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113 Dog Trivia Questions And Answers (Updated for 2024)
- In 1933, Queen Elizabeth’s family got a dog named Dookie that began her lifelong obsession with what bootylicious Welsh breed that the American Kennel Club describes as “lively little herder who is affectionate and companionable without being needy?”
Answer: Pembroke Welsh Corgi
- The Boston terrier is the official dog of what U.S. state?
Answer: Massachusetts
- At the 2010 Academy Awards, the winning film for Best Animated Feature was a Disney-Pixar film featuring Kevin, Charles Muntz, Carl, Russell, and a dog named Dug. What is this helium-inflated film?
Answer: Up
- What Siberian dog breed is known for its thickly furred double coat, its large size, its vertical triangular ears, and for looking like an Alaskan Malamute?
Answer: Husky
- What very large “M” dog breed, sometimes called an English ______, has part of a ship’s sail in the first part of its name?
Answer: Mastiff
- The "Boston" breed of what dog type is sometimes adorably known as the "American gentleman?" These dogs are also the mascot of Boston University.
Answer: Terrier
- In 1936, what popular food brand debuted its first Wienermobile, a 13-foot-long vehicle shaped like a giant hot dog on wheels, as a way to promote its products?
Answer: Oscar Mayer
- A popular meme to discuss a terrible situation is a cartoon dog sitting in a room that is catching on fire, only to casually remark “This is ______.” It’s pointing out how people are used to the terrible events around them.
Answer: This Is Fine
- A male collie named Pal was the first dog to portray what legendary (and female) title character on television?
Answer: Lassie
- In a 2017 survey by Hasbro, the Scottie Dog beat the T-Rex and the Hat to claim the title of most popular playing token in what board game?
Answer: Monopoly
- Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was born in Minneapolis in 1922 and grew up in nearby St. Paul. Name the most famous dog drawn by Schulz.
Answer: Snoopy
- Unlike most Disney characters, Mickey Mouse's pet dog is not anthropomorphic beyond some facial expressions. What is the name of Mickey's dog that was first introduced in 1930?
Answer: Pluto
- What working and herding two-word dog breed is known for its intelligence and high levels of intelligence, as well as often having a two-colored coat? Their name is reminiscent of the dividing line between territories.
Answer: Border Collie
- Which expression for the hottest days of the summer comes from the heliacal rising of the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius?
Answer: Dog days
- A streaming sitcom, available on Peacock in the US and All 4 in the UK, about an all-female Muslim punk band, is known as “We Are ______ Parts.” Fill in the one word “L” blank, also the name of a dog who falls in love with Tramp in a Disney animated classic.
Answer: We Are Lady Parts
- What man served as the 26th United States Secretary of Defense from January 2017 until January 2019 before resigning over policy differences with President Donald Trump?
Answer: Jim Mattis
- Voiced by John Travolta, the title character of what 2008 Disney animated film is a white dog with a lightning-shaped marking on his coat?
Answer: Bolt
- What breed of short-haired hunting dog gets its name from a German town that was a center of the Enlightenment, and which later gave its name to the German Republic that existed between the two world wars?
Answer: Weimaraner
- What breed of dog is Snoopy from the Peanuts comic strip?
Answer: Beagle
- They’re often associated with France, but which breed of dog more likely came from Germany? (Hint: They come in toy, miniature, medium, and standard sizes)
Answer: Poodle
- Bo is a male Portuguese Water Dog famously owned by what American family?
Answer: The Obamas
- The Direwolves in the "Game of Thrones" TV series were played by Northern Inuit Dogs, a breed which has been in development since the 1980s. These dogs carry the genes of German Shepherds, Malamutes, and which Russian sled dog breed?
Answer: Siberian Huskies
- Which K-word for a dog house also refers to the member’s only clubs for purebred dogs—particularly those that are shown or bred?
Answer: Kennel
- Fans of what “B” Blue Heeler cartoon puppy, debuting in Australia in 2018 and later on Disney Junior, can get tiny figurines of the dog and his family?
Answer: Bluey
- Every year since its inception in 1973, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has taken place in which month?
Answer: March
- "Dog doo good god!" is a sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards. This is an example of what literary device?
Answer: Palindrome
- A Harvard University museum filled with ancient relics is the ______ Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Fill in the one word “P” blank, also the name of the studious dog who takes Sherman on time traveling adventures in “Rocky and Bullwinkle” cartoons.
Answer: Peabody Museum Of Archaeology And Ethnology
- Back in the late ‘90s when you couldn’t quickly edit photos or make a gif on any device, you probably downloaded which free, open-source graphics editing software with an icon that’s a dog with a paintbrush in its mouth? (Hint: Its an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program)
Answer: GIMP
- They sure seem to respect their dogs. Which country has officially declared six dog breeds, including the Shiba and Akita, as national monuments?
Answer: Japan
- The long-legged burrowing owl takes over prairie dog burrows and baits dung beetles with what guessable body stuff?
Answer: Dung
- The 2016 album "Blonde" was declared Pitchfork's number one album of the decade for what predictably coastal-living singer? Roget's answer: Hot Dog Sea
Answer: Frank Ocean
- Which “Great” breed is a large mountain dog with French roots, a fluffy, thick, usually white coat, and a talent for shepherding?
Answer: Pyraneese
- What current mayor of San Francisco, president of the SF Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2018, was elected mayor in 2018? She is the first African-American woman and the second woman to be SF mayor, and her name kind of sounds like a type of dog from England.
Answer: London Breed
- Based on the Jack London novel of the same name, what 2020 box-office flop features Harrison Ford as an outdoorsman who befriends a dog named Buck in the Yukon?
Answer: Call of the Wild
- What film beat out “Milk” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” to win the Best Picture Oscar in 2009? The film was directed by Danny Boyle and starred Dev Patel.
Answer: "Slumdog Millionaire"
- Indian author Vikas Swarup wrote a 2005 novel titled "Q & A" involving a game show that was (loosely) adapted into a 2008 British film that later won the Academy Award for Best Picture. What was the name of the adaptation?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire
- Literally a shaggy dog story, the movie "Top Dog" teamed a dog named Reno and what "Walker, Texas Ranger" star to foil a terror plot in San Diego?
Answer: Chuck Norris
- Which breed of dog with distinctive coat markings and which originated as a hunting dog and carriage dog is named after a historic region of Croatia?
Answer: Dalmatian
- A 90’s Cartoon Network cartoon, about a scared dog who has to save his oblivious farm family from surreal and creepy threats, is “______ The Cowardly Dog.” Fill in the one word “C” blank, fittingly the ability to do something that is frightening.
Answer: Courage The Cowardly Dog
- With almost no roads or rail systems, traveling across which island usually requires a dog sled, boat, or airplane? (Hint: If you make it to the capital city of Nuuk, you'll find cars and busses).
Answer: Greenland
- What 76 mile long glacier is located in part in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Eastern Alaska? It shares its name with an Old Mother who wanted to give her dog a bone.
Answer: Hubbard
- E.Y. Harburg was a successful Jewish-American lyricist of the first half of the twentieth century, who wrote the lyrics to “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?” and all the songs from “The Wizard Of Oz.” He was better known by what three letter nickname, also the bark a small dog makes.
Answer: Yip
- What athletic hound, built like a Great Dane with long silky brown hair, has a name that sounds like the dog came from Kabul?
Answer: Afghan Hound
- A Canadian province is the namesake for a breed of dog that was once commonly used as a rescue animal for saving drowning sailors. What is this breed?
Answer: Newfoundland
- The sour, white drizz atop a Sonoran hot dog shares what name with the thin layer of foam atop an espresso?
Answer: Crema
- In the 1983 horror movie “Cujo”, based on a novel by Stephen King of the same name, which large breed of dog is Cujo? This breed of dog takes its name from an Italian monk.
Answer: Saint Bernard
- Although it alternates the route in even and odd years, Alaska's famous Iditarod sled dog race always begins in Anchorage and ends in what Seward Peninsula city?
Answer: Nome
- What 2005 family film stars AnnaSophia Robb as a young girl who adopts a dog she finds at a Florida supermarket, naming him after the supermarket chain?
Answer: Because of Winn-Dixie
- What breed of dog is the "Doge" dog from the meme and cryptocurrency (Dogecoin)?
Answer: Shiba Inu
- In 2021 Joey Chestnut broke the record for most hot dogs consumed in 10 minutes (76) at the Coney Island Hot Dog Eating competition. He holds many other world records and is an active member of the MLE community. What does MLE stand for?
Answer: Major League Eating
- In Chic Young’s syndicated newspaper comic strip “Blondie”, Joplin, Missouri is the hometown of the titular character, her husband Dagwood Bumstead, her children Alexander and Cookie, and what family dog with a floral name?
Answer: Daisy
- Sharing the first half of his name with both his own and a different dog breed, Bullseye, the canine mascot of the Target corporation, is what breed of dog?
Answer: Bull Terrier
- Ridley Scott directed the dystopian, Orwell-inspired, hammer-tossing commercial for what now-behemoth but then-underdog company during the 1984 Super Bowl?
Answer: Apple
- An Oktoberfest Zinzinatti event features what hound group breed racing each other wearing hot dog costumes?
Answer: Dachshund
- What medium-large dog breed is the most popular dog breed in the United States, and is commonly used as a guide dog?
Answer: Labrador Retriever
- The leading run-scorer and century-maker in the history of first-class cricket was also an answer to a key question in the film "Slumdog Millionaire." Who is this answer to this meta-trivia question?
Answer: Jack Hobbs
- What testing company, founded in 2006 and based in “E”lk Grove, CA, offers a variety of simple genetic tests, ranging from paternity tests to familial relation tests to dog testing?
Answer: EasyDNA
- What late 19th and early 20th century Russian psychologist famously proved that responses could be conditioned by association, such as a dog drooling at the sound of the bell that rang before it was fed? His “P” name has become vernacular for someone reacting to a seemingly neutral thing.
Answer: Ivan Pavlov
- In Michigan folklore, what creepy canine-esque character has been described as seven feet tall with glistening eyes of blue or yellow and a terrifying, humanoid howl?
Answer: Dogman
- What “A” dog breed is a livestock guardian or shepherd dog from Turkey, known for its intelligence and bravery?
Answer: Akbash
- A surgical caudectomy is the technical term for the docking of what body part, as might be performed on a dog or horse?
Answer: Tail
- What herding dog breed is used the most in police forces around the world?
Answer: German Shepherd
- Which giant breed of dog is sometimes called the German Mastiff?
Answer: Great Dane
- A dog park on Land Park Dr in Sacramento is ______ Park. Fill in the word “P” blank, a word for either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity.
Answer: Partner Park
- As of April 2022, how many breeds of dog are recognized by the American Kennel Club?
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- Sharing his name with an element having the atomic number 29, what is the name of the titular dog in Disney’s “The Fox and the Hound?”
Answer: Copper
- Popular in Northern Mexico and among Spanish-speaking Texans, “La Canícula” refers to the rainless, hot, stagnant days between July and August. It's equivalent to what 2-word alliterative idiom that's more common to English speakers?
Answer: Dog days
- Home Depot’s own line of hand tools has the slogan “the toughest name in tools.” What is the name of that brand? (Hint: It’s also the name of a cold-loving dog breed that would be pumped to pull a sled you built yourself!)
Answer: Husky
- The ______ Mountain Dog is a large breed of working dog that’s well known for its coat of three colors. The breed hails from the Swiss Alps—and the first part of the dog’s name refers to the canton they came from.
Answer: Bernese
- Which A-term refers to an animal's age in years rather than their age in terms of development? For example, how old a dog actually is by the calendar as opposed to how many “dog years” old they are.
Answer: Absolute
- What’s the canine-inspired name for a space off the rig floor that can be used as an office or for storage?
Answer: Doghouse
- Though they may not seem like hunters, what dog breed was originally developed to hunt burrowing animals? This breed's name, in fact, means "badger hound" in German.
Answer: Dachshund
- Famed director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) returns in 2019 with a romantic musical comedy envisioning a world in which only one man remembers the Beatles. What is the name of this film? Unsurprisingly, it takes its name from a Beatles song.
Answer: Yesterday
- Adolf Hitler’s dog Blondi, who was gifted to him a puppy, was what breed?
Answer: German Shepherd
- A crime-fighting canine needs a nose for crime. Which super-sniffing dog breed was the first animal to have its evidence deemed admissible in U.S. courts?
Answer: Bloodhound
- If a Pomeranian dog is actually from Pomerania, that means it's from Germany or a voivodeship in what nearby country?
Answer: Poland
- The Airedale is the largest of which type of dog breed that takes its name from the Latin for “earth?”
Answer: Terrier
- According to ancient Greek literature, Argos, the dog of what wayward king of Ithaca, died of joy after seeing his master for the first time in decades?
Answer: Odysseus
- In perhaps the most famous sports television call of all time, Al Michaels posed what question to the audience as the underdog United States was about to advance to the finals of the Lake Placid Olympic hockey tournament in 1980? (Hint: He answered his own question with "Yes!")
Answer: Do you believe in miracles?
- In 1794, William Blake wrote about what powerful animal in a poem, wondering what kind of hand or eye “Dared frame thy fearful symmetry?” It was also the name of the dog on “The Brady Bunch.”
Answer: Tiger
- What company, whose trademark included a dog listening to a gramophone, sold the first mass-produced color television set, starting in 1954?
Answer: RCA
- Which island situated in the Foveaux Strait is the location of New Zealand’s tallest lighthouse? This island shares its name with a pet.
Answer: Dog Island
- Jim Belushi plays a rage-a-holic San Diego detective who gets partnered with a dog in a 1989 movie with what very short, on-the-nose title?
Answer: K-9
- What Chicago-based restaurant chain was founded in 1963 as "The Dog House" and featured Chicago-style foods such as hot dogs, Maxwell Street Polish, and Italian Beef?
Answer: Portillos
- What word could mean any of the following things? An avian structure formally known as a furcula, a famous Jack Russell terrier's name, an innovative football scheme popularly attributed to Emory Ballard at the University of Texas.
Answer: Wishbone
- “Ghostbusters” director Ivan Reitman voiced Zuul the demonic dog and what ghost originally named the “Onion Head Ghost” in the 1984 comedy film?
Answer: Slimer
- What natural history museum, located in Yale University in Connecticut, was founded in 1866 by namesake philanthropist George? It shares its name with a time traveling dog who is known to hang out with Sherman during “Rocky And Bullwinkle.”
Answer: Peabody Museum
- An island park off of Mission Bay, with fire pits, dog parks, and 27 miles of beach, is ______ Island Park. Fill in the one word “F” blank, the Spanish word for party.
Answer: Fiesta Island Park
- A dog called Cosmo licks Taneleer Tivan's, before a duck says "Why do you let it lick you like that? Gross." This is the end credit scene of which MCU movie?
Answer: Guardians of the Galaxy
- We're serious: in 1930, Charles Lindbergh worked with Lockheed Martin to design an airplane model named after what "dog star"?
Answer: Sirius
- Dog head, plain donut body, rainbows coming out of its butt: That's Donut Dog, a tribute parody of what internet character?
Answer: Nyan Cat
- Adopted after his Alaskan antics by a Buckeye industrialist, you can visit the preserved body of what Iditarod-inspiring, antidote-schleppin' sled dog at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History?
Answer: Balto
- Sharing its name with an unrelated Three Dog Night song, what popular Christmas carol begins with a descending major scale?
Answer: Joy to the World
- Franklin Roosevelt named his dog “Murray the Outlaw of Falahill” (“Fala” for short) after an ancestor that came from the same country as the pup’s breed. What kind of dog was Fala?
Answer: Scottish Terrier
- The fame of radio/TV star and "King of the Cowboys" Roy Rogers was rivaled by his dog Bullet and his horse, a golden palomino with what name?
Answer: Trigger
- The character of Eddie Crane on the popular 90s TV show "Frasier" was the family dog (named Moose in real life), but what breed of dog was he?
Answer: Jack Russell
- What is the tallest dog breed in the world?
Answer: Irish Wolfhound
- What dog food brand introduced by General Foods in 1959 “Makes the gravy your dog is craving”, according to one of its 1987 commercials?
Answer: Gravy Train
- Which canine trainer helped people with their problem pets on National Geographic’s “Dog Whisperer” from 2004 to 2012?
Answer: Cesar Millan
- The marathon course at the 1972 Munich Olympics was shaped like Waldi, a dog of what pretty much local breed?
Answer: Dachshund
- Calling your dog “Fido” (which comes from the Latin term for “faithful”) has largely become a cliche. While the pet name for your pet goes back to Ancient Rome, it didn’t catch on in modern times until the 1860s. When he took office in 1861, which president made the name popular when he introduced his dog, Fido, to America? (Hint: The loyal hound attended his funeral a few years later)
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
- President Calvin Coolidge's favorite dog was what collie, who shares his alliterative name with a classic cocktail made with Scotch and vermouth?
Answer: Rob Roy
- The sports teams of Southern Illinois University are named for what Egyptian dog breed, sometimes called "Persian greyhounds?"
Answer: Salukis
- What was the name of the painting that featured a mongrel dog named Nipper listening to a gramophone? This three-word title, sometimes abbreviated "HMV," later became a slogan associated with the Gramophone company and RCA.
Answer: His Master's Voice
- What 1965 play was adapted into a 1968 movie, then a 1970s TV Show, and then a 1975 cartoon? The cartoon featured a dog named Fleabag and a cat named Spiffy.
Answer: The Odd Couple
- Since 1990, curious canines Nipper and Chipper were frequently featured on advertisements for what tech company as their official mascots?
Answer: RCA
- What French word, which might look like a type of dog or general term for an area of land, is defined as "the complete natural environment in which a particular wine is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate?"
Answer: Terroir
- What breed of terrier dog gets it name from the dividing line between England and Scotland, in the Cheviot Hills?
Answer: Border Terrier
- A Hollywood tall tale surrounding the first ever Academy Awards claims that a dog received more Best Actor votes than any person. What four-legged friend, with over 20 films to his name by the time he went to doggy heaven, is the star of this movie myth?
Answer: Rin Tin Tin
- According to the National Retail Federation, what was the most common Halloween costume for a dog in 2016?
Answer: Pumpkin
- In France, the dog is called Berger de Brie. Elsewhere, what name is given to the large, long-coated herding breed with the unusual feature of double dewclaws on its hind legs?
Answer: Briard
- By what name deriving from the Russian for “swift” is the breed of dog previously known as the Russian Wolfhound, it having been bred in Russia coursing and hunting, now known?
Answer: Borzoi
- According to the National Retail Federation, what was the most common Halloween costume for a dog in 2016?
Answer: Pumpkin
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