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50 free Hot Ones trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Hot Ones is the show with hot questions and even hotter wings: ten wings, ten sauces, one celebrity slowly losing composure while Sean Evans asks the best-researched questions on the internet. These Hot Ones trivia questions cover the format, the sauce lineup, the spin-offs, the parodies, the buyout and the pepper science behind the burn. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01How many wings does each guest eat in a standard Hot Ones episode?
10
Vegetarian and vegan guests get a plant-based substitute, and a few specials cut the run to five.
Q 02Which YouTube channel produces Hot Ones?
First We Feast
The channel started in 2012 as a food blog spun out of Complex magazine and launched on YouTube in 2014.
Q 03Who co-created the show with host Sean Evans?
Chris Schonberger
He was a former Time Out New York food editor who founded the channel that produces the show.
Q 04Which sauce has sat in spot 8 of the lineup since Season 2?
Da' Bomb Beyond Insanity
Guests routinely single it out as the nastiest sauce on the board, and it is where most meltdowns begin.
Q 05What is the name of the final sauce on every episode?
The Last Dab
It has gone through Reduxx, XXX, Apollo and Xperience versions over the years.
Q 06Where are guests who fail to finish all ten wings placed?
Hall of Shame
Quitting is rare enough that the list is a badge of infamy, and Evans reads it out when a new name joins.
Q 07Since Season 17, what is the show's list of guests who quit called?
Wall-Most Made It
The pun replaced the older, harsher name as the show softened its treatment of guests who tap out.
Q 08Which self-produced sauce sits in spot 1 each season?
The Classic
It is the mild opener that eases guests in before the lineup turns hostile.
Q 09Which house sauce appears in spot 4 or 5 of the lineup?
Los Calientes
It is the mid-table house sauce guests most often praise for flavour rather than heat.
Q 10In what year did Sean Evans begin hosting Hot Ones?
2015
Early seasons leaned on rappers and athletes before A-list actors started lining up.
Q 11Which cable network aired Hot Ones: The Game Show in 2020?
truTV
It premiered on February 18, 2020 and ended that September after a single season.
Q 12How much could teams win on Hot Ones: The Game Show?
$25,000
Two teams answered trivia while eating wings cooked in hotter and hotter sauces.
Q 13What were Game Show winners allowed to drink?
Ice-cold milkshakes
After ten rounds of escalating wings, dairy was the real prize.
Q 14Which spin-off makes guests choose between confessing and eating the hottest sauce?
Q 21In 2024, an investor group bought the show from BuzzFeed for how much?
$82.5 million
The buyers included Evans himself, the show's co-creator and George Soros.
Q 22Which production company, run by the duo Rhett & Link, joined the 2024 buyout?
Mythical Entertainment
The same company runs Good Mythical Morning and the Mythical Kitchen channel.
Q 23Which podcast company joined the group that bought the show in 2024?
Crooked Media
The Pod Save America network was an unexpected partner for a chicken-wing interview show.
Truth or Dab
Guests either answer an awkward question honestly or eat a dab of the show's hottest sauce.
Q 15Which spin-off launched on YouTube on January 31, 2024?
Hot Ones Versus
Pairs of guests grill each other and play games, with the loser of each round eating the final sauce.
Q 16Who impersonated Sean Evans in a 2021 Saturday Night Live sketch?
Mikey Day
The sketch was popular enough that it was reprised in May 2024.
Q 17Maya Rudolph played which pop star in the SNL Hot Ones parody?
Beyoncé
The star's serene image collapses wing by wing in the sketch, which became one of the season's most shared clips.
Q 18Which 2025 film featured Evans interviewing the character Frank Manatee?
Happy Gilmore 2
Manatee uses the interview to plug his golf venture, the 'Maxi Golf League'.
Q 19Who played Frank Manatee, the fictional guest in the 2025 film cameo?
Benny Safdie
Safdie is better known as a director, half of the duo behind Uncut Gems and Good Time.
Q 20Which Alexa Chung interview show is cited as the inspiration for Hot Ones?
Popworld
The British music show was known for deadpan, slightly rude celebrity interviews in the 2000s.
Q 24Whose Season 4 episode was removed in 2017, the only one ever pulled?
Mario Batali
It was the nineteenth episode of the season; as of 2025 it remains the sole removal.
Q 25Which Australian streaming platform added a linear Hot Ones channel in 2025?
7plus
The free service launched the always-on channel in February 2025.
Q 26Which French broadcaster bought the rights to adapt the show in 2022?
Canal+
Studio Bagel co-produced the French version, which kept the original name.
Q 27Hot Ones Italia is broadcast on which streaming service?
RaiPlay
A Québec version launched the same year on Vidéotron.
Q 28Which delivery app is the main sponsor of Hot Ones Germany?
Uber Eats
The German edition launched in 2025, the fourth international adaptation after France, Italy and Québec.
Q 29What Scoville rating is quoted for the show's final sauce?
2,000,000+
Guests are urged to add one more tiny dab of it to the last wing, a tradition most follow even while suffering.
Q 30Sriracha, often the opening sauce, has roughly what Scoville rating?
2,200
That is milder than a typical jalapeño, gentle enough to let the interview start calmly.