Famous Nicks
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50 free Famous Nicks trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Nick is a name that gets around. It belongs to pop stars and drummers, quarterbacks and golf champions, Oscar winners and sitcom favourites. It also belongs to a fourth-century saint, a nearly headless ghost, a cartoon con artist and a certain spy chief with an eyepatch. This quiz gathers the famous Nicks, Nicholases and Nicolases in one place. Most questions hand you a Nick and ask for the film, band, team or book that made the name stick. Others turn to fiction, from the narrator of a classic American novel to a Shakespearean weaver who has a very strange evening in the woods. It works as a themed pub quiz round, a birthday game for the Nick in your life, or a general knowledge warm-up with a twist. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you leave with a new fact even when you guess wrong.
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Q 01Saint Nicholas, the bishop who inspired Santa Claus, served in the city of Myra in which modern country?
Turkey
Turkey is home to Demre, the town that grew up over ancient Myra. Sailors from Bari carried off most of the saint's bones in 1087, and they are still enshrined in that Italian city.
Q 02English speakers have used the nickname Old Nick since the 1600s as a jocular name for which figure?
The Devil
The Devil has been called Old Nick since the 17th century. The origin is uncertain: it may be a joking use of the name Nicholas, or come from nicor, an Old English word for a water demon.
Q 03Which actor has played S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury in Marvel films since 2008's Iron Man?
Samuel L. Jackson
Marvel drew him before it cast him. Samuel L. Jackson was the model for a redrawn Nick Fury in the 2002 comic The Ultimates, years before he took the part.
Q 04Stevie Nicks and her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham joined which British-American band together in 1975?
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac earned Stevie Nicks her first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1998. A solo induction in 2019 made her the first woman to enter twice.
Q 05Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate who moves to Long Island to sell bonds, narrates which 1925 American novel?
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is told entirely by Nick Carraway, a World War I veteran from the Midwest who finds himself living next door to the mysterious millionaire of the title.
Q 06Nicolas Cage plays a terrorist and John Travolta the FBI agent hunting him in which 1997 John Woo film?
Face/Off
Face/Off has its two stars trade looks through experimental surgery, so each spends most of the film playing the other man's character.
Q 07Nick Jonas married which Indian film star and former Miss World at a palace in Jodhpur in 2018?
Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas married in both Hindu and Christian ceremonies at Umaid Bhawan Palace. They had started dating only seven months earlier.
Q 08Nick Saban won one national title at LSU, then six more as head football coach at which university?
Alabama
Alabama gave Nick Saban six national titles in 17 seasons. Added to his LSU crown, that made seven, one more than the school's own legend Bear Bryant.
Q 09Nearly Headless Nick, properly Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, is the resident ghost of which Hogwarts house?
Gryffindor
Gryffindor's house ghost was played on screen by John Cleese of Monty Python fame, who appears in the first two Harry Potter films.
Q 10Nick Offerman, a keen woodworker off screen, played which deadpan, government-hating boss on Parks and Recreation?
Ron Swanson
Ron Swanson shares his carpentry habit with Nick Offerman, who taught himself the craft from books and periodicals and now runs his own woodshop in Los Angeles.
Q 11Dr. Nick Riviera, an inept physician voiced by Hank Azaria, treats patients in which long-running animated series?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons gives Dr. Nick a running gag: he greets every room with the same cheery hello, and everyone present answers him by name.
Q 12Nick Wilde, the con artist voiced by Jason Bateman in Disney's Zootopia, is which kind of animal?
A fox
A fox like Nick Wilde is distrusted on sight in the film's city of mammals, yet he ends the story as its first fox police officer.
Q 13Nick Carter, older brother of the late pop singer Aaron Carter, is the youngest member of which boy band?
Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys are often called the best-selling boy band in history. Nick Carter was only 12 when he auditioned for the group.
Q 21English golfer Nick Faldo won six majors: three Open Championships and three titles at which other tournament?
The Masters
The Masters is where it began for Nick Faldo: having never picked up a club, he watched Jack Nicklaus play the 1971 tournament on his parents' new colour television and was hooked.
Q 22Nick Kyrgios, unseeded, reached the 2022 Wimbledon singles final but lost in four sets to which defending champion?
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic dropped the first set before winning the next three. Nick Kyrgios had been the first unseeded man in a Grand Slam final since Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in 2008.
Q 23Nick Nolte plays a cop who teams up with a convict, played by Eddie Murphy, in which 1982 action comedy?
48 Hrs.
Q 14Nick Lachey, lead singer of the boy band 98 Degrees, starred with his then-wife in which MTV reality series?
Newlyweds
Newlyweds won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show in 2005, then wrapped shortly afterwards with three seasons on air.
Q 15Drummer Nick Mason is the only member to appear on every album by which British rock band?
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd grew out of a band Nick Mason formed while studying architecture in London. Away from the drum kit he collects classic cars and races them.
Q 16Keyboardist Nick Rhodes co-founded which Birmingham band, named after a character in the 1968 film Barbarella?
Duran Duran
Duran Duran borrowed the name of Dr. Durand Durand the day after the BBC showed Barbarella in October 1978, when Nick Rhodes was sixteen and had just left school.
Q 17Nick Cannon, who got his start on Nickelodeon's All That, married which pop superstar in the Bahamas in 2008?
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon wed at her private estate on Windermere Island. He went on to host America's Got Talent and The Masked Singer.
Q 18Backup quarterback Nick Foles was named MVP of Super Bowl LII after his Eagles upset which team?
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots lost 41–33 as Nick Foles became the first player to both throw and catch a touchdown pass in a Super Bowl.
Q 19Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' most successful single, Where the Wild Roses Grow, is a duet with which singer?
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue sings the victim's side of a dialogue with her killer. Cave wrote the murder ballad after hearing the traditional song Down in the Willow Garden.
Q 20Nick Frost met which future Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz co-star while working as a waiter in London?
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg became Nick Frost's flatmate after they met at a Chiquito restaurant, and he later co-wrote the part of Mike in the sitcom Spaced for him.
48 Hrs. was Eddie Murphy's first film, and it is often credited with starting the buddy cop genre that Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys later made a Hollywood staple.
Q 24Rogue trader Nick Leeson's unauthorised bets from a Singapore office caused the 1995 collapse of which British bank?
Barings
Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank when it fell. Leeson fled, was arrested in Germany and sent back to Singapore, where a court gave him six and a half years in Changi Prison.
Q 25Nick Clegg served as Britain's deputy prime minister from 2010 to 2015 while leading which political party?
Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats entered a coalition with David Cameron's Conservatives, who had fallen short of a majority. Clegg later moved to the United States as a senior executive at Facebook.
Q 26Nick Hornby's first novel follows a London record shop owner who ranks his worst break-ups in which 1995 book?
High Fidelity
High Fidelity moved from London to Chicago for the 2000 film starring John Cusack. Hornby said he was surprised by how faithful the adaptation stayed to his book.
Q 27Nick Park's Wallace & Gromit films revived sales of which crumbly English cheese, the inventor Wallace's favourite?
Wensleydale
Wensleydale production had slumped by the early 1990s. After Wallace named it a favourite in A Close Shave, its maker licensed a Wallace & Gromit brand that sold well.
Q 28Nick Kroll co-created and voices a boy named Nick in which Netflix cartoon about puberty and hormone monsters?
Big Mouth
Big Mouth is based on Kroll's own upbringing in suburban New York with co-creator Andrew Goldberg, and Kroll voices a fictional version of his younger self.
Q 29Which actor played Nick Miller, the bartender roommate of Zooey Deschanel's Jess, on the sitcom New Girl?
Jake Johnson
Jake Johnson was sent the pilot script by the show's creator, who had enjoyed working with him on the film No Strings Attached and guided him through the audition.
Q 30Which actor plays Nick Dunne, the husband suspected when his wife vanishes, in David Fincher's Gone Girl?
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck drew on his own experience of media scrutiny to play Nick Dunne, a writing teacher who becomes the prime suspect in his wife's disappearance in Missouri.