Famous People Named Andrew
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50 free Famous People Named Andrew trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Andrew has been a popular name for centuries, and the list of people who have carried it proves the point. It belongs to American presidents, an apostle, a steel baron, a composer of blockbuster musicals and a long line of actors, athletes and scientists. It also turns up where you might not expect it: on a hurricane, an earthquake fault and a military airfield. This quiz covers the lot. Many questions name a famous Andrew and ask what he did, from the White House to the tennis court and the film set. Others cover people better known as Andy who were born Andrew, fictional Andrews from novels, films and television, and the performers and explorers who carry Andrews as a surname. It suits a themed pub quiz round, a birthday quiz for the Andrew in your life, or anyone who enjoys general knowledge with a twist. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you learn something even when you guess wrong.
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Q 01Pop artist Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola, painted 32 canvases in 1962 showing which brand's soup cans?
Campbell's
Campbell's soup appears in a different variety on each canvas, and the whole set was later acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.
Q 02Andrew Johnson, the US president impeached by the House in 1868, was apprenticed as a boy to which trade?
Tailor
Tailor was the trade Johnson practised in several frontier towns before he settled in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he became an alderman and then mayor.
Q 03In Toy Story 3, college-bound Andy hands his cowboy doll and the rest of his toys to which little girl?
Bonnie
Bonnie nearly missed out on the cowboy, because Andy had meant to bring him to college until he saw how much she adored the toy.
Q 04Andrew Lloyd Webber set a book of light verse by poet T. S. Eliot to music for which hit musical?
Cats
Cats ran in London for 21 years, and Eliot had first written its poems in the 1930s to amuse his godchildren.
Q 05Andrew Garfield, who played Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network, went on to play which superhero?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man was a role Garfield came back to in 2021 for the Marvel film No Way Home, seven years after his own two-film series ended.
Q 06Andy Murray, born Andrew Barron Murray, ended a 77-year wait for a British men's singles champion at which tournament?
Wimbledon
Wimbledon had not seen a home winner of the men's singles since Fred Perry in 1936 until Murray beat Novak Djokovic in the 2013 final.
Q 07The San Andreas Fault, first identified in 1895 by geologist Andrew Lawson, runs through which US state?
California
California felt the fault's power in 1906, when nearly 300 miles of it ruptured in the San Francisco earthquake.
Q 08Julie Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for her 1964 film debut, playing the title role in which Disney musical?
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins came her way after the studio filming My Fair Lady passed her over for Audrey Hepburn, judging Andrews too little known.
Q 09Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm that struck in August 1992, did its worst damage in which US state?
Florida
Florida took the landfall near Homestead, and Andrew stayed the costliest hurricane in US history until Katrina in 2005.
Q 10Andrew Jackson, the US president nicknamed Old Hickory, became a hero by beating the British in 1815 at which city?
New Orleans
New Orleans was defended 15 days after a peace treaty was signed to end the War of 1812, because news of it had not yet crossed the Atlantic.
Q 11Saint Andrew the Apostle, a fisherman by trade before he followed Jesus, was the brother of which fellow apostle?
Peter
Peter met Jesus through Andrew in the Gospel of John, which is why Eastern Orthodox Christians give Andrew the title First-Called.
Q 12The Saltire, a white diagonal cross on blue also known as St Andrew's Cross, is the national flag of which country?
Scotland
Scotland's use of the flag is said by legend to date from the eve of the Battle of Athelstaneford in 832.
Q 13The Old Course at St Andrews in Fife, played since the early 15th century, is known as the home of which sport?
Golf
Golf grew so popular that King James II banned it in 1457, complaining that young men were neglecting their archery practice.
Q 21Shipbuilder Thomas Andrews, head of drafting at Belfast's Harland and Wolff, died in 1912 aboard which liner?
Titanic
The Titanic's shortage of lifeboat space was plain to Andrews, who spent the sinking urging passengers into the boats that were there.
Q 22Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, named for General Frank Andrews, is the home base of which presidential aircraft?
Air Force One
Air Force One has been based there since 1962, when John F. Kennedy's official plane was moved from Washington National Airport.
Q 23Pixar's Andrew Stanton won Oscars for Finding Nemo and which other film, whose early scenes have almost no dialogue?
WALL-E
WALL-E grew from Stanton's belief that films had leaned too heavily on dialogue to explain themselves ever since sound arrived.
Q 14Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie spent his fortune paying for more than 2,500 of which public buildings around the world?
Libraries
Libraries came with a condition: a town had to commit to running and maintaining the building before Carnegie would pay for it.
Q 15Andrew Lincoln, later Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead, confesses his feelings on cue cards in which Christmas film?
Love Actually
Love Actually cast Lincoln as Mark, the best friend who films a wedding video that turns out to dwell almost entirely on the bride.
Q 16Guitarist Andrew Ridgeley and his school friend George Michael formed which chart-topping pop duo in 1981?
Wham
Wham! became the first Western pop group to visit China, playing there during a ten-day trip in 1985.
Q 17Which actor played Andy Dufresne, the banker who tunnels out of prison over 19 years, in The Shawshank Redemption?
Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins played Dufresne in a film that did poorly at the box office, a result blamed partly on the unpopularity of prison movies.
Q 18In the US version of The Office, a cappella-obsessed salesman Andy Bernard is a proud graduate of which university?
Cornell
Cornell later asked Ed Helms, the actor who played Bernard, to give the convocation speech at its real graduation in 2014.
Q 19Andy Serkis, born Andrew Clement Serkis, used motion capture to play which creature in The Lord of the Rings films?
Gollum
Gollum made Serkis the leading performer of digital characters, and he went on to play King Kong and the ape leader Caesar the same way.
Q 20Red-haired teenager Archie Andrews, a comic book hero since 1941, lives in which fictional small town?
Riverdale
Riverdale is where Archie is torn between rich newcomer Veronica Lodge and Betty Cooper, the girl next door.
Q 24New Zealand director Andrew Adamson made which 2001 film, the first winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
Shrek
Shrek took its story from a children's picture book by William Steig, which upended fairy-tale custom by making an ogre the hero.
Q 25Irish singer Andrew Hozier-Byrne, who performs as Hozier, recorded which 2013 debut single in his parents' attic?
Take Me to Church
Take Me to Church began as a rough demo with a programmed backing track, yet it climbed to number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 26Naveen Andrews played Sayid Jarrah, a former Iraqi soldier stranded among plane-crash survivors, in which TV series?
Lost
Lost earned Andrews an Emmy nomination, some years after his film role as Kip Singh in The English Patient.
Q 27Sportscaster Erin Andrews finished third on which TV competition in 2010 and returned as its co-host four years later?
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars paired her with Maksim Chmerkovskiy as a contestant before she replaced Brooke Burke-Charvet as co-host.
Q 28The name Andrew, borne by one of the twelve apostles, comes from a word meaning manly in which ancient language?
Greek
Greek supplied the name as Andreas, built on its word for a man, and it reached English by way of Latin and Old French.
Q 29Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, flew Royal Navy helicopters on active duty during which conflict?
Falklands War
The Falklands War saw him fly Sea King missions from the carrier Invincible, including acting as a decoy for Exocet missiles.
Q 30Brat Pack actor Andrew McCarthy played rich kid Blane, who falls for Molly Ringwald's Andie, in which teen romance?
Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink first ended with Andie choosing her friend Duckie, but test audiences booed, so a new ending with Blane was written and shot.