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48 free Mike Judge trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mike Judge is the physics graduate who hated a Silicon Valley startup so much he quit to play blues bass, bought a 16 mm camera and drew Frog Baseball at his kitchen table. MTV turned it into Beavis and Butt-Head; Fox paired him with Greg Daniels for King of the Hill; and his shorts about an office drone named Milton became Office Space, the box-office flop that sold a million red staplers. These 48 questions cover the whole run: Highland and Arlen, Hank Hill's propane, Daria, the Cher single, Initech and Chotchkie's flair, Brawndo and President Camacho, Pied Piper versus Hooli, The Goode Family, Tales from the Tour Bus and the Hulu revival of King of the Hill. There are career oddities too: the Stepford Wives quote, the Kenny McCormick cameo, the Spy Kids villain and the animation festival he toured with Don Hertzfeldt. Easy questions stick to propane, Pied Piper and Do America; the expert tier asks about Bandera Entertainment, the Texas licence plates and which episodes he called awful. Every answer is cited to a page we checked.
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Q 01Mike Judge was born in Guayaquil, a city in which South American country?
Ecuador
Ecuador: his father, an archaeologist, was working there when Mike was born, and the family later moved to the American Southwest, where he grew up.
Q 02In which city did Mike Judge grow up?
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Butt-Head began as his botched sketch of a high-school classmate there, a straight-A student who went on to become a nuclear engineer.
Q 03What subject did Mike Judge study for his degree at UC San Diego?
Physics
Physics: he went on to program test systems for the F-18 fighter jet, but found cubicle life mind-numbing and soon quit engineering out of boredom.
Q 04Mike Judge joined a Silicon Valley startup in 1987 and soon quit, saying his colleagues were like what?
Stepford Wives
Stepford Wives: he called them 'true believers in something, and I don't know what it was', quit to join a blues band, and later turned the experience into tech-world satire.
Q 05Which instrument did Mike Judge play in a touring blues band after leaving engineering?
Bass
Bass: he went on to record and perform with Texas bluesman Doyle Bramhall for more than a decade, and even after two hit cartoons called that 'the best gig I ever had'.
Q 06What did Mike Judge buy in 1989 to teach himself animation at home?
A Bolex 16 mm film camera
A Bolex 16 mm film camera: he paid $200 for the second-hand 1950s model after seeing animation cels in a movie theater, and at first did not even know how to load the film.
Q 07Which 1992 Mike Judge short introduced Beavis and Butt-Head?
Frog Baseball
Frog Baseball: the crude two-minute cartoon is exactly what its title says, and MTV liked it enough to hire Judge to build a whole series around the pair.
Q 08On which MTV animation showcase did Mike Judge's early shorts air?
Liquid Television
Liquid Television: MTV bought his first Beavis and Butt-Head cartoon for the late-night showcase in 1992, then asked him to turn the pair into a series of their own.
Q 09In which fictional Texas town do Beavis and Butt-Head live?
Highland
Highland: Judge left the town unnamed at first and pictured it somewhere between Lubbock and eastern New Mexico, before the show settled on the Texas side.
Q 10After a 1993 tragedy was blamed on Beavis and Butt-Head, which word did MTV stop Beavis from shouting?
Fire
Fire: after an Ohio mother blamed the cartoon for a fatal blaze set by her five-year-old, MTV cut every reference to it while insisting the series was not responsible.
Q 11Which MTV spin-off of Beavis and Butt-Head was made without Mike Judge?
Daria
Daria: Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn built the series around the pair's brainy classmate, and Judge later admitted he had not watched much of it.
Q 12Which band's name is on the T-shirt Butt-Head wears in Beavis and Butt-Head?
AC/DC
AC/DC: Beavis wears Metallica, and Judge has said neither band was considered hip when the show began, so the pair were already behind their times.
Q 13Where do Beavis and Butt-Head work?
Burger World
Burger World: Beavis works the fryer and Butt-Head the till, and over the years the pair's deep-frying has run to rodents and even a telephone.
Q 21Hank Hill's wife Peggy is a proud substitute teacher of which language?
Spanish
Spanish: Peggy is immensely proud of her command of the language and speaks it terribly, a running joke through all 13 of the show's seasons on Fox.
Q 22Which Seth MacFarlane series took over King of the Hill's Fox time slot in 2009?
The Cleveland Show
The Cleveland Show: Fox cancelled Judge's series as it made room for the newcomer, a rival network weighed a rescue and passed, and the Hills bowed out after 13 seasons.
Q 23Which streaming service revived King of the Hill in 2025?
Hulu
Hulu: the show's old network passed because it could not own a stake in it, so the Hills came back on a streaming service 15 years after their last new episodes.
Q 14Which late-night host quoted Beavis and Butt-Head on air and later voiced a roadie in the pair's first movie?
David Letterman
David Letterman: he praised the 'purity' of the pair's grossness in 1993, then voiced a Mötley Crüe roadie who looks a lot like Butt-Head, credited under the alias Earl Hofert.
Q 15Which singer remade one of her 1960s hits as a 1993 duet with Beavis and Butt-Head?
Cher
Cher: she remade 'I Got You Babe' with the pair, who spend the track propositioning her and making fun of Sonny Bono, the ex-husband she first sang it with.
Q 16What is the title of Beavis and Butt-Head's 1996 feature film?
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America: Judge once said he couldn't think of 'one more thing these guys could do', yet their road movie opened at number one at the US box office.
Q 17Which streaming service launched the 2022 Beavis and Butt-Head revival?
Paramount+
Paramount+: the company first wanted a live-action film, and Judge auditioned actors over Zoom before persuading it to bring the pair back with an animated movie and series.
Q 18Which former Simpsons writer did Fox pair with Mike Judge to develop King of the Hill?
Greg Daniels
Greg Daniels: Judge had drafted the pilot alone, but after the two reworked it he shared the co-creator credit with Daniels, who went on to adapt The Office for American TV.
Q 19Which two King of the Hill characters does Mike Judge voice?
Hank Hill and Boomhauer
Hank Hill and Boomhauer: Judge based Boomhauer's mumble on an irate caller who left him a ranting, barely intelligible voicemail complaining about Beavis and Butt-Head.
Q 20What does Hank Hill sell for a living?
Propane
Propane: Hank sells 'propane and propane accessories', and in 2005, with the show slated for cancellation, a loyal audience kept tuning in and Fox gave it a reprieve.
Q 24Which of Hank Hill's neighbours is a bug exterminator obsessed with conspiracy theories?
Dale Gribble
Dale Gribble: for all his suspicion he never notices that his wife is having an affair with John Redcorn, or that his son looks remarkably like the man.
Q 25Mike Judge's animated shorts about a mumbling drone named Milton grew into which film?
Office Space
Office Space: a Fox executive saw the cartoons and wanted a whole film about Milton, but Judge wrote an ensemble comedy instead and kept him as a supporting player.
Q 26Which reports does boss Bill Lumbergh keep pestering Peter Gibbons about?
TPS reports
TPS reports: the phrase became shorthand for pointless paperwork, and within a year strangers were shouting 'Did you get the TPS report?' at Gary Cole, who played Lumbergh.
Q 27Which fictional software company employs Peter Gibbons and Milton?
Initech
Initech: three of its programmers take revenge on a constantly jamming printer by carrying it out to a field and beating it to pieces.
Q 28Which stapler company added a red model to its range because of Milton's stapler?
Swingline
Swingline: it made nothing brighter than grey and dark blue, so the prop master spray-painted one for the film, and fans kept asking for it until the company sold its own.
Q 29Who played the frustrated programmer Peter Gibbons?
Ron Livingston
Ron Livingston: Fox pushed for Good Will Hunting's Matt Damon or Ben Affleck, and Judge even met Damon, but the little-known actor's audition tape won him the part.
Q 30What cameo did Mike Judge play in his 1999 live-action debut?
Stan, the Chotchkie's manager
Stan, the Chotchkie's manager: he nags Jennifer Aniston's waitress about her 'flair', and on set Judge kept telling the props team he wanted more of it.