Golden Globes Trivia
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45 free Golden Globes trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
46 free Golden Globes trivia questions with answers. The Golden Globes have been Hollywood's loosest awards night since 1944: dinner tables, open bars, and a voting body of foreign journalists that spent decades being accused of taking bribes for statuettes. This quiz covers the whole story, from the founding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to the 2022 boycott that took the show off television and the sale to Dick Clark Productions. You will be asked about record-setting films like La La Land and Nashville, memorable hosts from Ricky Gervais to Nikki Glaser, the Cecil B. DeMille and Carol Burnett lifetime awards, the odd eligibility rules that separate dramas from comedies, and famous moments such as Ving Rhames handing his trophy to Jack Lemmon and Christine Lahti being stuck in the bathroom when her name was read. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and ceremony records, so the questions are trustworthy enough for a party or an awards-season watch night. Difficulty runs from easy warm-ups to a few only a real awards-season obsessive will get.
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Q 01Which music biopic beat A Star Is Born to win Best Motion Picture – Drama at the 2019 Golden Globes?
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody won even though its director, Bryan Singer, was fired during filming; Dexter Fletcher finished the shoot while Singer kept sole credit.
Q 02The first Golden Globes were held during which war?
World War II
World War II: the first ceremony, in January 1944 at 20th Century Fox, handed out scrolls, because the globe statuette wasn't designed until the following year.
Q 03Which hotel's International Ballroom hosts the Golden Globes each year?
The Beverly Hilton
The Beverly Hilton: in 1987 it was bought by entertainer Merv Griffin, who created the game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.
Q 04Which pop star won the 1997 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy?
Madonna
Madonna won for playing Eva Perón in Evita, yet the Oscars didn't nominate her, even as the film's song 'You Must Love Me' won Best Original Song.
Q 05Which film set a Golden Globes record in 2017 by winning all seven of its nominations?
La La Land
La La Land swept all seven, then was wrongly announced as Best Picture at the Oscars before the envelope mix-up was caught and Moonlight named the winner.
Q 06Which 1975 Robert Altman film received a record 11 Golden Globe nominations?
Nashville
Nashville earned 11 nominations at the 1976 ceremony but won only one, for Keith Carradine's 'I'm Easy', which also took the Oscar for Best Original Song.
Q 07As of 2025, which performer holds the record for the most Golden Globe nominations?
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep used her 2017 Cecil B. DeMille Award speech to condemn Donald Trump's imitation of a disabled reporter, and Trump called her 'over-rated'.
Q 08In 2010, who became the first host of the Golden Globes since 1995?
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais's 2011 jokes at the nominees' expense drew complaints, yet he was back to host for a third straight year in 2012.
Q 09Which comedy duo hosted the Golden Globes three years running from 2013 to 2015?
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted in 2013, 2014 and 2015, then returned in 2021 for a pandemic show with Fey in New York and Poehler in California.
Q 10Who was the second recipient, in 1953, of the Golden Globes' film lifetime achievement award?
Walt Disney
Walt Disney followed Cecil B. DeMille, whose name went on the award because the press association wanted it to carry an internationally recognized and respected name.
Q 11Who became the first woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, in 1962?
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was honoured 12 years after MGM suspended her contract, following her repeated failures to report for work.
Q 12Which star received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1982, 18 years after winning the Best Actor Oscar?
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier had moved behind the camera by then, directing Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in the 1980 comedy Stir Crazy.
Q 13Which actress received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, 41 years after her father did?
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda bought the rights to On Golden Pond for her father, Henry, and the role won him the Best Actor Oscar.
Q 21Which comedian hosted the 2024 Golden Globes, drawing poor reviews for his monologue?
Jo Koy
Jo Koy later admitted he'd be lying if he said the backlash to his monologue didn't hurt.
Q 22Who became the first woman to host the Golden Globes solo, in January 2025?
Nikki Glaser
Nikki Glaser hosted the 82nd ceremony in January 2025, the first woman to do it alone; nominated the same night for her special Someday You'll Die, she lost to Ali Wong and was invited back for 2026.
Q 23Which film became the most-nominated musical or comedy in Golden Globes history, with 10 nods in 2025?
Emilia Pérez
Emilia Pérez won four Globes, but resurfaced offensive tweets by its star, Karla Sofía Gascón, soon got her sidelined from the film's Oscar campaign.
Q 14The Golden Globes' TV lifetime-achievement award, first presented in 2019, is named after which comedian?
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett accepted the first one herself; on her variety show she tugged her ear at the end of each episode as a message to her grandmother.
Q 15For which film did Barbra Streisand win the Golden Globe for Best Director?
Yentl
Yentl made Streisand the first woman to win the directing Globe, yet the Academy left her out of its Best Director nominations.
Q 16Who became the second woman to win the Best Director Golden Globe, in 2021?
Chloé Zhao
Chloé Zhao cast real nomads as versions of themselves in Nomadland, and two months later she won the Best Director Oscar as well.
Q 17Which actor won the 2021 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama posthumously?
Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Boseman won six months after dying of colon cancer, an illness he had kept private while he went on making films.
Q 18Which film received the first Golden Globe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement in 2024?
Barbie
Barbie won it, yet weeks later Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie were left out of the Oscar races for Best Director and Best Actress.
Q 19Which film led the 2024 Golden Globes with five wins, including Best Motion Picture, Drama?
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer went to Universal after Christopher Nolan split with Warner Bros., unhappy that it had put its 2021 films on HBO Max the same day as in cinemas.
Q 20Which Killers of the Flower Moon star won Best Actress – Drama at the 2024 Golden Globes?
Lily Gladstone
Lily Gladstone opened her acceptance speech in Blackfeet, the language of the community that raised her, before switching to English.
Q 24Flow, the 2025 Best Animated Feature winner, was the first film from which country to win a Golden Globe?
Latvia
Latvia had never won a Golden Globe before Flow, which beat Pixar's Inside Out 2 and DreamWorks' The Wild Robot, then won the Oscar too.
Q 25Which series made O Yeong-su the first Korean actor to win a Golden Globe, in 2022?
Squid Game
Squid Game: his character, the frail old man Oh Il-nam, turns out to be the game's creator.
Q 26What new category did the Golden Globes introduce at the 2026 ceremony?
Best Podcast
Best Podcast was added to honour a fast-rising medium, which Globes president Helen Hoehne called a new form of storytelling.
Q 27The 2008 Golden Globes ceremony was cancelled and replaced by a press conference because of what?
A Writers Guild strike
A Writers Guild strike, running from November 2007 to February 2008, threatened pickets that stars refused to cross, so the winners were read at a press conference.
Q 28Why was the 2022 Golden Globes ceremony held as a private, non-televised event?
A diversity boycott of the HFPA
A diversity boycott of the HFPA followed a February 2021 Los Angeles Times report that it had no Black members; NBC dropped the telecast and Tom Cruise returned his Globes.
Q 29Which actor won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best Actor – Drama, then his first Oscar weeks later?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio won both for The Revenant and used his Oscar speech to warn that climate change is real and happening right now.
Q 30Which network took over the Golden Globes broadcast from NBC starting with the January 2024 ceremony?
CBS
CBS: the switch followed the HFPA's 2023 sale of the Golden Globes to Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge.