Broad City Trivia
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59 free Broad City trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Broad City ran for five seasons on Comedy Central between 2014 and 2019, and it never stopped being the show it started as: two broke best friends trying to get through one more day in New York without the day winning. This quiz covers the whole run, from the YouTube web series and Amy Poehler's role in getting it on air to the season five finale on the Brooklyn Bridge. Expect questions on the characters (Bevers, Lincoln, Jaimé, Trey and the Wexler family), the guest stars (Hillary Clinton, Kelly Ripa, Shania Twain, Steve Buscemi), the running bits (Bingo Bronson, the shitbucket, the pegging episode) and the real lives of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. Difficulty runs from easy warm-ups any casual viewer will get to details only a rewatcher would remember. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, so if you argue about one in the group chat, you'll win.
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Q 01On which network did the Broad City television series air?
Comedy Central
Comedy Central said yes after another cable channel had commissioned the pilot script and then passed; the show ran there for five seasons, from 2014 to 2019.
Q 02Before it reached cable television, Broad City existed in what form?
A YouTube web show
A YouTube web show came first: Glazer and Jacobson made the short episodes themselves, each only a few minutes long, and built a following online before television called.
Q 03By Abbi Jacobson's account, which network developed the Broad City pilot and then rejected it as 'too girly'?
FX
FX passed after months of development, leaving the creators 'devastated', Jacobson wrote in her memoir; the show it turned down went on to run for five seasons elsewhere.
Q 04In Broad City's early seasons, on whom does Abbi nurse a long-running crush?
Her neighbor
Her neighbor Jeremy, from across the hall, is the crush she bumbles around for two seasons; when the pair finally get together, the evening takes a turn she did not see coming.
Q 05Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer met while taking classes at which comedy theatre?
Upright Citizens Brigade
Upright Citizens Brigade classes led both to the same practice team in 2007. After two years of paying for coaches and rehearsal rooms with nothing to show for it, they started writing together.
Q 06What was the name of the improv team on which Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer first met?
Secret Promise Circle
Secret Promise Circle was a practice team with only two women in it, Jacobson and Glazer, which is how the pair found each other.
Q 07In which New York City neighbourhood does Abbi Abrams live?
Astoria, Queens
Astoria, Queens is borrowed from life: it was Jacobson's own neighbourhood when she and Glazer started out, long before Abbi Abrams existed.
Q 08The character Ilana Wexler is a graduate of which school?
New York University
New York University: in 'In Heat' Ilana talks her way back into her old dorm there with Abbi, the pair posing as RAs so they can walk off with a student's air conditioner.
Q 09What is the profession of Lincoln Rice, Ilana's on-and-off partner played by Hannibal Buress?
Pediatric dentist
Pediatric dentist Lincoln repairs the veneer Ilana breaks on a jawbreaker in 'Pu$$y Weed', while a very stoned Abbi alarms the children and parents in his waiting room.
Q 10What is the name of the gym where Abbi works as a cleaner?
Soulstice
Soulstice was a late addition: in the first pilot script the character worked in a coffee shop, before a rewrite made her a gym cleaner who longs to be a trainer.
Q 11Ilana works, sporadically, at a web company called what?
Deals! Deals! Deals!
Deals! Deals! Deals! is modelled on Lifebooker, a real coupon site for spas and salons where Glazer and Jacobson both worked in sales to pay the rent.
Q 12Which recurring Broad City character is played by a real-life sibling of one of its two stars?
Eliot Wexler
Eliot Wexler is played by Ilana Glazer's brother, Eliot Glazer, so the on-screen siblings are real ones. In season two he throws a wedding for his dog in the park.
Q 13Which comedian plays Bobbi Wexler, Ilana's blunt and confrontational mother?
Susie Essman
Susie Essman of Curb Your Enthusiasm plays Bobbi; in 'Knockoffs' she leads Ilana down a manhole in pursuit of counterfeit designer handbags.
Q 21Whose coat does Abbi accidentally give away while working coat check in season two?
Kelly Ripa's
Kelly Ripa's coat goes home with the wrong guest; when Abbi finally returns it, the wholesome morning host turns out to be far wilder than her TV image.
Q 22Which actor plays Adele, the lookalike Ilana falls for in 'Coat Check'?
Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat was an in-joke: when Jacobson and Glazer first joined the same improv team, Jacobson took her new teammate for the Arrested Development star.
Q 23Which actor plays 'Male Stacy', who falls asleep during sex with Abbi in Broad City's season two premiere?
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen's Male Stacy later takes fright at a stray kitten and knocks Abbi's newly acquired air conditioner straight out of the window.
Q 14Who plays Ilana's father, Arthur Wexler?
Bob Balaban
Bob Balaban's Arthur first appears at a family shiva in 'Knockoffs' and is back in 'Burning Bridges', where his anniversary dinner collides with Abbi's secret date.
Q 15In season four, RuPaul plays Marcel, Ilana's ruthless boss at what kind of business?
A sushi restaurant
A sushi restaurant, Sushi Mambeaux, where Marcel announces one night that the top earner will take everyone's tips and the lowest earner will be fired.
Q 16Which comedian plays Dara, the graphic-design boss who employs Abbi as her assistant in season four?
Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes's Dara fires Abbi on the spot when Abbi, while tripping on mushrooms, accidentally kills her boss's cat at a party.
Q 17Who plays Lesley, the doctor Abbi dates in Broad City's final season?
Clea DuVall
Clea DuVall's Lesley ends it by calling Abbi's life a series of shenanigans, a verdict that nudges Abbi to apply for the artist residency that takes her out of New York.
Q 18Which politician makes a cameo in Broad City's season three episode '2016'?
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton walks into her own campaign office just as Ilana is quitting, having learned that the job she signed up for is unpaid volunteering.
Q 19What is the name of the stuffed toy Abbi hallucinates is walking beside her in 'Wisdom Teeth'?
Bingo Bronson
Bingo Bronson comes to life after Ilana tops up Abbi's painkillers with a cannabis drink; the giant toy then leads her out of the apartment and across Brooklyn.
Q 20In 'Wisdom Teeth', a heavily medicated Abbi wanders off and runs up a four-figure bill at which store?
Whole Foods
Whole Foods: Ilana only tracks her down when a call comes through on Abbi's phone asking about the enormous purchase.
Q 24Which NBA player takes Ilana home from a party in the episode 'B&B-NYC'?
Blake Griffin
Blake Griffin plays himself at a club party the pair gatecrash after overhearing a stranger talk about it on the phone, and Ilana leaves with him.
Q 25Which country singer do Abbi and Trey train together at the gym in season four?
Shania Twain
Shania Twain plays herself: for years Abbi had been telling people she trained the singer, and in 'Twaining Day' the lie finally comes true.
Q 26Which actor plays the mugger who marches Abbi to an ATM at gunpoint in 'Bedbugs'?
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi's mugger takes her cash and her new purse, but not before lecturing her on managing her money like an adult.
Q 27Which Broadway star do Abbi and Ilana follow to a drag brunch in 'Lost and Found'?
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming plays himself; while the pair gush over him at the brunch, their elderly charge Saul slips away, and is finally found shopping at IKEA.
Q 28Which sitcom star plays Abbi's mother Joanne in season four?
Peri Gilpin
Peri Gilpin, Roz in Frasier, plays Joanne, whose health scare sends her on a wild night out in one of Abbi's tight dresses, ending in a sex shop.
Q 29Who plays Abbi's father when she goes home to Pennsylvania in the episode 'Philadelphia'?
Tony Danza
Tony Danza plays him; clearing out her old bedroom there, Abbi finds the money she raised as a child for an injured classmate and never handed over.
Q 30Which former child star cameos in 'Burning Bridges', an episode that pays homage to Mrs. Doubtfire?
Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson, the youngest child in Mrs. Doubtfire, plays the waitress while Abbi dashes between two tables in one restaurant, the stunt Robin Williams pulls in the film.