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40 free Phil Lester trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Phil Lester has been posting videos since 2006, which makes him one of the longest-running creators Britain has produced. As AmazingPhil he built an audience of millions on storytelling, surreal sketches and a talent for turning small mishaps into anecdotes. This quiz covers the whole story: his Lancashire childhood and student years, the odd jobs and screen appearances before fame, his voice roles and broadcasting work, the games and publications he has put his name to, and the stage shows he has taken around the world with Dan Howell. It is written for longtime viewers who want to test their memory, and for newer ones curious about how a vlogger with a toy camera ended up on tour. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Phil Lester filmed his first YouTube vlog in 2006 on a black-and-white camera he won from what?
A cereal box
A cereal box prize camera recorded the vlog he posted at age 19 in March 2006, which made him one of the first notable British YouTubers.
Q 02Phil Lester reached the final round of which British TV game show as a contestant in 2007?
The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link put him on national television a year after his first vlog, and a film role and an advert followed in 2008.
Q 03Phil Lester earned a Guinness World Record in 2011 for the fastest time at which fiddly task?
Stacking coins
Stacking coins won him the record when he piled 25 of them on top of each other in 31.617 seconds.
Q 04Phil Lester voiced a technician in the UK cinema release of which Disney animated film?
Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 gave him and Dan Howell cameos as Technician 1 and 2, but only on the big screen: the UK home release leaves them out.
Q 05In Disney Junior's The Lion Guard, Phil Lester voices a prince named Hafifu of which species?
Gorilla
Gorilla princes Hafifu and Majinuni, the second voiced by Dan Howell, turned up in a December 2016 episode called The Lost Gorillas.
Q 06In which English city did Phil Lester earn both his bachelor's and master's degrees?
York
York awarded him a BA in English Language and Linguistics in 2008 and a master's in video postproduction with visual effects a year later.
Q 07Which BBC station gave Phil Lester and Dan Howell a Sunday night request show in January 2013?
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 streamed the show live on video, with music videos made by the audience and physical challenges for the two hosts on air.
Q 08Which party board game, based on an icebreaker Phil Lester invented, went on sale in October 2017?
Truth Bombs
Truth Bombs was published by the games company Big Potato, two years after an app built on one of his video challenges.
Q 09Which relative of Phil Lester co-founded the merchandise company IRL Digital with him in 2014?
His brother
His brother Martyn, the older of the two, set up the firm with him and Dan Howell to sell merchandise for other media personalities.
Q 10What did Phil Lester and Dan Howell reveal in an October 2025 video, 16 years after first meeting?
They are a couple
They are a couple, and have been since 2009: the pair kept the relationship private for nearly 16 years while viewers speculated.
Q 11Before they met in person in October 2009, what was Dan Howell's connection to Phil Lester?
A fan of his videos
A fan of his videos first, Howell messaged Lester online and then posted his own first upload that same October.
Q 12Phil Lester came out publicly in a June 2019 video, but had been open in private life since when?
University
University was when he became open about being gay in his personal life, and his video followed one from Dan Howell earlier that month.
Q 13Phil Lester grew up in which Lancashire town at the centre of the Rossendale Valley?
Rawtenstall
Rawtenstall drew him back in 2021, when he returned to his hometown to film the YouTube original Hometown Showdown.
Q 21Dan and Phil Go Outside, published by Phil Lester and Dan Howell in late 2016, takes what form?
A photo book
A photo book of candid pictures and stories from their first tour, it went on to top an American bestseller list.
Q 22The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire, Phil Lester's first stage show, is named after which two things?
Two channel names
Two channel names, AmazingPhil and Dan Howell's then handle danisnotonfire, were fused for the tour and for the book released the day it opened.
Q 23Which West End theatre hosted the final UK shows of Phil Lester's first stage tour in November 2015?
London Palladium
Q 14Which high-street chain employed Phil Lester before fame, alongside dog walking and car washing?
WHSmith
WHSmith sat on a list of early jobs that also included assisting at a veterinary clinic and acting in a British comedy film.
Q 15Phil Lester played Tim in which 2008 British comedy film about a Viking battle re-enactor?
Faintheart
Faintheart starred Eddie Marsan as the hobbyist, and its making drew on input from the MySpace community.
Q 16Which price comparison site cast Phil Lester in a 2008 advert when he had about 27,000 subscribers?
Confused.com
Confused.com hired him while he was still a student, in the same year as his first film role.
Q 17Which Monday night BBC show did Phil Lester co-host once a month from autumn 2014 to spring 2016?
The Internet Takeover
The Internet Takeover gave its other Mondays to a rotation of vloggers, with Lester and Dan Howell live on the first Monday of each month.
Q 18Phil Lester and Dan Howell's BBC request show won which Sony Radio Academy prize in May 2013?
Golden Headphones Award
The Golden Headphones Award arrived only four months after the show first aired in January 2013.
Q 19Phil Lester co-hosted the worldwide YouTube livestream of which UK music ceremony from 2014 to 2016?
Brit Awards
Brit Awards duty also had him and Dan Howell filming backstage videos for their own channels.
Q 20Which YouTuber created Oscar's Hotel, the web series in which Phil Lester voiced a bacon strip?
PJ Liguori
PJ Liguori also directed the series, whose puppets came from Jim Henson's Creature Shop; Lester's rasher was called Rash.
London Palladium dates on 8 and 15 November closed a UK leg that had opened in Glasgow a month earlier.
Q 24Phil Lester and Dan Howell released their tour song as a charity single for which campaign?
Stand Up To Cancer
Stand Up To Cancer received all proceeds from The Internet Is Here, which the pair performed at the climax of the stage show and released as a single in October 2016.
Q 25Which Hollywood venue hosted the last US show of Phil Lester's first tour, later released as a film?
Dolby Theatre
The Dolby Theatre show of June 2016 became a YouTube Red original, the first content on that service from British creators.
Q 26Phil Lester's 2018 tour Interactive Introverts opened in Brighton and closed in which Indian city?
Mumbai
Mumbai ended a run of 80 shows in 18 countries, among them Poland, the Philippines, Russia and New Zealand.
Q 27In which Belgian city did Phil Lester and Dan Howell open their 2024 tour Terrible Influence?
Antwerp
Antwerp launched their first tour since the return of their gaming channel, and extra UK dates were added because of demand.
Q 28What is the name of the weekly podcast Phil Lester began hosting with Dan Howell in October 2025?
Hard Launch
Hard Launch arrived with the rebrand of their joint channel, formerly DanAndPhilGAMES, and its first episode premiered on 20 October 2025.
Q 29Up for a 2021 British LGBT Award, Phil Lester urged viewers to back which rival nominee instead?
Abigail Thorn
Abigail Thorn of Philosophy Tube had come out as transgender that January, and in the end both she and Lester lost to Jessica Kellgren-Fozard.
Q 30What is Phil Lester's second YouTube channel called, home of his occasional hour-long live shows?
LessAmazingPhil
LessAmazingPhil plays on the name of his main channel and has passed a million subscribers of its own.