Monaco Grand Prix Trivia
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49 free Monaco Grand Prix trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Monaco Grand Prix has been run through the same streets since 1929, when Antony Noghès invented it to get his automobile club recognised and 'Williams' won in a Bugatti. This quiz covers the whole story: Louis Chiron's home win in 1931, Fangio's first championship victory in 1950, Alberto Ascari swimming out of the harbour in 1955, Graham Hill's five wins that made him 'Mr. Monaco', the Armco arriving in 1969, the four-leaders-in-two-laps finish of 1982, the race stopped in the rain in 1984 with Senna and Bellof closing on Prost, Senna's six wins and his walk home in 1988, Panis's only victory in 1996, Schumacher parking at Rascasse and Charles Leclerc finally winning at home in 2024. It also covers the circuit itself: the 3.337 km lap, the tunnel, the Fairmont hairpin, the Swimming Pool and Nouvelle Chicane, the six weeks it takes to build the track, the podium in the royal box, the shortened race distance and the Triple Crown that only Graham Hill has completed. If you want the whole sport, our Formula 1 quiz covers the championship, and our Monaco quiz covers the principality itself. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who watches in May, a third are medium and the rest are for people who know who won in 1972. Every answer is checked against the race and circuit reference pages, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01Which make of car won four of the first five Monaco Grands Prix?
Bugatti
Bugatti. Half of the twenty cars invited to the first race, in 1929, were Bugattis, nimble enough on the tight streets to beat a 7-litre German sports car that lost minutes at its pit stop.
Q 02Which founder of the Monaco Grand Prix, first run in 1929, gives his name to the circuit's final corner?
Antony Noghès
Antony Noghès. Motorsport's governing body had refused his club recognition because none of its events ran inside Monaco, so he mapped out a race through the streets themselves.
Q 03The first Monaco Grand Prix in 1929 was won by a driver entered under a one-word pseudonym; who was he?
William Grover-Williams
William Grover-Williams, entered simply as 'Williams'. In the Second World War he parachuted back into France as a British agent, was arrested in 1943 and was executed in 1945.
Q 04Which Monégasque driver won his home Grand Prix in 1931 and remained Monaco's only winner for 93 years?
Louis Chiron
Louis Chiron. He had backed the plan for a street race, yet he missed the very first one in 1929 because he had entered the Indianapolis 500 instead.
Q 05The 1933 Monaco Grand Prix was the first Grand Prix to set the grid by what method?
Practice times
Practice times. Until then starting places were drawn by lot; in the race Nuvolari's Alfa caught fire on the last lap and he was disqualified when onlookers helped him push it.
Q 06Which driver lived up to his nickname 'Regenmeister' by winning the rain-soaked 1936 Monaco Grand Prix?
Rudolf Caracciola
Rudolf Caracciola. An Alfa Romeo leaking oil on the opening lap turned the wet chicane into a trap, and the spill cost five rivals their race, three of them his own team-mates.
Q 07Who took his first World Championship win at Monaco in 1950, the race's first year in the championship?
Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio. Sea water soaked Tabac corner on the first lap and nine cars piled up behind him; he picked his way through the wreckage next time round and won by a full lap.
Q 08Which driver plunged into the harbour at the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix and had to swim to safety?
Alberto Ascari
Alberto Ascari. His Lancia went through the hay bales and sandbags at the chicane and sank; he got out, but four days later he was killed testing a sports car at Monza.
Q 09Two cars from which dominant team broke down while leading the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix, handing victory to a Ferrari?
Mercedes
Mercedes. One leader broke its transmission and the next its engine, so Maurice Trintignant came through from ninth on the grid as the first Frenchman to win a championship Grand Prix.
Q 10Who beat three works Ferraris to win the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix in a year-old privately entered Lotus?
Stirling Moss
Stirling Moss. Well down on power against the new Ferraris, he took the lead on lap 14, was hounded to the flag and still won by 3.6 seconds.
Q 11Graham Hill's first Monaco win, in 1963, came when which leader's gearbox seized with 22 laps left?
Jim Clark
Jim Clark. He had started from pole and pulled clear before his Lotus locked in gear, and the double world champion never did win at Monaco.
Q 12Graham Hill won the 1965 Monaco Grand Prix despite taking to an escape road on lap 25 to avoid what?
A slow backmarker
A slow backmarker. Hill was lapping Bob Anderson's ailing Brabham when he had to dive up the escape road; he rejoined fifth and was back in front by lap 65.
Q 13In which superhero film is the hero attacked by a whip-wielding villain while racing in the Monaco Historic Grand Prix?
Iron Man 2
Q 21Ayrton Senna's 1987 Monaco win was the first Grand Prix victory for a car with what technology?
Active suspension
Active suspension. The computer-controlled system added weight and sapped power, but it came into its own on bumpy street tracks: his only other win that year was in Detroit.
Q 22At which Monaco corner did Ayrton Senna crash out of a huge lead in 1988 and then go home to his flat?
Portier
Portier. He was almost 50 seconds clear of his team-mate when he clipped the barrier at the right-hander before the tunnel, throwing away a race he had dominated all weekend.
Q 23Nigel Mansell lost a seemingly certain 1992 Monaco win with seven laps to go because of what?
A loose wheel nut
Iron Man 2. Formula One's boss withdrew permission to film on the real streets, so most of the race was staged on a replica of the circuit in a California studio car park.
Q 14Which safety feature first went up at points around the Monaco circuit in 1969?
Armco rails
Armco rails. Two cars had already ended up in the harbour, in 1955 and 1965, and more steel rail went up each year until it lined almost the whole lap.
Q 15Monaco's double chicane of 1973 wraps around which new facility, giving the section its name?
The Rainier III Nautical Stadium
The Rainier III Nautical Stadium. Its outdoor pool gives the Swimming Pool section its name, and the new stretch of track made room for the circuit's first permanent pit lane.
Q 16Who won the 1982 Monaco Grand Prix after spinning out of the lead and bump-starting his stalled car downhill?
Riccardo Patrese
Riccardo Patrese. On the last lap the Ferrari that had inherited the lead stopped in the tunnel and the car behind it ran out of fuel, handing him his first Grand Prix win.
Q 17Which Le Mans winner, as clerk of the course, stopped the rain-hit 1984 Monaco Grand Prix without consulting the stewards?
Jacky Ickx
Jacky Ickx. He was suspended from race control for acting alone, and the half points awarded proved costly: winner Alain Prost lost that year's title by half a point.
Q 18Ayrton Senna's charge through the rain at the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix came in a car from which team?
Toleman
Toleman. He started 13th in the small team's car and was closing fast on the leader when the race was stopped, and his second place was Toleman's first podium.
Q 19Who won the 1970 Monaco Grand Prix when leader Jack Brabham slid off at the last corner of the last lap?
Jochen Rindt
Jochen Rindt. He chased so hard that the leader braked too late and slid into the straw bales; Rindt was killed that September and became world champion posthumously.
Q 20Monaco's Nouvelle Chicane was created in 1986 by doing what?
Expanding into the harbour water
Expanding into the harbour water. The old left-right flick was being taken at alarming speed, so the quay was built out to fit a slower chicane with a little run-off.
A loose wheel nut. Fearing a puncture, he pitted, rejoined five seconds behind Ayrton Senna, caught him on fresh tyres and hounded him to the flag, losing by two-tenths of a second.
Q 24Which Williams driver finished second when Ayrton Senna took his record sixth Monaco win in 1993?
Damon Hill
Damon Hill. His father Graham's five wins had been the record since 1969; Senna inherited the lead after one rival was penalised for a jumped start and another's car failed.
Q 25Which Sauber driver was left in a coma by a practice crash at the 1994 Monaco Grand Prix?
Karl Wendlinger
Karl Wendlinger. He hit the barriers at the harbour chicane two weeks after the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna at Imola, and Sauber withdrew its other car from the race.
Q 26Who won the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix from 14th on the grid, his only Formula One victory and Ligier's last?
Olivier Panis
Olivier Panis. He timed his switch to slick tyres perfectly on a drying track, while the pole-sitter crashed on the first lap and both men who led before him broke down.
Q 27Who finished second at Monaco in 1996 wearing Michael Schumacher's helmet?
David Coulthard
David Coulthard. His own visor kept misting up in the wet, so the grid seemed to hold two Michael Schumachers, and the real one crashed out on the opening lap.
Q 28Michael Schumacher was sent to the back of the 2006 Monaco grid for stopping his car where during qualifying?
The Rascasse hairpin
The Rascasse hairpin. He held provisional pole when he stopped there in the dying moments, spoiling his rivals' last laps, and the stewards decided he had done it on purpose.
Q 29Michael Schumacher's first two Monaco wins, in 1994 and 1995, came with which team?
Benetton
Benetton. In 1994 he took the first pole of his career, and the front of the grid was painted with the flags of Brazil and Austria for Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger, killed two weeks earlier.
Q 30A diamond vanished from the nose of a crashed Jaguar at the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix while promoting which heist film?
Ocean's Twelve
Ocean's Twelve. Christian Klien crashed on the opening lap, and by the time the team got the car back the gem had gone; it has never been found.