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50 free Mike Judge trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Mike Judge is the physics graduate who hated a Silicon Valley startup so much he quit to play blues bass, bought a 16 mm camera and drew Frog Baseball at his kitchen table. MTV turned it into Beavis and Butt-Head; Fox paired him with Greg Daniels for King of the Hill; and his shorts about an office drone named Milton became Office Space, the box-office flop that sold a million red staplers. These 50 questions cover the whole run: Highland and Arlen, Hank Hill's propane, Daria, the Cher single, Initech and Chotchkie's flair, Brawndo and President Camacho, Pied Piper versus Hooli, The Goode Family, Tales from the Tour Bus and the Hulu revival of King of the Hill. There are career oddities too: the Stepford Wives quote, the Kenny McCormick cameo, the Spy Kids villain and the animation festival he toured with Don Hertzfeldt. Easy questions stick to propane, Pied Piper and Do America; the expert tier asks about Bandera Entertainment, the Texas licence plates and which episodes he called awful. Every answer is cited to a page we checked.
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Q 01In which country was he born?
Ecuador
His archaeologist father was working on agricultural development in Guayaquil at the time.
Q 02In which American city was he raised from age three?
Albuquerque, New Mexico
He spent part of his youth working on a chicken farm there.
Q 03What subject did he study for his degree at UC San Diego?
Physics
He graduated in 1985 and soon grew bored with a science career.
Q 04He quit a Santa Clara video-card startup after less than three months, comparing colleagues to what?
Stepford Wives
Parallax Graphics had about 40 employees; the experience fed his later satire.
Q 05Which instrument did he play in a touring blues band after leaving tech?
Bass
He spent two years in Anson Funderburgh's band and later played with Doyle Bramhall.
Q 06What did he buy in 1989 to start making animated shorts at home?
A Bolex 16 mm film camera
He taught himself to draw and animate at home in Richardson, Texas.
Q 07Which 1992 short introduced Beavis and Butt-Head?
Frog Baseball
MTV bought it for its Liquid Television showcase and then commissioned a series.
Q 08On which MTV animation showcase did his early shorts air?
Liquid Television
The show also launched Æon Flux.
Q 09In which fictional Texas town do Beavis and Butt-Head live?
Highland
Judge originally imagined them in New Mexico until a background artist put Texas on licence plates.
Q 10Why did Beavis and Butt-Head end up living in the Lone Star State instead of New Mexico?
A background artist drew Texas licence plates
The artist did it without Judge's knowledge, and he went along with it.
Q 11Which spin-off of Beavis and Butt-Head did Judge have no involvement in?
Daria
It ran for five seasons from 1997 to 2002.
Q 12Which band's song is the Beavis and Butt-Head theme descended from?
AC/DC
Judge composed the theme himself.
Q 13Where do Beavis and Butt-Head work?
Burger World
Judge has said the pair are 'probably' 15 years old.
Q 14Which Beavis and Butt-Head episodes did Judge himself call 'awful'?
Q 21What does Hank Hill sell for a living?
Propane
His boss Buck Strickland runs Strickland Propane.
Q 22How many seasons did King of the Hill originally run on Fox?
13
It briefly out-rated The Simpsons in the 1997–98 season.
Q 23Which Seth MacFarlane spin-off took over King of the Hill's Fox time slot in 2009?
The Cleveland Show
Judge later voiced Hank in cameos on that very show.
Q 24Which streaming service revived King of the Hill in 2025?
The first two
He singled out Blood Drive/Give Blood and Door to Door.
Q 15Which singer joined Beavis and Butt-Head on a 1993 cover of 'I Got You Babe'?
Cher
The single came the year the series launched.
Q 16What is the title of the duo's 1996 feature film?
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
A second film, Do the Universe, arrived in 2022.
Q 17Which streaming service launched the 2022 Beavis and Butt-Head revival?
Paramount+
Executives had wanted a live-action movie first; Judge auditioned actors over Zoom before talking them out of it.
Q 18Which former Simpsons writer did Fox pair him with to develop King of the Hill?
Greg Daniels
Daniels later created the American version of The Office.
Q 19Which two Arlen characters does he voice himself?
Hank Hill and Boomhauer
Dale Gribble is voiced by Johnny Hardwick, Bill by Stephen Root.
Q 20Which Dallas suburb did Judge say Arlen was most specifically based on?
Richardson
He had lived in Garland too, and made his early shorts at home in Richardson.
Hulu
Fox passed because it wanted full ownership of any new show.
Q 25What is the name of the animation company Judge and Daniels formed in 2022?
Bandera Entertainment
Its first produced show was Praise Petey for Freeform and Hulu.
Q 26His animated shorts about a mumbling drone named Milton grew into which 1999 film?
Office Space
The Milton shorts ran on Liquid Television and later Saturday Night Live.
Q 27Which temp job helped inspire the Milton shorts?
Alphabetising purchase orders
He combined it with three miserable months as an engineer in Silicon Valley.
Q 28Which fictional software company employs Peter Gibbons and Milton?
Initech
Initrode is the rival firm Samir and Michael join at the end.
Q 29Which stapler company added a red model to its range because of Milton's stapler?
Swingline
Milton's red stapler had been hand-painted for the film.
Q 30Who played the frustrated programmer Peter Gibbons?
Ron Livingston
Fox had pushed Judge to pursue the Good Will Hunting stars instead.