Dog the Bounty Hunter
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40 free Dog the Bounty Hunter trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Dog the Bounty Hunter turned a bail bond office in Hawaii into one of the most recognisable reality shows of its era. Duane "Dog" Chapman, an ex-convict with a preacher's streak, chased people who had skipped court alongside his wife Beth and a team drawn largely from his own family. Viewers stayed for the arguments and the pep talks as much as the captures. This quiz covers the whole story: Chapman's rough early years, the capture that made him famous and the legal trouble that followed, the relatives who worked beside him, the spin-offs that came later, and the cartoons and comedians who could not resist sending him up. The questions run from easy openers for anyone who caught a few episodes to deeper cuts for viewers who followed the family through every series. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you will learn something even when you guess.
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Q 01Which tool of the trade is Dog the Bounty Hunter star Duane Chapman legally barred from owning?
Firearms
Firearms are off-limits to Chapman because a Texas jury convicted him over a 1976 killing, even though he was outside when a companion fired the shot.
Q 02Which heavy metal star sings the theme song of the reality series Dog the Bounty Hunter?
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne recorded the theme, which shares its title with the series and also appears on his Prince of Darkness box set.
Q 03Bounty hunting is illegal in which country, where Duane "Dog" Chapman was jailed in 2003?
Mexico
Mexico outlaws bounty hunting, so local police jailed Dog, his son Leland and Tim Chapman soon after they seized the fugitive in June 2003.
Q 04Which South Park character parodies Dog the Bounty Hunter after being made a school hallway monitor?
Eric Cartman
Eric Cartman calls himself Dawg the Hallway Monitor in the 2006 episode. Chapman wrote in his autobiography that he was very pleased with the spoof.
Q 05On Dog the Bounty Hunter, where does Duane Chapman give captured fugitives his heart-to-heart talks?
On the ride to jail
On the ride to jail, Dog and his team urge the people they have just caught to leave drugs and crime behind and become dependable for their families.
Q 06How is Tim Chapman related to Duane "Dog" Chapman, his fellow hunter on Dog the Bounty Hunter?
No relation
No relation links the two Chapmans, who met while Tim was working at his mother's bail bond business.
Q 07Which Hawaiian Pidgin phrase names the Chapman family's bail bond company on Dog the Bounty Hunter?
Da Kine
Da Kine is a catch-all placeholder in Hawaiian Pidgin, used much like whatchamacallit, and Da Kine Bail Bonds was the family firm's full name.
Q 08Duane "Dog" Chapman was unmasked as which character on the seventh season of The Masked Singer?
Armadillo
Armadillo sang for Team Good before Chapman was unmasked in April 2022, on the same night as Jennifer Holliday.
Q 09In 2021, Duane "Dog" Chapman joined the hunt for which fugitive after the killing of Gabby Petito?
Brian Laundrie
Brian Laundrie's case drew Chapman in during September 2021, when he knocked on the Laundrie family's door in Florida. Laundrie's remains were found in a nature reserve that October.
Q 10Which cable network aired Dog the Bounty Hunter for eight seasons before cancelling it in 2012?
A&E
A&E launched the series in August 2004, a year after Chapman made headlines worldwide by capturing a fugitive cosmetics heir.
Q 11Which Hawaiian city was the home base of the Chapman family firm on Dog the Bounty Hunter?
Honolulu
Honolulu housed the family's bail bond office, and in 2006 Dog appeared in a packed courtroom there with his ankles shackled.
Q 12Which illness did Beth Chapman battle in the 2017 special Dog and Beth: Fight of Their Lives?
Throat cancer
Throat cancer was diagnosed in September 2017 and went into remission before returning. Beth died in June 2019, during production of Dog's Most Wanted.
Q 13Which of Duane "Dog" Chapman's daughters, nicknamed Baby, trained as a bounty hunter on screen?
Lyssa
Lyssa joined the cast in season two, and the cameras followed her training as a licensed bail bondswoman as well as a hunter.
Q 21Tim Chapman, a regular for the first five seasons of Dog the Bounty Hunter, went by which nickname?
Youngblood
Youngblood came from a family of bail agents and says he made his first citizen's arrest at the age of 14.
Q 22Which cable network aired the spin-off Dog and Beth: On the Hunt for three seasons from 2013?
CMT
CMT premiered the series in April 2013 and soon ordered extra episodes. The Chapmans left the network in January 2016, taking the rights with them.
Q 23Which relatives of Duane Chapman quit Dog the Bounty Hunter during its eighth and final season?
Two of his sons
Two of his sons, Leland and Duane Lee, quit working with their father and stepmother, a split that played out on screen in March 2012.
Q 14The Simpsons parodied Dog the Bounty Hunter with a bounty hunter named after which other animal?
Wolf
Wolf the Bounty Hunter inspires Homer to take up the trade himself in a 2008 episode, the opener of the twentieth season.
Q 15Which villain inspects a line-up including Dog the Bounty Hunter in a Family Guy Star Wars spoof?
Darth Vader
Darth Vader reviews the would-be hunters in Something, Something, Something, Dark Side, and angrily dismisses Raggedy Andy from the line.
Q 16Andrew Luster, whose capture made Duane "Dog" Chapman famous, was heir to which cosmetics fortune?
Max Factor
Max Factor heir Luster fled in the middle of his trial and was living under an alias when Chapman's team tracked him down.
Q 17Besides Hawaii, Dog the Bounty Hunter was largely set in which state, Duane Chapman's home state?
Colorado
Colorado is where Chapman was born, in Denver, and where a fugitive allegedly shot at him during a 2009 hunt in Colorado Springs.
Q 18Which act in a Texas prison does Duane "Dog" Chapman say inspired him to become a bounty hunter?
Tackling a fleeing inmate
Tackling a fleeing inmate who was about to be shot earned Chapman a corrections officer's congratulations, which he says set him on his path.
Q 19Which Secretary of State did 29 congressmen ask to block Duane "Dog" Chapman's extradition?
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice received an open letter from 29 Republican congressmen, and Hawaii state legislators later introduced a resolution backing Chapman too.
Q 20Which publication spoofed Dog the Bounty Hunter in June 2007 under the title Dud the Lousy Hunter?
Mad magazine
Mad magazine ran the print parody, and the Cartoon Network sketch show Mad later restaged the series as the arcade game Frogger.
Q 24What did Duane "Dog" Chapman have in common with Francie Frane, whom he married in 2021?
Both were recently widowed
Both were recently widowed: Frane had lost her husband Bob in December 2018, six months before Beth Chapman died.
Q 25How did Dog the Bounty Hunter star Duane Chapman first meet Tawny, who became his fourth wife?
He arrested her
He arrested her on a drug possession charge in 1988, after which she became his secretary and later his wife.
Q 26In a Texas prison in the 1970s, Duane "Dog" Chapman did which job for the warden?
Barber
Barber to the warden was one of Chapman's prison duties, alongside field work, during the 18 months he served before parole.
Q 27Which agency detained Duane "Dog" Chapman in Hawaii in 2006 at a foreign government's request?
US Marshals
US Marshals took Dog, Leland and Tim Chapman into custody that September, and all three had to wear electronic ankle monitors once freed on bail.
Q 28Which country has refused entry to Duane "Dog" Chapman because of his criminal record?
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom bars Chapman over a 1977 murder conviction that brought him a five-year sentence in Texas.
Q 29At 15, future Dog the Bounty Hunter star Duane Chapman ran away from home to join what?
An outlaw biker club
An outlaw biker club, the Devils Diciples, took him in, and the club really does spell its name without the first s.
Q 30In the TV movie Sharknado: The 4th Awakens, Duane "Dog" Chapman plays a dealer in what?
Chainsaws
Chainsaws prove their worth in the film's finale, when young Gil uses one to cut open a whale and free his father Fin.