It’s the 2023 A+ Trivia Quiz of the Year!

The 13 Days of A+ is upon us!

Have you been paying attention to all things queer this year? If so, then you will have an excellent time doing this quiz! If not, then I believe your chances of getting 100% with completely random answers is roughly 1 in a nonillion, which seems like pretty good odds?

If you find that this quiz skews towards vapid fluff, it’s because I’m a firm believer that trying to identify celesbian couples by their hands is a humbling and equalizing experience. Please report in the comments with how humble and/or boastful you feel in the aftermath!

Calling All Celesbian Experts: Can You Identify All 50 Of These Millennial Queer Actors?

It’s time to test your knowledge of actual people! Can you identify these lesbian, queer and bisexual millennial actors?

Glee Fans: Can You Name That Song From Just a Picture and the Episode Number?

Glee, a musical specter horrorshow, infiltrated and earwormed itself into our lives for six seasons of highs and lows. True Gleeks still can’t escape its siren song and hopefully that’ll help you get a high score on this quiz, in which you will be identifying the song in question from two clues: a photo of the song being performed on Glee and the song’s episode number.

Think You’re a Queer TV Expert? Prove It by Identifying All 50 of These Lesbian and Bisexual Characters

We’re here, we’re queer, we watch a lot of television. And now it’s time to put your recall of all the television you’ve watched to the test:

It’s The Big Queer A+ Trivia Quiz Of The Year!

See all our 13 Days of A+ Content!

One of the best things about any year coming to a close is the various end-of-year quizzes that pop up to remind us how incredibly short our memories are. Obviously, the main problem with such quizzes is that they are way too straight. So, totally on brand for Autostraddle right now, we have our very own gay 2022 quiz, just for A+ members!

There are fifty questions across ten subjects, so make yourself cozy and settle in for the trivia event of the year!

National Coming Out Day Trivia Quiz: A Thing You Can Take If You Feel Ready

Wow, it’s National Coming Out Day, a monumental day for us all. If you already know a lot about the holiday and also coming out in general — great news, I made a quiz for you! Hot tip: if the question seems impossible, don’t give up, see if you can figure it out from the multiple choice answers available.

Bi Trivia Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Bisexual Women On Television?

How well do you know your bisexual television characters? There is only one way to find out, and it’s right here right now. There’s no other way, I’m sorry this is it. You better take this quiz!!!! Also you should read Celebrate Bisexuality Day 2018: Why We Love Being Bisexual and So Can You. That’s unrelated to the quiz, it’s just a general life tip.

Dark Trivia Quiz: For Murderinos, Crime TV Fanatics and Other Twisted Souls

Just a few weeks ago at A-Camp, a group of demented campers gathered in a medium-sized room to answer trivia questions about murder and other things that y’all know way more about than you should. I designed hosted the event with Sam Green, a passionate fan of the “My Favorite Murder” podcast (which I’m unable to listen to because I’m so jealous that these two hilarious brilliant girls thought of this idea before we did) and Rachel Kincaid, a passionate fan of all things dark and murdery and sinister.

I’ve hosted several trivia games at A-Camp, and I’ve gotta say, this one really blew me away. Y’all knew shit I did not think you would know! Usually everybody says my questions are too hard but this time I was dealing with some serious detectives, including apparent dark souls Mara Wilson and Gaby Dunn. We were even out-known twice by campers who corrected our answer with their superior knowledge. What are we doing with our lives, I love it!

The quiz below draws mainly from material used by Rachel, Sam and I at camp with a few questions thrown in that we did not ask at camp.

“Law & Order: LGBT” Trivia Quiz

Why do we watch so many episodes of Law & Order even though their record with LGBTQ people has been pretty middling? I don’t know, friends, besides that Law & Order SVU is an incredible fantasy series about Olivia Benson, a magical police detective who cares deeply about the victims of sexual assault and wants to find and punish their attackers at all costs. Or maybe it’s because Olivia Benson is your root. Maybe it’s all the hot women in business attire. Or maybe it’s because it’s a reliable formula of a show that we simply cannot resist, like a banana split, but much more disturbing. Everybody is especially heinous in their own way, you know?

TELL ME YOUR SCORES IN THE COMMENTS!!

How Well Do You Know The History Of Menstruation Products?

Many of us have had the moment — whether of fear, excitement, frustration, overwhelmedness, or all of the above — when we got our first periods. Along with it came instruction from various parties, whether parental figures or in advertising and media, about what we’re supposed to do about it (and how we’re supposed to feel about it). But has it always been this way? Many of us menstruate, but what do we even know about the things we use to manage our periods? What did people used to do? In our final trivia quiz from our Trivial Cahoots series, let’s test our knowledge about the things we bleed into (and why) — and maybe learn some things along the way! Tell me your answers in the comments, and if you’re comfortable and its relevant to you, share how you deal with your period today in 2018!

How Much Do You Know About Basketball, One of the Gayest Sports in History?

Basketball is universally ranked as one of the top five gayest sports in history. From lesbian protective hairstyles (if you have your hair cornrowed straight back, you’re a lesbian, as proven by Queen Latifah in Set It Off), kisses to stop fights from breaking out, players that give back to the community and also literally marry each other, it just oozes lesbianism. It’s also just frigging fun to watch (I’m biased though) cause I don’t know any other sport that has dance-offs (which are gay) during breaks in the game, do you?

[Editors note: This quiz originally published on April 25, 2018 but has since been updated. Some of the original answers were incorrect due to a mix-up, but they have been updated and all should be well now. We apologize for any confusion!]

Take this quiz so you can show up on the court and hype up your lesbianism to your fellow lesbian basketball players/lovers. And of course, let us know how you did in the comments!

Lesbians in the Wild: Do These Birds Look Gay Trivia Quiz

April was Trivia Meet-Up Month here at Autostraddle, and we tested your abilities to recall 90s trivia, celesbian gossip, activist herstory, and assorted plot points relating to four gay franchises (#<3LesbianJughead). We loved trivia so much and y’all had so much fun with it that we created a few more quizzes for you in May!

Now it’s time to turn our eyes away from the screen, pick our heads up out of our books, and look outside. Yes, today’s the day for the wildlife themed quiz you’ve been waiting for your whole entire life! Without even knowing it! Check out these lesbians in the wild.*

*Also includes some domesticated lesbians. 

Trivial Cahoots: Sex Toy History Trivia Quiz

You know that sex toys have been around since before that franchise blew up in 2015, and before rabbits and Magic Wands appeared on Sex and the City, and before doctors’ offices in the 1900s. But for all that they’re a fascinating way to look at technology, gender, sexuality, culture, censorship, human connection, innovation and the pursuit of really great orgasms, sex toys and their history are often overlooked.

For this quiz, I encourage you to cheat. Knowledge is power.

If you’re into sex toy history, check out Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy by Hallie Lieberman and Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure by Lynn Comella.

Beers, Droves of Queers and Scorecards Galore: My Queer Trivia Night Went Well

Meet-ups can be hard — How do I plan? Who should I invite? How do I get the word out? Where do I do it? Will anyone like it? Am I too shy to speak to anyone? Trivia meet-ups can be even harder — What questions do I ask? What if it’s too hard? How do I plan the scoring? How many rounds? Who will MC? Can my venue accommodate a sound system?

We learned the hard way that asking loyal readers and strangers on the internet to host a full-on trivia meet-up was a little too daunting – while many, many Autostraddle readers seemed extremely excited by the idea when it first took shape on Twitter, it was arguably our least popular meet-up event ever. Because of this sad truth, our community editor Vanessa was particularly ecstatic that I not only volunteered to host a trivia meet-up in D.C., but that it was wildly successful and very fun. At her request, I put together this how-to guide, so perhaps next time we attempt to host a trivia meet-up month more people will feel comfortable and ready to host events of their own! Be the meet-ups you want to see in the world, you know?

While all of the above concerns are extremely valid worries, don’t let that running anxiety-script stop you in the future! With a little pre-planning, you can end up surprising yourself with a really awesome meet-up, and have a great time to boot! The Autostraddle Trivia Meet-up I hosted here in D.C. was so, so fun. Here are a few things I did to set myself and my trivia meet-up up for success.

Courtesy of Songbyrd Music House and Record Shop

Plan Early and Find Your Space

Give yourself some time to get everything in order, and to have backups in case something falls through. I gave myself a lead time of a month, but a few weeks should be fine!

The very first thing I did was look for a venue. I wanted a space that was both queer-friendly and could accommodate a trivia night. So, I looked up queer events in my city on Facebook. At first, I wanted to do it at a bookstore/comic book shop here in D.C., Fantom Comics, but they never got back to my inquiry emails (womp, womp). So I kept looking, and landed on Songbyrd Music House and Record Cafe, a coffee shop/bar/music venue that was conveniently near my house and that I saw had previously hosted both queer events AND trivia events — so I knew they could do it. They answered my email more promptly, and after figuring out a date that worked for their calendar, I jumped on the phone with their events person and figured out the details: what time, where it was, what I would need to bring and what they would provide – things like their speaker/mic set up and if they had a computer or iPad that could play Spotify. The Songbyrd Cafe people working with me were awesome, and they offered me a $25 gift card to give away as a prize. The day of, I showed up an hour early and got the in-person rundown on their speaker setup — more on that in a bit.

Getting people to come

Next, I made a Facebook Event and added the Songbyrd events people as moderators. Luckily, Sarah, our wonderful Autostraddle design director, had provided us images for Facebook cover images. I also set some ground rules to the event: don’t have teams of more than six people, find people to make a team with via the event or by arriving early, be nice to each other, etc.!

Then I added myself to every queer Facebook group I could find in my city — including a D.C. Straddlers group, heyyy! — and posted the event to them. I also submitted the event to Autostraddle.com here! Then I sat back and watched in excitement/horror as more and more people noted that they were attending.

Preparing the Questions

This can be the most intimidating part — how to come up with the right questions, and how hard (or not) to make them? I decided I would do six rounds, with a break for scoring in-between the third and fourth, and that one round would be a music round. I picked some overall themes — Sports, Music, Politics, Literature, Autostraddle, and History. I also wanted all of the trivia to be queer, and I’ll admit it, I had to do a lot of googling! Each round was 8-10 questions, and I tried to make sure I had a few “gimme” questions in every round. For answers that might be a little more obscure, I tried to add extra context to the questions, so people could make educated guesses.

But I also realized that I don’t know everything! Fellow Autostraddle writer Carrie helped me out with some questions with some of the stuff I wasn’t as sure about: sports, some Autostraddle trivia, and her specialty, politics!

Finally, I mocked up some simple answer sheets that had “Autostraddle Queer Trivia!” at the top and spaces for the team name, the round number, and 10 questions. I printed out a bunch and ran out the last round, so print out twice as many as you think you’ll need! Or, bring a ton of printer paper. And don’t forget to bring some pens!

One note for fellow Autostraddle trivia meet-up organizers and for my future self: I got a lot of feedback from my event participants that there wasn’t enough TV and movie trivia — something Autostraddle definitely covers a lot — so I’ll be adding that as a category or two when I next host a trivia meet-up – all L-Word round, anyone?!

MCing the Event

It can be really intimidating to sit in the DJ booth and MC an event, but usually, they have just one or two things you need to pay attention to: the volume knob for your speakers, and the mute button for your mic. Most places have a computer or an iPad set up where you can pull up a Spotify playlist, which is what I did. The most complicated that it got was when it was time for me to read out a question I’d just hit pause on Spotify and unmute my mic, then mute my mic, and hit play again.

Advanced Tip: For my third round, I did a music round! I made a special Spotify playlist, then played the first 30 seconds of each song twice for the questions. It was pretty manual since I was basically hitting pause at 30 seconds, replay, pause at 30 seconds, next song — and so forth. I let the round be a double-point round and gave the teams one point for naming the song and one for naming the artist. If you have extra time and know how to edit music, you can use something like garage band to make the clips yourself, which doesn’t force you to use the first 30 seconds of every song (a choice I basically made to make it easier on myself).

Songbyrd Music House and Record Cafe, the day of the trivia meet-up

Enjoy the Event!

Getting there, I was really nervous — What if no one came? What if I messed up? Luckily, I have a few years of being an avid trivia-goer under my belt, and even when I arrived an hour early, I started spotting some alternative-lifestyle haircuts. I grabbed myself a beer, looked over my questions, and let myself relax.

The event ended up having around 20 teams (!!!), each one of them with a pretty hilarious name — standouts included “Hermione Granger and the Cloak of Bi-Visibility” and a team just named “Dana Fairbanks” (who put her as the answer for any question they didn’t know — made me feel bad that I hadn’t put her as the answer to a single question!). Since there were so many people, I let everyone know that I’d repeat each question only once, and the group was lovely so no one really gave me a hard time.

And y’all, the night flew by! It was so fun to quiz everyone. I had a wonderful time, and nearly everyone asked me when I was going to do this again (let me sleep for a few days straight first). One group was celebrating a birthday and brought out a cake halfway through a round, and in the end, there was a tie for first place that I wanted to resolve with a dance-off, but one team had already left (who leaves before an event ends?? Where did y’all go?!)!

To be fair, that was probably my fault, and one of my lessons learned — I scored every answer sheet myself in a notebook, which took me quite a while! I read out the answers and the team scores after the third and sixth rounds. On the one hand, this made for a nice drink break/intermission during the event, but it definitely dragged the ending for a little bit. In the future, if there are that many people, I’ll either have an assistant scoring rounds as they come in or use the traditional pub-quiz rules and let teams score each other’s rounds.

Though this is the type of meet-up that definitely takes a little more planning than a potluck or a picnic, it is absolutely worth it, and such a blast for everyone who attends! It takes a lot of the awkwardness of meeting new people out by giving some structure and some good competition. And we all know a lot more queer trivia than we did before, which is a plus whether you’re trying to impress that babe on Tinder or hoping to score 100% on every quiz ever published on Autostraddle.

TL;DR – Do it yourself!

1. Find a venue that has done trivia before, and make sure they can show you how or help you to run the event!
2. Get the event up on Facebook and spread it around.
3. Write up some questions based on loose themes, vary them in difficulty, and don’t be afraid to ask for help!
4. Bring materials: your questions and answers, answer sheets or computer paper for the teams, and pens!
5. Don’t forget to have lots of fun, make friends, and take pics!

Are You Gay or Just Happy to See Me: The Queer Code Trivia Quiz

I was chilling at the gay bar years ago when I noticed that more than one person had a handkerchief hanging from their back pocket. I overheard someone ask, “are you flagging?” while I stood awkwardly to the side, definitely thinking I was subtle when I’m sure it was obvious I was listening in on their conversation. Anyways, I promptly googled “the hanky code” when I got home from the bar and bought a certain handkerchief of a certain color so I could get in on this underground club.

Do you remember the first non-verbal ~thing~ that made you look at someone and realize they were probably queer? Or give the dyke nod as you pass each other at the airport without exchanging a word? Was it their hair cut? Fashion choice? A giant rainbow “I’M GAY” printed on their sweatshirt? A swagger, a certain shade of red lipstick, a carabiner of keys, or a tattoo? Some queer band blasting from their headphones, a single dangling earring, a Tegan and Sara shirt perhaps?

Honestly, we all know it’s more of a vibe than anything physical, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be obsessed with how we express our queerness/sexuality/gender in ways that aren’t us stating bluntly: “I’m in the club, if ya get my drift.” So here’s a quiz about various non-verbal (visual! written! music! etc!) ways we communicate our queerness. Tell me your score in the comments, and share your favorite queer clues, too!

Can You Name These Historic Lesbian Couples and Other Gal Pals Through the Years?

Contrary to popular belief, lesbians weren’t invented in the 70’s and appear to have existed all through recorded history. Of course, as many male historians like to point out, it is hard to be certain whether any given historic couple were actually a couple or just really good friends what with all the terrible legal and social consequences facing them if they got caught. So here’s a quiz that might be about lesbians through history or might just be about ladies who were very close to their platonic best friends.

Let me know your score in the comments! And your favorite historical gal pals!

Here’s the Badass Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans Activist Herstory Quiz You Wish You Had in School

Get out your Sharpie markers and flattened cardboard boxes out because it’s time to get activist-y AF! Unfortunately, most of us didn’t or won’t learn much at all about LGBTQ activist history in school and almost definitely nothing about lesbian, bisexual, queer, and trans women in history. That just means that we need to hear the stories of our elders and foremothers and carry them forward, you know? Because we’ve been fighting back as long as it’s been documented in ways big and small!

So take this quiz and see how much you know about our activist herstory – even if you don’t know everything quite yet, you’re going to learn SO MUCH just by taking the quiz!

Post your score and your favorite activist inspiration model in the comments! My score is 100 (but obviously I’m biased because I wrote the damn thing) and my activist inspirations are Audre Lorde and Miss Major.

Who Said It: A Character on “Riverdale” or a Shakespearean Character?

The dialogue on Riverdale is the best dialogue on television, and I will fight anyone who tries to say otherwise!!!! If you ever find yourself watching Riverdale and thinking hmm, William Shakespeare WISHES he could craft dramatic dialogue this snappy and poetic, well honey, I’m inclined to agree. Between Cheryl Blossom’s daymares, Jughead’s angsty soliloquies, and all the talk of serpents, blood, chaos, and turmoil, the characters of Riverdale exist in a heightened theatrical realm not unlike the tumultuous worlds of Shakespearean theater.

So, without further ado, can you tell which of these lines were said on Riverdale and which were said in a Shakespeare play? It might be trickier than you think!

Share your scores in the comments. And, just because, also tell me any and all Shakespeare productions you have ever been a part of and any interesting/relevant/gay anecdotes about said experiences.

Try Your Liquid Luck With This Harry Potter Trivia Quiz

The only thing I love more than talking about Harry Potter is answering questions about Harry Potter to show-off how smart I am and then asking other people questions about Harry Potter so they can show-off how smart they are and then talking to a bunch of show-offs about Harry Potter. I like testing and being tested as much as Hermione Granger, you could say. This quiz is adapted from a full game of Harry Potter Jeopardy I created; I just pulled medium-level questions from all the categories. If you ever want to play the full game, bring some Butterbeer to my house and I will dazzle you.

Please let me know your score along with your Hogwarts house in the comments.

Trivial Cahoots: How Well Do You Know The Disney Channel Original Movies That Made Us Gay?

Not only do many of us have fond memories of watching Disney Channel Original Movies, but many of us have just as strong memories of those movies awakening something deep within us. DCOMS are some of the best made-for-tv movies of all time. They feature talented young actors, great songs and fun stories. Plus, these movies usually starred teen Disney actresses and featured themes of being true to yourself, girl power and self love, so it’s really no wonder that a whole generation of teen girls watched them and became gay.

You probably already know what the gayest DCOMs are, but do you think you know everything there is to know about these movies?