Pawn Stars Trivia
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97 free Pawn Stars trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Pawn Stars turned a 24-hour family pawn shop two miles off the Las Vegas Strip into History's highest-rated show. These 97 questions cover the cast (the Old Man's 20 years in the Navy, Rick's nickname, how Chumlee got his), the shop (the 1989 opening, the 12,000-item inventory, the $400,000 showroom expansion), how the series came together (the HBO pitch, the Pawning History working title, Nancy Dubuc), and everything it spawned: American Restoration, Counting Cars, Pawnography, the slot machine and the Facebook game. The show asks a trivia question at every commercial break, so it seemed only fair. Every answer is sourced.
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Q 01Critics and producers alike have called Pawn Stars an edgier version of which appraisal show?
Antiques Roadshow
Antiques Roadshow with attitude was the sell; as Rick put it, the shop is 'American Chopper one week, Antiques Roadshow the next week, Pimp My Ride the next'.
Q 02What kind of Las Vegas trip inspired Pawn Stars?
Bachelor party
A bachelor party for producer Colby Gaines brought him and Leftfield Pictures' Brent Montgomery to town in 2008; struck by the city's seedy, eclectic pawn shops, they went looking for a family-run one to build a show around.
Q 03Rick's pawn licence needed Las Vegas to reach what?
250,000 residents
250,000 residents was the bar a 1950s law set for one more pawn licence; even then the Harrisons needed a year-long court battle before a judge ordered the city to issue it.
Q 04Which laws keep the Pawn Stars off the shop counter?
Privacy
Customer privacy laws: pawning has to stay confidential, and fans photograph the stars constantly, so Corey says he now meets sellers in a hallway instead.
Q 05In 2011, Pawn Stars was billed as television's No. 2 reality show, behind which MTV hit?
Jersey Shore
Jersey Shore alone out-rated it; within ten weeks of its 2009 debut, by Rick's account, Pawn Stars went from History's lowest-rated show to its No. 1.
Q 06What was the show's working title before a staffer suggested Pawn Stars?
Pawning History
Pawning History was the plan until someone at the production company threw out the name Pawn Stars, which the network found catchier.
Q 07Which network made a darker Pawn Stars pilot before History?
HBO
HBO pictured a Taxicab Confessions-style series about the bleaker side of pawning; the pilot turned out badly, and Rick had to sit out the rest of a year-long contract before pitching again.
Q 08Pawn Stars was picked up to balance History's diet of what?
Military documentaries
Military documentaries were the brand, from battle anniversaries to Hitler films, and Nancy Dubuc arrived as president with a mission to add lighter original shows.
Q 09Which comedy series featured the shop and Rick in a 2003 Las Vegas episode?
Insomniac with Dave Attell
Insomniac with Dave Attell toured cities after dark, and the 24-hour shop fit the bill; Rick then spent four years pitching a show of his own before a production company finally called him.
Q 10Which country got the first local version of Pawn Stars?
Britain
Britain's Pawn Stars UK ran for two seasons at Regal Pawn before the shop closed down in 2015, ending talk of a third; South Africa and Australia got their versions next.
Q 11What was the first Pawn Stars spin-off, starring metal artist Rick Dale?
American Restoration
American Restoration followed Dale's shop, which had revived old vending machines, gas pumps and barber chairs for the Harrisons; Rick said it should really be called Rick's Art.
Q 12Which auto expert, known as The Count, stars in the spin-off Counting Cars?
Danny Koker
Danny Koker flips classic cars and motorcycles for a living in Las Vegas, and in 2013 he got ordained so he could conduct Rick's wedding himself.
Q 13Which comedian with a self-titled Fox sitcom hosted Pawnography?
Christopher Titus
Christopher Titus played referee while contestants took on Rick, Corey and Chumlee in trivia rounds, with cash and items from Rick's own collection at stake.
Q 21Which honour did the pawn trade's national association give Rick in 2010?
Pawnbroker of the Year
Pawnbroker of the Year went to Rick at a Caesars Palace ceremony; the association told him he had done more for the trade's image in one year than its media team had in thirty.
Q 22What do the Harrisons call Chumlee, a label he embraces?
Our village idiot
Our village idiot is the Harrisons' phrase for him, and Chumlee plays up to it: 'Even 6-year-old kids can feel smarter than me,' he says. 'It's my part.'
Q 23What was the Old Man's full name?
Richard Benjamin Harrison
Q 14Which item does Rick say is pawned most often at his shop?
Jewelry
Jewelry, Rick said in a 2010 episode; the antiques seen on screen are the exception, and other pawnbrokers point out that the trade's typical loan is under $100.
Q 15Rick says many of the 1,000-plus daily visitors Pawn Stars brought in just want to buy what?
T-shirts
T-shirts: daily traffic jumped from about 70 people to more than 1,000, and Rick began letting fans design the shirts in online contests, paying each winner $250.
Q 16Which childhood condition kept Rick in bed for days at a time and made him a voracious reader?
Epilepsy
Epilepsy brought grand-mal seizures from the age of eight; the family's one TV was in another room, so he read, building the knowledge he now reels off at the counter.
Q 17Which band recorded "Winning Isn't Everything" as the new Pawn Stars theme song in 2013?
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded the custom song to launch the show's move to Thursday nights that May, with a 30-second cut playing over the new opening.
Q 18What role did Chumlee play at Rick's 2013 wedding in Laguna Beach?
Ring bearer
Ring bearer was Chumlee's job in front of 180 guests, and he wasn't the only co-star on duty: the show's hot-rod expert conducted the ceremony as minister.
Q 19What nickname has Rick earned for his eye for rare items?
The Spotter
The Spotter was History's billing for Rick, earned by catching fakes such as a counterfeit Cartier watch; the shop's own website now calls him The Genius instead.
Q 20What does Rick say he was selling when he dropped out of high school?
Fake Gucci bags
Fake Gucci bags were bringing in $2,000 a week, by his account, when he quit school in tenth grade, money that later bought him into partnership with his father.
Richard Benjamin Harrison, a Junior named for his handyman father, reached Las Vegas all but broke and turned a $10,000 stake into a multimillion-dollar pawn business.
Q 24In which branch of the military did the Old Man serve before going into business?
U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy kept him for two decades; at 71 he said that after 'twenty-one years in the Navy, thirty years in the pawnshop' he was ready to quit, until television made it 'too much fun'.
Q 25Which failed family business sent the Harrisons to Las Vegas in 1981?
Real estate
Real estate in San Diego went well for the Harrisons until interest rates soared; the Old Man lost a million dollars and said he 'should have declared bankruptcy in '81'.
Q 26Which classic car did Rick and Corey secretly have restored as a gift for the Old Man?
1966 Chrysler Imperial
The 1966 Chrysler Imperial had taken him fifteen years to coax from its owner; to hide the surprise, Rick and Corey told him they had sold it for $1,000 to be made into a lowrider.
Q 27What did the Old Man drive for pay as a teenager growing up in Lexington, North Carolina?
A school bus
A school bus: he parked it at home each night and collected the other children every morning for five or six dollars a week, and his yearbook pictures him among the bus drivers.
Q 28What did the Harrisons open in Las Vegas in 1981, before the pawn business?
A coin store
A coin store of just 300 square feet came first; for years it could trade only as a second-hand shop, because the city tightly rationed its pawn licences.
Q 29What is Corey Harrison's nickname on Pawn Stars?
Big Hoss
Big Hoss fits less well than it did: after lap-band surgery in 2010 Corey shed well over 100 pounds, and the shop's own website says the office staff now call him Skinny.
Q 30What prompted Corey's weight-loss surgery in 2010?
A diabetes warning
A diabetes warning did it: put on preventative medication at 402 pounds, he says he drove directly from the doctor to the lap-band centre and had the operation almost at once.