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50 free Dan and Phil trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Dan Howell and Phil Lester met online in 2009 and became one of the most recognisable double acts British YouTube has produced. Together they have filled theatres on several continents, topped bestseller lists, presented national radio and built a fandom, the Phandom, that has followed every upload for well over a decade. This quiz covers the whole story: the early vlogs on AmazingPhil and danisnotonfire, the joint gaming channel and its best-loved series, the spoof crafts videos, the radio years, the books, the stage shows and tour films, the voice cameos and the personal milestones the pair have shared with their audience. Plenty of questions hinge on knowing which of the two did what, so it doubles as a Dan or Phil test. It is written for fans who want to find out whether they are casual viewers or true experts. The opening questions are friendly to anyone who has watched a few videos; later rounds reach into deep cuts about hometowns, side projects and forgotten appearances. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up something new either way.
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Q 01Phil Lester filmed his first YouTube vlog in 2006 on a black-and-white camera he won from what?
A cereal box
A cereal box supplied the camera for "Phil's Video Blog", which he posted aged 19 in March 2006. That early start made him one of the first notable British YouTubers.
Q 02Which subject did Dan Howell quit studying in 2011, citing a lack of interest, to pursue YouTube?
Law
Law was his course from 2010, after a gap year in which he began uploading videos as a hobby. He left to make YouTube and radio his full-time job.
Q 03Phil Lester reached the final round of which British TV quiz show as a contestant in 2007?
The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link put Phil on national TV in 2007, the year after he uploaded his first vlog in March 2006.
Q 04Which BBC station hired Dan and Phil to present its Sunday night request show from January 2013?
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 streamed the show live on video, so fans worldwide could watch the on-air challenges. The duo had already presented two Christmas broadcasts for the station.
Q 05Dan and Phil voiced Technician 1 and Technician 2 in the UK cinema release of which Disney film?
Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 gave the pair a voice cameo only in its 2015 UK cinema run; the UK home release does not include their version.
Q 06Dan and Phil launched DanAndPhilCRAFTS, source of the meme "Don't cry, craft", to mark which occasion?
April Fools' Day
April Fools' Day 2015 brought the spoof channel's single video, which drew over 154,000 subscribers within a week. New joke tutorials followed on the same date in 2016, 2017 and 2024.
Q 07Phil Lester earned a Guinness World Record in 2011 for the fastest time at which fiddly task?
Stacking coins
Stacking coins won him the record: he balanced 25 on top of each other in just 31.617 seconds.
Q 08In which English city did Dan and Phil first live together in 2011, a year before moving to London?
Manchester
Manchester was their first shared home from August 2011; the move to the capital came in July 2012, months before their national radio show began.
Q 09Which weekly podcast did Dan and Phil start in October 2025 after rebranding their joint channel?
Hard Launch
Hard Launch premiered on 20 October 2025, a week after the pair confirmed they had been a couple since 2009. Each episode also comes out as a video on their channel.
Q 10In the stage show The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire, how does Phil manage to break the Internet?
Microwaving his laptop
Microwaving his laptop in an experiment makes its contents explode like popcorn. Dan and Phil then have to entertain the audience without the thing that made them famous.
Q 11What is the name of the Sim character Dan and Phil created for their popular Sims 4 series?
Dil Howlter
Dil Howlter starred in one of the most popular series on their gaming channel, and he even interrupted the 2023 sketch that revived it.
Q 12Dan and Phil revived their gaming channel in 2023 with a sketch that staged which ceremony for it?
A funeral
A funeral for the channel is interrupted in "Saying Goodbye Forever", a comedy sketch Dan wrote to end a hiatus that had lasted since December 2018.
Q 13Which gaming YouTuber made a guest appearance in the 2023 sketch that revived Dan and Phil's joint channel?
Jacksepticeye
Q 21Daniel Howell came out publicly in June 2019 with a YouTube video carrying which title?
Basically I'm Gay
Basically I'm Gay went up in June 2019, and Phil followed later that month with a video of his own, "Coming Out to You".
Q 22Before coming out publicly in 2019, how did Daniel Howell first break the news to his own family?
By email
By email is how his family heard it first. He has spoken of struggling at school with homophobia, both from others and internalised.
Q 23Daniel Howell's 2021 solo book You Will Get Through This Night is a practical guide to which subject?
Mental health
Mental health is the focus of the book, which he wrote with psychologist Dr Heather Bolton. It became a number-one Sunday Times bestseller.
Jacksepticeye, the Let's Play creator Seán McLoughlin, guest-starred in the sketch, which ended a hiatus of nearly five years for the joint channel.
Q 14In the Disney Junior series The Lion Guard, Dan and Phil voice a pair of princes of which species?
Gorillas
Gorillas were the roles: Dan voiced Prince Majinuni and Phil voiced Prince Hafifu in the 2016 episode "The Lost Gorillas".
Q 15Dan and Phil hosted the global YouTube livestream of which British music ceremony from 2014 to 2016?
Brit Awards
Brit Awards viewers online got the pair as livestream hosts for three years running, and they also filmed backstage videos at the ceremonies.
Q 16What did Dan and Phil investigate on The Super Amazing Project, their show for My Damn Channel?
Paranormal events
Paranormal events were the theme, with a segment called "Viewers Spooky Happenings" in which fans sent in scary items for the pair to react to.
Q 17What did Dan and Phil make out of paper in the very first DanAndPhilCRAFTS video, uploaded in 2015?
Square snowflakes
Square snowflakes were the only project on the channel for a year, taught in a deliberately amateur editing style. Glitter faces followed in the second tutorial in 2016.
Q 18Under which series name did Dan and Phil upload a video every day of December until Christmas?
Gamingmas
Gamingmas was an annual fixture on DanAndPhilGAMES, the channel that passed a million subscribers within six months of its first video in September 2014.
Q 19What two-word greeting did Dan Howell use as the title of his first YouTube video in October 2009?
Hello Internet
Hello Internet went up on 16 October 2009, after friends including Phil encouraged him to upload. The two met in person for the first time later that month.
Q 20What format was "Phil is not on fire", the 2009 video that was Dan and Phil's first collaboration?
A Q&A session
A Q&A session started it all, and the video grew into a ten-part series with one new instalment a year until 2018.
Q 24Which 2016 photo book collected pictures and stories from The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire?
Dan and Phil Go Outside
Dan and Phil Go Outside came out in November 2016 as a companion to the stage show and became a number-one bestseller in the United States.
Q 25Dan and Phil released their tour song "The Internet Is Here" as a single in aid of which charity campaign?
Stand Up To Cancer
Stand Up To Cancer received the proceeds, and sales of the song earned the pair a gold record disc.
Q 26At which famous venue did the 2015 UK leg of The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire come to an end?
London Palladium
London Palladium hosted the final UK show in November 2015. The tour then travelled to the US, Australia and Europe in 2016.
Q 27Which 2018 world tour by Dan and Phil carried the tagline "Giving the people what they want"?
Interactive Introverts
Interactive Introverts was less theatrical than their first tour, swapping its fictional storyline for audience interaction. A film of the show was released that December.
Q 28Dan and Phil's 2018 world tour opened in Brighton and closed five months later in which Indian city?
Mumbai
Mumbai was the final stop of a tour that reached 18 countries, including Poland, the Philippines, Russia, New Zealand and Finland.
Q 29What was the title of Daniel Howell's first solo comedy tour, which opened in Ipswich in September 2022?
We're All Doomed!
We're All Doomed! toured the UK, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand before ending in Belfast in March 2023. A filmed version was recorded at Alexandra Palace Theatre in 2024.
Q 30In which Belgian city did Dan and Phil open their comeback tour Terrible Influence in September 2024?
Antwerp
Antwerp opened the tour, their first together since reviving the gaming channel. It ran into 2025 with more than 70 performances.