Legends of the Hidden Temple
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50 free Legends of the Hidden Temple trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Legends of the Hidden Temple put Nickelodeon's young contestants through a jungle obstacle course in the mid-1990s: a water crossing, a memory quiz, a set of physical games and a frantic dash through a maze of rooms for a lost treasure. People still search for it as the Nickelodeon quiz show with the old Aztec theme, and for a generation of viewers it was the game they most wanted to play. This quiz covers the whole run. There are questions on each round and its rules, the rooms of the temple, the team colours and mascots, the giant talking head at the gate and the actor who voiced him, and the historical figures behind the artifacts. The TV film and the later revival are here too. It is made for anyone who grew up shouting at the screen, and for newer fans who found the show through reruns or streaming. The first questions are the ones most viewers will know, the later ones go deeper, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which host of the original Legends of the Hidden Temple returned to play himself in the 2016 TV movie?
Kirk Fogg
Kirk Fogg also turned up in four episodes of the 2021 revival, coaching players inside one of the temple rooms.
Q 02Which adventure film series was the basis for the jungle-ruin set design of Legends of the Hidden Temple?
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones gave the set its look, and one Florida newspaper summed the show up as a cross between Jeopardy and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Q 03Which Legends of the Hidden Temple room made contestants assemble a three-piece statue?
Shrine of the Silver Monkey
Shrine of the Silver Monkey was the one room that survived every rebuild of the temple. Its base, middle and head had to be stacked the right way round, and the clock punished every fumble.
Q 04Which costumed characters lurked in three rooms on Legends of the Hidden Temple, ready to grab passing contestants?
Guards
Guards in lavish sentinel costumes were really crew spotters. Once one had grabbed a player, he was out of play for the rest of the run.
Q 05The jungle temple set of Legends of the Hidden Temple has been described as which ancient civilization's style?
Mayan
Mayan is the label writers have given the set, even though its talking head, Olmec, is named after a different, earlier culture.
Q 06The 2021 revival of Legends of the Hidden Temple swapped the original's child contestants for which kind of player?
Adults
Adults made up all four teams in the revival, and each episode ran a full hour instead of half of one.
Q 07The Electrified Key of Benjamin Franklin, a Legends of the Hidden Temple artifact, recalls his experiment with what?
A kite
A kite flown near storm clouds carried a metal key on its string, and Franklin used it in 1752 to show that lightning and electricity are the same thing.
Q 08Which opening round of Legends of the Hidden Temple sent all six teams racing across a narrow swimming pool?
The Moat
The Moat's crossing method changed from episode to episode, such as swinging out to a rope net, and only the first four teams over went on to the quiz round.
Q 09In which Florida city was the original Legends of the Hidden Temple taped?
Orlando
Orlando was home to Nickelodeon Studios, inside the Universal Studios Florida park, and most of the show's young players were picked from the surrounding area.
Q 10Which protective token, won in the Temple Games of Legends of the Hidden Temple, did teams carry into the final run?
Pendant of Life
Pendant of Life tokens were earned in pieces: half for each of the first two Temple Games and a whole one for the third.
Q 11Which voice actor, later Appa and Momo in Avatar: The Last Airbender, voiced Olmec on Legends of the Hidden Temple?
Dee Bradley Baker
Dee Bradley Baker was the show's announcer as well as its booming rock god, and it was his first big job on national television.
Q 12Which network aired the 2021 revival of Legends of the Hidden Temple for a single season before cancelling it?
The CW
The CW was part-owned by Nickelodeon's parent company when it ordered the revival in May 2021. It ran for 13 episodes.
Q 13Which comedian, the voice of Cruz Ramirez in Cars 3, hosted the 2021 revival of Legends of the Hidden Temple?
Cristela Alonzo
Q 21The Enormous Iron Nose Ring of Babe the Ox, a Legends of the Hidden Temple artifact, evokes which tall-tale hero?
Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan is the giant lumberjack of tall tales, and Babe is both his pet and his working animal.
Q 22Wild Bill Hickok and the Dead Man's Hand, a Legends of the Hidden Temple legend, refers to cards from which game?
Poker
Poker's dead man's hand is two pairs, black aces and black eights, the cards Hickok was reportedly holding when he was shot at the table.
Q 23In the 2016 Legends of the Hidden Temple TV movie, the game show's original host plays himself working as what?
Tour guide
Tour guide is the job given to the film's fictional version of the host, who hands a young fan a map he once found inside the temple.
Cristela Alonzo fronted the revival, which offered a top prize of $25,000 for getting out of the temple before the clock ran down.
Q 14In which round of Legends of the Hidden Temple did teams stomp a buzzer to answer questions about the day's legend?
Steps of Knowledge
Steps of Knowledge questions each came with three possible answers, and the first two teams to get three right reached the bottom and went through.
Q 15Olmec, the talking head of Legends of the Hidden Temple, is named after an ancient civilization of which modern country?
Mexico
Mexico was home to the Olmecs, who flourished in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco from roughly 1200 to 400 BC.
Q 16Each two-player team on the original Nickelodeon run of Legends of the Hidden Temple was made up of whom?
One boy, one girl
One boy, one girl was the rule for all six teams, each of them identified by a colour and an animal on its uniform shirts.
Q 17A Legends of the Hidden Temple artifact was the Jewel-Encrusted Egg of Catherine the Great, empress of which country?
Russia
Russia was ruled by Catherine the Great from 1762 until her death in 1796, although she was born a German princess named Sophie.
Q 18Galileo's Cannonball, a Legends of the Hidden Temple artifact, recalls weights he reputedly dropped from which landmark?
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Leaning Tower of Pisa is where a pupil's biography places the demonstration, though most historians think it was only ever a thought experiment.
Q 19The Mysterious Manuscript of Mary Shelley, a Legends of the Hidden Temple artifact, points to which novel of hers?
Frankenstein
Frankenstein came out anonymously in January 1818. Shelley had the idea two summers earlier, while staying near Geneva with Lord Byron.
Q 20The Medal of Sir Edmund Hillary, a Legends of the Hidden Temple artifact, marks the first confirmed climb of which peak?
Mount Everest
Mount Everest was first confirmed climbed on 29 May 1953, when Hillary, a New Zealander, reached the summit with Tenzing Norgay.
Q 24Which future star of Dora and the Lost City of Gold played Sadie in the Legends of the Hidden Temple movie?
Isabela Merced
Isabela Merced was billed as Isabela Moner at the time, and her character Sadie is the teenager who steps on the trapdoor that drops the trio into the temple.
Q 25Daniel Cudmore, the villain Thak in the Legends of the Hidden Temple movie, played which mutant in the X-Men films?
Colossus
Colossus was Cudmore's best-known part, and he also played the vampire Felix in the Twilight films before turning up as Olmec's wicked son.
Q 26In the Legends of the Hidden Temple movie, what does King Olmec do to his people to stop his evil son's coup?
Turns them to stone
Turns them to stone, himself included: that is the film's reason a human king ended up as a giant talking head.
Q 27How are Sadie, Noah and Dudley, the three heroes of the Legends of the Hidden Temple movie, related to one another?
Siblings
Siblings on holiday with their parents, the three slip away from a jungle theme park and tumble through a trapdoor into the temple.
Q 28Which short-lived mobile streaming service first announced a Legends of the Hidden Temple revival in 2019?
Quibi
Quibi planned to launch the revival in April 2020, but the service shut down that December and the show had to find another home.
Q 29The voice of Olmec on Legends of the Hidden Temple later played Perry the Platypus on which Disney cartoon?
Phineas and Ferb
Phineas and Ferb cast him in 2007 after an audition where he offered three creature noises, one of which became Perry's trademark sound.
Q 30Which spin-off cable channel devoted to kids' game shows reran Legends of the Hidden Temple from 1999 until 2007?
Nick GAS
Nick GAS, short for Games and Sports for Kids, began showing the reruns on the day it launched in March 1999 and closed at the end of 2007.