GLOW (TV Series)
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50 free GLOW (TV Series) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
GLOW took one of the strangest corners of 1980s television, a women's wrestling league staffed by out-of-work actresses, and turned it into one of Netflix's best-loved comedy-dramas. Over three seasons it followed a troupe of misfits learning to throw each other around while their friendships, marriages and careers came apart and knitted back together. This quiz covers the whole run: who plays whom, which wrestler hides behind which outrageous persona, the feuds and reconciliations that drive the story, the music and guest stars, and the real-life league and people the series drew on. It opens with the things most viewers remember and builds towards details only a rewatch will catch. It is for anyone who binged the series and still misses it, for wrestling fans curious how much they picked up, and for quiz hosts who want a ready-made round on a cult favourite. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you learn something even when you guess wrong.
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Q 01In GLOW, the Netflix comedy about 1980s women's wrestling, what does the G in the title stand for?
Gorgeous
Gorgeous opens the name of the real 1980s league the show fictionalises, a syndicated women's wrestling circuit founded by David McLane.
Q 02Which GLOW star, already known as Annie Edison in Community, plays struggling actress Ruth Wilder?
Alison Brie
Alison Brie had first gained recognition as Trudy Campbell in Mad Men, then spent six years as Annie before stepping into the ring.
Q 03Which stand-up comedian, the voice behind the WTF podcast, plays cynical director Sam Sylvia in GLOW?
Marc Maron
Marc Maron launched the podcast in 2009, interviewing comedians, authors and musicians in his garage in Highland Park, Los Angeles.
Q 04Which creator of the prison drama Orange Is the New Black served as an executive producer on GLOW?
Jenji Kohan
Jenji Kohan had already created Weeds for Showtime, and wrote one of the first season's episodes of the wrestling comedy herself.
Q 05After losing its TV deal, the wrestling troupe in GLOW moves to put on a live show in which city?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas was also home to the original 1980s wrestling show, so the move takes the fictional troupe to where the real one performed.
Q 06GLOW was renewed for a fourth and final season, so what led Netflix to scrap it mid-production?
The COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic halted filming in March 2020, when the cast had finished one episode and were about to start the second.
Q 07In GLOW's first season, teenage wrestler Justine Biagi turns out to be what relation to Sam Sylvia?
His daughter
His daughter joined the troupe only to meet him: Sam had a one-night stand with her mother Rosalie in Sacramento nearly two decades earlier.
Q 08Which real tragedy unfolds on live TV as Ruth Wilder plays the villain in GLOW's third-season opener?
The Challenger disaster
The Challenger disaster leaves Ruth racked with guilt, because she had been insulting the shuttle crew in character moments before it exploded.
Q 09Which Thelma & Louise star joined GLOW's third season as casino executive Sandy Devereaux St. Clair?
Geena Davis
Geena Davis plays a former showgirl who now runs the entertainment at the Fan-Tan Hotel and Casino, unmoved by wrestling until she sees the takings.
Q 10Several GLOW wrestlers appear in character in the music video for Swish Swish by which pop star?
Katy Perry
Katy Perry's 2017 video features five of the cast as their ring characters, among them Britney Young, Sydelle Noel and Ellen Wong.
Q 11Which ring persona does Ruth Wilder develop in GLOW after trying out the Homewrecker and Mint Julep?
Zoya the Destroya
Zoya the Destroya is a Soviet heel modelled on a real 1980s wrestler, and Ruth first finds the character at a store's ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Q 12Which ring persona does former soap opera star Debbie Eagan adopt as the leading lady of GLOW?
Liberty Belle
Liberty Belle is a patriotic Southern belle, a role first handed to Olympic medallist Reggie Walsh, who lost it for lack of personality.
Q 13Tammé Dawson worries what her son will think of which persona she wrestles under in GLOW?
The Welfare Queen
Q 21Ruth Wilder's friendship with Debbie Eagan collapses in GLOW's pilot episode after Ruth does what?
Sleeps with her husband
Ruth sleeps with her husband Mark, and when Debbie storms into the gym to confront her, their real fight in the ring persuades Sam to keep Ruth on.
Q 22What does a cocaine-fuelled Debbie Eagan break during her match with Ruth Wilder in GLOW's second season?
Her ankle
Her ankle is fractured badly enough to sideline Ruth for eight weeks, and the hospital visit turns into a heated argument over everything between them.
Q 23To research her Russian character in GLOW, Ruth Wilder joins her motel manager at which family event?
A bris
The Welfare Queen flaunts riches supposedly taken from the state, a stereotype her son finds offensive even as he admits that watching her wrestle was empowering.
Q 14Carmen Wade, who comes from a famous wrestling family, performs in GLOW as which gentle-giant persona?
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is billed as a gentle Peruvian giant, and Carmen helps train the other women, teaching them moves and the culture of the ring.
Q 15Rhonda Richardson wrestles in GLOW as which genius persona, who tries to bring a mannequin to life?
Britannica
Britannica is an English genius, and in the second season her storyline has her using science to animate a shop-window mannequin named Thomas.
Q 16Arthie Premkumar's GLOW villain, the Mad Bomber, is named after which Middle Eastern city?
Beirut
Beirut the Mad Bomber draws such hostility that a fan hurls a beer can at Arthie, who is in fact an Indian-American pre-med student.
Q 17Sheila, played by Gayle Rankin, tells the other wrestlers in GLOW that she is spiritually which animal?
A wolf
A wolf is what Sheila says she is in spirit, and she has kept up the look for at least five years, refusing to drop it even in everyday life.
Q 18What does Carmen Wade suffer from in GLOW that makes her pass out before the first live show?
Stage fright
Stage fright floors Carmen that night, and she only conquers it in the season finale when her disapproving father starts cheering for her.
Q 19Cherry Bang, the head trainer in GLOW, did which job on Sam Sylvia's 1970s films?
Stuntwoman
Stuntwoman Cherry had been out of work since 1979, so she seizes the chance to knock a troupe of complete beginners into shape.
Q 20Before joining GLOW, Debbie Eagan was famous for playing Laura Morgan on which fictional soap opera?
Paradise Cove
Paradise Cove lost Debbie around the birth of her son, and Sam later has to coax its former star into headlining his wrestling show.
A bris is being held for the manager's cousin, a young chess champion new to America, who asks Ruth to sing a Barbra Streisand song to ease his pain.
Q 24What is the name of the motel where the wrestlers of GLOW live together while they train?
The Dusty Spur
The Dusty Spur was played on screen by the Pink Motel, a real building in the Sun Valley district of Los Angeles.
Q 25At a charity fundraiser thrown by Bash Howard's mother in GLOW, the wrestlers pose as what?
Recovering drug addicts
Recovering drug addicts is the cover story, under the banner Wrestlers Against Drugs, and Ruth uses her fake confession to apologise to Debbie.
Q 26To calm complaints about GLOW's content, Debbie and Ruth film a public service spot on which topic?
Teen pregnancy
Teen pregnancy is the theme, and it backfires: the sponsor's boss is said to be offended, because his own mother was 15 when he was born.
Q 27Why does head trainer Cherry Bang briefly quit at the start of GLOW's second season?
To star in a cop show
To star in a cop show called Chambers and Gold, though Cherry struggles with her lines and Sam talks the network into letting her come back.
Q 28Newcomer Yolanda Rivas has no ring experience in GLOW's second season but impresses with which skill?
Breakdancing
Breakdancing is Yolanda's strength: she teaches Ruth some moves, and their dance-off makes the cut for the next episode despite Sam's grudge against Ruth.
Q 29How does an injured Ruth Wilder enter the ring to win the battle royal in GLOW's second-season finale?
By zip line
By zip line from the ceiling, Ruth swoops in to eliminate the last three women standing and take the crown, Sam's reward to his new co-director.
Q 30In GLOW's second-season finale, Rhonda Richardson agrees to an in-ring wedding because she needs what?
A green card
A green card would save Rhonda from deportation, but the planned groom, her biggest fan, is thrown out when Bash objects and marries her himself.