This Wizards of Waverly Place trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers all four seasons of the Disney Channel hit (2007-2012), the 2009 movie, the 2013 special Alex vs. Alex and the 2024-2026 sequel Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. It opens with the basics - the Russos' Greenwich Village sandwich shop, the family wizard competition, Harper, Mason the werewolf and Juliet the vampire - and works up to details for true fans: what the show was called before it was Wizards, which cast members were missing from the unaired pilot, how many people watched the finale, and who Billie turns out to be in the sequel. You will also meet the cast off-screen: Selena Gomez's Barney beginnings and Rare Beauty empire, David Henrie's other famous TV son role, Jake T. Austin's animated alter ego and Jennifer Stone's second career as a nurse. Everything is kid-friendly, so it works for a family movie night, a Disney Channel throwback party or a solo nostalgia run. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01In which New York City neighbourhood is Waverly Place, home of the Russo family?
Greenwich Village
One academic critic pointed out that a working-class family running a sandwich shop could never afford to live there.
Q 02What kind of business do Jerry and Theresa Russo run on the ground floor of their building?
A subway-themed sandwich shop
In the finale Max, having lost the family competition, becomes its new manager with investment from the wizard world.
Q 03According to the rules of the Wizard World, what happens once the Russo children finish their training?
They compete and only one keeps the powers
Jerry won his own family's competition as a teenager but gave up his powers to marry Theresa, a mortal; they passed to his brother Kelbo.
Q 04Who wins the family wizard competition in the series finale?
Alex
Justin also keeps his powers by becoming headmaster of WizTech, so only Max ends up mortal.
Q 05What is the name of Alex's best friend, who moves in with the Russos in season three?
Harper Finkle
Actress Jennifer Stone originally planned to audition for Alex and said she 'fought' to become a series regular.
Q 06Alex's boyfriend Mason Greyback is what kind of creature?
A werewolf
Justin's girlfriend Juliet van Heusen, played by Bridgit Mendler, is the vampire; Gregg Sulkin returned as Mason in the sequel's final season.
Q 07What is the name of the boarding school for young wizards that Justin ends up running?
WizTech
Creator Todd Greenwald once floated a prequel about Jerry's own high-school years there.
Q 08In season four, Max is temporarily turned into a younger girl by a spell. What was her name?
Maxine
Bailee Madison played her while Jake T. Austin took a break from the show.
Q 09Who created Wizards of Waverly Place, having previously worked on the first season of Hannah Montana?
Todd J. Greenwald
Disney hired him after seeing a pilot he had made for NBC, and handed him the network's own idea of a show about a family of wizards.
Q 10When executive producer Peter Murrieta joined the project, what was the show's working title?
The Amazing O'Malleys
The kids were named Brooke, Sully and Max O'Malley at that stage, then Alexa, Aaron and Max Esposito, before Murrieta changed the surname to Russo.
Q 11The unaired pilot was set in a magic store and featured how many siblings?
Two, who were twins
They were named Jordan and Julia; David DeLuise and Jake T. Austin were not in that pilot at all.
Q 12Selena Gomez's unaired Disney pilot 'Arwin!' was a spin-off of which show?
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
The other, Stevie Sanchez, was a Lizzie McGuire spin-off; Disney had first spotted her at an open casting call in Texas at age twelve.
Q 13What is the title of the theme song, sung by Selena Gomez?
'Everything Is Not What It Seems'
Q 21What is revealed about young wizard Billie in the sequel's second-season finale?
She is Alex's daughter
Alex and Damien had hidden her at WizTech and erased all memory of her to protect her from her paternal grandfather.
Q 22Who plays Billie in Wizards Beyond Waverly Place?
Janice LeAnn Brown
The sequel premiered on October 29, 2024 and concluded on August 4, 2026, with Jennifer Stone and Gregg Sulkin guesting in the final season.
Q 23Under what working title did Disney first order the sequel pilot in January 2024?
Wizards
Henrie was signed as a regular and Gomez as a recurring guest; the full title was announced in May 2024.
Gomez said she modelled Alex's mannerisms on Jennifer Aniston's Rachel Green from Friends.
Q 14David Henrie, who played Justin, wrote which two episodes of the series?
'Alex's Logo' and 'Meet the Werewolves'
Henrie also played Ted Mosby's future son Luke on How I Met Your Mother.
Q 15How many viewers watched the one-hour series finale, 'Who Will Be the Family Wizard?', in January 2012?
9.8 million
It remains the highest-rated finale of any Disney Channel series; the 2007 premiere had drawn 5.9 million.
Q 16How many Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Program did the franchise win in total?
Three
The series won in 2009 and 2012, and the 2009 movie won in 2010.
Q 17Where was Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie filmed on location?
San Juan, Puerto Rico
The plot has Alex accidentally casting a spell so that her parents never met; it drew 11.4 million viewers, second only to High School Musical 2 among Disney Channel movie premieres at the time.
Q 18In the movie, what powerful magical object can reverse any spell or grant any wish?
The Stone of Dreams
Street magician Archie wants it to turn his parrot Giselle back into a human, and Giselle ends up stealing it.
Q 19In The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex, the Russos travel to which country for a family reunion?
Italy
Alex accidentally creates good and evil versions of herself; the special premiered on March 15, 2013 to 5.9 million viewers.
Q 20In Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, where does Justin live a normal life with his family?
Staten Island
It is set fifteen years after the original; his sons are Roman and Milo and his mortal wife is Giada.
Q 24Selena Gomez began her acting career at age ten on which children's series?
Barney & Friends
She was named after the Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla and grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas.
Q 25Selena Gomez founded which cosmetics company, later valued at around $2 billion?
Rare Beauty
She is also the most-followed woman on Instagram and has starred in Only Murders in the Building since 2021.
Q 26On How I Met Your Mother, David Henrie played whose future son?
Ted Mosby's
Before Wizards he had also played Cory's friend Larry on That's So Raven.
Q 27Jake T. Austin was the original voice of which Nickelodeon character, Dora's cousin?
Diego
He was later the original Jesus Foster on The Fosters and appeared in Hotel for Dogs and Rio.
Q 28Jennifer Stone, who played Harper, left acting in 2019 to qualify in which profession?
Nursing
She studied it to better understand her own type 1 diabetes and finished school just as the COVID-19 pandemic broke.
Q 29In 2010 Jennifer Stone played the title role in a film based on which Louise Fitzhugh children's book?
Harriet the Spy
She later admitted she had never read the book before starring in Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars.
Q 30David DeLuise and Jennifer Stone launched a rewatch podcast in February 2023. What is it called?
Wizards of Waverly Pod
It runs on Christy Carlson Romano's PodCo network, and Selena Gomez has appeared as a guest.