50 free Archer trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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.
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Q 01Who created Archer?
Adam Reed
He conceived it after his Adult Swim show Frisky Dingo was cancelled, while people-watching in a Spanish plaza.
Q 02Who voices Sterling Archer?
H. Jon Benjamin
He also voices Bob Belcher on Bob's Burgers, which made the season four crossover episode possible.
Q 03In the early seasons, what does the acronym ISIS stand for?
International Secret Intelligence Service
The show dropped the name after the real-world terrorist group made the same initials notorious.
Q 04Which actress voiced Malory Archer until her death in 2021?
Jessica Walter
She was the first significant casting choice, and producers used her name to recruit the rest of the cast.
Q 05The show's creator voices which character himself?
Ray Gillette
Reed had planned to voice Sterling in the pilot but was recast when producers felt his delivery did not fit.
Q 06What is the title of Archer's pilot episode?
Mole Hunt
FX aired it as an unpromoted test screening in September 2009 after an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiere.
Q 07In 2017, Archer moved from FX to which sibling network?
FXX
The move was part of a push to expand that channel's animated lineup.
Q 08What was the title of the three-part series finale that aired in December 2023?
Archer: Into the Cold
Producers admitted they had planned two more seasons and did not have a good handle on how to go out.
Q 09How many Primetime Emmy Awards did Archer win?
Four
Two of them were for Outstanding Interactive Program, for the online scavenger hunts hidden in seasons six and seven.
Q 10Which fictional Paris-based agency, run by Len Trexler, is ISIS's main rival?
ODIN
It stands for Organization of Democratic Intelligence Networks and keeps undercutting ISIS for government contracts.
Q 11What is Sterling Archer's codename?
Duchess
It was the name of Malory's beloved dog, which tells you everything about their relationship.
Q 12In which city was Sterling Archer born?
Tangier
Malory was busy with wartime espionage, so he was raised until age five by his valet.
Q 13Sterling was offered an athletic scholarship to Johns Hopkins for which sport before being shot?
Lacrosse
He excelled at it in boarding school; the scholarship fell through after he was shot in the abdomen.
Q 14Sterling shares his choice of handgun with James Bond. What is it?
Q 21Which physical feature of Lana's is the target of running jokes like 'shovels' and 'truckasaurus'?
Her hands
In flashbacks she also sports an afro that Sterling compares to Angela Davis.
Q 22Lana's parents, Claudette and Lemuel, are academics at which university?
UC Berkeley
They were unaware of her espionage career for years and think little of Sterling, though they consider him family.
Q 23How is Sterling revealed to be the father of Lana's daughter?
Sperm he stored during cancer treatment
Lana used it for in vitro fertilization without asking, and Sterling initially fled to Thailand in protest.
Walther PPK
Reed envisioned him as a sympathetic-but-dickish James Bond and read all the Bond novels for research.
Q 15What does Sterling call the black turtlenecks he insists on wearing during operations?
Tactilenecks
He claims to have been the first to recognize the garment's tactical potential and rages when other agents copy him.
Q 16Sterling has a fondness for going undercover under which first name?
Randy
It is a small running gag among many, alongside 'phrasing' and the voicemail pranks.
Q 17Which real actor does Sterling deeply admire, and who later appears on the show as himself?
Burt Reynolds
The episode 'The Man from Jupiter' has him dating Malory, to Sterling's horror.
Q 18Which word does Sterling (or someone else) shout in response to any sexually suggestive remark?
Phrasing
It is one of the show's most durable running gags and evolves over multiple seasons.
Q 19How did Lana Kane get her job at ISIS?
Malory recruited her at an animal-rights protest
She was about to throw red paint on Malory's fur coat when Malory pulled a gun; Lana alone stood her ground.
Q 20Lana Kane is usually seen carrying two of which submachine gun in shoulder holsters?
Tec-9
Her marksmanship is a running debate; one trainee mocks her style as 'spray and pray'.
Q 24What is Cyril Figgis's job at ISIS when the series begins?
Comptroller
He also has a law degree, and later becomes CEO of the Figgis Detective Agency in season seven.
Q 25Cheryl Tunt is an heiress to a fortune made in which industry?
Railroads
She went by the surname Gimble before ISIS learned about the billion-dollar Tunt fortune.
Q 26What kind of animal is Babou, the pet Cheryl keeps at her mansion and hates?
An ocelot
Sterling, on the other hand, adores Babou.
Q 27In Archer Vice, Cheryl reinvents herself as a country singer under what name?
Cherlene
FX released a real album of her songs in 2014, featuring a 'Danger Zone' cover with Kenny Loggins.
Q 28Pam Poovey grew up on her father's dairy farm in which state?
Wisconsin
Poovey Farms is where she once seduced a milkhand named Jorge and endured her tormenting sister Edie.
Q 29How did Pam finance her college education?
Bare-knuckle street fights
She is by far the physically strongest person at ISIS and can overpower multiple trained opponents at once.
Q 30Pam has a stanza from which poet's work tattooed on her back?
Lord Byron
It is the third stanza of 'The Destruction of Sennacherib', a strange choice for a Wisconsin farm girl.