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109 free Game Shows trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
67 free Game show trivia questions with answers. Game show trivia is trivia about trivia, which makes it the most self-aware round on any quiz night. This one covers the giants: the show that gives you the answer and demands the question, the hangman game with a carnival wheel bolted on, the pricing marathon that runs nine contestants down to two, and the British format that made one contestant sweat alone under the lights. There is also the dark chapter. In the late 1950s an NBC quiz was so thoroughly choreographed that contestants were told when to mop their brows, and it ended in congressional testimony from a Columbia teacher who had been handed every answer. Forty questions run from easy host-spotting to expert detail on announcers, working titles and Dutch format origins, and every answer carries the sourced sentence that proves it. Perfect for a television round, a family quiz, or settling who really hosted what.
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Q 01Who created Jeopardy!?
Merv Griffin
Merv Griffin. The show's success helped him sell his production company to Coca-Cola for $250 million in 1986.
Q 02What is the format twist that defines Jeopardy!?
Clues are given as answers
Clues are given as answers, a switch the creator's wife suggested as a twist on the question-and-answer quizzes of the 1950s.
Q 03Who hosted every version of Jeopardy! between 1964 and 1979?
Art Fleming
Art Fleming. After each cancellation he went back to acting, and the 1984 syndicated revival went to Alex Trebek instead.
Q 04Ken Jennings' 74-game Jeopardy! streak ended on a clue about which company?
H&R Block
H&R Block. Jennings wrote 'What is FedEx?', and Nancy Zerg, who got it right, ended his run.
Q 05On which quiz show was Ken Jennings nicknamed 'The Professor'?
The Chase
The Chase. In 2025 he and Matt Damon also won $1 million for the charity Water.org on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Q 06What game is Wheel of Fortune based on?
Hangman
Hangman. Its creator said the idea came from the game he and his sister played in the back seat on family car trips.
Q 07Which quiz host was falsely rumoured to have played the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street'?
Bob Holness
Bob Holness. The story is thought to have begun as a spoof in the NME; the real player was Raphael Ravenscroft.
Q 08Which pair hosted the original 1975 daytime Wheel of Fortune?
Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford
Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. Woolery was let go in 1981 after asking for a raise from $65,000 to about $500,000 a year, and Pat Sajak replaced him.
Q 09Which improv comedy show's American host took over The Price Is Right in 2007?
Drew Carey
Drew Carey. He turned the job down at first, but CBS called back a few weeks later and talked him into it.
Q 10Who hosted The Price Is Right from 1972 until 2007?
Bob Barker
Bob Barker. His cameo beating up Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore even won an MTV Movie Award for best fight.
Q 11Where were the original Mastermind episodes recorded?
In universities and churches
In universities and churches. It began in a late-night slot, but in 1973 the BBC moved it to prime time to replace a risqué sitcom.
Q 12Which announcer called 'Come on down!' on The Price Is Right from 1986 to 2003?
Rod Roddy
Rod Roddy. Ill with cancer for more than two years, he kept working as long as he could before his death in 2003.
Q 13Who Wants to Be a Millionaire began in which country?
The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom. ITV launched it in 1998, yet nobody won the £1 million top prize until November 2000.
Q 21Where were contestants placed while answering on NBC's rigged quiz show Twenty-One?
In separate isolation booths
In separate isolation booths. The air conditioning in Herb Stempel's booth was periodically turned off so viewers would see him sweat.
Q 22Which Twenty-One champion lost an NBC contract after confessing to Congress to being fed answers?
Charles Van Doren
Charles Van Doren. He rebuilt his career at Encyclopaedia Britannica, eventually rising to vice-president.
Q 23Which Best Picture winner did Herb Stempel deliberately miss on Twenty-One?
Marty
Marty. It was one of his favourite films, but he answered On the Waterfront, the previous year's winner, as producer Dan Enright had instructed.
Q 14Which future TV psychologist won The $64,000 Question by answering questions about boxing?
Joyce Brothers
Joyce Brothers. Producers wanted surprising pairings of expert and subject, like a Marine who was an expert cook.
Q 15Which 1956 film supplied Millionaire with its title, via a Cole Porter song?
High Society
High Society. The show's working title was Cash Mountain until a TV executive named it after the song.
Q 16Who hosted the original British Millionaire from 1998 to 2014?
Chris Tarrant
Jeremy Clarkson took over for the 20th anniversary revival in 2018.
Q 17What do two families compete to guess on Family Feud?
The most popular survey answers
The most popular survey answers. The original host kissed so many female contestants that he was nicknamed 'The Kissing Bandit'.
Q 18Who hosted the original 1976 run of Family Feud?
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson. He later parodied his TV persona as the murderous host of a deadly game show in Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Running Man.
Q 19Which BBC quiz was dreamed up as a reverse Family Fortunes?
Pointless
Pointless. Richard Osman only stood in as co-host when it was pitched to the BBC, but the bosses asked him to do the job for real.
Q 20Who stepped down as Jeopardy! host in 2021, just days after being named to the job?
Mike Richards
Mike Richards. Offensive remarks from his old podcast resurfaced, and he quit after taping just one day of episodes.
Q 24Which quiz host was spoofed in a 1984 episode of The Young Ones?
Bamber Gascoigne
Bamber Gascoigne. The country house he inherited in 2014, West Horsley Place, later became Button House in the BBC sitcom Ghosts.
Q 25In Deal or No Deal, what is the unseen adversary called?
The Banker
The Banker. In 2015 the Banker on the Channel 4 version was revealed to be one of its own producers, Glenn Hugill.
Q 26Which Dutch show gave rise to the Deal or No Deal format?
Miljoenenjacht
Miljoenenjacht. It started out as a straight quiz and only added the briefcase game as its finale in December 2002.
Q 27On Match Game, what are contestants trying to match?
Celebrity panellists' answers
Celebrity panellists' answers. NBC dropped the show in 1969, but CBS revived it in 1973 with a bigger star panel, and it ran six more years.
Q 28Who hosted Match Game on NBC in the 1960s and on CBS in the 1970s?
Gene Rayburn
Gene Rayburn. He later said work dried up once Entertainment Tonight began revealing his age.
Q 29Which comedian hosted NBC's Deal or No Deal when it debuted in 2005?
Howie Mandel
Howie Mandel. Because of his OCD and fear of germs, he often greeted contestants with fist bumps instead of handshakes.
Q 30Which producer created The Dating Game?
Chuck Barris
Chuck Barris. His memoir Confessions of a Dangerous Mind claimed he had also been a CIA assassin, a claim the CIA denied.