50 free Hard Rick and Morty trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This hard Rick and Morty trivia quiz goes deeper than Pickle Rick. It asks what the Channel 101 short that started it all was called, who suggested Rick should be Morty's grandfather, where the theme song came from, which episode won the show's first Emmy, what the Central Finite Curve actually is, what Rick Prime used to kill every Diane, who voices Birdperson, and who took over as Rick and Morty in season seven. The Meeseeks Box, the Jerryboree, Space Beth, Total Rickall, The Ricklantis Mixup, the Szechuan sauce stunt and the animation studios all come up. It is written for lore-hunting fans and quiz hosts who need a properly hard round; our main Rick and Morty trivia page has the easier material. Expect nearly everything at hard or expert level. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the series, its episodes and its characters, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01What was the title of the Channel 101 short that Rick and Morty grew out of?
The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti
Roiland made it in 2006 after being fired from a show he found creatively stifling; Doc Brown and Marty McFly were the targets.
Q 02Which Adult Swim executive suggested that Rick should be Morty's grandfather?
Nick Weidenfeld
Harmon wanted a family around the two voices, and Roiland had wanted just an eleven-minute segment.
Q 03How long did the first draft of the pilot take, and where was it written?
Six hours, in Harmon's empty Community office
That office was on the Paramount Pictures lot, and it had no furniture yet.
Q 04Ryan Elder's theme song was originally written for which rejected Cartoon Network pilot by Roiland?
Dog World
The episode Lawnmower Dog nods to it.
Q 05On what date did the pilot air on Adult Swim?
December 2, 2013
Season one ran eleven episodes and ended with Ricksy Business in April 2014.
Q 06Which was the first episode to carry a TV-MA rating, after season one's tamer TV-14?
Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate
The staff had been reluctant about the TV-14 tag from the start.
Q 07Who took over the voices of Rick and Morty from season seven?
Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden
Adult Swim cut ties with Justin Roiland in 2023 amid domestic abuse allegations; the season premiered on October 15, 2023.
Q 08In which year did the show win its first Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program?
2018
Pickle Rick won it; The Vat of Acid Episode took the second in 2020.
Q 09Who plays Jaguar, the prisoner sent to fight Pickle Rick?
Danny Trejo
Susan Sarandon voices the family therapist Dr. Wong in the same episode.
Q 10Who wrote Pickle Rick?
Jessica Gao
Anthony Chun directed it and it aired on August 6, 2017.
Q 11Albro Lundy co-wrote The Vat of Acid Episode with which writer, later of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?
Jeff Loveness
Morty goads Rick into building a save-point button, and the episode won the 2020 Emmy.
Q 12On what date did The Rickshank Rickdemption air unannounced as a holiday prank?
April 1, 2017
It replayed every half hour until midnight, and its Szechuan sauce gag sent McDonald's scrambling.
Q 13In The Rickshank Rickdemption, which alien enters Rick's mind to steal the portal gun's secret?
Cornvelious Daniel
Nathan Fillion voiced him, and Rick fed him a fake origin story.
Q 21Why does Rick call his Morty the Mortiest Morty?
His courage, which most Mortys lack
Most Mortys are just cloaking devices whose Morty waves cancel a Rick's genius waves.
Q 22Morty's half-alien son from Raising Gazorpazorp is named what?
Mortimer Smith Jr.
Naruto is a different Morty offspring, born in Rickdependence Spray.
Q 23Solaricks reveals that the show's Jerry was swapped at which facility?
The Jerryboree
It is the daycare a Rick built because every Jerry is incapable of surviving off Earth; the swap happened in Mortynight Run.
Q 14What is the Central Finite Curve, per Rickmurai Jack?
A barrier isolating universes where Rick is smartest
Rick built it along with the Council and the Citadel; Evil Morty burns the Citadel's population as fuel to escape it.
Q 15Evil Morty first appears in which episode, wearing an eyepatch to control his own grandfather?
Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind
He becomes Candidate Morty and then President Morty of the Citadel in The Ricklantis Mixup.
Q 16Who created Evil Morty?
Stephen Sandoval and Ryan Ridley
His Rick is designated 79⊢⊇V, and he built the mind-control eyepatch to escape the Curve.
Q 17The Ricklantis Mixup is also known by what alternate title?
Tales from the Citadel
It is season three's seventh episode and follows the Citadel while the main pair go to Atlantis offscreen.
Q 18In Unmortricken, Rick Prime reveals he killed every universe's Diane using what?
The Omega Device
He also sends Evil Morty's ally into it; C-137 had originally moved in with the Prime family purely to hunt him.
Q 19Who voices Rick's late wife Diane?
Kari Wahlgren
Wahlgren also voices Jessica; Diane died from a bomb sent through a portal as the family prepared to go for ice cream.
Q 20What is Morty's full name?
Mortimer Chauncey Smith
He is 14, and commentary for Solaricks designates him Morty Prime.
Q 24Beth became pregnant with Summer at what age?
17
It derailed her plan to become a real surgeon, so she operates on horses instead.
Q 25Hot Rick reveals that Space Beth has what inside her?
A metal skull and robotic spine
Rick erased his own memory of which Beth is the clone, so neither Beth cares any more.
Q 26In Meeseeks and Destroy, what does Jerry ask his Meeseeks to do?
Take two strokes off his golf game
Beth's and Summer's Meeseeks succeed at once; Jerry's multiply and take a restaurant hostage.
Q 27Who voices Birdperson?
Dan Harmon
He is killed by his bride Tammy, rebuilt as Phoenixperson, and revived by Rick in Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort.
Q 28Tammy Gueterman turns out to be an undercover agent of what?
The Galactic Federation
She kills Birdperson at their wedding in The Wedding Squanchers and later turns him into Phoenixperson.
Q 29Who voices Squanchy?
Tom Kenny
The SpongeBob actor squanches his way through the wedding episode; LaMarche is Abradolf Lincler and Daly is Krombopulos Michael.
Q 30Total Rickall's clip-show structure was inspired by the introduction of which TV character?
Dawn Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy's sister appeared out of nowhere and nobody questioned it, just like the parasites' false memories.