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173 free The Simpsons trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
129 free The Simpsons trivia questions with answers. For over 35 seasons, The Simpsons has been satirizing American life from the fictional town of Springfield. From Homer's love of donuts to Bart's chalkboard gags, how well do you know the show that changed television?
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Q 01On which street do the Simpsons live, at number 742?
Evergreen Terrace
Evergreen Terrace is also the dead-end street where Matt Groening grew up; he borrowed the name, and early episodes gave the house other numbers before 742 stuck.
Q 02What instrument does Lisa Simpson play?
Saxophone
Lisa's saxophone is a baritone, and a flashback episode shows how she got her first one: during a heatwave Homer spent the $200 he had saved for an air conditioner on it.
Q 03What is the Simpsons' baby daughter rarely seen without?
A pacifier
A pacifier, and she fights for it: when the Ayn Rand School for Tots confiscates every baby's, she leads a Great Escape-style raid to win them all back.
Q 04What color is Marge Simpson's hair?
Blue
Marge's blue beehive was meant to hide a secret: Matt Groening planned to reveal rabbit ears under it in the final episode, a gag scrapped early as too silly even for this show.
Q 05Which US president said American families should be "a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons"?
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush said it in a January 1992 speech; three days later, before a rerun, Bart replied, 'Hey, we're just like the Waltons. We're praying for an end to the Depression, too.'
Q 06Who is Bart's best friend?
Milhouse Van Houten
Milhouse Van Houten is Bart's loyal best friend. Matt Groening picked the name because Milhous was Richard Nixon's middle name and he thought it the most unfortunate name he could give a kid.
Q 07What is the name of the Simpsons' neighbor?
Ned Flanders
Ned Flanders is the Simpsons' next-door neighbor. The devout Christian and annoyingly cheerful Ned is famous for his "Hi-diddly-ho, neighborino!" greeting.
Q 08In 'Cape Feare', what does Sideshow Bob step on again and again?
Rakes
Rakes: the script had him tread on just one, but the episode was running short, so the writers kept the gag going, rake after rake, to fill the time.
Q 09Which ever-changing joke ends The Simpsons' opening credits as the family arrives home?
The couch gag
The couch gag has been handed to guest artists including Banksy, whose 2010 version imagined the show's merchandise being made in a grim sweatshop.
Q 10Which pair are Homer's best friends and workmates at the nuclear plant?
Lenny and Carl
Lenny and Carl blur together so badly for Homer that he keeps a reminder written on his hand: 'Lenny = white, Carl = black'.
Q 11Which garment does Homer wear after gaining weight to work from home?
A muumuu
A muumuu covers him once he tops 300 pounds, and the bulk ends up saving the day: he falls into the hatch of a gas tank about to burst and his belly plugs the leak.
Q 12Which media mogul's network launched The Simpsons in 1989?
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch's Fox network was only three years old; in a 1999 Super Bowl episode he voiced himself, turning up to throw Homer's gang out of his skybox.
Q 13Who shot Mr. Burns in the famous two-part episode?
Maggie Simpson
Maggie Simpson fired by accident: the old tycoon tried to take her lollipop, his own gun slipped from its holster into her hands and went off, then fell under the car seat.
Q 21Which Frasier star voices Sideshow Bob?
Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer modelled Bob's voice on Ellis Rabb, a theatre director he once worked for; his Frasier co-stars David Hyde Pierce and John Mahoney later joined him as Bob's brother and father.
Q 22What is Chief Wiggum's first name?
Clancy
Clancy Wiggum was designed to look like a pig as a conscious pun on his job, and his voice is an impression of gangster-film star Edward G. Robinson, adopted after a slower first attempt was dropped.
Q 23What is Homer's middle name?
Jay
Homer's middle name is Jay, revealed in 1998's 'D'oh-in' in the Wind'; the initial J is a nod to Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel, whose J honored creator Jay Ward.
Q 14Which Saturday Night Live star voiced both Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz?
Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman's two characters were retired rather than recast after his death in 1998, and now turn up only as silent background cameos.
Q 15Which Matt Groening comic strip caught James L. Brooks's eye and led to The Simpsons?
Life in Hell
Life in Hell starred rabbits; rather than sign those characters away for television, Groening kept them and sketched a brand-new family while he waited for the pitch meeting.
Q 16Which real-life presidency did the 2000 episode "Bart to the Future" appear to foretell?
Donald Trump's
Donald Trump's presidency is the budget crunch President Lisa inherits; writer Dan Greaney later said it 'just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom', and news media revived the gag in 2015.
Q 17What is Groundskeeper Willie's nationality?
Scottish
Scottish was the third accent tried: Willie was written as just an angry janitor, and his voice actor was turned down as a Spaniard and as a 'big dumb Swede' before the angry Scotsman stuck.
Q 18What record does The Simpsons hold in US television history?
Longest-running animated program
Longest-running animated program is one record among several: in 2018 its 636th episode also passed Gunsmoke as America's longest-running scripted primetime series, and opened with a parody of that western's titles.
Q 19Which voice actress plays both Marge and her twin sisters Patty and Selma?
Julie Kavner
Julie Kavner also voices the twins' mother; her contract says she never has to promote the show on video, because she feels that being seen 'destroys the illusion' of Marge.
Q 20Which actor voices Moe, Chief Wiggum and Comic Book Guy?
Hank Azaria
Hank Azaria has played all three since the early seasons; in 2020 he announced he was stepping away from another of his roles, Apu, because of the stereotypes it perpetuated.
Q 24What traps Springfield in The Simpsons Movie?
A dome
A dome is only the start: when the trapped town turns on the barrier, EPA chief Russ Cargill tricks the president into approving a plan to blow Springfield up.
Q 25What is Apu Nahasapeemapetilon's country of origin?
India
Apu is from India: he graduated first in a class of seven million at 'Caltech', the Calcutta Technical Institute, before earning a computer-science PhD at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.
Q 26What is the three-eyed fish found near the nuclear plant called?
Blinky
Blinky ends a run for governor: the plant's owner defends the mutant on the campaign trail until Marge serves him one for dinner and he spits it out in front of the cameras.
Q 27Matt Groening named the show's Springfield after a real Springfield in which US state?
Oregon
Oregon's Springfield was the one Groening pictured as a boy watching Father Knows Best; he kept the state to himself for years so that every viewer could think it was their Springfield.
Q 28Which famous physicist has guest-starred on The Simpsons multiple times?
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking was written in because the writers needed someone smarter than all of Springfield's Mensa members and had heard he was a fan; he has voiced himself in four episodes.
Q 29Which Christmas episode launched The Simpsons as a half-hour series in December 1989?
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, written by cartoonist Mimi Pond, went out first only because animation problems delayed the episode that was meant to open the series.
Q 30What is the real name of Springfield's sarcastic comic book store owner?
Jeff Albertson
Jeff Albertson was dropped into a 2005 episode as a throwaway line; the showrunner said it was done specifically to make fans mad after years of the character going nameless.