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50 free Princess Cruises trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Princess Cruises is the rare cruise line with a television career. For nine seasons The Love Boat turned one of its ships into a prime-time set, and the company has leaned on that fame ever since. This quiz covers the whole story: the chartered steamer that started it all in 1965, the takeovers that reshaped the company, record-setting ships, celebrity christenings, a private beach resort, Alaska rail tours and the gadgets and venues guests meet on board today. It is written for anyone hosting a trivia session by the pool or on a sea day, and for fans brushing up before their next voyage. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so the questions work as conversation starters as well as a test.
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Q 01Which ship was the main setting of The Love Boat, the hit series that ran from 1977 to 1986?
Pacific Princess
Pacific Princess was a real working ship, and the show's success is widely credited with making cruise holidays popular in North America. Most scenes were filmed on studio sets.
Q 02Which actor christened Star Princess in 2025 with wife Camila Alves and a giant bottle of tequila?
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves named the ship at Port Everglades in Florida, using an outsized bottle of their own Pantalones brand where champagne is the usual choice.
Q 03Which cruise ship name was christened by Diana in 1984 and again by the Duchess of Cambridge in 2013?
Royal Princess
Royal Princess of 1984 was the line's first purpose-built ship and one of the first anywhere with no inside cabins. Southampton hosted both naming ceremonies, 29 years apart.
Q 04Which ship was quarantined at Yokohama in early 2020 as COVID-19 spread among the 3,711 people aboard?
Diamond Princess
Diamond Princess saw at least 712 of those aboard test positive, at one point more than half of all documented cases outside China. HBO retold the voyage in the documentary The Last Cruise.
Q 05Which former Houston Rockets center christened Majestic Princess in Shanghai in 2017 with wife Ye Li?
Yao Ming
Yao Ming was born in Shanghai and began his career with the city's Sharks. The ship was fitted out for Chinese travelers, with private karaoke rooms and a tea bar.
Q 06What does Princess Cruises call its giant poolside film screen, backed by a 69,000-watt sound system?
Movies Under the Stars
Movies Under the Stars plays on a 300-square-foot outdoor screen, and the line added one to older ships such as Dawn Princess during refits.
Q 07Which Love Boat actor, who played Captain Stubing, became global ambassador for Princess Cruises in 1986?
Gavin MacLeod
Gavin MacLeod fronted the line's advertising for more than 30 years and marked his 80th birthday aboard Golden Princess with a cake shaped like the Love Boat.
Q 08Which Emmy-winning English actress named Sun Princess in 2024 and sang the Love Boat theme in an advert?
Hannah Waddingham
Hannah Waddingham, the team owner in Ted Lasso, is a veteran of West End musicals and performed the old TV theme aboard the ship for a commercial.
Q 09Coral Princess and Island Princess were sized to squeeze through the original locks of which waterway?
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal link ran deep: Coral Princess was christened in 2003 by Mireya Moscoso, then the country's president, who had overseen the canal's handover from the United States.
Q 10Which TV detective cracked a murder at sea in Troubled Waters, a 1975 episode filmed aboard Sun Princess?
Columbo
Columbo's episode was shot mostly inside the ship, leaving a film record of her 1970s interiors before a later refit. She had begun life as P&O's Spirit of London.
Q 11Which Florida-based giant has owned Princess Cruises since a $5.4 billion merger in 2003?
Carnival Corporation
Carnival Corporation stepped in after the line's parent had already agreed to merge with a rival group, and the deal created the world's largest cruise operator.
Q 12Which region did Princess Cruises first sail in 1965, later the regular route of The Love Boat?
Mexican Riviera
The Mexican Riviera run began with Princess Patricia, an Alaska steamer chartered for the winter that proved a poor fit for the tropics because she had no air conditioning.
Q 13Which West Coast port was home to the first Princess Cruises voyages in 1965 and to TV's Love Boat?
Los Angeles
Q 21What name does Princess Cruises give the quarter-sized wearable device that enables touch-free boarding?
Medallion
The Medallion also tracks where a guest is so that food and drink orders can be delivered to them, and it can be posted to a traveler's home before the trip for a fee.
Q 22What job did Ted Lange's character Isaac Washington do aboard the Princess Cruises ship in The Love Boat?
Bartender
Bartender Isaac was played by Ted Lange in every episode, all four specials and the final TV movie, a run that only two of his castmates matched.
Q 23Sky Princess was christened in 2019 by Kay Hire and Poppy Northcutt, both veterans of which organization?
NASA
NASA sent Kay Hire into orbit on two Space Shuttle missions, while Poppy Northcutt became the first woman engineer in Mission Control during Apollo 8.
Los Angeles stayed the line's base for decades, with head offices in Century City until a move to the suburbs in 2001.
Q 14Princess Cays, the private beach resort opened by Princess Cruises in 1992, lies in which island nation?
The Bahamas
The Bahamas resort sits on the southern tip of Eleuthera, so despite its name it is part of one long island and not a cluster of separate cays.
Q 15Which homemaking mogul is godmother to Crown Princess, which left Brooklyn on her maiden voyage in 2006?
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart's ship went on to circle the globe, setting out from Sydney in June 2025 on a 113-day world cruise.
Q 16Sun Princess of 2024 became the first Princess Cruises ship to run mainly on which fuel?
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas powers both Sphere-class sisters, which at about 175,000 gross tons were also ordered as the largest ships yet built in Italy.
Q 17Which former British prime minister officially named the first Regal Princess in New York in 1991?
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher's ship had a colourful afterlife: in 2020 she was renamed Satoshi, after Bitcoin's presumed creator, for a floating-residence scheme that fell through.
Q 18Which US network aired The Love Boat, set aboard a Princess Cruises ship, on Saturday nights from 1977?
ABC
ABC paired the show with Fantasy Island on Saturday nights until 1984, and it sat in the ratings top 20 for most of its first seven years.
Q 19Glass-domed Princess Cruises rail cars run from Anchorage to Fairbanks, stopping at which national park?
Denali
Denali anchors the line's Alaska land tours, which also use company-owned wilderness lodges. When the Ultra Dome rail cars were built, their dome panes were the largest ever fitted to a railcar.
Q 20Trista Sutter, who christened Ruby Princess with husband Ryan in 2008, led the first season of which show?
The Bachelorette
The Bachelorette is where she met Ryan Sutter, the firefighter she chose in the finale and married in 2003. The couple named the ship at Fort Lauderdale.
Q 24Island Princess was named in 2003 by Jamie Salé and David Pelletier, Olympic champions in which sport?
Figure skating
Figure skating gave the Canadian pair one of the great Olympic dramas: after a scandal at the 2002 Winter Games, they ended up sharing gold with their Russian rivals.
Q 25Which X-Men actress hosted The Real Love Boat with husband Jerry O'Connell aboard Regal Princess in 2022?
Rebecca Romijn
Rebecca Romijn and O'Connell also sang the old theme tune over the opening credits of the CBS dating show, whose winning couple received a voyage with the line.
Q 26Which Charlie's Angels and Dynasty producer made The Love Boat, set aboard a Princess Cruises ship?
Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling even crossed his hits over: a 1979 Charlie's Angels season premiere put the detectives aboard the ship, with the whole crew making cameos.
Q 27Jeraldine Saunders, who began the memoir behind The Love Boat aboard Princess Carla, drew on which seagoing job?
Cruise director
Cruise director was a post she is credited as the first woman to hold full time, and her 1974 book The Love Boats handed the series its title.
Q 28P&O, the British owner of Princess Cruises from 1974, takes its name from Peninsular and which word?
Oriental
Oriental joined the name in 1840, the year the firm won a contract to carry mail to Egypt. Peninsular recalls its first steamer routes to Spain and Portugal.
Q 29Which Gone with the Wind actress christened Grand Princess in 1998, when no passenger ship was larger?
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland, the film's Melanie, named a ship that cost about $450 million, making it the most expensive passenger vessel built up to that time.
Q 30Sapphire Princess swapped names with her sister after a fire at their shipyard in which country?
Japan
Japan's Mitsubishi yard at Nagasaki was building both ships when one hull burned, so the undamaged sister took over its name to keep the first delivery on schedule.