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50 free Daria trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Daria ran on MTV for five seasons and two TV movies, and it keeps finding new viewers long after it ended. Its heroine is a teenager who sees her suburb, her school and her family with total clarity and says so in a monotone. The show around her was sharper than it needed to be: a satire of cliques, consumer culture and well-meaning adults, with a friendship between two outsiders at its center. This quiz covers the whole series. There are questions on the Morgendorffer family, on Jane and her brother, and on the classmates and teachers who fill Lawndale High. Others cover the episodes fans still quote, the summer movie and the finale movie, the theme song, the voice cast and the writers, and the afterlife of the show in games, spoofs and spin-offs. It is written for people who watched the show when it first aired and for those who found it later on streaming. The early questions suit anyone who remembers the main characters; the later ones reward a full rewatch. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Daria Morgendorffer began as a brainy classmate on which earlier MTV cartoon before her own series?
Beavis and Butt-Head
Beavis and Butt-Head needed a smart foil, so MTV added Daria to put the two boys in their place. Her own series never mentions them.
Q 02What color is the jacket Daria Morgendorffer wears over an orange T-shirt as her everyday outfit?
Green
Green it is, finished off with a black skirt and black boots. Her round black-framed glasses complete a look built to ignore every trend at Lawndale High.
Q 03Which fictional tabloid TV show do Daria and Jane love to watch together in MTV's Daria?
Sick, Sad World
Sick, Sad World is the tabloid show the two bond over from the day they meet. An all-night marathon of it later leaves them sleeping through a school fundraiser cruise.
Q 04Which actress played Daria in CollegeHumor's 2013 parody trailer for a live-action film?
Aubrey Plaza
Aubrey Plaza starred in the spoof, a trailer for a Daria film that was never made. It arrived more than a decade after the series ended in 2002.
Q 05Which food do Daria and Jane share at their regular hangout, right up to the finale's last scene?
Pizza
Pizza gets the last word twice in the finale: Daria's graduation speech ends by singing its praises, then she and Jane go out for a slice.
Q 06Which lead guitarist is the object of Daria's unspoken crush through the first three seasons?
Trent
Trent is the older brother of her best friend, which makes the crush harder to hide. The show's co-creator said a real romance between them was never on the cards.
Q 07Which MTV host voiced David, the tutor Quinn falls for in the Daria TV movie Is It Fall Yet?
Carson Daly
Carson Daly was hosting MTV's Total Request Live when he played the no-nonsense tutor. David turns Quinn down, telling her she is not his type.
Q 08What kind of episode is "Daria!", the season three opener in which a hurricane nears Lawndale?
A musical
A musical, with the cast singing their way through the storm. It sat seventh in the season's production order, yet it was the episode chosen to open the run.
Q 09A 2000 PC game drops Daria into a nightmare drawn from a poem by which writer?
Dante
Dante is being read aloud in English class when Daria nods off in the game Daria's Inferno. In her dream she must recover five items stolen from the school, or every student gets detention.
Q 10In 2010, Daria's deadpan voice and freshly recorded put-downs were licensed for which gadget?
GPS navigation units
GPS navigation units from Garmin and TomTom offered her as a voice once the complete series reached DVD, so drivers could take directions with a side of sarcasm.
Q 11What does Jane Lane, Daria's sardonic best friend and fellow outcast, aspire to become?
An artist
An artist in the making, Jane is the youngest of five siblings and far more athletic and at ease with people than her best friend.
Q 12Which position does dim-witted Kevin Thompson play for the Lawndale High football team in Daria?
Quarterback
Quarterback Kevin is the team's star, yet his grades are so dismal that the finale leaves him repeating his senior year.
Q 13What role does bubbly Brittany Taylor, girlfriend of football star Kevin, hold in MTV's Daria?
Head cheerleader
Head cheerleader Brittany gets into a local state university in the finale while Kevin is held back. She promises to stay with him, fingers secretly crossed.
Q 21Which Fashion Club president loses her voice as the group falls apart in the Daria finale movie?
Sandi Griffin
Sandi Griffin rules the club and undermines Quinn out of jealousy. When she tries to punish timid Stacy, Stacy finally stands up to her and the club disbands.
Q 22Before Lawndale, Daria's family lived in the fictional town of Highland in which state?
Texas
Texas was home until the first episode, when the family swaps Highland for Lawndale, a suburb whose own state is never named.
Q 23Which new look does Daria try in season three and find physically and philosophically uncomfortable?
Contact lenses
Contact lenses are something Daria has to be persuaded to try, and she finds them as awkward socially as they are on her eyes.
Q 14What job does the corrupt, security-obsessed Angela Li hold at Lawndale High in MTV's Daria?
Principal
Principal Li will do anything for the school's budget and image. She once spent the library roof fund on a polygraph machine of her own.
Q 15By which nickname is sleazy, red-haired flirt Charles Ruttheimer III known in MTV's Daria?
Upchuck
Upchuck is what everyone calls the school's most persistent flirt. In season five his sleight of hand wins over Stacy, who assists in his magic show.
Q 16Which band, featuring Jane Lane's older brother, lands in jail over an unpaid traffic fine in Daria?
Mystik Spiral
Mystik Spiral nearly got a show of their own: a script for an unproduced spin-off about the band was tucked into the complete-series DVD as an extra.
Q 17Which Lawndale High teacher in Daria takes out a bitter divorce on her male students and colleagues?
Ms. Barch
Ms. Barch despises men until she falls for the school's gentle English teacher, then spends the rest of the series pursuing him at school functions.
Q 18Mr. DeMartino, the teacher whose eye bulges when he rages, teaches which subject in MTV's Daria?
History
History is his subject, and his students' feeble grasp of it is what sets him off. He is also a Vietnam War veteran and a lifelong bachelor.
Q 19Where does Daria first meet Jane Lane after a school psychologist misreads her sarcasm?
In a self-esteem class
In a self-esteem class, where Lawndale High sends Daria after a psychological exam. She insists the real problem is her opinion of everyone around her.
Q 20What is the profession of workaholic Helen Morgendorffer, the family's main earner in Daria?
Corporate attorney
Corporate attorney Helen is so driven that the whole family once spent a weekend being evaluated at a mental-health spa because she was up for promotion.
Q 24Daria and Jane both end the series bound for colleges in which American city?
Boston
Boston awaits them both. Jane nearly skips college altogether, until Daria talks her into applying to her first-choice school there.
Q 25Which animator, credited as Daria Morgendorffer's creator, named her after a girl he knew at school?
Mike Judge
Mike Judge borrowed the name from a schoolmate who, like the character, was saddled with an unkind rhyming nickname. He took no part in making her spin-off.
Q 26Quinn's three near-identical football-team admirers in Daria are Joey, Jeffy and which third boy?
Jamie
Jamie completes the trio known as the Three J's, who compete for Quinn's affection and once tried jousting against a teacher at a school fair.
Q 27Which rock star voiced the pompous host of Jane's summer retreat in the first Daria TV movie?
Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl played the pretentious mentor, and several songs by his band Foo Fighters turn up on the show's soundtrack.
Q 28Where do Daria and Tom Sloane share the first kiss that upends her friendship with Jane?
In his car
In his car, at the end of a heated argument in the season four finale. Tom was still Jane's boyfriend, and the fallout drives the first TV movie.
Q 29Football captain Mack in Daria carries the first and middle names of which basketball legend?
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan Mackenzie is his full name, though everyone calls him Mack. He is the only sharp mind on the team and wins a college scholarship.
Q 30Which MTV writer became the voice of Daria Morgendorffer as the only woman on the writing team?
Tracy Grandstaff
Tracy Grandstaff called herself the default choice for the part. She based the voice on her own inner monologue from junior high and high school in Kalamazoo, Michigan.