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50 free Childish Gambino trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Donald Glover spent more than a decade leading a double life: sitcom actor and showrunner on one side, Grammy-winning musician Childish Gambino on the other. Few artists have moved so easily between joke-heavy rap mixtapes, psychedelic funk and a chart-topping protest single whose video was picked apart frame by frame. These questions cover the whole run: the albums from his debut to his farewell, the stories behind This Is America and Redbone, the collaborators who shaped his sound, and the screen work, from Community and Atlanta to Star Wars and The Lion King, that made him famous under his own name. It is pitched for fans who know the hits and want to test the deeper cuts, and every answer comes with a short explanation, so casual listeners will pick up the story as they play.
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Q 01Childish Gambino took his stage name from an online name generator themed on which hip-hop group?
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan gave the generator its theme, and Glover kept the name it produced for his first released mixtape, Sick Boi, in 2008.
Q 02Donald Glover's high school yearbook voted him most likely to write for which animated TV series?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons was his classmates' prediction, and a spec script he wrote for that very show later helped win him his first job in a TV writers' room.
Q 03Childish Gambino released This Is America in May 2018 on the same evening he hosted which TV show?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live had Glover as both host and musical guest that night, and the song went on to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at number one.
Q 04Childish Gambino's song Redbone plays near the start of which 2017 film?
Get Out
Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, plays the song as its hero Chris is introduced, and months later Redbone re-entered the Hot 100 and climbed to number 12.
Q 05Donald Glover played a younger version of which Star Wars character in a 2018 spin-off film?
Lando Calrissian
Lando Calrissian was first played by Billy Dee Williams, who met Glover to pass on advice before the younger actor took over the role.
Q 06Which character did Donald Glover voice in Disney's 2019 remake of The Lion King?
Simba
Simba is voiced by Glover as an adult lion, and he asked to redo his lines after his father's death made the story feel more personal.
Q 07Donald Glover played which former high school football star on the NBC sitcom Community?
Troy Barnes
Troy Barnes appeared in every season until the fifth, when Glover left after five episodes to make room for projects of his own.
Q 08Which singer co-stars as Kofi opposite Donald Glover in the 2019 musical film Guava Island?
Rihanna
Rihanna plays Kofi, girlfriend of Glover's musician Deni, and one critic was disappointed that she never sings in it.
Q 09Donald Glover in Spider-Man pajamas on Community influenced the look of which Marvel Comics hero?
Miles Morales
Miles Morales made his comics debut in 2011, and Glover later voiced the character in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man.
Q 10Childish Gambino dances shirtless through what kind of building in the This Is America music video?
A warehouse
A warehouse is the backdrop, and the video's mix of dancing and sudden violence drew about 12.9 million views in 24 hours.
Q 11Which filmmaker, a frequent Donald Glover collaborator, directed the This Is America music video?
Hiro Murai
Hiro Murai won the Grammy for Best Music Video for it, and said the films Mother! and City of God were his inspirations.
Q 12This Is America by Childish Gambino was the first rap song to win the songwriting Grammy and which other award?
Record of the Year
Record of the Year and Song of the Year both went to the single, which won in all four categories it was nominated for.
Q 13Which R&B singer makes a cameo sitting on a car late in Childish Gambino's This Is America video?
SZA
SZA appears perched on one of the old cars that fill the set, many shown with hazard lights flashing and the driver's door ajar.
Q 21Which single from Because the Internet became Childish Gambino's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100?
3005
3005 peaked at number 64, and its video is one long take of Gambino riding a Ferris wheel beside a teddy bear.
Q 22Childish Gambino recorded most of Because the Internet in a rented mansion owned by which NBA player?
Chris Bosh
Chris Bosh owned the Los Angeles mansion, which Gambino nicknamed The Temple and ran with house rules that banned shoes, tweeting and Instagram.
Q 23Childish Gambino released what kind of written companion piece to sync with his album Because the Internet?
A screenplay
A screenplay of 72 pages told the story of The Boy, who lives in a mansion and spends his days tweeting at celebrities.
Q 14Which rapper earned a writing credit on Childish Gambino's This Is America by supplying its outro?
Young Thug
Young Thug sings the closing section, while the other ad-libs come from a guest list that includes Quavo and 21 Savage.
Q 15Which Rwandan-born choreographer devised the dances in Childish Gambino's This Is America video?
Sherrie Silver
Sherrie Silver drew on African dances such as Ghana's Azonto and South Africa's Gwara gwara, and won an MTV Video Music Award for the work.
Q 16Donald Glover told GQ that This Is America began as a joking diss aimed at which rapper?
Drake
Drake was the target of the original joke, and the finished single ended up replacing his own hit Nice for What at number one.
Q 17The cover of Childish Gambino's Awaken, My Love! nods to the 1971 album Maggot Brain by which group?
Funkadelic
Funkadelic shaped the sound as well as the sleeve: the album swaps rapping for psychedelic funk, and its track Riot samples the group.
Q 18The vinyl edition of Childish Gambino's Awaken, My Love! came with which piece of technology?
A VR headset
A VR headset came with the album, letting owners use an app to watch immersive performances from his Pharos concerts.
Q 19Childish Gambino debuted Awaken, My Love! at three 2016 concerts in which California desert spot?
Joshua Tree
Joshua Tree hosted the shows almost three months before the album came out, with fans led there by a countdown app Glover released.
Q 20Childish Gambino's Redbone is based on the song I'd Rather Be with You by which funk outfit?
Bootsy's Rubber Band
Bootsy's Rubber Band supplied the template, but the high vocal is Glover's natural singing: he said no pitch-shifting was used on the album.
Q 24Which artist guests on The Worst Guys, a track on Childish Gambino's album Because the Internet?
Chance the Rapper
Chance the Rapper also turns up in the album's prelude short film, where he loses a game of Connect Four to Trinidad James.
Q 25Which 2011 album was Childish Gambino's studio debut, featuring the singles Bonfire and Heartbeat?
Camp
Camp entered the Billboard 200 at number 11 and was his first release on a label after years of giving mixtapes away free.
Q 26Which label signed Childish Gambino in 2011 and went on to release his first three studio albums?
Glassnote
Glassnote founder Daniel Glass praised Glover's rock'n'roll irreverence when he signed him; the rapper moved to RCA in 2018.
Q 27Which Hawaiian island gives its name to a 2014 Childish Gambino EP whose proceeds went toward preserving it?
Kauai
Kauai is where the story's hero wakes up: the companion mixtape, released a day earlier, is all a dream about running his home city.
Q 28Which Childish Gambino single has a video of Donald Glover dancing to impress a woman in a take-out restaurant?
Sober
Sober won an mtvU Woodie Award for its video, which plays like Michael Jackson's The Way You Make Me Feel with a different outcome.
Q 29Which Childish Gambino song has an animated video in which he walks past cartoon versions of famous musicians?
Feels Like Summer
Feels Like Summer sets its celebrity cameos, Michael Jackson and Beyoncé among them, against lyrics that worry about climate change.
Q 30Most song titles on Childish Gambino's 2020 release 3.15.20 are numbers that indicate what about each track?
Its start time on the album
Its start time on the album names each track, so 12.38 begins 12 minutes and 38 seconds in; only two songs got ordinary titles.