MrBeast Trivia
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50 free MrBeast trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
MrBeast built the most subscribed channel on YouTube by spending more on a single video than most studios spend on a pilot. These MrBeast trivia questions cover Jimmy Donaldson's early Let's Plays, the 40-hour counting video, the giveaway tournaments, Feastables and MrBeast Burger, Team Trees and Team Seas, and the $5 million Beast Games. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Good for a kids' party, a classroom warm-up or your own trivia tournament.
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Q 01What first name does MrBeast go by off camera?
Jimmy
Jimmy, short for James, has been at this since childhood: he says he was already uploading gaming videos at 11, two years before he opened the channel that made him famous.
Q 02MrBeast grew up in North Carolina, but in which state was he born?
Kansas
Kansas: he was born in Wichita to parents on active military duty. The family moved so often in his early years that his mother blames it for his introversion.
Q 03In which North Carolina city was MrBeast primarily raised?
Greenville
Greenville is still his base: he has built his production hubs there, and his company's president likens the plan to Tyler Perry's studio empire in Atlanta.
Q 04MrBeast says he declined an invitation to join which 2023 expedition?
The Titan submersible dive
The Titan submersible dive ended in a fatal implosion. Days later he revealed he had been invited and had said no, writing that it was 'kind of scary that I could have been on it'.
Q 05What was MrBeast's main YouTube channel first called?
MrBeast6000
MrBeast6000 is said to have got its number because plain 'Mr. Beast' was already taken; he opened the channel at 13.
Q 06What number did MrBeast count to in his January 2017 breakthrough video?
100,000
100,000 took so long that parts were sped up to fit the upload under a day. He says the idea grew from wondering if he could monetise a Naruto marathon; next he counted to 200,000.
Q 07What did MrBeast's mother do when he quit college to make videos?
Made him move out
Made him move out: he had enrolled to please her and says he never attended a class. There were no hard feelings, and she later left her own job to work for his company.
Q 08Which MrBeast video series built his early audience between 2015 and 2018?
Worst Intros on YouTube
Worst Intros on YouTube lifted him to about 30,000 subscribers by mid-2016. In 2015 he had told his future self 'I hope you have at least 100k subs'; by May 2017 he had a million.
Q 09Which chronic illness was MrBeast diagnosed with as a teenager?
Crohn's disease
Crohn's disease forced him to give up sports in his teens, a change his mother credits with turning him towards YouTube.
Q 10Which sport did MrBeast play growing up, before illness made him give up sports?
Baseball
Baseball, where he played in the outfield, ended for him in his second year of high school. Stuck indoors, his mother says, he threw himself into YouTube instead.
Q 11Who got the whole $10,000 fee from MrBeast's first brand deal?
A homeless man
A homeless man got the cheque: rather than keep his first sponsor's money, MrBeast gave it all away on camera, and the response set the template for every giveaway since.
Q 12Which YouTuber did MrBeast buy billboards and ads to support in the 2018 subscriber race?
PewDiePie
PewDiePie got every billboard in MrBeast's home town, and at the Super Bowl a row of his friends sat in shirts that together spelled out 'Sub 2 PewDiePie'.
Q 13Which video game sponsored MrBeast's real-life battle royale in Los Angeles in 2019?
Apex Legends
Apex Legends put up the $200,000 in prize money just two weeks after the idea first came up in a brainstorm, and the battle was fought at a paintball and airsoft park.
Q 21Which footballer did MrBeast's contestants try to beat for $1,000,000 in a 2025 video with Tom Brady?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo shared the video with Tom Brady and golfer Bryson DeChambeau. It passed 240 million views within weeks, and a follow-up built around Neymar soon followed.
Q 22As of 2025, MrBeast's most-watched upload asks whether you would fly to Paris for what?
A baguette
A baguette: in the 2022 Short a stranger takes up his offer and flies to Paris to fetch the bread, and it became his first upload to pass a billion views.
Q 23What does MrBeast say he does with most of his video earnings?
Reinvests it
Reinvests it: brand deals and ad money from one hit pay for a bigger giveaway in the next, a loop The Verge called never-ending.
Q 14Which esports player won MrBeast's $250,000 rock, paper, scissors tournament in 2020?
Nadeshot
Nadeshot beat filmmaker Casey Neistat in the final of the charity event, which peaked at 662,000 live viewers, at the time the most ever for a YouTube live Original.
Q 15Which sisters won MrBeast's $300,000 influencer trivia tournament in October 2020?
Charli and Dixie D'Amelio
Charli and Dixie D'Amelio answered alongside their parents, which some viewers called unfair. MrBeast replied that the teams had been his decision: 'if you were to get mad at anyone, get mad at me.'
Q 16Which Netflix show did MrBeast recreate in a November 2021 video?
Squid Game
Squid Game's sets were rebuilt for 456 real contestants, but the finale was changed: the $456,000 prize was decided by a round of musical chairs, not the title game.
Q 17Forbes said MrBeast's $54 million in 2021 out-earned which K-pop group on its last Celebrity 100?
BTS
BTS, Billie Eilish and Kim Kardashian all sat below his total, the most Forbes had ever recorded for a YouTuber; it put the jump down to his videos' views doubling to 10 billion in a year.
Q 18MrBeast was announced in 2026 as a guest on which business reality show?
Shark Tank
Shark Tank named him a guest shark for its 18th season, and not alone: the chief executive of his own company, Beast Industries, was announced for the panel alongside him.
Q 19Which channel did MrBeast overtake in June 2024 to become the most subscribed on YouTube?
T-Series
T-Series, a Bollywood music label, had led for years. The news set off a rush of its own: MrBeast gained two million more subscribers in a day, a number that had recently taken the label a month.
Q 20Which competitive eater appeared in MrBeast's special '50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000'?
Joey Chestnut
Joey Chestnut, the hot-dog eating champion, was there to judge rather than eat: he scored the creators' cooking with Miranda Cosgrove and IShowSpeed. Animator JaidenAnimations won the million.
Q 24Which country accused MrBeast in 2025 of exploiting its ancient Maya ruins for commercial gain?
Mexico
Mexico had granted a filming permit, but officials said it did not cover advertising his snack brand, and that a scene of him descending into a pyramid from a helicopter had been edited.
Q 25Which Brooklyn art collective co-created the Finger on the App contest with MrBeast in 2020?
MSCHF
MSCHF built the game to crown a single winner, but after more than 70 hours four players still had a finger on their screens, so MrBeast called it off and paid each of them $20,000.
Q 26MrBeast Burger launched in 2020 as what kind of business?
A virtual delivery-only brand
A virtual delivery-only brand: existing restaurant kitchens cooked the burgers, and it spread to about 2,000 of them before he said he could no longer guarantee the quality and wanted to move on.
Q 27Where did the first MrBeast Burger restaurant open in September 2022?
American Dream Mall, New Jersey
American Dream Mall, New Jersey, drew an estimated 10,000 people on opening day, some of whom had queued in the mall overnight.
Q 28What product did MrBeast's brand Feastables launch with in January 2022?
Chocolate bars
Chocolate bars: the company says it sold more than a million of them in the first 72 hours, helped by a Willy Wonka-style sweepstakes offering the chance to win a factory.
Q 29Which celebrity chef judged a dessert contest in a 2022 MrBeast video?
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay scored the finalists' desserts out of 20 on a replica of Willy Wonka's factory, spitting some of them out; the winner, with 14, was handed the 'deed' to the building.
Q 30Which two creators co-founded the Lunchly snack kits with MrBeast in 2024?
KSI and Logan Paul
KSI and Logan Paul's Prime drink goes in every box. The trio pitched the kits as a healthier rival to Lunchables, but Consumer Reports tested them in 2025 and judged them no healthier.