80+ Bar Trivia Questions and Answers (Free, By Category)

200+ free bar trivia questions and answers, organized by category. No signup, no download required — read them straight off this page, or copy them into your own host sheet. Every question here is original, fact-checked, and ordered from easy to hard within each category, so you can pace a round from warm-up to stumper. Click any question to reveal the answer.

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• General Knowledge (20 questions)
• Movies (20 questions)
• TV Shows (20 questions)
• Music (20 questions)

General Knowledge Trivia Questions

20 questions, ordered easy to hard.

1. What is the capital of France?

2. How many continents are there?

3. What is the largest planet in our solar system?

4. What is the tallest mountain in the world?

5. How many colors are in a rainbow?

6. What is the chemical symbol for water?

7. Which ocean is the largest?

8. What is the smallest country in the world?

9. How many bones are in the adult human body?

10. What is the currency of Japan?

11. Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”?

12. What is the longest river in the world?

13. Which gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere during photosynthesis?

14. What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?

15. How many time zones does Russia span?

16. What is the capital of Australia? (Hint: it's not Sydney.)

17. Which element has the atomic number 1?

18. What is the world's largest desert by area?

19. In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?

20. What is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight?

Movies Trivia Questions

20 questions, ordered easy to hard.

1. What 1997 film features the ship Titanic?

2. Who directed the original 1975 film “Jaws”?

3. In “The Wizard of Oz,” what color are Dorothy's slippers?

4. What 1994 film features the line “Life is like a box of chocolates”?

5. Who played the Joker in 2008's “The Dark Knight”?

6. What animated film follows a clownfish named Marlin searching for his son?

7. Which studio produced the “Toy Story” franchise?

8. In “Star Wars,” what is the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet?

9. Who directed “Pulp Fiction” (1994)?

10. What actor played the title role in “Forrest Gump”?

11. Which 1999 film introduced audiences to the “bullet time” visual effect?

12. What movie features the fictional African nation of Wakanda?

13. Which actor holds the record for the most on-screen portrayals of James Bond?

14. In “Casablanca,” what is the name of Humphrey Bogart's character?

15. What 1980 horror film gave us the line “Here's Johnny!”?

16. What 2010 Christopher Nolan film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a thief who steals secrets through dreams?

17. What was the first feature-length animated film Disney ever released?

18. Which 1975 film won Best Picture with Jack Nicholson as a mental-institution patient?

19. Which film won the 2020 Academy Award for Best Picture, the first non-English-language film to do so?

20. What is the highest-grossing film of all time, unadjusted for inflation?

TV Shows Trivia Questions

20 questions, ordered easy to hard.

1. What is the name of the coffee shop in “Friends”?

2. In “The Office” (US), what paper company does Michael Scott manage?

3. What long-running animated show is set in the town of Springfield?

4. Which sitcom is set at Paddy's Pub in Philadelphia?

5. What is Chandler Bing's middle name in “Friends”?

6. In “Breaking Bad,” what is the name of Walter White's criminal alter ego?

7. What fictional Indiana town is “Stranger Things” set in?

8. Which HBO series follows the Roy family and their media empire?

9. What is the name of the bar in “Cheers”, and what city is it set in?

10. In “Game of Thrones,” which house's words are “Winter Is Coming”?

11. Who plays the title role of Walter White in “Breaking Bad”?

12. Which British sitcom features Basil Fawlty running a hotel?

13. Which show follows the Bluth family and their frozen banana stand?

14. In “Seinfeld,” what is the first name of Jerry's eccentric neighbor Kramer?

15. How many total episodes did “Friends” air across its ten seasons?

16. Which actress played Carrie Bradshaw in “Sex and the City”?

17. What year did the US version of “The Office” premiere?

18. In “The Big Bang Theory,” what is Sheldon Cooper's field of study?

19. Which show holds the record as the longest-running scripted primetime series in US television history?

20. What is the name of the prison in “Orange Is the New Black”?

Music Trivia Questions

20 questions, ordered easy to hard.

1. Which band released the album “Abbey Road”?

2. Who is known as the “King of Pop”?

3. What instrument does a cellist play?

4. Which artist released the 2017 hit “Shape of You”?

5. What decade is disco music most associated with?

6. Which band performed “Bohemian Rhapsody,” written by Freddie Mercury?

7. Which artist's 2006 debut album was simply titled with her own name?

8. How many members were in the original lineup of The Beatles?

9. What year did MTV first go on air?

10. Which rapper released the album “good kid, m.A.A.d city” in 2012?

11. What is the best-selling album of all time worldwide?

12. Which band was fronted by Freddie Mercury?

13. What genre of music originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s?

14. Which artist is known by the nickname “The Boss”?

15. What was Elvis Presley's famous nickname?

16. Which 1971 Marvin Gaye album is considered a landmark protest record?

17. Which classical composer continued composing major works after going completely deaf?

18. Who originally wrote and recorded “I Will Always Love You” before Whitney Houston's famous cover?

19. What was the name of Prince's backing band on the “Purple Rain” album?

20. Which pop artist's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?

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