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50 free Knight Rider trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Knight Rider ran on NBC from 1982 to 1986 and was panned by critics who missed the point: a black Pontiac Trans Am that talked, jumped and could not be scratched was exactly what a Friday night needed. Glen A. Larson borrowed the pulsing red scanner from his own Cylons, hired a St. Elsewhere star to voice the car without credit, and built a mythology of molecular bonded shells, turbo boosts and a rogue prototype named KARR that fans still argue about. These 50 questions cover the original series and what followed: Michael Long's new face, the Foundation for Law and Government, Devon Miles, Bonnie and April, Garthe Knight and his truck Goliath, the $100,000 hero car, the $1 stunt Pontiacs, the synthesizer theme lifted from a Delibes ballet, Knight Rider 2000, Knight Rider 2010, Team Knight Rider and the 2008 reboot with a Shelby Mustang voiced by Val Kilmer. Easy questions stick to Hasselhoff and KITT; the hardest ask about serial numbers, episode firsts and how many screen cars survived. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for an 80s TV night.
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Q 01Who played Michael Knight in the original Knight Rider?
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff. His next lead, the lifeguard drama Baywatch, was cancelled by its first network after one season, came back in syndication and ran for another decade with him as star and producer.
Q 02On which US network did Knight Rider originally air from 1982 to 1986?
NBC
NBC. The same network brought the idea back in 2008 with a TV movie and a weekly series about Michael Knight's son, then dropped it after a single season.
Q 03What does the name KITT stand for?
Knight Industries Two Thousand
Knight Industries Two Thousand. The sequels kept counting: the 1991 TV movie replaced him with the Knight 4000, and the car in the 2008 revival was the Knight Industries Three Thousand.
Q 04Which car model was customised to become KITT?
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. Only one car, the 'hero', carried the working dashboard that designer Michael Scheffe built; its stunt doubles made do with dummy panels, filmed so that viewers would not notice.
Q 05Who created Knight Rider?
Glen A. Larson
Glen A. Larson. A former singer with the vocal group the Four Preps, he also co-wrote the show's theme tune, as he had done for his earlier series The Fall Guy.
Q 06Who provided the voice of KITT?
William Daniels
William Daniels. He asked to go uncredited and said in 1982 that the job took him about an hour and a half an episode, adding that he had never met the cast.
Q 07Before surgeons gave him a new face and identity, what was Michael Knight's full name?
Michael Arthur Long
Michael Arthur Long. The detective survived a bullet in the face because a metal plate, fitted in his skull after a wartime injury, deflected it, and the surgery that rebuilt him left his old identity officially dead.
Q 08What does FLAG stand for in Knight Rider?
Foundation for Law and Government
Foundation for Law and Government. Wilton Knight set it up to go after criminals who operate above the law, the ones ordinary police work cannot reach, and made Michael its first field agent.
Q 09Who heads FLAG after Wilton Knight's death?
Devon Miles
Devon Miles. The founder's old friend briefs Michael before every mission for four seasons, and the 1991 TV movie brought him back only to have its villain kill him.
Q 10In Knight Rider, which actor played FLAG's leader, who appeared in every episode?
Edward Mulhare
Edward Mulhare. Born in Cork, he made his name stepping into Rex Harrison's shoes as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady on Broadway, then played a ghostly sea captain in the sitcom The Ghost & Mrs. Muir.
Q 11Who was KITT's chief technician in seasons 1, 3 and 4?
Bonnie Barstow
Bonnie Barstow. The show dropped her after the first season and brought her back for the third after viewers and her co-stars protested, explaining the gap as a year away at university.
Q 12Which technician looked after KITT during season 2 only?
April Curtis
April Curtis. She turns up without introduction for the second season and is gone just as quietly when the original technician returns; the scripts never say where she came from or where she went.
Q 13Which villain, Michael's evil double, drove the armoured truck Goliath against KITT?
Garthe Knight
Q 21What is the name of KITT's rogue prototype?
KARR
KARR. Shelved and forgotten after the founder's death, the Knight Automated Roving Robot is woken by accident when two thieves break into the warehouse where it is stored.
Q 22Peter Cullen, Knight Rider's first rogue-car voice, is best known as which robot hero?
Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime. Cullen voiced the rogue car in a single 1982 episode, before Transformers made that voice famous, and a different actor took the part when the villain returned in the third season.
Q 23On KITT's dashboard, what lights up in time with his voice?
Three columns of red bars
Three columns of red bars. In the earliest episodes the car's 'mouth' was a single flashing red square; the three-bar design that fans remember replaced it partway through the first season.
Garthe Knight. Wilton Knight believed his criminal son was gone for good in an African prison, so he had the wounded detective's new face modelled on his, which is why one actor plays both men.
Q 14What is KITT's primary directive, the rule his programming puts above all others?
Protect human life
Protect human life. The rule outranks his own driver: if Michael wilfully puts his own life in danger, KITT can override him and take over the controls.
Q 15Who played Wilton Knight, the founder of FLAG?
Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart. His character dies in the pilot, yet the actor is heard in every episode that follows, because it is his voice that narrates the opening titles.
Q 16Knight Rider's opening narration promises a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who what?
'does not exist'
'Does not exist'. On paper it is true: the policeman he used to be was declared dead after the shooting, and Michael Knight is a new identity invented for him.
Q 17At what reported price per car did the carmaker supply the stunt doubles for KITT?
$1
$1. Stunt coordinator Jack Gill said many arrived already written off after a train derailment; the only car the studio really paid for was the close-up 'hero', said to have cost about $100,000.
Q 18KITT's pulsing red scanner was a nod to which sci-fi villains?
The Cylons
The Cylons. The show's creator had made Battlestar Galactica first and asked for the same sweeping beam of light on the car's nose, even reusing the robots' scanner sound effect.
Q 19What is the name of KITT's near-indestructible armour?
Molecular Bonded Shell
Molecular Bonded Shell. It shrugs off bullets and most blasts, leaving heavy artillery, rockets, lasers and strong acids as the real threats, so the show's worst villains beat him only by stealing its formula or neutralising it.
Q 20What feature lets KITT leap over obstacles in the road?
Turbo boost
Turbo boost. Rocket motors fire to hurl the car over whatever blocks the road, and the same thrust, which can be aimed forwards or backwards, pushes him past 200 mph on the flat.
Q 24The pilot, in which the hero is rebuilt with a new face and a new name, is titled 'Knight of the' what?
Phoenix
Phoenix. The feature-length opener has a policeman shot, declared dead and remade as Michael Knight, and the dying billionaire who saved him asks him to carry on his crusade against crime.
Q 25The actor who voiced KITT went on to play which much-loved teacher in the sitcom Boy Meets World?
Mr. Feeny
Mr. Feeny. He had already sung the lead as John Adams in the musical 1776, and he recorded the car's lines while winning two Emmys as a doctor on the hospital drama St. Elsewhere.
Q 26In which country did Knight Rider's star top the charts in 1989 with the song 'Looking for Freedom'?
Germany
Germany. Weeks after the Berlin Wall opened, he sang it there at a huge New Year's Eve concert, in front of a crowd of East and West Germans standing together.
Q 27Which phrase closed the season-one outro in Wilton Knight's voice?
One man can make a difference, Michael.
One man can make a difference, Michael. The line echoes Wilton Knight's dying words to him in the pilot, and it played over the closing shot of the car driving off through the desert.
Q 28Michael Knight talks to KITT through what device?
A wristwatch
A wristwatch. The prop was a dressed-up 1980s radio watch, and besides carrying their voices it hid a tiny camera and scanner, so that KITT could see whatever Michael pointed it at.
Q 29In 'The Scent of Roses', what happens on the day Michael Knight marries his fiancée Stevie?
She is killed
She is killed. Gunmen sent after Michael open fire at the ceremony and she dies in the crossfire; the part was played by Catherine Hickland, who was married to the show's leading man at the time.
Q 30What major upgrade did Knight Rider's fourth-season redesign give KITT?
Super Pursuit Mode
Super Pursuit Mode. Aerodynamic panels slide out of the bodywork for a claimed 40 per cent more speed, and the same rebuild traded the car's T-top for a convertible roof.