My Little Pony Trivia
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99 free My Little Pony trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free My Little Pony trivia questions with answers. My Little Pony trivia for every generation of fan: the kids who brushed the original 1980s ponies, the bronies who found Friendship Is Magic on 4chan, and the families streaming A New Generation on Netflix. This quiz covers the whole franchise: the illustrator who created the toy, the six ponies of 1982, the flops and revivals in between, and how Lauren Faust turned a toy commercial into a cult show. It also digs into Equestria itself: the Mane Six and their Elements of Harmony, cutie marks and blank flanks, Celestia and Luna, Discord and his Star Trek voice, Spike, Derpy, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, the 1986 and 2017 films, Equestria Girls and the G5 ponies of Maretime Bay. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is marked on every question. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01Which Rhode Island toy company launched My Little Pony in the early 1980s?
Hasbro
Hasbro's first try was a single large horse in hard brown plastic, worked by a trigger under its chin; it was soon remade as six small pastel ponies in soft vinyl with manes to brush.
Q 02My Little Pony grew out of which earlier, larger toy horse that could wink and swish its tail?
My Pretty Pony
My Pretty Pony was brown hard plastic with a trigger under its chin; its successors swapped that for soft pastel vinyl, silky manes to brush and a symbol on each rump.
Q 03Which illustrator is credited as the original creator of the My Little Pony toy line?
Bonnie Zacherle
Bonnie Zacherle had left the brand decades before Friendship Is Magic, yet its adult fans sought her out: she was a guest at BronyCon's final convention in 2019.
Q 04Which winter holiday in Friendship Is Magic celebrates the founding of Equestria?
Hearth's Warming
Hearth's Warming marks the day three feuding pony tribes made peace: their quarrels had fed the ghostly Windigos that froze the land, until friendship lit a fire that drove the winter off.
Q 05The symbols on the ponies' flanks are known in Friendship Is Magic as what?
Cutie marks
Cutie marks appear only once a pony finds a special talent or purpose, so young ponies still waiting for theirs are mocked as "blank flanks".
Q 06Which Element of Harmony does Pinkie Pie represent in Friendship Is Magic?
Laughter
Laughter, from the least likely of homes: Pinkie was raised on a dreary rock farm, and grew up into a pony who will find any excuse to throw a party.
Q 07How does Zecora, the zebra who lives in the Everfree Forest, always speak in Friendship Is Magic?
In rhyme
In rhyme: Ponyville at first hides from the striped stranger as an "evil enchantress", until a curious filly follows her home and the ponies find a kindly herbalist instead.
Q 08Which Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home animator developed Friendship Is Magic?
Lauren Faust
Lauren Faust was "extremely skeptical" about the job, having disliked toy cartoons as a child, and took it to prove that shows for girls "don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness".
Q 09The developer of Friendship Is Magic is married to which cartoon creator, whom she consulted while building its world?
Craig McCracken
Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls, later said she had left the pony show unhappily: making it "for a toy company" was difficult, and "there's still some frustration" over ideas that never reached the screen.
Q 10Friendship Is Magic premiered in October 2010 on which US channel?
The Hub
The Hub went on air that same day, a relaunch of Discovery Kids half-owned by the ponies' own toy maker, which is why its launch shows were built on toys; it became Discovery Family in 2014.
Q 11Where was Friendship Is Magic animated?
Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver, Canada: Studio B animated the show there and most of the cast recorded there too, while the scripts came from Los Angeles, so writers and artists mostly worked together at a distance.
Q 12What does Twilight Sparkle become in the Friendship Is Magic finale?
Ruler
Ruler: she is crowned ruler of Equestria when the two royal sisters retire, and the last episode jumps years ahead to show an older Twilight reigning in their place.
Q 13The pony heroines of Friendship Is Magic are collectively known as what?
The Mane Six
The Mane Six have had a seventh teammate from the start, Spike the dragon, the only boy among them, and are later joined by Starlight Glimmer, a villain who redeems herself.
Q 21How does Spike, the baby dragon of Friendship Is Magic, send letters to Princess Celestia?
Through his fire breath
Through his fire breath: Spike burns each scroll in magic green flame and blows away the ashes, which put themselves back together in front of the princess.
Q 22What is the name of the younger sister Princess Celestia banished for a thousand years in Friendship Is Magic?
Luna
Luna grew bitter that ponies played all day and slept through her nights, turned into Nightmare Moon and tried to make the night last for ever; her escape is the plot of the very first episode.
Q 23Discord, the spirit of chaos in Friendship Is Magic, is voiced by an actor best known as which Star Trek character?
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Q 14Which pony does Spike the dragon have a hopeless crush on in Friendship Is Magic?
Rarity
Rarity: Spike once gave her a fire ruby he had been saving for his birthday, and the sight of it later snaps him out of a greed-fuelled rampage as a giant dragon.
Q 15Which pony dreams of joining the Wonderbolts, Equestria's elite flying team, in Friendship Is Magic?
Rainbow Dash
Rainbow Dash broke the sound barrier in a race as a filly, and the rainbow shockwave she left set off the chain of events in which all six friends found their talents on the same day.
Q 16Pinkie Pie's pet, Gummy, is what kind of animal?
An alligator
An alligator, and a harmless one: Gummy has no teeth, so when he bites Pinkie all over he can do no more than gum her.
Q 17Which pony can cow any unruly creature in Friendship Is Magic with a look called 'the Stare'?
Fluttershy
Fluttershy is the timid one of the group, with a voice barely above a whisper, which makes the Stare a surprise: she uses it sparingly, and only when a friend or an animal is in danger.
Q 18Rarity runs which Ponyville business in Friendship Is Magic?
Carousel Boutique
Carousel Boutique is her home and her workshop, and it exists to make a point: the show's developer wanted its fashion-lover seen "not as a shopaholic but as an artist" who sells her own designs.
Q 19Which two lead ponies of Friendship Is Magic share one voice actress, Andrea Libman?
Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie
Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, the softest voice in the cast and the wildest, are both Libman; lines were recorded before animation, so she could be as exaggerated as she liked.
Q 20Tara Strong, the voice of Twilight Sparkle, is also famous as the voice of which Powerpuff Girl?
Bubbles
Bubbles led to the pony role: the show's developer had worked with Strong on The Powerpuff Girls and asked her to read several ponies for the pitch, then wanted her as Twilight for good.
Q was the model for Discord from the start: the crew planned to hire someone who merely sounded like Star Trek's trickster, then found that John de Lancie himself would take the part.
Q 24What kind of creature is Discord in Friendship Is Magic?
A draconequus
A draconequus has, in a schoolteacher's words, the head of a pony and a body made up of all sorts of things; Discord spends ages as a stone statue before he breaks out and turns Equestria upside down.
Q 25Which three fillies in Friendship Is Magic form a club to discover their special talents?
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo try everything for years, then earn their marks together for what they had been doing all along: helping other ponies find their purpose.
Q 26Adult male My Little Pony fans are 'bronies'; what is the equivalent term for older female fans?
Pegasisters
Pegasisters blends pegasus and sister, but it is only sometimes used: brony, itself bro plus pony, is applied to fans of any gender, so a woman who loves the show can be a brony too.
Q 27Before Baltimore, BronyCon's first three conventions were held in which city?
New York
New York is why the event was first spelled BroNYCon: by its third gathering it filled a Midtown hotel ballroom, and the capital letters were dropped once it moved out of the city.
Q 28Which brony fan site, founded by Shaun Scotellaro in January 2011, passed 36 million page views within nine months?
Equestria Daily
Equestria Daily grew from one student's blog into the place the show's own crew came to talk: its developer gave it a 32-question retrospective interview after the first season.
Q 29The 1986 animated feature My Little Pony: The Movie featured which comic actor among its voice cast?
Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito voiced the Grundle King, whose ugly but kindly little tribe had lost its homeland to the slime that menaces the ponies; they end the film settling into the ruins of the ponies' castle.
Q 30In the 1986 My Little Pony movie, what is the name of the witch Hydia's unstoppable purple slime?
The Smooze
The Smooze swallows the ponies' castle and sours the mood of anyone it splashes; decades later it came back in Friendship Is Magic as a guest Discord brings along to a royal gala.