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