What We Do in the Shadows Trivia
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50 free What We Do in the Shadows trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
What We Do in the Shadows moved Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's 2014 mockumentary from Wellington to Staten Island and ran for six seasons on FX between 2019 and 2024. Nandor the Relentless, Laszlo and Nadja Cravensworth, the energy vampire Colin Robinson and the long-suffering familiar Guillermo de la Cruz collected 35 Emmy nominations and some of the best reviews of any sitcom of the decade. This quiz covers the household and the world around it: the Vampiric Council cameos from Tilda Swinton to Wesley Snipes, the Baron and his familiar, Jenna the LARPer, Simon the Devious, the Mosquito Collectors, the werewolf truce of 1993, the Norma Tanega theme song, the Toronto filming and the no-CGI rule. Fifty questions in sets of ten, from what any viewer knows to the kind of detail only a Staten Island completist would recall.
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Q 01Which Flight of the Conchords star created the TV series What We Do in the Shadows?
Jemaine Clement
Jemaine Clement created the series and wrote its first episode, which Taika Waititi, his co-director on the original film, directed.
Q 02On which network did What We Do in the Shadows premiere in March 2019?
FX
FX screened the first episode for a New York Comic Con crowd in October 2018, five months before the series began its six-season run on air.
Q 03In which New York City borough do the vampires of What We Do in the Shadows share a house?
Staten Island
Staten Island is as far as they got: their ancient master wanted the New World conquered and was furious to find they had not even taken over the island.
Q 04What We Do in the Shadows is based on a 2014 film from which country?
New Zealand
New Zealand's mockumentary grew out of a short film its two directors shot in 2005, and most of that short's cast came back for the feature.
Q 05Who plays Nandor the Relentless in What We Do in the Shadows?
Kayvan Novak
Kayvan Novak's former warlord learns he has some 200,000 living descendants, then frightens a 94-year-old one to death by floating up to her window to say hello.
Q 06Nandor the Relentless was once a soldier of which empire?
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire's fierce warrior once ruled a kingdom of his own, and centuries went by before he learned that it no longer existed.
Q 07In What We Do in the Shadows, which actor plays Laszlo Cravensworth, a part written specifically for him?
Matt Berry
Matt Berry's Laszlo was an English nobleman until Nadja bit him and turned him into a vampire, and the two of them later married.
Q 08In What We Do in the Shadows, Laszlo and Nadja claim which Beach Boys hit began as their own song?
Kokomo
Kokomo is the old 'seafaring song' they fall back on when they revive their musical act, and the booing crowd turns around because everyone already knows it.
Q 09In What We Do in the Shadows, Laszlo trims his garden topiaries into the shape of what?
Vulvas
Vulvas are his subject, his wife's and his mother's included, and a werewolf urinating on one of the hedges sets off a feud with the local pack.
Q 10Who plays Nadja of Antipaxos in What We Do in the Shadows?
Natasia Demetriou
Natasia Demetriou plays her twice over: from the second season she also voices the ghost of Nadja's human self, which moves into a doll.
Q 11In What We Do in the Shadows, how does Nadja's reincarnated lover Gregor die in each of his lives?
Decapitation
Decapitation ends each of Gregor's lives, and the culprit turns out to be Laszlo, who had secretly been behind the beheadings for centuries.
Q 12Who plays Nandor's long-suffering familiar in What We Do in the Shadows?
Harvey Guillén
Harvey Guillén's familiar serves for more than a decade in the hope of being made a vampire, only to find he is a gifted vampire killer instead.
Q 13In What We Do in the Shadows, Guillermo learns he is descended from which famous vampire hunter?
Abraham Van Helsing
Q 21Which vampire-hunting club does Guillermo join in What We Do in the Shadows?
Mosquito Collectors of the Tri-State Area
The Mosquito Collectors of the Tri-State Area use bug hunting as a front, and Guillermo only stumbles on them while looking for virgins for his master.
Q 22In What We Do in the Shadows, who plays Simon the Devious, owner of the Sassy Cat nightclub?
Nick Kroll
Nick Kroll's Simon rules Manhattan's vampires and agrees to an alliance with the housemates, then breaks his word the moment he has what he asked for.
Q 23In What We Do in the Shadows, what is Laszlo's cursed hat made from?
Witch skin
Abraham Van Helsing turns up in the family tree after Guillermo sends off DNA tests for the household, and his knack for slaying later makes him the vampires' bodyguard.
Q 14In What We Do in the Shadows, what kind of vampire is Colin Robinson, who feeds by boring people?
Energy vampire
Energy vampire Colin Robinson drains people by boring or frustrating them, and because daylight does not hurt him he holds an office job and feeds on his coworkers.
Q 15In What We Do in the Shadows, what happens to Colin Robinson when he turns 100?
He dies and is reborn
He dies and is reborn: a baby claws its way out of the dead Colin Robinson's chest and grows back to adulthood within a matter of months.
Q 16Who plays the Guide, the Vampiric Council's floating envoy, in What We Do in the Shadows?
Kristen Schaal
Kristen Schaal first appeared as a one-episode guest, a character also called the Floating Woman, then kept coming back until she joined the main cast.
Q 17Which actor plays Baron Afanas in What We Do in the Shadows?
Doug Jones
Doug Jones plays the fearsome ancient vampire, who admits on a drunken night out that 'Baron' is really a pun on 'barren': he cannot have children.
Q 18In What We Do in the Shadows, how does Guillermo accidentally kill Baron Afanas in season one?
Opening a door to sunlight
Opening a door to sunlight burns the Baron as he staggers home from a drunken night out, and the three housemates are put on trial for his murder.
Q 19In What We Do in the Shadows, too much hypnosis leaves the vampires' neighbour Sean with a case of what?
Brain scramblies
Brain scramblies set in after Laszlo and Nandor both hypnotise Sean at his Super Bowl party, where he had only been joking that his neighbours were vampires.
Q 20In What We Do in the Shadows, which actress plays Jenna, the LARPer Nadja turns into a vampire?
Beanie Feldstein
Beanie Feldstein's Jenna turns out to have a rare vampire power, invisibility, which first shows itself when she is fed up with being ignored at a party.
Witch skin is what Nadja insists makes the hat cursed, and sure enough Simon the Devious's club explodes moments after he cheats Laszlo out of it.
Q 24Which SNL alum plays Evie, the emotional vampire who dates Colin Robinson in What We Do in the Shadows?
Vanessa Bayer
Vanessa Bayer's Evie feeds on pity by telling co-workers tragic stories about herself, which makes her a rival Colin Robinson cannot drain, so he dates her instead.
Q 25In What We Do in the Shadows, which office does Colin Robinson run for in season five?
Comptroller
Comptroller is the office Colin Robinson runs for, until he exposes himself on a video call and Evie takes over his campaign and wins.
Q 26Which former child star plays Topher, the familiar revived as a zombie, in What We Do in the Shadows?
Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment, the boy who saw dead people in The Sixth Sense, plays a slacker familiar who is accidentally electrocuted and brought back from the dead.
Q 27In What We Do in the Shadows, Benedict Wong plays Wallace, a rival of Laszlo's with which trade?
Necromancer
Necromancer Wallace, who also runs a souvenir shop, charges $350 to revive a dead familiar, and Laszlo's doubts are borne out when the man comes back a zombie.
Q 28Tired of waiting for Nandor, Guillermo pays which vampire to turn him in What We Do in the Shadows?
Derek
Derek, a vampire hunter turned vampire who works in a convenience store, takes Guillermo's money for the job, and Nandor later wants Guillermo dead for going behind his back.
Q 29In What We Do in the Shadows, Marwa, who appears in season four, is what relation to Nandor?
His resurrected ex-wife
His resurrected ex-wife is one of 37 wives Nandor wishes back to life so he can pick one to remarry, and he later wishes that she like everything he likes.
Q 30What kept Jerry, the vampires' fifth housemate, absent for about fifty years?
A long sleep
A long sleep: the others were supposed to wake Jerry on New Year's Eve 1996 and simply forgot, so his slumber ran on for decades more.