Godzilla Trivia

100+ Godzilla Trivia Questions & Answers

Mike Oberman

Updated: April 10th, 2025

Dive into the ultimate Godzilla trivia extravaganza! Test your knowledge with this thrilling Godzilla quiz packed with mind-bending questions about the world’s most iconic monster. Perfect for fans of monster movies and epic kaiju battles. Challenge friends, unleash your inner fan, and prove you’re the reigning titan of trivia mastery!

Godzilla Origins & History

Question: What year did Godzilla movie first appear on film?

Answer: 1954

Question: What is the original Japanese version of the first Godzilla film?

Answer: Gojira

Question: Which studio produced the original Godzilla film?

Answer: Toho

Question: Who directed the 1954 Godzilla film?

Answer: Ishirō Honda

Question: Who composed the iconic Godzilla theme music?

Answer: Akira Ifukube

Question: What inspired the creation of Godzilla?

Answer: Nuclear testing in the Pacific

Question: What two Japanese words combine to form “Gojira” (Godzilla)?

Answer: Gorira (gorilla) and kujira (whale)

Question: What was Godzilla’s original height in the 1954 film?

Answer: 50 meters

Question: What special effects pioneer designed Godzilla’s suit?

Answer: Eiji Tsuburaya

Question: What major historical event influenced Godzilla’s theme?

Answer: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question: What fictional event awakened Godzilla in the original movie?

Answer: Underwater hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll

Question: What technique was used to film Godzilla’s movements?

Answer: Suitmation (an actor in a suit)

Question: In what year was the original Godzilla film heavily edited for American audiences?

Answer: 1956

Question: What was the title of the Americanized 1956 release of Godzilla?

Answer: Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Question: Which American actor was added to the U.S. version of the original film?

Answer: Raymond Burr

Question: What was the running time of the original Japanese Godzilla film?

Answer: 96 minutes

Question: What significant message did the original Godzilla film convey?

Answer: The dangers of nuclear weapons

Question: Which film is considered the first sequel to the original Godzilla film?

Answer: Godzilla Raids Again

Question: What nickname is often used for the era of Godzilla films from 1954 to 1975?

Answer: The Showa era

Godzilla Films & Milestones Trivia

Question: Which Godzilla film was the first Toho color production?

Answer: Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

Question: In what year was the first American Godzilla film released by TriStar?

Answer: 1998

Question: Which director helmed the 2014 Godzilla reboot?

Answer: Gareth Edwards

Question: What is the subtitle of the 2019 sequel to the 2014 Godzilla film?

Answer: King of the Monsters

Question: Who directed the 2021 film Godzilla vs. Kong?

Answer: Adam Wingard

Question: Which film features Godzilla teaming up with Mothra and Rodan to fight King Ghidorah?

Answer: Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

Question: What is the title of the first Godzilla film released after the Showa era?

Answer: The Return of Godzilla (1984)

Question: Which film introduced the Heisei era of the franchise?

Answer: The Return of Godzilla

Question: What year did the Millennium era of Godzilla films begin?

Answer: 1999

Question: Which film marked the first appearance of Mechagodzilla?

Answer: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)

Question: Which Godzilla film was the highest-grossing at the Japanese box office until 2016?

Answer: Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)

Question: Which movie first introduced Godzilla’s son, Minilla?

Answer: Son of Godzilla (1967)

Question: What is the Japanese subtitle of the 2016 film Shin Godzilla?

Answer: Shin Gojira

Question: Which film features a crossover with King Kong in 1962?

Answer: King Kong vs. Godzilla

Question: What installment is Godzilla’s 30th film?

Answer: Godzilla 2000: Millennium

Question: Which film features the creature Biollante?

Answer: Godzilla vs. Biollante

Question: Which movie features the villain Hedorah, the Smog Monster?

Answer: Godzilla vs. Hedorah

Question: Which film features Godzilla battling Gigan?

Answer: Godzilla vs. Gigan

Question: Which film introduced SpaceGodzilla?

Answer: Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

Question: What is the title of the first anime Godzilla film by Toho?

Answer: Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)

Godzilla Characters & Allies

Question: Who is Godzilla’s adoptive son introduced in Son of Godzilla?

Answer: Minilla

Question: Which insect-like guardian deity often aids Godzilla?

Answer: Mothra

Question: What robot ally was created to protect Japan from Godzilla and other kaiju?

Answer: Jet Jaguar

Question: Which dinosaur-like monster became Godzilla’s ally in Destroy All Monsters?

Answer: Anguirus

Question: Which pteranodon-like kaiju sometimes teams up with Godzilla?

Answer: Rodan

Question: Who are the twin fairies that serve as Mothra’s priestesses?

Answer: The Shobijin

Question: What team of scientists studies Godzilla in the Heisei series?

Answer: G-Force

Question: What fictional government organization creates Kiryu?

Answer: The JSDF and the United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center

Question: What nickname is given to the cyborg created from Godzilla’s skeleton?

Answer: Kiryu

Question: Which American character loses his wife and seeks revenge in the 2014 Godzilla film?

Answer: Joe Brody

Question: Who is the Monarch scientist dedicated to studying Titans in the MonsterVerse?

Answer: Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Question: What secret organization in the MonsterVerse researches Titans?

Answer: Monarch

Question: Who is Dr. Serizawa’s scientific colleague in Godzilla: King of the Monsters?

Answer: Dr. Ilene Chen

Question: Who is the geologist who helps broker peace between Godzilla and Kong?

Answer: Dr. Nathan Lind

Question: Which pilot duo controls Kiryu in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla?

Answer: Masahiko Shimizu and Akane Yashiro

Question: Who provided Godzilla’s iconic roars in the Legendary MonsterVerse?

Answer: Frank Welker

Question: Who is the son of Joe Brody in the 2014 Godzilla film?

Answer: Ford Brody

Question: Which journalist investigates Godzilla in the MonsterVerse?

Answer: Mark Russell

Question: Who is the Monarch scientist that goes rogue in Godzilla: King of the Monsters?

Answer: Dr. Emma Russell

Question: Which psychic often appears to communicate with Godzilla and other kaiju?

Answer: Miki Saegusa

Godzilla's Kaiju & Enemies Trivia

Question: Who is Godzilla’s three-headed arch-nemesis?

Answer: King Ghidorah

Question: What smog-based kaiju battles Godzilla in 1971?

Answer: Hedorah

Question: Which space reptile battles Godzilla in 1994?

Answer: SpaceGodzilla

Question: Who is the cyborg dinosaur that fights Godzilla in 1974?

Answer: Mechagodzilla

Question: What giant plant monster battles Godzilla in 1989?

Answer: Biollante

Question: Which cyborg insect battles Godzilla in 1972?

Answer: Gigan

Question: What lobster-like kaiju faces Godzilla in 1966?

Answer: Ebirah

Question: Which winged kaiju opposes Godzilla and is often depicted as an enemy?

Answer: Rodan

Question: Which moth-like kaiju is sometimes an adversary to Godzilla?

Answer: Mothra

Question: Which plesiosaur-like kaiju fights Godzilla in the Heisei era?

Answer: Titanosaurus

Question: Which giant ape battles Godzilla in a 1962 crossover film?

Answer: King Kong

Question: Which dark counterpart to Mothra appears in Godzilla vs. Mothra?

Answer: Battra

Question: Which deadly kaiju emerges from Godzilla’s destroyed heart in 1995?

Answer: Destoroyah

Question: Which alien kaiju assimilates Godzilla’s cells in Godzilla 2000?

Answer: Orga

Question: Which beetle-like kaiju battles Godzilla and Gigan in 1973?

Answer: Megalon

Question: What name is given to the 1998 TriStar version of Godzilla?

Answer: Zilla

Question: Which dinosaur kaiju appears in King Kong vs. Godzilla?

Answer: Gorosaurus

Question: Which massive parasitic kaiju attacks San Francisco in the 2014 Godzilla film?

Answer: MUTO

Question: Which giant spider kaiju faces Godzilla in Son of Godzilla?

Answer: Kumonga

Question: Which giant cuttlefish kaiju battles Godzilla in 1971?

Answer: Gezora

Miscellaneous Godzilla Trivia

Question: What Guinness World Record does Godzilla hold?

Answer: Longest-running film franchise

Question: In which year did Godzilla celebrate its 50th anniversary?

Answer: 2004

Question: Which comic book publisher has released Godzilla comics in the U.S.?

Answer: Dark Horse Comics

Question: Name one console fighting game featuring Godzilla.

Answer: Godzilla: Save the Earth

Question: Which theme park in Japan features a Godzilla-themed ride?

Answer: Seibu-en Amusement Park

Question: What Japanese word meaning “strange beast” is commonly used to describe Godzilla and other monsters?

Answer: Kaiju

Question: What color are Godzilla’s eyes typically depicted as?

Answer: Yellow

Question: Which Godzilla film was the first to be released on Blu-ray?

Answer: Godzilla 2000: Millennium

Question: What field of study deals with creatures like Godzilla?

Answer: Cryptozoology

Question: Which American rock band released a hit song called “Godzilla” in 1977?

Answer: Blue Öyster Cult

Question: What is the name of the 2002 board game featuring Godzilla?

Answer: Godzilla: Tokyo Clash

Question: How many films are in the original Showa‑era Godzilla series?

Answer: 15

Question: Which company owns the rights to the Godzilla franchise?

Answer: Toho Co., Ltd.

Question: What Japanese term refers to giant monsters like Godzilla?

Answer: Kaiju

Question: What giant crustacean sea monster does Godzilla battle in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)?

Answer: Ebirah

Question: What characteristic of Godzilla's skin makes it nearly impervious to conventional weapons?

Answer: Its dense, radiation‑hardened scaly hide

Question: Which monster was created by fusing plant cells with Godzilla's cells in Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)?

Answer: Biollante

Question: What is the title of the 2021 film that features the first live‑action cinematic battle between Godzilla and King Kong?

Answer: Godzilla x Kong

Question: What superweapon was used to kill the original Godzilla in the 1954 film?

Answer: The Oxygen Destroyer

Question: What event awakened Godzilla from his slumber in the original 1954 film?

Answer: An underwater hydrogen bomb test