Bravo TV Trivia
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60 free Bravo TV trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
46 free Bravo TV trivia questions with answers. Bravo launched in 1980 as a commercial-free channel for film and the performing arts, and today it is the home of the Real Housewives, Below Deck and Watch What Happens Live. This quiz covers the whole journey: the early years with Inside the Actors Studio, the 2003 breakout of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the class of 2006 (Top Chef, Million Dollar Listing and the first Housewives), Project Runway's departure and return, Vanderpump Rules and its spin-offs, Below Deck's yachts, Andy Cohen's rise from programming executive to late-night host, and BravoCon. The easy questions ask who hosts Watch What Happens Live and which company owns the network. The hard ones want the year Bravo launched, how much NBC paid for it, the first Inside the Actors Studio guest, the yacht renamed for the first Below Deck season and which channel originally shared Bravo's channel space. Built for Bravoholics, viewing parties and pop-culture quiz nights. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the network, its shows and its stars, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01In what year did Bravo launch?
1980
Bravo launched on 8 December 1980 as a commercial-free premium cable channel, at first airing only two nights a week.
Q 02Which company owned Bravo as of 2025?
NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal owned Bravo in 2025: NBC bought the channel in 2002 and merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2004 to form NBC Universal, later a Comcast division.
Q 03What did Bravo originally focus on?
Fine arts and film
Bravo originally focused on fine arts and film, billing itself as the first television service devoted to film and the performing arts, with opera, ballet and foreign cinema.
Q 04In its early years, Bravo shared its channel space with which adult pay channel?
Escapade
Escapade, an adult pay service, shared Bravo's channel slot in the channel's first years, filling the nights when Bravo was off the air.
Q 05Which oil company signed an underwriting deal with Bravo in 1992?
Texaco
Texaco, long the sponsor of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, signed on in 1992 to underwrite Bravo's performing-arts programming under the Texaco Showcase banner.
Q 06How much did NBC pay for Bravo in 2002?
$1.25 billion
NBC agreed in November 2002 to buy Bravo for $1.25 billion, paid largely in stock, folding the arts channel into a cable group that already held CNBC and MSNBC.
Q 07Which drama did Bravo begin re-running in 2003, with holiday marathons?
The West Wing
Bravo picked up reruns of The West Wing in 2003 and ran them in weekday blocks and holiday marathons alongside its new reality slate.
Q 08Which 2003 makeover series drew 3.5 million viewers and pushed Bravo toward reality TV?
Queer Eye
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy premiered in July 2003, peaked near 3.5 million viewers, won the 2004 Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program and spawned Queer Eye for the Straight Girl.
Q 09What was the collective name for Queer Eye's team of experts?
The Fab Five
The Fab Five — Carson Kressley, Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia and Jai Rodriguez — covered fashion, food and wine, grooming, design and culture on the original series.
Q 10Which streaming service revived Queer Eye in 2018 with a new Fab Five?
Netflix
Netflix revived the show in February 2018 with five new hosts — Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk and Jonathan Van Ness — and set the first season in Georgia.
Q 11Which three Bravo hits all premiered in 2006?
Million Dollar Listing, RHOC and Top Chef
Million Dollar Listing, RHOC and Top Chef all premiered on Bravo in 2006 — RHOC and Top Chef in March, Million Dollar Listing in August.
Q 12Inside the Actors Studio premiered on Bravo in which year?
1994
Inside the Actors Studio premiered on Bravo in June 1994; James Lipton hosted for 22 seasons before the show moved to Ovation in 2019.
Q 13Who was the first guest broadcast on Inside the Actors Studio?
Paul Newman
Paul Newman's interview was the first Inside the Actors Studio episode broadcast; Alec Baldwin had been taped earlier, but his episode aired later in the debut season.
Q 21Who hosted the first season of Top Chef before Padma Lakshmi?
Katie Lee
Katie Lee hosted Top Chef's first season in 2006; Padma Lakshmi took over for seasons 2 to 20, and season 10 winner Kristen Kish from season 21.
Q 22Which two judges have been mainstays of Top Chef throughout?
Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons
Colicchio co-founded Gramercy Tavern and has five James Beard awards.
Q 23What is the name of Top Chef's short opening test each episode?
The Quickfire
The Quickfire is Top Chef's short opening challenge each episode; its winner traditionally earns immunity from that episode's elimination.
Q 14James Lipton's closing questionnaire was borrowed from which French TV host?
Bernard Pivot
Bernard Pivot, host of the French literary talk shows Apostrophes and Bouillon de culture, closed interviews with a questionnaire adapted from the Proust Questionnaire, which Lipton borrowed.
Q 15Where was Inside the Actors Studio taped from 2005?
Pace University
From 2005 the show was taped at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, after the Actors Studio Drama School left The New School's Tishman Auditorium.
Q 16Project Runway premiered on Bravo in December 2004 with which host?
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum hosted Project Runway from its December 2004 premiere through season 16 in 2017; Bravo aired the first five seasons before the show moved to Lifetime.
Q 17Project Runway returned to Bravo in 2018 after which studio went bankrupt?
The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company, the show's producer, filed for bankruptcy in March 2018, and Bravo reacquired Project Runway that May; its longtime host and Tim Gunn then left for Amazon's Making the Cut.
Q 18Who replaced Tim Gunn as Project Runway's mentor when it returned to Bravo?
Christian Siriano
Christian Siriano, who had won the show's fourth season, became Project Runway's mentor for its 2019 Bravo return, with Karlie Kloss taking over as host.
Q 19Tim Gunn chaired the fashion department at which New York institution before Project Runway?
Parsons
Tim Gunn chaired the fashion design department at Parsons School of Design from 2000 to 2007, then joined Liz Claiborne as chief creative officer.
Q 20Which company produces Top Chef, having also created Project Runway?
Magical Elves
Magical Elves, the company behind Bravo's original run of Project Runway, created and produced Top Chef from its March 2006 premiere.
Q 24The Top Chef season winner gets a feature in which magazine?
Food & Wine
The Top Chef winner receives a feature in Food & Wine magazine, along with a cash prize and an appearance at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.
Q 25The Real Housewives franchise began in March 2006 in which location?
Orange County
The Real Housewives of Orange County premiered on 21 March 2006, pitched as a real-life answer to scripted soaps like Desperate Housewives and Peyton Place.
Q 26Which city hosted the first international Real Housewives adaptation, launched in 2011?
Athens
The Real Housewives of Athens premiered in Greece in 2011 as the franchise's first international adaptation; Vancouver followed in 2012 and Melbourne in 2014.
Q 27Which Bravo spin-off followed Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak and her family?
Don't Be Tardy
Don't Be Tardy began in 2012 as Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding, covering Kim Zolciak's marriage to Kroy Biermann, and ran for eight seasons on Bravo.
Q 28Vanderpump Rules is set at restaurants in which Los Angeles neighbourhood?
West Hollywood
SUR, Pump and Tom Tom are all Lisa Vanderpump's.
Q 29What does SUR, the Lisa Vanderpump venue at the heart of her spin-off show, stand for?
Sexy Unique Restaurant
SUR stands for Sexy Unique Restaurant; Lisa Vanderpump and her husband Ken Todd became co-owners of the restaurant, whose servers and bartenders became the cast of her spin-off.
Q 30Below Deck's first season yacht was renamed what for filming?
Honor
Below Deck's first season was shot aboard the 164-foot Cuor di Leone, renamed Honor for the show, with Captain Lee Rosbach running charters in the Caribbean.