Las Vegas Strip Trivia
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50 free Las Vegas Strip trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Las Vegas Strip trivia quiz is all about the boulevard itself: the resorts, the signs, the attractions and the history of the 4.2-mile stretch that most visitors never realise sits outside the Las Vegas city limits. The easy questions cover the landmarks everyone photographs: the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, the Bellagio fountains, the Luxor pyramid, the half-scale Eiffel Tower and the giant Ferris wheel. From there it moves into the origins: the first resort on Highway 91 in 1941, the mobsters behind the Flamingo, the Los Angeles policeman who named the Strip after Sunset Strip, and why the casinos lobbied to become the town of Paradise. The harder end is for people who know their Vegas history: which resort was imploded to build the Venetian, the fire that killed 87 people at the original MGM Grand, the neon designer who never copyrighted her sign, Evel Knievel's crash at Caesars, the sportsbook that changed the industry at the Stardust, the Sinatra baccarat incident, and the numbers behind the Sphere. If you want the wider city, from Hoover Dam to Elvis to Fremont Street, try our Las Vegas trivia quiz too. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries on the Strip and its individual resorts before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question.
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Q 01Which resort sits at the Las Vegas Strip's southern end?
Mandalay Bay
Mandalay Bay is the last resort heading south on the Strip, which, despite its name, lies outside the Las Vegas city limits.
Q 02The Strip lies just outside the Las Vegas city limits in which two unincorporated towns?
Paradise and Winchester
Paradise and Winchester grew out of a town the county created in 1950 at casino owners' urging, so the city of Las Vegas could not annex the Strip and tax it.
Q 03What did Clark County begin building at the Strip's busiest intersections in the 1990s?
Footbridges
Footbridges lift walkers clear of the traffic, which is safer for them and quicker for drivers; the first set went up where Tropicana Avenue crosses the Strip.
Q 04Travel guides stretch the Strip to the Strat, but which resort does Clark County call its northern end?
The Sahara
The Sahara stands at Sahara Avenue, the line between the county and the city of Las Vegas; the Strat lies north of it, inside the city limits, so officially it is off the Strip.
Q 05Which resort opened in 1941, five years before the Flamingo, as the first on what became the Strip?
El Rancho Vegas
El Rancho Vegas lured night drivers off the desert highway with its trademark sign, a tower topped by a windmill with neon-lit blades.
Q 06What was Las Vegas Boulevard South previously called?
Highway 91
Highway 91 carried the tourists driving in from Los Angeles, so the first resort builders chose its empty desert roadside over downtown, where the casinos then were.
Q 07The Las Vegas Strip is said to take its name from a nightlife stretch of which Los Angeles-area boulevard?
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard's Sunset Strip was old ground for Guy McAfee, a Los Angeles vice cop turned casino owner, and the story goes that car lights along the desert highway reminded him of it.
Q 08Which mobster took over the unfinished Flamingo and opened it in December 1946?
Bugsy Siegel
Bugsy Siegel pushed out the man who dreamed it up and let costs balloon to $6 million; within six months of opening he was shot dead in Beverly Hills by a gunman never identified.
Q 09Billy Wilkerson, who dreamed up the Flamingo, ran which show-business trade paper?
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter's publisher was a compulsive gambler who wanted a casino of his own, but he ran out of money mid-build and his mob partners forced him out.
Q 10What distinction does the Flamingo hold on the Las Vegas Strip?
Oldest continuously operating resort
Oldest continuously operating resort on the Strip: the Flamingo was only the third to open there, in December 1946, but it has outlasted both of the resorts that beat it.
Q 11Which musical duo held an 11-year residency at the Flamingo that ended in 2019?
Donny and Marie Osmond
Donny and Marie Osmond were booked for six weeks in 2008 and stayed 11 years, long enough for the Flamingo to rename its showroom after them.
Q 12The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign spells 'Welcome' inside which coins?
Silver dollars
Silver dollars frame the letters of a sign that isn't in Las Vegas at all: it stands in the boulevard's median, miles south of the city limits.
Q 13Why can anyone print the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on souvenirs?
Never copyrighted
Q 21The Colosseum at Caesars Palace was specially built for which singer's 2003 show?
Celine Dion
Celine Dion's show ran there from 2003 to 2007, and its success made the room a magnet for stars: Elton John, Cher and Bette Midler all followed with residencies of their own.
Q 22Which venue's owners built the Sphere?
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden's owners unveiled it in 2018 as the MSG Sphere and promised a 2020 opening; it arrived three years late, in September 2023.
Q 23Which singer staged his live comeback in 1969 at the International Hotel, later the Westgate, and played there until 1976?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was only the second act booked there: Barbra Streisand opened the showroom, and he followed a few weeks later with the first of hundreds of shows over seven years.
Never copyrighted: Betty Willis, who designed the sign for Western Neon, is said to have called it her gift to the city.
Q 14What message is written on the north-facing side of the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign?
Drive Carefully, Come Back Soon
Drive Carefully, Come Back Soon faces drivers leaving town; so many visitors dodged traffic to reach the sign in the road's median that the county built a small car park beside it.
Q 15The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is a showpiece of which mid-century design style?
Googie
Googie loved exaggerated shapes and sharp angles: the sign's designer crowned it with a star and chose the stretched-diamond shape so that it would be instantly recognisable.
Q 16Which motorsport series began racing down the Las Vegas Strip under floodlights in November 2023?
Formula One
Formula One's first practice there was abandoned when a loose water valve cover wrecked Carlos Sainz's Ferrari, and the next session ran until 4am in front of empty grandstands.
Q 17Which Strip resort, opened in 2010, has a three-level bar built inside a giant crystal chandelier?
The Cosmopolitan
The Cosmopolitan opened in the hands of Deutsche Bank, which took the half-built resort over when its developers defaulted on their loan and ran it until 2014.
Q 18Caesars Palace opened in 1966 on land rented from which future casino mogul?
Kirk Kerkorian
Kirk Kerkorian paid $960,000 for the land in 1962 and, rather than build on it himself, rented it to Jay Sarno, the man who created Caesars Palace.
Q 19Which stunt performer crashed jumping the Caesars Palace fountains on 31 December 1967?
Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel cleared the fountains but lost the bike on landing and broke his pelvis; the crash made his name, and in 1989 his son Robbie tried the same jump and landed it.
Q 20Which high-stakes game was Frank Sinatra playing at Caesars Palace in 1970 when an executive pulled a gun on him?
Baccarat
Baccarat limits started it: refused higher stakes and more credit, Sinatra rowed with executive Sanford Waterman, who drew a gun, and the singer walked out on Caesars mid-engagement.
Q 24After the original MGM Grand's 1980 fire, what did Nevada make high-rise hotels install?
Fire sprinklers
Fire sprinklers were missing from the casino the blaze tore through; the law that followed reached back to buildings already standing, so every older high-rise had to retrofit them.
Q 25Which resort's 1989 opening is regarded as the start of the mega-resort era?
The Mirage
The Mirage was built with Wall Street junk bonds, and its instant success sent rivals racing to build giant themed resorts of their own.
Q 26Which magic duo performed at Steve Wynn's volcano-fronted resort for nearly 14 years from 1990?
Siegfried and Roy
Siegfried and Roy's run ended in October 2003 when a white tiger seized Roy Horn by the neck mid-show and dragged him off stage; he survived, but the show never reopened.
Q 27When the volcano-fronted resort closed in July 2024, what name was it slated to reopen under?
Hard Rock Las Vegas
Hard Rock Las Vegas was planned around a guitar-shaped hotel tower rising where the volcano stood; its operator, Hard Rock International, is owned by Florida's Seminole Tribe.
Q 28Which Cirque du Soleil show, launched at Treasure Island in 1993, is the company's longest-running?
Mystère
Mystère was Cirque du Soleil's first permanent show after years of touring productions, and its success opened the way for O at the Bellagio and a string of Las Vegas residencies.
Q 29Which artist made the 2,000-piece ceiling of flowers in the Bellagio lobby?
Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly said the glass piece kept growing because every time Steve Wynn saw it he wanted more; it hangs in a resort whose $1.6 billion cost set a record for the Strip.
Q 30The Bellagio is themed after a village on the shores of which lake?
Como
Como: Steve Wynn had planned a French-style resort called Beau Rivage, then saw the lakeside village of Bellagio and started over, saving the French name for a casino he later built in Mississippi.