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49 free Tiger King trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Tiger King arrived on Netflix in March 2020, the same week the world locked down, and 34 million people watched it in ten days. It had everything: a mulleted zookeeper with a country-music side hustle, a rival who opened her videos with 'Hey all you cool cats and kittens', a missing husband, a mysterious fire, a presidential campaign with 962 votes and, finally, a murder-for-hire conviction. These 49 questions cover the whole saga and its aftermath: the G.W. Zoo's ligers and tigons, the Steve Irwin Memorial, the $1 million trademark judgment, the 22-year sentence and the appeal that trimmed it, Jeff Lowe's doomed Thackerville park, Doc Antle's own federal case, Joe vs. Carole on Peacock, the TikTok musical and what sits on the zoo site today. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo, or print it for a watch-party round.
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Q 01On which streaming service did Tiger King premiere in March 2020?
Netflix
Netflix released the series on March 20, 2020, just as much of the world went into lockdown, and viewers stuck at home made it one of the service's biggest originals.
Q 02What was the full subtitle of Tiger King's first season?
Murder, Mayhem, and Madness
Murder, Mayhem and Madness subtitled the first season; when the plainer Tiger King 2 followed, the Rotten Tomatoes critics' consensus ran: 'this kitty has no claws'.
Q 03In which Oklahoma town did Joe Exotic run his roadside zoo?
Wynnewood
Wynnewood, an hour north of the Texas line, was home to the zoo for two decades, and Joe's face adorned signs all along I-35 between Dallas and Oklahoma City.
Q 04Carole Baskin's sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue, was based in which Florida city?
Tampa
Tampa was home to the sanctuary for three decades, until its last cats were moved out of state and the land was sold for housing in December 2024.
Q 05How long was the federal prison sentence Joe Exotic received in January 2020?
22 years
22 years was the original term; after an appeals court ordered a new sentencing, a judge cut it by just one year in January 2022.
Q 06Nielsen found Tiger King's first ten days outdrew the second season of which sci-fi hit?
Stranger Things
Stranger Things 2 drew 31.2 million viewers in its first ten days; Tiger King beat that with 34.3 million but fell short of the third season's 36.3 million.
Q 07Who hosted the aftershow special The Tiger King and I?
Joel McHale
Joel McHale drew one startling claim from Joe Exotic's former TV producer: that the self-styled Tiger King was in fact terrified of tigers.
Q 08Before opening his zoo, Joe Exotic ran what kind of business in Arlington, Texas?
A pet store
A pet store in Arlington came years before the tigers: he sold it in the late 1990s and moved to Oklahoma to build his animal park.
Q 09Truckloads of expired meat from which retailer fed the big cats at Joe Exotic's zoo?
Walmart
Walmart agreed to donate its expired meat after Joe persuaded the local store, and the series shows that the same truckloads were often all his staff had to eat.
Q 10Which G.W. Zoo employee is remembered with a tribute at the end of Tiger King 2?
Erik Cowie
Erik Cowie looked after the big cats and at first stood by Joe after the arrest, then testified against him at trial; he died about two months before the second season aired.
Q 11Which rapper tweeted in March 2020 that she was about to start a GoFundMe to free Joe Exotic?
Cardi B
Cardi B binge-watched the series, took Joe's side against his rival and tweeted: 'Bout to start a gofundme account for Joe. He shall be free.'
Q 12Which US president was asked at a COVID-19 press conference about pardoning Joe Exotic?
Donald Trump
Donald Trump said he knew nothing about the case but would take a look; no pardon came, though Exotic's team had a limousine standing by on his last day in office.
Q 13Which earlier documentary did critics compare Tiger King to for lacking a conservation message?
Blackfish
Blackfish spurred a backlash against SeaWorld, and the directors pitched their series to Baskin as its big-cat version; that film's own producer said it was nothing of the kind.
Q 21At just 19, Joe Exotic held which job in a tiny Texas town?
Police chief
Police chief of Eastvale was his title at nineteen, though the department was tiny: only a few officers worked under him and serious crime was rare.
Q 22The G.W. Zoo was named in memory of whom?
Joe Exotic's brother
Joe Exotic's brother Garold Wayne died in a 1997 road accident, and the park opened two years later as the animal haven Joe thought he would have loved.
Q 23Joe Exotic's zoo took in alligators that had belonged to which late pop star?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was the alligators' first home; the zoo took them in as rescues when their keepers could no longer care for them.
Q 14Which actor was cast to play Joe Exotic in a series later shelved by Amazon?
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage said he read two excellent scripts, but Amazon decided the material had become past tense because the show took so long to come together.
Q 15Which British filmmaker released Shooting Joe Exotic on BBC Two in 2021?
Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux had first met Exotic a decade earlier while filming America's Most Dangerous Pets, and the 2021 film drew on unseen footage from that visit.
Q 16On which platform did Tiger Queens: The Tiger King Musical debut in 2021?
TikTok
TikTok hosted the short musical, in which drag stars Kim Chi, Willam and Heidi N Closet played Carole Baskin, Joe Exotic and a tiger.
Q 17Which Saturday Night Live star played Carole Baskin in Peacock's Joe vs. Carole?
Kate McKinnon
Kate McKinnon signed on to play Baskin in November 2019, months before the documentary appeared, because the drama grew out of a podcast about Joe Exotic.
Q 18Which federal wildlife law, along with the Endangered Species Act, did Joe Exotic violate?
Lacey Act
The Lacey Act counts, eight in all, were for falsifying wildlife sales records; the Endangered Species Act counts covered five tigers he shot because he needed empty cages.
Q 19Who directed Tiger King alongside Rebecca Chaiklin?
Eric Goode
Eric Goode created the art nightclub Area, runs hotels such as the Bowery and founded the Turtle Conservancy before he turned his camera on big-cat owners.
Q 20What is Joe Exotic's birth surname?
Schreibvogel
Schreibvogel is the name he was born with; Maldonado and Passage were borrowed from successive husbands, and he performed under still other names.
Q 24Which side business did Joe Exotic build around his tiger cubs in the 2000s?
Traveling magic shows
Traveling magic shows let children pet his tiger cubs, and one of the stage names he tried out on tour, alongside Aarron Alex and Cody Ryan, was the one that stuck: Joe Exotic.
Q 25Which Joe Exotic song gave its name to his 2014 album and became a streaming hit after Tiger King?
I Saw a Tiger
I Saw a Tiger, like the rest of his catalogue, was reportedly written and sung by other musicians while Exotic mimed in the videos and took the credit.
Q 26Which late-night host featured Joe Exotic's 2016 presidential campaign ad?
John Oliver
John Oliver said his team went looking for the craziest long-shot candidate of 2016 and found Joe's campaign ad, though a researcher warned him the zoo behind it seemed dangerous.
Q 27Joe Exotic ran in which party's 2018 primary for governor of Oklahoma?
Libertarian
Libertarian voters gave him 664 votes, last of three candidates, and the state party revoked his membership by unanimous consent after his arrest.
Q 28What destroyed the G.W. Zoo's TV studio and alligator enclosure in March 2015?
A fire
A fire of mysterious origin burned down the studio and killed the baby alligators next door; Exotic accused his producer of starting it, and the producer accused him.
Q 29Carole Baskin won a $1 million judgment in 2013 because Joe Exotic's road show had copied what?
Her sanctuary's name
Her sanctuary's name reappeared when he rebranded his show Big Cat Rescue Entertainment; the judgment pushed him into bankruptcy.
Q 30An unfounded rumour, repeated by Joe Exotic, claimed Carole Baskin did what with her missing husband's body?
Fed it to her tigers
Fed it to her tigers was the theory first aired in the press by Don Lewis's children; police never named Baskin a suspect, and the claim was never substantiated.