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50 free The Sims 4 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Sims 4 has been running since 2014, long enough to gather more than twenty expansions, a cast of recurring neighbours and a pile of in-jokes that players pass around like folklore. It is a game where a centuries-old vampire can live down the road from a college student and nobody finds it strange. This quiz covers the base game and its biggest add-ons: the needs and moods that drive a household, the worlds and the families who live in them, the Vampires and Discover University packs, classic cheat codes and the decisions behind the game's rocky launch. It is pitched at anyone who has lost an evening to building a house they never finished furnishing. Casual players should find plenty they can answer, and longtime Simmers get a few deeper cuts on lore and development.
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Q 01Which hidden alien planet in The Sims 4: Get to Work is the developer's name spelled backwards?
Sixam
Sixam is Maxis in reverse, and Sims reach it with a wormhole generator unlocked at level 10 of the Scientist career.
Q 02What major change did The Sims 4 base game make in October 2022, eight years after its launch?
Became free-to-play
The Sims 4 became free-to-play on every platform on October 18, 2022, funded by its paid add-on packs. It gained 31 million more players by May 2024.
Q 03Which life stage was missing from The Sims 4 at launch and only arrived in a free 2017 update?
Toddlers
Toddlers were cut for lack of development time, a decision that drew a backlash from players before release. They came back free in 2017, and babies were later split into newborns and infants.
Q 04Which film franchise got a The Sims 4 game pack in 2020 despite finishing last in a fan poll?
Star Wars
Star Wars came bottom of 21 themes in a Digital Spy poll, behind even veganism. Journey to Batuu was announced eight months later anyway, to an overwhelmingly negative first reaction.
Q 05Which classic cheat code adds §50,000 to a household's funds in The Sims 4?
motherlode
Typing motherlode pays out §50,000 at a stroke, while rosebud and kaching hand over just §1,000 each. All three cheats were carried over from earlier games in the series.
Q 06A Sim who becomes Hysterical in The Sims 4 can die from too much of what?
Laughing
Laughing can be fatal once a Sim's playful mood tips over into Hysterical and they keep clowning around. Calming down in front of a mirror saves them.
Q 07Which carnivorous plant in The Sims 4 lures Sims with a slice of cake before swallowing them whole?
Cowplant
Cowplant owners grow it from a rare berry and must keep it fed with meat, or it dangles a cake on its tongue as bait. After it eats a Sim, it can be milked for a drink that adds days to a life.
Q 08Zedd, Tori Kelly and Carly Rae Jepsen re-recorded songs for The Sims 4 in which fictional language?
Simlish
Simlish is the gibberish every Sim speaks, and real artists re-record their hits in it for the game's soundtrack. Jepsen's "Run Away with Me" and Zedd's "Beautiful Now" came with the Get Together expansion.
Q 09Which iconic Sim in a red dress, missing in The Sims 2, lives with husband Mortimer in The Sims 4?
Bella Goth
Bella Goth has appeared in nearly every major game since the 2000 original and is widely seen as the face of the series. Her fourth outing is an alternate continuity, with Bella a young adult again.
Q 10Which Italian luxury fashion house got its own The Sims 4 stuff pack in 2019?
Moschino
Moschino paired its pack with a real clothing collection covered in pixel art from the games. Coach, an American fashion house, had its designs added in a free 2026 update.
Q 11Which gloomy world, where nights last longer than anywhere else, arrived with The Sims 4: Vampires?
Forgotten Hollow
Forgotten Hollow stretches its nights so vampires can stay outdoors longer without risking the sun. It is a tiny place, with just five lots set around a central plaza.
Q 12Which centuries-old count is the Grand Master vampire who lives alone in The Sims 4: Vampires?
Vladislaus Straud
Vladislaus Straud poses as the fourth count of his line, but the local vampires know he is the same man who founded the town 200 years ago. Its statue of his "great-grandfather" is really him.
Q 13What can vampires grow and eat in The Sims 4: Vampires to feed without biting another Sim?
Plasma Fruit
Q 21In The Sims 4: Discover University, which modern campus rivals the University of Britechester?
Foxbury Institute
Foxbury Institute is billed as the premier place of higher learning, and its distinguished degrees lean scientific: biology, physics, economics and computer science.
Q 22Which robot life state returned in The Sims 4: Discover University, built with the Robotics skill?
Servo
Servo began in The Sims: Livin' Large as a household robot that players simply bought. In Discover University a Sim has to build one, and once switched on it joins the household as a playable member.
Q 23Which of these is a real degree that Sims can earn in The Sims 4: Discover University?
Villainy
Plasma Fruit looks like a bright pink onion and can be raised in the garden, giving vampires a guilt-free meal. It can even be mixed into a cocktail called a Plasma Jane.
Q 14Which instrument got its own skill in The Sims 4: Vampires, as a gothic cousin of the piano?
Pipe organ
Pipe organ is one of the pack's two new skills, alongside Vampire Lore, and it works just like the piano skill on a far spookier instrument.
Q 15What is the customizable second look that vampires adopt to feed in The Sims 4: Vampires called?
Dark Form
Dark Form reveals a vampire's true nature and unlocks powers such as feeding and turning others. Players design it separately from the everyday look, so a vampire can pass as an ordinary Sim.
Q 16Which need replaces hunger for vampire Sims in The Sims 4: Vampires?
Thirst
Thirst takes the place of hunger, and a vampire's energy bar is stretched out and renamed Vampiric Energy. Vampires never need the bathroom at all.
Q 17Which siblings in The Sims 4: Vampires, Caleb and Lilith, refuse to feed on Sims without consent?
The Vatores
The Vatores are the pack's good vampires, recent arrivals who are on poor terms with the town's ancient ruling count over their gentler tastes.
Q 18A Sim bitten in The Sims 4: Vampires does not change at once but first gets which moodlet?
Strangely Hungry
Strangely Hungry makes the victim's hunger drain away while the change takes hold. The vampire bites first, then offers its own blood for the Sim to drink.
Q 19Which gift-giving visitor stands in for Santa Claus during the holidays in The Sims 4: Seasons?
Father Winter
Father Winter wears a blue robe and an ushanka hat instead of Santa's red suit, and arrives by the fireplace with presents. Bold Sims can even fight him for the gifts.
Q 20Which famous figure can Sims work for in an active career added to The Sims 4 in 2024?
The Grim Reaper
The Grim Reaper takes on staff in a 2024 expansion built around funerals, bucket lists and ghosts. On release it became the best-reviewed expansion the game had seen.
Villainy is a genuine major whose courses boost the Fitness, Logic and Mischief skills. Its catalogue blurb promises success "as long as honesty and morals aren't a priority."
Q 24Darby the Dragon is one mascot in The Sims 4: Discover University; what sea creature is rival Larry?
Lobster
Lobster Larry is the bright red mascot of the pack's modern campus, while Darby is green. Either costume can turn up with a man or a woman inside.
Q 25Which secret society in The Sims 4: Discover University recruits students who leave it offerings?
The Order of Enchantment
The Order of Enchantment exists to appease mysterious sprites, and its members gather for rituals between 10 PM and 2 AM. Only a high-quality gift left at a campus monument gets a student noticed.
Q 26Which vehicle can students ride around campus in The Sims 4: Discover University?
Bicycles
Bicycles arrived with the pack as the way to explore its college town, alongside dorm staples such as ping-pong tables, juice kegs and mini-fridges.
Q 27Which unhappily married husband was the star of The Sims 4's official "Stay Weirder" trailer?
Bob Pancakes
Bob Pancakes was sold in the trailer as the least interesting Sim in the world. He and his wife Eliza have clashing traits and appear to sleep in separate bedrooms.
Q 28Which wealthy family in The Sims 4 disowned Johnny Zest for dropping out to be an entertainer?
The Landgraabs
The Landgraabs cut Johnny off for chasing a life on stage. With no family trees in the game at launch, his rich relatives did not even recognise him.
Q 29What do cousins Agnes and Agatha Crumplebottom run together in The Sims 4: Cottage Living?
A garden stall
A garden stall in the village square keeps the cousins busy selling produce. Agnes is permanently angry and, as in earlier games, beats Sims with her purse when they flirt near her.
Q 30Which villain lurks in a secret underground lab and possesses locals in The Sims 4: StrangerVille?
The Mother Plant
The Mother Plant grows bizarre fruit that infects the locals and leaves them possessed. Beating her takes a home-brewed vaccine and three vaccinated allies.