Jackbox Trivia
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49 free Jackbox trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jackbox is the party game you play with the phone already in your pocket: one person owns the pack, everyone else types a room code, and a living room or a stream full of strangers is suddenly writing terrible jokes and worse drawings. Behind the packs sits a studio that has been making irreverent trivia since the CD-ROM era, and whose snarky host has outlived three corporate names. These 49 questions are about the games rather than a set of prompts. They cover which pack introduced which game and what each one makes you do, player counts and the audience, the hosts and the people who voice them, the You Don't Know Jack origins and the reboot that brought the studio back, the platforms the packs have reached and the bundles and standalone releases around the numbered series. Play it if you can name the pack from a single game, hand it to the friend who always picks the drawing game, or print it for a quiz night between rounds of the real thing.
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Q 01Under which earlier company name did the Jackbox Games studio make the original 1995 You Don't Know Jack?
Jellyvision
Jellyvision shut its games arm in 2001 as players left CD-ROM PCs for consoles, and it sat dormant for seven years before a 2008 revival.
Q 02Instead of downloading an app, Party Pack players type a room code from the host's screen into which website?
jackbox.tv
jackbox.tv is the studio's own server, so only the host needs to own the pack; the rest join from a phone, tablet or laptop browser.
Q 03Beyond its eight active players, how large an audience can Quiplash 3 admit to vote through the room code?
10,000
10,000 audience members can join once the eight player seats are full, and a quip only earns the 'Quiplash' bonus if every player and most of that crowd vote for it.
Q 04Which game in the first Jackbox Party Pack admits up to 100 players, all judging whether odd statements are true?
Lie Swatter
Lie Swatter began as a single-player mobile app before the pack reworked it into a 100-player true-or-false free-for-all.
Q 05Jackbox said its player base doubled during the 2020 lockdowns; what total did the studio claim by that October?
200 million
200 million was about double the 100 million of 2019, as families and friends stuck at home made the games a fixture of Zoom parties and remote game nights.
Q 06Which voice actor, brother of the company's founder, plays Cookie Masterson in You Don't Know Jack?
Tom Gottlieb
Tom Gottlieb also helped write the 2011 reboot, and the studio credits much of the Cookie persona to his own performance of the character.
Q 07Which US network aired a prime-time You Don't Know Jack game show in summer 2001, hosted by Paul Reubens?
ABC
ABC ran it for only a few summer weeks, with Paul Reubens, better known as Pee-wee Herman, playing over-the-top host Troy Stevens while Cookie Masterson announced.
Q 08In the 2011 You Don't Know Jack, what does a player's single 'screw' per game do to an opponent?
Forces an instant response
Forces an instant response, within five seconds in the 2011 version, and if the victim gets it right they steal money from the screwer instead.
Q 09In Cookie Masterson's trivia show, which word-association final round hides every running total behind ominous music?
Jack Attack
Jack Attack pairs a subject with a stream of candidates and pays for buzzing on the right match, so it often decides the whole game by itself.
Q 10On which crowdfunding site did Jackbox raise over $30,000 in March 2015 to build Quiplash?
Kickstarter
Kickstarter backers, more than 1,600 of them, doubled the $15,000 goal, and Quiplash became the first Jackbox game to let an audience join in.
Q 11What did the 2016 standalone Drawful 2 add that the first Party Pack's Drawful never offered?
Two colours per drawing
Two colours per drawing replaced the original's single one, and Drawful 2 also let players write their own prompts, so a host can build a whole episode around a group's inside jokes.
Q 12In Trivia Murder Party, missing a question sends a player to a mini-game on what grimly named level?
The Killing Floor
The Killing Floor mini-games can kill a player, but the dead play on as ghosts and can still win by overtaking the last survivor in the final dash for the exit.
Q 13Which Party Pack 5 game has players fill in rap-battle lyrics that are then performed by giant robots?
Mad Verse City
Q 21Starting with Party Pack 3 in April 2017, which console joined the list of Jackbox platforms?
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch owners got Party Pack 3 first, on April 13, 2017, and the two earlier packs followed that August.
Q 22Which now-defunct cloud-gaming service began carrying the Jackbox Party Packs in November 2021?
Stadia
Stadia got its first Party Pack in November 2021, but Google shut the service down in January 2023 and refunded every game players had bought there.
Q 23Which Party Pack 2 game has a judge choose the funniest pair of sound effects played in answer to a prompt?
Earwax
Earwax deals each player six random sound effects to pick two from, and its makers joke that owning a huge library of fart noises obliged them to build a game around it.
Mad Verse City reads every rhyme aloud in a text-to-speech robot voice, and a stuck player can press 'Write for Me' to have the game finish the line.
Q 14Which Party Pack 6 game puts 4 to 10 players on a spaceship hunting the aliens hiding among the crew?
Push the Button
Push the Button gives the aliens a different prompt from the humans, so their answers look subtly off, and the crew must eject them before a timer runs out.
Q 15How many games come in every numbered Jackbox Party Pack, from the 2014 original through Party Pack 11?
Five
Five games per pack has held since 2014; the only exceptions are spin-off bundles such as 2022's Party Starter, which repackaged three of the studio's best-loved earlier games.
Q 16Which US city is home to Jackbox Games, a studio that began life as the educational outfit Learn Television?
Chicago
Chicago's improv scene feeds the studio, which has regularly hired veterans of the city's Second City comedy theatre since its You Don't Know Jack days in the 1990s.
Q 17Jackbox's December 2020 extension lets viewers on which streaming service join a game without leaving the stream?
Twitch
Twitch streamers had helped make the packs a hit since Fibbage in 2014, and the Audience Kit extension lets viewers join and play along inside the stream instead of in a separate browser tab.
Q 18Fibbage, the 2014 bluffing game behind the Party Packs, debuted as a free launch title on which new streaming box?
Amazon Fire TV
Amazon Fire TV got the bluffing game free at the box's April 2014 launch, months before the console versions, and its popularity with streamers convinced Jackbox to bundle games into packs.
Q 19Which adventure-game studio published the boxed retail editions of the first Jackbox Party Pack in November 2015?
Telltale Games
Telltale Games had just opened a publishing arm for other studios' titles, and its deal also put the pack on Xbox 360, the only Jackbox pack ever released for that console.
Q 20Which publisher backed the 2011 console revival of You Don't Know Jack on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii?
THQ
THQ released the revival in February 2011 but filed for bankruptcy in December 2012, and the studio went on to publish its own games under the Jackbox name.
Q 24From 1999 to 2001 the You Don't Know Jack studio built PC games based on which US quiz show?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire came to PC with Regis Philbin's voice and likeness, and its publisher Disney said the first game had virtually sold out nationwide by Thanksgiving, days after its November 1999 launch.
Q 25Most Jackbox Party Packs carry an ESRB Teen rating; which rating did Party Pack 8 receive instead?
Everyone 10+
Everyone 10+ went to the 2021 pack, whose content descriptors run to Comic Mischief and Suggestive Themes where earlier packs were flagged for Sexual Themes and Drug Reference.
Q 26Which Party Pack 7 guessing game has players describe a person, place or thing using only preset words?
Blather 'Round
Blather 'Round offers so few words that Scooby-Doo might come out as a 'ravenous mystery beast', and presenters can work other players' wrong guesses into their next clue.
Q 27Which Party Pack 3 drawing game lets players order real printed versions of the designs they create?
Tee K.O.
Tee K.O. shuffles everyone's drawings and slogans among the group to combine, pits the results in head-to-head votes, and sells the finished designs as actual T-shirts.
Q 28In the 2011 You Don't Know Jack, which question type is played only by the lowest-scoring player in offline multiplayer?
DisOrDat
DisOrDat survived from the CD-ROM era into the 2011 reboot, which dropped typed rounds like the Gibberish Question because consoles lack keyboards.
Q 29In the 2011 You Don't Know Jack, which hidden bonus is hinted at by each episode's fictional sponsor?
The Wrong Answer of the Game
The Wrong Answer of the Game is one deliberately wrong option themed on the episode's sponsor, and picking it pays a big cash bonus instead of costing the player money.
Q 30In You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream from Party Pack 5, which fictional streaming service now owns Cookie Masterson?
Binjpipe
Binjpipe is the joke streaming giant said to have bought the show, and the 2018 game seats up to eight players while the audience's answers set a cash bonus on each question.