Double Dare Trivia
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45 free Double Dare trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Double Dare premiered on Nickelodeon in October 1986 and almost immediately tripled the network's afternoon audience. If you grew up shouting at the TV while a kid dug through a giant nose for a flag, this quiz is for you. It covers the original Marc Summers run, Super Sloppy Double Dare, the Fox and Nickelodeon versions of Family Double Dare, Double Dare 2000, and the 2018 revival with Liza Koshy. The early questions are the ones any fan can get: what a physical challenge is, how many obstacles are on the course, what Pick It was. Then it digs into the parts only real trivia hounds know: the board game the format was based on, why Summers was told never to reveal his age, which design movement inspired the checkerboard set, and how the show later ended up in a kart-racing video game. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's detailed franchise history and Marc Summers' biography, so the numbers and dates hold up if anyone challenges you to a double dare of your own.
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Q 01Double Dare's green slime came from which earlier Nickelodeon series?
You Can't Do That on Television
You Can't Do That on Television slimed anyone who said 'I don't know'; Double Dare, Nickelodeon's first game show, took the gag much further when it premiered in 1986.
Q 02What protective gear did Double Dare contestants wear to run the obstacle course?
Helmets, elbow pads and knee pads
Before the obstacle course, kids suited up in helmets, elbow pads and knee pads, since the timed run had them diving, climbing and sliding through goo.
Q 03What were the messy stunts on Double Dare officially called?
Physical challenges
The stunts were officially 'physical challenges', taken when a team would rather not answer a question; both kids on a team took part in each one.
Q 04What opened each round of Double Dare?
A toss-up stunt
A toss-up stunt opened each round: both teams raced to finish it, and the winners took the cash and control of the questions, which started at $10 on the original show.
Q 05On the original Double Dare, a dared and double-dared question was worth how many times its value?
Quadruple
Quadruple: a dare doubled a question's value and a double dare doubled it again, so a $10 question became $40, and the team dared back had to answer it or take the stunt.
Q 06How did Double Dare partners run the obstacle course?
Taking turns
Taking turns: each of the eight obstacles ended with a flag handed to the partner who ran the next. Co-creator Geoffrey Darby says the pilot had one kid run it all while the other held the flags, so they changed it.
Q 07What followed a failed stunt on Double Dare?
The other team got the money
The other team got the money, and control of the questions with it. Most stunts allowed just 20 or 30 seconds, and a few as little as 10.
Q 08Double Dare's obstacle Pick It was a giant version of what?
A human nose
A human nose: contestants reached up a nostril full of fake snot for the flag, which stuck so badly that the crew eventually added an air cannon to blow it out.
Q 09Which Double Dare obstacle had kids climb a chocolate-covered ramp, then land in ice cream?
The Sundae Slide
The Sundae Slide had kids scramble up a chocolate-covered ramp, then ride a playground slide into a giant sundae; co-creator Mike Klinghoffer says the crew made it harder by putting syrup on its sides.
Q 10Which Double Dare obstacle had a contestant run inside a giant drum to set it spinning?
The One-Ton Human Hamster Wheel
The One-Ton Human Hamster Wheel was hard to start: feet coated in eggs and flour couldn't grip the drum, so designer Byron Taylor says the crew lined the inside with grip tape.
Q 11On Double Dare's Gum Drop obstacle, contestants leapt into a giant version of what?
A gumball machine
Gum Drop was a giant gumball machine: contestants leapt into the globe full of plastic balls and slid out through the dispensing hatch at the bottom to grab the flag.
Q 12On the original Double Dare, the obstacle-course grand prize was usually a vacation or a trip to what?
Space Camp
Space Camp was the classic grand prize on the original and Super Sloppy runs; the night-time Family Double Dare later raised the stakes to a car.
Q 13Family Double Dare began in 1988 as a Saturday-night series on which broadcast network?
Fox
Fox got Family Double Dare before Nickelodeon did: it ran the family version on Saturday nights in 1988, two years before the cable channel launched its own.
Q 21Double Dare's developers based the format on trivia, truth or dare, and which board game?
Mouse Trap
Mouse Trap inspired the obstacle course: co-creator Geoffrey Darby recalls the team wanting a big Rube Goldberg machine with a person in place of the ball.
Q 22Which comedian was an early candidate to host Double Dare before joining Saturday Night Live?
Dana Carvey
Dana Carvey, as Marc Summers tells it, got the Double Dare offer the same night Saturday Night Live called and chose SNL; Soupy Sales had already been ruled out as too old.
Q 23Why did Nickelodeon make Marc Summers keep his age secret for years?
Focus groups thought he was much younger
Q 14Marc Summers, host of TV's messiest game show, later revealed he has which condition?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Summers recognised his own symptoms in 1994 while preparing a talk-show segment on it, and Nickelodeon's president says he never once complained on the slime-soaked set.
Q 15Which YouTube star hosted the 2018 Double Dare revival alongside Marc Summers?
Liza Koshy
YouTuber Liza Koshy hosted the 2018 revival on Nickelodeon, with original host Marc Summers returning as announcer and sidekick.
Q 16What new option did Double Dare 2000 add to round two?
The Triple Dare Challenge
The Triple Dare Challenge let a team in round two swap its stunt for a tougher version, with less time on the clock or an extra item to catch, in return for more money and a bonus prize.
Q 17The original Double Dare announcer, a local radio host, was known on air simply as what?
Harvey
Harvey was John Harvey, a local morning DJ who had just lost his radio show when a Double Dare production assistant, a fan of his, suggested him for the announcer's job.
Q 18Robin Marrella and Dave Shikiar appeared on camera in the original Double Dare in which role?
Stage assistants
Stage assistants Marrella and Shikiar set up and demonstrated the stunts; Marrella had been hired as a production assistant and was put on camera when producers realised someone had to run them.
Q 19Double Dare's original set of glass bricks and pink-and-yellow checkerboards was inspired by which 1980s Italian design group?
Memphis
Memphis, Ettore Sottsass's Milan-based design collective, set the decade's taste for loud, clashing patterns, and Double Dare's crew had to replicate them across the set by hand in paint.
Q 20Geoffrey Darby wanted Double Dare's original set to feel like what?
An indoor swimming pool
An indoor swimming pool, or natatorium, was Darby's brief: he liked the word, and wanted tile and vents so the crew could squeegee the mess off the stage without stopping taping.
Focus groups thought he was much younger: viewers took Summers for about 24 when he was 34, so Nickelodeon swore him to secrecy until he was nearly 40.
Q 24The original Double Dare was taped at the studios of PBS station WHYY-TV in which city?
Philadelphia
Double Dare was taped at WHYY-TV in Philadelphia, where the public broadcaster's studio was far cheaper to use than a New York facility.
Q 25Before Double Dare, Marc Summers spent nearly a decade as emcee at a Hollywood club for which kind of performer?
Magicians
Magicians: Summers, a magician since his teens, emceed at the Magic Castle, and co-creator Geoffrey Darby says his knack for holding kids and adults alike put him 'on top of the heap'.
Q 26Nickelodeon's Family Double Dare was taped from 1990 at Universal Studios in which city?
Orlando
Orlando: Super Sloppy Double Dare began taping at Universal Studios Florida in 1989, a year before the park and Nickelodeon Studios opened to the public, and Family Double Dare followed.
Q 27Where did Marc Summers host a one-night Double Dare revival, streamed live for the show's 30th anniversary in 2016?
San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con: Nickelodeon's retro brand The Splat took over a nightclub there, with All That cast members among the players, and the footage went into that year's reunion special.
Q 28Before Double Dare entered syndication in 1988, what colour uniforms did both teams wear?
Red
Red was worn by both teams through the original Nickelodeon run; only when the show entered syndication in 1988 did one team switch to blue.
Q 29In 1987, Viacom produced adult-player Double Dare pilots hosted by which Olympic gold medallist?
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner, then known as Bruce, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, hosted the 1987 adult Double Dare pilots, which never made it to air.
Q 30What colour were the flags contestants grabbed at each obstacle on Double Dare's obstacle course?
Orange
Orange flags marked every obstacle, and each one grabbed banked a prize. On the first taping day the crew forgot to put the flag in a sack of feathers, and a kid dug for the full 60 seconds.