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50 free Zac Efron trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Zac Efron went from a small-town theater kid to the face of a Disney Channel phenomenon almost overnight, then spent the next two decades proving he was more than Troy Bolton. He has sung and danced, played frat boys and lifeguards, voiced cartoon heroes, hosted a travel show and taken on some of the darkest and most physically punishing roles of his career. This quiz follows the whole journey: his childhood and first TV parts, the High School Musical years, the big-screen musicals and raunchy comedies, the dramas that changed how audiences saw him, plus the co-stars, songs, awards and off-screen stories that fans love to swap. It is written for anyone who has ever said they love Zac Efron, and for anyone who wants to find out how well they really know him. Start with the famous roles, then see how deep your knowledge goes.
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Q 01Which singer provided most of Troy Bolton's vocals in High School Musical instead of Zac Efron?
Drew Seeley
Drew Seeley sang the bulk of the part because Troy had been written for a tenor and Efron is a baritone. Efron did all his own singing in the musicals he made afterwards.
Q 02Which killer did Zac Efron play in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, a title taken from a judge's words?
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy proved so hard to shake that Efron took up transcendental meditation, practicing on the ride home from set to leave the role behind.
Q 03Which High School Musical co-star did Zac Efron date from 2005 to 2010 after they met on set?
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Hudgens played Gabriella, the brainy new girl Troy falls for, and the real-life romance outlasted the film trilogy by two years.
Q 04In 17 Again, Zac Efron plays the teenage version of a man played as an adult by which Friends star?
Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry is Mike O'Donnell at 37, who wishes for a do-over and is transformed after meeting a mysterious janitor on a bridge.
Q 05Who played the trapeze artist loved by Zac Efron's Phillip in The Greatest Showman?
Zendaya
Zendaya's Anne watches Phillip drop her hand the moment his parents spot them together, the snub that sets up the pair's mid-air love duet.
Q 06Which actor played Zac Efron's grandfather, an Army veteran bound for spring break, in Dirty Grandpa?
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro landed the part after Jeff Bridges and Michael Douglas were considered, and the critically savaged comedy still turned a profit.
Q 07Zac Efron said the diuretics he took to get lean for which film left him with insomnia and depression?
Baywatch
Baywatch cast Efron as an Olympic champion swimmer, and the long run of water pills he took to look the part caught up with him. He first spoke about it five years later.
Q 08In Neighbors, Zac Efron's frat president feuds with the new father next door, played by which comedian?
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen's Mac promises to bring noise complaints to Teddy first, then calls the police anyway, and that broken promise starts the feud.
Q 09Zac Efron's Marine tracks down a woman from a photograph in The Lucky One, based on whose novel?
Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks built the story on a photo found in Iraq, which Efron's Logan carries as a good-luck charm before setting out to find the stranger in it.
Q 10Which award did Zac Efron win for hosting Down to Earth, his Netflix series about sustainable living?
A Daytime Emmy
A Daytime Emmy went to Efron in 2021 for a series that took him from Iceland's renewable energy projects to Sardinia in search of greener ways to live.
Q 11Zac Efron's Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is based on real brothers who sought dates on which website?
Craigslist
Craigslist carried the real Stangle brothers' ad for dates to a cousin's wedding, which made the news. The film moves the wedding to Hawaii and makes the bride their sister.
Q 12Zac Efron said a fall at home in 2013 nearly killed him and badly injured which part of his body?
His jaw
His jaw had to be wired shut after the fall. Efron later said the injury explained the swollen face that went viral in a 2021 Earth Day video.
Q 13Zac Efron was cast as Ren McCormack in a remake of which 1980s dance film before quitting in 2009?
Footloose
Q 21Zac Efron grew up in which California town, graduating from its high school in 2006?
Arroyo Grande
Arroyo Grande is where a teacher's recommendation changed everything: his drama teacher, Robyn Metchik, put him forward to a Los Angeles agent.
Q 22Zac Efron was accepted by which Los Angeles college after high school in 2006 but never enrolled?
University of Southern California
University of Southern California accepted him the same year High School Musical premiered, and with a film career suddenly under way he never took up the place.
Q 23Zac Efron's father, an electrical engineer, and his mother both worked at which kind of facility?
Footloose went ahead without him: Efron left in March 2009, his replacement Chace Crawford pulled out too, and dancer Kenny Wormald ended up with the role.
Q 14Filming which musical with John Travolta kept Zac Efron off the High School Musical concert tour?
Hairspray
Hairspray was shooting while his castmates toured arenas, so a stand-in sang Troy's songs on stage. Its director first thought Efron too Disney for the part of Link Larkin.
Q 15In The Greatest Beer Run Ever, Zac Efron's character carries beer to friends serving in which country?
Vietnam
Vietnam is where the real Chickie Donohue sneaked into a war zone to hand beers to his neighborhood friends, a trip he later turned into the book behind the film.
Q 16Zac Efron plays the telepathic father of a fire-starting girl in a horror remake of whose novel?
Stephen King
Stephen King's Firestarter had already been filmed in 1984. In the remake both parents gain their powers in an experimental drug trial, and their daughter is born able to start fires.
Q 17Which wrestler turned actor plays the man Zac Efron's Dean hires to pose as Ricky Stanicky?
John Cena
John Cena's Rod is a New Jersey parody singer and jobbing actor, paid to bring to life the alibi Efron's Dean and his friends invented as children.
Q 18Which pop star voiced Audrey, the girl Zac Efron's Ted wants to impress with a real tree, in The Lorax?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift's Audrey longs to see a living tree in a walled city where all the vegetation is artificial, and that wish sends Ted off on his quest.
Q 19Which character did Zac Efron voice in Scoob!, taking over from an actor in the role since 1969?
Fred Jones
Fred Jones had been voiced by Frank Welker in most versions since 1969, so Efron's casting was a rare break. Welker stayed in the film as Scooby.
Q 20The Iron Claw stars Zac Efron as Kevin, a son in which real Texas wrestling family said to be cursed?
The Von Erichs
The Von Erichs were really the Adkissons. In the film Kevin says the family curse began when his father Fritz swapped that name for his own mother's surname.
A nuclear plant
A nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon on the coast of San Luis Obispo County, employed his father David as an engineer and his mother Starla as an administrative assistant.
Q 24Zac Efron settled in which country during the pandemic, later filming a whole season of Down to Earth there?
Australia
Australia became home after he spent the pandemic around Byron Bay and sold his Los Angeles house in 2021. Down to Earth's second season was filmed entirely there.
Q 25Which Hollywood honor did Zac Efron receive in 2023, the same year he starred in The Iron Claw?
A Walk of Fame star
A Walk of Fame star was unveiled for Efron in 2023, 17 years after a Disney Channel film turned the California teenager into a household name.
Q 26Troy Bolton, Zac Efron's High School Musical character, captains which East High basketball team?
Wildcats
Wildcats star Troy plays for his own father, the team's coach, and his teammates are shocked when the callback list reveals he has auditioned for the musical.
Q 27Which solo does Zac Efron's Troy sing while storming across a golf course in High School Musical 2?
Bet on It
Bet on It is Troy's vow to put things right after his friends turn on him at the Lava Springs country club, and it became a US Hot 100 hit for Efron.
Q 28Which solo, written new for a 2007 movie musical, does Zac Efron sing as teen idol Link Larkin?
Ladies' Choice
Ladies' Choice replaced a vintage group dance called the Madison from the stage show, giving Efron's character a number of his own.
Q 29Zac Efron duets on The Other Side in The Greatest Showman with which actor, who plays P. T. Barnum?
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman's Barnum uses the number to recruit Efron's playwright Phillip Carlyle to help drum up publicity. Phillip ends up a full partner in the circus.
Q 30A Family Affair reunited Zac Efron with which Oscar winner, his co-star in The Paperboy?
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman played a woman engaged to a death-row inmate in the first film. In the second she is a widowed author who falls for the movie-star boss of her own daughter.