Corner Gas Trivia
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49 free Corner Gas trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Corner Gas was a sitcom about a gas station where nothing happens, and it became the biggest Canadian comedy of its era: a million viewers a week, two sitting prime ministers in cameos, and a provincial holiday for its finale. Brent Butt wrote it imagining the life he would have had if he had never left Tisdale. These 49 questions cover all six seasons, the 2014 movie and Corner Gas Animated: the Ruby and its Toronto owner, Hank's unpaid coffees, Wanda's son, Oscar's ninety jackasses, Emma's actress and her theatre company, Davis's rank, Karen on drums for Thunderface, the Howler's headlines, why everyone spits at Wullerton, the Saskatchewan towns hiding in the surnames, Rouleau's repainted elevator, the Petro-Canada coupon in the DVD, the Kickstarter, and who voices Emma now. Easy questions ask who created it; hard ones ask who wrote the theme. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a Canadian trivia night.
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Q 01Brent Leroy, played by series creator Brent Butt, spends his shifts at Corner Gas reading what?
Comic books
Comic books. The habit is the creator's own: at 19 he and a friend set up a publishing company and produced a comic, Existing Earth, that earned an Eagle Award nomination.
Q 02On Corner Gas, the Dog River liquor store is also the place where locals buy what?
Insurance
Insurance. Wes Humboldt sells both over one counter, so when a furious Oscar storms out vowing never to come back, Wes reminds him he may need a policy one day.
Q 03Why did Corner Gas end in 2009?
Its creator chose to stop
Its creator chose to stop. The network made clear it wanted more seasons, but he said he wanted 'to exit gracefully, on top of our game', while the show was at its prime.
Q 04In a first-season Corner Gas episode, Dog River builds what giant roadside attraction to rival Wullerton's big magpie?
A hoe
A hoe. The town picks it to honour its farming roots, squirms at the double meaning, then finds another town already has a bigger one, leaving Dog River with the world's second biggest hoe.
Q 05On Corner Gas, what is the name of the coffee shop attached to Brent's station?
The Ruby
The Ruby. Lacey inherits the coffee shop from her Aunt Ruby and renames it in her honour; the regulars are soon complaining that a cup now costs an outrageous buck-fifty.
Q 06Which Canadian city did Lacey Burrows move from to take over the diner?
Toronto
Toronto. As the big-city newcomer she gives the show its outsider's view of Dog River, and her attempts to fit into small-town life usually backfire.
Q 07Who plays Lacey Burrows on Corner Gas?
Gabrielle Miller
Gabrielle Miller. Because both shows made short seasons, she could play Lacey while also starring as newlywed Bobbi Briggs in the Vancouver drama Robson Arms.
Q 08On Corner Gas, what is the name of Brent's perpetually unemployed best friend?
Hank Yarbo
Hank Yarbo. Brent's best bud since grade school, he once torched the first structure ever built in Dog River so that the town would match his Lego model of it, for which he had run out of bricks.
Q 09On Corner Gas, who plays Brent's unemployed best friend?
Fred Ewanuick
Fred Ewanuick. He made his television debut as 'a spinning gnome' in The New Addams Family, and after Corner Gas he ran for office as the lead of the sitcom Dan for Mayor.
Q 10On Corner Gas, the caustic cashier Wanda Dollard is played by which actress?
Nancy Robertson
Nancy Robertson. In 2005 she married the show's creator and star, and she later took the lead in his next sitcom, a part he says he had not written with her in mind.
Q 11On Corner Gas, how does cashier Wanda Dollard describe herself?
The smartest person in town
The smartest person in town. Wanda enjoys lording her knowledge over the locals, and the official character guide backs her only so far, calling her 'smarter than you think she is'.
Q 12Which Canadian rock band appears on Corner Gas as 'local kids' rehearsing in Brent's garage?
The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip. Brent kicks the 'kids' out so that his own old band can rehearse, Wanda orders them to leave their amps behind, and Gord Downie protests that they are working out the lyrics.
Q 13Who plays Brent's grouchy father, Oscar Leroy, on Corner Gas?
Eric Peterson
Q 21Which real town stood in for Dog River in the outdoor scenes of Corner Gas?
Rouleau
Rouleau. The crew built a mock gas station and coffee shop on boggy ground at the edge of town; they became a tourist attraction, slowly sank, and were demolished in 2016.
Q 22In which city were the show's interior scenes filmed?
Regina
Regina is simply called 'the city' on the show.
Q 23Which landmark in the Corner Gas filming town was repainted to read 'Dog River'?
The grain elevator
The grain elevator. The lettering was left in place when filming ended, and the town's post office took to cancelling fans' postcards with a 'Dog River' stamp.
Eric Peterson. Long before Oscar, he co-created and starred in the stage hit Billy Bishop Goes to War, which took him to Broadway and London's West End.
Q 14On Corner Gas, what is Oscar Leroy's all-purpose insult?
Jackass
Jackass. It is the last word spoken in the series finale, and when Brent tries to make Oscar give it up, the old man uses it more than in any other episode.
Q 15Who played Emma Leroy, Brent's mother, in the original Corner Gas?
Janet Wright
Janet Wright. Three decades before playing a Saskatchewan matriarch, she co-founded Saskatoon's Persephone Theatre with her sister Susan.
Q 16Which improv comedian cameos on Corner Gas as a joke about how he turns up on every Canadian TV show?
Colin Mochrie
Colin Mochrie. Brent mocks the cameo habit as the Whose Line Is It Anyway? star strolls through the café, then calls him 'Dave'; Mochrie returns at the end to urge viewers to read.
Q 17What rank does Davis Quinton hold in the Dog River police?
Sergeant
Sergeant. As the senior of the town's two officers he answers to nobody, so he naps in his cruiser, misspends the budget and makes up laws, never having read the police manual.
Q 18Who plays Davis Quinton on Corner Gas?
Lorne Cardinal
Lorne Cardinal. He played club rugby in Alberta, and his character shares the passion: Davis is a fan of the Saskatchewan Prairie Fire and turns up in the team's gear.
Q 19On Corner Gas, which actress plays the ambitious junior officer Karen Pelly?
Tara Spencer-Nairn
Tara Spencer-Nairn. Her breakthrough was also about small-town life: in New Waterford Girl she played a Bronx teenager who turns a Nova Scotia town on its ear.
Q 20On Corner Gas, the main characters' surnames are all taken from what?
Saskatchewan towns
Saskatchewan towns. The show's creator lifted Leroy, Dollard, Pelly, Quinton and Burrows straight off the provincial map, sparing only the mayor, Fitzy Fitzgerald.
Q 24What happened in November 2021 to the Corner Gas filming town's repainted landmark?
It burned down
It burned down. Fire crews arrived to find it fully engulfed and could only contain the blaze; the town's mayor called it 'kind of a sad thing to see it burn'.
Q 25Which Saskatchewan town is the creator of Corner Gas really from?
Tisdale
Tisdale. The Doghide River runs through it, which is where Dog River got its name, and his production company, 335, is named for the two highways that cross there.
Q 26What is the title of the Corner Gas opening theme song?
Not a Lot Goin' On
It was co-written by Craig Northey of Odds and Jesse Valenzuela of the Gin Blossoms.
Q 27Which band performed 'My Happy Place', the closing theme of Corner Gas?
Odds
Odds. The Vancouver band released the song as a single in 2008 and appeared in the final season, playing a sock hop in a dream where the regulars have all become Archie characters.
Q 28What is the name of Dog River's sensationalist newspaper?
The Howler
The Howler. When the mayor asks for a gentle reminder about a new crosswalk, the paper runs 'Crosswalk HELL—Mayor Insane'; it once reported that coyotes eating cats were 'werewolfs'.
Q 29What do Dog River residents do whenever the rival town of Wullerton is mentioned?
Spit on the ground
Spit on the ground. The series never says why, and when the movie finally visits Wullerton it turns out to be a spotless town full of unnervingly nice people.
Q 30On Corner Gas, what is the name of the band Brent and Wanda formed with a friend in the 1980s?
Thunderface
Thunderface. They have had one gig since 1986, booked because they are so bad, and the locals keep getting the name wrong: 'Thunderbread', 'Thunderchunks', even 'Rumblepuss'.