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40 free Famous Rogers trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Roger is a name that turns up everywhere once you start looking. It belongs to a Swiss tennis champion, a James Bond, the first runner to break four minutes for the mile, rock stars, a much-loved film critic and Hall of Fame ballplayers. Add the people with Rogers as a surname, from a singing cowboy to a gentle host of children's television, and the list gets long fast. This quiz covers the lot. Most questions name a famous Roger or Rogers and ask what he or she did, on court, on screen, on stage or in the history books. Others turn to fictional Rogers: a framed cartoon rabbit, a wisecracking alien, a comic strip spaceman and the secret identity of a Marvel superhero. It suits a themed pub quiz round, a birthday quiz for the Roger in your life, or anyone fond of general knowledge with a twist. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up a story even when you guess wrong.
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Q 01Roger Federer, once a ball boy in his hometown of Basel, won eight men's singles titles at which Grand Slam tournament?
Wimbledon
Wimbledon was also where Federer won the junior title in 1998, five years before he took his first major there at the age of 21.
Q 02Roger Moore's seven James Bond films began in 1973 with which adventure, which has a Paul McCartney theme song?
Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die made Moore the third actor to play Bond in the Eon series, after his 1960s television run as Simon Templar in The Saint.
Q 03Which British actor plays private detective Eddie Valiant in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins played the detective for director Robert Zemeckis, who was hired on the strength of Romancing the Stone and Back to the Future.
Q 04Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile in May 1954 on the Iffley Road track in which English city?
Oxford
Oxford hosted the run, with two fellow athletes setting the pace for him, and Bannister went on to a career as a neurologist.
Q 05Roger Waters was the bassist and main lyricist of which band behind The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall?
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd was co-founded by Waters in 1965, and he became its conceptual leader after songwriter Syd Barrett left in 1968.
Q 06Which actor earned an Oscar nomination for playing Mister Rogers in the 2019 film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks plays the children's television host as a cynical magazine journalist profiles him, a story inspired by a real 1998 Esquire article.
Q 07Kenny Rogers topped the US pop chart in 1983 with Islands in the Stream, a duet with which country star?
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton joined Rogers on a song written by the Bee Gees, and it gave each of the two singers a second pop number one.
Q 08Ginger Rogers danced through nine 1930s RKO musicals, including Top Hat and Swing Time, with which partner?
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire was her partner in all nine, yet Rogers won her Best Actress Oscar without him, for the 1940 drama Kitty Foyle.
Q 09Roy Rogers, the singing film star billed as the King of the Cowboys, rode which palomino horse in his Westerns?
Trigger
Trigger was foaled in California in 1934 under the name Golden Cloud, and Rogers renamed the colt when he acquired him.
Q 10Roger Maris hit 61 home runs for the New York Yankees in 1961 to break which player's single-season record?
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth had hit 60 in 1927, when teams played 154 games a season, so the longer 1961 schedule made the new mark controversial.
Q 11Steve Rogers, the frail recruit who becomes Captain America, is played in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by which actor?
Chris Evans
Chris Evans plays the hero created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who reached cinemas in a 1944 serial as the first Marvel character adapted outside comic books.
Q 12Buster Crabbe, star of the 1939 film serial Buck Rogers, had already played which other comic strip hero in two serials?
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon began as the best-known imitator of the Buck Rogers newspaper strip, so Crabbe ended up playing both the 1929 original and its rival.
Q 13Roger Clemens, the pitcher nicknamed Rocket, won which baseball award seven times, more than anyone else in history?
Cy Young
Q 21Roger Sherman, the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States, represented which state?
Connecticut
Connecticut also names the compromise Sherman proposed at the Constitutional Convention: seats by population in the House and an equal vote for every state in the Senate.
Q 22Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote the 1857 Supreme Court opinion denying citizenship to Black Americans in which case?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford was decided 7–2, and Taney hoped the ruling would settle the national argument over slavery for good.
Q 23Roger Corman directed which 1960 horror comedy about a blood-drinking plant, later a stage musical?
His first Cy Young Award came in 1986, when Clemens was also named league MVP and struck out 20 batters in a single game.
Q 14Roger Staubach, quarterback of two Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl winners, won the 1963 Heisman Trophy at which school?
Navy
Navy kept Staubach after graduation too: he served as an officer, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, before his professional career began.
Q 15Roger Goodell, who began as a league office intern in 1982, became commissioner of which sports league in 2006?
NFL
The NFL took Goodell on under commissioner Pete Rozelle, and he rose to chief operating officer before getting the top job.
Q 16Cinematographer Roger Deakins won Oscars for Blade Runner 2049 and which Sam Mendes war film built from very long takes?
1917
1917 was filmed in long takes so that the whole story appears to unfold in just two continuous shots, and it reunited Deakins with Mendes.
Q 17Queen drummer Roger Taylor wrote which 1984 hit, which the band played in its Live Aid set the following year?
Radio Ga Ga
Radio Ga Ga began when Taylor heard his small son say a similar-sounding phrase about a song on the car radio that the boy disliked.
Q 18Roger Daltrey, who played the title role in the 1975 film Tommy, is the lead singer of which British rock band?
The Who
The Who released Tommy as a rock opera album in 1969, and Daltrey's lead in the film version earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
Q 19Humorist Will Rogers, born in the Cherokee Nation in 1879, is celebrated as the Favorite Son of which US state?
Oklahoma
Oklahoma did not yet exist when Rogers was born in Indian Territory, and he died in a 1935 plane crash in Alaska with aviator Wiley Post.
Q 20Roger Williams, a minister expelled from Puritan Massachusetts, founded a 1636 settlement that grew into which colony?
Rhode Island
Rhode Island began as Providence Plantations, which Williams set up as a refuge offering what he called liberty of conscience.
The Little Shop of Horrors
The Little Shop of Horrors had its interiors shot in two days on sets left standing from another film, and Jack Nicholson has a small early role.
Q 24Roger Ailes, a media adviser to Republican presidents, was the founding chief executive of which cable channel in 1996?
Fox News
Fox News was created by Rupert Murdoch, who hired Ailes from CNBC, and it launched in October 1996 to 17 million cable subscribers.
Q 25Roger Penrose, a 2020 Nobel laureate for work on black holes, proved famous singularity theorems with which physicist?
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Penrose for the theorems, which carry both of their names.
Q 26Roger Hargreaves launched which children's book series in 1971 with a character who has long, bendy arms?
Mr. Men
Mr. Men began with Mr. Tickle, and after Hargreaves died in 1988 his son Adam carried on writing and illustrating new books.
Q 27Country singer Roger Miller, of King of the Road fame, voiced a rooster minstrel in which 1973 Disney animated film?
Robin Hood
Robin Hood includes three songs that Miller wrote and performed himself in character as the minstrel Allan-a-Dale.
Q 28Striker Roger Milla, aged 38, scored four goals and danced by the corner flag at the 1990 World Cup for which nation?
Cameroon
Cameroon became the first African team to reach a World Cup quarter-final, and Milla scored again at the 1994 tournament at the age of 42.
Q 29Which actor plays homicide detective Roger Murtaugh opposite Mel Gibson's Martin Riggs in all four Lethal Weapon films?
Danny Glover
Danny Glover played the cautious family man from 1987 to 1998, and Damon Wayans took over the part for the later television series.
Q 30Who voices Roger, the grey space alien living with the Smiths in American Dad!?
Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane also designed the character, who crashed at Roswell in 1947 and moved in after rescuing Stan Smith at Area 51.