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204 free Nickelodeon trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
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Q 01Before it was renamed Nickelodeon in 1979, the channel went by the name of which preschool show?
Pinwheel
Pinwheel was the preschool puppet show the channel carried all day on Warner's QUBE cable system, where it sat on a slot labelled C-3; the Nickelodeon name arrived with the 1979 national launch.
Q 02Skipping Saturday morning, Nickelodeon premiered its first three Nicktoons in August 1991 on which day?
Sunday
Sunday it was: Doug, Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show ran back to back in a 90-minute block on August 11, 1991, built on animators' own characters instead of toy lines.
Q 03In the Nicktoon *Doug*, what is the name of Doug Funnie's pet dog?
Porkchop
Porkchop goes nearly everywhere with Doug and often acts as his conscience, nudging him toward the right decision; he is a talented actor too.
Q 04Who was the creator of the iconic animated series *SpongeBob SquarePants*?
Stephen Hillenburg
Stephen Hillenburg taught marine biology at a California ocean institute before studying animation, and SpongeBob's cast grew out of the sea creatures he drew for his students.
Q 05What was the name of the talking stone head that told the legends on *Legends of the Hidden Temple*?
Olmec
Olmec is modelled on the colossal stone heads carved by the Olmec civilization of ancient Mexico; after telling each legend he quizzed the teams on it at the Steps of Knowledge.
Q 06What is the name of Tommy Pickles' older, often mischievous, cousin in *Rugrats*?
Angelica
Angelica was added because co-creator Paul Germain felt the show needed a bully; he based her on a girl who had bullied him as a child and made her a spoiled brat.
Q 07In Hey Arnold!, Arnold lives with his grandparents in what kind of home?
A boarding house
A boarding house called the Sunset Arms is run by Arnold's grandparents Phil and Gertrude, and its tenants' troubles drive many episodes as Arnold steps in to help.
Q 08Who played the title character in the live-action series *Clarissa Explains It All*?
Melissa Joan Hart
Melissa Joan Hart's Clarissa Darling explained her life straight to the camera; the show is credited as Nickelodeon's first with a female lead, which led the network to build more series around girls.
Q 09Who hosted Nickelodeon's Double Dare when it premiered in 1986?
Marc Summers
Marc Summers spent years in the middle of Double Dare's slime and pie fights while privately struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a need for neatness, which he revealed in the 1990s.
Q 10How many primary elements can be 'bent' by benders in the world of *Avatar: The Last Airbender*?
Four
The world of Avatar features four primary bending arts: Waterbending, Earthbending, Firebending, and Airbending.
Q 11Rocko, the easily flustered hero of Rocko's Modern Life, is what kind of Australian animal?
A wallaby
A wallaby who emigrated from Australia to O-Town, Rocko works at a comic-book shop, and a running gag has other characters mistake him for a beaver or a kangaroo.
Q 12What is the name of Cosmo and Wanda's son in *The Fairly OddParents*?
Poof
Poof was the first fairy baby in thousands of years: fairies had been barred from having children ever since Cosmo's own chaotic babyhood.
Q 13In which US city do the stepbrothers of *Drake & Josh* live?
San Diego
San Diego is home once Drake's mother Audrey marries Josh's father Walter, a TV weatherman who is forever being shown up by his rival forecaster, Bruce Winchill.
Q 21Which sketch comedy show starred Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell before they got their own sitcom?
All That
Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell were prominent cast members on *All That*, a popular sketch comedy series often referred to as 'Saturday Night Live for kids'.
Q 22Timmy Turner of The Fairly OddParents lives in which town?
Dimmsdale
Dimmsdale is named after Dale Dimm, a man from the town's founding in the 1660s, and not after Doug Dimmadome, the tycoon who owns its Dimmadome arena; a parody of the Hollywood Sign stands on mountains nearby.
Q 23What is the name of the boarding school attended by Zoey Brooks in *Zoey 101*?
Pacific Coast Academy
Q 14Which sitcom did kids vote Favorite TV Show at the first Kids' Choice Awards ceremony in 1988?
ALF
ALF, the sitcom about a wisecracking furry alien, beat The Cosby Show and Growing Pains; a year earlier the vote had been only a segment called The Big Ballot on a kids' movie-review show.
Q 15In *Hey Arnold!*, what is Arnold's surname?
Shortman
Arnold's surname, Shortman, was only made official in the 2017 TV film Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie; it had long been hinted by Grandpa Phil calling him 'Short Man'.
Q 16Which Nickelodeon game show ended each episode with three kids racing up a fake mountain called the Aggro Crag?
Guts
Guts winners took home a gold medal and a glowing piece of the Aggro Crag, the fake mountain that was later rebuilt as the Mega Crag and then the Super Aggro Crag.
Q 17What type of animal is Stimpy, the dim-witted but lovable character from *The Ren & Stimpy Show*?
Cat
Stimpy is a tailless red-and-white Manx cat with a big blue nose; Billy West voiced him and, from 1993, took over the voice of Ren as well.
Q 18What is the name of SpongeBob SquarePants' loyal pet snail?
Gary
Gary the Snail is SpongeBob's beloved pet who meows like a cat and is surprisingly intelligent.
Q 19Which animated series follows a family who roam the world in an all-terrain camper filming nature documentaries?
The Wild Thornberrys
The Wild Thornberrys' adopted son Donnie was raised by an orangutan in Borneo after he lost his parents; Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers supplies his gibberish.
Q 20What is the name of Arnold's tall-haired, urban-legend-loving best friend in Hey Arnold!?
Gerald
Gerald gets his urban legends from an informant he calls Fuzzy Slippers, and retells them to the other kids as the neighbourhood's storyteller.
Zoey 101 is set at the fictional Pacific Coast Academy (PCA), a previously all-boys boarding school that begins accepting female students.
Q 24Who provides the voice for the character Timmy Turner in *The Fairly OddParents*?
Tara Strong
Tara Strong took over Timmy Turner from Mary Kay Bergman, who voiced him in the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, and later re-recorded those early lines so the voice would match.
Q 25In what year did the highly popular animated series *SpongeBob SquarePants* first premiere?
1999
SpongeBob SquarePants first aired on May 1, 1999, quickly becoming one of Nickelodeon's most successful and long-running shows.
Q 26In *Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius*, what is the name of Jimmy's robotic dog?
Goddard
Goddard can 'play dead' on command, blowing himself to pieces and snapping back together unaided; Jimmy built him packed with gadgets for getting out of trouble.
Q 27What is the surname of Danny, the 14-year-old half-ghost hero who protects Amity Park?
Fenton
Danny Fenton gets his powers from the ghost portal built by his parents Jack and Maddie Fenton; best friends Tucker Foley and Sam Manson keep his secret.
Q 28In which Nicktoon does one brother keep dragging the other along to chase garbage trucks, like it or not?
CatDog
CatDog are conjoined brothers, a cultured cat and a fun-loving dog sharing one body with a head at each end, so wherever Dog runs, Cat is hauled along.
Q 29Who played the main role of Carly Shay in the popular teen sitcom *iCarly*?
Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Cosgrove came to Carly straight from playing scheming little sister Megan on Drake & Josh, and she sings the theme song, 'Leave It All to Me', with her old co-star Drake Bell.
Q 30Which character in *The Fairly OddParents* is obsessed with capturing fairies?
Denzel Crocker
Denzel Crocker was once the godchild of Cosmo and Wanda himself; he lost them and every memory of them, but his belief in fairies survived, and other adults think he is unhinged.