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50 free Wednesday trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Wednesday Addams fan? Put your knowledge of the hit Netflix series to the test with our comprehensive Wednesday trivia quiz. From character details to plot twists and production facts, discover how much you really know about this darkly comedic masterpiece.
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Q 01Who portrays Wednesday Addams in the 2022 Netflix series?
Jenna Ortega
Jenna Ortega was cast in part because the creators wanted a Latina actress, to honour the heritage of Wednesday's father, Gomez.
Q 02In the Netflix series 'Wednesday,' what is the name of the boarding school Wednesday Addams attends?
Nevermore Academy
Nevermore Academy is where her parents studied, and they enrol her there after her expulsion, sure she will finally be among peers.
Q 03Which director executive-produced Netflix's 'Wednesday' and directed four season-one episodes?
Tim Burton
Tim Burton passed on directing the 1991 'Addams Family' film because of his Batman commitments, then agreed to the series within days of being sent the pilot script.
Q 04At Wednesday's school, which annual boat race do she and her roommate win in season one?
The Poe Cup
The Poe Cup has a no-rules tradition that rival Bianca had ridden to a winning streak, until Wednesday joins her roommate's boat and beats her at her own game.
Q 05What is the name of Wednesday Addams' colorful werewolf roommate in the Netflix series?
Enid Sinclair
Enid Sinclair is a late bloomer who has never fully transformed; she finally does in the season-one finale, to save Wednesday from the monster.
Q 06In the first episode, Wednesday challenges her rival Bianca to a match in which sport?
Fencing
Fencing is the class where Wednesday steps in after Bianca humiliates a classmate, challenges her to a duel and loses.
Q 07In the Netflix series, Wednesday writes unpublished novels about a teen girl detective with what name?
Viper de la Muerte
Viper de la Muerte is 'smart, perceptive, chronically misunderstood', in Wednesday's words, and her therapist hints that the sleuth is really a self-portrait.
Q 08What instrument does Wednesday Addams often play in the Netflix series?
Cello
Cello lessons were part of the star's preparation, and in the first episode Wednesday plays the Rolling Stones' 'Paint It Black' on her dorm balcony.
Q 09In the Netflix series, who do Wednesday's parents leave behind to keep watch on her at school?
Thing
Thing is played by magician Victor Dorobantu, who wore a blue suit on set so that everything but his hand could be erased in post-production.
Q 10In the Netflix series, Wednesday's dark visions make her which type of psychic, named after a bird?
Raven
Raven is the show's term for a psychic whose visions dwell on the darker side, which is why Wednesday keeps others at a distance; her mother's run the other way.
Q 11In the Netflix series, the actress who was Wednesday in the 1990s films returns as which character?
Marilyn Thornhill
Marilyn Thornhill seems a kindly botany teacher, but she is unmasked as Laurel Gates, the mastermind behind the season-one killings.
Q 12In the Netflix series, which town sits next to Wednesday's boarding school?
Jericho
Jericho was built from scratch for the show: the production constructed the whole town as a studio set instead of filming in a real one.
Q 13In its first week, 'Wednesday' took Netflix's record for weekly hours viewed by an English-language series from which show?
Stranger Things
Stranger Things held the mark from its fourth season; 'Wednesday' beat it despite launching on a Wednesday, which left it only five days of Netflix's chart week.
Q 21In which US state is Wednesday's boarding school set in the Netflix series?
Vermont
Vermont is only the setting: the school's exterior is a real castle in Europe, and the neighbouring town was built for the show on a studio lot.
Q 22Which actress plays Morticia Addams in the Netflix series 'Wednesday'?
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones was a guest in season one and joined the main cast for season two, when Morticia is talked into leading a fundraising drive for the school.
Q 23Which language calls Wednesday 'Mittwoch', meaning mid-week, instead of naming the day after a god?
German
German is the odd one out: it dropped the god's name for Mittwoch, 'mid-week', while Dutch, Swedish and Danish still name the day after the old god.
Q 14What is the middle name of Wednesday Addams, kept by the Netflix series from the 1960s sitcom?
Friday
Friday fits better than her first name: asked whether she was born on a Wednesday, she replies that she was born on Friday the 13th.
Q 15In the Netflix series, which school expels Wednesday just before she transfers to her parents' old academy?
Nancy Reagan High School
Nancy Reagan High School was the last in a run of eight schools in five years; Wednesday boasts that nobody has built one strong enough to hold her.
Q 16The English name for the day 'Wednesday' is derived from the name of which Germanic god?
Woden
Woden is the Old English name for Odin; Germanic peoples put him in when they adapted the Roman seven-day week, so Woden's day became Wednesday.
Q 17Who played Wednesday Addams in the 1990s live-action Addams Family films?
Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci played her in the 1991 film and its 1993 sequel, then came back to the franchise three decades later in a new role in the Netflix series.
Q 18The first season of Netflix's 'Wednesday' was shot in which country?
Romania
Romania hosted the whole first-season shoot, with a castle in the Carpathians standing in for the school; for season two the production moved to Ireland.
Q 19In French, Spanish and Italian, the name for Wednesday comes from the Latin for 'day of' which Roman god?
Mercury
Mercury's day, 'dies Mercurii' in Latin, became mercredi, miércoles and mercoledì; English differs because Germanic speakers put a god of their own in his place.
Q 20For years, Charles Addams drew Wednesday and her family in magazine cartoons without giving them what?
Names
Names only arrived in the 1960s, when the family was licensed for dolls and a TV sitcom; until then the cartoon clan had been anonymous.
Q 24Which secret group at Wednesday's school was founded by her ancestor Goody Addams?
Nightshade Society
The Nightshade Society was founded to protect outcasts from hostile normies; by Wednesday's day it is an elite social club that meets in a hidden library.
Q 25The character Wednesday Addams was named based on a line from which traditional nursery rhyme?
"Monday's Child"
"Monday's Child" is a fortune-telling rhyme that gives each day's child a fate; in the Netflix series Morticia says the name comes from her favourite line of it.
Q 26Which 1981 song by the Cramps plays during Wednesday's dance at the school ball?
Goo Goo Muck
Goo Goo Muck's dance was choreographed by the star herself, who admits lifting a couple of moves from goth icon Siouxsie Sioux.
Q 27In the Netflix series, Wednesday says she last cried at age six, when bullies killed which pet of hers?
A scorpion
A scorpion named Nero was her pet; after boys ran it over she buried it and vowed never to cry again, deciding that tears fix nothing.
Q 28In season one, which town founder tried to burn Wednesday's ancestor Goody Addams alive?
Joseph Crackstone
Joseph Crackstone paid for it: Goody escaped, later killed him and sealed his crypt with a blood lock, which the season-one villain schemes to break.
Q 29In season two, Wednesday eavesdrops on a classmate's phone call to a secret girlfriend in which language?
Tagalog
Tagalog is what werewolf Bruno speaks on the call; Wednesday, stuck in her roommate's body at the time, understands every word and dumps him on the spot.
Q 30Which composer wrote the theme for Netflix's 'Wednesday'?
Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman wrote the theme and shared the score with Chris Bacon; he started out fronting the rock band Oingo Boingo before turning to screen music.