. One reviewer called her nanny a rare case of the new film improving on the old.
Q 19Which fantasy author wrote Good Omens, a comic novel that borrows The Omen's Antichrist baby swap, with Neil Gaiman?
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett and Gaiman have a hospital mix-up send the infant Antichrist to the wrong family, so he grows up as an ordinary boy in an English village.
Q 20Which book of the Bible supplies the number that marks Damien as the Antichrist in The Omen?
Revelation
Revelation gives 666 as the number of the beast. In the film it appears as a birthmark, and an old exorcist tells Robert Thorn exactly where on the boy to search for it.
His birthday party, for turning five, ends when she calls to him from the roof and jumps. A press photo taken minutes before shows a flaw shaped like a noose.
Q 24Where on Damien's body does Robert Thorn finally find the 666 birthmark in The Omen?
Under his hair
Under his hair is where Bugenhagen says to look, so Thorn cuts the sleeping boy's locks. Mrs. Baylock leaps on him the moment he sees the mark.
Q 25Which actress, a leading interpreter of Samuel Beckett's plays, is the sinister nanny Mrs. Baylock in The Omen?
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw won the Evening Standard film award for best actress for the part. She later voiced the seer Aughra in The Dark Crystal.
Q 26Which Days of Wine and Roses star plays Katherine Thorn, Damien's adoptive mother, in The Omen?
Lee Remick
Lee Remick earned an Oscar nomination for that 1962 drama. In The Omen her character begs her husband to find her a psychologist as her fear of the boy grows.
Q 27Which English actor, later seen in Tron and Titanic, plays the doomed Keith Jennings in The Omen?
David Warner
David Warner plays the press man whose own pictures warn him that he is next. He looked back on the part for a BBC history of horror in 2010.
Q 28Which former star of Doctor Who plays Father Brennan, the priest who warns Robert Thorn, in The Omen?
Patrick Troughton
Patrick Troughton had been the second Doctor from 1966 to 1969. In the 2024 prequel his character is played as a younger man by Ralph Ineson.
Q 29Which star turned down Robert Thorn in The Omen, then played Thorn's brother Richard in the sequel?
William Holden
William Holden said he did not want to appear in a film about the devil. Once the original became a hit, he made sure not to refuse the lead in Damien: Omen II.
Q 30What is the title of the Latin choral theme from The Omen that earned a Best Original Song Oscar nomination?
Ave Satani
"Ave Satani" was conceived as a kind of Black Mass, turning phrases from the Latin Mass upside down. The choirmaster who supplied the wording left several grammar errors in it.