Archer Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
7correct to beat the crowd
96 free Archer trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
45 free Archer trivia questions with answers. Archer ran for 14 seasons and 145 episodes of rapid-fire, reference-heavy comedy, and this quiz is for the people who caught the references. Forty-five questions cover the ISIS crew and their rivals at ODIN, Sterling's Walther PPK and 'tactilenecks', Malory's schemes, Lana's protest-to-agent origin story, Pam's bare-knuckle past, Cheryl's ocelot, Krieger's questionable science and Barry's transformation into a cyborg. The later seasons get their due too: the cocaine caper of Archer Vice, the coma-dream trilogy of Dreamland, Danger Island and Archer: 1999, the Bob's Burgers crossover, the Kenny Loggins cameo and the show's move to FXX. Easy questions ask who created the show and who voices Sterling; the hard ones want the poem tattooed on Pam's back and Ray's Olympic medal. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series and its characters, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
30 of 96 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Who created Archer?
Adam Reed
Adam Reed wrote nearly every episode of the first ten seasons himself, working at his kitchen table rather than in a writers' room.
Q 02Who voices Sterling Archer?
H. Jon Benjamin
H. Jon Benjamin never auditioned: he was offered the part because the show's creator wanted Archer to sound exactly like Coach McGuirk, his character in Home Movies.
Q 03In Archer's early seasons, what does the acronym ISIS stand for?
International Secret Intelligence Service
International Secret Intelligence Service: the agency was simply called ISIS until the end of season five; from season six (2015) the show quietly dropped the name after the real-world terrorist group made the initials notorious.
Q 04Which actress voiced Malory Archer until her death in 2021?
Jessica Walter
Jessica Walter's farewell came in the season 12 finale: Malory retires to a beach beside Ron Cadillac, voiced by Walter's late husband, in a scene pieced together from their old recordings.
Q 05The creator of Archer also voices which character in the show?
Ray Gillette
Ray Gillette fakes paralysis for months, then loses the use of his legs for real when Archer interferes with a spacecraft landing.
Q 06In 2017, Archer moved from FX to which sibling network?
FXX
FXX was being built up as the company's home for animation, so Archer joined The Simpsons repeats there from season eight; the move had first been announced for season seven and quietly put off.
Q 07What was Archer: Into the Cold, which aired in December 2023?
The series finale
The series finale was announced as a three-part special two days after season 14 ended with what had been billed as the last episode; it picks up just after the UN outlaws private spy agencies.
Q 08In Archer's early seasons, which rival spy agency is run by Len Trexler?
ODIN
ODIN meant its job offer for Lana, but Archer took it as his and defected, and his mother drunkenly put out a burn notice on her own son.
Q 09What is Sterling Archer's codename?
Duchess
Duchess was also the name of Malory's late, adored Afghan hound; in the pilot she insists the agency computer chose the codename at random, and Archer does not believe a word of it.
Q 10In which country was Sterling Archer born?
Morocco
Morocco: Malory went into labour in a bar in Tangier, and the owner who helped deliver the baby went on to become the family's valet.
Q 11Sterling excelled at which sport at boarding school before a gunshot wound ended his playing days?
Lacrosse
Lacrosse brought him the offer of a full scholarship to Johns Hopkins, but a stalker shot him in the stomach before he could take it up.
Q 12Which handgun is Sterling Archer's weapon of choice?
Walther PPK
Walther PPK: it is James Bond's pistol, fitting for a character built as a boorish 007; Bond himself only switched to it after a firearms expert told Ian Fleming his old Beretta was a lady's gun.
Q 13What does Sterling call the black turtlenecks he insists on wearing during operations?
Tactilenecks
Tactilenecks are his tactical turtlenecks: he concedes he did not invent the garment, only that he was first to see its tactical potential, and a licensed real-life version later went on sale.
Q 21In Archer, how did Lana come to be pregnant with Sterling's child?
Sperm he stored during cancer treatment
Sperm he stored during cancer treatment: Lana took it without asking and only tells him once the baby is born, in the Archer Vice finale; he reacts by running off on a six-week bender.
Q 22When Archer begins, what is Cyril Figgis's job at ISIS?
Comptroller
Comptroller, the agency's accountant; he also holds a law degree, so when the gang opens a detective agency in season seven he alone qualifies to own it, and it carries his name.
Q 23Cheryl Tunt is an heiress to a fortune made in which industry?
Railroads
Q 14Sterling has a fondness for going undercover under which first name?
Randy
Randy is his cover so often that when two colleagues finally complain about it on the way into a job, the fresh alias he comes up with is Rando.
Q 15Which real actor, idolised by Sterling Archer, turns up in the series playing himself?
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds voiced himself in the season-three episode 'The Man from Jupiter' (2012), dating Malory to the horror of Sterling, who idolises the star of Smokey and the Bandit.
Q 16In Archer, which word gets shouted whenever a remark sounds like innuendo?
Phrasing
Phrasing is, by its creator's own admission, the most economical way of ripping off 'That's what she said'; the show dropped it for a stretch and brought it back in season seven.
Q 17How did Lana Kane get her job at ISIS?
Malory recruited her at an animal-rights protest
Malory recruited her at an animal-rights protest outside a furrier: Lana was about to throw red paint on her fur coat, Malory drew a gun, and Lana alone stood her ground.
Q 18Lana Kane usually carries two of which gun in shoulder holsters?
Tec-9
Tec-9s suit her style: she empties them on full auto without stopping to aim, which earned her the nickname 'spray and pray' back in training.
Q 19Which of Lana's features do her Archer colleagues mock with nicknames like 'Truckasaurus'?
Her hands
Her hands get likened to steam shovels and cricket bats, to her mounting frustration; Aisha Tyler, who voices Lana, insists her own are long and delicate.
Q 20Lana's parents, Claudette and Lemuel, are academics at which university?
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley: her parents thought she was still pursuing the science career she began at Columbia, and only learn she is a spy during a season-six visit with the baby.
Railroads: the office secretary turns out to be a railroad tycoon's descendant, splitting a billion-dollar inheritance with her brother Cecil, which only comes out when kidnappers come after her.
Q 24What kind of animal is Babou, the pet Cheryl keeps at her mansion and hates?
An ocelot
An ocelot: Cheryl regrets ever buying him, while Sterling is thrilled to meet a real one. Babou shares his name with the pet ocelot Salvador Dalí paraded around in the 1960s.
Q 25In Archer Vice, Cheryl reinvents herself as a country singer under what name?
Cherlene
Cherlene's album was real: FX released it in 2014, sung by Jessy Lynn Martens, who was first hired to play fiddle and mandolin and had to sound like Judy Greer's Cheryl.
Q 26Pam Poovey grew up on her father's dairy farm in which state?
Wisconsin
Wisconsin: the family dairy is Poovey Farms, and she goes back in season six for her sister Edie's wedding to a man Pam once had a crush on, with Archer as her date.
Q 27How did Pam finance her college education?
Bare-knuckle street fights
Bare-knuckle street fights paid for college and left her with a startling tolerance for pain: when kidnappers beat her in season two, she shrugs it off and keeps insulting them.
Q 28Which poet wrote 'The Destruction of Sennacherib', the poem Pam has tattooed across her back?
Lord Byron
Lord Byron's 1815 poem has an Assyrian army struck dead overnight; Pam wears its third stanza, and when she bares it in season two and asks who wants a piece of her, nobody does.
Q 29Ray reveals he won an Olympic bronze medal in which event?
Men's giant slalom
Men's giant slalom: Ray protests that bronze means third in the world, Archer insists third is last, and once alone Ray admits it actually was a huge disappointment.
Q 30In Archer, what is the name of Sterling's long-suffering British valet?
Woodhouse
Woodhouse hides a fearsome past: as an officer's servant in the First World War he avenged his captain's death by killing some fifty German soldiers with a knife, and he holds the Victoria Cross.