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60 free Banksy trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Banksy trivia quiz covers thirty years of walls, stunts and auction records without ever needing to know who he is. It starts in Bristol's underground scene with the DryBreadZ Crew, the goalkeeping for the Easton Cowboys, the rubbish-lorry moment that turned him to stencils, The Mild Mild West and the first shows in Los Angeles. It covers the animals he painted at Turf War, the spoof Diana banknotes, the museum break-ins, the West Bank wall, the painted elephant at Barely Legal and the Paris Hilton CD swap. The second half moves through the auction boom and 'I Can't Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit', the Pulp Fiction bananas, Pest Control, the Bristol Museum takeover, Exit Through the Gift Shop and the Oscar nomination, the Simpsons couch gag, Better Out Than In and the $60 Central Park stall, Dismaland, the Walled Off Hotel, the shredded Girl with Balloon, Devolved Parliament, the NHS painting, the trademark defeat, Ukraine and the guesses about his name. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is shown on every question. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. Try our Andy Warhol quiz next.
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Q 01Banksy started out in 1990-94 as a freehand graffiti artist in which Bristol collective?
DryBreadZ (DBZ)
His crewmates were known as Kato and Tes; the wider Bristol scene included Nick Walker, Inkie and 3D.
Q 02Banksy says he took up stencilling after seeing a stencilled serial number while hiding where?
Under a rubbish lorry
Stencils were faster; he had kept getting caught before finishing freehand pieces.
Q 03Banksy's first known large mural, The Mild Mild West (1997), shows a teddy bear doing what?
Lobbing a Molotov cocktail at riot police
It covered advertising on a former solicitors' office in Bristol.
Q 04In the 1990s Banksy played in goal for which Bristol football team, touring Mexico with them in 2001?
The Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls
His stencils' regular cast includes rats, apes, policemen, soldiers, children and the elderly.
Q 05Banksy's first Los Angeles show in 2002 was called what?
Existencilism
It ran at the tiny 33⅓ Gallery in Silver Lake and was billed as 'an Exhibition of Art, Lies and Deviousness'.
Q 06At the 2003 London warehouse show Turf War, Banksy painted on what?
Live animals
An animal rights activist chained herself to the railings even though the RSPCA had cleared the conditions.
Q 07Which Edward Hopper painting did Banksy subvert by adding a hooligan in Union Jack underwear?
Nighthawks
He also gave Monet's water lily pond a floating shopping trolley; both were shown in Westbourne Grove in 2005.
Q 08Banksy's 2004 spoof £10 notes replaced the Queen with whose head?
Princess Diana's
'Bank of England' became 'Banksy of England'; a wad was thrown into the crowd at Notting Hill Carnival and some tried to spend them.
Q 09Banksy's print Napalm places the girl from Nick Ut's Vietnam photograph between which two characters?
Ronald McDonald and Mickey Mouse
He made 150 signed and 500 unsigned copies; the corporate mascots are usually yellow.
Q 10How many images did Banksy paint on the Israeli West Bank barrier in August 2005?
Nine
They included a ladder going over the wall and children digging a hole through it.
Q 11The centrepiece of the 2006 Los Angeles show Barely Legal was a live elephant painted how?
In a pink and gold floral wallpaper pattern
Leaflets said it drew attention to world poverty; after complaints the elephant appeared unpainted on the final day.
Q 12Which pop star bought Banksy's original Queen Victoria as a lesbian and two prints for £25,000 in 2006?
Christina Aguilera
Weeks later a set of Kate Moss prints in Warhol's Marilyn style made £50,400 at Sotheby's, a record at the time.
Q 13How did Banksy respond on his website to the record-breaking Sotheby's sales of February 2007?
Q 21How many visits did the 2009 Banksy vs Bristol Museum show record across its twelve weeks?
300,000+
It featured more than 100 works, 78 of them new, with 8,500 visitors on the first weekend alone.
Q 22Where did Banksy's documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop premiere in January 2010?
The Sundance Film Festival
He put up ten street works around Park City and Salt Lake City to coincide with the screening.
Q 23Which film beat Exit Through the Gift Shop to the 2010 Best Documentary Oscar?
Inside Job
Banksy said he made an exception to his dislike of award ceremonies for ones he was nominated for.
An image of bidders and the words 'I Can't Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit'
Bombing Middle England had just fetched over £102,000.
Q 14Banksy's London mural of two Pulp Fiction characters, painted over in 2007, had them clutching what instead of guns?
Bananas
TfL said its staff were 'professional cleaners not professional art critics'; Banksy repainted it, then dedicated the spot to the late graffiti writer Ozone.
Q 15Which 2007 sale of Space Girl and Bird set a Banksy record of £288,000, about 20 times the estimate?
Bonhams, London
A month later he was named Art's Greatest Living Briton and, predictably, did not turn up.
Q 16Banksy's early online 'manifesto' was really a British officer's diary entry describing what?
Lipstick arriving at Bergen-Belsen after liberation
Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin's diary is in the Imperial War Museum; the shipment helped the internees regain their humanity.
Q 17Banksy's first official New York exhibition in 2008 took the form of what?
A pet store with animatronic animals
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill featured a hen watching her Chicken McNugget babies peck at barbecue sauce.
Q 18Banksy's 2008 Cans Festival took place in which London location?
A road tunnel under Waterloo station
Stencil artists from around the world were invited to paint Leake Street, as long as they covered no one else's work.
Q 19Which French pioneer of the life-sized stencil has Banksy long been accused of copying?
Blek le Rat
Blek praised Banksy's contribution but said some derivative work makes him 'angry'.
Q 20What is Pest Control?
Banksy's authentication and sales body
After parting from agent Steve Lazarides in 2009 he made it the sole point of sale for new works.
Q 24Banksy created the opening couch gag for which 2010 episode of The Simpsons?
MoneyBart
It showed sweatshop conditions and endangered animals making the show; Fox 'sanitised' parts and Al Jean joked 'This is what you get when you outsource'.
Q 25Banksy's 2011 Tesco Value petrol-bomb print aided rioters arrested in which Bristol district?
Stokes Croft
Posters sold for £5 each at the local anarchists' bookfair.
Q 26Cardinal Sin, unveiled at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery in 2011, replaces a priest's face with what?
A pixelated effect
It was a statement on the Catholic Church child abuse scandal.
Q 27The Slave Labour mural, showing a child sewing Union Jack bunting, was removed in 2013 from which shop?
A Poundland in Wood Green
It surfaced in a Miami auction catalogue, was withdrawn after outcry, then reappeared for sale in Covent Garden.
Q 28Banksy's month-long 2013 New York 'show on the streets' was titled what?
Better Out Than In
Mayor Bloomberg said he did not consider graffiti art; many pieces were defaced, removed or stolen.
Q 29How much did Banksy charge per canvas at his anonymous 2013 stall on Fifth Avenue near Central Park?
$60
An elderly man staffed it for four hours before the first sale; two of the canvases later fetched $214,000 at auction.
Q 30Banksy's 2015 'bemusement park' Dismaland was built in which English seaside town?
Weston-super-Mare
Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer were among the artists shown; it closed permanently after five weeks.