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118 free Black Mirror trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Black Mirror trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Black Mirror fan? This trivia quiz will test your knowledge of the show's most iconic episodes, memorable characters, and shocking plot twists. From the earliest seasons to the latest releases, see how well you really know this groundbreaking dystopian series.
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Q 01In 'White Bear', what is the hunted woman told has turned most people into passive onlookers?
A signal on their screens
A signal on their screens is only the cover story: the onlookers are really visitors to a justice park, where her memory is wiped each night and the ordeal is staged again.
Q 02In 'Men Against Fire', what is MASS?
A soldier's neural implant
A soldier's neural implant, MASS feeds each trooper data; when Stripe's malfunctions, he sees that the snarling enemies he has been hunting are ordinary human beings.
Q 03In 'Loch Henry', what do Davis and Pia pivot to making about his Scottish hometown?
A true crime documentary
Pia persuades Davis to drop their nature film and make a true crime documentary about the Iain Adair murders, a genre the episode skewers for how it treats victims.
Q 04Which actor played the lead role of Robert Daly in the episode 'USS Callister'?
Jesse Plemons
Jesse Plemons was always the makers' pick for Daly, so the shoot dates were rearranged to suit him and the rest of the cast was chosen around him.
Q 05'Nosedive' opened which series of 'Black Mirror'?
The third
The third series opened with 'Nosedive', the first made for Netflix, whose bigger budget doubled the run to six episodes, all released on the same day.
Q 06Which Oscar-winning actress directed the fourth-series episode 'Arkangel'?
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster, herself raised by a single mother, said the script's mother-daughter bond drew her in, and she did her own casting as the show's first woman director.
Q 07In 'Joan Is Awful', which fictional parody of Netflix turns Joan's life into a show starring Salma Hayek?
Streamberry
Streamberry spilled into real life: Netflix launched a mock Streamberry website to promote the series, and its UK Twitter account took the fake name.
Q 08In 'San Junipero', which 1980s song plays briefly as a dark in-joke?
Girlfriend in a Coma
Girlfriend in a Coma is a clue in plain sight: the Yorkie seen dancing in 1987 is really an older woman who has lain in a hospital bed since a car crash at 21.
Q 09In 'Hated in the Nation', the government's Autonomous Drone Insects replace which vanished creature?
Bees
The Autonomous Drone Insects are robotic bees built to pollinate crops after real bees died out; a hacker turns the swarm into a weapon that kills people targeted by a hashtag game.
Q 10What is the primary goal of the relationship-expiry dating system in 'Hang the DJ'?
To find each user's lifelong partner
The System's stated purpose is to find each user's lifelong partner, with Coach claiming a 99.8% success rate; the real-world dating app then pairs Frank and Amy as a 99.8% match.
Q 11In 'Striking Vipers', what unexpectedly develops between two estranged friends inside a VR fighting game?
A romantic and sexual relationship
A romantic and sexual relationship begins between old friends Danny and Karl through their game avatars, and it strains Danny's marriage until his wife Theo asks if he is having an affair.
Q 12Why does rideshare driver Chris take a hostage in 'Smithereens'?
To speak directly with the firm's chief executive
To speak directly with the firm's chief executive, Billy Bauer: Chris blames himself for the crash that killed his fiancée, because he was checking a Smithereen notification at the wheel.
Q 13In 'Common People', which tech startup keeps Amanda alive on a monthly subscription?
Q 21In 'White Bear', what is the name of the main character who wakes up with amnesia?
Victoria
Victoria Skillane learns her own name only at the end, when she is strapped to a chair and told she filmed her fiancé's murder of a young girl.
Q 22In 'Shut Up and Dance', what crime do the hackers order Kenny and Hector to commit together?
Rob a bank
Rob a bank, with a gun hidden inside a cake they were made to deliver: Hector insists on driving, so the terrified teenager has to walk in and do the hold-up himself.
Q 23Black Mirror's 'Demon 79', set in 1979, shows shop worker Nida menaced by which British far-right group of the era?
The National Front
Rivermind
Rivermind's surgery is free, but the subscription keeps rising in price as the service degrades, and Amanda's husband Mike goes to humiliating lengths online to pay for it.
Q 14On which British network did Black Mirror air its first two series and the 2014 'White Christmas' special before moving to Netflix?
Channel 4
Channel 4 lost the show in 2016 when Netflix outbid it for the new episodes; the broadcaster complained that a risk it had backed was being sold to the highest bidder.
Q 15What does Charlie Brooker say the title 'Black Mirror' refers to?
A switched-off device's screen
A switched-off device's screen: Brooker wrote that the black mirror is the one 'on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand', the cold, shiny glass of a TV, monitor or smartphone.
Q 16Ashley O's songs in 'Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too' are reworkings of tracks by which band?
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails' furious 'Head Like a Hole' was rewritten as Ashley O's bubbly hit 'On a Roll', its angry chorus turned into a chirpy ode to ambition.
Q 17In 'Eulogy', which instrument did Carol, the lost love Phillip struggles to picture, play?
The cello
The cello: listening to an old cassette of Carol playing it is what finally brings her face back to Phillip, after every other attempt to picture her has failed.
Q 18Which computer runs Bandersnatch's tie-in game?
ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum: the game is Nohzdyve, a nod to the episode 'Nosedive', put on a mock Tuckersoft website for anyone with the old machine or an emulator to load.
Q 19In 'The National Anthem', what grisly parcel reaches a TV newsroom during the hostage crisis?
A severed finger
A severed finger arrives after the government tries to fake the broadcast, but it later proves to be the kidnapper's own, cut off to keep the pressure on.
Q 20The robotic 'dogs' hunting Bella in Black Mirror's 'Metalhead' were modelled on machines from which company?
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics' videos of its four-legged robots gave Brooker the idea, and the director called the real machines terrifying enough on their own; the episode was shot in black and white.
The National Front's street racism surrounds Nida during the 1979 election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, and the episode leaves open whether her demon is real.
Q 24In 'The National Anthem', what animal must the Prime Minister have sex with on live TV?
A pig
The 2011 episode was later compared to 'Piggate', the 2015 anecdote alleging a university initiation rite involving David Cameron and a dead pig's head.
Q 25In 'Shut Up and Dance', teenager Kenny is blackmailed with a video that hackers captured through what?
His laptop webcam
The hackers recorded Kenny through his laptop webcam after he installed a bogus anti-malware tool on the machine his sister had infected, then used the footage to control him.
Q 26What is Robert Daly's job title at Callister Inc. in 'USS Callister'?
Chief Technical Officer
Chief Technical Officer: Daly co-founded Callister Inc. and built its hit game, but feels overlooked beside chief executive James Walton, a grudge he takes out on digital copies of his staff.
Q 27'Beyond the Sea' borrows its title from a hit for which singer?
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin's hit, a song of lovers parted by the sea, is the English version of Charles Trenet's 'La Mer', which plays as David dances with his wife shortly before tragedy strikes.
Q 28In 'Hotel Reverie', which part does Brandy Friday play in the AI remake of a 1940s romance?
The male lead
The male lead: the role of Dr Alex Palmer is gender-swapped for Brandy, who acts inside a digital copy of the old film and keeps straying from its script.
Q 29In 'Demon 79', what does the demon Gaap tell Nida she must do to prevent the world's end?
Commit three murders
Commit three murders in three days, or the world ends: Nida misses the deadline, and as the nuclear bombs fall she agrees to join her failed demon in an eternal void.
Q 30In 'Bandersnatch', what kind of book is young programmer Stefan Butler adapting for the computer?
A fantasy gamebook
A fantasy gamebook called Bandersnatch: its choose-your-own-adventure format is mirrored by the film itself, which has viewers pick Stefan's path for him.