Question 1

This Brazilian singer is the most streamed drag queen musician in the world.

Accepted Answer

Pabllo Vittar

Question 2

These two transgender sisters are known for their work writing and directing movies together. Who are they?

Accepted Answer

Lana and Lilly Wachowski

Question 3

Most known for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, this queer icon was one of the first queer icons to exist pre-Stonewall.

Accepted Answer

Judy Garland

Question 4

This nonbinary philosopher and scholar has written very influential works on subjects such as feminism and queer theory.

Accepted Answer

Judith Butler

Question 5

This queer physicist and astronaut was the first American woman in space.

Accepted Answer

Sally Ride

Question 6

This intersex model and actress became known as the first transgender Bond girl in the movie For Your Eyes Only.

Accepted Answer

Caroline Cossey

Question 7

This trailblazing gay politician was assassinated in 1978, becoming a martyr and icon for queer Americans.

Accepted Answer

Harvey Milk

Question 8

This gay man was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980.

Accepted Answer

Keith Harring

Question 9

This EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) winner and queer rock star came out in 1976.

Accepted Answer

Elton John

Question 10

This pioneer of electronic music was the first trans woman to win a Grammy.

Accepted Answer

Wendy Carlos

Question 11

This joyful, jubilant American actress, singer, and dancer has been an LGBTQIA+ ally for decades.

Accepted Answer

Liza Minelli

Question 12

This award winning British actress, filmmaker and poet identifies as aromantic.

Accepted Answer

Michaela Coel

Question 13

This gay man was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman.

Accepted Answer

Paul Ruebens

Question 14

This British doctor, author and Buddhist monk became the first transgender man to receive a phalloplasty in 1946.

Accepted Answer

Michael Dillon

Question 15

This powerhouse musician was also an activist for the fight against HIV and AIDS during the first decade of the AIDS epidemic.

Accepted Answer

Whitney Houston

Question 16

This bisexual painter was a visionary with a unique form of self expression that defied social norms, including gender roles.

Accepted Answer

Frida Kahlo

Question 17

Cher.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 18

This transgender man pioneered the use of X-ray photography in tuberculosis detection.

Accepted Answer

Alan L. Hart

Question 19

This lesbian actress, comedian, and singer was the first openly gay comic to appear on television.

Accepted Answer

Lea DeLaria

Question 20

This pioneering gay director is also known as the Pope of Trash, who made transgressive cult films and authored several books.

Accepted Answer

John Waters

Question 21

This trans woman was known as a painter during her life in the early 1900s. A book, a movie and an opera have been made based on her life.

Accepted Answer

Lili Elbe

Question 22

This American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer was known for being openly lesbian and performing in men's clothes during the Harlem Renaissance.

Accepted Answer

Gladys Bentley

Question 23

This pioneering gay man is an author, musician and drag queen who helped made drag 'mainstream.'

Accepted Answer

RuPaul Andre Charles

Question 24

This famous gay composer is known for his use of cannon fire as an instrument in one of his compositions.

Accepted Answer

Tchaikovsky

Question 25

This genderless evangelist lived in the US around the turn of the nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

Public Universal Friend

Question 26

This gay American icon was an underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer.

Accepted Answer

Kenneth Anger

Question 27

This bisexual French opera singer from the 1600s is also known for her sword fighting skills.

Accepted Answer

Julie d'Aubigny

Question 28

This underrated Australian singer, songwriter, and actress has been pumping out some seriously catchy tunes for years.

Accepted Answer

Kylie Minogue

Question 29

This Roman emperor deified his male lover and founded a cult devoted to his worship.

Accepted Answer

Hadrian

Question 30

This fierce gay man was American actor, singer and drag queen, who is closely associated with independent filmmaker John Waters.

Accepted Answer

Divine

Question 31

This incredible lesbian English writer (and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors) helped popularize stream of consciousness as a literary device.

Accepted Answer

Virgina Woolf

Question 32

This trailblazer was an activist known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights and one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising.

Accepted Answer

Marsha P. Johnson

Question 33

This English singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer helped popularize and pioneer the 'art pop' genre of music.

Accepted Answer

Kate Bush

Question 34

This insanely colorful bisexual musician, actress, and fashion provocateur has provided the LGBTQIA+ community countless pop tunes to dance to.

Accepted Answer

Lady Gaga

Question 35

This gay American writer and civil rights activist garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

Accepted Answer

James Baldwin

Question 36

Perhaps the only puppet on this list.

Accepted Answer

Miss Piggy

Question 37

Madonna.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 38

This woman was known for her role as Maude on 'Maude' and Dorothy Zbornak on 'The Golden Girls'.

Accepted Answer

Bea Arthur

Question 39

This gay American filmmaker is noted for his involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement.

Accepted Answer

Gregg Araki

Question 40

This gay Irish author, poet, and playwright became one of the most popular and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s.

Accepted Answer

Oscar Wilde

Question 41

This imaginative English gay writer, filmmaker, and visual artist is known for his works of horror, including 'Hellraiser' and 'Candyman'.

Accepted Answer

Clive Barker

Question 42

This witchy queer woman is known for her weekly B movie presenter and a member of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings.

Accepted Answer

Elvira

Question 43

This lesbian icon was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist.

Accepted Answer

Audre Lorde

Question 44

This 'barefoot' chef, author, and everyday gourmand has been a beloved queer icon for decades.

Accepted Answer

Ina Garten

Question 45

This transgender woman was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York.

Accepted Answer

Sylvia Rivera

Question 46

This gay man was a mathematician and computer scientist who was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science.

Accepted Answer

Alan Turing

Question 47

This performer, drag king, and activist was known for her role in the Stonewall riots and her fierce dedication to the LGBTQ+ community.

Accepted Answer

Storme De Laverie

Question 48

This lesbian pioneer is an American talk show host, comedian, and actress.

Accepted Answer

Rosie O'Donnell

Question 49

This bisexual woman is an American actress, comedian, and singer known for her stand-up comedy and music review.

Accepted Answer

Sandra Bernhard

Question 50

This gay man was an American visual artist, film director and producer as well as a leading figure in the pop art movement.

Accepted Answer

Andy Warhol

The Queer Icons Trivia Quiz

2) These two transgender sisters are known for their work writing and directing movies together. Who are they?

3) Most known for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, this queer icon was one of the first queer icons to exist pre-Stonewall.

4) This nonbinary philosopher and scholar has written very influential works on subjects such as feminism and queer theory.

5) This queer physicist and astronaut was the first American woman in space.

6) This intersex model and actress became known as the first transgender Bond girl in the movie For Your Eyes Only.

7) This trailblazing gay politician was assassinated in 1978, becoming a martyr and icon for queer Americans.

8) This gay man was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980.

9) This EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) winner and queer rock star came out in 1976.

10) This pioneer of electronic music was the first trans woman to win a Grammy.

11) This joyful, jubilant American actress, singer, and dancer has been an LGBTQIA+ ally for decades.

12) This award winning British actress, filmmaker and poet identifies as aromantic.

13) This gay man was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman.

14) This British doctor, author and Buddhist monk became the first transgender man to receive a phalloplasty in 1946.

15) This powerhouse musician was also an activist for the fight against HIV and AIDS during the first decade of the AIDS epidemic.

16) This bisexual painter was a visionary with a unique form of self expression that defied social norms, including gender roles.

17) Cher.

18) This transgender man pioneered the use of X-ray photography in tuberculosis detection.

19) This lesbian actress, comedian, and singer was the first openly gay comic to appear on television.

20) This pioneering gay director is also known as the Pope of Trash, who made transgressive cult films and authored several books.

21) This trans woman was known as a painter during her life in the early 1900s. A book, a movie and an opera have been made based on her life.

22) This American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer was known for being openly lesbian and performing in men's clothes during the Harlem Renaissance.

23) This pioneering gay man is an author, musician and drag queen who helped made drag 'mainstream.'

24) This famous gay composer is known for his use of cannon fire as an instrument in one of his compositions.

25) This genderless evangelist lived in the US around the turn of the nineteenth century.

26) This gay American icon was an underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer.

27) This bisexual French opera singer from the 1600s is also known for her sword fighting skills.

28) This underrated Australian singer, songwriter, and actress has been pumping out some seriously catchy tunes for years.

29) This Roman emperor deified his male lover and founded a cult devoted to his worship.

30) This fierce gay man was American actor, singer and drag queen, who is closely associated with independent filmmaker John Waters.

31) This incredible lesbian English writer (and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors) helped popularize stream of consciousness as a literary device.

32) This trailblazer was an activist known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights and one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising.

33) This English singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer helped popularize and pioneer the 'art pop' genre of music.

34) This insanely colorful bisexual musician, actress, and fashion provocateur has provided the LGBTQIA+ community countless pop tunes to dance to.

35) This gay American writer and civil rights activist garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

36) Perhaps the only puppet on this list.

37) Madonna.

38) This woman was known for her role as Maude on 'Maude' and Dorothy Zbornak on 'The Golden Girls'.

39) This gay American filmmaker is noted for his involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement.

40) This gay Irish author, poet, and playwright became one of the most popular and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s.

41) This imaginative English gay writer, filmmaker, and visual artist is known for his works of horror, including 'Hellraiser' and 'Candyman'.

42) This witchy queer woman is known for her weekly B movie presenter and a member of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings.

43) This lesbian icon was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist.

44) This 'barefoot' chef, author, and everyday gourmand has been a beloved queer icon for decades.

45) This transgender woman was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York.

46) This gay man was a mathematician and computer scientist who was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science.

47) This performer, drag king, and activist was known for her role in the Stonewall riots and her fierce dedication to the LGBTQ+ community.

48) This lesbian pioneer is an American talk show host, comedian, and actress.

49) This bisexual woman is an American actress, comedian, and singer known for her stand-up comedy and music review.

50) This gay man was an American visual artist, film director and producer as well as a leading figure in the pop art movement.