Futurama Trivia
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100 free Futurama trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Futurama trivia questions with answers. Good news, everyone: this is a Futurama quiz that goes past "who voices Bender." Fifty questions cover the Planet Express crew, the running gags (Alienese, Olde Fortran, the Hypnotoad), the great episodes (Jurassic Bark, Roswell That Ends Well, The Late Philip J. Fry, The Prisoner of Benda), and the show's remarkable history of being killed by Fox, resurrected by DVD films and Comedy Central, and revived again by Hulu. Easy questions are for anyone who has watched a season. The hard ones are for people who know why Bender's unit number is 1729, which Emmy the writers actually won, what inspired the suicide booths, and how a writer's original group-theory theorem saved a body-swap plot. It works for a watch-party round or a nerdier-than-average pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its characters and individual episodes, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01Who created Futurama?
Matt Groening
Matt Groening dreamed up Futurama in the mid-1990s while working on The Simpsons and brought in Simpsons writer David X. Cohen to develop it; the show premiered on Fox in March 1999.
Q 02In Futurama, how long does Fry stay frozen in the cryogenic tube before he wakes?
1,000 years
1,000 years pass while Fry is frozen, and Bender's Big Score later reveals that Bender piloted the ships seen destroying the city outside his window.
Q 03What was Fry's job in 1999 before he was frozen?
Pizza delivery boy
Pizza delivery boy was Fry's job in 1999; a prank order sent him to Applied Cryogenics on New Year's Eve, where he toppled into a freezing tube.
Q 04Where does Futurama take its name from?
A pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair
A pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair gave the show its name, and the episode 'The Inhuman Torch' later owns up to it with the opening caption 'As seen at the 1939 World's Fair'.
Q 05What is Bender originally programmed to do?
Bend girders
Bend girders is Bender's factory purpose; on learning his girders were used to build suicide booths he tries to kill himself in one, which is where Fry first meets him.
Q 06What does Bender need to drink to power his fuel cells?
Alcohol
Alcohol powers Bender's fuel cells, so when he sobers up he behaves like a drunk and grows a rusty five-o'clock shadow.
Q 07What is Bender's catchphrase insult?
Bite my shiny metal ass
'Bite my shiny metal ass' is Bender's go-to insult, and in one episode he wakes from a dream of ones and zeros where he thinks he saw a two.
Q 08Why did Futurama's writers give Bender the unit number 1729?
It is the Hardy–Ramanujan taxicab number
It is the Hardy–Ramanujan taxicab number: Hardy called his cab's number 1729 dull, and Ramanujan replied it is the smallest sum of two cubes in two ways.
Q 09Who built Bender?
Mom's Friendly Robot Company
Mom's Friendly Robot Company, the robotics arm of MomCorp, built Bender and nearly every robot on Earth, which lets Mom trigger a robot uprising by remote control in 'Mother's Day'.
Q 10Who voices Bender in Futurama?
John DiMaggio
John DiMaggio voices Bender, though he originally auditioned for the role of Professor Farnsworth.
Q 11What fuel powers Futurama's Planet Express ship?
Dark matter
Dark matter powers the ship, and its engines don't actually move the ship: they move the universe around it.
Q 12Which Futurama main cast member voices only one character?
Katey Sagal
Katey Sagal voices only Leela, and the episode 'A Bicyclops Built for Two' parodies the sitcom where she played Peg Bundy, Married... with Children.
Q 13Leela turns out to be what, rather than the alien she assumed?
A sewer mutant
A sewer mutant is what Leela really is, revealed in 'Leela's Homeworld' (2002): her parents Morris and Munda live in the sewers under New New York and left her at the Orphanarium so she could pass as an alien.
Q 21Zapp Brannigan was created for which actor, who died before Futurama aired?
Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman insisted on auditioning and won the part, but he was killed in May 1998 before the show aired, so Billy West took over the role.
Q 22What is the name of Zapp Brannigan's starship?
Nimbus
Nimbus is Zapp's DOOP flagship, first seen in 'Love's Labours Lost in Space' when he jails Fry, Leela and Bender for violating Brannigan's Law; its hull number is BP-1729.
Q 23Which franchise did Futurama's Earth ban after its fans made it a religion?
Star Trek
Star Trek's fans were killed off and its last tapes were sent to the forbidden planet Omega 3, where Fry sets out to recover them.
Q 14Which US vice president leads Futurama's Vice Presidential Action Rangers, guardians of the space-time continuum?
Al Gore
Al Gore leads the Rangers, who decide Fry was supposed to die and try to kill him, but another rift in space-time opens during the attempt.
Q 15In Futurama, what feature sets Bender's lookalike Flexo apart from him?
A goatee
A goatee is Flexo's only difference from Bender, and though Fry suspects Flexo is the evil one, Bender turns out to be the thief.
Q 16Which word completes the Professor's catchphrase, 'Good news, ...'?
everyone!
'Good news, everyone!' is Professor Farnsworth's catchphrase, used to unveil an invention or announce a delivery that is usually a suicide mission.
Q 17What is Zoidberg's home planet?
Decapod 10
Decapod 10 is Zoidberg's home planet, and mating season sends him back there, where Fry coaches him to woo his old classmate Edna.
Q 18Where is Hermes Conrad from?
Jamaica
Jamaica is Hermes Conrad's homeland, and when he loses his body in Bender's Big Score, his wife LaBarbara leaves him for his old limbo rival, Barbados Slim.
Q 19Why did Hermes give up competitive limbo?
A young fan imitating him broke his back
A young fan imitating him broke his back at the 2980 Olympics, and guilt kept Hermes away from limbo for years.
Q 20Amy Wong is heiress to what?
The western hemisphere of Mars
The western hemisphere of Mars belongs to Amy's parents, the Wongs, and Kif tries to win them over by tracking down their rustled buggalo herd.
Q 24Which former US president's head serves as President of Earth?
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon's head runs for President of Earth in 'A Head in the Polls' in Bender's pawned body, dodging a rule that nobody can be elected more than twice.
Q 25Lrrr, who always introduces himself by his title, is ruler of which planet?
Omicron Persei 8
Omicron Persei 8 is Lrrr's planet, and he invades Earth because Fry's spilled drink in 1999 cut off the finale of Single Female Lawyer.
Q 26Fry is immune to the Brainspawn because his brain lacks what?
The Delta brainwave
The Delta brainwave is missing from Fry's brain because he is his own grandfather, which lets him stand unaffected in the Brainspawn's stupefying field and infiltrate their Infosphere in 'The Why of Fry'.
Q 27How does Futurama's Fry become his own grandfather in the past?
He sleeps with his grandmother
He sleeps with his grandmother after his meddling gets his grandfather Enos killed in a bomb test, so Fry ends up fathering his own father.
Q 28Which episode won Futurama's first Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program, in 2002?
Roswell That Ends Well
Roswell That Ends Well won the 2002 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program; a microwave-and-supernova accident throws the crew back to 1947, where they become the Roswell incident.
Q 29What was the name of Fry's dog, whose fossil he finds in 'Jurassic Bark'?
Seymour
Seymour Asses was Fry's 20th-century dog, and Bender, jealous of the attention Fry gives the fossil, throws it into a pit of lava.
Q 30In Futurama, blernsball is the 30th-century version of which sport?
Baseball
Baseball was jazzed up into blernsball, and Leela becomes its first female pro because a team owner thinks a one-eyed woman beaning players will draw crowds.