Sofia Vergara
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50 free Sofia Vergara trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Sofia Vergara was a television star in the Spanish-speaking world before most American viewers had heard her name. Then Modern Family arrived, and her Gloria became one of the best-loved sitcom characters of her era. This quiz collects the fun facts behind that rise: the Colombian childhood, the career she nearly had instead, the early modeling and hosting years, eleven seasons as Gloria, her turn as a drug lord in Griselda, her seat on America's Got Talent, and the film roles, voice parts and business deals in between. It is written for fans who know the laugh and the accent and want the stories behind them. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you leave with a few facts worth repeating.
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Q 01What is the natural hair color of Sofia Vergara, who is sometimes asked to dye it for screen roles?
Blonde
Blonde is her natural shade, darkened for some roles so that she looks more stereotypically Hispanic.
Q 02Before modeling took over, Sofia Vergara spent three years at a Colombian university studying which subject?
Dentistry
Dentistry was the plan, and she quit just two semesters short of her degree to chase modeling and television work.
Q 03In the 2023 talking-dog comedy Strays, Sofia Vergara provides the voice of which piece of furniture?
A couch
A couch gets her voice in the comedy, in which Jamie Foxx and Isla Fisher play stray dogs helping a terrier take revenge on his abusive owner.
Q 04Sofia Vergara told Jimmy Kimmel in 2014 that she had earned a perfect score on which test?
Her citizenship exam
Her citizenship exam went without a single mistake, making her a US citizen. Her Modern Family character Gloria became an American citizen too, in season 6.
Q 05Sofia Vergara made a full recovery after doctors diagnosed which illness in 2000, when she was 28?
Thyroid cancer
Thyroid cancer meant surgery to remove the gland and a course of radioiodine therapy. She still takes medication to do the work the gland once did.
Q 06At 17, Sofia Vergara got her first screen job in a Latin American commercial for which soft drink?
Pepsi
Pepsi gave the Colombian teenager her first screen job, and two decades later she was back in its commercials as a Hollywood star.
Q 07Which True Blood and Magic Mike actor did Sofia Vergara marry in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2015?
Joe Manganiello
Joe Manganiello proposed after just six months of dating. The couple announced their separation in 2023, after seven years of marriage.
Q 08Which Oscar winner played the strait-laced cop guarding Sofia Vergara's character across Texas in Hot Pursuit?
Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon and Vergara were nominated as a pair at the Teen Choice Awards, once for their chemistry and once for an on-screen kiss.
Q 09Which former judge returned to America's Got Talent in 2020, the season Sofia Vergara joined the panel?
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum came back as Vergara arrived, the two of them replacing Julianne Hough and Gabrielle Union, who had each lasted a single season.
Q 10Sofia Vergara's 2024 Emmy nomination for Griselda ended in a loss to which True Detective star?
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster took the Emmy, and Vergara joked that she had been robbed for the fifth time, after four losing nominations for Modern Family.
Q 11Which Married... with Children star played Jay Pritchett, husband of Sofia Vergara's Gloria, on Modern Family?
Ed O'Neill
Ed O'Neill played the wealthy patriarch, a man whose two grown children are close to his second wife's own age.
Q 12Sofia Vergara was born in which Colombian city, also the hometown written for her Modern Family character?
Barranquilla
Barranquilla is where she grew up, the daughter of a cattle rancher and a homemaker. The sitcom's writers gave Gloria the same hometown.
Q 13After leaving Colombia in the 1990s, Sofia Vergara settled in which US city, where her family later joined her?
Miami
Miami became her home in the 1990s. After her older brother Rafael was killed in Colombia in a kidnapping attempt, she brought her mother, sister and younger brother to live with her.
Q 21In Despicable Me 4, Sofia Vergara voices Valentina, the girlfriend of a cockroach-themed villain voiced by whom?
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell voices Maxime Le Mal, a French-accented supervillain and old high school rival of Gru who is out for revenge.
Q 22Sofia Vergara appears opposite which British action star in Wild Card, a 2015 thriller about a Las Vegas bodyguard?
Jason Statham
Jason Statham plays a recovering gambling addict in the film, a remake of a 1986 Burt Reynolds movie taken from a William Goldman novel.
Q 23Sofia Vergara starred in The Knights of Prosperity, a 2007 ABC sitcom about misfits plotting to rob which rock star?
Mick Jagger
Q 14Sofia Vergara became a familiar face in the late 1990s co-hosting shows for which Spanish-language US network?
Univision
Univision made her a host of the travel show Fuera de Serie, which made her famous across Latin America well before Hollywood noticed.
Q 15Griselda, Sofia Vergara's 2024 Netflix miniseries, came from the creative team behind which earlier drug-trade drama?
Narcos
Narcos veterans made it: co-creator Doug Miro ran the show with Ingrid Escajeda, and Andrés Baiz directed all six episodes.
Q 16In 2009, Sofia Vergara appeared on Broadway as the prison matron Mama Morton in which long-running musical?
Chicago
Chicago put her on a Broadway stage in the very year that Modern Family went on to make her a household name.
Q 17Sofia Vergara played cosmetics boss Odile in which 2011 family film that mixes live actors with animated characters?
The Smurfs
The Smurfs cast her as the boss of Neil Patrick Harris's character and earned her a Kids' Choice Award nomination for Favorite Movie Actress.
Q 18Sofia Vergara appeared in Meet the Browns and Madea Goes to Jail, two comedies written and directed by whom?
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry cast her in the second film as T.T., a serial killer who ends up sharing a prison cell with his own character, Madea.
Q 19In 2011, Sofia Vergara was named the face of which American makeup brand, with ads following in 2012?
CoverGirl
CoverGirl was one of a run of deals that year, when she also turned up in commercials for Xfinity and State Farm.
Q 20Sofia Vergara's 2024 brand Dios Mio!, created to support female Colombian growers, sells which product?
Coffee
Coffee grown by Colombian women fills the bags, adding to a business portfolio that already ran from furniture to fragrances.
Mick Jagger was in on the joke as an executive producer. The show had first been built around robbing Jeff Goldblum, until he signed on to another series.
Q 24In 2007, Sofia Vergara starred in and helped produce a Colombian-Ecuadorian remake of which ABC hit?
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives was remade in Spanish for several Latin American markets, and Vergara was an executive producer of this one as well as one of its stars.
Q 25Which boy band performed and then joined Sofia Vergara in a sketch on Saturday Night Live in April 2012?
One Direction
One Direction sang two songs that night and then turned up alongside Vergara, the episode's host, in a comedy sketch.
Q 26Sofia Vergara voiced a new teacher adored by both a principal and a ten-year-old pupil in which animated series?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons brought her in as Mrs. Berrera because the producers liked the idea of Bart and Principal Skinner falling for the same person.
Q 27Which English soccer star shared the screen with Sofia Vergara in a 2011 soft drink commercial?
David Beckham
David Beckham joined her in the ad, one of several campaigns she fronted that year alongside work for a makeup brand and an insurer.
Q 28On Modern Family, young Luke mangles an insult about Sofia Vergara's Gloria and calls her a what?
Coal digger
Coal digger is what Luke made of a phrase he had picked up from his mother, and the slip gave the sitcom's fifth episode its title.
Q 29On Modern Family, Sofia Vergara's Gloria turns a family recipe into a business selling which product?
Hot sauce
Hot sauce from a family recipe becomes Gloria's own business. Later still, she becomes a realtor with Phil Dunphy as her mentor.
Q 30On Modern Family, what is the name of the poetry-writing son of Sofia Vergara's character from her first marriage?
Manny
Manny is an old soul who writes precocious poetry for his crushes, and his mother backs him whenever his stepfather tells him to be less sensitive.