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
He dreamed it up in the mid-1990s while working on The Simpsons and brought in Simpsons writer David X. Cohen to develop it.
Q 02On what date is Fry revived from cryogenic sleep?
December 31, 2999
He fell into the tube just after midnight on January 1, 2000, and the show's writers later revealed that Nibbler pushed him.
Q 03What was Fry's job in 1999 before he was frozen?
Pizza delivery boy
He worked at Panucci's Pizza and was delivering to Applied Cryogenics on a prank order when he fell into the tube.
Q 04Where does Futurama take its name from?
A pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair
General Motors' exhibit promised "The World of Tomorrow," a slogan the pilot episode mocks.
Q 05What is Bender originally programmed to do?
Bend girders
His girders were used to build suicide booths, which is why he tries to kill himself in one when Fry first meets him.
Q 06What does Bender need to drink to power his fuel cells?
Alcohol
When he sobers up he behaves like a drunk, complete with slurred speech and rusty stubble.
Q 07What is Bender's catchphrase insult?
Bite my shiny metal ass
His most terrifying nightmare, by contrast, is a vision of the number 2, a binary joke.
Q 08Bender's in-universe designation is 1729. Why did the writers pick it?
It is the taxicab number: the smallest sum of two cubes in two ways
His serial number 2716057 is also a sum of two cubes, a joke he shares with his double Flexo.
Q 09Who built Bender?
Mom's Friendly Robot Company
Mom owns 99.7 percent of MomCorp and has a monopoly on robot production, which she uses to attempt a robot uprising.
Q 10Who voices Bender?
John DiMaggio
He described the voice as a mix of a sloppy drunk, Slim Pickens and a college friend's character called Charlie the sausage-lover.
Q 11Billy West voices Fry, Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan, plus which other main character?
Hubert Farnsworth
He built Fry's voice from an impression of himself at age 25.
Q 12Which cast member is the only one to voice a single character?
Katey Sagal
She plays Leela; every other regular doubles as several minor characters.
Q 13Leela turns out to be what, rather than the alien she assumed?
A sewer mutant
Her parents Morris and Munda live under New New York; David X. Cohen planned the reveal before the show was even pitched.
Q 21Zapp Brannigan was originally created for which actor, who died before the show aired?
Phil Hartman
Billy West took over and gave the character a self-satisfied William Shatner cadence.
Q 22What is the name of Zapp Brannigan's starship?
Nimbus
He first appears in "Love's Labours Lost in Space," jailing Fry, Leela and Bender for violating Brannigan's Law.
Q 23Kif Kroker, Zapp's long-suffering aide, is an amphibious alien from which planet?
Amphibios 9
He compares his own body plan to a sea cucumber, and he ends up the partner of Amy Wong.
Q 14What was Leela's job when Fry first met her?
A cryogenics-lab career officer
She quit after meeting Fry and became captain of the Planet Express ship.
Q 15The Planet Express boss is Fry's distant relative in which direction?
His nephew and descendant
Because Fry becomes his own grandfather, the Professor is both his great-times-30 nephew and his direct descendant.
Q 16Complete the Professor's catchphrase: "Good news, ..."
everyone!
He uses it to unveil an invention or announce a delivery, usually a suicide mission.
Q 17What is Zoidberg's home planet?
Decapod 10
Billy West performs the crustacean doctor with a Yiddish-inflected accent inspired by George Jessel and Lou Jacobi.
Q 18Where is Hermes Conrad from?
Jamaica
Phil LaMarr says the character was originally named Dexter and had no accent; the bureaucrat's other passion is limbo.
Q 19Why did Hermes give up competitive limbo?
A young fan imitating him broke his back and died
He returns to the sport in the episode "Bend Her" and again in the Comedy Central era.
Q 20Amy Wong is heiress to what?
The western hemisphere of Mars
Her parents Leo and Inez run a buggalo ranch there, a hybrid of buffalo and bug.
Q 24Which former US president's head serves as President of Earth?
Richard Nixon
His head is sometimes accompanied by Spiro Agnew's headless body.
Q 25Lrrr, who always introduces himself by his title, is ruler of which planet?
Omicron Persei 8
Maurice LaMarche won an Emmy in 2011 for voicing him alongside Orson Welles in "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences."
Q 26Fry is immune to the Brainspawn because his brain lacks what?
The Delta brainwave
The defect exists because he is his own grandfather, and it also makes him immune to the Hypnotoad.
Q 27How does Fry become his own grandfather during the crew's accidental trip to 1947?
He sleeps with his grandmother after deciding she can't be his grandmother
The Professor's warning about killing his grandfather Enos backfires spectacularly, and the episode won the 2002 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program.
Q 28Which episode won Futurama's first Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program, in 2002?
Roswell That Ends Well
The crew is thrown back to 1947 by a microwave-supernova accident and become the Roswell incident.
Q 29In "Jurassic Bark," Fry finds the fossil of his dog. What was the dog's name?
Seymour
The closing flashback of Seymour waiting outside Panucci's Pizza for years is routinely called one of the saddest scenes in animation.
Q 30Where did Fry's dog faithfully wait for him after he vanished?
Outside Panucci's Pizza
The episode lost the Emmy to The Simpsons' "Three Gays of the Condo," a decision fans still complain about.