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50 free Movember & Moustache trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Movember started with 30 men in Melbourne growing moustaches for 30 days in 2004 and has since raised hundreds of millions for prostate cancer, testicular cancer and men's mental health. This quiz is built for Movember fundraisers, office quiz nights and anyone sporting a mo for the month. It covers the charity itself: the founders, the Mo Bros, the Moscars, the countries it spread to, the Qantas plane and the moustache on the Cerne Abbas Giant. It also covers the men's health facts behind it, and then the moustache in all its glory: the handlebar, the walrus, the toothbrush and the pencil, the world's longest mo, the Handlebar Club, the beard tax of Peter the Great and the British Army rule that made moustaches compulsory until 1916. Easy questions ask what the 'Mo' in Movember stands for and which comedian made the toothbrush moustache famous. Harder ones dig into which Air Force ace inspired Mustache March, who founded Beyond Blue, and how a $300 prize gave baseball its most famous handlebar. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on Movember, the moustache and the health topics involved, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01The word Movember is a portmanteau of November and 'mo', an Australian slang word for what?
Moustache
The charity's stated goal is to 'change the face of men's health', and it calls its participants Mo Bros.
Q 02Which three men's health issues does Movember focus on?
Prostate cancer, testicular cancer and suicide prevention
A 2012 BMJ paper argued the campaign overemphasised screening while pressing 'more pressing concerns' like alcohol and obesity into near silence.
Q 03In which Australian city did the group that became the Movember Foundation hold its first event in 2004?
Melbourne
Thirty men grew moustaches for 30 days; the next year nearly 500 people raised over $40,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.
Q 04An unrelated group coined 'Movember' in 1999 in which city, raising money for the RSPCA?
Adelaide
They called their campaign 'Growing whiskers for whiskers' and started with 80 men before it spread nationwide.
Q 05How many men took part in the first Movember Foundation event in 2004?
30
Adam Garone, Travis Garone, Luke Slattery and Justin Coughlin recruited 26 friends who wanted to 'bring back' the moustache.
Q 06As of 2011, which country's participants were the largest contributors to Movember of any nation?
Canada
Movember reached North America in 2006 and gained official US charity status in 2009.
Q 07What are the Moscars?
A user-submitted Movember video contest
Stan Lee served as head judge in 2012 and gave the prize to a South African parody of 'Call Me Maybe'.
Q 08Which airline painted a moustache and 'Movember.com' onto one of its planes in 2011?
Qantas
The same year the world's largest sandcastle mo was built on Bondi Beach.
Q 09Which Parks and Recreation star's 2012 Movember video was one of the year's most watched?
Nick Offerman
It drew 1.9 million views, and he made more sketches for the 2013 campaign.
Q 10In 2013 the National Trust allowed a huge grass moustache to be added to which English chalk hill figure?
The Cerne Abbas Giant
The designer said it was 12 m wide, though the Trust and the BBC reported a more modest 36 feet.
Q 11Which snack brand turned its moustachioed mascot into a QR code for Movember 2023?
Pringles
Royal Mail has stamped British post with a special moustache postmark every November since 2012.
Q 12Which men's testicular cancer campaign merged with Movember in 2010?
Tacheback
Decembeard, launched in 2015, promotes bowel cancer awareness instead.
Q 13US Air Force members grow moustaches each March in honour of which triple-ace fighter pilot?
Robin Olds
His extravagantly waxed curl broke Air Force regulations, and anyone who starts growing in February is disqualified.
Q 21A moustache appears on a statue of which ancient Egyptian prince from around 2550 BC?
Rahotep
A Scythian horseman from 300 BC is another early portrait of a shaved man with a moustache.
Q 22Until which year were moustaches a compulsory part of the British Army uniform?
1916
Soldiers still wore them often in the Falklands campaign decades later.
Q 23How long is the world's longest moustache, grown by Ram Singh Chauhan of India?
4.29 metres
It was measured on an Italian TV show in Rome in March 2010.
Q 24Which moustache style is bushy with small upward-pointing, waxed ends?
Q 14Which former Victorian premier founded the depression charity Beyond Blue in 2000?
Jeff Kennett
It began as a five-year government initiative and today gets around 70 percent of its funding from governments.
Q 15Roughly what size is a healthy adult prostate gland?
A walnut
It sits below the bladder, surrounds the urethra and weighs about 11 grams.
Q 16What is the average age at which prostate cancer is diagnosed?
67
About 1.2 million cases are diagnosed each year, and inheriting certain BRCA2 variants raises the risk.
Q 17What does the PSA blood test used in men's cancer screening measure?
Prostate-specific antigen
A high level raises the risk, but diagnosis requires a biopsy and a Gleason score.
Q 18Testicular cancer most commonly strikes men in which age range?
20 to 34
Germ cell tumours are the most common cancer in men aged 15 to 35, but the five-year survival rate in the US is about 95 percent.
Q 19Even when testicular cancer has spread widely, chemotherapy offers a cure rate greater than what?
80%
More than 95 percent of cases are germ cell tumours, and outcomes are better still when the disease is localised.
Q 20The English word 'moustache' ultimately derives from a Hellenistic Greek word meaning what?
Upper lip
Mustax passed through Medieval Greek and Latin into Italian mustacchio before French handed it to English.
Handlebar
Wild West figures like Wyatt Earp wore it, and left unwaxed it starts to droop.
Q 25Which moustache style, shaved to about an inch in the centre, was made famous by Chaplin and Oliver Hardy?
Toothbrush
Its association with Hitler made it extremely unpopular for nearly a century afterwards.
Q 26Mark Twain, Nietzsche and Sam Elliott are all associated with which drooping moustache style?
Walrus
In Germany the style is most associated with Otto von Bismarck; Theodore Roosevelt wore one too.
Q 27Tom Selleck, Freddie Mercury and Richard Petty all wore which style, popular in 1970s and 80s America?
Chevron
It covers the area between nose and upper lip out to the lip's edges but no further; on Magnum, P.I. it came with an aloha shirt and a Ferrari.
Q 28Which thin, closely clipped style, popular in the 1940s, is particularly associated with Clark Gable?
Pencil
Errol Flynn, Vincent Price, Little Richard and Prince also wore it, and Jimmy Buffett wrote a song about it in 1974.
Q 29Hulk Hogan and Joe Exotic are known for which lip-corner-to-jawline moustache style?
Horseshoe
Also called the biker moustache, it is often confused with the curled-end style.
Q 30The Fu Manchu moustache takes its name from a villain created by which author?
Sax Rohmer
Oddly, the literary Fu Manchu had no moustache at all; it first appeared in a 1929 British film serial.