50 free Hard Suits trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This is the hard Suits trivia quiz. If you already know Mike never went to Harvard, Louis loves mudding and Donna knows everything, these 50 questions dig deeper: the real Manhattan law firm where the pilot was shot, the actor cut from that pilot as Hardman, the USA executive who bought a script that was not a procedural, Harvey's high-school baseball heartbreak, and which Looney Tunes duo Louis compares himself and Harvey to. The set covers development and production, the cast's careers before and after the show, character backstories that only turn up in a line or two of dialogue, the season-by-season plot machinery, the spin-offs Pearson and Suits LA, the international remakes, and the streaming numbers that made a finished show the most-watched series of 2023. It is written for people who have seen all 134 episodes. Every answer was checked against a primary or encyclopedic source before publishing and each question carries its citation. If you want a warm-up, start with our main Suits trivia quiz and come back for this one.
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Q 01The Suits pilot was filmed in New York at the offices of which real law firm?
Kirkland & Ellis
The Toronto sets at Downsview Park Studios were then built to match those offices exactly.
Q 02Which actor played Phillip Hardman in a scene cut from the US pilot but left in for British viewers?
Victor Garber
The deleted scene, which leaked to YouTube, showed Hardman retiring of his own accord. Costabile played the Daniel Hardman of later seasons.
Q 03USA promoted the pilot with an advance screening at Hudson River Park where it gave away what?
Häagen-Dazs sundae cones
Branded ice-cream carts, bikes and scooters followed in five cities in the days before the June 2011 premiere.
Q 04Which USA Network executive was talked into approving Korsh's script even though it was not a procedural?
Alex Sepiol
Korsh's agent argued the executive would like the characters. Korsh never pitched the script anywhere else.
Q 05Suits creator Aaron Korsh described his original half-hour spec script as what kind of show?
An Entourage-type
His sitcom Notes from the Underbelly had just been cancelled during the writers' strike. He soon realised the idea needed hour-long episodes.
Q 06In Korsh's original script, how did Mike's deception differ from the finished show?
He only pretended to have attended Harvard, and did not take LSATs for others
Korsh noted that Wall Street needs no degree or test, unlike the bar exam, and decided to embrace that difference when rewriting.
Q 07How many viewers watched the Suits pilot on its June 2011 broadcast?
4.64 million
It ranked ninth among basic cable shows that week. The New York Times called its premise preposterous.
Q 08Which show did the Suits pilot follow on USA Network's schedule on premiere night?
Burn Notice
It aired at 10 pm. The premiere showed double-digit growth over the launch of USA's other legal drama, Fairly Legal.
Q 09Which film director served as an executive producer on Suits from the first season?
Doug Liman
The Bourne Identity director's company Hypnotic Films & Television produced the show alongside Universal Cable Productions.
Q 10How many minutes of Suits were streamed on Netflix in 2023, per Nielsen, making it the year's most-streamed show?
57.7 billion
It topped Nielsen's charts for a record 12 weeks after arriving on Netflix and Peacock, prompting NBCUniversal to develop Suits LA.
Q 11For how many consecutive weeks did Suits top Nielsen's streaming charts in 2023, a record at the time?
12
Netflix called it its most-watched acquired series in a single week. The show then made its US broadcast debut on MyNetworkTV in autumn 2024.
Q 12Which UK channel dropped Suits before season seven, letting Netflix pick up the British rights?
Dave
Netflix then streamed episodes less than 24 hours after US broadcast, though it did not take the Irish rights.
Q 13Suits has been remade in South Korea, Japan, Egypt and which other country?
Mongolia
The Mongolian version aired on Mongol TV in 2023. The Korean remake starred Jang Dong-gun and Park Hyung-sik on KBS2 in 2018.
Q 21Where did Sarah Rafferty earn her Master of Fine Arts?
Yale
She grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, studied at Oxford during her junior year at Hamilton College and graduated magna cum laude.
Q 22Harvey's father Gordon Specter played which instrument?
Saxophone
Gordon was immensely proud of Harvey and kept asking why he had not made partner. Harvey's mother Lily repeatedly cheated on him.
Q 23Harvey was a star high-school pitcher. What still haunts him about the state championship?
A shoulder injury kept him out and the team won anyway
Q 14On which network did Suits LA premiere in February 2025?
NBC
Stephen Amell played ex-prosecutor Ted Black of Black Lane Law. The show was cancelled after one season in May 2025.
Q 15Gabriel Macht's return as Harvey in Suits LA was an arc of how many episodes?
3
Macht said he had thought his time with the character was over. The spin-off explored Harvey's earlier friendship with prosecutor Ted Black.
Q 16Who co-created the spin-off Pearson with Aaron Korsh?
Daniel Arkin
Morgan Spector played Chicago mayor Bobby Novak. The show was cancelled after one season in October 2019.
Q 17Which relative of the actor who plays Harvey appeared as Harvard ethics professor Henry Gerard?
His father, Stephen
The elder Macht guest-starred in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019. Louis's forged transcript for Mike showed an A+ in Gerard's class.
Q 18Before Suits, Gina Torres was best known as Zoë Washburne in which cult sci-fi series?
Firefly
Torres, the daughter of Cuban immigrants from the Bronx, later won Outstanding Performance at the 2013 NHMC Impact Awards for Jessica.
Q 19Patrick J. Adams won which scholarship, funded by a famous actor, while studying at USC?
The Jack Nicholson Award
The Toronto-born actor moved to Los Angeles at 19. He earned a SAG nomination for Mike Ross in 2012.
Q 20In which short-lived Darren Star series about Wall Street did Rick Hoffman play Freddie Sacker?
The $treet
It was pulled after seven episodes in 2000 but let Hoffman quit waiting tables. He studied theatre at the University of Arizona.
His office holds signed baseballs and basketballs and a vinyl collection heavy on soul artists like The Spinners and Charles Bradley.
Q 24Louis compares his rivalry with Harvey to which Looney Tunes pair?
Ralph the Wolf and Sam the Sheepdog
The two clock in as enemies and clock out as friends, and Louis reluctantly came to see Harvey's value to the firm.
Q 25Louis Litt was born and raised in which New York suburb, where he was home-schooled until the age of ten?
Scarsdale
Louis is Jewish and occasionally references his faith. In 2003 Harvey joined the firm from the DA's office and both were later made junior partners.
Q 26Which client's case sparked the Harvey-Louis rivalry when Louis leaked Harvey's strategy to Hardman?
McKernon Motors
Louis was trying to win favour with the managing partner. Both men had been senior associates at Pearson Hardman at the time.
Q 27What was the name of Louis's childhood bully, discussed in his sessions with Dr. Lipschitz?
Chaz McManus
Ray Proscia played the therapist, who also saw Louis through his break-ups with Sheila and Tara.
Q 28In season three, what pushes Louis to a dramatic meltdown after the Darby merger?
A change in the office-supply brands he prefers
The character became known for outsized reactions to everyday problems, part of what makes his loyalty and jealousy so 'complicated'.
Q 29Which older secretary does Harvey hire as Donna's replacement when she leaves to work for Louis?
Gretchen Bodinski
Aloma Wright played her. Harvey chose the physical opposite of Donna from a waiting room of younger applicants and had low expectations at first.
Q 30Which awkward Suits associate did Louis force to look after his sick cat despite a severe cat allergy?
Harold Gunderson
Max Topplin's character had an unrequited crush on Rachel and later turned up at rival firm Bratton Gould.