Banksy Trivia
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58 free Banksy trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Banksy trivia quiz covers thirty years of walls, stunts and auction records without ever needing to know who he is. It starts in Bristol's underground scene with the DryBreadZ Crew, the goalkeeping for the Easton Cowboys, the rubbish-lorry moment that turned him to stencils, The Mild Mild West and the first shows in Los Angeles. It covers the animals he painted at Turf War, the spoof Diana banknotes, the museum break-ins, the West Bank wall, the painted elephant at Barely Legal and the Paris Hilton CD swap. The second half moves through the auction boom and 'I Can't Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit', the Pulp Fiction bananas, Pest Control, the Bristol Museum takeover, Exit Through the Gift Shop and the Oscar nomination, the Simpsons couch gag, Better Out Than In and the $60 Central Park stall, Dismaland, the Walled Off Hotel, the shredded Girl with Balloon, Devolved Parliament, the NHS painting, the trademark defeat, Ukraine and the guesses about his name. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is shown on every question. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. Try our Andy Warhol quiz next.
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Q 01Banksy's 2004 mural on the wall of a Brighton pub shows two of which uniformed figures kissing?
Policemen
Policemen. Kissing Coppers was sprayed on the side of the Prince Albert pub in Brighton; the original was later removed from the wall and sold to an anonymous buyer in Miami for $575,000.
Q 02Banksy says he took up stencilling after noticing a stencilled plate while hiding from police where?
Under a dumper truck
Under a dumper truck. He wrote that at 18 he hid there for over an hour, engine oil leaking on him, after transport police caught his crew painting a train, and realised he had to cut his painting time in half.
Q 03Banksy's Bristol mural The Mild Mild West shows a teddy bear doing what?
Throwing a Molotov cocktail
Throwing a Molotov cocktail at three riot police with shields. When a group splattered the mural with red paint in 2009, locals turned out to clean it up.
Q 04Banksy toured which country in 2001 as goalkeeper of Bristol's Easton Cowboys, painting murals in rebel villages?
Mexico
Mexico. The amateur club went to Chiapas to play teams from Zapatista villages, and a painting Banksy gave the club was raffled to raise money for water projects there.
Q 05Banksy's first Los Angeles show in 2002 was called what?
Existencilism
Existencilism opened at the 33 1/3 Gallery in Los Angeles in July 2002, the year Banksy gave the same title to his second self-published book.
Q 06At the 2003 London warehouse show Turf War, Banksy painted on what?
Live animals
Live animals: pigs in police colours, sheep in concentration-camp stripes and a cow covered in Andy Warhol's face. One protester chained herself to the railings, though an RSPCA inspector had approved the conditions.
Q 07Which Edward Hopper painting did Banksy subvert by adding a hooligan in Union Jack underwear?
Nighthawks
Nighthawks. In Banksy's 2005 version an angry man in Union Jack boxer shorts stands outside Hopper's late-night diner, having just smashed its window with a chair.
Q 08Banksy's 2004 spoof £10 notes replaced the Queen with whose head?
Princess Diana's
Princess Diana's. The 'Di-faced tenners' were issued by the 'Banksy of England', and in 2019 the British Museum added one to its money collection, the first Banksy work it had acquired.
Q 09Banksy's print Napalm places the girl from a famous Vietnam War photograph between which two characters?
Ronald McDonald and Mickey Mouse
Ronald McDonald and Mickey Mouse each take hold of the crying girl and beam cheerfully, seemingly unconcerned by her distress; the print is also known as Can't Beat That Feeling.
Q 10In 2005 Banksy painted nine images on which structure?
Israel's West Bank barrier
Israel's West Bank barrier. Banksy condemned the wall but called it 'the ultimate activity holiday destination for graffiti writers'.
Q 11The centrepiece of Banksy's 2006 Los Angeles show Barely Legal was which animal?
An elephant
An elephant. Painted to match the wallpaper of a mock living room, Tai was Banksy's 'elephant in the room', standing for world poverty and the other big problems that people choose to ignore.
Q 12Which pop star paid £25,000 in 2006 for three Banksy works, including his Queen Victoria as a lesbian?
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera. She bought one original and two prints at a private viewing in a Soho gallery, and a friend said the Queen Victoria picture was going on her living-room wall.
Q 13After record Sotheby's sales in 2007, Banksy posted a painting of an auction whose text called his buyers what?
Morons
Q 21In 2020 Banksy funded a pink-painted boat for what purpose?
Rescuing refugees at sea
Rescuing refugees at sea. Named after the French anarchist Louise Michel, the boat had already taken 89 people on board in the Mediterranean when Banksy's backing was made public.
Q 22At which film festival did Banksy's documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop premiere in 2010?
The Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival. Banksy heralded the premiere by stencilling walls around Park City, the Utah town where the festival is held.
Q 23Which exposé of corporate wrongdoing beat Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop to the Oscar in 2011?
Inside Job
Morons. The picture being bid on in the scene reads 'I can't believe you morons actually buy this', followed by a ruder word, and Banksy went on to release the image as a print edition.
Q 14Banksy's London mural of two Pulp Fiction characters, painted over in 2007, had them clutching what instead of guns?
Bananas
Bananas. Transport for London painted over the popular mural near Old Street station, explaining that its graffiti removal teams were 'professional cleaners not professional art critics'.
Q 15Banksy designed the Union Jack stab-proof vest that which rapper wore on stage at Glastonbury in 2019?
Stormzy
Stormzy. He wore the vest for his headline set, and that autumn it featured in the pop-up shop Banksy set up in Croydon, the rapper's home town.
Q 16Banksy's early online 'manifesto' was a British officer's diary about lipstick arriving at which newly liberated Nazi camp?
Bergen-Belsen
Bergen-Belsen. Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Gonin, among the first British soldiers to arrive in 1945, wrote that nothing did more for the internees: the lipstick made them individuals again.
Q 17Banksy's first official New York exhibition in 2008 took the form of what?
A pet store with animatronic animals
A pet store with animatronic animals: in The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, chicken nuggets dipped themselves in sauce and fish sticks swam in a tank. Banksy said it questioned our relationship with animals and factory farming.
Q 18Banksy's 2008 Cans Festival took place in which London location?
A road tunnel under Waterloo station
A road tunnel under Waterloo station: Leake Street. Banksy said he hoped the murals would become a permanent part of the tunnel, and it went on to become an authorised graffiti area.
Q 19Which French pioneer of the life-sized stencil has Banksy long been accused of copying?
Blek le Rat
Blek le Rat began stencilling rats on the walls of Paris in 1981; he has called the rat the only free animal in the city, and likes that 'rat' is an anagram of 'art'.
Q 20Banksy set up the office called Pest Control mainly to do what?
Authenticate his artworks
Authenticate his artworks. Banksy set up the tongue-in-cheek-named office himself, and a piece it will not certify is not recognised as a real Banksy, however convincing it looks.
Inside Job. In the run-up to the ceremony, new Banksy street art appeared around Los Angeles, just as Academy voters were filling in their ballots.
Q 24In 2010 Banksy storyboarded an opening sequence set in a grim Asian sweatshop for which animated series?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons. His opening for the episode 'MoneyBart' showed workers churning out the show's artwork and merchandise, and ended on the Fox logo ringed by barbed wire, searchlights and a watchtower.
Q 25Banksy's 2011 poster of the Bristol riots showed a petrol bomb in a bottle branded by which supermarket?
Tesco
Tesco. The riots began after police raided a squat over fears that a newly opened Tesco would be petrol-bombed, and Banksy sold his 'Tesco Value' poster to raise money for local groups.
Q 26Banksy's bust Cardinal Sin, unveiled in Liverpool in 2011, replaces a priest's face with what?
A pixelated effect
A pixelated effect: Banksy sawed the face off a replica 18th-century bust and stuck on blank bathroom tiles, his response to the child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.
Q 27Banksy's Slave Labour, a child sewing Union Jack bunting, was cut from the wall of which chain's London shop in 2013?
Poundland
Poundland. The Wood Green mural turned up in a Miami auction catalogue; after an outcry it was withdrawn from that sale, only to be sold at a private auction in London months later.
Q 28Banksy's month-long 2013 New York 'show on the streets' was titled what?
Better Out Than In
Better Out Than In. Banksy promised a new piece of street art in New York on every day of October 2013, and some were tagged over by local graffiti writers almost as soon as they appeared.
Q 29How much did Banksy charge per canvas at his anonymous 2013 stall on Fifth Avenue near Central Park?
$60
$60. The stall took just $420 all day, its first sale coming mid-afternoon to a woman who haggled a 50% discount, for signed canvases estimated to be worth up to £20,000 each.
Q 30Banksy's 2015 'bemusement park' Dismaland was built in which English seaside town?
Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare. Banksy built it in the derelict Tropicana lido, and when it closed after five weeks he sent the timber and fixtures to Calais to build shelters in the 'Jungle' refugee camp.