Girl Meets World Trivia
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50 free Girl Meets World trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Girl Meets World ran for three seasons and 72 episodes on Disney Channel, following Cory and Topanga's daughter Riley and her best friend Maya through middle school, high school and one very contested love triangle. This quiz covers the core cast, the Boy Meets World characters who came back (Shawn, Eric, Minkus, Uncle Josh), the episodes fans still argue about (Texas, Ski Lodge, Rileytown, the Bay Window), Cory's history lessons, the fan campaign after the cancellation and the Belgium 1831 lesson that finally closed the series. Ring power optional.
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Q 01On which network did Girl Meets World premiere on June 27, 2014?
Disney Channel
Disney Channel drew about 5.2 million viewers for the premiere, even though it had already released the pilot to users of its apps a month earlier.
Q 02Which Boy Meets World teacher appears in the Girl Meets World pilot to tell Cory, 'Well done, Mr. Matthews'?
Mr. Feeny
Mr. Feeny, played once more by William Daniels, appears in front of a 'Stay in School' billboard of himself just long enough to say it; when Cory looks again, only the billboard is there.
Q 03Who plays Riley Matthews in Girl Meets World?
Rowan Blanchard
Rowan Blanchard was 11 when she won the part, and she also sings the show's theme song, 'Take On the World', as a duet with her co-star.
Q 04Which future pop star plays Riley's best friend Maya Hart in Girl Meets World?
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter, years before 'Espresso' topped charts worldwide, shared the screen with her own sister: Sarah Carpenter turns up as a classmate named Sarah.
Q 05In Girl Meets World, what subject does Cory Matthews teach Riley's class?
History
History, and Cory does not stop at middle school: when Riley's class moves up in season 3, he moves up too and is teaching them again on their first day of high school.
Q 06Who plays Riley's father, Cory Matthews, in Girl Meets World?
Ben Savage
Ben Savage, who first played Cory as a boy in 1993, also stepped behind the camera on the spin-off and directed several episodes himself.
Q 07Before moving to New York, Cory and Topanga of Girl Meets World grew up in which city?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia was the setting of Boy Meets World; in season 2 the family drives back there to dig up a time capsule that Cory and his friends had buried fifteen years earlier.
Q 08In Girl Meets World, Farkle is the son of which Boy Meets World character, Topanga's old academic rival?
Stuart Minkus
Stuart Minkus, the class brain of Boy Meets World's first season, returns with Lee Norris back in the role, and he and Topanga pick their old rivalry straight back up at the school's career day.
Q 09Where does Riley first meet Lucas Friar in the Girl Meets World pilot?
On the subway
On the subway, where Maya lets go of Riley's grip just as the train brakes and she lands in his lap; her parents had only just agreed to let the girls ride it alone.
Q 10What secret about Lucas's past does his old friend Zay let slip in Girl Meets World?
He was expelled from school
He was expelled from school back in Austin after stepping in when Zay got into trouble with other students, and his father's transfer to New York gave him a fresh start.
Q 11In 'Girl Meets Boy', why can Maya cope when Cory confiscates everyone's phones?
She does not own a smartphone
She does not own a smartphone, so she alone is not lost without one. In the library she proves a gifted artist with just pencil and paper, and Cory ends up handing her a phone of her own.
Q 12Which annual tradition does Riley skip for her first school dance in 'Girl Meets Father'?
Riding the Coney Island Cyclone
Riding the Coney Island Cyclone with her father, a ritual since she was small; Cory copes by turning up as a chaperone and claiming the last dance with both Riley and Maya.
Q 13In Girl Meets World, which older girl from down the hall dates Riley's little brother?
Q 21In Girl Meets World's second season, Cory's goofball older brother is recruited to run for which office?
New York senator
New York senator: he is picked as a patsy to make the sitting senator look good, but his speech about making elections matter to children wins him the seat.
Q 22In Girl Meets World, which astronomical news shocks Riley in season 2?
Pluto is no longer a planet
Pluto is no longer a planet, Maya informs her, years after the rest of the world found out; Riley is attached enough to put her 'Pluto ball' into the class time capsule.
Q 23When detention splits in two in 'Girl Meets Rules', what does 'Rileytown' stand for?
Order and structure
Ava
Ava Morgenstern, played by Ava Kolker, bosses her little boyfriend around, and Topanga cannot stand her at first; once Ava's snobbish mother turns up at a book club, Topanga sees where the attitude comes from.
Q 14In Girl Meets World, what job does Maya's mother Katy hold while dreaming of being an actress?
Waitress
Waitress Katy is so afraid of embarrassing her daughter that she misses Career Day and the art fair, then sends Maya's favourite tuna melt along with Riley instead.
Q 15What is Topanga's profession when Girl Meets World begins?
Lawyer
Lawyer Topanga ends up with a second career: she inherits a neighbourhood bakery from its elderly owner, Mrs. Svorski, and renames it Topanga's.
Q 16In 'Girl Meets 1961', Riley learns about which ancestor who kept a journal?
Her great-grandmother Rosie McGee
Her great-grandmother Rosie McGee met the other friends' ancestors in a Greenwich Village café in 1961, and her journal muses that 'Topanga' is a beautiful name, a hint at how Riley's mother got hers.
Q 17Which Boy Meets World bully turns up in Girl Meets World as the middle school's janitor?
Harley Keiner
Harley Keiner, who used to terrorise Cory at school, now keeps the halls clean at the school where Cory teaches, and the two old enemies have become good friends.
Q 18Who reprises his Boy Meets World role as Cory's best friend in Girl Meets World?
Rider Strong
Rider Strong returns as Shawn in a Christmas episode, where Shawn admits he left New York when Riley was born because he felt left behind once his best friend had started a family.
Q 19In Girl Meets World, Maya has a long-running crush on which member of the Matthews family?
Joshua
Joshua, Cory's teenage brother, keeps reminding Maya of their age gap, but in season 3 he finally admits there could be a chance for the two of them in the future.
Q 20Whom does Cory call in to mediate Riley and Maya's feud in 'Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels'?
Eric
Eric gets the call because Cory remembers him settling a feud back in their college days; he hears both girls out, then shows the whole class that such troubles are normal at their age.
Order and structure: the quieter students stay put in Rileytown while the rebels walk out to found Mayaville, until each side learns that it needs the other for balance.
Q 24In Girl Meets World, new English teacher Harper Burgess gets in trouble for teaching which graphic novel?
The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller's Batman story, nearly costs her the job, and Cory's too when he defends her, until the superintendent, Cory's own old teacher Mr. Turner, takes her side.
Q 25In 'Girl Meets Yearbook', who reinvents himself as a regular guy named Donnie?
Farkle
Farkle becomes 'Donnie Barnes, regular guy' after the yearbook gives him a category all his own, while Riley turns gloomy; Lucas protests that both should go back to being themselves.
Q 26In Girl Meets World, Charlie Gardner beats Lucas to asking Riley to which event?
The semi-formal dance
The semi-formal dance: Lucas had simply assumed that he and Riley were going together, so Charlie's polite invitation forces her to work out how she really feels.
Q 27Which rival school does Smackle invite her debate nemesis to join in Girl Meets World?
Einstein Academy
Einstein Academy is where she thinks a newly certified genius belongs, but after sitting in on Cory's class she decides her rival is better off staying with his friends.
Q 28Which famous feud frames the class lesson on resolving conflicts in Girl Meets World's bullying episode?
Burr vs. Hamilton
Burr vs. Hamilton inspires Riley to challenge Maya to a duel of her own, fought at the bakery with ice cream cones instead of pistols.
Q 29In 'Girl Meets Texas', what contest do Riley and Maya mistakenly enter Lucas into?
Bull riding
Bull riding: having heard that he once fell off a sheep at a children's rodeo, they sign him up to redeem himself without grasping the danger, and Maya's panic shows Riley how she really feels about him.
Q 30Which other sitcom's title pair drop in on a Girl Meets World Halloween episode?
Austin & Ally
Austin & Ally stars Ross Lynch and Laura Marano turn up in character as Austin Moon and Ally Dawson in the show's second Halloween special, a set of spooky tales narrated by Riley's little brother.