Jackass Trivia
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49 free Jackass trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jackass began as a magazine stunt: Johnny Knoxville wanted to test self-defense gear on himself in homage to Hunter S. Thompson, and a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother talked him into filming it. Three short MTV seasons later it was a franchise with six films, two spin-off shows, a video game and an Academy Award nomination. These 49 questions cover the original 2000 series, the CKY crew, Viva La Bam and Wildboyz, the box-office records of Jackass 3D, the Bad Grandpa Oscar nod, Jackass Forever's new cast and the 2026 finale. Production facts, dates, budgets and people only. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play in sets of ten or print the whole list.
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Q 01The Jackass logo swaps the crossbones under its skull for a crossed pair of what?
Crutches
Crutches. The skull-and-crutches mark became merchandise in its own right, turning up on a run of Converse All Star sneakers.
Q 02Along with Jeff Tremaine and Knoxville, which filmmaker co-created Jackass?
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze. Knoxville and Tremaine pictured a talk show with a host behind a desk until Jonze told them the skate magazine's stunt videos already were the show.
Q 03About how many episodes of the original Jackass TV series were made?
25
25. The show that launched a film franchise ran for only three short seasons before Knoxville walked away in 2001, saying he wanted to quit while it was still special.
Q 04Which skateboarding magazine first filmed Knoxville testing self-defense gear on himself?
Big Brother
Jeff Tremaine was an editor at Big Brother and convinced Knoxville to film the article as a stunt.
Q 05Johnny Knoxville wrote his original self-defense article as a homage to which writer he idolised?
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson. Knoxville called the piece his attempt at imitating the gonzo journalist, and years later he sat in a New Orleans hotel room with Thompson, taking turns reading aloud from The Curse of Lono.
Q 06Bam Margera's home-video crew from Pennsylvania was known by what three-letter name?
CKY
CKY. Short for Camp Kill Yourself, the crew's videos caught Jeff Tremaine's eye, and he flew Bam out to Los Angeles and folded the whole gang into the new show.
Q 07Which Pennsylvania town is Bam Margera's hometown, the backdrop for his early home videos?
West Chester
West Chester. Ryan Dunn recalled the Los Angeles crew 'wondering who these little jerks were in West Chester', and before long the whole gang had been recruited for the show.
Q 08Which sketch show offered to make Knoxville's stunts a recurring segment before Jackass became a series of its own?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live. Knoxville turned the offer down, and the crew signed instead with the network that promised a weekly half-hour of their own and more creative control.
Q 09What was Steve-O doing for a living when Tremaine first asked him to film stunts?
Working as a clown
Working as a clown. The clown-college graduate was performing in a circus inside a Florida flea market, and not one clip in the first batch of stunt tapes he sent in was cleared for broadcast.
Q 10In a running Jackass gag, Preston Lacy chases which castmate through the streets in nothing but underwear?
Wee Man
Wee Man. The joke is the mismatch, the show's biggest cast member thundering after its smallest, both in white vests and briefs, past baffled pedestrians.
Q 11What is the name of the production company behind Jackass, founded by the show's three creators?
Dickhouse Productions
Dickhouse Productions. The three partners later used it to make the sketch show Loiter Squad with the rap collective Odd Future, one of whose members went on to join the Jackass cast.
Q 12What is the real name of Johnny Knoxville, who took his stage name from his Tennessee hometown?
P. J. Clapp
P. J. Clapp. Philip John Clapp left Knoxville for Los Angeles to act and was paying the bills with commercials when his self-defense stunt idea took off.
Q 13Which U.S. senator wrote to Viacom in 2001 urging it to take responsibility for Jackass?
Joe Lieberman
Q 21Which studio distributed Jackass: The Movie to theaters with MTV Films in October 2002?
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures. The studio spent about $5 million and took in nearly $80 million worldwide; 'it cost nothing to make', as the film's cinematographer put it, 'and turned a profit'.
Q 22Which piece of classical music plays over the giant-shopping-cart opening of Jackass: The Movie?
O Fortuna
O Fortuna. Carl Orff's doom-laden chorus from Carmina Burana plays it straight while the cast hurtles downhill through explosions, a send-up of the way Hollywood blockbusters open.
Q 23Which veteran comedian closes out Jackass: The Movie, Number Two and 3D?
Rip Taylor
Joe Lieberman. He wrote on behalf of a Connecticut father whose 13-year-old son had been badly burned copying a stunt, and asked the network's owner to cancel or change the show.
Q 14In which MTV spin-off did Bam Margera torment his parents, April and Phil?
Viva La Bam
Viva La Bam. MTV handed Bam his own show once Jackass had left television, and it ran for five seasons of stunts at his family's expense.
Q 15Chris Pontius and Steve-O roamed the world in which MTV spin-off?
Wildboyz
Wildboyz. It traded pranks for travel, putting the pair dangerously close to wild animals over four seasons that director Jeff Tremaine has called his favourite show he ever made.
Q 16What was the name of Ryan Dunn's one-season MTV show, in which he trashed pranksters' bedrooms as revenge?
Homewrecker
Homewrecker. The show turned the makeover format inside out: a prank's victim told Dunn the story, and he and a crew redecorated the culprit's room with malicious intent.
Q 17In his 2007 USA Network series, Steve-O played a doctor whose 'patients' were men who needed what?
Toughening up
Toughening up. As Dr. Steve-O he pulled up in a customised ambulance and put timid men through challenges, promising to 'de-wussify wimps, nerds and couch potatoes'.
Q 18Which heavyweight boxer knocked Johnny Knoxville unconscious in Jackass: The Movie?
Butterbean
Butterbean. The near-400-pound boxer left him with a concussion and bouts of vertigo, and the mismatch earned an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Fight.
Q 19Which animal knocked Johnny Knoxville out cold during Jackass Forever, leaving him with a brain haemorrhage?
A bull
A bull. Knoxville was performing a magic trick for it when it flipped him through the air; coming round, he said, 'I guess that bull just didn't like magic.'
Q 20In Jackass: The Movie, what did a hospital X-ray find inside Ryan Dunn?
Toy car
Toy car. He told the doctors he had a mystery pain after passing out at a fraternity party, and the X-ray that gave the game away became a popular T-shirt among fans.
Rip Taylor. Knoxville, a fan, had the confetti-throwing game-show veteran flown in to declare the first film over, and he came back to do the same for the next two.
Q 24Bam Margera's castmates exploit his terror of which animals in Jackass Number Two?
Snakes
Snakes. The cast shut him in a trailer with a king cobra; 'I hate snakes', he said afterwards, recalling a day that took him at least four days to get over.
Q 25Which cult director, who once cast Knoxville, has a cameo in Jackass Number Two?
John Waters
John Waters. The Pink Flamingos director championed Jackass as properly subversive, cast its star as Ray-Ray in A Dirty Shame, and two years later stepped in front of the Jackass cameras himself.
Q 26Which director and star of an early-2000s comedy played the cab driver in the Jackass Number Two prank on Ehren McGhehey?
Jay Chandrasekhar
Jay Chandrasekhar. McGhehey believed he was the one pranking a cab driver, but the driver was an actor and the whole cast and crew were in on turning the joke back on him.
Q 27Jackass Number Two ends with the cast singing 'The Best of Times', a song from which Broadway musical?
La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles. Jerry Herman's feel-good anthem becomes a Busby Berkeley-style production number, with the cast singing and dancing in formation while the stunts go on hurting them.
Q 28Where did Jackass 2.5, assembled from unused Number Two footage, premiere in December 2007?
On a free website
On a free website. The studio and MTV streamed it with adverts a week before it went on sale on DVD, turning 'straight to DVD' into straight to the internet.
Q 29The 2008 direct-to-DVD film Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute honored which stuntman?
Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel. Knoxville, who counted him a hero, was only visiting the shoot when he agreed to try backflipping a motorcycle; the bike landed on him and tore his urethra.
Q 30In Jackass 3D, Ehren McGhehey has a crooked tooth yanked out by a string tied to what kind of car?
A Lamborghini
A Lamborghini. The car was Bam Margera's, and McGhehey picked the tooth himself: a healthy one that was just a little crooked, tied on with fishing line.