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40 free Flying Spaghetti Monster trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster started as a joke with a serious point. In 2005 a young graduate wrote to a state education body to argue that if one untestable idea deserved a place in biology lessons, so did his noodle-limbed deity. The letter went viral, and a parody religion called Pastafarianism grew up around it. This quiz covers the whole story: the letter and the man behind it, the tongue-in-cheek beliefs about pirates, heaven and the making of the world, the book that set them down, and the long run of licence-photo disputes, weddings and court rulings that followed. A few questions step sideways into philosophy, television and the deep sea. It suits skeptics, students of religion, pub quizzers and anyone who has seen the noodly image online and wondered where it came from. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will finish knowing both the joke and the argument underneath it.
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Q 01Flying Spaghetti Monster followers have won the right to wear which utensil in driving licence photos?
Colander
Colander photos began with one campaigner who spent three years, and passed a psychological fitness check, before his licence arrived in 2011. Many others have copied him since.
Q 02According to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, heaven features a volcano of which drink?
Beer
Beer from that volcano left the deity hung over in the world's first week, so He forgot He had already made the land and made it all over again.
Q 03A graph in the original Flying Spaghetti Monster letter shows what rising as the number of pirates falls?
Global temperatures
Global temperatures climb as pirates dwindle after the 1800s on the graph, a deliberate jab at anyone who mistakes a correlation for a cause.
Q 04The eight 'I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts' in The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster parody which biblical list?
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments became eight because, in the book, Captain Mosey dropped two of his stone tablets on the way down from Mount Salsa.
Q 05The best-known Flying Spaghetti Monster image, made by Niklas Jansson in 2005, reworks which Renaissance painting?
The Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, was redrawn with the pasta deity in God's place, and the picture became the movement's de facto logo.
Q 06Flying Spaghetti Monster lore holds that ghost pirates are behind the mysteries of which stretch of ocean?
Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle disappearances of ships and planes are pinned on spectral buccaneers, in a creed that insists history's sea rovers were peace-loving explorers.
Q 07The name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's religion blends the word 'pasta' with the name of which older movement?
Rastafarianism
Rastafarianism plus pasta gives Pastafarianism, which its adherents insist is a real, legitimate religion, as much as any other.
Q 08Which animated series gave the Flying Spaghetti Monster a role in its 2010 episode 'A Clockwork Origin'?
Futurama
Futurama has the pasta deity turn up at an anti-evolution rally, in a story where Professor Farnsworth watches robots evolve from scratch on a lifeless planet.
Q 09The Flying Spaghetti Monster is often called a modern take on Bertrand Russell's argument about which orbiting object?
A teapot
A teapot too small for any telescope, circling the Sun between Earth and Mars, was Russell's example of a claim that nobody could ever disprove.
Q 10Which US state's Board of Education received the 2005 open letter that introduced the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Kansas
Kansas later reversed course: in 2007 its board voted 6-4 to throw out the evolution-doubting standards it had adopted in 2005.
Q 11Which 24-year-old American created the Flying Spaghetti Monster in a 2005 open letter to a school board?
Bobby Henderson
Bobby Henderson signed the letter as a concerned citizen and later said he wrote it as much for his own amusement as for anything else.
Q 12The Flying Spaghetti Monster was invented to protest plans to teach which idea alongside evolution in public schools?
Intelligent design
Intelligent design never names its designer, so the letter's author reasoned that any entity at all could fill the role, even one made of noodles.
Q 13The original Flying Spaghetti Monster letter says His Noodly Appendage alters the results of which lab technique?
Carbon dating
Q 21Which day of the week do followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster keep as their holy day?
Friday
Friday is the weekly holy day, and prayers close with a word that splices 'Amen' with the name of a Japanese noodle dish.
Q 22What do followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster call their loosely defined festival around Christmas and Hanukkah?
Holiday
Holiday has no fixed date or rules, and the founder thanked the White House in 2005 when its seasonal cards wished people a happy 'holiday season'.
Q 23In 2011 Niko Alm won the right to wear Flying Spaghetti Monster headgear in a driving licence photo in which country?
Austria
Austria's authorities later denied that religion was their reason for allowing the photo, though Alm applied because the rules permit only religious headgear.
Carbon dating only seems to reveal an ancient planet, the letter argues, because the unseen deity built the world to look older than it really is.
Q 14Which biologist welcomed The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in his 2006 book The God Delusion?
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins was himself lampooned that year in a South Park episode whose teacher taunts believing pupils with the pasta deity.
Q 15In 2008 the Flying Spaghetti Monster's founder cited a surge of pirates off which country as support for his theory?
Somalia
Somalia saw piracy boom in the Gulf of Aden that year, and the founder cheerfully claimed the trend as fresh evidence for his tongue-in-cheek theory.
Q 16In The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the deity plants evidence of an older Earth for which stated purpose?
To test believers' faith
To test believers' faith is the book's answer to anything older than its 5,000-year-old world, a send-up of some biblical literalists.
Q 17What did the 2005 Flying Spaghetti Monster letter demand for its theory alongside evolution in the classroom?
Equal time
Equal time meant a three-way split in the letter: a third of lessons each for the rival idea, the pasta deity and observable evidence.
Q 18Skeptics cite the Flying Spaghetti Monster to argue that whoever makes an unfalsifiable claim has what?
The burden of proof
The burden of proof is the point of the comparison: the pasta deity can be neither seen nor detected, so nobody can ever show that it is not there.
Q 19The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster puts the first man and woman in a paradise named for which restaurant chain?
Olive Garden
Olive Garden of Eden is where the pair live happily in the book, which sets the making of the world only 5,000 years in the past.
Q 20Flying Spaghetti Monster teaching recasts history's pirates as peaceful explorers who gave children what?
Candy
Candy was their gift, and the story goes that Christian theologians in the Middle Ages smeared these kindly sailors as thieves and outcasts.
Q 24Which country hosted the first legally recognised Flying Spaghetti Monster wedding, celebrated in April 2016?
New Zealand
New Zealand had already authorised the church's representatives as marriage celebrants, the same standing given to groups that promote religious or philosophical convictions.
Q 25Which older satirical deity from the Usenet group alt.atheism is sometimes cited alongside the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
The Invisible Pink Unicorn
The Invisible Pink Unicorn had surfaced there by 1990, and her two attributes clash on purpose: nobody can see a colour on something that cannot be seen.
Q 26What subject had the Flying Spaghetti Monster's founder studied at Oregon State University before his 2005 letter?
Physics
Physics was his degree, and he has said his quarrel was never with religion itself but with religion posing as science.
Q 27The sea animal nicknamed the 'Flying Spaghetti Monster' belongs to which group, alongside the Portuguese man o' war?
Siphonophores
Siphonophores look like single animals but are colonies of specialised units called zooids: some feed, some swim and some reproduce.
Q 28Workers in which industry nicknamed a deep-sea animal the 'Flying Spaghetti Monster' after filming it in 2015?
Oil and gas
Oil and gas workers at BP caught the trailing, stringy creature on camera with a remotely operated vehicle off the coast of Angola.
Q 29Which country's Council of State ruled in 2018 against Flying Spaghetti Monster headgear in a licence photo?
Netherlands
Netherlands judges turned down a law student's appeal, even though the church had been registered there as a church association two years earlier.
Q 30On the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's website, its founder is described by which religious title?
Prophet
Prophet is the title he carries there, yet he insists the only dogma his church allows is the rejection of dogma.