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50 free CSI: Miami trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
CSI: Miami gave the world a lieutenant who put on his sunglasses, delivered a pun and walked off as The Who screamed 'Yeah!' It also, in 2006, was the most-watched TV series on the planet. David Caruso appeared in all 232 episodes; the rest of the lab had a rougher time. These 50 questions cover the whole run: the back-door pilot inside CSI, Emily Procter leaving The West Wing, Kim Delaney's ten-episode stay, Speedle's dirty gun, Marisol, Natalia's FBI secret, Tara's pills, the halon attack, Frank Tripp and Walter Simmons, the Felony Flight and Bone Voyage crossovers, the SkyOne credit union that played the crime lab, Long Beach standing in for Miami, and the 2012 duel with CSI: NY that Miami lost. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo or print it for a TV night.
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Q 01On which network did CSI: Miami air from 2002 to 2012?
CBS
CBS gave the show much of the credit for its own success: on ending the run after ten seasons, the network called it 'a key player in CBS's rise to the top over the past decade'.
Q 02What police rank does Horatio Caine hold on CSI: Miami?
Lieutenant
Lieutenant Caine got the crime lab when its previous head, Megan Donner, took leave after her husband was killed; she came back to find the job was now his.
Q 03Which make of vehicle do the CSI: Miami investigators drive to their crime scenes?
Hummer
Hummers are the team's ride, and one episode turns on that: Calleigh's is forced off the road into a canal, and the evidence she had just collected goes down with it.
Q 04Which actor plays Mac Taylor, the out-of-state detective Horatio Caine teams up with in a 2004 CSI: Miami episode?
Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise's Mac Taylor meets Horatio when a double murder sends the Miami man after a killer who flew in from another city; the two leads share the screen again in later crossovers.
Q 05In season four of CSI: Miami, Ryan Wolfe is shot in the eye with which tool?
A nail gun
A nail gun, the murder weapon in the case he was working: he is attacked when he goes back to the scene, and for episodes afterwards his failing eyesight puts his job in doubt.
Q 06In 2024 the CSI: Miami name returned to television for what kind of series?
A true-crime documentary
A true-crime documentary: 'The Real CSI: Miami' swapped fiction for real-life cases and the forensic science that solved them, with the creators of the original drama producing.
Q 07To which country do Horatio and Delko travel in CSI: Miami's fifth season premiere to hunt a gang boss?
Brazil
Brazil is where the gang leader Antonio Riaz had been deported under a plea bargain; the two men track him to Rio, where he dies in a knife fight with them.
Q 08What was Horatio Caine's specialty before he took charge of the crime lab on CSI: Miami?
Bomb disposal
Bomb disposal is where he learned his trade, and the show's second episode makes it personal: his bomb-squad mentor is killed trying to disarm a device fastened around another man's neck.
Q 09What is Calleigh Duquesne's forensic specialty on CSI: Miami?
Ballistics
Ballistics is her field, and suspects who take the small, sunny Southerner for a pushover find out too late that she has read them from the start.
Q 10On CSI: Miami, Eric Delko is the team's specialist in recovering evidence from where?
Underwater
Underwater recovery is his specialty, though he began as a tow-truck driver: he met Horatio on a job, and Horatio talked him into joining the police.
Q 11Who plays Eric Delko on CSI: Miami?
Adam Rodriguez
Adam Rodriguez stepped back during season eight and Eddie Cibrian was hired as a new lead, yet a year on it was Rodriguez who was back full-time and Cibrian who had been let go.
Q 12Which CSI: Miami character is a DNA specialist with ties to the FBI?
Natalia Boa Vista
Natalia Boa Vista arrived on a federal grant that confined her to cold cases, but that was cover: she was reporting on the lab to the FBI, and her colleagues shunned her when it came out.
Q 13How does Horatio Caine outwit an arms dealer between the sixth and seventh seasons of CSI: Miami?
He fakes his own death
Q 21Who plays Calleigh Duquesne on CSI: Miami?
Emily Procter
Emily Procter first appeared on screen as a weather presenter at a local North Carolina station while studying journalism and dance, then moved to Los Angeles and started as an extra.
Q 22Which Scooby-Doo character did the actress behind CSI: Miami's Calleigh say she liked to pretend to be?
Velma
Velma was her model for a character she called 'a weird girl', 'bright and very nerdy', dressed in boot-cut corduroys and turquoise necklaces.
Q 23Which actress turned down the role of Megan Donner in CSI: Miami's first season?
Sela Ward
Sela Ward said no to keep time for her children, the same reason she gave for passing on Desperate Housewives; eight years later she did join the franchise, on a sister show.
He fakes his own death: season six ends with Horatio apparently shot dead on an airport tarmac, and the next premiere reveals it was staged, with Ryan Wolfe in on the plan.
Q 14Who is CSI: Miami's original medical examiner?
Alexx Woods
Alexx Woods, played by Khandi Alexander, talks to the dead like a mother, calling the bodies on her table 'sweetie' and 'baby'; in the end she quits to spend more time with the living.
Q 15How is Detective Yelina Salas related to Horatio Caine on CSI: Miami?
His sister-in-law
His sister-in-law: Yelina married Horatio's younger brother, later left the force for a new life abroad with her family, and came back to Miami as a private investigator.
Q 16Which Internal Affairs officer hounds Horatio's team for years before being arrested himself in season eight?
Rick Stetler
Rick Stetler turns out to be the thief in his own evidence inquiry: he stole the diamonds, tried to pin it on Ryan Wolfe, and it is Wolfe who gets to arrest him.
Q 17What was CSI: Miami's original working title?
CSI: Miami-Dade
CSI: Miami-Dade was the name floated when the spin-off was ordered in April 2002; its creator promised a Miami beyond the cliche, a show 'not about women walking around in bikinis' but 'about science'.
Q 18How was CSI: Miami launched?
As an episode of the original CSI
As an episode of the original CSI: in 'Cross Jurisdictions' two Las Vegas investigators follow a kidnapped girl's trail to Florida and work the case with Horatio Caine's team.
Q 19Which star of the original CSI said its makers 'should have waited five years' before launching a spin-off?
William Petersen
William Petersen, star and producer of the original, said it before the spin-off had aired, and added that he would have nothing to do with the new show.
Q 20What does Calleigh Duquesne do in CSI: Miami's final season that changes her home life?
Adopts two children
Adopts two children: she meets Austin and Patty North through the hunt for their fugitive father, and ends the series as their mother.
Q 24Which NYPD Blue star left CSI: Miami after only ten episodes as Megan Donner?
Kim Delaney
Kim Delaney was hired to give the show a strong female lead, but she and its star never clicked; the network said her character had become 'less integral', and she was written out.
Q 25Who plays Horatio Caine, the head of the crime lab on CSI: Miami?
David Caruso
David Caruso made Horatio his last role: when the show ended in 2012 he stopped acting altogether, and is reported to have moved into the art business.
Q 26CSI: Miami is set in Florida, but in which state was it mostly filmed?
California
California: interiors were shot at a studio in Manhattan Beach, and Long Beach, which a producer called 'Miami of the West', supplied the palms and waterfront 2,300 miles from Florida.
Q 27CSI: Miami's first regular episode sends the team into the Everglades to investigate what?
A jet crash
A jet crash opens the series; the puzzle is a woman's body lying five miles from the wreckage, which makes Horatio doubt the lone survivor's story.
Q 28Why can't Horatio's team arrest the killer Clavo Cruz at first in season two?
He has diplomatic immunity
He has diplomatic immunity as the son of a foreign general turned ambassador; a season later Horatio finds a way to strip the protection away and makes the arrest.
Q 29What is CSI: Miami's theme song?
Won't Get Fooled Again
Won't Get Fooled Again supplies the show's most famous sound: each cold open cuts to the song's scream of 'Yeah!' as the titles begin, a moment that became an internet joke.
Q 30What nearly kills Eric Delko in season five of CSI: Miami?
A gunshot to the head
A gunshot to the head, taken in a parking-garage ambush while he and Horatio are trying to rescue a kidnapped woman; he pulls through and returns to the team.