Drag Queen Trivia
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97 free Drag Queen trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
46 free drag queen trivia questions with answers. Drag has a history far longer than reality TV: Shakespeare's boy players, Victorian pantomime dames, William Dorsey Swann's secret balls in 1880s Washington, the ballroom houses of Harlem, Divine in John Waters films, Wigstock in the East Village, and the queens on the front line at Stonewall. This quiz covers all of that alongside the modern era of RuPaul's Drag Race: its winners, judges, catchphrases, Snatch Game and international spin-offs. The easy questions ask who hosts Drag Race and which toy company inspired a queen's name. The hard ones want the first person known to call himself a queen of drag, the Leeds-born pantomime dame, the New Orleans costume designer who became the first drag queen to headline Wembley Arena, and which film won an Oscar for its drag costumes. Made for a Pride quiz night, a viewing party or a themed pub round. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the performers, shows and films, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which female impersonator had a Broadway theatre on 42nd Street named after him in 1912?
Julian Eltinge
Julian Eltinge's theatre was rolled about 170 feet down 42nd Street in 1998 to become the entrance of a multiplex cinema.
Q 02In British Christmas pantomime, which stock comic character is played by a man dressed as a woman?
The dame
The dame is traditionally a man in women's clothes, while the principal boy, the young hero, is traditionally played by a woman.
Q 03What was Divine's birth name?
Harris Glenn Milstead
Harris Glenn Milstead wanted more male roles as a character actor, and he played a man, out of drag, in Trouble in Mind.
Q 04Divine was closely associated with which filmmaker?
John Waters
John Waters cast Divine in Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), Baltimore-made films that built both their cult reputations.
Q 05Which 1988 film was the last Divine film released in his lifetime?
Hairspray
Hairspray cast Divine as Edna Turnblad, and soon after its release he died in his sleep while preparing to guest-star on Married... with Children.
Q 06The annual New York drag festival Wigstock was founded by which queen?
Lady Bunny
Lady Bunny, who had moved to New York with RuPaul and worked at the Pyramid Club, launched Wigstock in Tompkins Square Park as a spoof of Woodstock.
Q 07Wigstock was revived in 2018 by its founder and which actor?
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris and his husband David Burtka co-produced the 2018 revival with the festival's founder at Pier 17 in the South Street Seaport.
Q 08The Stonewall riots of June 1969 began at a bar in which New York neighbourhood?
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village's Stonewall uprising was marked a year later by marches in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the first Gay Pride marches in US history.
Q 09Marsha P. Johnson, the Stonewall-era activist, was known by which nickname?
Saint of Christopher Street
Saint of Christopher Street was one name for Marsha P. Johnson, who co-founded STAR with Sylvia Rivera to give transgender youth food and shelter.
Q 10Who directed the 1990 documentary on New York's Harlem ballroom scene?
Jennie Livingston
Jennie Livingston paid about $55,000 to 13 of the film's performers, split by screen time, amid anger in the ball world over money.
Q 11In ballroom culture, what is a 'house'?
A chosen family that competes together
A chosen family that competes together: houses, led by a 'mother', often took in young ball walkers rejected by their biological families.
Q 12Which Harlem drag queens are credited with founding the first ballroom house?
Lottie and Crystal LaBeija
Lottie and Crystal LaBeija started their ball for Black queens after Crystal stormed off a 1967 pageant she said was fixed for a white queen.
Q 13In which city was RuPaul born?
San Diego
Q 21The show's best-known celebrity-impersonation challenge spoofs which classic 1970s TV panel programme?
Match Game
Snatch Game parodies Match Game, the 1970s panel show whose celebrities filled in blanks; contestants impersonate stars while answering RuPaul's prompts.
Q 22RuPaul's Drag Race's 'reading' mini-challenge takes its art of insult from which documentary?
Paris Is Burning
Paris Is Burning taught viewers 'reading', and before its filming ended, one of its stars, Venus Xtravaganza, was found strangled.
Q 23Who inspired RuPaul's sign-off about needing to love yourself before loving somebody else?
His mother
RuPaul Andre Charles was born in San Diego on November 17, 1960, and moved to Atlanta with his sister at 15, studying performing arts there.
Q 14RuPaul's 1993 breakthrough single was called what?
Supermodel (You Better Work)
Supermodel (You Better Work) was his first big hit, arriving after years of struggling as a performer through the 1980s.
Q 15RuPaul became the first drag queen to front a major cosmetics campaign for which brand?
MAC
The 1994 Viva Glam campaign raised money for the MAC AIDS Fund.
Q 16What was the title of RuPaul's 1995 autobiography?
Lettin' It All Hang Out
Lettin' It All Hang Out recounts RuPaul's run-in with his co-presenter Milton Berle at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards.
Q 17RuPaul's Drag Race premiered in 2009 on which network?
Logo TV
Logo TV aired the first eight seasons from the February 2009 premiere; the show moved to VH1 for seasons 9 to 14 and to MTV from season 15.
Q 18Which production company makes RuPaul's Drag Race?
World of Wonder
World of Wonder's founders, Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, began managing RuPaul in 1991 and steered him through his breakthrough hit single.
Q 19Who joined RuPaul's Drag Race as a permanent judge in season 3?
Michelle Visage
Michelle Visage took the seat after her friend Leah Remini pushed her to ask her CBS Radio bosses, who gave her permission.
Q 20On RuPaul's Drag Race, what must the week's bottom two queens do to stay in the competition?
Lip Sync for Your Life
Lip Sync for Your Life usually sends one queen home, but RuPaul has occasionally eliminated both, as in season 5 with Honey Mahogany and Vivienne Pinay.
His mother: RuPaul says the closing line comes from a tradition of sayings she passed on, mantras meant to realign you, and he says it every episode.
Q 24The winner of each season of RuPaul's show is crowned with what title?
America's Next Drag Superstar
Each winner is crowned America's Next Drag Superstar; BeBe Zahara Benet took the first title in 2009 with a $20,000 prize.
Q 25Which season 6 winner became the first drag queen to headline Wembley Arena?
Bianca Del Rio
Bianca Del Rio designed costumes for the New Orleans Opera and Broadway shows before her It's Jester Joke tour reached Wembley Arena in 2019.
Q 26Which season 5 winner also took the all-winners All Stars 7 crown in 2022?
Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon won season 5 in 2013 and All Stars 7 in 2022, then made her Broadway debut as Mama Morton in Chicago in January 2023.
Q 27Trixie Mattel is originally from which state?
Wisconsin
Wisconsin-born Brian Firkus built his drag name partly from the insult his abusive stepfather used, calling him 'a Trixie' when he acted feminine.
Q 28Trixie Mattel's long-running comedy partner is which fellow queen?
Katya
Katya (Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova) launched the web series UNHhhh with Trixie in 2016; their 2020 book Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood was a New York Times bestseller.
Q 29Trixie Mattel opened a themed motel in which resort town?
Palm Springs
Palm Springs is home to the Trixie Motel, which she and then-partner David Silver bought and renovated on camera for the docuseries Trixie Motel.
Q 30Sasha Velour, winner of season 9, is known for which theatrical drag revue?
NightGowns
NightGowns began in Brooklyn in 2015, and Sasha Velour often performs bald in tribute to her mother, who died of cancer that year.