70 free Vampire trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 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
Wild rose and hawthorn branches were also said to harm vampires in European folklore.
Q 02Which actor played the Count in Universal's 1931 film Dracula?
Bela Lugosi
He had already played the role on Broadway in 1927, and his Hungarian accent became the template for every cape-wearing imitator since.
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
He debuted in 1972 tallying six blocks with Bert and Ernie, and thunder still rolls whenever he reaches his final total.
Q 05Vampire bats are the only mammals that feed exclusively on what?
Blood
They do not suck it; they make a small incision with their teeth and lap it up like a cat at a saucer.
Q 06Buffy the Vampire Slayer is set in which fictional California town?
Sunnydale
Its high school sits on top of a gateway to demon realms, which is why so much goes wrong at graduation.
Q 07In which year was Bram Stoker's Dracula first published?
1897
Archibald Constable put it out in May, three years after Stoker started writing it between shifts managing a London theatre.
Q 08Which real 15th-century ruler is often cited as the inspiration for the name Dracula?
Vlad the Impaler
His patronymic simply meant 'son of the Dragon'; the connection to blood-drinking came centuries later from novelists, not chroniclers.
Q 09Who played the vampire Lestat in the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire?
Tom Cruise
Anne Rice publicly objected to the casting, then took out a two-page ad praising his performance after seeing the film.
Q 10True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mysteries, aired on which network?
HBO
It ran seven seasons from 2008 to 2014, following telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse in small-town Louisiana.
Q 11Kiefer Sutherland led a gang of teenage vampires in which 1987 film?
The Lost Boys
The title nods to Peter Pan's gang who never grow up, and the boardwalk scenes were shot in Santa Cruz.
Q 12In Stoker's novel, Count Dracula's castle stands in which mountain range?
Carpathians
Stoker never visited the region; he built it from library books and travel accounts.
Q 13The Vampire Diaries is set in which fictional Virginia town?
Mystic Falls
The CW series ran 171 episodes across eight seasons and spawned The Originals.
Q 21In Stoker's Dracula, the Count arrives in England aboard a ship named after which Greek goddess?
Demeter
The ship runs aground on the Yorkshire coast with a dead crew, 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
Made for about £81,000, it broke box-office records and 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
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
Meyer chose it after searching for the rainiest place in the United States, and the real town now runs on Twilight tourism.
Q 15The 1922 German silent film Nosferatu renamed the vampire Dracula as what?
Count Orlok
Renaming the characters did not fool anyone; Stoker's widow sued and a court ordered every print destroyed.
Q 16The 2014 mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows follows vampire flatmates in which city?
Wellington
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 without vampire weaknesses?
Blade
The film quietly launched Marvel's cinematic run two years before X-Men, and Stephen Dorff's Deacon Frost was its upstart villain.
Q 18Who directed the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Gary Oldman?
Francis Ford Coppola
He banned computer effects and made his crew use in-camera tricks from cinema's earliest days; the film still won three Oscars.
Q 19In Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, which vampire narrates his life story to a reporter?
Louis
Rice wrote the novel shortly after her young daughter died of leukaemia, and the child vampire Claudia was inspired by her.
Q 20How many living species of vampire bat exist?
Three
The common, hairy-legged and white-winged vampire bats all live in Central and South America; none are found in Transylvania.
Q 24Stephen King's 1975 vampire novel 'Salem's Lot is set in which US state?
Maine
It was only his second published novel, written after teaching Dracula to high-school students.
Q 25Which 'Blood Countess' was accused of killing hundreds of girls between 1590 and 1610?
Elizabeth Bathory
The story that she bathed in virgins' blood to stay young was only written down as fact more than a century after her death.
Q 26In the HBO series about Sookie Stackhouse, what drink lets vampires 'come out of the coffin'?
Tru Blood
The show's premise begins two years after its invention, when vampires reveal themselves and lobby for equal rights.
Q 27According to Stephenie Meyer, the Twilight vampire idea came to her in what form?
A dream
She dates it precisely to 2 June 2003, and the meadow scene she saw became chapter 13 of the first book.
Q 28Which family member of Vlad III earned the name 'Dracul' through the Order of the Dragon?
His father
Dracula is simply the Slavonic genitive of Dracul, meaning 'son of the Dragon'; the surname was inherited, not earned.
Q 29In What We Do in the Shadows (2014), how old is the Nosferatu-like vampire Petyr?
8,000 years
He is the only flatmate who does not bother with chore charts, and Ben Fransham played him under heavy prosthetics.
Q 30Bram Stoker was born in which city?
Dublin
He was bedridden with an unknown illness until age seven, then went on to be a barrister and a theatre manager for 27 years.