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50 free Smosh trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Smosh began as two school friends from California filming themselves in a bedroom, and grew into one of the longest-running names in online video. Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla were among the first people to become famous purely through YouTube, and the channel they started in 2005 has outlasted almost every rival from that era. This quiz follows the whole story. It covers the early viral hits and chart-topping years, the recurring sketches and series, the feature films, the cast members who joined along the way, and the Smosh Games crew and their shows. It also traces the business side: the sale, the split, the collapse of an owner and the founders getting back together. The questions suit long-serving fans who remember the first uploads as well as newer viewers who know the current cast best. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches something.
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Q 01Smosh's lip-sync of which theme song briefly became YouTube's most-viewed video before a copyright claim removed it?
Pokémon
Pokémon topped a fan poll for the duo's next lip-sync, and the clip passed 24 million views before it was pulled in 2007.
Q 02In Smosh's Try Not to Laugh, the cast member in the hot seat loses by spitting out a mouthful of what?
Water
Water makes the verdict obvious: one player sits alone with a mouthful while castmates perform bits, and Smosh took the game on a five-city tour in 2020.
Q 03In Smosh's yearly Food Battle, which snack did Ian Hecox pit against Anthony Padilla's egg roll in 2012?
A donut
A donut with frosting was Hecox's fighter, while fans picked Padilla's egg roll through a three-week elimination bracket of eight foods.
Q 04Which YouTube duo took over Smosh in February 2019, months after its parent firm suddenly closed?
Rhett & Link
Rhett & Link ran Smosh through Mythical Entertainment, and the cast worked out of Mythical's Los Angeles office before moving into a purpose-built studio in Burbank.
Q 05Courtney Miller built a following on which video app before Olivia Sui urged her to audition for Smosh?
Vine
Vine was in its first year, 2013, when Miller began posting, and it was through the app that she first met Sui.
Q 06Smosh first became YouTube's most-subscribed channel in May 2006 with roughly how many subscribers?
About 3,000
About 3,000 was enough: Smosh topped the chart with just 2,986 subscribers, and at least 11 other channels have held the number one spot since.
Q 07Which owner of Smosh from 2011 abruptly shut down in November 2018 and laid off all its staff?
Defy Media
Defy Media had its assets frozen by creditors within a day of the announcement, and the Smosh cast kept releasing finished videos on their own while they looked for a new owner.
Q 08Which creator passed Smosh in August 2013 as YouTube's most-subscribed, then made a video with the duo?
PewDiePie
PewDiePie ended Smosh's third spell at number one, which had begun that January when the channel passed Ray William Johnson.
Q 09Part Timers, Smosh's 2016 pizzeria sitcom, drew on Ian Hecox's first job at which restaurant chain?
Chuck E. Cheese
Chuck E. Cheese became Pork E. Pine's on screen, where Hecox played the mascot and Anthony Padilla the manager handed the job by his father.
Q 10What did Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla announce in June 2023, six years after Padilla had left Smosh?
They had bought the company
They had bought the company, taking a majority stake that made Smosh independent again, and the pair went back to writing sketches together.
Q 11Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla voiced characters named Bubbles and Hal in which 2016 animated film?
The Angry Birds Movie
The Angry Birds Movie cast Padilla as Hal, a green bird that flies like a boomerang, and Hecox as Bubbles, an orange one that inflates.
Q 12In Smosh: The Movie, Anthony wants a clip erased before seeing his old crush at which kind of event?
A reunion
A reunion of his high school class, five years on, is the deadline, so the duo step through a portal into YouTube itself to change the video.
Q 13What reason did Anthony Padilla give in June 2017 for leaving Smosh, the channel he co-founded?
Lack of creative freedom
Q 21Before YouTube, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla shared Smosh clips on smosh.com and which social network?
MySpace
MySpace hosted their lip-syncs first, and they only discovered YouTube after finding one of their videos re-uploaded there with thousands of views.
Q 22Smosh, the first YouTube channel to reach ten million subscribers, received which Creator Award for it?
Diamond
Diamond awards set a clear crystal play-button triangle in silver-plated metal, and YouTube introduced the tier in 2015.
Q 23Which online-video convention named Smosh's founders to its first Hall of Fame class in 2025?
VidCon
VidCon had history with the pair: Smosh: The Movie held its premiere at the convention in July 2015, a day before its release.
Lack of creative freedom was the phrase he used when announcing his exit, while Ian Hecox stayed on and promised to take Smosh to its next phase.
Q 14Smosh's Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla grew up in Carmichael, a suburb of which California city?
Sacramento
Sacramento is where both were born in 1987, and the first Smosh lip-syncs were filmed in Padilla's bedroom at his family's Carmichael home.
Q 15Sword AF, the Smosh Games series run by game master Damien Haas, is a campaign in which tabletop game?
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons drew a crowd fast: the first Sword AF episode passed 400,000 views within 24 hours of its July 2023 debut.
Q 16From 2020 to 2022, Smosh Games broadcast shows such as Board AF Live on which streaming platform?
Twitch
Twitch had brought the channel more than 57,000 followers before its first stream on September 2, 2020, and Smosh wound the streams down in March 2022.
Q 17In 2022 Shayne Topp began hosting a Smosh series built on strangers' stories from which website?
Reddit supplies the tales for Smosh Reads Reddit Stories, and Topp went on to co-host the podcast Smosh Mouth from 2023.
Q 18Smosh's 90-minute sketch stream of August 2016, fake commercials included, was compared to which TV show?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live was the yardstick for the broadcast, which mixed improvised sketches with spoof adverts and drew about 58,000 viewers at once.
Q 19Which relative of Ian Hecox turned up as a recurring character in Smosh's early sketches?
His mother
His mother, Sharon, put up with plenty: in Food Battle 2012 she took a blast of fake egg roll filling to the face.
Q 20A fan's dubs of Smosh videos led the founders to hire them and launch a channel in which language?
Spanish
Spanish dubs fill ElSmosh, which Smosh opened in 2012, the same year as its gaming and animation channels.
Q 24Smosh's founders, Zoella and Alfie Deyes were among the first internet stars to receive which honor?
Madame Tussauds wax figures
Madame Tussauds wax figures of the pair followed a 2014 survey, published by Variety, that ranked Smosh the most influential names among US teenagers.
Q 25In which web series did Smosh's founders play the painters Michelangelo and Raphael against cartoon turtles?
Epic Rap Battles of History
Epic Rap Battles of History closed its third season in July 2014 with Artists vs TMNT, pitting four Renaissance masters against their namesakes.
Q 26Food Battle: The Game, Smosh's 2014 action RPG, drew on The Witcher 2 and which Nintendo series?
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda shaped a game built around the foods from the yearly sketches, and a tenth of the money raised to make it went to charity.
Q 27For a comedy livestream in June 2022, the Smosh cast performed sketches in which condition?
While drunk
While drunk was the whole premise of Under the Influence, which mixed scripted sketches with rounds of Try Not to Laugh and Eat It or Yeet It.
Q 28What did Anthony Padilla post on smosh.com when he built the site in 2002, before Smosh joined YouTube?
Flash animations
Flash animations filled the early site, whose name came from Padilla mishearing a friend who was describing a mosh pit.
Q 29Smosh raised over $250,000 in 2013 to make Food Battle: The Game through which crowdfunding site?
Indiegogo
Indiegogo hosted the 33-day campaign, which closed at $259,247; Padilla later said the owners had pushed for it before the game was even conceived.
Q 30Which animation channel did Smosh launch in April 2012, home to Krogzilla and Pubertina?
Shut Up! Cartoons
Shut Up! Cartoons was part of YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative and ran until June 2017, ending with the series Smosh Babies.