100 Coraline Trivia Questions & Answers

Open the little door, but keep that button-shaped key close.

This Coraline trivia quiz keeps the 2009 film and Neil Gaiman’s novel clearly separated while exploring their shared shadows.

Moving Into the Pink Palace

Moving Into the Pink Palace puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

1. What is Coraline's surname in the film?
   Answer: Jones, shared with her parents Mel and Charlie.
2. Where does Coraline move with her parents?
   Answer: The Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon.
3. What color is Coraline's hair in the film?
   Answer: Blue, cut in a short bob.
4. What bright rainwear does Coraline receive?
   Answer: A yellow raincoat and matching rain boots.
5. What work occupies Coraline's parents?
   Answer: They write a gardening catalog while staying indoors.
6. What does Coraline call the well near the house?
   Answer: An old well that neighbors warn is dangerously deep.
7. Who gives Coraline a forked dowsing branch?
   Answer: Wybie, who helps her search for the well.
8. What weather greets Coraline around the new home?
   Answer: Frequent gray rain, which adds to her boredom.
9. What does Coraline want her parents to do with her?
   Answer: Pay attention and spend time exploring or playing.
10. Which room contains the mysterious little door?
    Answer: The drawing room of the Jones family's apartment.

Neighbors at the Pink Palace

Neighbors at the Pink Palace puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

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11. Who lives upstairs from the Jones family?
    Answer: Mr. Bobinsky, an eccentric Russian acrobat.
12. What color is Mr. Bobinsky's skin in the film?
    Answer: Blue, a stylized visual detail of the stop-motion character.
13. What performers does Bobinsky claim to train?
    Answer: A jumping mouse circus.
14. Who are the retired actresses downstairs?
    Answer: Miss Spink and Miss Forcible.
15. What kind of dogs do Spink and Forcible keep?
    Answer: Scottish terriers, including memorials to departed pets.
16. What do the actresses read to predict Coraline's danger?
    Answer: Her tea leaves, which form an ominous hand shape.
17. What protective object do Spink and Forcible give Coraline?
    Answer: A stone with a hole through its center.
18. Who is Wybie Lovat?
    Answer: Coraline's talkative neighbor and the landlady's grandson.
19. What warning does Wybie's grandmother give about the Pink Palace?
    Answer: She does not like renting to families with children.
20. What animal repeatedly guides or watches Coraline?
    Answer: A black cat that belongs around Wybie's home.

The Door and the Other World

The Door and the Other World puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

21. What is behind the little door when Coraline first opens it?
    Answer: A brick wall, until the passage later appears.
22. What replaces the brick wall at night?
    Answer: A long, colorful tunnel leading to the Other World.
23. Who waits in the Other Kitchen?
    Answer: The Other Mother, an idealized copy of Coraline's mother.
24. What is the Other Mother's other name?
    Answer: The Beldam, a creature that traps children.
25. What feature identifies the Other World's human figures?
    Answer: Black buttons sewn where their eyes should be.
26. How does the Other Father initially entertain Coraline?
    Answer: He sings and plays a lively welcome song at the piano.
27. What meal impresses Coraline on her first visit?
    Answer: An elaborate dinner far richer than meals at home.
28. What do the Other Parents ask Coraline to do permanently?
    Answer: Stay with them and have buttons sewn over her eyes.
29. What happens when Coraline refuses the buttons?
    Answer: She is eventually imprisoned behind a mirror.
30. How does the Other World relate to Coraline's real life?
    Answer: It is a tempting copy built from people and places she knows.

Button-Eyed Wonders

Button-Eyed Wonders puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

31. What show do the Other Spink and Forcible stage?
    Answer: A spectacular theatrical act in a vast audience-filled theater.
32. What do the Other actresses perform high above the stage?
    Answer: An acrobatic routine while wearing elaborate costumes.
33. What does the Other Bobinsky command?
    Answer: A real, coordinated circus of jumping mice.
34. What do the mice form during their performance?
    Answer: Intricate shapes and patterns while moving in formation.
35. What vehicle does the Other Father use in the garden?
    Answer: A praying-mantis-shaped garden machine.
36. What image does the Other Garden form from above?
    Answer: Coraline's face, arranged from colorful flowers.
37. What can the Cat do in the Other World?
    Answer: Speak clearly, although he cannot talk in the real world.
38. Does the Cat have button eyes?
    Answer: No, his eyes remain natural in both worlds.
39. What is unusual about the Other Wybie at first?
    Answer: His mouth is sewn into a smile, leaving him unable to speak.
40. Why does the Other Mother punish Other Wybie?
    Answer: He helps Coraline escape instead of obeying her.

The Ghost Children’s Game

The Ghost Children’s Game puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

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41. Whom does Coraline meet behind the mirror?
    Answer: Three ghost children previously trapped by the Beldam.
42. What did the Beldam steal from the ghost children?
    Answer: Their lives and souls after tempting them with the Other World.
43. What challenge does Coraline propose to the Beldam?
    Answer: A game to find the ghost children's eyes and her parents.
44. What will Coraline win if she succeeds?
    Answer: Freedom for herself, her parents, and the ghost children.
45. What tool helps Coraline find hidden souls?
    Answer: The seeing stone from Miss Spink and Miss Forcible.
46. Where is one ghost eye hidden during the theater sequence?
    Answer: Inside a piece of candy held by the merged actress creature.
47. Where is another hidden in the Other Garden?
    Answer: Within the garden's dangerous, transformed environment.
48. What form do the recovered ghost souls resemble?
    Answer: Small glowing objects that the seeing stone helps reveal.
49. What warning do the ghost children give after Coraline finds them?
    Answer: The Beldam will not honor the game fairly.
50. What do the freed children do in Coraline's dream?
    Answer: They thank her before passing on peacefully.

The Beldam’s Trap

The Beldam’s Trap puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

51. How does the Other Mother change as Coraline resists?
    Answer: She becomes taller, thinner, sharper, and more spiderlike.
52. What creature does the Other Mother's final form resemble?
    Answer: A skeletal spider with needlelike limbs.
53. What happens to the Other World as the game continues?
    Answer: It collapses into blank space and an enormous web.
54. What object contains Coraline's trapped parents?
    Answer: A snow globe on the Other Mother's mantel.
55. What do Coraline's real parents remember after returning?
    Answer: They remember little or nothing about being imprisoned.
56. Who helps Coraline grab the snow globe?
    Answer: The Cat attacks the Beldam, distracting her.
57. What does Coraline throw at the Other Mother?
    Answer: The Cat, who scratches the Beldam's button eyes.
58. How does Coraline escape the Other World?
    Answer: She rushes through the tunnel and locks the little door.
59. What part of the Beldam follows Coraline into reality?
    Answer: Her severed, metallic-looking right hand.
60. Why does the hand pursue Coraline?
    Answer: It wants the key to the little door.

The Key and the Well

The Key and the Well puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

61. What distinctive shape is on the little door's key?
    Answer: A button-shaped loop at the top.
62. Where does Coraline plan to dispose of the key?
    Answer: In the deep old well away from the house.
63. How does the Beldam's hand trap Coraline?
    Answer: It attacks near the well and nearly drags her down.
64. Who returns in time to help Coraline?
    Answer: Wybie, despite their earlier argument.
65. What destroys the Beldam's hand?
    Answer: A large stone crushes it during the struggle.
66. How are the crushed hand and key disposed of?
    Answer: They are wrapped and dropped into the well.
67. What covers the well after the final struggle?
    Answer: Heavy boards secured over its opening.
68. What event does Coraline's family host at the end?
    Answer: A garden party for their neighbors.
69. What project do Coraline's parents finally complete?
    Answer: Their gardening catalog, freeing them to celebrate.
70. What flower does Coraline offer to Wybie's grandmother?
    Answer: A pink tulip at the garden gathering.

Film Voices and Stop Motion

Film Voices and Stop Motion puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

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71. Who voices Coraline in the 2009 film?
    Answer: Dakota Fanning voices the title character.
72. Who voices the Mother and Other Mother?
    Answer: Teri Hatcher performs both versions.
73. Who voices the Father and Other Father?
    Answer: John Hodgman performs both roles.
74. Who voices Wybie?
    Answer: Robert Bailey Jr. voices the film-created neighbor.
75. Who voices the Cat?
    Answer: Keith David gives the Cat his calm, knowing voice.
76. Who voices Mr. Bobinsky?
    Answer: Ian McShane voices the eccentric upstairs neighbor.
77. Who voices Miss Spink?
    Answer: Jennifer Saunders voices the retired actress.
78. Who voices Miss Forcible?
    Answer: Dawn French voices Spink's longtime stage partner.
79. Who wrote and directed the film adaptation?
    Answer: Henry Selick, known for stop-motion filmmaking.
80. Which studio made Coraline?
    Answer: LAIKA produced it as the studio's first feature film.

Neil Gaiman’s Novel

Neil Gaiman’s Novel puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

81. Who wrote the novel Coraline?
    Answer: Neil Gaiman, who published the dark fantasy in 2002.
82. Who illustrated the first edition?
    Answer: Dave McKean created the original edition's illustrations.
83. Does Wybie appear in the original novel?
    Answer: No, Wybie was created for the film adaptation.
84. Where does the novel take place?
    Answer: In England, unlike the film's Oregon setting.
85. How is the corridor described in the book?
    Answer: A dark passage that replaces the bricks behind the door.
86. What do the Other Parents offer Coraline in the novel?
    Answer: An indulged life if she allows buttons to replace her eyes.
87. What game does Coraline play in both versions?
    Answer: A finding game for the lost children and her parents.
88. What is the Other Mother called in the novel?
    Answer: The beldam, an old word associated with a witchlike woman.
89. What creature speaks to Coraline without receiving a personal name?
    Answer: The black cat, simply called the cat.
90. What major award did the novel win in 2003?
    Answer: The Hugo Award for Best Novella, among other honors.

Adaptation Differences and Details

Adaptation Differences and Details puts ten sharply focused clues on the quiz board. Expect familiar favorites first, followed by details that reward a closer watch.

91. What film character was added to give Coraline a peer her age?
    Answer: Wybie Lovat, who has no counterpart in the novel.
92. Which setting was changed from England to Oregon?
    Answer: The Pink Palace and Coraline's new home.
93. How does Coraline reach the well's location in the film?
    Answer: She uses a dowsing rod while exploring with Wybie nearby.
94. What visual clue makes the film's Other World instantly unsettling?
    Answer: Every human copy has glossy black button eyes.
95. What object replaces a simple stone as a strongly designed film prop?
    Answer: The triangular seeing stone with a round hole.
96. What animation method creates the film's tactile movement?
    Answer: Stop-motion animation using physical puppets and sets.
97. What botanical hobby connects Coraline's parents to their work?
    Answer: They write about gardening while disliking actual dirt and outdoor labor.
98. What repeated insect shape foreshadows the Beldam's nature?
    Answer: Spider and web imagery throughout the Other World.
99. What happens to the Other Father's cheerful appearance late in the film?
    Answer: He becomes a controlled, collapsing pumpkinlike figure.
100. What lesson anchors Coraline's ending?
     Answer: Real love can be imperfect, while easy perfection may conceal control.

Sources and Further Reading

• Hidden Worlds: The Films of LAIKA, Coraline
• Neil Gaiman: Coraline
• HarperCollins: Coraline
• Academy Awards: 2010 ceremony