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40 free LaurDIY trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Lauren Riihimaki turned a student hobby into LaurDIY, one of the best-known craft channels on YouTube. Along the way she picked up trophies, a television hosting job and a line of products sold in big-box stores, all while filming much of her life for millions of subscribers. This quiz covers the whole story: her Canadian childhood and student years, the series and collaborations that built the channel, her time on Escape the Night and Craftopia, the brands she has worked with, and the dogs, engagement and wedding her fans followed closely. It is written for anyone who has ever followed one of her tutorials. Longtime subscribers should breeze through the early questions; the later ones reach into interviews and side projects that only dedicated fans will remember.
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Q 01Forbes dubbed LaurDIY the millennial version of which American homemaking mogul, a label she has embraced?
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart was the comparison that stuck. LaurDIY leaned into it with licensed craft kits, stationery and jewelry sold through big-box retailers.
Q 02On her DIY Master series, LaurDIY learned to use which tool and then tried it out on a friend?
Tattoo gun
Tattoo gun was the tool, and she really did ink one of her friends with it. DIY Master was built around bigger projects she had never attempted on camera.
Q 03What is the name of LaurDIY's first dog, a regular guest in her videos who was a ring bearer at her wedding?
Moose
Moose shared ring-bearer duty with her second dog, Diggy. LaurDIY called including the pair the most sentimental element of the day.
Q 04Which fellow YouTuber did LaurDIY date for three years before the pair announced their breakup in a joint video?
Alex Wassabi
Alex Wassabi and LaurDIY were known to fans as Laurex. The tearful video in which they explained that the split was mutual drew about 10 million views.
Q 05Craftopia, the kids' crafting contest LaurDIY hosted, was a launch-day show on which streaming service?
HBO Max
HBO Max went live on May 27, 2020 with Craftopia in its opening line-up. LaurDIY was an executive producer as well as host, and the series ran for two seasons.
Q 06LaurDIY guest-starred in season two of Escape the Night, a YouTube series created and hosted by which vlogger?
Joey Graceffa
Joey Graceffa plays the Savant, a version of himself whose party invitations keep stranding his friends in the past. There they are picked off one by one before sunrise.
Q 07For their wedding first dance, LaurDIY's husband secretly recorded his own cover of a ballad by which singer?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love was the song. The groom travelled to Orlando to record it with the a cappella group Voctave, and she knew nothing about it.
Q 08In a newspaper profile from her student days, LaurDIY called herself a professional lover of which craft supply?
Glitter
Glitter was the answer she gave The Globe and Mail, which profiled her as a fourth-year student who had already turned her videos into a six-figure business.
Q 09Which former Nickelodeon sitcom star, a friend of LaurDIY, has teamed up with her for collab videos?
Josh Peck
Josh Peck, of Drake & Josh fame, turned up on her channel as she moved from back-to-school videos toward personality-led content for fans growing older with her.
Q 10LaurDIY's father is of Finnish and Ukrainian descent; which heritage, the one she grew up closest to, is her mother's?
Japanese
Japanese culture came down her mother's side. LaurDIY has praised her Nana's cooking, though nobody in the family still spoke the language.
Q 11LaurDIY grew up in St. Catharines, a city in which Canadian province?
Ontario
Ontario is where she grew up, near Niagara Falls, an only child whose mother encouraged her early love of arts and crafts even though neither parent was crafty.
Q 12LaurDIY began as which kind of online project in her first year of university, before video took over?
A blog
A blog came first, started because her university program left her feeling creatively stifled. Writing out instructions grew tedious, so she began showing the steps on camera instead.
Q 13What does LaurDIY call her fans, a nickname she also writes as a hashtag?
Pretty Little Laurs
Q 21LaurDIY was the first guest killed off in season two of Escape the Night; which creatures finished her?
Vampires
Vampires ate her character alive after she lost a race to find a golden goblet. The guests had killed the creatures' king, and a life was owed in exchange.
Q 22In LaurDIY's season of Escape the Night, the guests are carried back in time to a masquerade ball in which era?
Victorian
Victorian dress was the entry ticket: each guest received a costume to match an assigned character, and only those who wore it could see the carriage sent to collect them.
Q 23Served by LaurDIY, her 2017 series of two-minute recipe videos, premiered on which platform?
Facebook Watch
Pretty Little Laurs is the name, and she sets aside time for them: the first hour after a video goes live is when she tries to answer comments.
Q 14Who did LaurDIY marry in April 2024, years after the two first worked together on a project?
Jeremy Lewis
Jeremy Lewis and LaurDIY married at a Spanish-style villa in Southern California in front of fewer than a hundred guests, with both of her parents walking her down the aisle.
Q 15What is the name of the podcast LaurDIY has co-hosted with her husband, which also has its own YouTube channel?
Wild 'Til 9
Wild 'Til 9 sits alongside her main channel and a separate vlog channel. Her official biography lists podcaster among her jobs, next to angel investor.
Q 16To which US city did LaurDIY move from Toronto to run her licensing business and film collabs more easily?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles won out by 2016, after she had been living out of a suitcase between the two cities. She has described the pace there as far more relaxed than Toronto's.
Q 17LaurDIY was a featured creator at the tenth edition of which online-video convention held in Anaheim, California?
VidCon
VidCon put her on meet-and-greets and panels, including a session on how video creators have become direct-to-consumer brands in their own right.
Q 18LaurDIY featured several years in a row in which annual video recapping the platform's biggest trends and creators?
YouTube Rewind
YouTube Rewind included her every year from 2015 to 2018. The last of those overtook a Justin Bieber music video to become the most-disliked upload in the site's history.
Q 19Craftopia, the crafting show LaurDIY hosted and executive produced, was nominated for which television award?
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy voters nominated the series in 2021 for its art direction, set decoration and scenic design: the giant studio where contestants raced to fill their carts.
Q 20Each guest on Escape the Night plays a period persona; which title was LaurDIY given in season two?
The Engineer
The Engineer was her persona. Castmates that season included Liza Koshy as the Explorer and Tana Mongeau as the Saloon Girl.
Facebook Watch was, in her managers' words, an open playing field for testing ideas. The short series was made by the production arm of her management company.
Q 24The debut episode of Served by LaurDIY featured an ice cream cone made to resemble which Sesame Street character?
Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster inspired the cone, filmed from overhead in the style of viral recipe clips. LaurDIY's pitch was that snacks and treats are as DIYable as crafts.
Q 25LaurDIY beat Andrea Russett and Baby Ariel to win the Lifestyle category at which ceremony for online video?
Streamy Awards
Streamy Awards voters chose her in 2017, the year the show was broadcast live on Twitter with the YouTube star Jon Cozart as host.
Q 26LaurDIY's Shorty Award, won at a ceremony hosted by Keke Palmer, came in which category?
House & Home
House & Home was the category, a win she shared with The Sorry Girls. Her nomination praised seasonal decor ideas such as a foam pumpkin turned into a planter for succulents.
Q 27LaurDIY said whose daily vlogging showed her that viewers come to a channel for the personality?
Casey Neistat
Casey Neistat's daily vlogs convinced her that anyone can post a tutorial, so she began blending vlogs with crafts and launched series such as The DIY Challenge.
Q 28LaurDIY licensed her brand to which maker of phone accessories, alongside her own craft kits and stationery?
PopSockets
PopSockets, the stick-on grips that prop a phone up, carried her designs. The same licensing push put her name on beanies and graphic tees.
Q 29In 2017 LaurDIY joined Eva Gutowski, Coco Jones and Jordan Fisher as a spokesperson for which soft drink?
Fanta
Fanta brought back its Fantanas that year, each member matched to a fruit flavor. The new line-up was the first to include a man.
Q 30LaurDIY's two dogs, the inspiration for her dog-walking accessories line, are which breed?
Miniature bull terrier
Miniature bull terrier is the breed. LaurDIY did not grow up with dogs, and has said that her first puppy opened a new corner of her heart.