High School Musical Trivia
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107 free High School Musical trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
59 free High School Musical trivia questions with answers. Get'cha head in the game: this High School Musical trivia quiz covers the whole Wildcats saga. It starts with the 2006 Disney Channel original, moves through the record-breaking Lava Springs summer of High School Musical 2 and the cinema release of Senior Year, then keeps going into Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, the concert and ice tours, and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series with Olivia Rodrigo. Expect questions on plot points, song titles, cast members and behind-the-scenes facts such as who really sang Troy's parts, whose dog played Boi, and how much Utah paid to keep the third film in Salt Lake City. Around a third are easy enough for anyone who has seen the films once, and the hardest will test lifelong fans. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and the source sentence appears under each question, so you can settle debates on the spot.
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Q 01Who is Troy's best friend and basketball teammate in High School Musical?
Chad Danforth
Chad Danforth helps trick Gabriella into thinking Troy doesn't care, to keep Troy focused on basketball, then owns up and helps them make the callback.
Q 02The writer and many critics have called High School Musical a modern version of which Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet ends in tragedy, but here the schemes to split the couple fail: Troy and Gabriella win the leads, and both their teams win too.
Q 03Where do Troy and Gabriella first meet, singing a karaoke duet on New Year's Eve?
A ski lodge
A ski lodge: the two are pulled from the crowd to sing, and back home Troy discovers Gabriella has just transferred to his school.
Q 04What is Troy's surname in High School Musical?
Bolton
Bolton: Troy's father Jack, the basketball coach, disapproves at first but comes around and supports Troy doing the musical.
Q 05Which High School Musical 2 song does Troy sing alone after his friends turn on him?
Bet on It
Bet on It: fed up with everyone steering his life, Troy realizes how he let his friends down and vows to make things right.
Q 06Which academic team does Gabriella join at East High?
Scholastic decathlon
Scholastic decathlon: jealous Sharpay secretly tips off captain Taylor McKessie about Gabriella's academic record, so Taylor will recruit her for the team.
Q 07Which East High student composes the songs for the school musical in the first High School Musical?
Kelsi Nielsen
Kelsi Nielsen drops her sheet music, Troy and Gabriella sing her song as a slow ballad, and Ms. Darbus overhears and gives them a callback.
Q 08What two things does drama teacher Ms. Darbus dislike in High School Musical?
Sports and cell phones
Sports and cell phones: she feuds with the basketball coach, yet she ends up casting his star player, Troy, as the musical's lead.
Q 09Who provided most of Troy's singing voice in the first High School Musical?
Drew Seeley
Drew Seeley's vocals were blended with Zac Efron's in post-production, but Efron insisted on singing his own parts in both sequels.
Q 10Which song has students confessing passions like hip-hop dancing and the cello in the cafeteria?
Stick to the Status Quo
Stick to the Status Quo: Troy's audition inspires the confessions, which shock students who want every clique to stay in its place.
Q 11Which song do Sharpay and Ryan perform at their callback audition in High School Musical?
Bop to the Top
Bop to the Top: to stay in the spotlight, Sharpay and Ryan get the callbacks moved to clash with Troy's championship game and Gabriella's academic contest.
Q 12How is the championship game halted so Troy can reach the callback in High School Musical?
A computer hack
A computer hack stops the game, while a smelly chemical reaction clears Gabriella's academic contest, so the pair reach the callback in time.
Q 13What does Zeke give Sharpay in the post-credits scene of the first High School Musical?
A bag of cookies
Q 21What does a jealous Sharpay have turned on to spoil Troy and Gabriella's picnic in High School Musical 2?
The sprinklers
The sprinklers: Troy and Gabriella's kiss has to wait until the fireworks after the talent show, when they finally manage one.
Q 22Which song opens High School Musical 2 on the last day of school?
What Time Is It?
What Time Is It?: school's out, and Troy is desperately hunting for a summer job to help pay for college.
Q 23Which song does Gabriella sing as she quits her summer job and leaves Troy in High School Musical 2?
Gotta Go My Own Way
Gotta Go My Own Way: she quits after Sharpay has junior staff banned from the talent show, and leaves a changed Troy.
A bag of cookies: Zeke's baking finally impresses Sharpay, and in the third film she asks him to the prom.
Q 14Which song from the first High School Musical peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100?
Breaking Free
Breaking Free: Troy and Gabriella sing it at the callbacks in front of the entire student body, and it wins them the lead roles.
Q 15What is the name of the East High winter musical in the first High School Musical?
Twinkle Towne
Twinkle Towne: Sharpay had starred in 17 school productions, but its auditions bring her first real rivals, Troy and Gabriella.
Q 16By 2007, roughly how many DVDs of the first High School Musical had sold worldwide?
8 million
8 million: Disney Channel airs no commercials, so the film's windfall came from DVDs, soundtracks and merchandise instead.
Q 17High School Musical was the first feature-length video sold on which digital service, in March 2006?
iTunes
iTunes: Disney had just agreed to buy Pixar, in a deal that would give Apple boss Steve Jobs a seat on Disney's board.
Q 18Which Disney Channel show's musical episode did Gary Marsh credit for High School Musical getting made?
Even Stevens
Even Stevens: in Influenza: The Musical, flu-stricken Ren, set on keeping her perfect attendance, dreams her school day turns into a musical.
Q 19What is Ryan Evans to Sharpay in High School Musical?
Twin brother
Twin brother: Ryan goes along with Sharpay's schemes until the sequel, when she swaps him for Troy in their talent-show act.
Q 20Where do the Wildcats take summer jobs in High School Musical 2?
A country club
A country club: Sharpay has the manager hire Troy, but Troy agrees only if Gabriella and their friends get jobs too.
Q 24Which song do Ryan and the Wildcats perform during the staff baseball game in High School Musical 2?
I Don't Dance
I Don't Dance: Ryan's baseball challenge turns into a dance number, and he talks the Wildcats into entering the talent show.
Q 25Which song does Ryan hand Troy moments before the talent show, which Troy then sings with Gabriella?
Everyday
Everyday: the Wildcats join them onstage, and Sharpay, a regular winner of the talent-show award, hands it to Ryan instead.
Q 26Which Disney star makes a cameo as a pool-party guest at the end of High School Musical 2?
Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus: at the staff party even Sharpay, who spent the summer trying to drive the Wildcats out, sings along with them.
Q 27What summer job does Gabriella take in High School Musical 2?
Lifeguard
Lifeguard: Sharpay's summer is spoiled by finding Gabriella on staff, and try as she might, she can't get her fired.
Q 28Which animated series, with Ashley Tisdale's voice, previewed after High School Musical 2?
Phineas and Ferb
Phineas and Ferb: networks passed on it for years, and even Disney first said no, before picking up the show.
Q 29Which college basketball team does Troy get to practise with thanks to Sharpay's string-pulling?
Albuquerque
Albuquerque: Sharpay's father uses his university connections to dangle a scholarship, and chasing it, Troy starts letting his friends down.
Q 30Which rival team do the Wildcats beat in the championship game that opens High School Musical 3?
The West High Knights
The West High Knights: East High is badly behind at halftime until Troy's pep talk rallies his teammates to victory.