50 free Tiger King trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Tiger King arrived on Netflix in March 2020, the same week the world locked down, and 34 million people watched it in ten days. It had everything: a mulleted zookeeper with a country-music side hustle, a rival who opened her videos with 'Hey all you cool cats and kittens', a missing husband, a mysterious fire, a presidential campaign with 962 votes and, finally, a murder-for-hire conviction. These 50 questions cover the whole saga and its aftermath: the G.W. Zoo's ligers and tigons, the Steve Irwin Memorial, the $1 million trademark judgment, the 22-year sentence and the appeal that trimmed it, Jeff Lowe's doomed Thackerville park, Doc Antle's own federal case, Joe vs. Carole on Peacock, the TikTok musical and what sits on the zoo site today. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo, or print it for a watch-party round.
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Q 01On which streaming service did Tiger King premiere in March 2020?
Netflix
The series dropped on March 20, 2020, just as much of the world went into lockdown, which helped it become a phenomenon.
Q 02What was the full subtitle of Tiger King's first season?
Murder, Mayhem, and Madness
Season two was marketed simply as Tiger King 2, and the third installment became The Doc Antle Story.
Q 03In which Oklahoma town was Joe Exotic's G.W. Zoo located?
Wynnewood
Jeff Lowe later tried to move the animals to Thackerville, but that new park never opened.
Q 04Carole Baskin's sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue, was based in which Florida city?
Tampa
It began life in 1992 as Wildlife on Easy Street and was renamed Big Cat Rescue after Don Lewis vanished.
Q 05How long was Joe Exotic's original federal prison sentence?
22 years
An appeals court later ruled his two murder-for-hire counts were wrongly treated separately, and he was resentenced to 21 years in 2022.
Q 06According to Nielsen, how many people watched season one in its first ten days?
34.3 million
Netflix later reported 64 million households had watched within the first month.
Q 07Who hosted the aftershow special The Tiger King and I?
Joel McHale
The special was released on April 12, 2020, and was received far less warmly than the season it followed.
Q 08When was Tiger King 2 released?
November 2021
Season two landed on November 17, 2021, and the Doc Antle spin-off followed less than a month later.
Q 09Who is the main subject of Tiger King's third season?
Doc Antle
The three-part season, released in December 2021, explores the Myrtle Beach Safari operator and what the series calls his cult of employment.
Q 10Which G.W. Zoo employee is remembered with a tribute at the end of season two?
Erik Cowie
Cowie, one of the zoo's longtime keepers, died in September 2021.
Q 11What Rotten Tomatoes approval rating did Tiger King 2 hold?
19%
The site's consensus sniped that 'this kitty has no claws', and season three did even worse at 0%.
Q 12Which US president was asked at a COVID-19 press conference about pardoning Joe Exotic?
Donald Trump
He said he would 'take a look', but Exotic was not among the January 2021 pardons, prompting his 'too innocent and too gay' tweet.
Q 13Which earlier documentary did critics compare Tiger King to for lacking a conservation message?
Blackfish
That 2013 film about orcas dented SeaWorld's ticket sales; Tiger King's drama, critics said, buried the big-cat issue.
Q 21Before zoos, Joe Exotic was chief of police in which small Texas town?
Eastvale
He joined the tiny department after high school and was promoted to chief in 1982.
Q 22The G.W. Zoo was named in memory of whom?
Joe Exotic's brother
Garold Wayne Schreibvogel died in a 1997 car accident; two of his pets were the park's first inhabitants.
Q 23Joe Exotic built a memorial alligator complex at the zoo honoring which TV wildlife star?
Steve Irwin
Some of the alligators in it came from Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch; the complex burned in a 2015 fire.
Q 14Which actor was cast to play Joe Exotic in a series later shelved by Amazon?
Nicolas Cage
The eight-episode project, based on a Texas Monthly article, was picked up by Amazon in 2020 and dropped in July 2021.
Q 15Which British filmmaker released Shooting Joe Exotic on BBC Two in 2021?
Louis Theroux
He had already filmed Exotic a decade earlier for America's Most Dangerous Pets.
Q 16On which platform did Tiger Queens: The Tiger King Musical debut in 2021?
TikTok
Former RuPaul's Drag Race contestants Kim Chi, Willam and Heidi N Closet played Baskin, Exotic and a tiger.
Q 17Which Saturday Night Live star played Carole Baskin in Peacock's Joe vs. Carole?
Kate McKinnon
She also executive produced the limited series, which premiered on March 3, 2022.
Q 18Which federal wildlife law, along with the Endangered Species Act, did Joe Exotic violate?
Lacey Act
The eight Lacey Act counts were for falsifying wildlife records; the nine Endangered Species Act counts covered killing five tigers and selling tigers across state lines.
Q 19Who directed Tiger King alongside Rebecca Chaiklin?
Eric Goode
Baskin accused both directors of betraying her, saying she was told her missing husband would only be 'context'.
Q 20What is Joe Exotic's birth surname?
Schreibvogel
Maldonado-Passage came later from his marriages; he was born in Garden City, Kansas, in 1963.
Q 24What side business first taught Joe Exotic that tigers could be lucrative?
Traveling magic shows
Crowds paid more to pet and pose with cubs than to watch the illusions, and cub-petting became the real money-maker.
Q 25Which Joe Exotic song, featured in the series, has been widely covered?
I Saw a Tiger
The music credited to him was reportedly recorded by other artists, with Exotic suggesting topics and adding some backing vocals.
Q 26How many votes did Joe Exotic receive nationwide in the 2016 presidential election?
962
He had ballot access only in Colorado; John Oliver's show later coined his slogan 'Make America Exotic Again'.
Q 27Joe Exotic ran in which party's 2018 primary for governor of Oklahoma?
Libertarian
He finished last of three candidates with 664 votes and was later stripped of his party membership after his arrest.
Q 28What destroyed the G.W. Zoo's TV studio and alligator memorial in March 2015?
A fire
Producer Rick Kirkham said the blaze also destroyed footage of Exotic shooting a tiger; no one was ever arrested.
Q 29What did Joe Exotic rename his traveling show in 2011 to mimic Baskin's sanctuary?
Big Cat Rescue Entertainment
The trademark suit that followed ended in a roughly $1 million judgment and pushed him into bankruptcy.
Q 30What reward did Joe Exotic offer on his show for information leading to Baskin's arrest?
$10,000
Lewis's own family later ran a $100,000-reward commercial during Baskin's Dancing with the Stars episodes.