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50 free Spring Break trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
38 free Spring break trivia questions with answers. Spring break is an American rite of passage, and this quiz traces where it came from and where it went. Thirty-eight questions cover the 1930s swim-team trip to Fort Lauderdale that started it all, the parade of hotspots from Fort Lauderdale to Daytona, Panama City Beach, South Padre Island and Cancún, the MTV Spring Break broadcasts, and the movies that built the myth, from 1960's Where the Boys Are to 2012's Spring Breakers. Easy questions ask which season and country the tradition belongs to; the hard ones want the college whose swim coach kicked it off, the year MTV first set up in Daytona, and which planned Mexican resort had just three residents in 1970. Great for a trivia night, a travel-themed round or a nostalgic group chat. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on spring break and its destinations, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Spring break is a cultural event most associated with which country?
The United States
It is a one-to-two-week academic vacation, usually in March or April.
Q 02Spring break usually falls in which months?
March or April
Its timing shifts with term dates and when Easter falls.
Q 03Spring break is most associated with travel to what kind of place?
Warm beaches
It grew out of mid-20th-century films and media coverage.
Q 04Which Florida city is where the spring break tradition began?
Fort Lauderdale
A visiting college swim team started coming there in the mid-1930s.
Q 05The tradition started when a swim coach from which university took his team south to train?
Colgate
They used a brand-new Olympic-size pool in the Florida sun.
Q 06The 1960 film about four college girls on a Florida spring break is called what?
Where the Boys Are
It is set in the town where the tradition began.
Q 07Which singer performed that film's title song and also acted in it?
Connie Francis
She played one of the four college friends.
Q 08That 1960 teen film was based on a novel by which author?
Glendon Swarthout
George Wells wrote the screenplay.
Q 09After the original hotspot's 1980s crackdown, which mayor invited students to his city on TV?
Larry Kelly
Beer and cigarette brands soon followed the crowds there.
Q 10MTV began its annual Spring Break coverage in which year?
1986
It set up in Daytona Beach for a week in March, broadcasting live.
Q 11MTV Spring Break first set up its live operations in which city?
Daytona Beach
It broadcast for about eight hours a day.
Q 12Starting in the late 1990s, which Florida town advertised heavily to lure the spring break crowds north?
Panama City Beach
From 2010 to 2016 it drew an estimated 300,000 students a year.
Q 13Roughly how many students travelled to that Panhandle town each year from 2010 to 2016?
300,000
Social media and digital marketing turned it into a student mecca.
Q 14After trouble in 2015, the town banned beach drinking and set bar closing at what time?
Q 21Which former Disney Channel star played one of the four girls in Spring Breakers?
Selena Gomez
James Franco and Gucci Mane also starred.
Q 22Which actor played the eccentric drug dealer 'Alien' in Spring Breakers?
James Franco
The girls meet him after being arrested in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Q 23Spring Breakers is set in which Florida city?
St. Petersburg
The four descend into a world of drugs, crime and violence there.
Q 24Spring break is scheduled around which religious holiday?
2 a.m.
The rules followed well-publicised shootings and a gang rape.
Q 15In the early 1980s, which Texas spot became the first big spring break destination outside Florida?
South Padre Island
With only a few thousand residents, it drew huge crowds.
Q 16That Texas island consistently drew how many spring breakers into the 2000s?
80,000 to 120,000
The town itself has only a few thousand permanent residents.
Q 17Which Mexican resort city became a huge international spring break destination?
Cancún
It sits on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Q 18Cancún is a planned resort city; how many residents did Isla Cancún have when development began in 1970?
Three
They were all caretakers of a coconut plantation.
Q 19Cancún lies on the coast of which Mexican peninsula?
The Yucatán
It is just north of the Riviera Maya resort strip.
Q 20The 2012 film Spring Breakers was written and directed by whom?
Harmony Korine
It follows four college girls who fall in with a drug dealer.
Easter
Many families hold Easter egg hunts during the week.
Q 25Which host city earned the nickname "The World's Most Famous" shoreline by the 1920s?
Daytona Beach
Motor vehicles are still allowed to drive on parts of its hard-packed sand.
Q 26That same city is famous for allowing what on its hard-packed sand?
Driving cars
The city is also the headquarters of NASCAR.
Q 27The city where spring break began is nicknamed the "Venice of" where, for its 165 miles of waterways?
America
Those canals wind all through the city.
Q 28That first non-Florida spring break island sits off the coast of which US state?
Texas
It sits on the Gulf coast near the Mexican border.
Q 29That Gulf resort sits on what kind of landform?
A barrier island
The Laguna Madre lies on its landward side and the Gulf on the other.
Q 30Cancún is the largest city in which Mexican state?
Quintana Roo
Its municipal seat is Benito Juárez.