Twilight Zone Trivia
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96 free Twilight Zone trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
44 free Twilight Zone trivia questions with answers. This Twilight Zone trivia quiz travels through the original 1959-1964 CBS series and everything it spawned. It covers Rod Serling — his war service, his fights with sponsors, the pilot that got the show made and the share he sold to CBS — and the classic episodes everyone half-remembers: Henry Bemis and his broken glasses, the Kanamits' cookbook, William Shatner's gremlin, Talky Tina, Anthony Fremont's cornfield, Maple Street's monsters and the bandaged face in Eye of the Beholder. It also reaches the 1983 movie and its on-set tragedy, the 1985, 2002 and Jordan Peele revivals, and Disney's Tower of Terror. Early questions suit anyone who has caught a New Year's marathon; later ones reward fans who know which composer wrote the famous guitar theme and which season was stretched to an hour. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01In The Twilight Zone's 'The Howling Man', who is the prisoner the monks keep locked in a cell?
The Devil
The Devil: the traveller who frees him later recaptures him, only for his housekeeper to open the door again.
Q 02In The Twilight Zone's 'The After Hours', what does shopper Marsha White discover she really is?
A mannequin
Marsha is a mannequin: the store's mannequins take turns spending a month among humans, and she overstayed hers after forgetting what she was.
Q 03In The Twilight Zone's 'Time Enough at Last', which actor plays bookworm Henry Bemis?
Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith plays Henry Bemis, whose wife cruelly crosses out the text on every page of his books.
Q 04In 'To Serve Man', what does the alien book of that title turn out to be?
A cookbook
The book is a cookbook: the nine-foot aliens had promised to end hunger and war on Earth, and were fattening humans up to eat them.
Q 05What is the name of the towering alien race in 'To Serve Man'?
Kanamits
The Kanamits win humanity over by handing out cheap energy and turning barren deserts into farmland.
Q 06In 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet', William Shatner's character sees a creature doing what?
Sabotaging the plane's wing
Robert Wilson sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane's wing, and after landing, as he is carried off, the camera shows viewers the torn engine housing no one else has noticed.
Q 07Which future Superman director directed the original Twilight Zone episode 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet'?
Richard Donner
Richard Donner directed it, and William Shatner's Robert Wilson has just left a sanitarium after a breakdown that began on a flight, so his alarm looks like a relapse.
Q 08In The Twilight Zone's 'Living Doll', what is the name of the wind-up doll that torments Telly Savalas's character?
Talky Tina
Talky Tina's sweet catchphrase turns into threats, and Erich finally trips over her on the stairs and falls to his death.
Q 09In 'It's a Good Life', where does six-year-old Anthony Fremont send people who displease him?
The cornfield
Anthony wishes them into the cornfield, so the townspeople hide their fear, think only happy thoughts and tell him everything he does is 'good'.
Q 10In 'It's a Good Life', in which fictional town has the rest of the world disappeared?
Peaksville, Ohio
Peaksville, Ohio, is all that's left, and its people never learn whether the rest of the world was destroyed or the town was taken away.
Q 11In The Twilight Zone's 'Eye of the Beholder', what do the hospital doctors and nurses look like when finally revealed?
Pig-snouted, twisted humanoids
Pig-snouted, twisted humanoids surround a patient, Janet Tyler, who is beautiful by our standards; two actresses played her, one bandaged, one unmasked.
Q 12In The Twilight Zone's 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street', what first sets off the neighbours' spiral into paranoia?
A power outage
A power outage sets the street on edge, and the twist reveals aliens on a nearby hill who cut the power so the humans will destroy themselves.
Q 13In The Twilight Zone's 'The Hitch-Hiker', what does Nan Adams finally realise about herself?
Q 21Which composer wrote the guitar theme that The Twilight Zone introduced in season two?
Marius Constant
Marius Constant wrote short stock music cues for CBS, and the network's music director spliced two of them together to make the theme.
Q 22Which composer wrote The Twilight Zone's original season-one theme, later replaced?
Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann wrote it, but for season two CBS rejected every new theme it commissioned, Herrmann's among them, and spliced together stock music cues instead.
Q 23What was the plot of the 1957 pilot pitch 'The Time Element'?
A man trying to warn Honolulu of Pearl Harbor
She has been dead since the accident
She has been dead since the accident: her car blew a tire in Pennsylvania days earlier, and the hitchhiker, apparently Death, is waiting for her.
Q 14In 'The Invaders', the tiny spacemen menacing Agnes Moorehead's farm woman turn out to be from where?
Earth
The 'invaders' are astronauts from Earth; Agnes Moorehead never speaks, and the only dialogue is the astronaut's radio warning about a planet of giants.
Q 15In 'Nick of Time', William Shatner becomes obsessed with what in a small-town diner?
A penny fortune-telling machine
The penny fortune-telling machine, a 'Mystic Seer' napkin holder, answers yes or no; Don's wife talks him into leaving, but the next couple at the table can't stop asking it.
Q 16In 'A Stop at Willoughby', where does the exhausted commuter find himself when his train stops?
A deserted 19th-century railway car
Gart Williams wakes in a deserted 19th-century railway car at Willoughby, but in reality he jumped from the train, and his body leaves in a hearse from Willoughby & Son.
Q 17In 'Kick the Can', residents of which retirement home discover the secret of youth?
Sunnyvale Rest
Sunnyvale Rest's residents turn young again by playing kick the can, but Ben, who refused to join them, is left behind begging to be made young too.
Q 18In The Twilight Zone's 'The Midnight Sun', what does Norma dream is happening to the Earth?
It is falling into the Sun
It is falling into the Sun in Norma's fever dream, but when she wakes, the planet is really drifting away from the Sun and freezing.
Q 19Who directed 'The Masks', the only episode of the original Twilight Zone directed by a woman?
Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino directed 'The Masks', about a dying man who makes his greedy heirs wear grotesque masks of their true natures until midnight.
Q 20What was the title of The Twilight Zone's first episode, broadcast on October 2, 1959?
Where Is Everybody?
'Where Is Everybody?' strands Earl Holliman's airman in an empty town that turns out to exist only in his mind.
William Bendix played a man who dreams he is in 1941 Honolulu, trying to warn of the Pearl Harbor attack; CBS shelved it until Desilu Playhouse aired it in 1958, and its success got The Twilight Zone made.
Q 24Which legendary filmmaker did CBS reportedly offer The Twilight Zone's hosting job after its first season?
Orson Welles
Orson Welles turned it down, and in a reversal CBS expanded Rod Serling's role, putting him on camera to introduce each story.
Q 25Which season of The Twilight Zone switched to hour-long episodes?
The fourth
The fourth season, in 1963, ran hour-long episodes because CBS had dropped the show from its fall 1962 schedule, then brought it back mid-season to fill an hour slot.
Q 26What did Rod Serling do with his ownership share of The Twilight Zone after it ended?
Sold it to CBS
He sold it to CBS, giving up the royalties he would have earned as the show kept airing in syndication.
Q 27What was Rod Serling's later anthology series, which debuted in 1969?
Night Gallery
On Night Gallery, Serling lacked the creative control he had on The Twilight Zone, and producer Jack Laird overrode him.
Q 28In which upstate New York city did Rod Serling spend most of his youth?
Binghamton
Rod Serling grew up in Binghamton, and the hometown park in 'Walking Distance', with its carousel, is said to draw on the city's Recreation Park.
Q 29Which teleplay won Rod Serling his first Emmy?
Patterns
'Patterns', a live Kraft Television Theatre drama about a boardroom power struggle, was so popular that it was performed live again a month later.
Q 30Which two producers made the 1983 film Twilight Zone: The Movie?
Steven Spielberg and John Landis
Steven Spielberg and John Landis produced it; Landis wrote and directed an original segment, while Spielberg chose to remake 'Kick the Can'.