Will Ferrell Trivia
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97 free Will Ferrell trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Will Ferrell went from a Groundlings improv stage to seven years on Saturday Night Live and then a run of comedies that defined 2000s Hollywood. This quiz covers the whole career: his SNL impressions and More Cowbell, Frank the Tank, Buddy the Elf, Ron Burgundy, Ricky Bobby, Chazz Michael Michaels, Brennan Huff, Harold Crick, Megamind, Lord Business, Lars Erickssong and the Mattel CEO, plus Funny or Die, his Broadway George W. Bush, the Chad Smith drum-off and his Emmys as a producer of Succession. Easy questions ask which film has him raised by elves and who plays his stepbrother. Harder ones dig into his father's band, his disastrous days as a bank teller, why he split with Adam McKay, which SNL sketch he improvised into a thong, and which two actors he replaced as the voice of Megamind. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on Ferrell and his films, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01In which 2003 film does Will Ferrell play Buddy, a human raised at the North Pole?
Elf
Elf stars Ferrell as Buddy, named by the elves after the brand label on his diaper, who learns as an adult that he is human and heads to New York to find his father.
Q 02Who directed Elf?
Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau directed Elf and also turns up in it as the family doctor who runs the paternity test; five years later he launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Iron Man.
Q 03Ron Burgundy anchors the news for Channel 4 in which city?
San Diego
Ron Burgundy anchors KVWN Channel 4 in 1970s San Diego, a city he claims was 'discovered by the Germans in 1904'; his team is Brian Fantana, Champ Kind and Brick Tamland.
Q 04Which straight-to-DVD companion film was assembled from Anchorman's outtakes and abandoned subplots?
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie was cut together from unused footage and a dropped bank-robber subplot, and released straight to DVD in December 2004.
Q 05What advice does Ricky Bobby's father Reese give him at career day, which Ricky takes to heart?
'If you ain't first, you're last'
At career day Reese tells Ricky 'If you ain't first, you're last', a line Ricky lives by until Reese later admits it made no sense and that he was high when he said it.
Q 06Which comedian plays Jean Girard, the French Formula One driver who taunts Ricky Bobby?
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen plays Jean Girard, the French Formula One champion who jumps to NASCAR and breaks Ricky's arm when Ricky refuses to say 'I love crepes'.
Q 07In Step Brothers, Ferrell's Brennan Huff is forced to live with Dale Doback, played by whom?
John C. Reilly
John C. Reilly plays Dale Doback, 40 and still living at home; he, Ferrell and director Adam McKay worked up the story together, having first teamed up on Talladega Nights.
Q 08Which fictional event from Step Brothers later became a real annual festival?
The Catalina Wine Mixer
The Catalina Wine Mixer was not filmed on Catalina: a clifftop golf club on the mainland stood in for the island, which began holding a real mixer only after the film made the name famous.
Q 09What was the name of Ferrell's character in Old School, his first starring role after leaving SNL?
Frank 'The Tank' Ricard
Ferrell plays Frank 'The Tank' Ricard, the newlywed whose drunken streaking steals Old School; the film cemented his place in Hollywood's so-called Frat Pack alongside Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson.
Q 10In Blades of Glory, what loophole lets Chazz and Jimmy skate again after a lifetime ban?
They can still compete in pairs
They can still compete in pairs: the lifetime ban, handed down after the two rivals came to blows, shuts them out of singles skating only, so the sworn enemies have to team up.
Q 11In Stranger than Fiction, Ferrell's Harold Crick works for which agency?
The IRS
The IRS has Harold auditing a tax-dodging baker when he starts hearing a woman narrate his life, and he learns she is a novelist whose heroes always die.
Q 12Which actress plays Karen Eiffel, the author narrating Harold Crick's life?
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson plays Karen Eiffel, the chain-smoking, blocked novelist; Queen Latifah plays Penny, the assistant her publisher sends to help her finish the book.
Q 13Who plays hot-tempered detective Terry Hoitz opposite Will Ferrell in The Other Guys?
Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg plays Terry Hoitz, a laughing stock for having shot Derek Jeter during the World Series; he and Ferrell later reunited twice more as feuding dads.
Q 21Which US president was Ferrell's best-known SNL impression, later a one-man Broadway show?
George W. Bush
Ferrell's George W. Bush impression became You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W Bush, which opened at the Cort Theatre in 2009 and earned him a Tony nomination.
Q 22Which game-show host did Ferrell impersonate in SNL's recurring Celebrity Jeopardy sketches?
Alex Trebek
Ferrell's exasperated Alex Trebek anchored Celebrity Jeopardy against Darrell Hammond's Sean Connery and Norm Macdonald's Burt Reynolds; he reprised Trebek when he returned to host in 2005 and 2009.
Q 23How many years did Ferrell spend as an SNL cast member?
Seven
Q 14Which fashion mogul does Ferrell play in Zoolander?
Jacobim Mugatu
Jacobim Mugatu brainwashes Derek Zoolander to assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia, whose child-labour laws threaten his cheap factories; Ferrell played him again in Zoolander 2.
Q 15Which two actors were attached to Megamind's title role before Ferrell?
Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller
Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller were each attached before Ferrell; Stiller stayed on as executive producer and voiced Bernard the museum curator, while Brad Pitt voiced Metro Man.
Q 16What is the name of the tyrant Ferrell voices in The Lego Movie?
Lord Business
Lord Business plans to freeze the world with the Kragle, which is really a tube of Krazy Glue, and Ferrell also appears in live action as the boy's father, 'The Man Upstairs'.
Q 17In Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Ferrell and McAdams play singers from which country?
Iceland
Iceland, and specifically the town of Husavik, is home to Lars and Sigrit; Ferrell, a Eurovision fan since his wife introduced him to the contest, went to the 2018 contest in Lisbon to research the film.
Q 18In Greta Gerwig's Barbie, Ferrell plays the chief executive of which company?
Mattel
Ferrell plays the never-named CEO of Mattel, leading the boardroom of men who chase Barbie back to Barbieland; the 2023 film grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide.
Q 19In the More Cowbell sketch, Ferrell's overzealous cowbell player Gene Frenkle is recording which song?
'(Don't Fear) The Reaper'
Gene Frenkle is recording '(Don't Fear) The Reaper' with Blue Oyster Cult, egged on by Christopher Walken's producer Bruce Dickinson, who keeps demanding more cowbell.
Q 20Which SNL character, created with Chris Kattan, spawned the film A Night at the Roxbury?
Steve Butabi
Ferrell plays Steve Butabi and Chris Kattan his brother Doug; the head-bobbing Roxbury Guys danced to Haddaway's 'What Is Love' and were forever rejected by women in clubs.
Seven seasons, from 1995 to 2002. He joined alongside Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri, and by 2001 was the show's highest-paid cast member at $350,000 a season.
Q 24Which LA improv troupe did Ferrell join in the early 1990s, launching his comedy career?
The Groundlings
The Groundlings, the Los Angeles improv theatre that also produced Chris Kattan, took Ferrell on in the early 1990s; a flexible auction-house job, found through future wife Viveca Paulin, let him keep auditioning.
Q 25Ferrell's father Roy Lee Ferrell Jr. played saxophone and keyboards for which act?
The Righteous Brothers
Roy Lee Ferrell Jr. toured with The Righteous Brothers as a saxophonist and keyboard player; the unsteady pay of show business initially put young Will off a career in entertainment.
Q 26In which California city was Ferrell born and raised?
Irvine
Ferrell was born in Irvine in 1967 and grew up there; he has said the master-planned Orange County suburb was so safe and dull that cracking up his friends became his main entertainment.
Q 27What did Ferrell study at the University of Southern California?
Sports broadcasting
Sports broadcasting was his subject, and his 1990 degree was in sports information, yet an internship in a local station's sports department convinced him he did not want the job.
Q 28Which comedy website did Ferrell launch with Adam McKay in 2007?
Funny or Die
Funny or Die launched in April 2007 with The Landlord, a short in which Ferrell is hounded for rent by a swearing two-year-old landlady, played by McKay's daughter Pearl.
Q 29Ferrell reportedly fell out with Adam McKay after losing which Winning Time role to a mutual friend?
Jerry Buss
Jerry Buss, the Lakers owner, was the part Ferrell had chased since the series was first developed; McKay cast someone else without telling him, and their company closed in 2019.
Q 30For producing which HBO drama did Ferrell win Primetime Emmy Awards?
Succession
Succession came to HBO through Gary Sanchez Productions, the company Ferrell ran with Adam McKay, so as an executive producer he shared its Outstanding Drama Series Emmys.