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50 free Homestuck trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Homestuck is one of the strangest success stories on the internet. What began as a reader-driven adventure about a boy stuck in his bedroom grew into thousands of pages of panels, chat logs, animations and playable scenes, with a fan community large enough to strain the websites that hosted it. This quiz covers the whole of it: the four kids and the world-ending game they install, the trolls and their caste system, romance and star signs, the villains, the god tiers, and the real-world story of the music team, the books, the animated pilot and the Hiveswap games. It is written for readers who finished the comic, for fans who drifted away somewhere in Act 6, and for anyone who wants to test what they remember. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will learn something even from the ones you miss.
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Q 01Which Homestuck track began life in an EarthBound fan hack and later reappeared in Undertale?
Megalovania
Megalovania was written in 2008 for a Halloween-themed hack and remixed for Homestuck in 2011, four years before it became a boss theme in Undertale.
Q 02Which unpopular typeface fills Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, the strip by Homestuck's Dave Strider?
Comic Sans
Comic Sans sits beside shaky lines, spray-paint smears and heavy JPEG artifacts in the strip. Its print edition was proudly billed as 'the worst comic strip ever'.
Q 03Which baking brand revolts Homestuck's John Egbert, despite the cakes all around his bedroom?
Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker is no throwaway gag: a later heroine of the story turns out to be the heiress to the brand's fortune.
Q 04Despite the name MS Paint Adventures, which program did Andrew Hussie mainly use to draw Homestuck?
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop drew almost everything. Only the first page of Hussie's first adventure was made in Microsoft Paint, after which he decided the program was not feasible.
Q 05Which game's beta does John Egbert install in Homestuck, triggering Earth's destruction?
Sburb
Sburb works like a sandbox game that lets its players reshape the real world, and its premise was inspired by games such as The Sims and EarthBound.
Q 06What is John Egbert celebrating on April 13, 2009, the day on which the story of Homestuck opens?
His thirteenth birthday
His thirteenth birthday doubles as the comic's launch date, and Homestuck published its final chapter on the same day exactly seven years later.
Q 07Which crowdfunding site raised nearly $2.5 million in 2012 for the Homestuck game Hiveswap?
Kickstarter
Kickstarter backers met the $700,000 goal in under 32 hours, and the campaign finished as the third-highest-funded video game the site had then seen.
Q 08Which actor, Rufio in the 1991 film Hook, became a Homestuck fan and inspired one of its trolls?
Dante Basco
Dante Basco began reading after friends told him Rufio appears in the story. A new troll, Rufioh, was then written with the actor's own typing quirks and personality.
Q 09Which restaurateur and TV host appears as a character in Homestuck, as does Barack Obama?
Guy Fieri
Guy Fieri shares that odd honour with the rap duo Insane Clown Posse, who also turn up in the story as themselves.
Q 10Which Nicolas Cage film supplies the stuffed bunny that becomes an important prop in Homestuck?
Con Air
Con Air and its toy rabbit are among several celebrity in-jokes in Homestuck, whose hero John Egbert has a passion for really terrible movies.
Q 11Through which chat application do Homestuck's four main kids, who have never met, keep in touch?
Pesterchum
Pesterchum conversations carry much of the plot, since Homestuck tells its story through instant message logs as well as panels and animations.
Q 12Which household tool does John Egbert, Homestuck's first hero, adopt as his weapon of choice?
A hammer
A hammer makes John the odd one out among his friends: his best friend Dave Strider fights with a katana and Jade Harley with a hunting rifle.
Q 13Which craft tools does the occult-loving Rose Lalonde use as her go-to weapons in Homestuck?
Knitting needles
Knitting needles are also her hobby gear: Rose is a keen knitter whose formal, overwrought way of writing contrasts with her messy room.
Q 21Which coordinator of Homestuck's music team voices John Egbert in the 2025 animated pilot?
Toby Fox
Toby Fox joined the music team after posting piano covers on a fan forum, years before he created the video game Undertale.
Q 22Which Joyce book did PBS Idea Channel liken Homestuck to for its length and complexity?
Ulysses
Ulysses came up again when a Tor Books writer called Homestuck 'the first great work of genuinely hypertext fiction'.
Q 23Dave Strider's aviator shades in Homestuck were supposedly worn by which Starsky & Hutch actor?
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller's shades hide Dave's eyes entirely, part of the look of a boy 'so cool he only appreciates things ironically'.
Q 14What is the name of Jade Harley's dog, an all-powerful First Guardian of Earth in Homestuck?
Becquerel
Becquerel shares a remote island with Jade, and merging with him later hands her the powers of a First Guardian.
Q 15Which blind troll in Homestuck was taught by her guardian to 'smell' and 'taste' colours?
Terezi Pyrope
Terezi Pyrope lost her sight to a former friend before the story begins, and the trick gives her a limited form of vision.
Q 16Which troll is shown marrying Rose Lalonde in the credits sequence at the end of Homestuck?
Kanaya Maryam
Kanaya Maryam was first ordered to troll Rose and grew attached instead. The credits show the pair wed and managing the brooding caverns together.
Q 17Which cave-dwelling troll in Homestuck is known for role-playing and for acting like a cat?
Nepeta Leijon
Nepeta Leijon is raised by a two-mouthed feline guardian named Pounce de León, and her character embodies fans' love of shipping.
Q 18Which astrological sign belongs to Karkat Vantas, quick-tempered leader of Homestuck's trolls?
Cancer
Cancer fits a pattern: each of the twelve trolls carries one sign, which also bears their blood colour and reflects their personality.
Q 19Which villain attacks John Egbert early in Homestuck and later becomes a near-invincible monster?
Jack Noir
Jack Noir gains that terrifying power by accident, after a troll sabotages key events in the kids' session.
Q 20What is the name of the trolls' home planet in Homestuck, the setting of the spin-off game Hiveswap?
Alternia
Alternia lies in a different universe from the kids' Earth, and Hiveswap's human heroine is transported there by accident.
Q 24Which Homestuck animation drew so many viewers on release that it crashed the website Newgrounds?
Cascade
Cascade strained Megaupload as well, because so many of the comic's readers rushed to watch it the moment it was uploaded.
Q 25Which soft drink is Gamzee Makara obsessed with in Homestuck, a habit borrowed from juggalo culture?
Faygo
Faygo is one of several juggalo touches given to Gamzee, who also believes firmly in miracles and in the coming of the Dark Carnival.
Q 26Which publisher began releasing hardcover Homestuck books with new commentary in 2018?
Viz Media
Viz Media also had its staff convert the comic's ageing Flash pages into HTML and video files, so that they would outlive the software.
Q 27Which animator's company SpindleRoo announced the Homestuck animated pilot released in 2025?
Vivienne Medrano
Vivienne Medrano said audience reaction to the 11-minute pilot would decide whether it grows into a full animated series.
Q 28Which earlier Andrew Hussie webcomic ended just three days before the Homestuck beta appeared?
Problem Sleuth
Problem Sleuth, a hard-boiled parody about three trapped detectives, ran for more than 1,600 pages and was Hussie's first adventure to get a proper ending.
Q 29The Homestuck Epilogues dropped pictures for pure text styled after fan fiction on which website?
Archive of Our Own
Archive of Our Own was the model for a sequel told in two rival timelines, which arrived exactly ten years after the comic began.
Q 30In late 2016, Homestuck gained a credit sequence and extra panels presented as a story on which app?
Snapchat
Snapchat even figures in the plot of that coda: the villain Caliborn sends John a snap, calling him out to their final battle.