Emily in Paris Trivia
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This Emily in Paris trivia quiz has 45 free questions with answers and covers all five seasons of the Netflix hit and the sixth and final one to come: Emily's move from Chicago to Savoir, Sylvie, Julien and Luc, Mindy's secret fortune, Gabriel downstairs, Camille's champagne family, Antoine's perfume house, Pierre Cadault and his rival, Alfie from French class, Nicolas and JVMA, Marcello, Megève and the Rome and Venice seasons. It also asks about the show itself: Darren Star and the Sex and the City connection, the Paramount Network order and the Netflix move, Place de l'Estrapade and the other locations, the wardrobe, the soundtrack, the Golden Globes trip, the Petra controversy, Brigitte Macron's cameo, the 'Emily effect' on tourism, and Lily Collins's own story. Easy questions suit anyone who has binged a season; the hard ones want the hotel that hosted the Globe voters and the Swedish bedmaker Savoir pitched. Every answer has been checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the series and its stars, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Who plays Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris?
Lily Collins
Lily Collins was cast as Emily on April 3, 2019, and also produces the show, sharing its 2021 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series.
Q 02From which American city does Emily move to Paris?
Chicago
Additional first-season photography actually took place in Chicago in November 2019.
Q 03On which streaming service did Emily in Paris premiere?
Netflix
Emily in Paris premiered on Netflix after the streamer acquired it from the cable channel that had first ordered it; Netflix renewed it for another season within weeks of its debut.
Q 04Who created Emily in Paris?
Darren Star
Darren Star created the series, having built his name on glossy ensemble shows about young adults, most recently Younger for TV Land.
Q 05What is the name of the French marketing firm Emily joins?
Savoir
It later becomes Agence Grateau, named for Emily's boss Sylvie.
Q 06Who plays Sylvie Grateau, Emily's tough Parisian boss?
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, daughter of the actor Philippe Leroy, was cast as Sylvie on September 19, 2019, in the same round of casting as most of the French regulars.
Q 07Who plays Mindy Chen, Emily's first friend in Paris?
Ashley Park
Ashley Park, a Tony nominee for Mean Girls on Broadway, plays Mindy; her a cappella 'La Vie en rose' in episode six debuted at number one on Billboard's Top TV Songs chart.
Q 08What is Mindy's job when Emily first meets her?
Nanny
Mindy is working as a nanny when Emily meets her in a park; she is secretly the estranged heiress of a Shanghai zipper magnate and an aspiring singer.
Q 09Who plays Gabriel, the chef who lives downstairs from Emily?
Lucas Bravo
Lucas Bravo plays Gabriel, head chef of the restaurant Chez Lavaux and the show's long-running 'will they, won't they'; the role was his international breakthrough.
Q 10Which of Emily's love interests does she meet in French class?
Alfie
Alfie, played by Lucien Laviscount, is a London banker Emily meets in French class in season two; Laviscount was promoted to series regular for season three.
Q 11What business does Camille's noble family own?
A château and champagne vineyard
Camille's family owns a château and champagne vineyard in Champagne, whose Champère label Emily helps market; Camille herself works at an art gallery.
Q 12Antoine Lambert, Emily's client and Sylvie's long-time lover, owns what kind of company?
A perfume house
Antoine's company is the perfume house Maison Lavaux, one of Emily's first clients; William Abadie, who plays him, was promoted to the main cast for season two.
Q 13On what date did Emily in Paris premiere?
October 2, 2020
Q 21Which season was released in two parts?
Fourth
Part one arrived on August 15, 2024 and part two on September 12, after the writers' strike delayed filming.
Q 22Which character is Emily's boss back in America who cannot take the Paris job because she is pregnant?
Madeline
Madeline Wheeler, played by Kate Walsh across the first three seasons, is the Gilbert Group executive whose pregnancy sends Emily to Paris in her place.
Q 23Who is Pierre Cadault?
A famous, flamboyant French fashion designer
Pierre Cadault is a famous, flamboyant French fashion designer, played by Jean-Christophe Bouvet; his nephew Mathieu briefly becomes one of Emily's love interests.
The first season dropped on October 2, 2020, a Friday, with all ten episodes at once; a further season was ordered on November 11 that year.
Q 14Which real French first lady made a cameo in season four?
Brigitte Macron
Brigitte Macron appears as herself in season four; her husband Emmanuel later told Variety the show was good for France's image and that he would fight to keep it in Paris.
Q 15Which Italian city becomes Emily's other home base from season four onwards?
Rome
Rome becomes Emily's other base when she follows Marcello there at the end of season four, and season five splits its episodes between Rome and Paris.
Q 16Who plays Julien, Emily's sharp-tongued colleague at the agency?
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold plays Julien, the colleague who greets Emily with disdain on her first day and briefly defects to a rival agency in season four.
Q 17Which Paris square is home to Emily's apartment, the boulangerie and the restaurant in the show?
Place de l'Estrapade
Emily's building, the boulangerie and Gabriel's restaurant all sit on Place de l'Estrapade in the 5th arrondissement near the Panthéon; the real bakery is the Boulangerie Moderne and the restaurant exterior belongs to the trattoria Terra Nera.
Q 18What nickname do Emily's new colleagues give her in season one?
La Plouc
Julien and Luc dub the newcomer 'la plouc', French slang for a hick or country bumpkin, in the first episodes of season one.
Q 19Which veteran costume designer worked with Marylin Fitoussi on Emily's wardrobe?
Patricia Field
Patricia Field, an Emmy winner for costume design and an Oscar nominee for The Devil Wears Prada, consulted on the first two seasons with Marylin Fitoussi, who led from season three.
Q 20Which cable channel originally ordered Emily in Paris straight to series in September 2018?
Paramount Network
Paramount Network, the ViacomCBS cable channel, gave MTV Studios a ten-episode straight-to-series order in September 2018, nearly two years before the show moved to a streaming service.
Q 24Who plays Grégory Elliot Duprée, Pierre Cadault's rival designer?
Jeremy O. Harris
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris, author of Slave Play, plays the designer Grégory Elliot Duprée; Rupert Everett later plays another designer, Giorgio Barbieri, in season four.
Q 25Nicolas de Léon, Mindy's love interest, is the son of the CEO of which fictional fashion conglomerate?
JVMA
Nicolas is heir to JVMA, the show's stand-in for LVMH, run by his father Louis de Léon; he and Mindy attended the same boarding school, and Paul Forman plays him.
Q 26Where does Emily meet Marcello, her Italian love interest?
Megève
Emily meets Marcello on the ski slopes of Megève in season four, when he rescues her after she loses her way; Eugenio Franceschini plays him.
Q 27Which British star joined season five as Princess Jane, Sylvie's old friend in Italian royalty?
Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver joined the season-five cast as Princess Jane, Sylvie's old friend married into Italian royalty; her casting was announced in May 2025 'in an undisclosed capacity'.
Q 28Which season featured the Ukrainian character Petra that drew a complaint from Ukraine's culture minister?
Second
Netflix promised she would be shown 'in a different context' in season three; 'We are not Petras' trended in Ukraine.
Q 29At which French hotel were about 30 Golden Globes voters put up before the 78th awards, fuelling bribery claims?
The Peninsula
The LA Times reported that the show's producers flew about 30 HFPA voters to the Paris set in 2019 and put them up at the five-star Peninsula, where rooms start around $1,400 a night.
Q 30How many households did the streamer say watched Emily in Paris in its first month?
58 million
The streamer projected 58 million households would watch in the show's first four weeks, a figure given in its third-quarter 2020 shareholder letter.