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40 free Anthony Padilla trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Anthony Padilla has been on YouTube almost as long as YouTube has existed. He built a website as a teenager, turned it into one of the platform's first hit channels with a school friend, walked away after more than a decade and later returned. This quiz follows that whole arc: the early lip-sync videos and sketches, the business deals behind the Smosh name, the feature film and voice roles, and the interview series that made him one of the internet's best-known interviewers. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the story as you play. It is written for Smosh fans of any era, whether you remember the first uploads or found him through his solo channel.
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Q 01Which anime's theme did Anthony Padilla lip-sync in a 2005 Smosh video that briefly became YouTube's most-viewed?
Pokémon
Pokémon made Smosh famous: the lip-sync passed 24 million views before a copyright claim pulled it from the site in 2007.
Q 02Which childhood friend joined Anthony Padilla's website smosh.com and became his partner in the duo Smosh?
Ian Hecox
Ian Hecox grew up in the same California suburb as Padilla and is the one original member who has been with Smosh from the start without a break.
Q 03Which YouTuber passed Smosh as the most-subscribed channel in 2013, ending Anthony Padilla's third spell on top?
PewDiePie
PewDiePie took the top spot that August and collaborated with the Smosh pair on a video shortly afterwards.
Q 04What reason did Anthony Padilla give in June 2017 for walking away from Smosh, the channel he had co-founded?
Lack of creative freedom
Lack of creative freedom was his stated reason, announced in a video on his own channel, where he then built a solo career as an interviewer.
Q 05How did Anthony Padilla and his co-founder make Smosh independent again in June 2023, six years after he left?
Buying the company back
Buying the company back from Mythical Entertainment gave the pair a majority stake, and the main channel returned to scripted sketches.
Q 06Which YouTube act's company, Mythical Entertainment, acquired Smosh in 2019, two years after Anthony Padilla's exit?
Rhett & Link
Rhett & Link stepped in after the previous owner of Smosh collapsed, and most of the cast and crew came back under the new banner.
Q 07Anthony Padilla voices which green bird with boomerang-like abilities in The Angry Birds Movie and its 2019 sequel?
Hal
Hal can fling himself like a boomerang, and Padilla kept the role for the sequel even though he had left Smosh by then.
Q 08Which reality competition featured Anthony Padilla as a guest in a 2018 episode built around social media stars?
RuPaul's Drag Race
RuPaul's Drag Race brought him in for its season 10 makeover challenge, in which the queens gave six internet personalities a drag transformation.
Q 09Which interview series did Anthony Padilla create on his solo channel, meeting furries and ex-cult members?
I Spent a Day With
I Spent a Day With was built for in-depth talks with people who tend to be left out, and Padilla said he wanted to avoid cringe-reaction humour.
Q 10Anthony Padilla played which Renaissance artist in the Epic Rap Battles of History episode Artists vs TMNT?
Raphael
Raphael was his part in the 2014 season finale, in which four YouTubers played the artists facing their Ninja Turtle namesakes.
Q 11Anthony Padilla was born in which California city, also the birthplace of his Smosh co-founder?
Sacramento
Sacramento is where both were born in 1987, and they grew up in the nearby suburb of Carmichael, where the first Smosh videos were shot in Padilla's bedroom.
Q 12In which school year did Anthony Padilla meet his future Smosh partner, in a shared science class?
Sixth grade
Sixth grade brought them together, and a shared taste for comedy did the rest; they were still teenagers when they began posting videos.
Q 13What did Anthony Padilla post on smosh.com after registering the site in 2002, three years before joining YouTube?
Flash animations
Q 21Which Minecraft star told Anthony Padilla in 2021 that he had handled a speedrun cheating scandal badly?
Dream
Dream also explained that he never meant to stay anonymous, but the mystery had become too central to his online persona to give up at that point.
Q 22Which production company did Anthony Padilla found in 2020 to make unscripted shows such as his interview series?
Pressalike
Pressalike was brought under the Smosh umbrella in 2025, when the company and Padilla's personal channel were both given a matching new name.
Q 23Which creator convention named Anthony Padilla's Smosh to its inaugural Hall of Fame in 2025?
VidCon
VidCon picked Smosh for the first class of an honour created for content creators, twenty years after the duo's first uploads.
Flash animations filled the early site, which got its name when Padilla misheard a friend describing a mosh pit.
Q 14Smosh discovered YouTube after finding an upload of Anthony Padilla's duo lip-syncing to which fighting game's theme?
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat was the clip they found already on the site with several thousand views, so they opened a channel of their own in November 2005.
Q 15On which social network did Anthony Padilla's duo run the fan poll that chose the subject of their breakout video?
MySpace
MySpace hosted the poll, and the pair also posted their earliest lip-syncs there before they had a YouTube channel.
Q 16Anthony Padilla made the Smosh logo from a fast-forward sign and an S from a font based on which band?
Linkin Park
Linkin Park lettering supplied the S for the logo, which Padilla put together himself as a young teenager when he set up the site in 2002.
Q 17Barry Blumberg, who became manager of Anthony Padilla's duo in 2006, once ran which studio's TV animation arm?
Disney
Disney veteran Blumberg got the pair into YouTube's Partner program in 2007 and persuaded them to stick to a schedule for making videos.
Q 18Which company owned Smosh from 2011 and was branded evil and shady by Anthony Padilla after it shut down?
Defy Media
Defy Media folded without warning in 2018, and Padilla then revealed the duo had sold Smosh for stock that turned out to be worth nothing.
Q 19Which newspaper crowned Anthony Padilla YouTube's interview king in a 2022 profile of his solo work?
The Washington Post
The Washington Post gave him the title for a series whose guests have ranged from the head of YouTube to survivors of school shootings.
Q 20Which then-chief executive of YouTube sat down with Anthony Padilla for an episode of his solo interview series?
Susan Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki appeared in 2021 and explained why she kept an eye on the drama among the creators on her own platform.
Q 24Anthony Padilla's Smosh was the first channel to hit ten million subscribers, the mark for which YouTube award?
Diamond
Diamond is the play button for ten million subscribers, and only 35 channels qualified when YouTube introduced it in 2015.
Q 25A fan's dubbed versions of Smosh sketches led Anthony Padilla's duo to add an official channel in which language?
Spanish
Spanish dubs were first made by a fan, whom the duo then hired for ElSmosh, one of three channels they added in 2012.
Q 26Which animation channel did Anthony Padilla's Smosh launch in 2012, the same year as a gaming channel?
Shut Up! Cartoons
Shut Up! Cartoons arrived alongside Smosh Games, part of an expansion that followed the sale of the brand the year before.
Q 27Which annual Smosh series starring Anthony Padilla became a crowdfunded action role-playing game in 2014?
Food Battle
Food Battle fans pledged just over $259,000 for the game in 2013, and the duo gave a tenth of the money to charity.
Q 28In which 2016 Smosh sitcom did Anthony Padilla play Anton, who is put in charge of a run-down children's arcade?
Part Timers
Part Timers ran for 20 episodes on the main Smosh channel, with Anton landing the job through his father despite having no experience.
Q 29Anthony Padilla plays Charlie in which 2016 YouTube Red release, a film he also co-wrote and executive produced?
Ghostmates
Ghostmates casts his Smosh partner as the spirit of the flat's last tenant, and the rapper T-Pain turns up as a fellow ghost.
Q 30Which star of the Bill & Ted films directed Anthony Padilla in the 2015 feature Smosh: The Movie?
Alex Winter
Alex Winter shot the whole film at YouTube Space in Los Angeles and appears in it only in a photograph, as a character's uncle.