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97 free Weird Laws trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free weird laws trivia questions with answers. Think you know the strangest laws on the books? From prohibitions on naming pigs Napoleon to regulations about pickle crunchiness, laws around the world can be absolutely bizarre. Take our comprehensive 97-question weird laws trivia quiz to challenge your knowledge of the most unusual and hilarious legal rules ever enacted across different countries and states.
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Q 01Which Asian country bans the sale and import of chewing gum?
Singapore
Singapore's ban dates from 1992; therapeutic and nicotine gum have been exempt since 2004, though only pharmacists and dentists may sell it.
Q 02Until 2013, women in Paris technically needed police permission to wear which garment in public?
Trousers
The 1800 ordinance was never repealed until France's women's-rights minister declared it void in 2013; painter Rosa Bonheur had to apply for permission in the 1850s to wear trousers to livestock markets.
Q 03Britain's Licensing Act 1872 makes it an offence to be drunk in public in charge of which animal?
A cow
A cow: section 12 of the Licensing Act 1872, still in force, makes it an offence to be drunk in a public place while in charge of 'any carriage, horse, cattle, or steam engine', or while carrying a loaded firearm.
Q 04The UK's Salmon Act 1986 created the offence of handling salmon in what manner?
In suspicious circumstances
Handling salmon 'in suspicious circumstances' means receiving or disposing of fish you could reasonably believe was illegally fished; a 2009 amendment widened it to trout, eels and lampreys.
Q 05In which US state can cutting down a saguaro cactus without a permit bring a felony charge?
Arizona
Arizona protects the saguaro as a native plant: destroying one worth $1,500 or more is a class 4 felony, with up to three years and nine months in prison; the often-repeated 25-year sentence is a myth.
Q 06Skamania County, Washington, passed an ordinance on April 1, 1969 forbidding the killing of what?
Bigfoot
Bigfoot: Ordinance 69-01 set a $10,000 fine and five years in prison for killing a Sasquatch; despite its April Fools' Day date it was genuine, and a 1984 amendment declared the whole county a Sasquatch refuge.
Q 07Pushed by its recording industry, which US state outlawed sharing streaming-service passwords in 2011?
Tennessee
Tennessee's 2011 law added subscription entertainment logins to its theft-of-services statute; aimed at bulk resellers of passwords, it made theft under $500 a misdemeanor and anything above that a felony.
Q 08In Switzerland it is illegal to keep which pet on its own, because solitude is considered harmful to it?
Guinea pig
Guinea pigs are herd animals, so Switzerland's 2008 animal-welfare ordinance requires them to be kept at least in pairs; a Swiss service even rents out a companion when one of a pair dies.
Q 09Which chocolate treat is legal in Canada and Mexico but illegal to import into the United States?
Kinder Surprise
Kinder Surprise eggs hide a toy capsule, which the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act bars as a 'non-nutritive object' embedded in confectionery; US border agents have quoted fines of up to $2,500 per egg.
Q 10Which country's 2010 Tobacco Control Act banned the sale of tobacco products nationwide?
Bhutan
Bhutan's 2010 act banned tobacco sales in the name of Gross National Happiness, though smoking itself stayed legal; a 2021 amendment lifted the sales ban to curb smuggling from India during the pandemic.
Q 11How was the 43-character name Swedish parents gave their son in 1996 pronounced?
Albin
Albin: the Halmstad parents said 'Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116' was pronounced 'Albin'; the court rejected it, upheld the 5,000-kronor fine, and then refused their fallback proposal of simply 'A'.
Q 12In 1941 Georgia made which religious practice a felony that could carry the death penalty?
Snake handling
Snake handling became a felony in Georgia in 1941 after a child was bitten during a service; the law was repealed in the 1960s.
Q 13London's Metropolitan Police Act 1839 outlawed 'wantonly disturbing' residents by doing what?
Ringing doorbells
Q 21Since 1971 the United States has banned imports of haggis because it contains which ingredient?
Sheep lung
Sheep lung: the 1971 rule bars all livestock lungs from food, since stomach acid and phlegm can enter them during slaughter; the separate BSE-era ban on British lamb was lifted in 2022, but the lung ban stayed.
Q 22'Zion curtains' were partitions that Utah law required in restaurants to hide what from diners?
Bartenders mixing drinks
Bartenders mixing drinks: Utah made restaurants prepare and pour alcohol behind opaque partitions so children would not see drinks being made; the 2017 legislature let restaurants take the barriers down.
Q 23In 2000 the mayor of Le Lavandou, France, formally outlawed what after being refused a new cemetery?
Ringing doorbells: section 54 forbids 'wilfully and wantonly' disturbing any inhabitant by pulling or ringing a doorbell or knocking at a door without lawful excuse, alongside making slides on ice or snow and 'furious driving'.
Q 14South Korea's 2011 'Cinderella Law' barred children under 16 from doing what between midnight and 6 a.m.?
Playing online video games
Playing online video games: the Shutdown Law blocked under-16s from online gaming between midnight and 6 a.m.; teenagers got round it with adults' resident registration numbers, and the rule was repealed in 2021.
Q 15Which Italian city banned feeding the pigeons in its main square in 2008?
Venice
Venice outlawed feeding the pigeons of St Mark's Square from May 2008, ending the licensed grain-sellers' trade; the birds' droppings were blamed for corroding the square's marble and mosaics.
Q 16Which is the only country with a legal, regulated market in human organs, covering kidneys from living donors?
Iran
Iran lets living donors sell a kidney through a state-regulated system; its supporters say that cleared the transplant waiting list by 1999, a claim critics dispute.
Q 17Iceland's alphabet has no C, so a girl named Camilla was registered as Kamilla; which other letter does it lack?
W
W is missing from the Icelandic alphabet, as are C, Q and Z; Camilla's father, Reykjavík mayor Jón Gnarr, called the naming rules an 'unfair, stupid law against creativity'.
Q 18Which Sardinian sheep-milk cheese, made with live maggots, is banned from sale in Italy?
Casu martzu
Casu martzu is pecorino left for cheese-fly larvae to digest into a soft, pungent paste; it fails Italian and EU food-hygiene rules, so it changes hands informally at roughly twice the price of ordinary pecorino.
Q 19As of 2025, blue laws in Indiana and about a dozen other US states ban the Sunday sale of what?
Motor vehicles
Motor vehicles can't be bought on a Sunday in Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania and other states with dealership blue laws; Texas and Utah instead make dealers close on either Saturday or Sunday.
Q 20In 1949 Canada's Parliament outlawed publishing or selling what?
Crime comics
Crime comics were outlawed by the 'Fulton Bill' after a fatal shooting by two young comic-book readers was blamed on their reading; the ban stayed in Canada's Criminal Code until 2018.
Dying
Dying: mayor Gil Bernardi's 2000 decree forbade residents to die after a court blocked a new cemetery; Cugnaux copied the stunt in 2007 and was promptly allowed to enlarge its graveyard, and Sarpourenx followed in 2008.
Q 24Kentucky's constitution bars from public office anyone who has taken part in what?
A duel
A duel: section 228 makes every officeholder swear they have not fought a duel with deadly weapons, sent or accepted a challenge, or acted as a second; the oath dates from the 1850 constitution.
Q 25Which US state outlawed self-service gasoline in 1949 and requires attendants to pump fuel?
New Jersey
New Jersey's 1949 Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act, passed after lobbying by service-station owners, made attendant-only pumping the rule; Oregon, the last other holdout, allowed self-service statewide in 2023.
Q 26Bavaria's 1516 beer purity law, the Reinheitsgebot, allowed only water, hops and which grain?
Barley
Barley was the only grain allowed, which kept wheat and rye for bakers and bread affordable.
Q 27With the President's approval, French law lets a person marry a fiancé who is what?
Deceased
Deceased: France's posthumous-marriage rule dates from 1959, after the Malpasset Dam collapse killed the fiancé of a pregnant woman; the President must find serious reasons before approving one.
Q 28In the city of Gainesville, Georgia, what specific utensil is prohibited when eating fried chicken?
A fork
A fork: Gainesville's 1961 ordinance requiring fried chicken to be eaten by hand was a publicity stunt for the self-styled poultry capital of the world; in 2009 police staged a 91-year-old visitor's arrest and the mayor dismissed the charge.
Q 29In 1659 the Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed celebrating which holiday, with a fine of five shillings?
Christmas
Christmas: Puritans saw it as a popish festival with no biblical basis, so the 1659 law fined celebrants five shillings; the ban was lifted in 1681, but Boston did not embrace the holiday until the mid-1800s.
Q 30In 2002 the UN Human Rights Committee upheld a French town's ban on which activity?
Dwarf-tossing
Dwarf-tossing: France's Conseil d'État ruled in 1995 that Morsang-sur-Orge could ban it as contrary to human dignity, and in Wackenheim v. France the UN committee agreed, even though the performer objected to losing his livelihood.