Vampire Trivia
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119 free Vampire trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
67 free Vampire trivia questions with answers. Vampires have been dying and coming back for three hundred years, from the Serbian exhumations that gave English the word to the sparkling teenagers of Forks, Washington. This quiz covers the whole span: the folklore (garlic, poppy seeds, why corpses looked well fed), the real people behind the legends (Vlad the Impaler, the Blood Countess), the books that built the myth (Polidori, Carmilla, Dracula, Anne Rice, Stephen King) and the screen versions from Nosferatu and Bela Lugosi to Buffy, True Blood, Twilight and What We Do in the Shadows. The vampire bats get a few questions too. It starts easy and ends with questions only a committed Stoker scholar or a Hammer completist will get. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia and primary-source pages and carries a linked citation, so if a friend insists Dracula's ship was the Persephone, you can settle it. Good for Halloween parties, a themed pub-quiz round, or a horror-fan showdown.
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Q 01Which pungent plant is the classic folk ward against vampires?
Garlic
Garlic is the classic ward: in Stoker's Dracula, Van Helsing hangs garlic flowers around Lucy's room and neck to keep the Count out, echoing Balkan folk practice.
Q 02Which actor played the Count in Universal's 1931 film Dracula?
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi played Dracula in Tod Browning's 1931 Universal film, reprising the role he had created on Broadway in 1927; his Hungarian accent became the template for later imitators.
Q 03In Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels, what do vampires do when the sun hits them?
They glitter
It is one of the series' most-mocked and most-loved inventions, and the reason the Cullens keep to the perpetually overcast Pacific Northwest.
Q 04Which Sesame Street Muppet is a purple vampire obsessed with numbers?
Count von Count
Count von Count, performed first by Jerry Nelson, debuted on Sesame Street in 1972; each time he finishes counting, thunder cracks and lightning flashes behind him.
Q 05Vampire bats are the only mammals that feed exclusively on what?
Blood
Vampire bats are the only mammals that live entirely on blood; they make a small incision with razor-sharp incisors and lap the blood rather than sucking it.
Q 06Buffy the Vampire Slayer is set in which fictional California town?
Sunnydale
Buffy is set in Sunnydale, California, whose high school sits on the Hellmouth, a gateway to demon realms; the school is blown up in the season-three graduation finale.
Q 07In which year was Bram Stoker's Dracula first published?
1897
Dracula was published by Archibald Constable and Company in London on 26 May 1897, while Stoker was business manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre; his working notes date from 1890.
Q 08Which real 15th-century ruler is often cited as the inspiration for the name Dracula?
Vlad the Impaler
Vlad the Impaler, Vlad III of Wallachia, was called Drăculea, 'son of Dracul', after his father's membership of the Order of the Dragon; the blood-drinking link was added by later novelists.
Q 09Who played the vampire Lestat opposite Brad Pitt's Louis in the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire?
Tom Cruise
Anne Rice publicly objected to Tom Cruise's casting, then took out a two-page ad praising his performance after seeing the film.
Q 10True Blood, following telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse in small-town Louisiana, aired on which US network from 2008 to 2014?
HBO
HBO ran it for seven seasons, adapting Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mysteries under creator Alan Ball.
Q 11Kiefer Sutherland led a gang of teenage vampires in which 1987 film?
The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys (1987) stars Kiefer Sutherland as gang leader David; the title nods to Peter Pan's boys who never grow up, and the boardwalk scenes were shot in Santa Cruz.
Q 12In Bram Stoker's novel, Jonathan Harker visits Count Dracula's castle in which mountain range?
Carpathians
The Carpathians were built entirely from library books and travel accounts; Stoker never visited the region.
Q 13The Vampire Diaries is set in which fictional Virginia town?
Mystic Falls
Mystic Falls hosted eight seasons and spawned the spin-off The Originals.
Q 21In Stoker's Dracula, the Count arrives in England aboard a ship named after which Greek goddess?
Demeter
The Demeter, a Russian schooner, runs aground on the Yorkshire coast with its captain lashed dead to the wheel, and a large dog is seen leaping ashore.
Q 22Which studio's 1958 Dracula first paired Christopher Lee with Peter Cushing's Van Helsing?
Hammer
Hammer Film Productions made Dracula (1958) for about £81,000 with Terence Fisher directing; it was released in the United States as Horror of Dracula.
Q 23In the FX series What We Do in the Shadows, what unusual type of undead is Colin Robinson?
Energy vampire
Colin Robinson is an energy vampire, played by Mark Proksch: he feeds by boring and irritating people and lives in the basement of the Staten Island house.
Q 14In Twilight, Bella Swan moves to which rainy Washington town?
Forks
Forks, on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, was chosen after Meyer searched for the rainiest place in the United States; the town later built a tourism trade around the books.
Q 15The 1922 German silent film Nosferatu renamed the vampire Dracula as what?
Count Orlok
F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu renamed Dracula as Count Orlok, played by Max Schreck; Stoker's widow Florence sued anyway, and a German court ordered every print destroyed.
Q 16The 2014 mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows follows vampire flatmates in which city?
Wellington
The flatmates share a house in Wellington, New Zealand; Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement wrote, directed and starred, and the film later spawned an American TV series.
Q 17Which anti-hero, played by Wesley Snipes in 1998, is a human-vampire hybrid with vampire strengths but none of the weaknesses?
Blade
Blade quietly launched Marvel's cinematic run two years before X-Men, with Stephen Dorff's Deacon Frost as its upstart villain.
Q 18Who directed the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Gary Oldman?
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola directed Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), banning computer effects in favour of in-camera tricks from early cinema; it won three Oscars, including costume design.
Q 19In Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, which vampire narrates his life story to a reporter?
Louis
Louis de Pointe du Lac tells his story to reporter Daniel Molloy; Rice wrote the novel after her daughter Michele died of leukaemia, and the child vampire Claudia was inspired by her.
Q 20How many living species of vampire bat exist?
Three
Three: the common, hairy-legged and white-winged vampire bats, all of Central and South America and none in Transylvania.
Q 24Stephen King's 1975 vampire novel 'Salem's Lot is set in which US state?
Maine
'Salem's Lot is set in the fictional town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine; it was King's second published novel, written after he taught Dracula to high-school students.
Q 25Which 'Blood Countess' was accused of killing hundreds of girls between 1590 and 1610?
Elizabeth Bathory
Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian countess, was confined in Csejte Castle from 1610 until her death; the tale that she bathed in virgins' blood was first written down over a century later.
Q 26According to Stephenie Meyer, the Twilight vampire idea came to her in what form?
A dream
Meyer says the idea came in a dream on 2 June 2003, of a girl and a sparkling vampire talking in a meadow; that scene became chapter 13 of Twilight.
Q 27Which family member of Vlad III earned the name 'Dracul' through the Order of the Dragon?
His father
His father, Vlad II, was inducted into the Order of the Dragon in 1431 and took the name Dracul; Dracula, or Drăculea, means 'son of Dracul'.
Q 28In What We Do in the Shadows (2014), how old is the Nosferatu-like vampire Petyr?
8,000 years
Petyr is 8,000 years old, far older than his flatmates; he sleeps in a stone crypt in the basement, and Ben Fransham played him under heavy prosthetics.
Q 29Bram Stoker was born in which city?
Dublin
Stoker was born in Clontarf, Dublin, in 1847, bedridden with an unknown illness until age seven; he later managed Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre in London for 27 years.
Q 30The 2004 vampire novel Let the Right One In comes from which country?
Sweden
John Ajvide Lindqvist set it in a Stockholm suburb in the 1980s; the 2010 American remake was titled Let Me In.