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40 free Colby Brock trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Colby Brock is one half of Sam and Colby, the best friends who turned teenage pranks into one of the biggest paranormal channels on YouTube. Alongside Sam Golbach he has spent more than a decade sleeping in abandoned hospitals, old prisons and famous haunted houses, and the audience has followed him from phone screens to movie theaters. This quiz covers the whole story: where he grew up and how the friendship began, the stunts that first got the pair noticed, the series and feature films, the guests who join the investigations, and the prizes, book, live projects and business ventures along the way. Some questions lean on the history of the locations themselves, so a good memory for ghost stories and true crime helps. It is written for fans who have watched every investigation and for newcomers who want to know why millions tune in each October. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up something new even when you guess.
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Q 01Colby Brock befriended Sam Golbach as a shy teenager at a summer camp for which student activity?
Marching band
Marching band camp is where the two bonded, after finding out they both had a crush on the same drum major. Each was too shy to speak to her, so they agreed to push each other toward confidence.
Q 02Which piece of furniture did a teenage Colby Brock put on a mall escalator, earning a permanent ban?
A couch
A couch on the escalator got him and Sam Golbach permanently banned from Oak Park Mall. Their earliest clips were built on public mischief, including a bath in a city fountain.
Q 03Colby Brock first found fame posting comedy clips on which app, whose closure pushed him to YouTube?
Vine
Vine had made him and Sam Golbach stars with more than a million followers, so its closure forced a restart. The pair have said they never wanted to be YouTubers and only moved because their old home was deleted.
Q 04What kind of reputedly haunted building in Farrar, Iowa, did Colby Brock buy with Sam Golbach?
An elementary school
An elementary school, once abandoned and studied by paranormal teams for over 15 years, is now theirs. They plan to restore it and eventually let fans run their own investigations there.
Q 05In which state did Colby Brock investigate the prison where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed?
Ohio
Ohio is where the Ohio State Reformatory stands, in the city of Mansfield. The story is set in Maine, but most of the film's scenes were shot inside the reformatory, which had closed in 1990.
Q 06Which cinema chain sold out a 2023 preview of a Colby Brock YouTube episode across 168 US theaters?
Cinemark
Cinemark screened the first episode of A Week at the Conjuring House two days before it reached YouTube. The sell-out served as a proof of concept, and a full-length film followed in the chain's theaters a year later.
Q 07Which streaming giant picked up Colby Brock's ghost hunts for a worldwide release in October 2026?
Netflix
Netflix picked up a batch of the duo's episodes as part of a wider push to sign YouTube's biggest creators. Rhett & Link's Good Mythical Morning had joined the service only weeks earlier.
Q 08Which YouTuber shut Colby Brock and 49 other creators in a glass cube to compete for $1,000,000?
MrBeast
MrBeast called it his biggest video ever, and it drew more than 70 million views in its first 24 hours. Each contestant wore a shirt printed with a subscriber count; Brock's showed the duo's shared 12 million.
Q 09Colby Brock discussed haunted places as a guest on episode 1922 of which interview podcast?
The Joe Rogan Experience
The Joe Rogan Experience welcomed the duo in January 2023 for a conversation about haunted and abandoned places. One clip from the episode covers their first unexplained encounter, aboard the ocean liner Queen Mary.
Q 10What do Colby Brock and Sam Golbach call their annual October run of their scariest investigations?
Hell Week
Hell Week is the duo's Halloween tradition, and its 2022 edition packed seven documentaries into a fortnight. Brock and Golbach billed that run as their biggest event of the year.
Q 11Colby Brock and Sam Golbach grew up as childhood friends in the suburbs of which Midwestern state?
Kansas
Kansas is home turf: both grew up in Overland Park and headed west together at 18, soon after graduating. All four parents backed the move, Golbach's father told a local reporter.
Q 12To which city did Colby Brock move at 18, hoping to turn short online clips into a showbiz career?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles became home straight after graduation, and the pair said the biggest change was the traffic. In their first two weeks there they were already collaborating with other online creators.
Q 13Colby Brock shot a series at Colorado's Stanley Hotel, which inspired which Stephen King novel?
The Shining
Q 21Which mall chain sold a limited run of Colby Brock's merchandise in 2019?
Hot Topic
Hot Topic stocked the limited-run collection online in the same year the duo won their first major awards. The chain opened its first store in a California mall in 1989.
Q 22Meta Life, a subscription platform Colby Brock co-founded, offered fans lessons in which area?
Emotional health
Emotional health was the focus, with courses on confidence, stress and asking for help. Part of every subscription went to Love Is Louder, a project of the suicide prevention charity The Jed Foundation.
Q 23Colby Brock's novel Paradise Island was inspired by a real vacation on which Hawaiian island?
Kauai
The Shining grew out of the hotel, which became the model for the story's Overlook Hotel. The Stanley was built by a steam-car inventor who had come to the Rockies to recover from tuberculosis.
Q 14Colby Brock has investigated the Queen Mary, a retired ocean liner moored in which California city?
Long Beach
Long Beach bought the liner after Cunard retired it in 1967 and moored it for good as a hotel and museum. The ship had spent three decades crossing the North Atlantic.
Q 15Colby Brock spent seven days at the farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring, found in which US state?
Rhode Island
Rhode Island is home to the Harrisville farmhouse that Ed and Lorraine Warren declared haunted while the Perron family lived there. Brock had bailed out of a first visit in 2021 before going back for the full stay.
Q 16Colby Brock and Sam Golbach beat David Dobrik to a fan-voted YouTuber prize at which 2019 ceremony?
Teen Choice Awards
Teen Choice Awards voters named them Choice YouTuber, their first win at a show that hands its winners a custom-made surfboard. The Merrell Twins and Kian and JC were among the other nominees.
Q 17Which lifestyle brand did Colby Brock build with Sam Golbach?
XPLR
XPLR is a vowel-light spelling of explore, a nod to the abandoned buildings the pair started exploring as teenagers with nothing else to do.
Q 18Which app premiered Stranded, a 2019 docuseries that followed Colby Brock to a ghost town?
Snapchat
Snapchat commissioned the show from Bunim/Murray, the reality producers behind The Real World. It premiered that October, days after the duo's London investigation reached YouTube.
Q 19Colby Brock's series The Castle investigated Neidpath Castle, an old tower house in which country?
Scotland
Scotland followed London on the same trip, and the series was filmed over four days. Neidpath stands above the River Tweed near Peebles and doubles as a film location and wedding venue.
Q 20Which Hollywood landmark hosted the premiere of Colby Brock's film The Legends of the Paranormal?
TCL Chinese Theatre
TCL Chinese Theatre, known for the celebrity hand and footprints in its forecourt, gave the film a splashy launch. The 97-minute feature then played only in cinemas rather than going to YouTube.
Kauai, the Garden Isle, was where the duo holidayed with childhood friends before turning the trip into fiction. In the book a detour along the Na Pali Coast strands them overnight at a widow's eerie estate.
Q 24Colby Brock's film The Legends of the Paranormal was shot at Mount Wilson Ranch in which state?
Nevada
Nevada's Mount Wilson Ranch sent the duo after what Brock called something completely different: cryptids and aliens as well as ghosts. Fan demand pushed the release from 260 screens to 350 and from three days to a full week.
Q 25Which London hotel did Colby Brock investigate for The Graveyard, his first series filmed overseas?
The Langham
The Langham, billed in the series as London's most haunted hotel, shared the four episodes with an abandoned church graveyard. Brock called it the duo's biggest-budget production up to that point.
Q 26Colby Brock investigated the National Homestead, a former orphanage in which Civil War town?
Gettysburg
Gettysburg gained the orphanage in 1866, three years after the battle. It turned notorious under a later headmistress, Rosa Carmichael, who built a dungeon to punish the children in her care.
Q 27Which Canadian star of TikTok character skits has joined Colby Brock on several ghost hunts?
Kallmekris
Kallmekris, the screen name of Kris Collins, has made several ghost-hunting videos with the duo alongside her friend Celina Myers. She went on to direct her own found-footage horror film, House on Eden.
Q 28Which gadget in Colby Brock's ghost-hunting kit scans radio stations so that the dead might speak?
Spirit box
Spirit box is the name for a radio that hops across AM and FM frequencies, so that any words breaking through can be taken as replies. Brock's team also carries an EMF detector and a REM pod.
Q 29Which weapon killed eight people in 1912 at the Villisca, Iowa, house Colby Brock investigated?
An axe
An axe belonging to the father of the house was used on all eight victims, six of them children. A travelling minister tried for the killings was acquitted in 1917.
Q 30Which beings of Navajo tradition did Colby Brock say his 2024 film went looking for?
Skinwalkers
Skinwalkers shared the film's wish list with cryptids, aliens and ghosts. In Navajo belief the term describes a harmful witch able to take the form of an animal.