Markiplier Trivia
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100 free Markiplier trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Markiplier started a YouTube channel in March 2012 after a breakup, a layoff, an appendectomy and an adrenal tumor, intending to make sketch comedy. Instead he played Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and a decade later he is one of the biggest creators on the platform, with a film career to match. This quiz covers the origin of the name, the AdSense mishap that forced a channel switch, the Five Nights at Freddy's videos that made him 'King of FNaF', the Unus Annus experiment, the You're Welcome Tour, the interactive YouTube Originals, the podcasts, the charity calendars, and Iron Lung, the horror film he wrote, directed, financed and starred in. Every answer is explained, so you come away knowing the story, not just the stats.
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Q 01What is Markiplier's real name?
Mark Edward Fischbach
Mark Edward Fischbach has said he wanted to put himself 'onto the screen 100%', so the excitable Markiplier of the videos is meant to be the real person, not a character.
Q 02In which city was Markiplier born?
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii was only his birthplace: his father served in the US military, and Mark grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he went to school and first began making videos.
Q 03From which country did the family of Markiplier's mother flee during a war in the 1950s?
North Korea
North Korea is where the family's story starts: his mother's grandmother sent her sons south during the war, and Mark travelled to the peninsula with his mother to retrace it for a 2022 documentary.
Q 04What did Markiplier study at the University of Cincinnati?
Biomedical engineering
Biomedical engineering lost out to YouTube: he was two semesters from graduating when he decided the channel would grow faster if he worked on it full-time.
Q 05Which two long-time collaborators did Markiplier meet in sixth grade and freshman year of college?
Wade Barnes and Bob Muyskens
Wade Barnes and Bob Muyskens, his friend since about sixth grade and his freshman-year roommate, later went on the road with him as part of his 2017 live stage show.
Q 06Which medical problem in 2012 pushed Markiplier to 'do something else' with his life?
An adrenal tumor
An adrenal tumor the size of a fist was found just after an emergency appendectomy, in a spell when he had also lost his job and been thrown out by his mother; in hospital he decided to change course.
Q 07What did a 2022 earnings ranking name as the main reason Markiplier's income had nearly doubled?
Merchandise sales
Merchandise sales did it: the T-shirts, hoodies and other items sold as Unus Annus came to its end grossed $13.7 million, a windfall from a channel built to be deleted.
Q 08What was the first game Markiplier played in a Let's Play series?
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a 2010 survival-horror game, set the tone for everything after: scary indie games became the thing his channel was known for.
Q 09Why did Markiplier abandon his first YouTube channel in 2012 and start again on a second one?
An AdSense problem
An AdSense problem meant he could not earn money from his videos, so he left behind a channel that had already reached about 94,000 subscribers and rebuilt his audience from nothing.
Q 10Markiplier's main channel, started in April 2012, originally went by which name, still seen in its web address?
markiplierGAME
markiplierGAME was his second attempt at a channel, opened weeks after the first; he later shortened the name to plain Markiplier, but the old one lives on in the channel's link.
Q 11In early 2014 Markiplier moved to which city for business opportunities?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles was where 'pretty much all the opportunities' he was getting came from, he said, and it was already home base for many of YouTube's biggest names.
Q 12After Unus Annus ended, what did Markiplier warn fans not to do with the channel's videos?
Re-upload them
Re-upload them and you risked a takedown notice, he told viewers: the channel was built to vanish, and he and his co-host worked to keep copies off the internet.
Q 13Which late-night host did Markiplier visit in 2015 after a backlash over Let's Play jokes?
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel had joked that he could not see why anyone would watch other people play video games; after an angry backlash he had Markiplier on his show, opening with 'I come in peace'.
Q 21Unus Annus signed off in November 2020 with what kind of farewell?
A livestream
A livestream, 12 hours long, counted the channel down to its last second; the two hosts then deleted it, more than four million subscribers and all, as they had always said they would.
Q 22Which business magazine ranked Markiplier the No. 1 influencer in gaming in 2017?
Forbes
Forbes put him at the head of its gaming list just five years after he started his channel while in debt, in a year when he had lost his job and landed in hospital.
Q 23In the podcast drama The Edge of Sleep, Markiplier plays a night watchman who discovers what?
Everyone who fell asleep has died
Q 14Which talent agency did Markiplier sign with in November 2016?
William Morris Endeavor
William Morris Endeavor signed him just as he was saying he wanted to push into music and acting, 'more traditional media stuff'; a live stage show followed in 2017.
Q 15What was the name of Markiplier's 2017 live tour across the US and Europe?
You're Welcome
You're Welcome put Markiplier and four YouTube friends on stage for an interactive improv show, with the audience helping to steer each night.
Q 16In January 2018 Markiplier began making exclusive Twitch content through a deal with the digital network of which entertainment giant?
Disney
Disney had folded Maker Studios, the YouTube network he belonged to, into its Disney Digital Network, and the multi-year Twitch deal covered him and three other creators.
Q 17How many possible endings does the interactive special A Heist with Markiplier have?
31
Released in October 2019 as his first YouTube Original, it casts the viewer and Mark as two burglars.
Q 18Which company co-produced A Heist with Markiplier and In Space with Markiplier?
Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth made both interactive specials with him; the second came out after YouTube had wound down its originals unit, as one of the shows it had already promised to finish.
Q 19How long did Markiplier say his daily-video channel with a co-host would run before it was deleted?
One year
One year was the whole point, and the name said so: Unus Annus is Latin for it, and the channel posted every day for twelve months before being wiped for good.
Q 20Which YouTuber co-founded Unus Annus with Markiplier?
Ethan Nestor
Ethan Nestor, known online as CrankGameplays, had already shared a stage with him on a 2017 improv tour, two years before the pair launched the channel together.
Everyone who fell asleep has died, so he and a handful of survivors have to stay awake while they hunt for the cause; the audio drama was later remade for television.
Q 24Which Crazy, Stupid, Love actor co-stars with Markiplier in the TV version of The Edge of Sleep?
Lio Tipton
Lio Tipton, credited at the time as Analeigh Tipton, was cast in 2021 alongside Eve Harlow of The 100; the finished series then waited three years for a release.
Q 25What is the name of the podcast Markiplier hosts with Barnes and Muyskens?
Distractible
Distractible grew out of the long gaming livestreams the three friends used to do together, boiled down to about an hour of stories and riffing; it went straight to No. 1 in May 2021.
Q 26With which friend does Markiplier co-host a comedy podcast about sports?
Tyler Scheid
Tyler Scheid brings the enthusiasm and Markiplier the ignorance on Go! My Favorite Sports Team, which the pair launched in February 2022 as a companion to the chat podcast he hosts with two other friends.
Q 27In Space with Markiplier was nominated for Outstanding Interactive Media at which awards?
The Children's and Family Emmys
The Children's and Family Emmys were holding their first ceremony, in December 2022; Markiplier went, then called the night 'extremely underwhelming' because reporters there ignored him.
Q 28Which indie horror game by David Szymanski did Markiplier adapt into a 2026 film?
Iron Lung
Iron Lung's creator David Szymanski worked closely with him on the film, helping with the story and visiting the set, because, Markiplier said, 'it was his universe that I was playing in'.
Q 29Who co-stars with Markiplier in his 2026 horror film?
Caroline Rose Kaplan
Caroline Rose Kaplan, seen in The Plot Against America, was announced as his co-star when the film was unveiled in April 2023, almost three years before it reached cinemas.
Q 30Markiplier's gory 2026 horror film prompted fans to queue at trucks parked outside cinemas to do what?
Give blood
Give blood: with more fake blood on screen than any film before it, he said real donations were his 'intention', and some cinemas teamed up with donation centres to chase a world record.