How well do you know Stranger Things? – answers and explanations
Here are the answers to all 25 questions in the How well do you know Stranger Things? quiz, each with a short explanation. Prove you're a true Hawkins local with these fan questions. Haven't played yet? Take the quiz first and compare your score.
Play the quiz · 25 questions1. What genetic condition does Dustin say explains his missing teeth?
Answer: Cleidocranial dysplasia
Dustin tells the bullies who call him "toothless" that his teeth are coming in because of cleidocranial dysplasia. The actor who plays him, Gaten Matarazzo, really has the condition, which is a rare disorder that mainly affects the teeth and collarbones.
2. What is Barb's surname?
Answer: Holland
Barbara 'Barb' Holland is Nancy Wheeler's best friend, played by Shannon Purser. She disappears in Season 1 after being taken into the Upside Down from the Harringtons' pool.
3. What number is tattooed on the wrist of Kali, Eleven's 'sister'?
Answer: 008
Kali Prasad, also called Eight, has 008 tattooed on her wrist, just as Eleven has 011. She can create illusions, and Eleven visits her gang in Chicago in the Season 2 episode 'The Lost Sister'.
4. What does Dustin name the baby Demogorgon he keeps as a pet in Season 2?
Answer: D'Artagnan
Dustin names his pet D'Artagnan, or 'Dart', after the hero of The Three Musketeers. The creature turns out to be a young Demodog and later eats the family cat, Mews.
5. Which Slurpee flavor does the Russian scientist Alexei insist on in Season 3?
Answer: Cherry
Alexei, the Russian scientist held by Hopper, Joyce and Murray in Season 3, insists on a cherry Slurpee. He enjoys American life briefly before a Russian assassin shoots him at the Fourth of July fair.
6. In Season 4, Steve and Robin work at which video rental store?
Answer: Family Video
In Season 4, Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley work at Family Video in Hawkins. They took the job after the Starcourt Mall and its Scoops Ahoy ice cream shop were destroyed at the end of Season 3.
7. What value must Dustin recite to Suzie so she can help open the Russian vault?
Answer: Planck's constant
The combination for the Russian vault under Starcourt Mall in the Season 3 finale is based on Planck's constant. Dustin's girlfriend Suzie knows the number and only gives it over the radio after Dustin sings 'The NeverEnding Story' with her.
8. What is the name of Eddie Munson's band in Season 4?
Answer: Corroded Coffin
Eddie Munson, who runs the Hellfire Club, plays in a metal band called Corroded Coffin. In Season 4, Dustin later paints the band's name on Eddie's guitar as a tribute and pays his respects.
9. In Season 4, Hopper is held in a Soviet prison in which remote region?
Answer: Kamchatka
In Season 4, Hopper is held in a Soviet prison camp in Kamchatka, a peninsula in Russia's Far East. The guards make prisoners fight a captured Demogorgon there, and Joyce and Murray travel to Russia to rescue him.
10. What is the name of Dustin's cat that Dart eats in Season 2?
Answer: Mews
In Season 2, the Henderson family's cat Mews is eaten by Dart, the baby Demodog that Dustin found and kept as a pet. Dustin named Dart after D'Artagnan.
11. At which electronics store chain does Bob Newby work?
Answer: RadioShack
Bob Newby, Joyce's boyfriend in Season 2, is played by Sean Astin and manages the RadioShack store in Hawkins. He solves Will's drawings as a map of the tunnels and is later killed by Demodogs at Hawkins Lab.
12. What is the name of Eleven's biological mother?
Answer: Terry Ives
Eleven's biological mother is Terry Ives. She took part in Dr. Brenner's MKUltra experiments at Hawkins Lab while pregnant, and her baby, Jane, was taken from her. Her sister Becky Ives cares for her.
13. In Season 1, Will's fake body is pulled from which body of water?
Answer: Sattler Quarry
In Season 1, a fake body made to look like Will Byers is pulled from Sattler Quarry. Hawkins Lab planted the fake corpse to hide that Will was really trapped in the Upside Down.
14. What costume does Max wear on Halloween in Season 2?
Answer: Michael Myers
On Halloween in Season 2, Max wears a Michael Myers mask from the 1978 film Halloween. The boys had dressed up as the Ghostbusters.
15. What does Dustin name the giant radio tower he builds in Season 3?
Answer: Cerebro
In Season 3, Dustin names his homemade radio tower Cerebro, after the X-Men device. He built it at summer camp to reach his girlfriend Suzie in Utah.
16. In Season 4, the Byers family and Eleven move to which California town?
Answer: Lenora Hills
In Season 4, Joyce, Will, Jonathan and Eleven live in Lenora Hills, California, after leaving Hawkins. Eleven is bullied at her new school there.
17. Who is the first victim Vecna kills in Season 4?
Answer: Chrissy Cunningham
Chrissy Cunningham, head cheerleader at Hawkins High, was the first person Vecna killed with his curse in March 1986. She died in Eddie Munson's trailer, and her death opened Vecna's first gate. Fred Benson was killed next.
18. In Season 2, what does Will call the giant being he sees in his visions?
Answer: The Shadow Monster
In Stranger Things 2, Will Byers calls the huge, multi-limbed creature that towers over Hawkins in his visions the "Shadow Monster." Dustin later names it the Mind Flayer, after a Dungeons & Dragons creature that uses psychic powers to control other beings.
19. In which Illinois town does conspiracy theorist Murray Bauman live?
Answer: Sesser
Murray Bauman, the conspiracy theorist played by Brett Gelman, lives in a heavily secured warehouse in Sesser, Illinois. Nancy and Jonathan visit him there in Season 2 while looking into Barbara Holland's disappearance.
20. At which summer camp did Dustin meet his girlfriend Suzie?
Answer: Camp Know Where
Dustin met Suzie Bingham, who is from Salt Lake City, Utah, at Camp Know Where, a summer camp for science-minded kids, in 1985. In Season 3, she helps save the day over the radio by reciting Planck's constant.
21. What is the first name of the boys' science teacher, Mr. Clarke?
Answer: Scott
Hawkins Middle School science teacher Scott Clarke is played by Randy Havens. He appears in Stranger Things seasons 1, 2, 3 and 5, and he's known for explaining ideas like wormholes to the boys.
22. In Season 3, Nancy and Jonathan work at which local newspaper?
Answer: The Hawkins Post
In the summer of 1985, Nancy and Jonathan intern at The Hawkins Post. Jonathan works in photography, while Nancy fights a sexist newsroom that keeps her fetching coffee instead of reporting.
23. In Season 2, Steve tells Dustin to use four puffs of which hairspray?
Answer: Farrah Fawcett spray
In Season 2's "Chapter Six: The Spy," Steve shares his hair secret with Dustin: Fabergé Organics shampoo and conditioner, then four puffs of Farrah Fawcett spray while the hair is damp. Dustin follows that routine before the Snow Ball.
24. What is the surname of Benny, the diner owner who shelters Eleven in Season 1?
Answer: Hammond
Benny Hammond ran Benny's Burgers in Hawkins, Indiana, and was played by Chris Sullivan. He took Eleven in and called social services, but government agent Connie Frazier shot him dead.
25. In Season 2, Max's 'MADMAX' high score beats Dustin's on which arcade game?
Answer: Dig Dug
At Hawkins' Palace Arcade in Season 2, a player called "MADMAX" beat Dustin's Dig Dug high score by more than 100,000 points. The player turned out to be Max Mayfield, a new girl who had just moved to Hawkins from California.