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50 free Las Vegas Strip trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Las Vegas Strip trivia quiz is all about the boulevard itself: the resorts, the signs, the attractions and the history of the 4.2-mile stretch that most visitors never realise sits outside the Las Vegas city limits. The easy questions cover the landmarks everyone photographs: the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, the Bellagio fountains, the Luxor pyramid, the half-scale Eiffel Tower and the giant Ferris wheel. From there it moves into the origins: the first resort on Highway 91 in 1941, the mobsters behind the Flamingo, the Los Angeles policeman who named the Strip after Sunset Strip, and why the casinos lobbied to become the town of Paradise. The harder end is for people who know their Vegas history: which resort was imploded to build the Venetian, the fire that killed 87 people at the original MGM Grand, the neon designer who never copyrighted her sign, Evel Knievel's crash at Caesars, the sportsbook that changed the industry at the Stardust, the Sinatra baccarat incident, and the numbers behind the Sphere. If you want the wider city, from Hoover Dam to Elvis to Fremont Street, try our Las Vegas trivia quiz too. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries on the Strip and its individual resorts before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question.
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Q 01Roughly how long is the Las Vegas Strip?
4.2 miles
In the strictest sense it runs from Sahara Avenue to the Welcome sign.
Q 02The Strip lies just outside the Las Vegas city limits in which two unincorporated towns?
Paradise and Winchester
Casino executives lobbied for town status in 1950 to stop the city annexing them for tax revenue.
Q 03As of 2019, roughly how many pedestrians walked the Strip on an average day?
About 50,000
Footbridges went up in the 1990s to keep them off the busiest intersections.
Q 04Which resort does Clark County consider the northern end of the Strip?
The Sahara
Travel guides usually extend it 0.4 miles further north to the Strat, which is inside city limits.
Q 05What was the first full-service casino resort on what became the Strip, opened in 1941?
El Rancho Vegas
It opened with 63 bungalow rooms and its success spawned the Last Frontier a year later.
Q 06What was Las Vegas Boulevard South previously called?
Highway 91
It was also known as the Arrowhead Highway or the Los Angeles Highway.
Q 07Guy McAfee named the boulevard's casino row after which street in his hometown of Los Angeles?
Sunset Strip
McAfee was a Los Angeles police officer turned businessman.
Q 08Which mobster financed the completion of the Flamingo with mob money?
Bugsy Siegel
He took over the $1 million project and drove the final cost to $6 million.
Q 09Who originally proposed the Flamingo before the mob took it over?
Billy Wilkerson
He founded The Hollywood Reporter and bought the land in 1945.
Q 10What distinction does the Flamingo hold among Strip resorts?
Oldest continuously operating resort
It was the third resort to open on the Strip; its casino opened on 26 December 1946.
Q 11Which musical duo held an 11-year residency at the Flamingo that ended in 2019?
Donny and Marie Osmond
The resort also keeps live flamingos in a wildlife habitat by its 15-acre pool area.
Q 12In what year was the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign erected?
1959
It was built for $4,000 by Western Neon.
Q 13Who designed the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign?
Betty Willis
She never copyrighted it, saying it would not have been used as much if she had.
Q 14What message is written on the north-facing side of the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign?
Q 21The Colosseum at Caesars Palace was specially built for which singer's 2003 show?
Celine Dion
Her show A New Day... ran on a 22,450-square-foot stage in the 4,296-seat theatre.
Q 22How many seats does the Sphere have?
17,600
Total capacity is 20,000, and the wraparound interior screen is 16K resolution.
Q 23Kerkorian's International Hotel, opened in 1969 with 1,512 rooms, was renamed what in 2014?
Westgate Las Vegas
It is credited with beginning the era of the mega-resort; it was the Las Vegas Hilton from 1971 to 2012 before the 2014 rename.
Drive Carefully, Come Back Soon
The white circles across the top represent silver dollars, a nod to the Silver State.
Q 15The design of the Welcome sign is characteristic of which architectural movement?
Googie
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Q 16With about 191,000 residents, where does Paradise rank among US census-designated places by population?
Fifth
If it were incorporated it would be the fifth-largest city in Nevada.
Q 17Which Flamingo executive led the casino owners' campaign for town status in 1950?
Gus Greenbaum
Mayor Ernie Cragin had wanted to annex the Strip to fund his building agenda.
Q 18Caesars Palace opened in 1966 with which billionaire as its landlord?
Kirk Kerkorian
Jay Sarno and Stanley Mallin created it to evoke life in the Roman Empire.
Q 19Which stunt performer crashed jumping the Caesars Palace fountains on 31 December 1967?
Evel Knievel
He flew over his handlebars into the Dunes parking lot and fractured his pelvis.
Q 20Which game was Frank Sinatra playing at Caesars in 1970 when an executive pulled a gun on him?
Baccarat
He wanted to bet beyond the $8,000 he was already playing per hand and stormed out when refused.
Q 24How many people died in the 1980 fire at the original MGM Grand in Las Vegas?
87
The hotel reopened eight months later and was later renamed Bally's.
Q 25Which resort's 1989 opening is regarded as the start of the mega-resort era?
The Mirage
It cost $630 million, then a world record, and featured a volcano that erupted nightly.
Q 26Which magic duo performed at Steve Wynn's volcano-fronted resort for nearly 14 years from 1990?
Siegfried and Roy
The same resort hosted Cirque du Soleil's first Las Vegas show, Nouvelle Expérience, in 1992.
Q 27When the volcano-fronted resort closed in July 2024, what name was it slated to reopen under?
Hard Rock Las Vegas
Hard Rock International became the first tribal gaming operator on the Strip when it took over the Mirage.
Q 28Which Cirque du Soleil show, launched at Treasure Island in 1993, is the company's longest-running?
Mystère
Treasure Island's lagoon staged free pirate battles daily for two decades.
Q 29How much did the Bellagio cost to build, making it the world's most expensive resort in 1998?
$1.6 billion
It replaced the Dunes and was originally planned as a French-themed resort called Beau Rivage.
Q 30The Bellagio is themed after a village on the shores of which lake?
Como
Steve Wynn switched from a French theme to the Italian village in 1995.