Degrassi Trivia
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97 free Degrassi trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free Degrassi trivia questions with answers. Degrassi has been going since a 1979 CBC short film called Ida Makes a Movie, and this quiz covers every era of it. Forty questions run from the real Toronto street the school is named for, through Junior High's International Emmy, Spike's pregnancy, the Zit Remedy and the fire that ended the school, School's Out and the first f-word on Canadian television, then into The Next Generation's 385 episodes: Emma and Manny, Time Stands Still, Kevin Smith's cameo, the abortion episode America would not air, the Peabody-winning transgender storyline, and the basketball player from Toronto who left to become Drake. It starts with questions any viewer can answer and works up to trivia for people who remember which school building stood in for which series and which network banned what. Free to use for a Canadian-TV quiz night or a Degrassi rewatch party. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the franchise, its individual series, its key episodes and its stars, and each question carries its source. It goes there, with citations.
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Q 01Which Canadian singer plays the school principal in the feature film shot at Degrassi in season four?
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette turns up as herself, cast as the principal in the movie whose crew takes over the school for the last three episodes of the season.
Q 02Degrassi began with which after-school special, adapted from a Kay Chorao picture book?
Ida Makes a Movie
Ida Makes a Movie was shot largely at the home of a librarian friend on De Grassi Street, and that street gave everything that followed its name.
Q 03Degrassi takes its name from a real street in which Canadian city?
Toronto
Toronto: De Grassi Street is a real street in the city's east end, and the first productions were filmed there because a friend of the creators lived on it.
Q 04Unlike every later Degrassi series, the franchise's first series followed which group?
Children rather than teenagers
The Kids of Degrassi Street followed children rather than teenagers, centring on grade-schoolers; Stacie Mistysyn and Neil Hope returned in Junior High as new, older characters.
Q 05On which Canadian network did Degrassi Junior High premiere in 1987?
CBC
CBC carried it at home, while Britain's BBC pulled some episodes over their teen-pregnancy and same-sex storylines and reshowed them in a later slot.
Q 06What lasting injury does the school shooting in 'Time Stands Still' leave Jimmy Brooks with?
Paralysis from the waist down
Paralysis from the waist down: Rick shoots Jimmy in the back after being tricked into blaming him for a prank, and Jimmy uses a wheelchair for the rest of the series.
Q 07In Degrassi Junior High, what did Joey, Snake and their bass-playing friend call their garage band?
The Zit Remedy
The Zit Remedy only ever had one song, and none of its three actors could really play an instrument; in Degrassi High the band cut its name down to The Zits.
Q 08Which Degrassi Junior High episode about a teen pregnancy won an International Emmy?
It's Late
'It's Late' won the Emmy even though Britain's BBC pulled the episode from its usual slot over its content and showed it in a later slot on BBC2 instead.
Q 09Who played Emma Nelson in Degrassi: The Next Generation?
Miriam McDonald
Miriam McDonald played Emma Nelson from the 2001 premiere; Emma, the baby born during Degrassi Junior High, anchored The Next Generation's early seasons.
Q 10Which character did Stacie Mistysyn play across three Degrassi series?
Caitlin Ryan
Caitlin Ryan was actually Stacie Mistysyn's second Degrassi role: as a child she had played a different girl, Lisa, in The Kids of Degrassi Street.
Q 11What did PBS cut from the Degrassi High premiere 'A New Start' for American viewers?
Scenes of anti-abortion protesters
PBS removed the scenes of anti-abortion protesters outside the clinic Erica visits, while viewers in Canada saw the episode unedited.
Q 12How does the final episode of Degrassi Junior High leave the school building?
Destroyed by a fire
Destroyed by a fire: a faulty boiler sets the school alight during the graduation dance, a twist that let the producers move their ageing cast on to a high school.
Q 13In the Degrassi movie School's Out, whose drunk-driving crash kills a young child and injures Lucy?
Wheels
Q 21Which future rap superstar played Jimmy Brooks?
Drake
Drake, born Aubrey Graham in 1986, played Jimmy Brooks from the 2001 premiere until 2009, when his rap career took off with the mixtape So Far Gone.
Q 22In 'Time Stands Still', what humiliation drives Rick to bring a gun to Degrassi?
Paint and feathers poured over him
Paint and feathers poured over him on stage, moments after he wins a quiz final: Spinner, Jay and Alex stage the prank, and Jimmy wrongly gets the blame.
Q 23In Degrassi's 'Time Stands Still', who wrestles Rick for the gun in the struggle that kills him?
Sean Cameron
Wheels had lost his own parents to a drunk driver back in Degrassi Junior High, which is why a disgusted Snake refuses even to take his calls from jail.
Q 14Degrassi's TV movie School's Out is credited with which first for Canadian prime-time television?
Use of the F-word
Use of the F-word: Snake hurls it at Joey over his cheating, and Caitlin, who overhears, throws it straight back at Joey moments later.
Q 15Who played Manny Santos in Degrassi: The Next Generation?
Cassie Steele
Cassie Steele played Manny Santos, whose decision to have an abortion made a two-part story that US channel The N held back from American viewers for two years.
Q 16Which Canadian TV show hosted the 1999 Degrassi cast reunion that helped revive the franchise?
Jonovision
Jonovision, Jonathan Torrens's teen talk show, reunited the old cast in 1999, which set the writers wondering where the characters were now and led to a new series.
Q 17On which Canadian network did Degrassi: The Next Generation premiere in 2001?
CTV
CTV carried the revival for its first nine seasons, in which several of the original students came back as the new kids' parents and teachers.
Q 18Most episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation take their titles from what?
Hit songs
Hit songs: the custom was so long-running that dropping it was one of the changes the follow-up series Next Class made.
Q 19Degrassi: The Next Generation centred on Emma Nelson, the daughter of which original character?
Spike
Spike, real name Christine Nelson, became pregnant in Degrassi Junior High, chose to keep the baby and stayed on the show as a teenage mother.
Q 20What is the title of the theme song of Degrassi: The Next Generation?
Whatever It Takes
'Whatever It Takes' outlived the show as its motto: a 2025 documentary on the whole franchise, launched at a major film festival, took the phrase as its title.
Sean Cameron grabbed Rick as he turned the gun on Emma; in the struggle the gun went off and Rick died, moments after he had shot Jimmy.
Q 24Which slogan did Degrassi: The Next Generation use to advertise its taste for controversy?
It Goes There
It Goes There: the show used the line to own its controversies, which ran from a school shooting to a two-part story its US network at first refused to air.
Q 25Which American filmmaker, a devoted Degrassi fan, played himself across the last three episodes of season four?
Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith arrives to shoot a movie at the school, and the script hands the devoted fan a romance with Caitlin.
Q 26Which Next Generation episode did The N refuse to air for two years because it dealt with abortion?
Accidents Will Happen
'Accidents Will Happen' went out as normal in Canada early in 2004, but American fans had to wait until August 2006 to see Manny's decision on The N.
Q 27Which Degrassi episode about a transgender student won a Peabody Award?
My Body Is a Cage
'My Body Is a Cage' centres on Adam Torres, outed at the school he joined to escape bullying at his last one; the Peabody judges praised its lack of sensationalism.
Q 28What changed about Degrassi's production when its tenth season began in July 2010?
A telenovela/soap-opera format
A telenovela/soap-opera format: new episodes ran four nights a week that summer, a model its US network was testing as faster and cheaper to make.
Q 29By Degrassi's tenth season, which original character remained, now promoted to principal?
Snake Simpson
Snake Simpson began as a junior-high guitarist in 1987, came back as a teacher and ended up running the school, the franchise's longest-running regular character.
Q 30Who played Spinner Mason in Degrassi: The Next Generation?
Shane Kippel
Shane Kippel's Spinner bows out in the season-nine finale movie by waking up married to Emma after a drunken night at a Niagara Falls casino.