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50 free Homer Simpson trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Homer Simpson has been bumbling through Springfield since the late 1980s, and in that time he has been an astronaut, a boxer, a union boss and a singer, among well over a hundred other jobs. Few characters on television have done so much while learning so little, which is exactly why he makes such good quiz material. This quiz covers the whole of Homer: his family and drinking buddies, his workplace, his best-known episodes and the film, the stars who have lent their voices to the people he meets, and the real-life story of how the character was created and performed. The questions start gently and get tougher, so the quiz suits casual viewers who know the classics as well as fans who can name an episode from a single scene. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which annoyed grunt made famous by Homer Simpson was added to the Oxford English Dictionary?
D'oh
D'oh began as a sped-up version of a drawn-out cry from old Laurel and Hardy films, shortened to suit a cartoon's quicker pace.
Q 02Which cartoonist created Homer Simpson and named the character after his own father?
Matt Groening
Matt Groening also hid his initials in the design: Homer's hairline forms an M and his right ear a G.
Q 03TV Guide ranked Homer Simpson the second-greatest cartoon character ever, behind which Looney Tunes star?
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny took the top spot in that 2002 list; Entertainment Weekly later named Homer the greatest character of the previous twenty years.
Q 04In The Simpsons Movie, which animal does Homer Simpson adopt, leading to the pollution of Lake Springfield?
A pig
A pig named Plopper is saved by Homer from slaughter at a burger restaurant; dumping a silo of its waste in the lake gets the whole town sealed under a dome.
Q 05In the very first Simpsons episode, which job does Homer Simpson take after his Christmas bonus is cancelled?
Mall Santa
Mall Santa pay turns out so poor that Homer bets it all at the dog track, which is how the family ends up with its greyhound.
Q 06What name does Homer Simpson give the driveway-clearing business he starts after buying a truck at a car show?
Mr. Plow
Mr. Plow thrives until Homer's best friend starts a rival service and takes his customers; the episode won the show's lead voice actor an Emmy.
Q 07What is Homer Simpson's long-held job at Springfield's nuclear plant, despite his habit of sleeping on duty?
Safety inspector
Safety inspector is only the best known of his posts: over the show's first 400 episodes, Homer held more than 188 different jobs.
Q 08Which actor has voiced Homer Simpson since the character's debut in shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show?
Dan Castellaneta
Dan Castellaneta also voices Grampa, so Homer's arguments with his father are one actor talking to himself.
Q 09Which famous inventor does Homer Simpson idolise and try to outdo by building gadgets like an electric hammer?
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison inspires Homer to quit the plant and invent; his one good idea, a chair that cannot tip over, turns out to be something his hero had built first.
Q 10To which state does Homer Simpson flee with his family in The Simpsons Movie after an angry mob comes for them?
Alaska
Alaska is where Homer had always planned to go if he ever caused a disaster, and the family restarts life there in a remote cabin.
Q 11In a Treehouse of Horror story, for which snack does Homer Simpson sell his soul to the Devil?
A donut
A donut is all it takes, and he is saved at trial only because a wedding photo shows he had already pledged his soul to Marge.
Q 12Which horror film is spoofed when Homer Simpson, a winter caretaker deprived of TV and beer, turns on his family?
The Shining
The Shining becomes a Treehouse of Horror segment set at Mr. Burns' mountain lodge, where Groundskeeper Willie learns that Bart can read minds.
Q 13Which hardworking new colleague is enraged by Homer Simpson's undeserved success in the episode Homer's Enemy?
Frank Grimes
Frank Grimes snaps when Homer wins applause yet again; mocking Homer's carelessness, he grabs high-voltage wires and is fatally electrocuted.
Q 21Which rapping, surfing cartoon dog does Homer Simpson voice when The Itchy & Scratchy Show adds a new character?
Poochie
Poochie proves so unpopular with viewers that he is cut after a single outing, killed off by a hastily added title card.
Q 22Which technique was used to show Homer Simpson trapped in a three-dimensional realm in Treehouse of Horror VI?
Computer animation
Computer animation by Pacific Data Images rendered Homer in 3D, and the segment ends by dropping him into the show's first live-action scene.
Q 23Which baseball star does Homer Simpson replace as a pinch-hitter in the deciding game of Homer at the Bat?
Darryl Strawberry
Q 14Which NFL team does supervillain boss Hank Scorpio give Homer Simpson as a parting gift in You Only Move Twice?
Denver Broncos
Denver Broncos ownership disappoints Homer, whose secret dream was to own the Dallas Cowboys, then the reigning Super Bowl champions.
Q 15Which actress voiced Mona, the fugitive activist mother Homer Simpson believed had died decades earlier?
Glenn Close
Glenn Close voiced Mona, who went on the run in 1969 after helping hippies wreck Mr. Burns's germ warfare laboratory.
Q 16Which actor voices Herb Powell, the car-tycoon half-brother Homer Simpson ruins by designing a disastrous car?
Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito played the Detroit car boss whose company goes bankrupt after Homer's dream car is unveiled at an unaffordable $82,000.
Q 17Which country legend voiced the coyote that guides Homer Simpson through a chili-pepper hallucination?
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash played the Space Coyote, who appears after Homer eats fiery peppers at a cook-off and sends him searching for his soulmate.
Q 18Which film star voiced Mindy Simmons, the co-worker who tempts Homer Simpson in The Last Temptation of Homer?
Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer voiced a new plant employee who bonds with Homer over beer and television, yet he stays faithful to Marge.
Q 19Which cult film director voiced the kitsch shop owner whose friendship Homer Simpson rejects in Homer's Phobia?
John Waters
John Waters guest-starred in an episode that Fox censors first ruled unfit to air; it went on to win an Emmy and a GLAAD Media Award.
Q 20Which cut-price surgeon operates on Homer Simpson in Homer's Triple Bypass when Dr. Hibbert's fee is too high?
Dr. Nick Riviera
Dr. Nick Riviera charges just $129.95 and has no idea how to do it, so Lisa calls down instructions from the viewing gallery.
Darryl Strawberry is the only one of nine hired big-leaguers to make the game; Homer bats for him and wins it by being knocked out by the first pitch.
Q 24Which loose garment does Homer Simpson take to wearing after gaining weight on purpose so he can work from home?
A muumuu
A muumuu becomes his daily outfit once he passes 300 pounds, the weight at which the plant classes a worker as disabled.
Q 25Which heavyweight champion, a parody of Mike Tyson, does Homer Simpson fight in the episode The Homer They Fall?
Drederick Tatum
Drederick Tatum nearly flattens him; Homer got a title shot only because a medical condition lets him soak up punches until opponents tire.
Q 26Which real minor league baseball team took its name from an episode in which Homer Simpson goes on hunger strike?
Albuquerque Isotopes
Albuquerque Isotopes echoes the plot: Homer starves himself after discovering a scheme to quietly move Springfield's team to New Mexico.
Q 27Which 1939 Nathanael West novel about Hollywood features a character named Homer Simpson?
The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust reached cinemas in 1975 with Donald Sutherland playing its Homer Simpson, a timid bookkeeper from Iowa.
Q 28Which Star Wars actor does Homer Simpson rescue from a convention riot before becoming Mayor Quimby's bodyguard?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill agreed to appear only if he could voice a second character too, and ended up preferring that part, a trainer of bodyguards.
Q 29Which future late-night host wrote Homer Goes to College, in which Homer Simpson must study nuclear physics?
Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien scripted a story in which Homer causes a meltdown during a plant inspection and needs three nerds to tutor him.
Q 30Which benefit does Homer Simpson lead a strike to save as union president in Last Exit to Springfield?
The dental plan
The dental plan matters to Homer because Lisa needs braces, and the episode is often cited as the best the series ever made.