100+ Godzilla Trivia Questions & Answers

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

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)

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

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

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