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50 free Current TV Shows trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Television has never offered more to argue about. Streaming services drop prestige dramas and comedies all year round, the broadcast networks still launch procedurals and sitcoms each autumn, and reality contests and game shows keep finding new audiences. Keeping up with all of it is a sport in itself. This quiz covers the shows of the streaming era that people are watching and talking about now, including Severance, The Bear, The White Lotus, Squid Game, The Pitt, Abbott Elementary, Only Murders in the Building, Slow Horses, Bridgerton and House of the Dragon. Questions range over the casts and the characters they play, the creators behind the camera, where the stories are set, the books and games they are adapted from, and a few surprising facts from behind the scenes. It is written for anyone planning a quiz night round on today's television, and for viewers who want to test how closely they have been watching. The early questions are friendly to casual viewers, while the later ones reward fans who know who writes and directs their favorite series.
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Q 01Which rock legend co-wrote and sings Strange Game, the theme song of the spy drama Slow Horses?
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger wrote it with composer Daniel Pemberton, who had emailed him out of the blue, and the song went on to earn an Emmy nomination.
Q 02Which comedy film star is the executive producer and main director of the thriller Severance?
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller began developing the thriller with creator Dan Erickson in 2015, four years before Apple ordered it to series.
Q 03Which playground game, refereed by a giant robot doll, is the first deadly contest in Squid Game?
Red Light, Green Light
Red Light, Green Light is played under a doll modeled on Young-hee, a character from the covers of 1970s South Korean school textbooks.
Q 04Mike White, creator of The White Lotus, finished runner-up on which long-running reality competition?
Survivor
Survivor placed him second in its David vs. Goliath season, and several of his fellow castaways have since appeared in cameos at his fictional resorts.
Q 05Which Netflix hit sent Kate Bush's 1985 single Running Up That Hill to number one decades later?
Stranger Things
Stranger Things featured the song in its fourth season in 2022, and it went on to pass a billion streams on Spotify.
Q 06Which actress, Wednesday Addams in the 1990s films, joined Netflix's Wednesday as a botany teacher?
Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci plays Marilyn Thornhill, reuniting with director Tim Burton, her collaborator on the 1999 film Sleepy Hollow.
Q 07Bluey, the hit cartoon about a Blue Heeler puppy and her family, is animated in which country?
Australia
Australia is home to Ludo Studio, which animates the cartoon in Brisbane and bases its parks and shopping centers on real places in the city.
Q 08Which ER veteran returned to scrubs as Dr. Robby in The Pitt, where each episode covers one hour?
Noah Wyle
Noah Wyle is also an executive producer, reuniting with ER colleagues John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill for the Pittsburgh hospital drama.
Q 09Which pop star solves crimes with Steve Martin and Martin Short in Only Murders in the Building?
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez plays Mabel Mora, a young artist renovating her aunt's apartment who grew up solving pretend mysteries with her friends.
Q 10In The Bear, chef Carmy Berzatto inherits a Chicago family shop known for which sandwich?
Italian beef
Italian beef is the specialty of The Original Beef of Chicagoland, the failing shop Carmy takes over after a career in fine dining.
Q 11Which comedian created Abbott Elementary and stars as second-grade teacher Janine Teagues?
Quinta Brunson
Quinta Brunson named the school after Joyce Abbott, one of her favorite teachers, and drew on her mother's 40-year career in the classroom.
Q 12In The Last of Us, a mutated form of which real fungus turns people into zombie-like creatures?
Cordyceps
Cordyceps is a real parasite of insects, and the effects team studied time-lapse videos of its growth to animate the infected.
Q 13Which film star played ranch patriarch John Dutton in Yellowstone before leaving during season five?
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner led the Montana drama as the owner of the state's largest cattle ranch, and its success launched the prequels 1883 and 1923.
Q 21Which comic actor co-created The Studio and stars as Matt Remick, the new head of Continental Studios?
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen also directed every first-season episode with his creative partner Evan Goldberg, playing a film lover torn between art and profit.
Q 22Which film legend plays Paul Rhoades, a senior therapist with Parkinson's disease, in Shrinking?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford took the part despite once saying he was content to work only once a year, and it brought him awards nominations.
Q 23Amazon's Reacher, about a hulking former military policeman, is based on novels by which author?
Lee Child
Lee Child's first novel about the drifter, Killing Floor, was the basis for the first season, while the second skipped ahead to the eleventh book.
Q 14House of the Dragon follows a civil war inside which dragon-riding royal family of Westeros?
Targaryen
Targaryen heirs fight a war of succession known as the Dance of the Dragons, set nearly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones.
Q 15Which actress won an Emmy for every season of Hacks as Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance?
Jean Smart
Jean Smart won five times in all, becoming the first actress to win an Emmy for every season of a show that ran for more than two seasons.
Q 16Which Oscar-winning Dame is heard but never seen as gossip writer Lady Whistledown in Bridgerton?
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews was cast in 2019 to voice the author of the scandalous society newsletter, and her voice-overs explain much of the action.
Q 17In Ted Lasso, an American college football coach is hired to manage which fictional English club?
AFC Richmond
AFC Richmond belongs to Rebecca Welton, who won it in her divorce and hires the inexperienced Lasso secretly hoping he will wreck the team.
Q 18Which radio and television presenter replaced the retiring Pat Sajak as the host of Wheel of Fortune?
Ryan Seacrest
Ryan Seacrest, long the face of American Idol, started with the game show's 42nd season after Sajak announced his retirement.
Q 19Which 74-game Jeopardy! champion became the quiz show's host after the death of Alex Trebek?
Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings was a software engineer before his 2004 winning streak, and he came back to the quiz in 2020 as a producer.
Q 20Grey's Anatomy, a medical drama that began in 2005, is set in which US city?
Seattle
Seattle is where the surgeons work, but the long-running drama is filmed mostly in Los Angeles.
Q 24In The Boys, which power-hungry hero leads the Seven, Vought's premier superhero team?
Homelander
Homelander is played by Antony Starr, and his corporate bosses work to make sure the public sees their superpowered stars as heroes.
Q 25Diego Luna first played rebel spy Cassian Andor in which Star Wars film, before the series Andor?
Rogue One
Rogue One came out in 2016, and the prequel series covers the five years before it, showing how a thief became a committed rebel.
Q 26On Love Is Blind, singles date and get engaged sight unseen from inside private rooms called what?
Pods
Pods keep the contestants apart for 10 days of talking, and couples only meet face to face once they are engaged.
Q 27Which Scottish actor became the host of the US version of The Traitors, filmed at a Highland castle?
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming presides over a game adapted from the Dutch series De Verraders, in which hidden Traitors try to eliminate the Faithful.
Q 28Which actress stars as Captain Olivia Benson on the long-running Law & Order: Special Victims Unit?
Mariska Hargitay
Mariska Hargitay has played Benson since the show began in 1999, and in 2019 her police drama became the longest-running primetime live-action series on American television.
Q 29In Nobody Wants This, Kristen Bell's agnostic podcaster falls for a man with which job?
Rabbi
Rabbi is the calling of Adam Brody's character, who is hoping for promotion at his synagogue when he meets Joanne, just after a long relationship ends.
Q 30Which Irish actor reprised his role from The Batman as Gotham gangster Oz Cobb in The Penguin?
Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell plays the role under makeup by Mike Marino, who returned from the 2022 film and refined the look for television.