You've already found the perfect Father's Day gift and planned an activity that your dad will love. Now, it's time to find fun trivia to keep the whole crew entertained on Father's Day. We've collected tons of fun facts that make for the best Father's Day trivia. These clever trivia questions and answers cover everything from the history of Father's Day to famous TV dads to fun facts about fatherhood.

Some of these trivia questions are easy while others are more challenging. They're sure to keep kids and adults alike entertained, and everyone will come away with a new fun fact or two about what it means to be a dad.


Father's Day History Questions

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  • Question: When is Father’s Day celebrated in the U.S.?
  • Answer: The third Sunday in June. Many other countries, including The U.K., Mexico, Ireland, France, Greece, China and Japan also celebrate it on this day

  • Question: Which U.S. president was the first to commemorate Father’s Day?
  • Answer: Woodrow Wilson

  • Question: Which President signed a law establishing Father’s Day as a national holiday in 1972?
  • Answer: Richard Nixon

  • Question: What year was the first Father’s Day celebrated in the U.S.?
  • Answer: 1910

  • Question: What is the official flower of Father’s Day?
  • Answer: Red roses

  • Question: Which U.S. president fathered the most children?
  • Answer: John Tyler, who had 15 children

  • Question: There have been two father-son duos who served as U.S. presidents. Who were they?
  • Answer: John Adams and John Quincy Adams; George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

  • Question: Which five U.S. presidents were not fathers?
    Answer: George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, and James Buchanan

    Fun Father's Day Data Questions

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  • Question: What percentage of men in the U.S. are fathers?
  • Answer: About 61.6% of men (74.7 million men) age 15 and over are fathers, according to U.S. Census data

  • Question: What percentage of men in the U.S. are stay at home dads?
  • Answer: 7%, according to data from Pew Research Center

  • Question: How do most dads actually want to celebrate Father’s Day?
  • Answer: 56% of dads in a 2025 YouGov poll said they want to spend time with their kids and grandkids
  • Question: What’s the average age of a first-time dad in the U.S.?
  • Answer: 30.9 years old, according to one study published in 2017

  • Question: Who holds the Guinness World record for the oldest legal father?
  • Answer: Les Colley, who had a son at the age of 92 years and 10 months.

    Father's Day Movie Trivia

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  • Question: What kind of fish are father-and-son duo Nemo and Marlon from Finding Nemo?
  • Answer: Clownfish

  • Question: Who famously said “Luke, I am your father”?
  • Answer: Darth Vader. (Though technically, the line is “No. I am your father.”)

  • Question: Who plays Venus and Serena Williams’ father, Richard Williams, in the 2021 movie King Richard?
  • Answer: Will Smith

  • Question: What was Atticus Finch’s job in To Kill a Mockingbird?
  • Answer: Lawyer

  • Question: Who played father of 12 Tom Baker in the 2003 remake of Cheaper by the Dozen?
  • Answer: Steve Martin — who, funnily enough, was not yet a father when the movie was made

  • Question: How many years did it take to film Boyhood, the Richard Linklater movie in which Ethan Hawke plays a divorced father?
  • Answer: 12 years

  • Question: In the movie The Game Plan, what fictional football team does Joe Kingman — played by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson — play for?
  • Answer: The Boston Rebels

  • Question: Who played Olive’s father in the movie Easy A?
  • Answer: Stanley Tucci

  • Question: In which movie does Liam Neeson tell his daughter’s kidnappers that he has “a very particular set of skills”?
  • Answer: Taken

  • Question: What movie told the story of “the father of the atomic bomb”?
  • Answer: Oppenheimer

  • Question: In The Parent Trap, where is Hallie and Annie’s father’s vineyard located?
  • Answer: Napa, California

  • Question: In the movie Mrs. Doubtfire, what is the name of the show that “Mrs. Doubtfire” stars in at the end of the movie?
  • Answer: Euphegenia's House

    Musical Father’s Day Trivia

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  • Question: Who wrote the song “Isn’t She Lovely” for his newborn daughter?
  • Answer: Stevie Wonder

  • Question: In the Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue,” what did the narrator’s father give him to toughen him up?
  • Answer: His name: Sue

  • Question: What song did John Lennon famously write for his son Sean?
  • Answer: "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)"

  • Question: What is the name of the John Mayer song that contains the lyrics, “Fathers, be good to your daughters; daughters will love like you do”?
  • Answer: "Daughters"

  • Question: Who is the youngest person ever to have a charting song on Billboard, because she’s credited on her father’s song “Glory”?
  • Answer: Blue Ivy Carter. At the end of the Jay-Z song, her cries can be heard

  • Question: How many children did Margaritaville singer Jimmy Buffett have?
  • Answer: 3: Savannah, Delaney, and Cameron

    TV Fathers Day Trivia

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  • Question: What is Modern Family dad Phil Dunphy’s job?
  • Answer: Realtor (and dad to Haley, Alex, and Luke)

  • Question: Which TV dad popularized the fictional holiday Festivus, which is all about airing grievances?
  • Answer: Frank Costanza from Seinfeld

  • Question: How did Johnny Rose from Schitt's Creek make his fortune?
  • Answer: Video stores

  • Question: What was Danny Tanner’s job on Full House?
  • Answer: He was the co-host of a morning news show called Wake Up, San Francisco

  • Question: What are the names of Tony Soprano’s children on The Sopranos?
  • Answer: Meadow and A.J.

  • Question: What political office does Yellowstone’s John Dutton hold?
  • Answer: Governor of Montana

  • Question: What is the name of the patriarch of the Roy family on Succession?
  • Answer: Logan Roy

  • Question: On This Is Us, Jack Pearson shares a birthday with which characters?
  • Answer: His children, Kate, Kevin, and Randall

  • Question: What is the name of Bluey and Bingo’s dad?
  • Answer: Bandit

  • Question: The voice of Papa Smurf also voiced which other animated characters?
  • Answer: Scooby-Doo, Ranger Smith on Yogi Bear, and Astro and RUDI on The Jetsons

    Fun Father's Day Trivia Questions

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  • Question: What are the names of Prince William’s children?
  • Answer: Louis, Charlotte, and George

  • Question: Who were the first father and son to play for the same MLB team at the same time?
  • Answer: Ken Griffey and his son Ken Griffey, Jr., who both played for the Mariners in 1990 and 1991

  • Question: Who were the first father and son to play for the same NBA team at the same time?
  • Answer: LeBron and Bronny James, who both played for the Lakers in the 2023-24 season

  • Question: A.A. Milne wrote which famous children’s book for his son, Christopher Robin?
  • Answer: Winnie-the-Pooh

  • Question: Who is considered the “king and father of Europe”?
  • Answer: Charlemagne, the 8th-century king of the Franks

  • Question: How many children does actor Robert De Niro have?
  • Answer: 7

  • Question: In what types of animals do the fathers become pregnant?
  • Answer: Seahorses

  • Question: In the Broadway musical Hamilton, only one of Alexander Hamilton’s children was introduced. How many children did he actually have?
  • Answer: 8

  • Question: Who is considered the father of modern astronomy (hint: also a Queen lyric)?
  • Answer: Galileo

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