Jersey Shore: Family Vacation
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50 free Jersey Shore: Family Vacation trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation brought MTV's most famous housemates back together in 2018, older, mostly married and with families of their own. Over eight seasons the revival followed them through weddings, a court case, a walk-out, a pandemic and a long-awaited return, and it ran until 2026. This quiz covers the whole run: where the cast travelled, the storylines fans still argue about, the partners and side projects that turned up on screen, and the producers and theme music behind the show. It is written for viewers who have kept up since the revival began, with an easier opening round for anyone who mainly remembers the original series.
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Q 01In season one of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, what did Pauly D bring to stand in for Sammi Giancola?
A lifelike doll
A lifelike doll took her place, dressed like her and fitted with a voice box, and it stayed a running gag all season. Sammi later told a castmate she found it funny.
Q 02In which city did the Jersey Shore cast reunite in 2018 for the first season of Family Vacation?
Miami
Miami hosted the reunion, which MTV announced in November 2017, five years after the original series ended.
Q 03Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino's court sentencing in season two of Family Vacation was for which crime?
Tax evasion
Tax evasion was the charge he admitted in January 2018, and the judge gave him eight months in prison plus 500 hours of community service.
Q 04What did Snooki, JWoww and Deena give at Angelina Pivarnick's wedding on Family Vacation that had guests booing?
A roasting speech
A roasting speech from her three bridesmaids left the bride in tears, and the fallout carried over as the main storyline when the fourth season opened.
Q 05Which reason did Snooki give for quitting Jersey Shore: Family Vacation after its third season?
Missing her kids
Missing her kids was the heart of it: she said leaving home to film had become too hard, though she was back as a full cast member by season five.
Q 06Vinny Guadagnino's month-long 2019 residency, a Family Vacation storyline, had him guest hosting which male revue?
Chippendales
Chippendales made him a guest host at the Rio casino from April 2019, a job the third season followed alongside the cast's weddings and new babies.
Q 07Season six of Family Vacation followed Vinny Guadagnino as he competed on which celebrity contest in 2022?
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars paired him with professional Koko Iwasaki in its 31st season, and the couple finished seventh.
Q 08For Jersey Shore's 15th anniversary, all nine Family Vacation castmates returned to the original house in which borough?
Seaside Heights
Seaside Heights welcomed them back in season eight, the first time all nine had been inside the shore house at the same moment.
Q 09Vinny Guadagnino's Family Vacation nickname pairs the word 'Guido' with which low-carb diet he swears by?
Keto
Keto helped him lose 50 pounds, and he turned the nickname into the title of a cookbook in 2019.
Q 10The famous house phone that returned in the Jersey Shore: Family Vacation premiere is shaped like which animal?
A duck
A duck, just as in the original shore house, and Snooki grabbed it at the end of the first episode to make a panicked call.
Q 11Sammi Giancola sat out the first five seasons of Family Vacation, saying in 2018 she wanted to avoid what?
Toxic situations
Toxic situations were what she wanted to steer clear of, while she focused on her businesses and her relationship. She finally joined the cast in 2023.
Q 12Nikki Hall, Pauly D's girlfriend on Family Vacation, came to fame on which reality dating show he co-starred in?
Double Shot at Love
Double Shot at Love, MTV's 2019 revival fronted by Pauly D and Vinny, introduced Hall, who went on to become a recurring face on the main series.
Q 13Season four of Family Vacation opened during the 2020 pandemic with self-shot footage and cast calls on which app?
Zoom
Q 21Zack Carpinello proposed to Family Vacation's Jenni 'JWoww' Farley in February 2021 at which landmark?
Empire State Building
Empire State Building: the proposal there was arranged as a surprise for her birthday, which falls on February 27.
Q 22Jenni 'JWoww' Farley of Family Vacation filed for divorce in September 2018 from which husband?
Roger Mathews
Roger Mathews had married her in October 2015, and the divorce was finalised in August 2019, almost a year after she filed.
Q 23Family Vacation castmates Vinny Guadagnino and Angelina Pivarnick share which link from before their television fame?
The same high school
Zoom calls and home video filled the early episodes, because the cast had spent months apart in quarantine before full production could resume.
Q 14Ronnie Ortiz-Magro stepped back from Family Vacation in May 2021, saying he needed to focus on what?
His mental health
His mental health came first, he said, and when he sat down with the cast again as a guest in season six it was to make amends.
Q 15In the Family Vacation premiere, Snooki, JWoww and Deena revisited which workplace from the original Jersey Shore?
The T-shirt shop
The T-shirt shop, where owner Danny Merk made custom shirts for the whole cast to take on the trip.
Q 16Pauly D, the resident DJ of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, was born in which New England state?
Rhode Island
Rhode Island is home: he was born in Providence and was a local DJ there when casting sent a crew to film a day in his life.
Q 17Lauren Pesce, who married Mike Sorrentino during Family Vacation's second season, is usually described as his what?
College sweetheart
College sweetheart: the pair first got together in 2004, and they married on November 1, 2018, less than a month after he was sentenced.
Q 18Snooki shouted that she wanted to go home in the Jersey Shore: Family Vacation premiere after losing what?
Her diamond ring
Her diamond ring vanished at the end of the first episode, leaving her frantic about what her husband Jionni would say.
Q 19Zack Carpinello, who began dating Family Vacation's Jenni 'JWoww' Farley in 2019, worked in which profession?
Pro wrestler
Pro wrestler Carpinello has appeared for All Elite Wrestling, and after a brief split in late 2019 the couple reconciled and later got engaged.
Q 20During the 2020 pandemic, Family Vacation filmed inside a quarantine bubble at a rented-out resort near which city?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas was the base: production booked a whole lakeside hotel in September 2020 so cast and crew could work under COVID-19 safety rules.
The same high school: both graduated from Susan E. Wagner High School, years before a casting team put them in one house.
Q 24Away from the cameras of Family Vacation, Angelina Pivarnick has worked for the FDNY in which role?
Emergency medical technician
Emergency medical technician: she is a registered EMT, a long way from the waitressing job she held before the original series.
Q 25Family Vacation kept Jersey Shore's opening theme, 'Get Crazy', a track by which party-rock act?
LMFAO
LMFAO's track opened the original series too, and it appeared on a bonus disc with the deluxe edition of the show's 2010 soundtrack album.
Q 26Which New Jersey breakfast meat, called Taylor ham in the north, is named in a season-two Family Vacation episode title?
Pork roll
Pork roll is the legal name: its maker had to drop the word ham in 1906 because the meat failed a new federal definition.
Q 27Which relative of Mike Sorrentino also went to prison in the federal case covered on Family Vacation?
His brother
His brother Marc, who had also been his manager, began a two-year sentence two days after Mike reported to prison in January 2019.
Q 28Which reality television veteran handed the Family Vacation cast MTV's Reality Royalty award in 2021?
Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton did the honours at MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted, a second night of the ceremony given over to reality shows.
Q 29A getaway to Woodloch in season four of Family Vacation took the cast to which mountain region?
The Poconos
The Poconos, in northeastern Pennsylvania, proved a favourite: the cast went back for another trip two seasons later.
Q 30A season-five Family Vacation holiday at the Isla Bella Beach Resort took the cast to which island chain?
The Florida Keys
The Florida Keys hosted that holiday, in a season that later sent the cast west to El Paso and San Diego.