Movember & Moustache Trivia
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47 free Movember & Moustache trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Movember started with 30 men in Melbourne growing moustaches for 30 days in 2004 and has since raised hundreds of millions for prostate cancer, testicular cancer and men's mental health. This quiz is built for Movember fundraisers, office quiz nights and anyone sporting a mo for the month. It covers the charity itself: the founders, the Mo Bros, the Moscars, the countries it spread to, the Qantas plane and the moustache on the Cerne Abbas Giant. It also covers the men's health facts behind it, and then the moustache in all its glory: the handlebar, the walrus, the toothbrush and the pencil, the world's longest mo, the Handlebar Club, the beard tax of Peter the Great and the British Army rule that made moustaches compulsory until 1916. Easy questions ask what the 'Mo' in Movember stands for and which comedian made the toothbrush moustache famous. Harder ones dig into which Air Force ace inspired Mustache March, who founded Beyond Blue, and how a $300 prize gave baseball its most famous handlebar. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on Movember, the moustache and the health topics involved, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Under Movember's rules, how must every participant's face look on the first day of November?
Clean-shaven
Clean-shaven. The founders' rules, which still stand, allow a moustache only, no beard and no goatee, so each grower's changing face works as a walking billboard for men's health.
Q 02Alongside prostate cancer and testicular cancer, which third cause does Movember raise money for?
Mental health
Mental health, together with suicide prevention. Around the world men die by suicide roughly twice as often as women, and in Western countries three to four times as often.
Q 03In which Australian city did the Movember Foundation begin, when 30 friends dared each other to grow moustaches?
Melbourne
Melbourne. The dare came out of a Sunday afternoon of beers in 2003, when the talk turned to fashions that had never come back, and that first year raised no money at all.
Q 04Movember co-founder Adam Garone calls the moustache his charity's 'hairy' version of which awareness symbol?
Ribbon
Ribbon. 'Our ribbon is a hairy ribbon,' Garone says: a new moustache makes people ask about it, which gets men talking about health problems they would usually keep quiet about.
Q 05Which superhero film had to digitally erase Henry Cavill's moustache because a rival studio refused to let him shave?
Justice League
Justice League. Cavill had grown the moustache for Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Paramount refused to let it go mid-shoot, so it was erased by computer from Superman's reshot scenes.
Q 06Movember began in Australia, but which country's participants raised the most money for it in 2011?
Canada
Canada. The campaign had arrived only four years earlier, yet a late-November 2011 tally showed Canadians on almost 30 million Canadian dollars, with Britain and Australia under 19 million each.
Q 07What are the Moscars?
A user-submitted Movember video contest
A user-submitted Movember video contest, named in a nod to the Oscars. Its 2012 rules banned fake moustaches on men, though women, children and pets could fake one, and told entrants to keep their feature films for the real thing.
Q 08Which airline painted a moustache on the nose of one of its Boeing 737s for Movember 2011?
Qantas
Qantas. Its chief executive, Alan Joyce, had been treated for prostate cancer that year and said that without early detection he might have been dead within ten years.
Q 09Which Parks and Recreation star's Movember video was among the ten most-watched charity videos of 2012?
Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman, whose Ron Swanson wears one of television's best-known moustaches. His mock lesson, How to Grow a Moustache, passed 1.8 million views and finished eighth among the year's charity campaigns.
Q 10In 2013 the National Trust allowed a huge grass moustache to be added to which English chalk hill figure?
The Cerne Abbas Giant
The Cerne Abbas Giant. The moustache was grown elsewhere from grass seed and carried into place, so it could come off without marking him; six years earlier a Homer Simpson had been drawn beside him to promote a film.
Q 11Which brand swapped its mascot's moustache for a QR code on its packs for Movember 2023?
Pringles
Pringles. Scanning the code where Mr P's moustache used to be opened a Movember tool that coaches people through starting a difficult conversation with a friend who is struggling.
Q 12Which religious group's married men grow full beards but never moustaches, which they associate with soldiers?
The Amish
The Amish. Moustaches were once the fashion of European soldiers, the reason usually given for the pacifist Amish shaving theirs, while the beard is grown at marriage and does the job of a wedding ring.
Q 13Members of which US military branch grow moustaches each March in tribute to fighter ace Robin Olds?
The Air Force
Q 21The British Army made moustaches compulsory until midway through which war?
World War I
World War I. The order of October 1916 came from General Sir Nevil Macready, who loathed his own regulation moustache and had it shaved off at once.
Q 22In 1919 the artist Marcel Duchamp drew a moustache and goatee onto a postcard of which famous painting?
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa. The doodle was a Dada gesture of scorn for the revered art of the past, and the letters Duchamp added as its title make a rude joke about her when read aloud in French.
Q 23Which moustache style is bushy with small upward-pointing, waxed ends?
Handlebar
Handlebar, named for its likeness to the handlebars of a bicycle. The upward curl is trained with wax and twisting, which barbers warn takes some practice to get right.
The Air Force. Olds wore a non-regulation 'bulletproof' moustache during the Vietnam War as what he called a gesture of defiance, his airmen copied him, and Mustache March keeps the gesture going.
Q 14Which Olympic swimming champion told Soviet rivals that his moustache made him faster by deflecting water from his mouth?
Mark Spitz
Mark Spitz. He had meant to shave before the 1972 Games but kept the moustache once rivals fixated on it, won seven golds, and later joked that every Russian swimmer turned up with one the next time.
Q 15Roughly what size is a healthy adult prostate gland?
A walnut
A walnut, at least in a man's twenties. It goes on growing with age, and because it wraps around the tube that drains the bladder, an enlarged one makes it hard to pee.
Q 16In the PSA blood test offered to men, what does PSA stand for?
Prostate-specific antigen
Prostate-specific antigen, a protein made by healthy and cancerous prostate cells alike. That is why a high reading is no diagnosis: a harmlessly enlarged or inflamed gland raises it too.
Q 17Unlike most cancers, testicular cancer is most often diagnosed at which stage of life?
Young adulthood
Young adulthood: the average age at diagnosis is about 33, half that for cancer in general. It is also one of the most curable, with about 95 in 100 American patients alive five years later.
Q 18Which charity, founded by a testicular cancer survivor, became Movember's second American partner?
Livestrong
Livestrong. Lance Armstrong founded it after recovering from testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain, then stepped down from it in 2012 when his doping caught up with him.
Q 19The English word 'moustache' goes back to an ancient Greek word meaning what?
Upper lip
Upper lip. The Greek mystax became moustakion in medieval Greek and mostaccio in Italian before French passed it on, and English took the Italian form as well, which is why we still say mustachios.
Q 20In 1981, which video game character was given a moustache so that his designer could avoid drawing a mouth?
Mario
Mario. With so few pixels to work with, Shigeru Miyamoto could not show a mouth or its expressions, so he drew a big nose and a moustache instead, and added a cap to avoid drawing hair.
Q 24Which moustache style, shaved to about an inch in the centre, was made famous by Chaplin and Oliver Hardy?
Toothbrush
Toothbrush. Chaplin shared the style with Hitler and turned the likeness into satire in The Great Dictator; after the war, men almost everywhere gave it up.
Q 25Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche both wore which bushy moustache style, left to hang over the mouth?
Walrus
Walrus, named for the whiskers of the animal. Barbers say it takes patience rather than skill: it is an ordinary moustache left to grow until it covers the mouth.
Q 26Tom Selleck, Freddie Mercury and Richard Petty all wore which thick, wide moustache style?
Chevron
Chevron. It is worn thick and long enough to cover the top edge of the mouth, and on Magnum, P.I. Selleck made it as much a trademark as the aloha shirt and the red Ferrari.
Q 27Which moustache style is a thin, closely clipped line, as worn by Errol Flynn and the film director John Waters?
Pencil
Pencil, a line thin enough to look drawn on. John Waters has said he wears his as a tribute to Little Richard, the singer who had been his hero since boyhood.
Q 28Hulk Hogan wore which moustache style, which runs from the corners of the mouth down to the jawline?
Horseshoe
Horseshoe, after the upside-down U it draws around the mouth. Barbers cut one by growing a full goatee and then shaving away the chin and cheeks.
Q 29Which screen villain was created by the English novelist Sax Rohmer?
Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu. The drooping moustache he wears in the film versions was named after him, and the character came to personify the 'yellow peril', the Western fear of rising Asian power.
Q 30Salvador Dalí wore his flamboyant upturned moustache in the manner of which 17th-century painter?
Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez. When Dalí's body was exhumed in 2017 for a paternity test, the embalmer found the moustache intact, its tips still at ten past ten, and the test then disproved the claim.