Super Bowl Commercial Trivia
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80 free Super Bowl Commercial trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
69 free Super Bowl commercial trivia questions with answers. This quiz is only about the ads. Not the game, not the halftime show, just the commercials that turned a football broadcast into the most expensive advertising night of the year. Fifty questions run from Xerox's monks and Master Lock's rifle in the 1970s through Apple's "1984", Mean Joe Greene, the Budweiser Frogs and the Bud Bowl, the dot-com bust, Doritos' fan-made spots, the E*Trade baby, Old Spice, Darth Vader in a Volkswagen ad and the QR code that crashed Coinbase. It is built for people who watch the game for the breaks: ad nerds, marketing students, and anyone who still says "Whassup?". You will need to know directors, agencies, prices per 30 seconds and which spots won the Ad Meter, so expect a mix of easy crowd-pleasers and genuinely hard ones. Every answer was verified against primary sources, mainly the Wikipedia articles on Super Bowl commercials and the individual ads, plus brand histories. If you want the on-field history instead, we have a separate Super Bowl quiz for that.
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Q 01Who directed Apple's dystopian "1984" commercial that introduced the Macintosh?
Ridley Scott
Scott had released Blade Runner about eighteen months earlier and shot the spot in England, using local skinheads as the pale drone workers.
Q 02Which advertising agency created Apple's "1984" Macintosh spot?
Chiat/Day
Apple's board hated the finished film, and Chiat/Day quietly failed to resell the 60-second slot it had been told to unload.
Q 03To qualify for the Clio Awards, Apple's '1984' ad quietly aired on December 31, 1983 in which city?
Twin Falls, Idaho
The KMVT airing came at the last possible break before midnight; the only national airing followed on January 22, 1984 during the third quarter.
Q 04Apple's poorly received 1985 ad 'Lemmings' showed a line of blindfolded office workers doing what?
Walking off a cliff
The soundtrack was a discordant whistled version of "Heigh-Ho", and Apple stayed away from the game until its "Hal" ad in 1999.
Q 05In Coca-Cola's "Hey Kid, Catch!" ad, what does "Mean Joe" Greene toss to the young fan?
His game-worn jersey
The 60-second spot won a Clio and was remade in other countries with local stars such as Diego Maradona and Zico.
Q 06"Mean Joe" Greene, star of the classic 1980 Coca-Cola ad, played for which NFL team?
Pittsburgh Steelers
His team also won the game the ad is remembered for, beating the Los Angeles Rams 31-19 in Super Bowl XIV.
Q 07Coca-Cola's 'Hey Kid, Catch!' ad premiered in October 1979 during which broadcast?
Monday Night Football
Greene said it took three days to film because he kept burping after chugging the whole bottle.
Q 08In the 2012 parody 'Stinky', the young fan threw Joe Greene which product instead of a Coke?
Downy Unstopables
Amy Sedaris played the fan, and this time she rejected the jersey because it smelled.
Q 09The Budweiser Clydesdales were first shown to the public on April 7, 1933, to celebrate what?
The repeal of Prohibition
The hitch was a gift from August Busch Jr. to his father, who had been lured outside by a story that his son had bought him a new car.
Q 10Which dog breed traditionally rides on the wagon beside the driver of a Budweiser Clydesdale hitch?
Dalmatian
The dogs originally guarded the wagon while the driver made deliveries, a tradition dating to the 1950s.
Q 11Which company has finished first in the annual Ad Meter poll more times than any other advertiser?
Anheuser-Busch
Its Budweiser and Bud Light brands have won 15 times, including a ten-year streak from 1999 to 2008.
Q 12The Budweiser Frogs, who croaked "Bud", "Weis" and "Er", debuted during the Super Bowl in which year?
1995
A 1996 study found more children recognized the frogs than Ronald McDonald or Tony the Tiger, which helped push the campaign toward the lizards Louie and Frankie.
Q 13The director of the first Budweiser Frogs commercial went on to make which blockbuster film series?
Pirates of the Caribbean
Gore Verbinski directed the swamp spot for DMB&B/St. Louis before helming the first three Pirates films.
Q 21What was the title of the first consumer-made Super Bowl commercial, a 2007 Doritos spot?
Live the Flavor
The five finalists were flown to Detroit but watched from a private party, and nobody, including them, knew which ad would air.
Q 22The 2014 Doritos contest winner "Time Machine" was reportedly produced on a budget of how much?
$300
Creator Ryan Andersen won $1 million and a chance to work on the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Q 23Which year's Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest did Frito-Lay announce as its last, before a 2025 revival?
2016
Over eight editions fans submitted more than 36,000 entries; the final winner was "Doritos Dogs" by Jacob Chase.
Q 14In the later Budweiser swamp ads, jealous lizard Louie hired what animal as a hitman to kill the frogs?
A ferret
The plot failed when the neon Budweiser sign was dropped into the water, and the frogs revealed they could talk all along.
Q 15Budweiser's "Whassup?" campaign was adapted from a short film by Charles Stone III with what title?
True
Creative Vinny Warren noticed everyone he showed the film to shouted the catchphrase back at him later, and pitched it to August Busch IV.
Q 16The original 'Whassup?' cast reunited in 2008 to endorse which presidential candidate?
Barack Obama
"Wassup 2000" was sharply critical of the Bush presidency and earned a People's Choice Award nomination for user-generated video.
Q 17The 1989 stop-motion Bud Bowl pitted Budweiser bottles against bottles of what?
Bud Light
Some viewers wagered on the outcome as if it were a real game, even though a few people knew the result before it aired.
Q 18Eight hours of the Bud Bowl's stop-motion work produced roughly how much footage?
3 seconds
Later editions switched to CGI, and by 1996 the Bud Bowl survived only as a game-piece contest.
Q 19Budweiser skipped the 2021 Super Bowl, redirecting the ad money toward what cause?
COVID-19 vaccine awareness
Its parent company still ran spots for other beers that night, plus its first-ever ad for the corporation itself.
Q 20From which state were the Herbert brothers, whose fan-made 2009 'Free Doritos' ad topped the Ad Meter?
Indiana
The ad showed an office worker smashing a vending machine with a snow globe he believed was a crystal ball.
Q 24GoDaddy's first Super Bowl ad in 2005 parodied what recent event?
The halftime wardrobe malfunction
The spot showed a woman testifying to Congress as her tank-top strap came undone; Fox pulled its scheduled second airing.
Q 25Which racing driver has appeared in fourteen Super Bowl commercials, more than any other celebrity?
Danica Patrick
Most were GoDaddy spots; her 2009 "Baseball" ad was that year's most-watched commercial according to TiVo.
Q 26What was the puppy's name in GoDaddy's pulled 2015 ad "Journey Home"?
Buddy
CEO Blake Irving said the humor "clearly missed the mark" and announced the dog was joining the company as Chief Companion Officer.
Q 27Which comedian provided the voice of the E*Trade talking baby?
Pete Holmes
Steve Burns of Blue's Clues fame was the announcer, and the baby was brought back for Super Bowl ads in the 2020s.
Q 28E*Trade's 2000 Super Bowl ad, admitting "we just wasted $2,000,000", had a monkey dancing to which song?
La Cucaracha
The next year the same chimp rode a pony through a ghost town of dead dot-coms, shedding a tear for the Pets.com sock puppet.
Q 29At the 2000 game dubbed the "Dot-com Super Bowl", which company's ad introduced a sock puppet mascot?
Pets.com
The company was defunct by the end of that year, and its $1.2 million ad became a symbol of dot-com folly.
Q 30In the 2010 Snickers ad with Betty White, which other elderly actor gets flattened at the end?
Abe Vigoda
The spot topped the Ad Meter and was nominated for an Emmy, sparking a late-career revival for White.