Catchphrases Trivia
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50 free Catchphrases trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
A good catchphrase outlives the show that coined it. People who never watched a 1970s sitcom still know its put-down, a 1966 commentary line is quoted at every big match, and a two-word refusal from a sketch show gets repeated in offices every day. The best ones have a story behind them: an ad-lib that stuck, a pun the speaker never noticed, a line written to pad out a scene. These 50 questions ask who said it and where. They range across US and UK sitcoms and cartoons, game-show hosts, radio comedy, advertising campaigns, sports commentators, ring announcers, wrestlers and politicians from the 1940s to the 2020s. Every stem carries a clue for the player who half-remembers, and every answer explains where the phrase really came from. It suits pub quiz rounds, family evenings and anyone who can still do the voices. Play on your phone with instant answers, or print it for the table.
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Q 01Which Big Bang Theory physicist follows his pranks with a triumphant 'Bazinga!'?
Sheldon Cooper
Sheldon Cooper's catchphrase reached biology: in 2012 Brazilian researchers named a newly discovered orchid bee Euglossa bazinga after it.
Q 02Which rumpled LAPD lieutenant turned back at the door with 'Just one more thing'?
Columbo
Columbo's 'Just one more thing' was a typewriter fix: a scene ran short, and rather than retype it, Levinson and Link sent him back through the door.
Q 03Which prime minister declared 'The lady's not for turning' in a 1980 party conference speech?
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher's line came from her speechwriter, playwright Ronald Millar, who built it as a pun on Christopher Fry's 1948 play The Lady's Not for Burning.
Q 04Which Bedrock resident yells 'Yabba dabba doo!'?
Fred Flintstone
Fred Flintstone once sold cigarettes: Winston sponsored the show when it began, and the characters appeared in its TV commercials.
Q 05Which BBC2 children's show has four toddler-like characters who greet with 'Eh-oh!'?
Teletubbies
Teletubbies topped the UK chart in December 1997 with 'Teletubbies say Eh-oh!', until the Spice Girls' 'Too Much' pushed it to number two for Christmas.
Q 06'I pity the fool!' was first growled by which actor as the boxer Clubber Lang in Rocky III?
Mr. T
Mr. T's catchphrase comes from Clubber Lang's reply when asked if he hates Rocky: he doesn't hate Balboa, he pities the fool.
Q 07'Exterminate!' is the war cry of which Doctor Who enemies, created by Terry Nation for a 1963 serial?
The Daleks
The Daleks owe both their name and 'Exterminate!' to the Doctor: in the 2023 special Destination: Skaro, the Fourteenth Doctor lets both words slip in front of Davros's assistant.
Q 08Which host dismissed contestants with 'You're fired!' on the American version of The Apprentice?
Donald Trump
Donald Trump's line didn't outlast him: when Arnold Schwarzenegger took over the celebrity edition in 2017, eliminations ended with 'You're terminated.'
Q 09Whose 2008 US presidential campaign rallied to the chant 'Yes we can', later set to music by will.i.am?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama joked in 2012 that he had stolen the line from farmworker leader Dolores Huerta, whose rallying cry was 'Sí, se puede'.
Q 10'Winter is Coming' are the ancestral words of which Game of Thrones house?
Stark
House Stark ruled as Kings in the North until Torrhen Stark, facing Aegon's dragons, knelt instead of fighting and became the King Who Knelt.
Q 11Which nominee promised 'Read my lips: no new taxes' at the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans?
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush broke the pledge in a 1990 budget deal that raised taxes, and in 1992 called it the biggest mistake of his presidency.
Q 12Which Little Britain bank clerk and travel agent, played by David Walliams, refused everyone with 'Computer says no'?
Carol Beer
Carol Beer's refusal got a Brexit update in a 2019 radio special, where she blocked holidays because 'Brexit says no'.
Q 13Which host greeted Generation Game audiences with 'Nice to see you, to see you...', inviting the reply 'Nice!'?
Bruce Forsyth
Q 21Which host snuffs out a losing contestant's torch at Tribal Council with the words 'The tribe has spoken'?
Jeff Probst
Jeff Probst keeps the snuffer used on voted-out players' torches as a souvenir at the end of every season.
Q 22On which reality competition does the loser of each episode's lip-sync showdown hear the verdict 'Sashay away'?
RuPaul's Drag Race
RuPaul's Drag Race tells the queen who stays 'Shantay, you stay', after weekly acting, fashion and improvisation challenges and a themed strut down the runway.
Q 23Which price-comparison website's adverts star Aleksandr Orlov, a meerkat who signs off with 'Simples!'?
Compare the Market
Bruce Forsyth married the show's co-host Anthea Redfern in 1973, after asking her each week to 'give us a twirl'.
Q 14Which Dad's Army butcher ran around shouting 'Don't panic!' whenever danger loomed?
Corporal Jones
Corporal Jones was played by Clive Dunn, who was only 48 when he landed the role of the elderly butcher in 1968.
Q 15Which BBC commentator said 'They think it's all over... it is now!' as Geoff Hurst scored in the 1966 World Cup final?
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Kenneth Wolstenholme was actually describing pitch invaders: 'Some people are on the pitch, they think it's all over' came out as Hurst ran through, before the shot went in.
Q 16Which tennis player's 'You cannot be serious!', bellowed at umpires, later became the title of his autobiography?
John McEnroe
John McEnroe screamed it at umpire Edward James over a line call in his first-round match at Wimbledon in 1981, the year he won the title.
Q 17'Booyakasha!' and 'Respek' belong to which Sacha Baron Cohen character, a wannabe gangster from Staines?
Ali G
Ali G won over Madonna, who cast him as her limo driver in the video for her 2000 single Music.
Q 18Which Blackadder character keeps announcing 'I have a cunning plan' before a doomed scheme?
Baldrick
Baldrick wasn't always the fool: in the first series he was cleverer than Blackadder, a relationship the later series turned around.
Q 19'Here's one I made earlier' is the craft-segment line of which BBC children's show?
Blue Peter
Blue Peter's line is credited to presenter Christopher Trace, who also coined 'And now for something completely different' before Monty Python made it famous.
Q 20Which host asked 'Is that your final answer?' on the original American Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Regis Philbin
Regis Philbin's line was already the catchphrase of Chris Tarrant, host of the British original.
Compare the Market's ads rest on a pun: Aleksandr is fed up with shoppers confusing his meerkat site, comparethemeerkat.com, with comparethemarket.com.
Q 24Who brushed off an attack over Medicare with 'There you go again' in a 1980 presidential debate?
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan tried the line again in a 1984 debate, and Walter Mondale shot back: 'You remember the last time you said that?'
Q 25Whose Labour conference speech named three top priorities for government: 'education, education, and education'?
Tony Blair
Tony Blair's government went on to introduce university tuition fees of up to £1,000 a year in 1998, two years after that speech.
Q 26Which party leader kept repeating 'strong and stable leadership' during the 2017 general election campaign?
Theresa May
Theresa May called the 2017 snap election seeking a stronger hand for Brexit talks, but her Conservatives lost their Commons majority instead.
Q 27'Danger, Will Robinson!' was the Robot's warning on which Irwin Allen series about the castaway Robinson family?
Lost in Space
Lost in Space's warning lived on: the 1998 film version used dangerwillrobinson.com as its official website.
Q 28'Resistance is futile' is the warning of which Star Trek race before it assimilates a target?
The Borg
The Borg were first conceived as insects, but the budget couldn't stretch that far, so they became cyborgs instead.
Q 29'The Truth Is Out There' is the opening-credits tagline of which 1993 Chris Carter series about two FBI agents?
The X-Files
The X-Files creator Chris Carter wrote in 2021 that slogans like 'Trust No One' came from a 1990s 'relatively shared reality' and are now a fact of life.
Q 30Which animated series killed off Kenny in nearly every early episode, prompting Stan's 'Oh my God, they killed Kenny!'?
South Park
South Park killed Kenny off in season five and kept him dead for nearly all of season six.