The School for Good and Evil
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50 free The School for Good and Evil trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Two best friends are snatched from their village and dropped into a school that trains fairy-tale heroes and villains, and each lands in the castle she was sure belonged to the other. That swap is the hook that has kept young fans turning pages for more than a decade, through a bestselling series of novels, two prequels and a starry Netflix film. This quiz walks through the whole story. Most questions come from the first novel: the kidnapping, the classes, the roommates, the teachers, the contests and the showdown in the tower. Others follow the friends into the sequels, and a set covers the film, from the actors behind the teachers to where the castles were built. A few ask about the author and how the idea began. It is written for fans who have read the books or watched the film, for students revising before a reading quiz, and for families and book clubs who want a friendly test. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something about the school.
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Q 01In The School for Good and Evil, Tedros, the prince Sophie falls for on arrival, is the son of which legendary monarch?
King Arthur
King Arthur is his father, which makes Tedros the Prince of Camelot. Fans of the books objected when the Netflix film gave him dark hair, because on the page he is blond.
Q 02Which Oscar winner narrates Netflix's The School for Good and Evil as the voice of an enchanted pen?
Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett is heard but never seen in the film. Her pen has the final word, declaring that the girls' story has only just begun.
Q 03In The School for Good and Evil, Sophie's roommate Hester is the daughter of the witch from which fairy tale?
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel killed her mother when Hester was small, leaving her an orphan. She keeps a picture of the witch outside the gingerbread house on her bedside table.
Q 04Which actress plays Lady Lesso, a teacher who relishes evil, in Netflix's The School for Good and Evil?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron shaped Lesso's look herself, asking for a severe tailored silhouette and suggesting the character's ginger hair. She had already played a wicked queen in Snow White and the Huntsman.
Q 05In The School for Good and Evil, Sophie's roommate Dot has the villain talent of turning objects into what?
Chocolate
Chocolate is her speciality, which solves the mystery of where her constant supply of sweets comes from. Dot is the daughter of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Q 06In The School for Good and Evil, what are villains in training, such as Hester and Anadil, called?
Nevers
Nevers are the students of the School for Evil, a label Sophie is horrified to be given. Their rivals at the School for Good are known as Evers.
Q 07Netflix's The School for Good and Evil was filmed in and around which city, where the crew took over a cathedral?
Belfast
Belfast gave Netflix its first shoot in Northern Ireland, after the streamer's own studio near London proved too small. The director had friends from Game of Thrones who had filmed there.
Q 08Growing up without cable, the author of The School for Good and Evil had only VHS tapes of films from which studio?
Disney
Disney cartoons were his whole childhood library. A university class on the history of fairy tales later showed him how much darker the original stories were, and the gap fascinated him.
Q 09In The School for Good and Evil, Professor Dovey, Dean of Good, is famous for helping which fairy-tale heroine?
Cinderella
Cinderella was her most famous client: Dovey is the fairy godmother from that tale. She reveals it to Agatha after a perfect exam score, then grants her a wish for beauty.
Q 10In The School for Good and Evil, what is the name of the enchanted pen kept in the School Master's tower?
The Storian
The Storian writes every fairy tale by itself and is sharp at both ends. Agatha mistakes it for a dagger the first time she sees it.
Q 11In The School for Good and Evil, two children vanish every four years from which village, home to Sophie and Agatha?
Gavaldon
Gavaldon learns the truth from storybooks: the missing children turn up as characters in the fairy tales that mysteriously arrive at the village bookshop.
Q 12In The School for Good and Evil, where in the village is the house Agatha shares with her mother and bald cat?
The graveyard
The graveyard on Graves Hill is home, which is one reason the villagers take Agatha for a witch and keep their distance. Sophie is her only friend.
Q 13Which actress plays Professor Dovey, the kindly Dean of Good, in Netflix's The School for Good and Evil?
Kerry Washington
Q 21In The School for Good and Evil, which violent contest between the two schools ends with Tedros rejecting Sophie?
Trial by Tale
Trial by Tale is where Sophie refuses to defend Tedros against an attacker and Agatha steps in to save him instead. He realises Sophie has been cheating, and the romance collapses.
Q 22Which star of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series plays Agatha in Netflix's The School for Good and Evil?
Sofia Wylie
Sofia Wylie won the part with a series of self-tapes and a chemistry read. She insisted on keeping her curly hair, to show that curls belong on princesses too.
Q 23The School for Good and Evil stands in which enchanted forest that surrounds Sophie and Agatha's village?
Kerry Washington modelled Dovey partly on one of her own teachers at Spence, the New York girls' school she attended. The character's blond bouffant wig took seven weeks to make.
Q 14In The School for Good and Evil, a riddle asks what Good has that Evil never will; what do the girls answer?
True love's kiss
True love's kiss is their answer, so Sophie sets out to win one from Tedros and prove she belongs in Good. The kiss that finally matters comes from Agatha, and it brings Sophie back to life.
Q 15Which director, best known for comedies, made Netflix's film of The School for Good and Evil?
Paul Feig
Paul Feig hesitated because fantasy was unfamiliar ground for a comedy director, then changed his mind once he read the script. He built real sets rather than rely on green screens.
Q 16Which star of The Matrix films plays the elderly School Master in Netflix's The School for Good and Evil?
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne took the role because his daughter loved the books, which she had started reading as a tween.
Q 17In The School for Good and Evil, Agatha turns into which creature to whisper answers to Sophie in class?
A cockroach
A cockroach is her disguise as she feeds Sophie the answers, lifting her friend from the bottom of the class back to the top. Agatha skips her own lessons to do it.
Q 18Which author, a Harvard graduate raised in Florida, wrote the bestselling novel The School for Good and Evil?
Soman Chainani
Soman Chainani first imagined the story as a film treatment he could sell, then realised it had to be novels. He later served as an executive producer on the Netflix adaptation.
Q 19In The School for Good and Evil, which animals stand guard over students at the School for Evil?
Wolves
Wolves patrol Evil while fairies serve Good, and Agatha uncovers their secret: both are former students who failed and were bound to serve the opposite school.
Q 20In The School for Good and Evil, what is the name of Agatha's bald, wrinkled pet cat?
Reaper
Reaper greets Sophie by trying to attack her on Agatha's porch. Later books reveal that the ugly pet is secretly the king of the gnomes, with an army at his command.
The Endless Woods
The Endless Woods hold the school and every fairy-tale kingdom, and the name covers the whole world of the series. To the villagers the forest is simply where stolen children go.
Q 24In The School for Good and Evil, the School Master broke the balance of Good and Evil by killing whom?
His brother
His brother shared the running of the school, one standing for Good and one for Evil, until the Evil one struck. Good has won every fairy tale in the two centuries since.
Q 25In The School for Good and Evil, the tattoo on Hester's neck comes alive and fights as which creature?
A demon
A demon with red skin and long curved horns peels off Hester's neck to do her bidding. Splitting it into five armed pieces during a contest leaves her badly injured.
Q 26Which Everything Everywhere All at Once star plays Professor Anemone in Netflix's The School for Good and Evil?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh teaches Beautification at the School for Good, a small part. Reviewers at RogerEbert.com and The Hollywood Reporter both complained that the film wasted her.
Q 27In the novel The School for Good and Evil, a girl fails if no boy invites her to which formal dance?
The Snow Ball
The Snow Ball is one of the year's three big events at the school. Tedros ends up inviting Agatha in front of everyone, and Sophie's fury wrecks the talent show where he asks.
Q 28In The School for Good and Evil, what are Sophie and Agatha called for coming from outside the fairy-tale world?
Readers
Readers know fairy tales only as storybooks and have no idea the stories are real. A magical shield separates their world from the kingdoms of the forest.
Q 29In The School for Good and Evil, which giant birds made of nothing but bones carry students through the air?
Stymphs
Stymphs are skeleton birds trained by the School Master. For the Netflix film, effects artists studied bird skeletons and decaying birds to make one that still looked alive.
Q 30In The School for Good and Evil, Sophie's fingertip glows which colour whenever she casts a spell?
Hot pink
Hot pink is Sophie's signature, in her spells as in her wardrobe. Students' fingers begin to glow once a teacher unlocks their magic; Agatha's shines gold.