174 Must-Know Pop Culture Trivia Questions And Answers
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Pop Culture Trivia Questions And Answers
16 Celebrity Trivia Questions and Answers
1. What is Lady Gaga’s real first name?
2. Which musician is the most nominated woman at the Grammy Awards?
3. Which female artist was born as Destiny Hope?
4. What is Marilyn Monroe’s real name?
5. Which male artist has received 14 titles in the Guinness World Records?
6. Who is the actress who starred in the “Resident Evil” trilogy?
7. Which actor was offered the role of Jack Dawson in “Titanic” but turned it down?
8. Which actress plays Alex in the 2000 “Charlie’s Angels” film?
9. Who is known as the “Queen of Soul”?
10. Which rapper was formerly known as Sean Combs?
11. Who was the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director?
12. What is Madonna’s full name?
13. Who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in “Joker” (2019)?
14. What pop artist is known for his “drip paintings”?
15. What is the real name of Lady Gaga?
16. What pop star is known as the ‘Material Girl’?
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31 Music Trivia Questions and Answers
1. Which musician has won the award for Top Female Artist four times?
2. Which of Katy Perry’s albums has been her most successful?
3. Which musician was known as the “King of Pop”?
4. Which member of One Direction left the band to become a solo artist?
5. Which famous musician released the song “24K Magic” in 2016?
6. What is the name of the holiday in June meant to celebrate The Beatles?
7. Who has the best-selling album by a girl group?
8. What was Ed Sheeran’s first hit song?
10. Which female artist released the song “Summertime Sadness”?
11. Who is the South Korean pop artist who released “Gangnam Style” in 2012?
12. Which American girl group released the song “Survivor”?
13. Which Queen song was the first to become a No. 1 hit in America?
14. According to Billboard, who is the best-selling boy band of all time?
15. What was Olivia Rodrigo’s first No. 1 hit single?
16. Which artist is famous for her 2008 album “Fearless”?
17. Which artist recorded the hit 2018 song “God’s Plan”?
18. Who wrote the song “Imagine”?
19. Who is the lead singer of U2?
20. What is the highest-selling album of all time?
21. Who composed the music for “The Lion King” (1994)?
22. Who wrote the theme song for the James Bond film “Skyfall”?
23. Which band released the album “Dark Side of the Moon”?
24. Which English rock band is known for songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “We Will Rock You”?
25. Who is the lead vocalist of the band Coldplay?
26. Who composed the music for the “Star Wars” films?
27. Who composed the score for the movie “Inception”?
28. What band was known as “The Fab Four”?
29. Which artist sang the 2016 hit ‘Sorry’?
30. What song did Billie Eilish sing for the James Bond film?
31. Which rapper released the album ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’?
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57 Movie Trivia Questions and Answers
1. What is the 1980 horror film that holds the Guinness World Record for most retakes of a single scene?
2. Who is the antagonist in the 1988 film “Die Hard”?
3. What film did the phrase “I see dead people” come from?
4. What was the first Disney full-length film that used computer-generated animation?
5. Which Disney princess was Walt Disney’s favorite?
6. In what year was the first James Bond film released?
7. Which of Stephen King’s novels was the first to be adapted into a film?
8. What was the first major motion picture to be shot on the open ocean?
9. Which Indiana Jones movie was the third to be released in 1989?
10. Which Harry Potter movie is the highest grossing of all the films?
11. Which film follows the story of three black women working at NASA?
12. Which Disney princess was originally intended to be a villain?
13. Which 1977 film was the first to make over $500 million worldwide during its initial release?
14. In what year was the first “Godfather” film released?
15. What was the first Disney film made that wasn’t based on an existing story?
16. What is the 1985 classic film where the phrase “Hey you guys!” came from?
17. Which 1993 film was Steven Spielberg’s most commercially successful movie?
18. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what is the name of Thor’s hammer?
19. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what is the name of the infinity stone implanted in Vision’s forehead?
20. What 2013 movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
21. Who directed the movie “Pulp Fiction”?
22. What is the highest grossing film of all time?
23. Who played the role of Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
24. Who played the character Forrest Gump?
25. Who played Jack Dawson in “Titanic”?
26. Who directed “The Shape of Water”, which won the Best Picture Oscar in 2018?
27. Who played the role of Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars”?
28. Who directed “Jurassic Park”?
29. Who starred as Tony Stark’s father in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
30. Who played the role of Deadpool in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
31. Who directed the movie “The Dark Knight”?
32. Who wrote and directed the film “Get Out”?
33. What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?
34. Who played the character Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
35. Who directed “Parasite”, the first non-English language film to win the Best Picture Oscar?
36. Who played the character Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” film series?
37. Which actor starred in the 2012 movie “Lincoln”?
38. Who played the Joker in the 2008 film “The Dark Knight”?
39. Who is the voice of Woody in “Toy Story”?
40. Who directed the 2017 film “Dunkirk”?
41. Who played Han Solo in the “Star Wars” films?
42. Who played the role of Clarice Starling in the film “The Silence of the Lambs”?
43. What was the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
44. Who played the role of Lara Croft in the “Tomb Raider” films?
45. Who directed “The Godfather” trilogy?
46. Who played Neo in “The Matrix”?
47. Who starred as Andy Dufresne in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’?
48. Who directed ‘Jaws’?
49. Which animated film features a character named Simba?
50. Who played the role of Wolverine in the X-Men movies?
51. Which comedian voiced Shrek?
52. Who played the lead role in ‘Pretty Woman’?
53. In which film does a group of kids go on a treasure hunt after finding a pirate map?
54. Which movie features a virtual reality game called OASIS?
55. Who plays the character Tony Stark in the Marvel films?
56. Who played the role of Gollum in ‘The Lord of the Rings’?
57. Which movie features a boy named Elliott who befriends an alien?
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38 TV Show Trivia Questions and Answers
1. “A Song of Ice and Fire” is the novel that which popular TV series is based?
2. What was Netflix’s most streamed show in 2020?
3. Who was the season one winner of “American Idol”?
4. Which “Friends” character appeared in the most episodes, outside of the six main characters?
5. What is the name of the parallel universe in the popular Netflix show Stranger Things?
6. What is Eleven’s favorite food in Stranger Things?
7. Who starred as Walter White in the TV series “Breaking Bad”?
8. Which American sitcom features the characters Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Joey, and Phoebe?
9. What is the longest-running scripted TV show in the U.S.?
10. Which TV show follows the lives of the Crawley family and their servants in the early 20th century?
11. Who created the animated series “Family Guy”?
12. What novel did the TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” originate from?
13. Which sitcom popularized the phrase “Bazinga”?
14. What popular TV show features the character Sheldon Cooper?
15. Who is the current host of the TV show “Jeopardy!”?
16. Who was the first woman to host a late-night TV show on a major network in the United States?
17. Who played the role of Michael Scott in the US version of “The Office”?
18. Who created the TV series “Stranger Things”?
19. Which TV show features characters named Sam and Dean Winchester?
20. What is the name of the spaceship in “Star Trek”?
21. Who played the role of Don Draper in the TV series “Mad Men”?
22. What TV show is set in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana?
23. Who played the character Eleven in the Netflix series “Stranger Things”?
24. Who created the animated television show “South Park”?
25. What was the name of Ross’s pet monkey in “Friends”?
26. What is the name of the coffee shop in the TV show “Friends”?
27. Who played the role of Tony Soprano in the HBO series “The Sopranos”?
28. Who created the TV show “The Sopranos”?
29. Who created the TV series “The Wire”?
30. Who starred as Captain Jack Harkness in “Doctor Who” and “Torchwood”?
31. Which TV series follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok?
32. In which year did MTV start broadcasting?
33. Which sitcom revolves around the Belcher family?
34. In ‘The Simpsons’, who is the owner of the Kwik-E-Mart?
35. Which TV series is set in Westeros?
36. In which TV show is the main character a chemistry teacher turned meth producer?
37. Who is the host of ‘The Daily Show’ after Jon Stewart?
38. In ‘Friends’, who gets trapped in an ATM vestibule with a supermodel?
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23 Literature Trivia Questions and Answers
1. What year was the first Harry Potter book published?
2. Who is Marvel’s first superhero in the comic books?
3. What is the name of Superman’s love interest?
4. What is the name of the mountain in “Lord of the Rings” which the One Ring must be thrown into?
5. What is the real name of Iron Man in the Marvel Universe?
6. Who created the comic strip “The Far Side”?
7. Who wrote the novel “The Da Vinci Code”?
8. Which superhero is Diana Prince better known as?
9. Who is the protagonist in “The Hunger Games” series?
10. Who wrote the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
11. Who wrote the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”?
12. Who wrote the novel “Gone Girl”?
13. What is the real name of the superhero Batman?
14. Who wrote the novel “The Great Gatsby”?
15. What is the name of Sherlock Holmes’s sidekick?
16. Who wrote the “Percy Jackson & The Olympians” book series?
17. What is the real name of the superhero Spider-Man?
18. Who wrote the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?
20. Who wrote “1984” and “Animal Farm”?
21. Which city is home to Batman’s Gotham?
22. Who wrote the novel ‘American Psycho’?
23. Who wrote the novel ‘The Fault in Our Stars’?
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9 Other Pop Culture Trivia Questions and Answers
1. In what year was YouTube created?
2. In which U.S. city did the first Starbucks open?
3. What is the name of the female character in the video game “Tomb Raider”?
4. What is the most expensive Pokemon card?
5. Who was awarded a Guinness World Record for purchasing the most expensive Pokemon card?
6. Who was the most Google-searched person in 2022?
8. What year was Netflix founded?
9. Who is the creator of the Star Wars franchise?
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