Chris Jericho
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50 free Chris Jericho trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few wrestlers have reinvented themselves as often as Chris Jericho. Across more than three decades he has been a cocky young champion in WCW, a countdown-clock sensation in the WWF, a cold-eyed villain in a suit, a list-keeping comedian and the veteran who gave a brand-new promotion instant credibility. Along the way he has had some of the most talked-about matches of every era he has worked in. This quiz walks through the best Chris Jericho matches and the stories around them: the night he unified wrestling's two biggest world titles, the 2008 rivalry that swept the year-end awards, the stipulation bouts on both sides of the Pacific, and the wilder brawls of his later career. It also covers his training in Canada, his signature holds, and his second life as a heavy metal singer and television personality. The questions suit lifelong fans and newer viewers alike. Most can be worked out if you have followed him over the years, a few are deep cuts for the die-hards, and every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will finish knowing more than when you started.
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Q 01Chris Jericho devised which WWE match, first held at WrestleMania 21, whose winner claims a briefcase?
Money in the Bank
Money in the Bank was Jericho's own idea: he pitched it to Raw general manager Eric Bischoff, then lost the first one himself.
Q 02Whose speech did Chris Jericho interrupt when his millennium countdown clock hit zero on Raw in 1999?
The Rock
The Rock was mid-promo in Chicago when the clock ran out and Jericho walked on as Y2J, a play on the Y2K bug. He answered by mocking the newcomer for interrupting.
Q 03Chris Jericho has fronted which heavy metal band, originally a covers act, since 1999?
Fozzy
Fozzy began life as a cover band called Fozzy Osbourne, and Jericho first fronted it in character as a singer named Moongoose McQueen.
Q 04Chris Jericho's first match outside WWE since 1999 was a 2018 Tokyo Dome classic against whom?
Kenny Omega
Kenny Omega beat him in a no-disqualification bout, the first match of Jericho's long career rated a perfect five by the Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer.
Q 05On which TV contest did Chris Jericho partner two-time champion Cheryl Burke in 2011?
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars sent him home on April 26 as the fifth contestant eliminated, after a wave of publicity that included an interview with Jay Leno.
Q 06Which Hollywood actor punched out Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 25, after Jericho beat three legends?
Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke, then acclaimed for the film The Wrestler, had been due to fight Jericho himself before pulling out. Jericho instead beat Roddy Piper, Jimmy Snuka and Ricky Steamboat.
Q 07Chris Jericho lost to Orange Cassidy at All Out 2020 by being knocked into a vat of which cocktail?
Mimosa
Mimosa gave the bout its name, Mimosa Mayhem, and a dunking counted the same as a pinfall or submission. Cassidy's punch sent Jericho off the top rope and into the drink.
Q 08Which Canadian city, where Chris Jericho grew up, renamed part of a street after him in 2023?
Winnipeg
Winnipeg became home when his father retired from professional hockey, and the stretch of Wordsworth Way where he lived was renamed Chris Jericho Way.
Q 09Where was Chris Jericho threatened with arrest in 2012 for kicking the national flag at a WWE live event?
Brazil
Brazil's police halted the live event until Jericho apologised to the crowd, and WWE suspended him for 30 days the following day.
Q 10Chris Jericho was 'fired' from Raw in 2005 after losing a title match to which WWE Champion?
John Cena
John Cena had already beaten him at SummerSlam the night before, and security carried Jericho out of the arena. He stayed away from WWE for two years.
Q 11Which type of match between Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels at No Mercy 2008 was voted Match of the Year?
Ladder
Ladder was the stipulation, with Jericho's World Heavyweight Championship hung above the ring. Wrestling Observer readers also named the rivalry their Feud of the Year.
Q 12Chris Jericho lost a Last Man Standing match at Fully Loaded 2000 by a single second to which rival?
Triple H
Triple H got to his feet at the count of nine while Jericho stayed down for ten. Earlier, Stephanie McMahon had broken Jericho's submission hold on her storyline husband.
Q 13At which 2001 event did Chris Jericho win two world titles in one night to become Undisputed WWF Champion?
Vengeance
Q 21Which rival won a Slamboree 1998 battle royal in disguise, then beat Chris Jericho for his WCW title?
Dean Malenko
Dean Malenko pulled off a Ciclope mask to reveal himself, then took the title. Jericho had been taunting the absent Man of 1,000 Holds, even bringing a portrait of him to the ring to insult.
Q 22When Chris Jericho read his list of 1,004 holds on Nitro in 1998, which hold was nearly every other entry?
Armbar
Armbar came up again and again on the long scroll he unrolled after beating Marty Jannetty, and many of the other holds on it were simply made up.
Q 23Chris Jericho held which WCW championship four times, wearing trophies taken from his beaten challengers?
Cruiserweight
Vengeance ended with him pinning Stone Cold Steve Austin, making him the first man to hold the WWF and WCW world titles together. He carried both belts until WrestleMania X8.
Q 14Which rival staked his mask against Chris Jericho's Intercontinental title at The Bash in 2009?
Rey Mysterio
Rey Mysterio kept his mask and took the title back, three weeks after Jericho had won it by tearing the mask off him in a No Holds Barred match.
Q 15Which WWE Champion did Chris Jericho face at WrestleMania XXVIII over the title of best in the world?
CM Punk
CM Punk kept the title that night and again four weeks later in a Chicago Street Fight, after Jericho had turned the feud personal with claims about his family.
Q 16Which best friend attacked Chris Jericho at the Festival of Friendship Jericho threw for him in 2017?
Kevin Owens
Kevin Owens handed him a gift, a fresh list with Jericho's own name at the top, then turned on him. Their feud ran to WrestleMania 33, where the United States title changed hands.
Q 17Which Royal Rumble winner and former partner did Chris Jericho beat at WrestleMania XXVI to stay world champion?
Edge
Edge had thrown him out of the Rumble on his way to winning it, months after an injury broke up their championship team. Jericho won at WrestleMania but lost the title days later.
Q 18Chris Jericho won a world title in February 2010 by outlasting The Undertaker and four others in which match?
Elimination Chamber
Elimination Chamber was the setting: Jericho last eliminated The Undertaker, the defending champion, after Shawn Michaels interfered.
Q 19Chris Jericho won his first WWF title in 1999 from which rival, who later became his co-champion?
Chyna
Chyna, the only woman to hold the Intercontinental title, shared it with him after two referees each named a different winner in a rematch.
Q 20Chris Jericho shared the 2009 Tag Team of the Year Slammy with which giant, his stand-in partner?
Big Show
Big Show joined him as Jeri-Show after Jericho invoked a contract clause to keep the tag titles, and the pair held them until D-Generation X won a TLC match that December.
Cruiserweight gold was his first WCW title, won from Syxx at a 1997 live event, and the trophies he paraded included a headband taken from Disco Inferno.
Q 24Which luchador had to unmask after losing a title versus mask match to Chris Jericho at SuperBrawl VIII?
Juventud Guerrera
Juventud Guerrera took too long to unmask for Jericho's liking, so Jericho ripped the mask off for him and later wore it to the ring.
Q 25Which WCW champion's refusal to wrestle Chris Jericho fuelled a feud settled at Bad Blood in 2003?
Goldberg
Goldberg won at Bad Blood, five years after Jericho had spent months calling him out on WCW television without ever getting the match.
Q 26At WCW Souled Out 1999, Chris Jericho beat Perry Saturn in a match whose loser had to wear what?
A dress
A dress was the forfeit, and the feud only got stranger: Saturn finally beat Jericho two months later in a dog collar match at Uncensored.
Q 27Chris Jericho's first match, in 1990, was a draw against which future Thrillseekers tag partner?
Lance Storm
Lance Storm met him on their first day at wrestling school, and the two debuted against each other at the Moose Hall in Ponoka, Alberta.
Q 28Chris Jericho took his ring surname from the album Walls of Jericho by which German power metal band?
Helloween
Helloween supplied the name on the spot: he had meant to call himself Jack Action, but blurted out Chris Jericho when pressed for a ring name.
Q 29Seeing footage of which Stampede Wrestling high-flyer made a young Chris Jericho want to become a wrestler?
Owen Hart
Owen Hart's aerial moves gave him the ambition, and at 19 he enrolled in a wrestling school that carried the Hart family name.
Q 30Chris Jericho was born in the United States because his father, Ted Irvine, was playing for which NHL team?
New York Rangers
New York Rangers duty put Ted Irvine in Manhasset, New York, where his son was born in 1970. The family moved back to Canada when he retired, and Jericho holds both citizenships.