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50 free Jackass trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Jackass began as a magazine stunt: Johnny Knoxville wanted to test self-defense gear on himself in homage to Hunter S. Thompson, and a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother talked him into filming it. Three short MTV seasons later it was a franchise with six films, two spin-off shows, a video game and an Academy Award nomination. These 50 questions cover the original 2000 series, the CKY crew, Viva La Bam and Wildboyz, the box-office records of Jackass 3D, the Bad Grandpa Oscar nod, Jackass Forever's new cast and the 2026 finale. Production facts, dates, budgets and people only. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play in sets of ten or print the whole list.
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Q 01Which channel aired the original Jackass TV series from 2000 to 2001?
MTV
MTV won a bidding war for the show. After the second episode aired, the channel posted its highest Sunday ratings ever among 12- to 34-year-olds.
Q 02Along with Jeff Tremaine and Knoxville, which filmmaker co-created Jackass?
Spike Jonze
Jonze, the director of Being John Malkovich, is credited as an executive producer and co-created the show with Tremaine and Knoxville.
Q 03How many seasons did the original Jackass series run on television?
Three
All three seasons fit between October 2000 and August 2001. Knoxville announced the end himself after growing frustrated with MTV's standards department.
Q 04Which skateboarding magazine first filmed Knoxville testing self-defense gear on himself?
Big Brother
Jeff Tremaine was an editor at Big Brother and convinced Knoxville to film the article as a stunt instead of writing it.
Q 05Knoxville's original self-defense article was a homage to which gonzo journalist?
Hunter S. Thompson
Every magazine he pitched refused the story on liability grounds, which is how it ended up on video instead of in print.
Q 06Bam Margera's home-video crew from Pennsylvania was known by what three-letter name?
CKY
The initials stand for Camp Kill Yourself, and the crew included Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Raab Himself and Bam's family.
Q 07Which Pennsylvania town is Bam Margera's hometown, where the CKY videos were shot?
West Chester
Bam's family home there later became the main set for Viva La Bam, with his parents April and Phil as recurring prank victims.
Q 08Which sketch show offered to make Knoxville a recurring segment before the MTV deal?
Saturday Night Live
Knoxville turned it down. A bidding war among Comedy Central, FX and MTV followed, and MTV offered a half-hour weekly show with more creative control.
Q 09What was Steve-O doing for a living when Tremaine first asked him to film stunts?
Working as a clown
He was a clown at a Florida flea market. None of his first stunts were cleared by MTV management because of their graphic nature.
Q 10Who was the last of the original cast members to join the show?
Preston Lacy
Knoxville first asked Lacy to write stunt ideas, then convinced him to perform them himself.
Q 11What is the name of the production company Tremaine, Knoxville and Jonze founded?
Dickhouse Productions
Dickhouse was a Viacom company at the time and produced every film in the franchise.
Q 12In what year did Jackass officially debut on MTV?
2000
The premiere was October 1, 2000. Jackass 3D was released on October 15, 2010, to mark the tenth anniversary.
Q 13Which U.S. senator wrote to Viacom in 2001 urging it to take responsibility for Jackass?
Joe Lieberman
Lieberman had been the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 2000. MTV responded by moving all airings past 10 p.m.
Q 21Which studio distributed Jackass: The Movie to theaters with MTV Films in October 2002?
Paramount Pictures
Paramount went on to release every Jackass film. The first one grossed $79.5 million worldwide despite mixed reviews.
Q 22Which piece of classical music plays over the giant-shopping-cart opening of Jackass: The Movie?
O Fortuna
The Carmina Burana chorus scores a Hollywood-parody intro in which the cast rides a giant cart downhill through explosions before crashing into a fruit stand.
Q 23Which veteran comedian closes out Jackass: The Movie, Number Two and 3D?
Rip Taylor
Q 14What was the name of Bam Margera's 2003 MTV spin-off show?
Viva La Bam
The show followed Bam and his family in West Chester and ran until 2005. Bam's Unholy Union later covered the run-up to his wedding.
Q 15Chris Pontius and Steve-O starred in which animal-themed MTV spin-off?
Wildboyz
Unlike the other shows it dropped pranks altogether and sent the pair around the world looking for exotic animals, directed by Jeff Tremaine.
Q 16Ryan Dunn's one-season MTV show, in which he renovated pranksters' rooms, was called what?
Homewrecker
Dunn avenged prank victims by remodeling the prankster's room to match the original incident. It lasted a single season.
Q 17Dr. Steve-O, the 2007 spin-off in which Steve-O helped men face fears, aired where?
USA Network
Dr. Steve-O's tagline was "Turning wussies into men." Each episode put three men through three challenges.
Q 18Bam's Bad Ass Game Show, which Bam Margera hosted in 2014, aired on which channel?
TBS
Contestants performed stunts against each other for a $10,000 grand prize, with Brandon Novak among the co-hosts.
Q 19Who was the first guest on Steve-O's podcast Wild Ride! in March 2020?
Tony Hawk
Hawk was a recurring Jackass guest going back to the Wildboyz days. Steve-O has since interviewed most of the cast on the show.
Q 20Roughly what was the production budget of Jackass: The Movie (2002)?
$5 million
It grossed more than $60 million in the United States alone and opened at number one at the box office.
Taylor, famous for his confetti, appeared before the credits of the first three films. He died in October 2019.
Q 24In what year was Jackass Number Two released in theaters?
2006
It premiered on September 22, 2006, and topped its opening weekend with $29.01 million.
Q 25Jackass Number Two grossed about $84.6M worldwide on what production budget?
$11.5 million
Shooting ran from January 30 to June 23, 2006, with locations including India, Australia, England, Moscow and Argentina.
Q 26Which actor-director played the taxi driver in the airport prank on Ehren in Jackass Number Two?
Jay Chandrasekhar
The Super Troopers director posed as an angry cabbie while the whole cast and crew were in on the prank against McGhehey.
Q 27Jackass Number Two ends with a musical number set to a song from which stage musical?
La Cage aux Folles
The cast sings "The Best of Times" in a Busby Berkeley-style production number while performing more stunts.
Q 28Bam Margera announced Jackass 2.5 in 2007 on whose radio program?
Howard Stern's
Jackass 2.5 compiled stunts that did not make Number Two and arrived on DVD on December 26, 2007.
Q 29The 2008 direct-to-DVD film Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute honored which stuntman?
Evel Knievel
Knievel had died on November 30, 2007, six months before the tribute was released.
Q 30Jackass 3D broke the record for the biggest fall opening, previously held by which film?
Scary Movie 3
It made an estimated $50 million in 3,081 theaters on its opening weekend, well above predictions of $30 million.