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40 free Baby Shark trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Baby Shark was a song handed down from one group of children to the next long before a short animated video turned it into the most-watched clip on the internet. Few tunes have travelled so far: into the pop charts, onto talk shows, into a ballpark and even into a courtroom. This quiz covers the whole story: where the song came from, who made the famous version, the records it broke, the celebrities who covered it, and the TV series and movie that gave the shark family voices, jobs and a home town. It is pitched for parents who have heard the song a thousand times, for fans of the cartoon, and for anyone who enjoys a good pop-culture origin story. Some questions are easy wins; a few will test even the most devoted fan.
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Q 01Which South Korean children's brand released the Baby Shark video that became YouTube's most-viewed?
Pinkfong
Pinkfong uploaded Baby Shark Dance in June 2016, and its parent firm SmartStudy later renamed itself after the brand.
Q 02Which song's video did Baby Shark Dance overtake in November 2020 to become the most viewed on YouTube?
Despacito
Despacito had held the record for more than three years before the children's video swam past it.
Q 03Which MLB team adopted Baby Shark as a rallying anthem on the way to its first World Series title in 2019?
Washington Nationals
Washington Nationals fans did a shark clap whenever the team got a hit, and many turned up at the ballpark in shark costumes.
Q 04Away from the Baby Shark song, what is the proper name for the young of a real shark?
Pup
Pup is the word for a young shark, and pups get no parental care, arriving as smaller versions of the adults.
Q 05Before it was a viral video, Baby Shark spent decades as a sing-along in which setting?
Summer camps
Summer camps kept the song alive for decades, which is why the underlying tune is believed to be in the public domain.
Q 06Which rapper voiced a shark superstar in a 2022 episode of Baby Shark's Big Show!?
Cardi B
Cardi B played Sharki B, a rap icon with a dance craze called the Seaweed Sway, while husband Offset and daughter Kulture voiced a fan and his daughter.
Q 07In which TV comedy is the Baby Shark tune reworked into a chant for fictional footballer Jamie Tartt?
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso gave striker Jamie Tartt the tune as his goal celebration anthem, with his own name swapped in for the title words.
Q 08Baby Shark was performed on The X Factor in 2018 at the request of which judge's four-year-old son?
Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell's son Eric asked for the song, which landed a toddler favorite on a prime-time talent show in early December.
Q 09In Baby Shark's Big Show!, what job does the loud, blue Daddy Shark do?
Dentist
Dentist is Daddy Shark's job in the series, while Mommy Shark loves solving puzzles and Grandpa Shark loves watching TV.
Q 10A March 2020 version of Baby Shark taught children which habit during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Washing hands
Washing hands was the lesson: the interactive remake encouraged children to scrub properly as the virus spread.
Q 11Which US children's network premiered the animated series Baby Shark's Big Show! in December 2020?
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon launched the series with a holiday special, and its animation studio co-produced the show with the song's South Korean makers.
Q 12Which Canadian superstar sang a dramatic Baby Shark during her 2019 Carpool Karaoke with James Corden?
Celine Dion
Celine Dion belted it out at the host's request, a year after his show staged a version with Sophie Turner and Josh Groban.
Q 13What color is Baby Shark in Baby Shark's Big Show!, where Grandpa Shark is green?
Yellow
Yellow is Baby Shark's color, while Mommy Shark is pink and Grandma Shark is orange.
Q 21In Baby Shark's Big Show!, what is the name of the underwater town where Baby Shark lives?
Carnivore Cove
Carnivore Cove is home to the shark family and to a recurring villain, a vampire squid who keeps trying to take the town over.
Q 22Which K-pop boy band broke into Baby Shark during their own Carpool Karaoke, mixing it with LMFAO's Shots?
BTS
BTS offered it as their example of a song to sing in rounds when bored, then launched into it on the spot.
Q 23In which Southeast Asian country did the Baby Shark video go viral in 2017 before spreading across Asia?
Indonesia
Indonesia caught the craze first, a full year before the song began to go viral in the Western world in August 2018.
Q 14Baby Shark Dance became the first YouTube video ever to pass how many views in January 2022?
10 billion
10 billion views arrived less than six years after the upload, a mark no other video had reached.
Q 15Which daytime talk show host released her own version of Baby Shark on her show in September 2018?
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres joined in only weeks after the song began to go viral in the Western world, a wave that started in August 2018.
Q 16Which children's band teamed up with Baby Shark for a four-episode YouTube series in December 2023?
The Wiggles
The Wiggles, the Australian children's group, performed alongside the shark family in a series released only on YouTube.
Q 17Baby Shark was a playable track in the 2020 edition of which long-running video game series?
Just Dance
Just Dance 2020 let players copy the routine at home, and the song also turned up in the film The Angry Birds Movie 2.
Q 18A 2007 version of Baby Shark went viral on YouTube under the title Kleiner Hai, sung in which language?
German
German singer Alemuel took the song, whose title means Little Shark, to number 25 at home; in her telling the grown shark eats a swimmer.
Q 19Which Kellogg's cereal got a berry-flavored Baby Shark edition with marshmallows in 2019?
Froot Loops
Froot Loops was the base for the Baby Shark cereal, which went on sale first at Sam's Club before reaching Walmart.
Q 20Who sang the lead vocal on the hit 2016 Baby Shark recording, uploaded as Baby Shark Dance?
A ten-year-old girl
A ten-year-old girl, Korean-American singer Hope Segoine, recorded the vocal, while two child actors danced in the video.
Q 24Baby Shark peaked at number six on the singles chart of which country, far above its US peak of 32?
Britain
Britain sent it to number six at the start of 2019, when Christmas songs dropped out of the chart and the shark tune leapt into the Top 10.
Q 25A 2013 rule counting YouTube views helped Baby Shark enter which US chart at number 32 in January 2019?
Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100 rankings count online video plays, which let a toddler tune debut inside the Top 40 beside the week's pop hits.
Q 26The company behind the hit Baby Shark video was founded in Seoul in 2010 by three former what?
Game developers
Game developers Kim Min-seok, Lee Seung-kyu and Park Hyun-woo turned to education because, as one of them put it, they were tired of making games.
Q 27The children's brand behind the hit Baby Shark video is represented by a mascot of which animal?
Fox
A fox is the mascot, a character who also stars in the web series Wonderstar beside a hedgehog called Hogi.
Q 28In Baby Shark's Big Show!, Baby Shark's best friend William is what kind of sea creature?
Pilot fish
Pilot fish really do keep company with sharks, gaining protection from predators while clearing the sharks of parasites.
Q 29Which outfielder started a 2019 baseball craze by making Baby Shark his walk-up song for his young daughter?
Gerardo Parra
Gerardo Parra homered on his first day walking up to the tune, so he kept it, and crowds were soon clapping along like snapping jaws.
Q 30Which military ensemble played Baby Shark at the White House during the 2019 World Series champions' visit?
The Marine Band
The Marine Band, known as The President's Own, played the toddler tune as the title-winning team was honored.