Famous Foursomes
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40 free Famous Foursomes trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Four is the number that fame seems to like best. The Beatles were four, and so are the Ninja Turtles, the faces on Mount Rushmore, the Golden Girls, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the houses at Hogwarts. Take one member away and almost everyone feels the gap, which is what makes a foursome such a good quiz subject. This quiz asks you to fill those gaps. Some questions give you a clue to one member of a famous four and ask which it is. Others ask about the story behind the group: who nearly got the part, who joined last, or which of the four came first. The foursomes come from music, television, film, books, video games, sport, history, religion and science, and there is even a question on the golf format that gives the word its sporting meaning. It works as a pub quiz round, a party game or a quick test for anyone who likes general knowledge with a theme. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the story even when you guess wrong.
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Q 01Which member of Scooby-Doo's mystery-solving gang was given the first name Norville?
Shaggy
Shaggy is the nickname of Norville Rogers, the gang's biggest coward after his dog. Both can be bribed into facing a monster with Scooby Snacks.
Q 02Which actress was first lined up to play Blanche in The Golden Girls before swapping roles with Rue McClanahan?
Betty White
Betty White had already played the man-hungry Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, so she took naive Rose instead to avoid being typecast.
Q 03Which drummer joined the Beatles in August 1962, replacing Pete Best weeks before the recording of Love Me Do?
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr quit Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, another Liverpool group, to take the job. Producer George Martin, unsure of him, still booked a session drummer for the single.
Q 04Which president's face sits between Jefferson and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore, the last of the four dedicated?
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was chosen to represent the nation's development. George Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln stand for its foundation, expansion and preservation.
Q 05Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle wears a purple mask, fights with a bo staff and is the smartest of the four?
Donatello
Donatello, like his three brothers, is named after an Italian Renaissance artist. The creators had considered Japanese names before settling on the quirkier choice.
Q 06Which of South Park's four main boys dies a gruesome death in most episodes of the first five seasons?
Kenny McCormick
Kenny McCormick returns alive and well in the next episode with little or no explanation. His muffled speech is the result of a parka hood covering his mouth.
Q 07Which of the four tennis Grand Slam tournaments is the only one still played on grass courts?
Wimbledon
Wimbledon has been held since 1877 and keeps the sport's traditional surface. The Australian Open switched from grass to hard courts in 1988, and the US Open gave up grass in 1975.
Q 08Which US state meets Utah, Colorado and New Mexico at the Four Corners Monument in the desert Southwest?
Arizona
Arizona completes the only point in the United States shared by four states. The Navajo Nation maintains the monument as a tourist attraction.
Q 09In English playing cards, which suit's ace bears an ornate design, a relic of a stamp duty that lasted until 1960?
Spades
Spades got the decorated ace because one card in each pack was stamped to show the duty had been paid. A forger of the ace was hanged in 1805.
Q 10Which character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz asks the Wizard for a heart?
The Tin Man
The Tin Man is already the most tender and emotional of Dorothy's companions. The Wizard gives him a heart made of silk and stuffed with sawdust.
Q 11Which of the four Hogwarts houses has a badger as its mascot and Pomona Sprout as its Head of House?
Hufflepuff
Hufflepuff values hard work, patience, justice and loyalty, and its colours are yellow and black. J. K. Rowling has linked the house to the element of earth.
Q 12Which of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a black horse and carries a pair of scales?
Famine
Famine is the third rider, and the scales show how bread would be weighed out in hungry times. A voice cries out prices that set a whole day's wages against wheat for one person.
Q 13Which of the four friends in Sex and the City is a Harvard-educated lawyer played by Cynthia Nixon?
Miranda Hobbes
Q 21Which member of the Monkees inherited a fortune from his mother, the inventor of Liquid Paper correction fluid?
Mike Nesmith
Mike Nesmith's mother, Bette Graham, built the Liquid Paper Corporation over 25 years and sold it to Gillette in 1979. He received his inheritance from her estate in 1980.
Q 22Which member of ABBA was born in Norway to a Norwegian mother and a German father, then raised in Sweden?
Frida Lyngstad
Frida Lyngstad was taken to Sweden by her grandmother, who raised her alone after her mother died at 21. Her father had been a German soldier in occupied Norway.
Q 23In the ancient theory of the four humours, an excess of which fluid was thought to make a person calm and reserved?
Phlegm
Miranda Hobbes is the pragmatic, career-focused cynic of the group. Cynthia Nixon went on to run for governor of New York in 2018.
Q 14Which Seinfeld character's first name, Cosmo, stays a secret until George meets his estranged mother?
Kramer
Kramer was nearly a Conrad: an episode that would have revealed that name was never filmed. Larry David took Cosmo from a boy who lived in his apartment building.
Q 15Which of the four March sisters in Little Women marries Laurie, the boy next door, after another sister refuses him?
Amy
Amy and Laurie marry before leaving Europe, after Jo declines his proposal at home in Massachusetts. Meg, the eldest, marries his tutor.
Q 16Which of the four ghosts in Pac-Man is the orange one, given the character name Pokey in the American release?
Clyde
Clyde breaks the rhyme of his three partners. The designers gave each ghost its own way of moving so the game would be neither impossibly difficult nor boring.
Q 17Which of men's golf's four major championships is the only one held at the same course every year?
The Masters
The Masters always returns to Augusta National in Georgia, a private club that runs the tournament itself. Since 1949 its champion has been given a green jacket.
Q 18Which of the four New Testament Gospels do most scholars believe was written first?
Mark
Mark is printed second in the New Testament even so. The idea that it came first, called Marcan priority, gained widespread acceptance in the 19th century.
Q 19Which member of Marvel's Fantastic Four is Ben Grimm, a former test pilot with a rocky orange hide?
The Thing
The Thing flew the rocket on the flight that gave all four their powers. He grew up poor on Yancy Street, on New York's Lower East Side.
Q 20Which actor played Winston Zeddemore, the fourth Ghostbuster, who is hired after answering a help-wanted advert?
Ernie Hudson
Ernie Hudson took a role that Dan Aykroyd has said he first intended for Eddie Murphy, though director Ivan Reitman denied it.
Phlegm gave English the word phlegmatic, still used for someone hard to ruffle. The physician Galen named four temperaments after the humours.
Q 24Which of the four chambers of the human heart pumps blood into the aorta and has the thickest wall?
Left ventricle
The left ventricle needs the extra muscle because it must pump blood to most of the body, while its right-hand twin fills only the lungs.
Q 25Which member of The A-Team, played by Mr. T, has an intense fear of flying despite being a tough ex-commando?
B. A. Baracus
B. A. Baracus is at his most afraid when Murdock, the team's unhinged pilot, is at the controls. The initials stand for Bosco Albert, and for Bad Attitude.
Q 26Which of the four Pevensie children is the first to find the way into Narnia through an old wardrobe?
Lucy
Lucy is the youngest of the four, and Peter, Susan and Edmund do not believe her about Narnia at first. Edmund follows her in on her second visit.
Q 27Which Marx brother played the straight man in the first five Marx Brothers films, then quit acting to become an agent?
Zeppo
Zeppo bowed out after Duck Soup in 1933 and went on to work as an engineer as well as a theatrical agent.
Q 28Which Italian composer wrote The Four Seasons, a set of violin concertos published in Amsterdam in 1725?
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi published the concertos with sonnets, possibly written by himself, spelling out what each season's music was meant to evoke.
Q 29Which American illustrator painted the Four Freedoms in 1943, a series first printed in The Saturday Evening Post?
Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell took his four themes, freedom of speech and worship and freedom from want and fear, from a 1941 State of the Union address.
Q 30Which Italian prime minister sat with Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau as the Big Four at Paris in 1919?
Vittorio Orlando
Vittorio Orlando knew no English, while Wilson and Lloyd George knew no French. Only Clemenceau could speak and understand both languages.