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50 free Monaco Grand Prix trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Monaco Grand Prix has been run through the same streets since 1929, when Antony Noghès invented it to get his automobile club recognised and 'Williams' won in a Bugatti. This quiz covers the whole story: Louis Chiron's home win in 1931, Fangio's first championship victory in 1950, Alberto Ascari swimming out of the harbour in 1955, Graham Hill's five wins that made him 'Mr. Monaco', the Armco arriving in 1969, the four-leaders-in-two-laps finish of 1982, the race stopped in the rain in 1984 with Senna and Bellof closing on Prost, Senna's six wins and his walk home in 1988, Panis's only victory in 1996, Schumacher parking at Rascasse and Charles Leclerc finally winning at home in 2024. It also covers the circuit itself: the 3.337 km lap, the tunnel, the Fairmont hairpin, the Swimming Pool and Nouvelle Chicane, the six weeks it takes to build the track, the podium in the royal box, the shortened race distance and the Triple Crown that only Graham Hill has completed. If you want the whole sport, our Formula 1 quiz covers the championship, and our Monaco quiz covers the principality itself. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who watches in May, a third are medium and the rest are for people who know who won in 1972. Every answer is checked against the race and circuit reference pages, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01In which year was the first Monaco Grand Prix held?
1929
It was an invitation-only race run on 14 April; the leading Maserati and Alfa Romeo drivers stayed away.
Q 02Who organised the first race in 1929 through the Automobile Club de Monaco?
Antony Noghès
He needed a race wholly inside Monaco to win the club full national status; he is also credited with proposing the chequered flag to end races.
Q 03The 1929 winner raced under a one-word pseudonym. What was his real name?
William Grover-Williams
He drove a works Bugatti Type 35B; Caracciola came from fifteenth to second in a 7-litre Mercedes SSK despite losing four and a half minutes in the pits.
Q 04Which Monégasque driver won the 1931 race and remained the only home winner for 93 years?
Louis Chiron
He missed the first race because he was committed to the Indianapolis 500; the Bugatti Chiron hypercar is named after him.
Q 05The 1933 Monaco Grand Prix was the first Grand Prix to set the grid by what method?
Practice times
Varzi and Nuvolari swapped the lead many times until Nuvolari's car caught fire on the last lap.
Q 06The stormy 1936 race was won by which driver, living up to his nickname 'Regenmeister'?
Rudolf Caracciola
A broken oil line caused a series of crashes that took out three Mercedes and Rosemeyer's Auto Union.
Q 07Who took his first World Championship win at Monaco in 1950, the race's first year in the championship?
Juan Manuel Fangio
Louis Chiron, aged 51, finished third; the race was not held again in the championship until 1955.
Q 08Which driver crashed into the harbour while leading in 1955 and had to swim to safety?
Alberto Ascari
He misjudged the chicane out of the tunnel in his Lancia; four days later he was killed testing at Monza.
Q 09Who inherited the lead in 1955 to win in a Ferrari thought to be uncompetitive?
Maurice Trintignant
He started ninth and won again in 1958 in a Cooper; the same race saw Louis Chiron start at 55, still the oldest F1 starter.
Q 10In 1961 Stirling Moss held off three works Ferraris to win in what car?
A year-old Lotus 18
It was his third Monaco win, for Rob Walker's private team.
Q 11'Mr. Monaco' Graham Hill won the race five times in the 1960s. In which year was the first?
1963
He won the next two years as well, then 1968 and 1969, the last being his final championship victory.
Q 12In 1965 Graham Hill won despite going up an escape road on lap 25 to avoid what?
A slow backmarker
He rejoined fifth and set several lap records; the same race Paul Hawkins put his Lotus in the harbour.
Q 13Graham Hill is the only driver to complete the Triple Crown of Motorsport. Which race did he win last, in 1972?
The 24 Hours of Le Mans
He had won Indy in 1966 and Monaco five times; Fernando Alonso and Juan Pablo Montoya each have two of the three.
Q 21Senna's 1987 win was the first Grand Prix victory for a car with what technology?
Active suspension
He won in a Lotus after Nigel Mansell's Williams retired with a broken exhaust, and was arrested the next day for riding a motorcycle without a helmet.
Q 22In 1988 Senna crashed out of a big lead at which corner and went home to his flat instead of the pits?
Portier
Prost had just set a lap six seconds faster; Senna responded with two fastest laps before touching the barrier and was not heard from until evening.
Q 23How many times did Ayrton Senna win the Monaco Grand Prix, the record?
Six
Five of them came consecutively from 1989 to 1993, and he stood on the podium in eight of ten starts.
Q 14Armco barriers were first placed at specific points on the Monaco circuit for which year's race?
1969
Before that a driver who went off could hit buildings, trees, lamp posts, a train station or the sea; by 1972 the track was almost fully lined.
Q 15The double chicane added in 1973 wraps around which new facility, giving the section its name?
The Rainier III Nautical Stadium
The pits had already moved to the waterfront in 1972, the first change to the layout in the circuit's history.
Q 16Who won the 1982 race after bump-starting his stalled car amid repeated late lead changes?
Riccardo Patrese
Prost crashed with four laps left, Patrese spun, Pironi ran out of fuel in the tunnel and de Cesaris ran dry before he could pass.
Q 17What was clerk of the course Jacky Ickx punished with for stopping the rain-hit 1984 Monaco Grand Prix?
A fine and licence suspension
He had not consulted the stewards; only half points were awarded because two-thirds of the distance had not been run.
Q 18Senna's 1984 charge through the rain came in a car from which team?
Toleman
It was his debut season; Bellof's Tyrrell was the only naturally aspirated car in the race and was catching them both.
Q 19For which reason did FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre try to drop Monaco from the 1985 championship?
The club sold its own US TV rights to ABC
The Automobile Club de Monaco fought the case in the French courts and won.
Q 20The Nouvelle Chicane was added in 1986 by doing what?
Expanding into the harbour water
It remains almost the only place where the circuit has been widened as F1 cars have grown.
Q 24In 1992 Nigel Mansell lost a certain win with seven laps to go because of what?
A loose wheel nut
On fresh tyres he closed from 5.2 to 1.9 seconds in two laps but could not pass Senna, finishing two-tenths behind.
Q 25Who said after Senna's record sixth Monaco win in 1993 that his late father would be first to congratulate him?
Damon Hill
He had finished second; Senna had qualified only third behind Prost and Michael Schumacher.
Q 26Which driver went into a coma after crashing his Sauber in the tunnel at the 1994 event?
Karl Wendlinger
He missed the rest of the season; Michael Schumacher won the race and again in 1995.
Q 27Who won the 1996 race from 14th on the grid, his only F1 victory and Ligier's last?
Olivier Panis
Schumacher crashed on lap one, Damon Hill's engine blew in the tunnel and Alesi's suspension failed; only three cars were running at the end.
Q 28How many cars crossed the finish line in the 1996 race?
Three
Seven were classified; David Coulthard pushed Panis all the way.
Q 29Michael Schumacher was sent to the back of the 2006 grid for stopping his car where during qualifying?
The Rascasse hairpin
He was provisionally on pole; the FIA rejected his claim of a genuine car failure.
Q 30How many Monaco wins did Michael Schumacher end with, matching Graham Hill?
Five
The first two came in 1994 and 1995 for Benetton.