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40 free Nostalgia Critic trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Since 2007, Doug Walker has been shouting at the films of his childhood as the Nostalgia Critic. The series has outlasted the website it was built on, a retirement that did not stick, and most of the web video era that produced it. Few online shows carry this much lore: a staged rivalry, feature-length crossover films, a changing cast and gags that fans can recite on cue. This quiz covers all of it. Expect questions on how the series started and where it lived, the Critic's look and influences, recurring characters and guest stars, the anniversary specials, milestone episodes, and the crossover review of Alone in the Dark. It is written for fans who want to find out how well they really know the show, with gentler openers for casual viewers and harder ones for anyone who watched every week. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories along the way.
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Q 01The Nostalgia Critic's trademark outfit pairs a black hat and jacket with a necktie of which color?
Red
Red was a late addition: the first video had the black hat and jacket, but the tie and white shirt only arrived with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie review.
Q 02Doug Walker says the Nostalgia Critic was mainly inspired by the Queen of Hearts and which Looney Tunes character?
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck sits alongside comedians Lewis Black, Stephen Colbert and Bill Murray on the list of influences Walker credits for the Critic.
Q 03The Bat Credit Card, a prop that sends the Nostalgia Critic into a recurring rage, comes from which film?
Batman & Robin
Batman & Robin was reviewed in May 2008, in the episode that also gave viewers their first look at Rob Walker, and the card kept resurfacing as a running gag in later reviews.
Q 04Which video essayist hosted The Nostalgia Chick, the Nostalgia Critic companion show that launched in 2008?
Lindsay Ellis
Lindsay Ellis took the title after a 2008 search and made over 100 episodes before moving on to long-form video essays.
Q 05Which famous film critic praised the Nostalgia Critic tribute episode about him and his late TV partner?
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert praised the 2009 tribute to his partnership with Gene Siskel, and Walker posted an unscripted farewell video within hours of the critic's death in 2013.
Q 06Which real micronation does the Nostalgia Critic invade and rename in the 2010 anniversary film Kickassia?
Molossia
Molossia covers a few acres of land in Nevada, and its actual president, Kevin Baugh, played a fictionalized version of himself in the film.
Q 07Doug Walker, creator of Nostalgia Critic, was born on a naval base in which European country?
Italy
Italy was his birthplace because his father, a naval officer and musician, was posted to Naples; the family then moved often before settling near Chicago.
Q 08Which German director of video game adaptations made Alone in the Dark, reviewed by the Nostalgia Critic in 2009?
Uwe Boll
Uwe Boll built his reputation on loose game adaptations such as House of the Dead and BloodRayne, and this one holds a 1% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Q 09Which Captain Planet Planeteer became a recurring Nostalgia Critic character who dies in the film Suburban Knights?
Ma-Ti
Ma-Ti was played by Channel Awesome co-founder Bhargav Dronamraju, first turning up in the Critic's Captain Planet review before joining the anniversary films.
Q 10Which 2007 summer blockbuster was reviewed in the first Nostalgia Critic video, posted to YouTube that July?
Transformers
Transformers got a high-speed, two-minute review that was more positive than the episodes that followed.
Q 11Why were early Nostalgia Critic episodes frequently removed from YouTube before Doug Walker moved to his own site?
Copyright complaints
Copyright complaints from studios including 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate got his channel's content withdrawn, and re-uploading each video to a separate new channel did not solve it.
Q 12Which website did Doug Walker launch in April 2008 as the new home of Nostalgia Critic after leaving YouTube?
That Guy with the Glasses
That Guy with the Glasses went on to host more than twenty other reviewers' shows before it shut down and was rebranded as the Channel Awesome site in December 2014.
Q 13Before Nostalgia Critic took off, Doug Walker worked as an illustrator and in which other job?
Q 21Which actress plays archaeologist and museum curator Aline Cedrac in Alone in the Dark, a role critics singled out?
Tara Reid
Tara Reid's performance was among the things reviewers blamed, along with the story, dialogue and special effects, and the film went on to lose money at the box office.
Q 22In the Nostalgia Critic review of Alone in the Dark, how does the supposedly speechless Critic deliver all his lines?
A text-to-speech voice
A text-to-speech voice from his laptop does the talking, the joke being that the film was so bad it shocked him into silence.
Q 23Which comic book reviewer joined Spoony and the Nostalgia Critic to review Alone in the Dark in 2009?
Linkara
Janitor
Janitor shifts and illustration work paid the bills after college while he made videos in his spare time, until the success of his shows let him perform for a living.
Q 14Which recurring character does Rob Walker play on Nostalgia Critic, with a pivotal role in the film Kickassia?
Santa Christ
Santa Christ merges Santa Claus and Jesus into one jolly figure, and he first appeared in the Critic's review of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Q 15In the 2012 film To Boldly Flee, the Nostalgia Critic takes his place inside which cosmic anomaly to stabilize it?
The Plot Hole
The Plot Hole was the device for writing the Critic out for good, because the film was meant to be the grand finale of the series before Walker changed his mind months later.
Q 16Which short-lived sketch series did Doug and Rob Walker launch in 2012 after retiring the Nostalgia Critic?
Demo Reel
Demo Reel followed a hapless production company remaking famous films badly to get Hollywood's attention, and only five of its episodes ever aired.
Q 17Which former child star crashed the Nostalgia Critic review of her film A Simple Wish to take revenge on him?
Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson first ranted about the Critic after fans pestered her over his Thomas and the Magic Railroad review, then agreed to turn up and embarrass him on camera.
Q 18Which heavily requested sci-fi flop did the Nostalgia Critic review to mark the 100th episode in February 2010?
Battlefield Earth
Battlefield Earth was chosen after the episode teased a clip show, with the Critic's past self persuading him to tackle a film that viewers kept requesting instead.
Q 19Which 2015 blockbuster received the first clipless Nostalgia Critic review, with scenes re-enacted by the cast instead?
Jurassic World
Jurassic World was still in theaters, so the usual clips and stills gave way to comedy re-enactments by Walker, his friends and his family.
Q 20Which actor plays paranormal investigator Edward Carnby in Alone in the Dark, the film panned by the Nostalgia Critic?
Christian Slater
Christian Slater plays Carnby as a former agent of the secret Bureau 713, opposite Stephen Dorff as the unit's commander.
Linkara, host of the comics show Atop the Fourth Wall, turned up alongside Spoony to help the Critic through the film whether he wanted the company or not.
Q 24Greg Weisman praised the Nostalgia Critic review of which 1990s Disney animated series that he created?
Gargoyles
Gargoyles got a rare glowing review as one of Disney's best action cartoons, and Weisman said the admiration ran both ways between the Critic and the people who made it.
Q 25Which actor from The Room reprised his role as Mark in a 2013 episode of Nostalgia Critic?
Greg Sestero
Greg Sestero returned three years after the Critic's own review of The Room, the cult 2003 film whose making he recounted in his memoir The Disaster Artist.
Q 26The Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, a term coined in a Nostalgia Critic crossover, takes its name from which film?
All Dogs Go to Heaven
All Dogs Go to Heaven stops for an odd musical number with an alligator, and the label now covers any surreal scene that arrives from nowhere and is never brought up again.
Q 27Which recurring Nostalgia Critic character made her first appearance in the review of the 2012 film The Lorax?
Hyper Fangirl
Hyper Fangirl was introduced as a member of the online Once-ler fan community who falls for the Critic on sight, and she later became his stalker.
Q 28In the Channel Awesome film Suburban Knights, the Nostalgia Critic leads a quest for which kind of magical object?
A gauntlet
A gauntlet called Malachite's Hand is the prize, and the reviewers have to dress up as fantasy characters and solve riddles to track it down.
Q 29Which 2012 family film was reviewed first when Nostalgia Critic returned from retirement in February 2013?
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
The Odd Life of Timothy Green opened a revival that ran every two weeks instead of weekly and leaned much harder on sketches with a supporting cast.
Q 30Which anime film did the Nostalgia Critic review at the Anime Milwaukee convention for the 200th episode?
Ponyo
Ponyo was reviewed in front of con-goers who turn on the Critic, accept him, then turn on him again once he insults another Hayao Miyazaki favorite.