56 Stranger Things trivia questions and answers
Questions on the Netflix series season by season, plus rounds on the cast and how the show was made and on its music and 1980s references, each marked easy, medium or hard. Pick a section for a quiz round or print the whole set with answers; this is an independent quiz, not connected with Netflix.
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Season 1
- 1
Will Byers vanishes while cycling home from a game session with his friends. Which game were they playing?
easy
Hint: It is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game.
AnswerDungeons & Dragons.
Later, Eleven uses the game board to show the boys that Will is on the "Upside Down" side, hunted by the Demogorgon.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_1?oldid=1383126082
- 2
What number is tattooed on the arm of the girl who wanders into the local diner in a hospital gown?
easy
Hint: Her name comes from it.
Answer011.
Benny, the diner's owner, finds the tattoo and learns that her name is Eleven.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_1?oldid=1383126082
- 3
How does Joyce turn her living room wall into a way for Will to spell out messages?
easy
Hint: It happens in episode three, "Holly, Jolly."
AnswerShe paints an alphabet board on the wall with Christmas lights.
Through the lights, Will signals that he is "RIGHT HERE" and then tells her to "RUN" as the Demogorgon comes through the wall.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_1?oldid=1383126082
- 4
What is the name of Nancy's friend who vanishes from beside the pool during the party at Steve's house?
medium
Hint: Nancy later spots a figure behind her in one of Jonathan's photos.
AnswerBarb (Barbara Holland).
She wakes up in the Upside Down, and Nancy later finds her untouched Volkswagen at Steve's house.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_1?oldid=1383126082
- 5
What does Eleven call Dr. Martin Brenner, the scientist in charge of Hawkins Laboratory?
medium
Hint: It is what a small child might call a father.
AnswerPapa.
Matthew Modine plays Brenner, who trains Eleven and searches for her after she escapes the lab.
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- 6
What is Eleven's birth name, which Joyce and Hopper work out in episode seven?
medium
Hint: Joyce and Hopper learn about her mother from Terry's sister, Becky.
AnswerJane Ives.
Her mother, Terry Ives, was a Project MKUltra participant while unknowingly pregnant and believes Brenner took her daughter Jane at birth.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_1?oldid=1383126082
- 7
In episode seven, "The Bathtub," what does the group build at the middle school to boost Eleven's powers?
medium
Hint: Brenner's lab once placed her in a real one to eavesdrop on a Soviet man speaking Russian.
AnswerA makeshift sensory deprivation tank.
Inside it, Eleven finds Will alive, hiding in the Upside Down version of his backyard fort.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_1?oldid=1383126082
- 8
On what date does the first season begin?
hard
Hint: Season two is set 11 months later, in the fall of 1984.
AnswerNovember 6, 1983.
That is the night Will Byers is abducted by a creature from the Upside Down, dubbed the Demogorgon.
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Season 2
- 9
What does Dustin name the small, slug-like creature he finds in his trash can on Halloween night?
easy
Hint: He shortens it to a four-letter nickname.
AnswerD'Artagnan, or Dart for short.
Dart breaks out of its cage and turns out to be an infant Demogorgon, also known as a Demodog.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_2?oldid=1382900593
- 10
What name do Will's friends and family give the giant shadow monster that has a hold on Will?
easy
Hint: Episode eight is named after it.
AnswerThe Mind Flayer.
Dr. Owens theorizes that the creatures from the Upside Down share a hive mind, and the group learns the monster wants to conquer their world.
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- 11
Max Mayfield is the new girl at school in season two. What is her full first name?
medium
Hint: It is the longer form of her nickname.
AnswerMaxine.
She quickly captures the attention of both Dustin and Lucas.
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- 12
Joyce's boyfriend, Bob Newby, runs which electronics store in Hawkins?
medium
Hint: The name pairs a gadget with a word for a small hut.
AnswerRadioShack.
Sean Astin plays Bob, a former schoolmate of Joyce and Hopper.
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- 13
In episode five, "Dig Dug," what does Bob realize Will's many drawings form when they are laid out together?
medium
Hint: Earlier, Joyce and Hopper notice that the scribbles line up into vines.
AnswerA map of Hawkins.
Bob also works out that the pumpkin field marked on it is the place Hopper was going.
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- 14
In episode seven, "The Lost Sister," Eleven travels to which city to find Kali?
medium
Hint: It is in Illinois.
AnswerChicago.
Kali, another girl experimented on by Brenner, can project images into people's minds and leads a street gang.
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- 15
What number is tattooed on Kali's arm?
hard
Hint: It is three lower than Eleven's number.
Answer008.
Season two opens on October 28, 1984, with her using her powers to help a gang flee the police after a bank robbery in Pittsburgh.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_2?oldid=1382900593
Season 3
- 16
What new shopping center becomes the center of attention in Hawkins in the summer of 1985?
easy
Hint: Steve serves ice cream there.
AnswerStarcourt Mall.
Its popularity forces many local businesses to close, and a secret Russian lab is hidden beneath it.
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- 17
What is the name of Dustin's girlfriend, whom he met at summer camp?
easy
Hint: The season premiere's title is a radio call to her.
AnswerSuzie.
Dustin sets up a radio tower to contact her and ends up intercepting a Russian radio transmission.
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- 18
At which ice cream parlor in the new mall does Steve work?
medium
Hint: Its name ends with a sailor's greeting.
AnswerScoops Ahoy.
When the season launched, several Baskin-Robbins stores in the United States and Canada were made over as Scoops Ahoy for about two weeks.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_3?oldid=1382755533
- 19
Who cracks the secret Russian radio message that Dustin intercepted?
medium
Hint: She is Steve's coworker and former classmate.
AnswerRobin Buckley.
The code leads to a shipment arriving at Starcourt at precisely 21:45, where she, Steve and Dustin spot armed Russian soldiers.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_3?oldid=1382755533
- 20
Which younger sibling of one of the boys joins Dustin, Steve and Robin on their mission beneath Starcourt Mall?
medium
Hint: Priah Ferguson plays her.
AnswerErica Sinclair, Lucas's younger sister.
Together they discover that the mall's loading dock is really an elevator, which traps them beneath the mall.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_3?oldid=1382755533
- 21
Where do the kids trap Billy to test whether the Mind Flayer has taken him over?
medium
Hint: Think of the hottest room at the pool.
AnswerIn the sauna at the pool.
Episode four is titled "The Sauna Test." Billy breaks out, and Eleven has to stop him.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_3?oldid=1382755533
- 22
Which real shopping mall near Duluth, Georgia, was re-dressed to film Starcourt Mall?
hard
Hint: Its name ends in "Place Mall."
AnswerGwinnett Place Mall.
The crew searched Georgia for a dead mall and found Gwinnett nearly perfect because it was built in 1984.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_3?oldid=1382755533
Season 4
- 23
What is the name of the Hawkins High Dungeons & Dragons club that Mike and Dustin join?
easy
Hint: The name pairs fire with the underworld.
AnswerThe Hellfire Club.
The club is run by Eddie Munson, played by Joseph Quinn.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_4?oldid=1382900605
- 24
Which Kate Bush song, Max's favorite, do her friends play on a cassette to pull her free from Vecna?
easy
Hint: It happens in episode four, "Dear Billy."
Answer"Running Up That Hill."
Music supervisor Nora Felder found the song, and Winona Ryder had been dropping hints since the first season by wearing Kate Bush T-shirts on set.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_4?oldid=1382900605
- 25
Which two characters give the villain the name Vecna?
medium
Hint: Both belong to the same tabletop game club.
AnswerEddie and Dustin.
They name it after Max, Dustin, Robin and Steve track Eddie down and explain the Upside Down to him.
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- 26
Where is Hopper being held at the start of season four?
medium
Hint: Joyce and Murray fly to Alaska to deliver a ransom for him.
AnswerIn a Soviet prison camp in Kamchatka.
Joyce learns he is alive from a hidden note in a porcelain doll sent to her, seemingly from Russia.
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- 27
What is Vecna's real name?
medium
Hint: Nancy and Robin visit his father, who is imprisoned.
AnswerHenry Creel.
He became Subject 001 in Brenner's attempts to replicate his powers, until Eleven sent him to the Upside Down.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_4?oldid=1382900605
- 28
What is the name of the program, set up in an abandoned missile silo, that uses an isolation tank to help Eleven get her powers back?
medium
Hint: It sounds like a girl's name.
AnswerThe Nina Project (NINA).
Owens and Brenner run it from an abandoned ICBM silo in Nevada, where the tank lets Eleven revisit memories of Hawkins Lab.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_4?oldid=1382900605
- 29
In which lake do the friends find a new gate to the Upside Down?
hard
Hint: Dustin's malfunctioning compass points them toward it.
AnswerLover's Lake.
Steve dives in to inspect it and is pulled into the Upside Down, and Nancy, Robin and Eddie jump in after him.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_4?oldid=1382900605
Season 5
- 30
What is the name of Holly Wheeler's imaginary friend?
easy
Hint: His name sounds like a question.
AnswerMr. Whatsit.
Karen tells Nancy and Mike that his first name is Henry, and they realize he is Vecna's human form, Henry Creel.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_5?oldid=1378296362
- 31
On what date was the series finale released?
easy
Hint: The last night of the year.
AnswerDecember 31, 2025.
The finale also had a limited theatrical release in the United States and Canada, screening at 620 theaters.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_5?oldid=1378296362
- 32
What do the friends call their secret trips to sneak Hopper into the Upside Down?
medium
Hint: Think of moving on hands and knees.
AnswerCrawls.
The season premiere is titled "Chapter One: The Crawl."
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- 33
Whom do Hopper and Eleven find held captive at the military base in the Upside Down?
medium
Hint: Linnea Berthelsen returns to play her for the first time since season two.
AnswerKali, also called Eight.
Kali reveals that Dr. Kay was using her blood in failed experiments to give children powers.
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- 34
Dustin works out that the Upside Down is a bridge to which separate realm?
medium
Hint: It is a word for a bottomless pit.
AnswerThe Abyss.
Henry plans to merge it with their world, and the group plans to climb a radio tower to reach it.
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- 35
What is the title of the series finale?
medium
Hint: It flips the name of the show's dark dimension.
Answer"Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up."
In it, the group rescues the kidnapped children and destroys the Upside Down.
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- 36
In the finale's epilogue, 18 months later, what does Hopper do?
medium
Hint: A question that comes with a ring.
AnswerHe proposes to Joyce.
The epilogue also shows the party graduating and finishing a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
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- 37
At which local radio station do Steve, Robin, Jonathan and Nancy work, relaying coded messages to the group?
hard
Hint: Four call letters, starting with W.
AnswerWSQK.
In the final plan, the group climbs the station's radio tower to get into the Abyss.
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- 38
What name does Holly give the psychic realm made of Henry's memories, where she meets Max?
hard
Hint: Max has been trapped there ever since her brief death.
AnswerCamazotz.
Episode six is titled "Chapter Six: Escape from Camazotz."
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The cast and how it was made
- 39
Which pair of brothers created Stranger Things?
easy
Hint: Their surname rhymes with "buffer."
AnswerMatt and Ross Duffer, the Duffer Brothers.
They also serve as the show's showrunners and head writers and direct many of the episodes.
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- 40
Which actor plays Hawkins police chief Jim Hopper?
easy
Hint: He also starred as Hellboy in 2019.
AnswerDavid Harbour.
He received two Primetime Emmy nominations for the role and also played Red Guardian in Thunderbolts* (2025).
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harbour?oldid=1383487417
- 41
What was the show's original working title, taken from the real town where it was first set?
medium
Hint: It is a town on Long Island, New York.
AnswerMontauk.
The setting later moved to the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, which let the brothers do things like put the town under quarantine.
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- 42
Winona Ryder's one condition for joining the show was time off to shoot a sequel to which of her films?
medium
Hint: It came out in 1988.
AnswerBeetlejuice.
The Duffers agreed, and it worked out when Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) was greenlit.
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- 43
What did Millie Bobby Brown have to do to her hair to play Eleven?
medium
Hint: Think of how Eleven looks in season one.
AnswerShave her head.
She and her parents worried it could cost her future roles until they saw a photo of Charlize Theron as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven_(Stranger_Things)?oldid=1382478271
- 44
To win the role of Max, Sadie Sink told the crew she knew how to rollerblade and skateboard. Which could she not actually do?
medium
Hint: It is the one on inline wheels.
AnswerRollerblading.
She could skateboard, and she later reflected on Jimmy Kimmel Live that the two were not quite the same as she had thought.
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- 45
Which actress joined the final season as Dr. Kay, who helps lead the military operation in Hawkins?
hard
Hint: She first spoke to the Duffers over Zoom.
AnswerLinda Hamilton.
Netflix announced her casting at its Tudum event in June 2023; the Duffers told her the "shape" of the character but not the story.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_5?oldid=1378296362
- 46
Which veteran director came out of retirement to direct two episodes of season five?
hard
Hint: He and his wife were big fans of the series.
AnswerFrank Darabont.
He took over an episode after Dan Trachtenberg became unable to direct it once Predator: Badlands (2025) was greenlit.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_5?oldid=1378296362
- 47
Which typeface do the producers use for the red Stranger Things title?
hard
Hint: Its name starts with three capital letters.
AnswerITC Benguiat.
The studio Imaginary Forces created the title sequence, in which the letters slide into place against a black background.
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Music and the 80s
- 48
Which movie theme song does Dustin sing to Suzie in the season three finale before she will give him a critical code?
easy
Hint: It is the theme to a 1984 film of the same name.
Answer"The NeverEnding Story."
The Duffers wanted to give Gaten Matarazzo, who has sung on Broadway, a chance to show off his voice.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_3?oldid=1382755533
- 49
Which band's song "Should I Stay or Should I Go" plays at key moments of season one, such as when Will tries to reach Joyce?
medium
Hint: The band's name is a word for a conflict.
AnswerThe Clash.
The season's period music also features Toto, New Order, the Bangles and Peter Gabriel.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_1?oldid=1383126082
- 50
Which Metallica song does Eddie play on his electric guitar in the Upside Down?
medium
Hint: Its title is about someone who pulls the strings.
Answer"Master of Puppets."
He plays it to distract the demobats guarding Vecna's lair as part of the group's final plan.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stranger_Things_characters?oldid=1380617350
- 51
Which soft drink, first introduced in 1985, did Coca-Cola bring back for a limited run to coincide with season three?
medium
Hint: Its name says it replaced the original.
AnswerNew Coke.
Season three is set in 1985, in the days leading up to the Fourth of July.
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- 52
Child actors auditioning for the boys' roles read lines from which Rob Reiner film?
medium
Hint: The brothers also showed it when pitching the series, alongside E.T. and Jaws.
AnswerStand by Me.
The Duffers estimated they went through about a thousand child actors for the roles.
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- 53
Robert Englund, who plays Victor Creel in season four, is best known for which horror villain?
medium
Hint: Think of the Nightmare on Elm Street films.
AnswerFreddy Krueger.
Englund had approached the Duffers asking for a role in Stranger Things.
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- 54
Composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, who wrote the show's synth theme, are members of which electronic band?
hard
Hint: The band's name is a verb meaning to stay alive.
AnswerSurvive.
The Duffers had been fans of the band's music since the 2014 film The Guest.
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- 55
After season four, Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" climbed to what position on the US Billboard Hot 100?
hard
Hint: It reached the top five.
AnswerNumber three.
That beat its 1985 peak of number 30, and the song also became her second UK number-one single.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Up_That_Hill?oldid=1381148104
- 56
The Duffers set season one in 1983 partly because it was a year before which Cold War film came out?
hard
Hint: Its title pairs a color with the start of the day.
AnswerRed Dawn.
They also drew on Cold War experiments such as MKUltra to ground the monster in science.
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