Season 1 — Hawkins, 1983
Will Byers's disappearance, the Demogorgon, Eleven's powers. The season that started the cultural phenomenon.
Q1.What town is Stranger Things set in?Tap to reveal
Answer: Hawkins, Indiana
Fictional small town; based on 1980s Midwestern Americana.
Q2.What is Eleven's birth name?Tap to reveal
Answer: Jane Ives (later Jane Hopper)
Adopted by Jim Hopper; biological mother Terry Ives.
Q3.On what date does Will Byers disappear in the first episode?Tap to reveal
Answer: November 6, 1983
The date matters — Season 4 opens on its anniversary.
Q4.How does Joyce Byers communicate with Will while he is trapped in the Upside Down?Tap to reveal
Answer: Through Christmas lights strung over an alphabet painted on her wall
One letter lights up at a time to spell out messages.
Q5.What frozen food is Eleven obsessed with?Tap to reveal
Answer: Eggo waffles
Hopper later leaves Eggos in the woods as a signal to her.
Q6.At what diner does Eleven first hide after escaping the lab?Tap to reveal
Answer: Benny's Burgers
Owner Benny Hammond feeds her before lab agents track her down.
Q7.Which of Nancy's friends is taken by the Demogorgon from Steve's pool party?Tap to reveal
Answer: Barb Holland
Her death sparked the real-world #JusticeForBarb fan movement.
Q8.What is the name of Will's hideout fort in the woods?Tap to reveal
Answer: Castle Byers
Built with his brother Jonathan; Will shelters there in the Upside Down.
Characters and ensemble cast
Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will, Max, Steve, Robin, Jonathan, Nancy, Eddie, Vecna. The ensemble grew each season — these questions test character recall.
Q1.Who plays Eleven?Tap to reveal
Answer: Millie Bobby Brown
Cast at age 11; the role launched her career.
Q2.What is the parallel dimension called?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Upside Down
A dark mirror of Hawkins inhabited by interdimensional monsters.
Q3.Who plays Joyce Byers?Tap to reveal
Answer: Winona Ryder
Her casting was itself an 80s-nostalgia statement — she was an 80s/90s icon.
Q4.What job does Jim Hopper hold in Hawkins?Tap to reveal
Answer: Chief of police
Played by David Harbour; he becomes Eleven's adoptive father.
Q5.Which character arrives in Season 2 from California and posts the top score at the arcade as 'MADMAX'?Tap to reveal
Answer: Max Mayfield
She beats Dustin's Dig Dug high score, which is how the boys notice her.
Q6.Who is Max's aggressive stepbrother, later possessed by the Mind Flayer?Tap to reveal
Answer: Billy Hargrove
He becomes the Mind Flayer's main host in Season 3.
Q7.Where do Steve and Robin work in Season 3?Tap to reveal
Answer: Scoops Ahoy, the ice cream parlor in Starcourt Mall
Their sailor uniforms became instantly meme-famous.
Q8.Which famous acting family does Maya Hawke, who plays Robin, come from?Tap to reveal
Answer: She is the daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke
Robin debuted in Season 3 and quickly became a fan favorite.
Q9.What is the name of Lucas's little sister who crawls through the air ducts in Season 3?Tap to reveal
Answer: Erica Sinclair
She is the only one small enough to reach the secret Russian delivery room.
80s references and pop culture
Stranger Things is built on 80s nostalgia. Dungeons & Dragons, Kate Bush, John Carpenter scores, Stephen King novels. The references are themselves trivia.
Q1.What organization runs experiments on Eleven?Tap to reveal
Answer: Hawkins National Laboratory (Hawkins Lab)
Front for Department of Energy / MKUltra-style research.
Q2.What is the name of the Season 1 monster?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Demogorgon
Named after a Dungeons & Dragons monster by the boys.
Q3.Which Kate Bush song saves Max from Vecna in Season 4?Tap to reveal
Answer: 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)'
The 1985 track hit #1 in the UK in 2022 thanks to the show.
Q4.What game do Mike, Will, Dustin, and Lucas play in the very first scene of the series?Tap to reveal
Answer: Dungeons & Dragons
Their campaign monsters — Demogorgon, Mind Flayer, Vecna — name every villain.
Q5.Which Metallica song does Eddie Munson play in the Upside Down in Season 4?Tap to reveal
Answer: 'Master of Puppets'
His guitar scene sent the 1986 track back onto global charts.
Q6.Which movie song do Dustin and Suzie sing as a duet during the Battle of Starcourt?Tap to reveal
Answer: The theme from The NeverEnding Story
Suzie demands the song before giving Dustin Planck's constant.
Q7.What is the name of the arcade the kids frequent in Season 2?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Palace Arcade
Where Max's MADMAX high scores first appear.
Upside Down lore and Vecna
The mythology deepened each season. The Upside Down, the Demogorgon's biology, the Mind Flayer, Vecna's true identity. Lore depth tests dedicated viewers.
Q1.Who created Stranger Things?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Duffer Brothers (Matt and Ross)
Twin brothers; the show premiered on Netflix in July 2016.
Q2.What is Steve Harrington's iconic accessory?Tap to reveal
Answer: His hair (and later, his nail-bat)
Steve's hair is a running joke; the bat appears in Season 2+.
Q3.What is Vecna's human identity?Tap to reveal
Answer: Henry Creel, also known as One (001)
Hawkins Lab's first test subject, banished to the Upside Down by Eleven.
Q4.What does Dustin name the baby Demogorgon he adopts in Season 2?Tap to reveal
Answer: Dart (short for D'Artagnan)
Named for the Three Musketeers candy bar it loves — Dart is obsessed with nougat.
Q5.What is the shadowy hive-mind entity introduced in Season 2 called?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Mind Flayer
Another Dungeons & Dragons name; it possesses Will and later Billy.
Q6.Who is Vecna's first on-screen victim in Season 4?Tap to reveal
Answer: Chrissy Cunningham
The Hawkins High cheerleader dies in Eddie's trailer, framing Eddie for murder.
Q7.Who does Dr. Martin Brenner make Eleven call him?Tap to reveal
Answer: Papa
Played by Matthew Modine; he raised the lab's numbered test subjects.
Q8.Which test subject does Eleven find in Chicago in Season 2, the only other known survivor with powers?Tap to reveal
Answer: Kali, also known as Eight
Her standalone episode 'The Lost Sister' is the show's most divisive.
Hard Stranger Things questions
Production trivia, deep-cut character details, and blink-and-you-miss-it lore for superfans.
Q1.What was Stranger Things originally titled during development?Tap to reveal
Answer: Montauk
The story was first set in Montauk, Long Island before moving to Indiana.
Q2.Where is Hopper revealed to be imprisoned in the Season 3 post-credits scene?Tap to reveal
Answer: Kamchatka, Russia
A guard refers to an unseen prisoner as 'the American'.
Q3.What drink does the Russian scientist Alexei refuse to trade for a cherry-flavored one?Tap to reveal
Answer: A Slurpee — he insists on cherry over strawberry
The Alexei-Murray odd-couple pairing made him a one-season fan favorite.
Q4.Who plays Victor Creel, and why is the casting a horror in-joke?Tap to reveal
Answer: Robert Englund, famous as Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street
Season 4 deliberately borrows Elm Street's dream-killer horror style.
Q5.What is the name of the D&D club Eddie Munson leads at Hawkins High?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Hellfire Club
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas's Season 4 crew; the name is also an X-Men reference.
Q6.What California town do the Byers and Eleven move to in Season 4?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lenora Hills
Where Eleven, powerless, is bullied by classmate Angela.
Q7.Which musical duo composed the show's synth score?Tap to reveal
Answer: Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (of the band Survive)
Their analog-synth theme is a deliberate John Carpenter homage.
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More Stranger Things trivia — the seasons and the set
A deeper round covering all five seasons and the things around the show: the casting, the eighties it borrows from, and where it was really filmed.
Q1.What number is tattooed on the inside of Eleven's forearm?Tap to reveal
Answer: 011
Q2.What does Dustin name the tadpole-like creature he finds in his trash can in Season 2?Tap to reveal
Answer: D'Artagnan — "Dart" for short
Q3.Which Hawkins High metalhead and D&D dungeon master sacrifices himself in the Upside Down at the end of Season 4?Tap to reveal
Answer: Eddie Munson
Q4.What was the name of Chief Hopper's daughter, who died of cancer before the series begins?Tap to reveal
Answer: Sara
Q5.What school dance does Season 2 end with?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Snow Ball
Q6.What is the name of Eleven's biological mother?Tap to reveal
Answer: Terry Ives
Q7.In Season 1, which diner owner feeds Eleven and is then murdered by government agents?Tap to reveal
Answer: Benny Hammond
Q8.What is the name of the pizza place where Argyle works as a delivery driver?Tap to reveal
Answer: Surfer Boy Pizza
Q9.What does Dustin call the homemade radio tower he builds in Season 3, which picks up a Russian transmission?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cerebro
Q10.In what year is Season 3, with its Fourth of July finale, set?Tap to reveal
Answer: 1985
Q11.What is the codename of the secret Nevada program built to restore Eleven's powers in Season 4?Tap to reveal
Answer: Project NINA
Q12.On which Russian peninsula is the prison camp where Hopper is held captive?Tap to reveal
Answer: Kamchatka
Q13.Which real-life CIA program was Eleven's mother a test subject in?Tap to reveal
Answer: Project MKUltra
Q14.Who is the image-obsessed mayor of Hawkins in Season 3?Tap to reveal
Answer: Larry Kline
Q15.What high-score handle does Max leave at the top of the arcade leaderboard when she first arrives in Hawkins?Tap to reveal
Answer: MADMAX
Q16.Which Wheeler child is abducted by a Demogorgon in Season 5?Tap to reveal
Answer: Holly
Q17.Although the story takes place in small-town Indiana, nearly the whole series was shot in which US state?Tap to reveal
Answer: Georgia (Atlanta area; Jackson, GA stood in for Hawkins). Small portions of season 4 shot in Lithuania and New Mexico.
The hard half
Where a confident room usually goes quiet.
Q1.Which Clash song became a recurring signal from the Upside Down in the first season?Tap to reveal
Answer: Should I Stay or Should I Go
Q2.The actress who plays Robin is the daughter of which two famous actors?Tap to reveal
Answer: Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman (Maya Hawke plays Robin Buckley)
Q3.Sean Astin, cast as Joyce's kind-hearted boyfriend, was already an eighties icon for starring as Mikey in which 1985 adventure film?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Goonies
Q4.Robert Englund, who plays the imprisoned Victor Creel in season 4, is best known as Freddy Krueger in which horror franchise?Tap to reveal
Answer: A Nightmare on Elm Street (note: Creel is institutionalized at Pennhurst Mental Hospital rather than in a prison)
Q5.Roughly how many cable networks turned the pitch down before Netflix bought it, mostly because they didn't believe a show led by kids would work?Tap to reveal
Answer: About 15
Q6.The mall at the centre of season 3 was built inside a real, largely emptied shopping centre in Duluth, Georgia. What is that mall called in real life?Tap to reveal
Answer: Gwinnett Place Mall
Q7.Season 4's Russian prison scenes were shot in a decommissioned real prison, Lukiskes, in which European country?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lithuania (Lukiskes Prison, Vilnius)
Q8.Which Limahl song from a 1984 fantasy film soundtrack is belted out in the season 3 finale, causing its streams to spike by hundreds of percent?Tap to reveal
Answer: The NeverEnding Story (reported ~800% increase in streaming/viewing requests)
Q9.The show's synth score was written by two members of which Austin, Texas electronic band?Tap to reveal
Answer: Survive (stylized S U R V I V E)
Q10.The actor who plays Lucas performed on Broadway as young Simba in which musical before joining the cast?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Lion King (Caleb McLaughlin, Minskoff Theatre, 2012-2014)
Q11.A stage prequel co-created by the Duffer Brothers opened in London's West End in 2023 and later on Broadway. What is its subtitle?Tap to reveal
Answer: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre, Dec 2023; Marquis Theatre, Broadway, Apr 2025)
Q12.The blocky red opening-credits lettering uses a typeface common on eighties paperback covers. Name the font.Tap to reveal
Answer: ITC Benguiat
Q13.Child actors auditioning for the show were asked to read lines from which 1986 Rob Reiner coming-of-age film?Tap to reveal
Answer: Stand by Me
Q14.Name either of the two composers who wrote the Emmy-winning main title theme.Tap to reveal
Answer: Kyle Dixon or Michael Stein (won the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music)
Q15.Millie Bobby Brown's biggest role before the show was in which 2014 BBC America supernatural series?Tap to reveal
Answer: Intruders (as Madison O'Donnell)
Q16.Gaten Matarazzo was born with a rare bone condition that the writers then gave to his character too. What is it called?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD)
Q17.The Duffers cast Paul Reiser as a government scientist partly as a nod to his role as the untrustworthy company man Burke in which 1986 James Cameron film?Tap to reveal
Answer: Aliens (Carter Burke)
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Stranger Things trivia appropriate for kids?
Older kids 12+ probably OK. Younger kids should skip the horror-themed questions about Demogorgons and Vecna.
What's the most-missed Stranger Things trivia category?
Steve Harrington's character arc — most fans remember Season 1 jerk Steve, forget how he evolved.
Where can I find Stranger Things trivia packs?
Trivio.NET's Series category has Stranger Things-specific packs.
Should Stranger Things trivia include Season 5?
Season 5 arrived in late 2025 as the show's finale. Flag finale spoilers clearly — casual players may still be catching up.
How should I split Stranger Things trivia into rounds?
One round per season works best, plus a lore round (Upside Down, Vecna, the lab) and an 80s-references round.
What's a good tiebreaker question for Stranger Things trivia?
Ask for the exact date Will Byers disappeared (November 6, 1983) — closest date wins.
