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50 free Futurama trivia questions with answers. Good news, everyone: this is a Futurama quiz that goes past "who voices Bender." Fifty questions cover the Planet Express crew, the running gags (Alienese, Olde Fortran, the Hypnotoad), the great episodes (Jurassic Bark, Roswell That Ends Well, The Late Philip J. Fry, The Prisoner of Benda), and the show's remarkable history of being killed by Fox, resurrected by DVD films and Comedy Central, and revived again by Hulu. Easy questions are for anyone who has watched a season. The hard ones are for people who know why Bender's unit number is 1729, which Emmy the writers actually won, what inspired the suicide booths, and how a writer's original group-theory theorem saved a body-swap plot. It works for a watch-party round or a nerdier-than-average pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its characters and individual episodes, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01Who created Futurama?
Matt Groening
Matt Groening dreamed up Futurama in the mid-1990s while working on The Simpsons and brought in Simpsons writer David X. Cohen to develop it; the show premiered on Fox in March 1999.
Q 02On what date is Fry revived from cryogenic sleep?
December 31, 2999
Fry thaws out on December 31, 2999, exactly 1,000 years after toppling into the cryogenic tube just after midnight on New Year's Day 2000, and emerges into New New York.
Q 03What was Fry's job in 1999 before he was frozen?
Pizza delivery boy
Pizza delivery boy was Fry's job in 1999; a prank order sent him to Applied Cryogenics on New Year's Eve, where he toppled into a freezing tube.
Q 04Where does Futurama take its name from?
A pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair
A pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair gave the show its name: General Motors' Futurama exhibit, designed by Norman Bel Geddes, imagined the world of 1960, and the pilot echoes the fair's 'world of tomorrow' slogan.
Q 05What is Bender originally programmed to do?
Bend girders
Bend girders is Bender's factory purpose; on learning his girders were used to build suicide booths he tries to kill himself in one, which is where Fry first meets him.
Q 06What does Bender need to drink to power his fuel cells?
Alcohol
Alcohol powers Bender's fuel cells, so when he sobers up he behaves like a drunk, with slurred speech and rusty five-o'clock shadow.
Q 07What is Bender's catchphrase insult?
Bite my shiny metal ass
'Bite my shiny metal ass' is Bender's trademark insult, first heard in the 1999 pilot 'Space Pilot 3000' and repeated throughout the series.
Q 08Why did Futurama's writers attach the number 1729 to Bender?
It is the taxicab number: the smallest sum of two cubes in two ways
It is the taxicab number: the smallest sum of two cubes in two ways (1³+12³ = 9³+10³), the Hardy–Ramanujan anecdote beloved of the show's mathematically trained writers; Bender's serial number 2716057 is also a sum of two cubes.
Q 09Who built Bender?
Mom's Friendly Robot Company
Mom's Friendly Robot Company, the robotics arm of MomCorp, built Bender and nearly every robot on Earth, which lets Mom trigger a robot uprising by remote control in 'Mother's Day'.
Q 10Who voices Bender?
John DiMaggio
John DiMaggio voices Bender, a voice he has described as a mix of a sloppy drunk, Slim Pickens and a character he did in college called Charlie the Sausage Lover.
Q 11Billy West voices Fry, Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan, plus which other main character?
Hubert Farnsworth
Hubert Farnsworth is also Billy West's: he voices Fry, Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan and the Professor, and built Fry's voice from an impression of himself at age 25.
Q 12Which cast member is the only one to voice a single character?
Katey Sagal
Katey Sagal voices only Leela, while every other regular cast member doubles as a roster of minor characters; Sagal had earlier starred as Peg Bundy in Married... with Children.
Q 13Leela turns out to be what, rather than the alien she assumed?
A sewer mutant
Q 21Zapp Brannigan was originally created for which actor, who died before the show aired?
Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman was to voice Zapp Brannigan but was killed in May 1998, before the show aired; Billy West took over the role, and Fry's first name, Philip, was chosen in Hartman's honour.
Q 22What is the name of Zapp Brannigan's starship?
Nimbus
Nimbus is Zapp's DOOP flagship, first seen in 'Love's Labours Lost in Space' when he jails Fry, Leela and Bender for violating Brannigan's Law; its hull number is BP-1729.
Q 23Kif Kroker, Zapp's long-suffering aide, comes from which planet?
Amphibios 9
Amphibios 9 is Kif's home planet; he returns there to give birth in 'Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch', and his skeleton-free body is held up by fluid-filled bladders.
A sewer mutant is what Leela really is, revealed in 'Leela's Homeworld' (2002): her parents Morris and Munda live in the sewers under New New York and left her at the Orphanarium so she could pass as an alien.
Q 14What was Leela's job when Fry first met her?
A cryogenics-lab career officer
A cryogenics-lab career officer, Leela implanted career chips at Applied Cryogenics and was about to give Fry his permanent one when she quit to join him; she then became captain of the Planet Express ship.
Q 15The Planet Express boss is Fry's distant relative in which direction?
His nephew and descendant
His nephew and descendant at once: the Professor descends from Fry's brother, and because Fry fathered his own father during a time-travel mishap, Fry is also the Professor's direct ancestor.
Q 16Which word completes the Professor's catchphrase, 'Good news, ...'?
everyone!
'Good news, everyone!' is Professor Farnsworth's catchphrase, used to unveil an invention or announce a delivery that is usually a suicide mission.
Q 17What is Zoidberg's home planet?
Decapod 10
Decapod 10 is the home planet of the Decapodians, Zoidberg's lobster-like species; Billy West performs the doctor with a Yiddish-inflected accent inspired by George Jessel and Lou Jacobi.
Q 18Where is Hermes Conrad from?
Jamaica
Jamaica is Hermes Conrad's homeland; Phil LaMarr says the bureaucrat was originally written as 'Dexter' with no accent, and LaMarr's Jamaican voice gave him his identity and his passion for limbo.
Q 19Why did Hermes give up competitive limbo?
A young fan imitating him broke his back and died
A young fan imitating him broke his back and died at the 2980 Olympics, so Hermes quit the sport; he returns to limbo in the episode 'Bend Her' during Bender's Olympic stunt as 'Coilette'.
Q 20Amy Wong is heiress to what?
The western hemisphere of Mars
The western hemisphere of Mars belongs to Amy's parents Leo and Inez Wong, who run a buggalo ranch there, the buggalo being a buffalo-sized bug; the family is shown in 'Where the Buggalo Roam'.
Q 24Which former US president's head serves as President of Earth?
Richard Nixon
His head is sometimes accompanied by Spiro Agnew's headless body.
Q 25Lrrr, who always introduces himself by his title, is ruler of which planet?
Omicron Persei 8
Omicron Persei 8 is ruled by Lrrr ('Lrrr, ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8!'); Maurice LaMarche won a 2011 Emmy for voicing him and Orson Welles's head in 'Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences'.
Q 26Fry is immune to the Brainspawn because his brain lacks what?
The Delta brainwave
The Delta brainwave is missing from Fry's brain because he is his own grandfather, which lets him stand unaffected in the Brainspawn's stupefying field and infiltrate their Infosphere in 'The Why of Fry'.
Q 27How does Fry become his own grandfather on the crew's accidental trip into the past?
He sleeps with his grandmother after deciding she can't be his grandmother
He sleeps with his grandmother after deciding she can't be his grandmother, having accidentally got his grandfather Enos killed despite the Professor's warning; the result is that Fry fathers his own father.
Q 28Which episode won Futurama's first Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program, in 2002?
Roswell That Ends Well
Roswell That Ends Well won the 2002 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program; a microwave-and-supernova accident throws the crew back to 1947, where they become the Roswell incident.
Q 29What was the name of Fry's dog, whose fossil he finds in 'Jurassic Bark'?
Seymour
Seymour, fully Seymour Asses, was the stray Fry befriended in the 1990s; the closing flashback of Seymour waiting years for Fry to return is routinely called one of animation's saddest scenes.
Q 30Where did Fry's dog faithfully wait for him after he vanished?
Outside Panucci's Pizza
Outside Panucci's Pizza, the shop where Fry worked, the dog waited twelve years for him, as the closing montage of 'Jurassic Bark' shows; the episode lost the 2003 Emmy to an episode of The Simpsons.