75 Road Trip Trivia Q&As to Break Up the Drive

Road trip trivia and questions keep your journey light and fun. It doesn’t matter if you’re traveling with school-age kids, teens, your friends of different ages, coworkers, and family members because almost everyone loves good trivia.

Here are 75 questions and answers that could definitely give everyone a chance to laugh, debate, ponder, share their own trivia and extend conversations throughout the trip.

Pop Culture Road Trip Trivia

1. What does “DC” stand for in the comic book world? 

• • Answer: Detective Comics

2. What was Superman’s biological birth name?

• • Answer: Kalel

3.  What day is Star Wars Day?

• • Answer: May 4.

4. What’s the name of Ross Gellar’s pet monkey on FRIENDS?

• • Answer: Marcel

5. What was the first Disney movie ever created?

• • Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

6. Which subject did Walter White teach in Breaking Bad?

• • Answer: Chemistry

7. Who is the “King of Rock and Roll”?

• • Answer: Elvis Presley

8. Which band has the most Rolling Stone magazine covers?

• • Answer: The Beatles, has appeared in over 30 covers.

9. What is the most famous line from the Tom Hanks movie, Forrest Gump?

• • Answer: “Life is like a box of chocolate”

10. What was Stephen King’s first published novel?

• • Answer: Carrie

11. What is the longest-running Broadway show of all time?

• • Answer: “The Phantom of the Opera” opened on January 26, 1988, and is still running until today.

12.  What is the highest-grossing video game franchise from the US?

• • Answer: Call of Duty

13. “As if!” is a phrase made popular by what 1990s movie?

• • Answer: Clueless

14. Which city is considered the birthplace of hip hop?

• • Answer: The Bronx, New York

15. What is the longest-running U.S. animated TV show?

• • Answer: The Simpsons

16. What was the first music video played on MTV?

• • Answer: The Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star, aired at 12:01 a.m. on 1 August 1981.

17. What is the fictional country The Black Panther movie was set on?

• • Answer: Wakanda, a fake East Africa country

18. What team has the longest winning streak in NBA history?

• • Answer: Los Angeles Lakers

19. What is the real name of Marilyn Monroe?

• • Answer: Norma Jeane Mortenson

20. Before he was the frontman for Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl was the drummer for which band?

• • Answer: Nirvana

21.  Which actor played the role of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies?

• • Answer: Johnny Depp.

22. Which Bristol-born graffiti artist has the most sought-after artwork?

• • Answer: Banksy

23. What’s the best-selling book series of the 21st century?

• • Answer: Harry Potter, by J. K. Rowling

24. Which famous movie actor became a US governor?

• • Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

25. What is Lady Gaga’s real name?

• • Answer: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

26. Who voiced Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story?

• • Answer: Tim Allen

27. Which “That 70’s Show” cast member lied to producers about her age to land the role?

• • Answer: Mila Kunis

28. What is Spider-Man’s middle name?

• • Answer: Peter Benjamin Parker

29. What is the longest-running game show on US network TV?

• • Answer: The Price is Right

30. What is the real name of Boo in the animated Pixar film, Monster Inc.?

• • Answer: Mary Gibbs, the same name as the little girl who voiced Boo

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Travel & Geography Road Trip Trivia 

31.  Where can I see the best-preserved meteor crater?

• • Answer: Winslow, Arizona

32. What is considered “The Main Street of America”?

• • Answer:  Route 66 (Check my guide about the new and old attractions of Route 66)

33. Each year before winter, this animal does a 2000-mile road trip to California.

• • Answer: The Monarch Butterfly

34. Which US city has the worst traffic?

• • Answer: Boston, MA

35. What is the most visited attraction in the US?

• • Answer: Times Square in New York City, New York welcomes over 40 million people each year.

36. How many islands will you pass on a Florida Keys road trip?

• • Answer: 44 islands, 42 bridges. The 113-mile trip from the first island of Key Largo to the final island of Key West takes 4 hours. (Check my Florida Keys Road Trip guide here)

37. Where can you find the most micro-breweries in the country?

• • Answer: Portland, Maine

38. This US city has the world’s most number of hotel rooms.

• • Answer: Las Vegas, Nevada

39. Which US road lets you chase the most waterfalls?

• • Answer: The North Carolina (Highway 64 NC) Waterfall Byway Scenic Drive winds 98 miles through Western North Carolina. It is named after over 200 waterfalls along the route.

40. Which country has the most number of pyramids?

• • Answer: Sudan (with 220 extant pyramids) compared to Egypt’s 118.

41. What is the most popular road trip route in the USA?

• • Answer: The Pacific Coast Highway, which is also the route that lets you pass most of California’s coastline, including beachfront towns like Malibu, Santa Monica, Big Sur, and Santa Barbara.

42. Disney resorts are found in these two US states?

• • Answer: California (the first one) and Florida. Internationally, you can visit Disney resorts in Hong Kong, Tokyo, China, and Paris. (Here’s a guide to save money at Disney World)

43. What is the most photographed man-made attraction in the US?

• • Answer: The Bean, in downtown Chicago

44. What is the official nickname of Texas?

• • Answer: The Lone Star State

45. What is the most dangerous road in the world?

• • Answer: Known as the “Road of Death, the North Yungas Road located at the Cordillera Oriental Mountain Range in Bolivia witnesses around 300 deaths each year due to steep cliffs, narrow roads, thick fogs, and no guardrails.

46. Which US national park is home to the longest cave system in the world?

• • Answer: Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky has a 400-mile-long cave system.

47. What is the most visited state in the US?

• • Answer: California

48. What’s the biggest country in the world?

• • Answer: Russia

49. Which island is completely inhabited by rabbits?

• • Answer: The Japanese island of Okunoshima

50. Where does coffee first come from?

• • Answer: Ethiopia

51. The oldest tree in the world is over 5,000 years old. What is it? 

• • Answer: The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (located at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest of the White Mountains, California)

52. What US city did National Geographic named as the #1 adventure city?

• • Answer: Boise, Idaho

53. Where can you find the deepest lake in the US?

• • Answer: Crater Lake in Oregon (with a depth of 1943 feet)

54. The Great Wall of China has stood for centuries thanks to this unique material.

• • Answer: Construction workers in ancient China developed sticky rice mortar about 1,500 years ago by mixing sticky rice soup with slaked lime.

55. What is the world’s most bicycle-friendly city?

• • Answer: Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital

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Trivia Q&A that Not Everyone Knows

56.  What was the original purpose of bubble wrap?

• • Answer: 3D wallpaper

57. Which US city is known as the City of Brotherly Love?

• • Answer: Philadelphia.

58. Which animal has the largest eye in the world?

• • Answer: The giant squid.

59. What is the technical name for the hashtag symbol (#)?

• • Answer: Octothorpe

60. M&M stands for?

• • Answer: Mars and Murrie (from the names of Mars Company founder Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie (M&M partner and the son of Hershey Chocolate’s president).

61. What book did Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) write on a bet?

• • Answer: Geisel’s editor didn’t believe the author could write a book in 50 words or less. “Green Eggs and Ham” was written in exactly 50 words.

62.  How much does one cloud weigh? 

• • Answer: They look light and fluffy, but clouds weigh approximately 1.1 million pounds (or about 550 tons).

63. The unicorn is which country’s national animal?

• • Answer: Scotland.

64. Who was the first Disney princess with a tattoo?

• • Answer: Pocahontas

65.  How many different spoken languages exist in the world today?

• • Answer: Over 7,000 languages

66. What is the tallest breed of dog in the world?

• • Answer: The Great Dane

67. What is measured in “Mickeys”?

• • Answer: The speed of a computer mouse

68. What does a Scoville unit measure?

• • Answer: Spiciness

69. What do chimpanzees, koalas, and gorillas have in common with humans?

• • Answer: They all have human-like fingerprints

70. Which bone are babies born without?

• • Answer: Knee cap

71. What popular children’s toy was originally used to clean wallpaper?

• • Answer: Play-Doh (It was originally developed for removing soot from wallpaper in 1912, but marketed it as a child’s putty for play in the 50s to solve the loss of sales).

72. How many grapes do you need to make a bottle of red wine?

• • Answer: Around 700 grapes

73. Which insect has been named America’s Top Nuisance Pest?

• • Answer: Ants.

74. What was the other name option before Disney decided on “Mickey Mouse?”

• • Answer: Mortimer Mouse (this name was given to Mickey’s rival and Minnie’s old friend)

75. How much does it cost to make a dollar bill?

• • Answer: 5 cents
    

I hope some of these trivia questions broke the ice or made your cross-country road trip, Route 66 tour, Florida Keys road trip, New England joy ride, and journey to your other destinations a little more enjoyable.

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