50 free Hard Cobra Kai trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This is the hard Cobra Kai quiz. If you already know that Johnny drives a Firebird, that Miguel was his first student and that Terry Silver came back in season four, these 50 questions go deeper: the mock trailer the creators pitched with, the Karate Kid alumni who returned in season three, where the Okinawa and Mexico scenes were really shot, the 1968 mission that forged Kreese, why Silver was even written into Part III, and the first-ever Netflix show to be released in thirds. The set covers development and production, filming locations, the cast's careers before and after the Valley, the backstories of Kreese, Silver and Miyagi, the plot mechanics of every season through the Sekai Taikai, and the films from 1984 to Karate Kid: Legends. It is written for people who have watched all 65 episodes. Every answer was checked against a primary or encyclopedic source before publishing and each question carries its citation. For a warm-up, start with our main Cobra Kai trivia quiz and come back for this one.
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Q 01How did the creators pitch Cobra Kai to networks in 2017?
With a mock trailer cut from earlier footage of Macchio and Zabka
Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and AMC all heard the pitch; YouTube Red greenlit it in August 2017 with Sony Pictures Television producing.
Q 02How many episodes did Cobra Kai run for across its six seasons?
65
It premiered on May 2, 2018 and ended on February 13, 2025, moving from YouTube Red to Netflix along the way.
Q 03Which season of Cobra Kai was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmys?
The third
That was at the 73rd ceremony in 2021, after Netflix had picked the show up. Ralph Macchio also earned an Emmy nomination for the role.
Q 04Where did the world premiere of Cobra Kai's first season take place in April 2018?
The SVA Theatre in New York, during Tribeca
A discussion with the three creators, Zabka and Macchio followed the screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Q 05Which veteran actor guest-starred in season one as Johnny's abusive stepfather Sid Weinberg?
Ed Asner
Randee Heller also returned as Daniel's mother Lucille, and Martin Kove appeared in the season finale before becoming a regular.
Q 06Which Atlanta college site was among the season one filming locations?
Emory University's Briarcliff Campus
Filming began in October 2017 and also used Union City, Marietta and soccer fields in East Cobb.
Q 07Season three's Okinawa scenes took two days. Where were season five's Mexico scenes filmed?
Puerto Rico
The Okinawa block was filmed on location in Japan in November 2019, along with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
Q 08The LaRusso family house in Cobra Kai, in Marietta, Georgia, once featured on which HGTV programme?
My Big Amazing Renovation
Season three finished filming in 2019, before Netflix acquired the series.
Q 09Which four Karate Kid Part II actors returned in season three as Bobby, Kumiko, Yuna and Chozen?
Ron Thomas, Tamlyn Tomita, Traci Toguchi and Yuji Okumoto
Elisabeth Shue also came back for a two-episode arc as Ali Mills that season.
Q 10Which two Karate Kid Part III actors guest-starred in season five as Mike Barnes and Jessica Andrews?
Sean Kanan and Robyn Lively
Alicia Hannah-Kim joined the same season as Kim Da-eun, and Dallas Dupree Young's Kenny Payne was promoted to series regular.
Q 11Season six's three-part release made Cobra Kai the first Netflix original to be released how?
Split into thirds
Netflix announced the 15-episode plan on May 2, 2024. The season had been slated for December 2023 before the Hollywood strikes delayed it.
Q 12How many views did the first part of season six draw in its first four days on Netflix?
14.8 million
That was 1.1 billion minutes streamed and the top spot for the week of July 15 to 21, 2024, though Deadline argued the split release depressed early numbers.
Q 13Which Terry Silver-sponsored team faces Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai at the Sekai Taikai in Barcelona?
The Iron Dragons
Q 21Why was Terry Silver written into The Karate Kid Part III in the first place?
Martin Kove's TV schedule limited Kreese's role
Kove was tied up with Hard Time on Planet Earth. The film was Thomas Ian Griffith's screen debut; he had trained in kenpo and tae kwon do.
Q 22In season five, Terry Silver recruits new senseis from which country to expand Cobra Kai?
South Korea
Among them was Kim Da-Eun, granddaughter of Kim Sun-Yung, whose style influenced Cobra Kai. Tory confronted Silver over bribing the All-Valley referee.
Q 23In season six, a 1947 clipping in Mr. Miyagi's hidden box accuses him of what?
Lewis Tan played the team's leader, Sensei Wolf, who had lost his own dojo before Silver recruited him.
Q 14Which Cobra Kai season six fighter, played by Brandon H. Lee, dies after accidentally stabbing himself?
Kwon Jae-Sung
Kreese had spotted his potential while training abroad and taught him to channel his anger. The knife was an eunjangdo Kreese retrieved from a cave with a cobra.
Q 15Where does Terry Silver first find the fighter who leads his season-six team?
A karate club in Bangkok
Silver's charges had been dropped because Stingray was an unreliable witness, but his reputation and most of his fortune were gone.
Q 16Which fighter must Kim Da-Eun kill in season six, per Kim Sun-Yung, to inherit the dojo?
John Kreese
She kills her grandfather instead after Kreese compliments her teaching. Kreese then hands the Cobra Kai dojo back to Johnny.
Q 17In the season six finale, what does Kreese ignite aboard Silver's yacht?
A puddle of oil beside gas canisters, with his cigar
Silver had been plotting to abduct Carmen and Johnny's newborn daughter before Johnny's final fight with Sensei Wolf.
Q 18In Cobra Kai's flashbacks, in which year did Kreese begin special-forces training under Captain Turner?
1968
Turner taught him Tang Soo Do. His teammates included a young Terry Silver and a man called Ponytail.
Q 19What was young Terry Silver's nickname on Kreese's Vietnam team?
Twig
Turner later tried to break Kreese before their fight over the snake pit by revealing that his girlfriend Betsy had died in a car accident.
Q 20Before the war, teenage Kreese worked what job in the San Fernando Valley?
Busboy at a diner
The show gives him a birthday of October 2, 1946, an absent father and a mother who died by suicide, leaving him to fend for himself.
Assaulting a man and stealing a necklace
The box also revealed Miyagi had been a boxer and silent partner in a boxing gym. Silver later handed Daniel a file about Miyagi's own tournament past.
Q 24What is the sensei's full name in the franchise?
Nariyoshi Keisuke Miyagi
Pat Morita earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for the role. Cobra Kai uses archive footage and a briefly CG-altered body double to feature him.
Q 25According to the films, how old was Miyagi when he left Okinawa for the United States?
18
Born June 9, 1925, he emigrated despite the 1924 Immigration Act after unsuccessfully declaring his love for a woman promised to Sato.
Q 26In The Next Karate Kid, Miyagi goes to Arlington for a commendation of which Japanese-American WWII unit?
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team
There he meets Louisa Pierce, widow of his commanding officer, and ends up training her granddaughter Julie.
Q 27Which state does Daniel LaRusso move from to Reseda in the original 1984 film?
New Jersey
His mother Lucille had taken a job at a computer firm. In Cobra Kai he owns the Valley's most profitable car dealership.
Q 28William Zabka earned an Academy Award nomination in 2004 for what?
Co-writing and producing the short film Most
The short, shot in the Czech Republic and Poland, premiered at Sundance. Zabka had no karate training before The Karate Kid.
Q 29Which band's 2007 video starring Zabka as a washed-up Johnny foreshadowed Cobra Kai?
No More Kings
'Sweep the Leg' featured cameos by Macchio and Kove. Zabka and Macchio later played themselves in a 2013 How I Met Your Mother episode.
Q 30In which How I Met Your Mother episode did Macchio and Zabka appear as themselves?
'The Bro Mitzvah'
Zabka was revealed as a clown wiping off his make-up at Barney's bachelor party and became a recurring character on the sitcom.