Beavis and Butt-Head
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50 free Beavis and Butt-Head trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Beavis and Butt-Head arrived in 1993 as two sniggering teenagers on a couch and became one of the defining cartoons of the decade. Critics argued over whether the show was sharp satire or a bad influence, a real senator attacked it, and the network ended up rewriting episodes. Three decades, two feature films and two revivals later, the pair are still at it. This quiz covers the whole run. There are questions on the boys themselves and the people of Highland who put up with them, on the best-known episodes and running jokes, on both films and their famous guest voices, and on the bands the duo wore and mocked. Others look behind the scenes: where the idea came from, how the show was made, and what its creator did before and after. It is pitched at fans who grew up with the original run as well as viewers who found the duo through the newer episodes. The opening questions are the ones most people can get; the later ones are for those who can recite the staff list of Highland High. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Beavis and Butt-Head live in the fictional town of Highland, in which US state?
Texas
Texas was a background artist's doing: he lettered it on the cars' licence plates without asking. The creator had imagined a small town in New Mexico.
Q 02What turns Beavis into Cornholio, his ranting alter ego with a shirt pulled over his head?
Sugar and caffeine
Sugar and caffeine also set him off in the first film, where the alter ego wanders through the White House and triggers a military alert.
Q 03In Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, what are the duo trying to get back on their trip across the country?
Their stolen TV
Their stolen TV turns up outside the motel where the trip began, dumped there by the thieves. The boys carry it home into the sunset.
Q 04After a 1993 tragedy was blamed on Beavis and Butt-Head, which word was Beavis barred from saying?
Fire
Fire was scrubbed even from earlier episodes, whose master tapes were permanently altered. The network lifted the ban for the 2011 revival.
Q 05Which animator created Beavis and Butt-Head and performs the voices of both title characters himself?
Mike Judge
Mike Judge based Beavis's snigger on a boy in his high-school calculus class who kept laughing at their teacher.
Q 06At which fast-food restaurant do Beavis and Butt-Head work as fry cook and cashier?
Burger World
Burger World puts Beavis at the grill and Butt-Head on the register. In one Christmas special Beavis dreams he is its Scrooge-like manager.
Q 07Which sardonic classmate of Beavis and Butt-Head left Highland for a spin-off series of her own in 1997?
Daria
Daria moved to the suburb of Lawndale for five seasons of her own. The original show's creator was not involved beyond giving his permission.
Q 08Which US president meets the duo and honours them at the end of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton was facing an election as the film was made, so a spare scene was drawn in case he lost to Bob Dole.
Q 09Which film star played a live-action Beavis in a 2024 Saturday Night Live sketch that went viral?
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling played Beavis opposite cast member Mikey Day as Butt-Head, and the two wore the costumes again at the premiere of The Fall Guy.
Q 10From their couch, Beavis and Butt-Head interrupt most episodes to watch and heckle which kind of clips?
Music videos
Music videos let the pair sound a little smarter than usual, and their creator improvised those comments on the spot.
Q 11Which cable channel launched Beavis and Butt-Head in 1993 and saw it become its top-rated show?
MTV
MTV flew the creator to New York in 1992 to order a series, and its seven-figure budget floored a man who had made his films alone for $800.
Q 12Which hard rock band's name is on the T-shirt Butt-Head wears in nearly every episode?
AC/DC
AC/DC also lies behind the theme tune: the creator has said its guitar riff is the band's song Gone Shootin' played backwards.
Q 13Which metal band's logo does Beavis, the blond half of Beavis and Butt-Head, usually wear on his T-shirt?
Metallica
Metallica vanishes from the merchandise, where his shirt carries a made-up slogan instead to avoid licensing issues.
Q 21Which later animated hit's creators named Beavis and Butt-Head an influence and likened it to the blues?
South Park
South Park's creators cite the series as an influence. Even the National Review defended the older cartoon as cleverly subversive social criticism.
Q 22Which 1999 cult comedy did the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head build from his Milton cartoons?
Office Space
Office Space, which he wrote and directed, followed the cartoons' run on Saturday Night Live; the studio first wanted a film about Milton alone.
Q 23Which streaming service brought back Beavis and Butt-Head in 2022, starting with the film Do the Universe?
Paramount+
Q 14Which Hollywood pair voice crooks Muddy and Dallas Grimes in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore play the Grimeses, who each offer the boys cash to deal with the other. Moore also starred in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame that year.
Q 15Which pop star joined Beavis and Butt-Head for a 1993 duet that reached the UK top 40?
Cher
Cher sang I Got You Babe with the pair for The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience, a tie-in album that went double platinum in the United States.
Q 16Which snack was served in record-breaking quantity to promote the 2022 revival of Beavis and Butt-Head?
Nachos
Nachos were piled up on a Los Angeles street for the stunt, and the Guinness plaque names the show itself as the record holder.
Q 17Which animated sitcom did the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head start developing in 1995?
King of the Hill
King of the Hill reached screens in 1997, and its lead Hank has been compared to the duo's disapproving neighbour, Tom Anderson.
Q 18In Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, a crook who takes the duo for hitmen sends them to which city?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas is where his wife Dallas is staying; she catches the boys at their hotel and sends them on to meet her in Washington.
Q 19Which film is parodied when a guardian angel shows Butt-Head his town without him one Christmas?
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life is turned on its head: the town proves far happier without Butt-Head, and Beavis volunteers at a homeless shelter.
Q 20Which phone voice assistant do the duo mistake for an astronaut in Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe?
Siri
Siri offers to set up a smart home, which the boys take as proof that astronaut Serena is waiting for them back in Highland.
Paramount+ took the revival after it had first been announced for Comedy Central, and the cable channel finally got the series in 2025.
Q 24Which late-night host, credited as Earl Hofert, voices a roadie in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?
David Letterman
David Letterman took the alias for his cameo as one of two drifters who are, unknown to the boys, their fathers. He also appears as himself in the series.
Q 25Which landmark do the duo accidentally sabotage during a bus tour in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is where the manhunt starts: the blunder convinces a federal agent that the boys are criminal masterminds.
Q 26In Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, what carries the duo from 1998 to the year 2022?
A black hole
A black hole swallows them after an astronaut flings them from the shuttle they have wrecked, and they emerge in Galveston 24 years later.
Q 27Which homemade 1992 cartoon, shown on an animation showcase, first introduced Beavis and Butt-Head?
Frog Baseball
Frog Baseball showed a nastier pair: their creator said he would have kept his distance from those two, but warmed to them over the years.
Q 28The creator of Beavis and Butt-Head graduated in which science before teaching himself to animate?
Physics
Physics led to work he struggled to connect with, so he began making films alone, shooting them on a cheap Bolex 16mm camera.
Q 29Which guitar-playing hippie teacher urges Beavis and Butt-Head to get in touch with their feelings?
Mr. Van Driessen
Mr. Van Driessen later lent his voice to another series: the creator reused it for Gerald Goode in his 2009 cartoon The Goode Family.
Q 30Which local criminal do Beavis and Butt-Head idolise, although he beats them and uses them for money?
Todd
Todd leads a gang of small-time crooks and makes his contempt for the pair plain, yet the boys keep seeking him out however he treats them.