Big Brother Trivia
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109 free Big Brother trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Big Brother has been locking strangers in a house since 1999, and this quiz covers the whole franchise: the Dutch original and its lawsuits, the American version and its Head of Household, veto and jury rules, the UK show from Davina McCall and Nasty Nick to the ITV2 revival, and the editions in Australia, Canada, Brazil and India that turned the format into the most-produced reality show on earth. The 109 questions run from easy (which network airs the US show, which novel gave the show its name, who has hosted every US season) to genuinely hard (which winner took a 7-0 jury vote, who gave away his entire prize, which future horror director worked on the first Dutch series, and how many votes one Brazilian eviction drew). It suits a finale-night watch party, a reality TV pub quiz round or anyone who has ever shouted at a live feed. Every answer has been checked against a source, and each question shows its explanation and citation once you answer.
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Q 01Which Dutch producer created the Big Brother format?
John de Mol
John de Mol: his firm merged with Joop van den Ende's in 1994 to form Endemol, and though he sold his share to Telefonica in 2000, he stayed on as its creative chief.
Q 02Big Brother takes its name from the all-seeing leader in which novel?
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four: that all-seeing leader, whose face stares from posters everywhere, drew on accounts of Stalin's personality cult.
Q 03How long did housemates stay in the first Dutch Big Brother?
About 100 days
About 100 days: the Dutch show became a hit, and within a year versions of it had launched in Germany, Britain and the US.
Q 04What working title did the Dutch creators use for the concept before it became Big Brother?
The Golden Cage
The Golden Cage: the original concept was finally made under that name in 2006, as a separate reality show.
Q 05What did Pete Burns claim his coat on Celebrity Big Brother was made of?
Gorilla fur
Gorilla fur: police seized the coat after viewers complained, but experts found it was old colobus monkey fur, and no charges were brought.
Q 06Which musician's company sued Endemol in 2000, claiming Big Brother copied one of its own TV formats?
Bob Geldof
Bob Geldof: he and his partners had sold their firm Planet 24 but kept the rights to one of its formats in a new company, Castaway, which brought the suit.
Q 07Which MP pretended to be a cat on Celebrity Big Brother, lapping imaginary milk from Rula Lenska's hands?
George Galloway
George Galloway: Labour critics accused the Respect MP of neglecting his constituents while he was in the house.
Q 08Which Big Brother twist, introduced in 2001, split the house into unequal halves for rival teams?
Rich and Poor
Rich and Poor: two teams battled for the luxurious half of the house, and many other national versions later copied the split.
Q 09Which pop star's older half-brother, Frankie, was a HouseGuest on Big Brother 16 in 2014?
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande: Frankie had promised his challenge winnings to the charity buildOn, and he donated them to build a school in Malawi.
Q 10Who hosted every season of the American Big Brother from 2000 through 2025?
Julie Chen Moonves
Julie Chen Moonves: she also co-hosted the daytime talk show The Talk until quitting in 2018, yet stayed on as Big Brother's host.
Q 11In January 2016, which star's ex-wife Angie was told in the Celebrity Big Brother house that he had died?
David Bowie
David Bowie: Angie didn't leave straight away, but walked out of the house on Day 15, more than a week after hearing the news.
Q 12Who won the first American season of Big Brother in 2000?
Eddie McGee
Eddie McGee: viewers, not HouseGuests, picked the winner by phone, and he took 59% of the public vote.
Q 13In the first US Big Brother, HouseGuests confided their private thoughts in a room of what colour?
Red
Red: unlike later seasons, HouseGuests evicted no one themselves; viewers phoned a premium-rate line to banish nominees.
Q 21Which Big Brother 10 winner became the first US HouseGuest to win by a unanimous 7-0 vote?
Dan Gheesling
Dan Gheesling: he returned as a coach in season 14, entered the game himself, and lost the final 6-1.
Q 22What job did Season 16 winner Derrick Levasseur hide from his fellow HouseGuests?
Undercover police detective
Undercover police detective: he later turned investigator on TV, hosting the true-crime series Breaking Homicide.
Q 23Which Big Brother 8 winner shared the final two with his own daughter, Daniele?
Evel Dick Donato
Evel Dick Donato: when father and daughter returned together for season 13, he walked out within the first week.
Q 14After its first season, the US Big Brother was revamped around strategy in the style of which show?
Survivor
Survivor: the crucial change was that HouseGuests, not viewers, now voted each other out, with evictees choosing the winner.
Q 15Who won the second US season in 2001, the first played under the strategic HOH-and-eviction format?
Dr. Will Kirby
Dr. Will Kirby: each finalist had to cancel one evictee's vote, and he still beat Nicole Schaffrich 5-2.
Q 16Which competition, introduced in US Big Brother's third season, lets its winner pull a nominee off the block?
The Power of Veto
The Power of Veto: for most of season 3 a nominee who won it couldn't use it on themselves, but every season since has let its winner do so.
Q 17In early US Big Brother seasons, what were food-competition losers limited to eating?
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches: in season 4, Jee Choe won a competition by taking a deal that put every other HouseGuest on the diet for a week.
Q 18From season 7 of US Big Brother, what unappetising food did food-competition losers have to eat?
Slop
Slop: in season 9, HouseGuest Amanda Hansen fainted from low blood sugar while on slop.
Q 19Which Big Brother 23 alliance was formed with the goal of crowning the US show's first Black winner?
The Cookout
The Cookout: all six members reached the final six, and Xavier Prather became the first winner of the raised $750,000 prize.
Q 20Since season 4 of US Big Brother, where do evicted jurors live?
Sequestered house
Sequestered house: in seasons 2 and 3 every evicted HouseGuest voted on the winner, but since then only the jurors have.
Q 24Which Big Brother 13 winner met her future husband, Brendon Villegas, in the season 12 house?
Rachel Reilly
Rachel Reilly: she and Brendon later raced together on The Amazing Race, and she also ran it with her sister Elissa.
Q 25Who won the 2020 All-Stars season, Big Brother 22, with a 9-0 sweep?
Cody Calafiore
Cody Calafiore: six years earlier he had lost the season 16 final to his own ally, Derrick Levasseur.
Q 26What was the 2016 US spin-off on CBS All Access that let viewers pick the winner?
Big Brother: Over the Top
Morgan Willett took the $250,000 prize, and the online-only season showed the ceremonies and competitions that TV normally hides.
Q 27What was US Big Brother's holiday-themed December 2023 spin-off called?
Reindeer Games
Reindeer Games: nine returning players competed in holiday challenges instead of house votes, and Nicole Franzel won $100,000.
Q 28In 2014, the US Big Brother was first produced in which picture format?
HD
HD: rewiring a house full of round-the-clock cameras took years, which left it the last prime-time network show in standard definition.
Q 29Why did US Big Brother 9 air in early 2008 instead of summer?
Writers' strike
Writers' strike: CBS aired the season as replacement programming, and season 10 still followed that July, so 2008 had two seasons.
Q 30In 2023, the US Big Brother live feeds went free for the first time since season one on which service?
Pluto TV
Pluto TV: season one's feeds had been free online, but from season two CBS charged a subscription to watch.