50 free Will Ferrell trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Will Ferrell went from a Groundlings improv stage to seven years on Saturday Night Live and then a run of comedies that defined 2000s Hollywood. This quiz covers the whole career: his SNL impressions and More Cowbell, Frank the Tank, Buddy the Elf, Ron Burgundy, Ricky Bobby, Chazz Michael Michaels, Brennan Huff, Harold Crick, Megamind, Lord Business, Lars Erickssong and the Mattel CEO, plus Funny or Die, his Broadway George W. Bush, the Chad Smith drum-off and his Emmys as a producer of Succession. Easy questions ask which film has him raised by elves and who plays his stepbrother. Harder ones dig into his father's band, his disastrous days as a bank teller, why he split with Adam McKay, which SNL sketch he improvised into a thong, and which two actors he replaced as the voice of Megamind. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on Ferrell and his films, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01In which 2003 film does Will Ferrell play a human raised by Santa's elves at the North Pole?
Elf
Buddy is named after the brand label on his diaper, and only learns he is human at 30.
Q 02Who directed Elf?
Jon Favreau
He went on to launch the MCU with Iron Man; Elf grossed $228.9 million on a $33 million budget and spawned a Broadway musical.
Q 03Ron Burgundy anchors the news for Channel 4 in which city?
San Diego
KVWN's 1975 news team includes Brian Fantana, Champ Kind and weatherman Brick Tamland; the sequel jumps to GNN, the first 24-hour news network.
Q 04Which straight-to-DVD companion film was assembled from Anchorman's outtakes and abandoned subplots?
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
It came out in December 2004, nine years before Anchorman 2 sent Ron to a 24-hour news network.
Q 05What advice does Ricky Bobby's father Reese give him at career day, which Ricky takes to heart?
'If you ain't first, you're last'
Ricky was born in the back seat of a speeding Chevelle after Reese missed the hospital turnoff.
Q 06Which comedian plays Jean Girard, the French Formula One driver who taunts Ricky Bobby?
Sacha Baron Cohen
Ricky's best friend and drafting partner Cal Naughton Jr. is played by his future Step Brothers co-star, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. cameos.
Q 07In Step Brothers, Ferrell's Brennan Huff is forced to live with Dale Doback, played by whom?
John C. Reilly
Adam Scott plays Brennan's smug brother Derek, and the film's fictional island wine mixer became a real annual event in 2015.
Q 08Which fictional event from Step Brothers became a real annual gathering on a California island in 2015?
The Catalina Wine Mixer
The film opened second at the box office in 2008 to mixed reviews before being reappraised as a cult favourite.
Q 09What was the name of Ferrell's character in Old School, his first starring role after leaving SNL?
Frank 'The Tank' Ricard
The New York Times said the film 'belongs to Mr. Ferrell', and Old School put him in Hollywood's so-called Frat Pack.
Q 10In Blades of Glory, what loophole lets Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy skate again after a lifetime ban?
They can still compete in pairs
Jon Heder plays MacElroy, and the two were banned for brawling on the podium after tying for gold.
Q 11In Stranger than Fiction, Ferrell's Harold Crick works for which agency?
The IRS
He begins hearing novelist Karen Eiffel narrating his life, and learns her protagonists always die.
Q 12Which actress plays Karen Eiffel, the author narrating Harold Crick's life?
Emma Thompson
Marc Forster's film was partly inspired by Jacques Tati's Playtime, and it showed audiences Ferrell could do drama.
Q 13Who plays hot-tempered detective Terry Hoitz opposite Will Ferrell in The Other Guys?
Mark Wahlberg
Hoitz is a laughing stock for having shot Derek Jeter at the World Series; the pair reunited twice more as feuding dads.
Q 21Which US president was Ferrell's best-known SNL impression, later a one-man Broadway show?
George W. Bush
You're Welcome America opened at the Cort Theatre in 2009, broke the house record and earned Ferrell a Tony nomination.
Q 22Which game-show host did Ferrell impersonate in SNL's recurring Celebrity Jeopardy sketches?
Alex Trebek
He reprised the role in his first two return visits as host, and Inside the Actors Studio's James Lipton reportedly enjoyed Ferrell's take on him.
Q 23How many years did Ferrell spend as an SNL cast member?
Seven
He joined in 1995 with fellow improv alumni Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri, and by 2001 was the show's highest-paid cast member at $350,000 a season.
Q 14Which fashion mogul does Ferrell play in Zoolander?
Jacobim Mugatu
He brainwashes Derek into assassinating the Prime Minister of Malaysia, and Ferrell reprised the role in Zoolander 2 in 2016.
Q 15Which two actors were attached to Megamind's title role before Ferrell?
Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller
Stiller stayed on in the small role of Bernard the curator; Brad Pitt voiced Megamind's nemesis Metro Man.
Q 16What is the name of the tyrant Ferrell voices in The Lego Movie?
Lord Business
His superweapon, the Kragle, is a tube of Krazy Glue, and Ferrell also appears in live action as the boy's father, 'The Man Upstairs'.
Q 17In Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Ferrell and McAdams play singers from which country?
Iceland
Ferrell, a self-described Eurovision follower, attended the 2018 and 2019 contests to develop the story with co-writer Harper Steele.
Q 18In Greta Gerwig's Barbie, Ferrell plays the chief executive of which company?
Mattel
The same year he produced and starred in Quiz Lady, and in 2024 made the road-trip documentary Will & Harper.
Q 19In the More Cowbell sketch, Ferrell's overzealous cowbell player Gene Frenkle is recording which song?
'(Don't Fear) The Reaper'
Christopher Walken played producer Bruce Dickinson, and Ferrell later played cowbell with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the same song after his drum-off with Chad Smith.
Q 20Which SNL character, created with Chris Kattan, spawned the film A Night at the Roxbury?
Steve Butabi
The head-bobbing Butabi brothers danced to Haddaway's 'What Is Love' and were forever rejected by women in clubs.
Q 24Which LA improv troupe did Ferrell join in the early 1990s, launching his comedy career?
The Groundlings
He got a flexible job at an auction house through friend Viveca Paulin, whom he later married, so he could keep auditioning for parts.
Q 25Ferrell's father Roy Lee Ferrell Jr. played saxophone and keyboards for which act?
The Righteous Brothers
The unsteady pay of showbusiness initially put young Will off wanting a career in entertainment.
Q 26In which California city was Ferrell born and raised?
Irvine
He said suburban boredom fed his humour: 'I grew up in Mayberry, and the humor broke the boredom.'
Q 27What did Ferrell study at the University of Southern California?
Sports broadcasting
He was known for streaking around campus with fraternity brothers and strolling into friends' classes dressed as a janitor.
Q 28After college, Ferrell worked as a bank teller for Wells Fargo. How did that go?
He came up $300 short on day one
He was $280 short the next day too, not stealing but simply careless; he also tore a baggage rack off a van as a hotel valet.
Q 29Which comedy website did Ferrell launch with Adam McKay in 2007?
Funny or Die
Its breakout short The Landlord had Ferrell harassed for rent by McKay's swearing two-year-old daughter Pearl.
Q 30Which casting decision reportedly ended Ferrell's partnership with his longtime collaborator in 2019?
Reilly was cast as Jerry Buss in Winning Time
Ferrell wanted the Lakers owner role himself, and the pair closed their company Gary Sanchez Productions.