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40 free Crashbox trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Crashbox arrived on HBO Family in 1999 and never really left: its 52 half-hour episodes were rerun on the channel for a quarter of a century. Each one is a rapid run of puzzle games, loaded by rusty tin robots and hosted by a cast of oddballs, from a pirate skeleton who insults you to a zookeeper who is always in trouble. This quiz covers the games themselves (Psycho Math, Distraction News, Revolting Slob, Think Tank, Poop or Scoop and the rest), the rules and running gags of each, the people behind the voices, and the studio work that gave the show its stop-motion look. It is written for anyone who grew up shouting at the screen, and for parents or teachers meeting the show for the first time. Every question comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the stories behind the games as you play.
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Q 01Maggie Baird, who voices Crashbox's Detective Verity Wisenheimer, is the mother of which pop singer?
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish was born in December 2001, more than a year after Crashbox ended; her musician brother Finneas is Baird's son too.
Q 02In Crashbox's Wordshake, Chef Pierre blends the letters D and K into which everyday word?
Decay
Decay is what you hear when D and K are said aloud. Other rounds mix whole words, so disturb plus honey becomes the Easter Bunny.
Q 03How does nearly every Revolting Slob sketch on Crashbox end for its messy title character?
He goes up in smoke
He goes up in smoke, set off by a final word tied to vanishing or destruction, before the polite narrator calmly signs off.
Q 04Danny Wells, announcer of Crashbox's Poop or Scoop, played which Nintendo character on 1980s TV?
Luigi
Luigi was his role in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, a decade before he asked Crashbox viewers to sort true wildlife facts from false ones.
Q 05In the Crashbox game Eddie Bull, what must viewers work out from the zookeeper's string of hints?
Which animal ate him
Which animal ate him is the mystery every time, and once viewers name the creature it spits Eddie back out to end the game.
Q 06In Crashbox's Riddlesnake, who rises from a basket when the snake plays its pipe?
A man
A man rises from the basket and sways to the snake's music, reversing the old snake-charmer act, then blows an instrument that reveals the riddle's answer.
Q 07Where do Crashbox's junk-built robots work, loading each game for viewers to play at home?
Inside a computer
Inside a computer is where the whole show unfolds: the opening shows the machine crashing to Earth before the screen opens to let viewers in.
Q 08Which Seinfeld actor was announced in 1998 as the voice of the host of HBO Family's Crashbox?
Jerry Stiller
Jerry Stiller, Seinfeld's short-tempered Frank Costanza, was named as the host's voice when the channel unveiled its line-up of new children's shows.
Q 09Which Ferris Bueller's Day Off actress voices the polite narrator of Crashbox's Revolting Slob?
Edie McClurg
Edie McClurg, the school secretary Grace in the 1986 film, stays unfailingly polite however disgusting the slob's habits get.
Q 10The identical twins Paige and Sage star in which classic kind of puzzle on Crashbox?
Spot the difference
Spot the difference suits twins: viewers get 60 seconds to find 10 changes between Paige's side of the screen and Sage's.
Q 11What must viewers figure out about each set of three things shown in Crashbox's Think Tank?
What they share
What they share is the puzzle, and there is a deadline: the host's fish tank is draining the whole time viewers think.
Q 12In Crashbox's Captain Bones, what must viewers usually do to fix the skeleton pirate's puzzles?
Move a bone or two
Move a bone or two is the usual fix: Captain Bones lays out a faulty sum or picture with his own skeleton and mocks viewers with pirate insults while they think.
Q 13How is the mystery portrait gradually revealed in the Crashbox museum game Dirty Pictures?
A maid dusts it off
Q 21Which dark-room machine clears up the detective's blurry photos in Crashbox's Lens McCracken?
The Solutionator
The Solutionator zooms each photo out, and the stumped detective then stitches the pictures into a nonsensical story about his case.
Q 22Unlike most Crashbox characters, how are the four suspects in each Mugshots case portrayed?
By live actors
By live actors, photographed as real people, the suspects stand apart from the stop-motion models, puppets and cutouts that host most of the show's games.
Q 23What do viewers unscramble in the Crashbox game Radio Scramble, hosted by a talking microphone?
A song title
A maid dusts it off while a wooden guard nicknamed Old Fossil holds up cards with hints about the person in the painting.
Q 14In Crashbox's Mugshots, what must viewers decide about the four suspects questioned by a detective?
Who is telling the truth
Who is telling the truth is the puzzle: three suspects lie about where they were, and slips in their stories give them away.
Q 15Which kind of character hosts Poop or Scoop, the true-or-false creature quiz on Crashbox?
A carnival barker
A carnival barker reels off four claims about animals per game, trying to trip viewers up as they call each one true or false.
Q 16Which school subject do the multiple-choice questions in Crashbox's Revolting Slob sketches teach?
Vocabulary
Vocabulary is the lesson: viewers choose which of three similar-sounding words describes the slob's latest disgusting habit.
Q 17What kind of puzzle must viewers crack against the clock in the Crashbox game Ten Seconds?
A rebus
A rebus spells out a phrase with pictures and letters, and the show's credits join in by writing the game's title as Ten 2nds.
Q 18Sketch Pad, the Crashbox artist who draws scenes that seem to make no sense, is what kind of character?
A beatnik
A beatnik in style, Sketch Pad draws a baffling scene and viewers must guess the missing twist that makes the story add up.
Q 19In Crashbox's Haunted House Party, ghostly guests drop clues about what kind of mystery guest of honor?
A historical figure
A historical figure is the guest every time, and the unseen host, the Horrid One, recaps the clues before the big reveal.
Q 20The Crashbox zookeeper Eddie Bull works at a zoo in which real Washington city?
Walla Walla
Walla Walla is a real city in southeastern Washington, home of the sweet onion that became the state's official vegetable.
A song title is the main anagram, though the DJ also scrambles words in his traffic, sports and weather reports.
Q 24Each Crashbox episode ends with a recap of its games, named after which button on a tape player?
Rewind
Rewind is the button: Crashbox Rewind revisits four or five of the episode's games so viewers can check what they learned.
Q 25Which Canadian studio, founded by Adam Shaheen, gave Crashbox its look and many animation styles?
Cuppa Coffee Studios
Cuppa Coffee Studios had been a commercials shop, and Crashbox was its first venture into long-form television.
Q 26Crashbox aired on an American channel, but in which Canadian city was the series animated?
Toronto
Toronto is home to the studio behind the animation, whose British-born boss said Crashbox had the sensibility of a British game show.
Q 27Before Crashbox, which 1980s HBO series was also built around animated educational skits?
Braingames
Braingames ran on HBO in the mid-1980s, filling each half-hour with animated brain-teasers some 15 years before Crashbox tried the same idea.
Q 28Which Whose Line Is It Anyway? improviser voices the messy title character of Crashbox's Revolting Slob?
Mike McShane
Mike McShane, a regular on the original British Whose Line, also played Friar Tuck in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Q 29Which skill does Crashbox's Distraction News test by flashing odd images across a newscast?
Memory
Memory is what counts: after anchor Dora Smarmy signs off, viewers are quizzed on key facts from the report they just watched.
Q 30What must viewers guess in Crashbox's Ear-We-Are, where two ears describe sounds to each other?
A place or event
A place or event is the goal: the two ears are travelling somewhere, and the noises they describe are the only clues to where.