Smurfs Trivia
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58 free Smurfs trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Smurf trivia for anyone who grew up three apples high on Saturday-morning cartoons, and for the parents now watching the films with their own kids. The quiz starts with Peyo's 1958 comics - how the word 'schtroumpf' was invented over a forgotten salt cellar, the debut in Johan and Peewit, the Cursed Land, sarsaparilla and the 99 original Smurfs - and the villains Gargamel, Azrael, Hogatha and Balthazar. It then moves through the Hanna-Barbera series that ran on NBC for 256 episodes, Father Abraham's Smurf Song, the 2011 live-action film with Katy Perry and Neil Patrick Harris (and the Spanish village painted blue for its premiere), Smurfs: The Lost Village and the 2025 musical with Rihanna. Questions range from easy to expert. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which comics artist created the Smurfs?
Peyo
Peyo was born Pierre Culliford, and the pen name is how a cousin mangled his family nickname, Pierrot.
Q 02In a classic comic story, the Smurf who wins a village election while Papa Smurf is away declares himself what?
King
King Smurf builds a palace and a guard, the villagers rise in revolt, and Papa Smurf comes home to find his village in an outright civil war.
Q 03Which Smurf first arrived in the village on the night of a blue moon?
Baby Smurf
Baby Smurf: when word came that he had been delivered by mistake, it was Grouchy, who claimed to hate babies, who ran off with him rather than hand him back.
Q 04The boy Smurflings were adult Smurfs until an accident with what made them children again?
A backwards clock
A backwards clock: it belongs to Father Time, and the three Smurfs it made young again went on to conjure up a little sister for themselves.
Q 05The Smurfs made their debut as side characters in which comic series?
Johan and Peewit
Johan and Peewit, a medieval page and his sidekick, were the stars; the Smurfs were helpers they met on a quest, and soon eclipsed them in popularity.
Q 06In which comics magazine did the Smurfs first appear?
Spirou
Spirou printed their debut, and readers took to the blue imps so quickly that the magazine gave them a series of their own the following year.
Q 07Which star of The Office voiced the Smurfs' wizard enemy in Smurfs: The Lost Village?
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson voiced the wizard in the fully animated reboot, where a mysterious map sets him racing the Smurfs to a hidden village.
Q 08The Smurfs' creator said the word 'schtroumpf' was invented at a meal when he could not remember the word for what?
Salt
Salt was the word that escaped him, so he asked his dinner companion to pass the 'schtroumpf', and the two kept swapping the nonsense word into their talk.
Q 09Which fellow cartoonist was dining with the Smurfs' creator when the word 'schtroumpf' was coined?
André Franquin
André Franquin, creator of the Marsupilami, played along, and the two friends kept swapping the made-up word for nouns and verbs, the seed of the Smurfs' own way of speaking.
Q 10The English word 'Smurf' comes from which language's translation of 'Schtroumpf'?
Dutch
Dutch-language editions called the Schtroumpfs 'Smurfen', and it was that name, not the French one, that English-language toy sellers and publishers picked up.
Q 11What are the Smurfs called in Spanish?
Pitufos
Pitufos was coined by the editor of the Spanish magazine that first ran the comic, who took his cue from Patufet, a character from Catalan folklore.
Q 12Before the name Smurfs stuck, a 1973 English book called them what?
Goblins
Goblins is the name in 'Dilly Duckling and the Goblins', a London picture book; the toy craze that arrived later in the decade made 'Smurfs' the name that stuck.
Q 13The Smurfs live in houses shaped like what?
Mushrooms
Mushrooms have housed the village from the start, though in the earliest stories the houses came in all shapes and sizes before they were drawn alike.
Q 21What colour was the first female Smurf's hair before Papa Smurf's spell?
Black
Black hair turned blonde in what the comic calls 'plastic smurfery', the makeover that won over a village which had ignored her until then.
Q 22Which female Smurf, created by the Smurflings, was the second to appear?
Sassette
Sassette was shaped from blue clay by the Smurflings, who wanted to give Smurfette a sister.
Q 23What is the name of the cat that belongs to the Smurfs' evil wizard enemy?
Azrael
Azrael shares his name with the angel of death, a choice credited to the comic magazine's editor rather than to the Smurfs' creator.
Q 14How tall is a Smurf traditionally said to be?
Three apples high
Three apples high is the traditional measure, and the 2011 film leaned on the joke by stranding its 'three apples high' heroes in the Big Apple.
Q 15The Smurfs' white hats are in the style of which historic cap?
Phrygian cap
Phrygian cap is the soft, forward-flopping style that French revolutionaries made a symbol of liberty, which is why Marianne, the emblem of France, wears one too.
Q 16Which colour are Papa Smurf's hat and trousers?
Red
Red clothes and a white beard have marked Papa Smurf out as leader since the Smurfs' very first story, in which every other villager looked the same.
Q 17A long-running internet theory, denied by the creator's family, claims the Smurfs are secretly what?
Communists
Communists, say the theorists, pointing to a village that shares everything, dresses alike and follows one bearded elder; the creator's family insists the stories are apolitical.
Q 18Which magical instrument gives the Smurfs' 1970s animated feature film its title?
A flute
A flute that forces anyone who hears it to dance drives 'The Smurfs and the Magic Flute'; the Smurfs made it, and they build a second one to beat the thief who steals the first.
Q 19Which Smurf has a heart tattooed on his arm?
Hefty Smurf
Hefty Smurf is the village strongman, and in the cartoons he is usually the one who throws Brainy out of the village.
Q 20The first female Smurf was originally created by whom, to sow jealousy in the village?
Gargamel
Gargamel conjured her to stir up trouble, but the plan backfired when she chose the Smurfs' side and Papa Smurf's magic made her one of them.
Q 24Which sorcerer, godfather to the Smurfs' wizard enemy, is another of their foes?
Balthazar
Balthazar is the one his godson turns to in the cartoon's springtime special, where a spell on Mother Nature freezes the Smurfs' forest.
Q 25Which bald, wig-wearing witch is a recurring enemy of the Smurfs in the 1980s cartoon?
Hogatha
Hogatha lives up to her name by snorting when she talks or laughs, and she flies about on a long-suffering vulture called Harold.
Q 26In his first comic story, the Smurfs' wizard enemy needs a captured Smurf as an ingredient for making what?
Gold
Gold was the goal, with a Smurf as the missing ingredient for the philosopher's stone; the 1980s cartoon mostly swapped that motive for a simpler wish to eat them.
Q 27In the original comics, the Smurfs love to eat the leaves of which plant?
Sarsaparilla
Sarsaparilla leaves are the Smurfs' staple in the comics; the smurfberries that many fans remember were added by the 1980s cartoon.
Q 28In the comics, how do the Smurfs travel long distances?
Riding storks
Riding storks is how the Smurfs cover long distances, and a 2020 album turns on the day the usually punctual birds fail to turn up for the journey home.
Q 29The story Smurf Versus Smurf, which splits the village over grammar, satirises a real feud between which two groups?
French and Dutch speakers
French and Dutch speakers are the target: the village splits into two halves that fight over whether 'smurf' belongs in a phrase as a noun or as a verb, a send-up of the language quarrel in the creator's homeland.
Q 30Which US network aired the Smurfs cartoon on Saturday mornings from 1981 to 1989?
NBC
NBC had an unexpected ratings hit on its hands: the cartoon became a Saturday-morning fixture and made the Smurfs' creator a millionaire.