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 the series premiere on June 27, 2014?
Disney Channel
It ran for three seasons and 72 episodes, ending on January 20, 2017.
Q 02The series is a spin-off of which 1990s sitcom?
Boy Meets World
Co-creator Michael Jacobs reached out to the entire original cast, and several reprised their roles.
Q 03Who plays Riley Matthews?
Rowan Blanchard
She and Sabrina Carpenter were cast by the end of January 2013, and the pilot was shot that March.
Q 04Which future pop star plays Riley's best friend Maya Hart?
Sabrina Carpenter
Maya was written as a witty friend with a troubled past, raised by her waitress mother Katy after her father left.
Q 05What subject does Cory Matthews teach to Riley's class?
History
His lessons at John Quincy Adams Middle School, and later Abigail Adams High, always double as life lessons for the group.
Q 06Who plays Riley's father, Cory Matthews?
Ben Savage
Savage and Danielle Fishel confirmed their return as Cory and Topanga in November 2012, before the show was even greenlit.
Q 07What is the name of Riley's younger brother?
Auggie
Played by August Maturo. An older brother named Elliot was in the pilot but was written out before the series.
Q 08Which character is the son of Cory and Topanga's old classmate Stuart, Topanga's rival?
Farkle Minkus
Corey Fogelmanis plays him. Lee Norris returned as Stuart, whose rivalry with Topanga carries over from the original show.
Q 09Where does Riley first meet Lucas Friar in the pilot?
On the subway
Her parents let the girls ride the subway on the condition that they 'make the world theirs'.
Q 10Lucas originally moved to New York from which state?
Texas
His old friend Zay later transfers in from Texas too, and the season 2 Texas trilogy visits his hometown.
Q 11In 'Girl Meets Boy', why can Maya cope when Cory confiscates everyone's phones?
She does not own a smartphone
The class is sent to the library to research whether technology has made people better.
Q 12Which annual tradition does Riley skip for her first school dance in 'Girl Meets Father'?
Riding the Coney Island Cyclone
In the same episode Cory gives Maya an F and she briefly quits school.
Q 13What is the name of Riley's brother's older girlfriend from down the hall?
Ava
Ava Morgenstern, played by Ava Kolker, bosses Auggie around; Topanga initially cannot stand her.
Q 21What political office does Eric run for in 'Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels Goes to Washington'?
New York senator
By 'Girl Meets Semi-Formal' he is the newly elected senator.
Q 22Which astronomical news shocks Riley at the start of a season 2 episode?
Pluto is no longer a planet
Cory then digs up the time capsule he, Topanga and Shawn buried fifteen years earlier.
Q 23In 'Girl Meets Rules', what does Maya call Riley's orderly half of the detention classroom?
Rileytown
Maya's group represents chaos. The word later becomes a flashpoint in the bullying episode named after it.
Q 14What job does Maya's mother Katy have while she dreams of being an actress?
Waitress
She reveals it on Career Day, the same episode in which Stuart Minkus and Topanga resume their rivalry.
Q 15Isadora Smackle is introduced as a debate champion from a rival school and whose nemesis?
Farkle's
Played by Cecilia Balagot, she eventually becomes Farkle's girlfriend and joins the group at high school.
Q 16In 'Girl Meets 1961', Riley learns about which ancestor who kept a journal?
Her great-grandmother Rosie McGee
Cory assigns the project after his lessons on the 1960s fail to land with the class.
Q 17Which Boy Meets World character is Maya trying to set up with her mother in 'Girl Meets Master Plan'?
Shawn Hunter
The plan hatches on Maya's 14th birthday. Shawn and Katy eventually marry in season 3's 'Girl Meets I Do'.
Q 18Who plays Cory's best friend, reprising his Boy Meets World role as Maya's future stepfather?
Rider Strong
He first appears in 'Girl Meets Home for the Holidays', having spent the years since the original show as a writer and photographer.
Q 19Maya has a long-running crush on which member of the Matthews family?
Joshua
Cory's teenage brother, played by Uriah Shelton, is three years older than her and keeps pointing out the age gap.
Q 20Cory calls on which brother to mediate Riley and Maya's feud in 'Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels'?
Eric
Will Friedle's goofball character later gets nominated to run for New York senator in a sequel episode.
Q 24New English teacher Harper Burgess gets in trouble for teaching which graphic novel?
The Dark Knight Returns
Principal Yancy objects to the Frank Miller book, but her unconventional style inspires Maya in particular.
Q 25In 'Girl Meets Yearbook', who reinvents himself as a regular guy named Donnie?
Farkle
He and Riley both try to change after disliking what the yearbook says about them; he is unique enough to have his own yearbook category.
Q 26Who asks Riley to the dance in 'Girl Meets Semi-Formal', beating Lucas to it?
Charlie Gardner
Tanner Buchanan plays him. He later shares his theory that a relationship needs both sense and sensibility.
Q 27Which rival school does Smackle invite her nemesis to transfer to?
Einstein Academy
The invitation comes at the party the Minkuses throw at Topanga's after his IQ results.
Q 28Which historical feud frames the conflict-resolution lesson in the season 2 bullying episode?
Burr vs. Hamilton
Riley calls Maya a bully after the mere mention of 'Rileytown', and the episode deals with her being harassed.
Q 29In 'Girl Meets Texas', what contest do Riley and Maya mistakenly enter Lucas into?
Bull riding
They had heard he failed a sheep-riding contest as a kid. The three-part trip ends the love triangle's first phase.
Q 30Zay reunites with which old flame during the Texas trip?
Vanessa
Riley and Maya engineer the reunion on the group's first night out in Texas.