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50 free Monster Trucks trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Monster trucks began as a contest between a handful of American pickup owners to see who could build the biggest machine. Within a decade they were filling football stadiums, flattening rows of junked cars and racing side by side. A modern competition truck stands about twelve feet tall, weighs at least five tons and can land a backflip. This quiz covers the whole story: Bigfoot and the rivals that chased it, Grave Digger and the family that drives it, Monster Jam and its World Finals, and the engineering that keeps a truck in one piece when it comes down from a jump. There are questions on famous stunts and record attempts, and on the trucks' cameos in films, cartoons and video games. It is written for fans of every age, from kids who know every truck by its paint job to parents who remember the car-crushing shows of the 1980s. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories worth retelling at the next show.
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Q 01Bigfoot 14 set a 1999 record by jumping 202 feet over which aircraft at a Tennessee air show?
A Boeing 727
A Boeing 727 airliner sat beneath driver Dan Runte as he flew 202 feet, smashing the old monster truck mark of 144 feet.
Q 02Which Pixar Cars character wrestles as a monster truck called The Tormentor in a 2010 short?
Mater
Mater spins the tale in Monster Truck Mater, beating rivals such as the I-Screamer before tagging in Lightning McQueen under the alias Frightening McMean.
Q 03The robot dinosaur Truckasaurus crushes which cartoon family's car at a monster truck rally?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons meet Truckasaurus in Bart the Daredevil, an episode spoofing Robosaurus, a real fire-breathing machine that eats cars at motorsport shows.
Q 04Bigfoot 5's 10-foot tires came from an overland train the US Army ran in which state in the 1950s?
Alaska
Alaska was where the Army ran its overland train; Bigfoot's builder later bought the giant tires from a Seattle junkyard owner for $1,000.
Q 05Bigfoot 7 was built to flatten a car showroom in a single take for which 1989 Patrick Swayze film?
Road House
Road House spent $500,000 on the scene, in which the truck destroys a dealership and crushes four new cars, so there was no room for a second try.
Q 06Monster truck axles usually come from heavy military trucks or which everyday civilian vehicles?
School buses
School buses give up axles strong enough to be rebuilt with planetary gears at each hub, which help turn tires that stand 66 inches tall.
Q 07Which color do Grave Digger's headlights glow whenever the graveyard-painted truck is competing?
Red
Red stop lights that Dennis Anderson pulled off a vehicle he was converting into a team transporter happened to fit the headlight sockets, and they stayed.
Q 08Which toy brand's Monster Jam deal ended in 2018, before it launched its own monster truck tour?
Hot Wheels
Hot Wheels had even sponsored a truck in the series; after the split, owner Mattel co-produced Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live, with Bigfoot on the bill.
Q 09Most modern monster truck engines are supercharged and burn which fuel instead of gasoline?
Methanol
Methanol-based fuel feeds supercharged V8 engines of up to 575 cubic inches, which is roughly 9.4 liters.
Q 10Bigfoot 20, unveiled at the 2012 SEMA Show in a world first for monster trucks, is powered by what?
An electric motor
An electric motor fed by 36 batteries turns the wheels of the truck, which made its first car crush within days of its debut.
Q 11Which former pro wrestler became the first woman to win a Monster Jam World Finals racing title?
Madusa
Madusa, real name Debrah Miceli, beat her own trainer, Grave Digger creator Dennis Anderson, in the final bracket, driving a truck that carried her ring name.
Q 12Tom Meents's truck Maximum Destruction began life in 2000 named after which WCW wrestling star?
Goldberg
Goldberg the truck carried Meents to the first World Finals racing title; after WCW folded in 2001 it ran as Team Meents before its 2003 renaming.
Q 13Which Missouri shop owner built Bigfoot, often called the first monster truck, from a family pickup?
Bob Chandler
Bob Chandler opened a four-wheel-drive shop because Midwest stores lacked the parts he kept breaking, and the growing truck became its rolling advertisement.
Q 21The first competition backflip by a monster truck came in a truck owned by which action-sports star?
Travis Pastrana
Travis Pastrana had failed at the stunt himself on his Nitro Circus show, slamming onto the roof from about 40 feet, before driver Cam McQueen pulled it off.
Q 22Lee O'Donnell's Mad Scientist landed which stunt for the first time in scored competition in 2017?
A front flip
A front flip by Tom Meents two years earlier had missed the Guinness record because his leading tires never touched down after the rotation.
Q 23In 2005 Tom Meents jumped Maximum Destruction over which building before wrecking it with the truck?
His old house
Q 14Dennis Anderson built the first Grave Digger in 1982 for which sport, before it ever crushed a car?
Mud bogging
Mud bogging was his game until a booked monster truck failed to turn up at a show and he offered to flatten the cars himself.
Q 15Grave Digger bodies since 1989 have been modeled on which type of 1950 Chevrolet, not a pickup?
Panel van
Panel van steel from a 1950 Chevy formed the body of Grave Digger 2, but it was soon swapped for a fiberglass replica, and every later truck has copied that shape.
Q 16Digger's Dungeon, the home base and museum of the Grave Digger team, is in which US state?
North Carolina
North Carolina's Poplar Branch is home to the shop, where the first Grave Digger, nicknamed Grandma, stands on display alongside several of the trucks that followed it.
Q 17Which George Thorogood rock song became Grave Digger's theme music in the late 1980s?
Bad to the Bone
Bad to the Bone, a 1982 single, began accompanying the truck just as its wild passes on TNT Motorsports shows were making it a crowd favorite.
Q 18Robosaurus, the car-eating robot of monster truck shows, unfolds from a trailer into which dinosaur?
Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus rex was the model for the 40-foot machine, which breathes fire from its nostrils and tears vehicles apart with hydraulic claws.
Q 19The Monster Jam World Finals spent 19 straight years at Sam Boyd Stadium, on the edge of which city?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas staged every final from 2000 to 2018, an event fans call the Super Bowl of monster trucks, before it began moving between cities.
Q 20Bigfoot, the pioneering monster truck, began in 1975 as a modified pickup from which automaker?
Ford
Ford went on to sponsor Bigfoot from 1983 until 2005, and the original F-250 survives as a display truck at the team's shop in Missouri.
His old house made a fitting victim for a driver known for full-throttle runs, roof walks and handing his helmet to a fan after freestyle.
Q 24Which Monster Jam truck, created in 2001, can snort smoke from its nose at the push of a button?
El Toro Loco
El Toro Loco, Spanish for the crazy bull, began as a spin-off of the Bulldozer body and grew popular enough to become that design's main truck.
Q 25Which outcome of the 2004 Monster Jam World Finals freestyle contest led to a change in the rules?
A three-way tie
A three-way tie made three drivers co-champions, something the tiebreaking procedures brought in afterwards were designed to prevent.
Q 26Which company published Monster Truck Madness, the 1996 PC game starring Bigfoot and Grave Digger?
Microsoft
Microsoft made it the first of its Madness racing line, later joined by Motocross Madness and Midtown Madness.
Q 27Bigfoot trucks appear in the second and sixth films of which long-running 1980s cop comedy series?
Police Academy
Police Academy 2 used Bigfoot 3 and Police Academy 6 used Bigfoot 6, part of a list of screen credits that also includes Tango & Cash.
Q 28Which 1981 comedy, named after a Johnny Paycheck hit, gave monster trucks their big-screen debut?
Take This Job and Shove It
Take This Job and Shove It cast Bigfoot as a character's everyday pickup, and the truck's builder appears on screen as the flagman who starts a race.
Q 29Bear Foot, long Bigfoot's chief rival, appears in the 1985 Sleeping Bag video by which rock band?
ZZ Top
ZZ Top used the truck in the same video that retired the red Eliminator hot rod, the star of the band's earlier clips.
Q 30Bigfoot 9 never came home from a 1998 tour after customs officials seized it in which country?
Brazil
Brazil's customs service impounded the truck, a veteran that had debuted in Dayton, Ohio, in 1990, and the team has never got it back.