"RuPaul's Drag Race" - All Stars 9 Quiz

Answer: Eight

Although most "All Star" seasons feature between ten and thirteen queens competing for a spot in the 'Drag Race Hall of Fame', "All Stars 9" took a different approach, showcasing only eight queens in a way not dissimilar to the earlier 'All Winners' season in 2022.

This time, all eight queens, each spanning the show's timeline from as early as season 1, would last through the entire competition, showcasing all of their purchased looks and talents as they fought through twelve episodes for the title.

Answer: Benefactress Badges

A first in the "Drag Race" space, the eight queens competing for the title this season were also brought in to compete for charities of their choice, raising money week to week, with their grand prize winnings at the end of the competition. This meant that the winner could end up giving $200,000 USD to charity as provided by The Palette Fund.

This also meant that queens would be competing for badges, again, not unlike the 'All Winners' season. Queens in the Top 2 in any given week would win Beautiful Benefactress Badges, and the three with the most at the end of the competition would battle in the finale.

Answer: Ruby Snippers

Although the queens of the 'All Winners' season could pass around the Platinum Plunger to prevent future badges from being collected in proceeding rounds, the queens of "All Stars 9" could stop each other from collecting Beautiful Benefactress Badges from challenges by bestowing upon them the Ruby Snippers. Only the winner of each week's lip sync could use the Snippers on one of their competitors, and when all was said and done, by the time the Snippers were retired at the end of Week 8, only half the competitors ever received it.

Answer: Paint

The season's ball episode came early with the eight queens having to showcase three looks on the main stage, the last of which would test their artistic merits by requiring that they use paint to design their garments. After walking the runway in their best 'Monochromatica' looks, the queens had to choose famous art for inspiration with the 'Drag Imitates Art' category. Finally, they had to display their 'Paint Ball Eleganza' looks for critique. Gottmik and Plastique Tiara, considered two of the strongest fashion queens on the show, faced off in the lip sync that followed. Plastique would win the season's second design challenge as well (though, that time, with Roxxxy).

Answer: Snatch Game of Love

As is typical for the 'All Stars' seasons (save for 'All Winners'), the queens had to bring their best celebrity impersonations to the show in order to appear in a mock dating program in which (actual) celebrity bachelors could ask questions for risque responses designed to make Ru laugh. For some queens, this was the first time in any Snatch Game, but for others, it proved to be an expected knock-out. Nina West and Gottmik won the episode playing Liberace and Pal, the dog who played Lassie, giving Mik the lead in terms of Beautiful Benefactress Badges, at least in the short term.

Answer: False

While this has happened in past seasons of the show, this season utilized a different twist altogether. To begin, the queens were paired up and required to devise makeovers together, creating a cohesive three-person ensemble. Then, they were paired up with one of three firefighters, working together to record lyrics and perform on the main stage to the RuPaul song "Pussy on Fire". Roxxxy and Vanjie won the episode, marking Vanjie's first-ever challenge win in three seasons of the show, and the pair joint-won the lip sync to Janet Jackson's "Black Cat" that followed, sharing in their giveaway of the Ruby Snippers.

Answer: Nina West

In the seventh week of the competition, the queens were informed that the winner of their mini-challenge (involving carrying objects with their thighs) would also win immunity from the Ruby Snippers for the upcoming challenge. This was subsequently won by Nina West who, to that point, had not received the block. Nina ended up, subsequently, being one of the Top 2 that week after an acting challenge with Ru. Though she didn't win the lip sync (Angeria did), she was able to trade in her immunity for a cash bonus for her charity, The Trevor Project.

Answer: Roxxxy Andrews

The penultimate challenge of the season saw all eight queens facing off in a bracketed competition, one by one going head-to-head in a lip sync smackdown to a mixed bag of past "Drag Race" lip sync tracks. All of this led to a final number in which Roxxxy and Shannel, the two old-school queens of the season, facing off to Ariana Grande's "Break Free" and Roxxxy winning her record tenth lip sync of her "Drag Race" career-- the most, without losses, of any queens to appear since the show began.

Answer: Nina West

As the queens geared up for one final challenge in the form of a variety show on the main stage, they were informed, by TS Madison, that there would be one last order of business, specifically a vote for the Double Diamond Prize. For this, each queen would nominate one of their fellow contestants, and that queen would have their Beautiful Benefactress Badges doubled following their final challenge, potentially catapulting them into the top three. Nina West received the most votes (with three) giving her a doubled badge count, but this was not enough to bring her to the next stage.

Answer: Angeria Paris VanMichaels

As the badges were tallied up it was Roxxxy Andrews and Vanessa Vanjie with five Beautiful Benefactress Badges and Angeria Paris VanMichaels with six, placing all three of them into the top for one last lip sync. All three hit the runway, individually, to perform Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" before Ru declared Angeria the winner, giving her charity (the National Black Justice Coalition) an extra $200,000 USD and winning her the crown, scepter, and spot in the Drag Race Hall of Fame. Roxxxy and Vanjie both acted as runners-up, receiving $25,000 more for their charities as well.