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50 free Hulu trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Hulu began as an experiment by rival television networks that wanted a legal home for their shows online, and grew into the service behind some of the most awarded series of the streaming era. Along the way it changed owners, picked up cancelled favourites and turned out original films that travelled well beyond its subscribers. This quiz covers both sides of the story. There are questions on where the service came from and who has owned it, and plenty more on what people actually watch there: prestige dramas, FX series such as The Bear, comedies like Only Murders in the Building, reality television, animation, documentaries and original movies, with the casts and creators behind them. It works for a streaming-themed quiz night, a family argument about who has seen the most, or a quick test of your own watch history. Every question comes with its answer and a short explanation.
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Q 01The name of the streaming service Hulu was borrowed from a word for a gourd in which language?
Mandarin
Mandarin supplied two readings of the name: one means a bottle gourd and the other interactive recording, a neat fit for a site built to stream television on demand.
Q 02Which drama, adapted from a 1985 novel, made Hulu the first streamer to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series?
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale took eight Emmys from 13 nominations for its first season in 2017, including the top drama prize that no streaming series had won before.
Q 03Which pop star plays Mabel Mora alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short in Only Murders in the Building?
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez plays Mabel, the youngest of three true-crime fans who start investigating suspicious deaths in the Arconia, their upscale apartment block on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Q 04In FX on Hulu's The Bear, chef Carmy Berzatto returns to which city to run an Italian beef sandwich shop?
Chicago
Chicago is home for Carmy, an award-winning fine-dining chef who takes over the chaotic kitchen at The Original Beef of Chicagoland after the death of his brother Michael.
Q 05Which FX on Hulu historical epic won 18 Emmys in 2024, the most ever for one season of television?
Shōgun
Shōgun swept 18 categories and became the first Japanese-language series to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, adapting James Clavell's 1975 novel.
Q 06Which former Batman actor won an Emmy playing Dr. Samuel Finnix in Hulu's opioid-crisis drama Dopesick?
Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton took the Emmy for lead actor in a limited series, in a drama that follows how Purdue Pharma developed and marketed OxyContin under the Sackler family.
Q 07Which 30 Rock star fronted the Hulu commercial that aired during NBC's broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII?
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin starred in the spot, titled Alec in Huluwood, and later ads in the campaign featured Seth MacFarlane, Denis Leary and Will Arnett.
Q 08Hulu's film Prey, about a young Comanche hunter in 1719, is a prequel in which sci-fi franchise?
Predator
Predator gained its fifth film with Prey, in which Naru, a Comanche woman out to prove herself as a hunter, faces a far better armed visitor on the Northern Great Plains.
Q 09Which rock drummer, a partner of Kourtney Kardashian, had his wedding filmed for Hulu's reality series The Kardashians?
Travis Barker
Travis Barker and Kourtney had their wedding filmed for the show, a retooled continuation of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which ended in 2021 after a 20-season run.
Q 10Which Saturday Night Live alum plays a wedding guest stuck in a time loop in Hulu's comedy Palm Springs?
Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg also produced the film, which Neon and Hulu bought at Sundance for a reported $17,500,000.69, beating the festival's previous sale record by 69 cents.
Q 11Hulu launched in 2007 as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and which media giant that then owned Myspace?
News Corporation
News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's media empire, co-founded the service with NBCUniversal, and Providence Equity, Disney and Time Warner later made investments.
Q 12Which Mad Men actress won an Emmy as June Osborne in Hulu's drama about the republic of Gilead?
Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Moss won both the lead actress Emmy and a Golden Globe as June, who is captured while trying to flee the country with her husband Luke and daughter Hannah.
Q 13Amanda Seyfried won an Emmy in Hulu's The Dropout as Elizabeth Holmes, founder of which Silicon Valley startup?
Theranos
Q 21Which actor stars as fine-dining chef Carmy Berzatto in The Bear, the FX kitchen drama that streams on Hulu?
Jeremy Allen White
Jeremy Allen White plays Carmy, also known as Bear, a New York City chef de cuisine who gives up Michelin-starred kitchens to rescue the failing family restaurant.
Q 22Which actress plays single mother Mia Warren opposite Reese Witherspoon in Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere?
Kerry Washington
Kerry Washington, also an executive producer, plays a transient working artist whose arrival unsettles Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb, in the late 1990s.
Q 23Hulu's Normal People, starring Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, is adapted from a novel by which Irish author?
Sally Rooney
Theranos was the healthcare startup Holmes founded after dropping out of Stanford, and the series, based on an ABC Audio podcast, charts the company's rise and fall.
Q 14Which Oscar winner plays Masha, the Russian founder of a wellness resort, in Hulu's Nine Perfect Strangers?
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman leads the series as the head of Tranquillum House, with Melissa McCarthy among the guests, in an adaptation of Liane Moriarty's 2018 novel.
Q 15In Hulu's miniseries 11.22.63, James Franco plays a time traveller trying to stop the assassination of which president?
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, the date in the title, and across eight episodes Jake Epping grows so attached to his life in the past that it threatens the mission.
Q 16Which animated sitcom did Hulu revive with new episodes after earlier runs on Fox and Comedy Central?
Futurama
Futurama won a twenty-episode order from Hulu in 2022, a third home for the science fiction comedy that Groening developed with David X. Cohen.
Q 17Which actress returned as the title private detective when Hulu revived Veronica Mars for a fourth season?
Kristen Bell
Kristen Bell reprised the role she first played as a high school junior in the fictional town of Neptune, California, for eight new episodes released in 2019.
Q 18Which actress and singer plays Sophie, a photographer searching for her soulmate, in Hulu's How I Met Your Father?
Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff leads the spin-off as Sophie Tompkins, with Kim Cattrall also in the cast, in a story that follows Sophie and her group of friends in Manhattan.
Q 19When Disney+ launched in 2019, its discount bundle paired the new service with Hulu and which sports streamer?
ESPN+
ESPN+ completed a three-service package sold from the launch of Disney+ in November 2019, priced at $12.99 a month with the ad-supported tier of Hulu.
Q 20Which Marvel actor played Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee opposite Lily James in Hulu's miniseries Pam & Tommy?
Sebastian Stan
Sebastian Stan played the rock star in a series about home videos that were stolen from the couple and sold, with Seth Rogen and Nick Offerman also in the cast.
Sally Rooney co-wrote the scripts for the adaptation of her 2018 novel, which follows Marianne and Connell from the same secondary school to the same university.
Q 24Hulu's horror series Castle Rock is named after a fictional Maine town in the stories of which bestselling author?
Stephen King
Stephen King collaborated on the series with J. J. Abrams, and it draws on his wider body of work instead of adapting a single book.
Q 25The first season of FX on Hulu's Reservation Dogs, about Indigenous teenagers, was filmed entirely in which US state?
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is home to the show's teenagers, who weigh their heritage against a longing to escape reservation life; Sterlin Harjo created the series with Taika Waititi.
Q 26Hulu's cartoon Solar Opposites was created by Mike McMahan and Justin Roiland, a co-creator of which other series?
Rick and Morty
Rick and Morty made Roiland's name, but he was removed from Solar Opposites in early 2023 and Dan Stevens took over as the voice of Korvo.
Q 27Which romantic comedy series did Hulu pick up for a fourth season days after Fox cancelled it in 2015?
The Mindy Project
The Mindy Project was dropped by Fox after three seasons and rescued by Hulu nine days later with a 26-episode order; Mindy Kaling's comedy ran for six seasons in all.
Q 28Which actress led Hulu's High Fidelity as record store owner Rob, two decades after her mother appeared in the film?
Zoë Kravitz
Zoë Kravitz plays Robyn Brooks, owner of Championship Vinyl in Brooklyn, while her mother Lisa Bonet appeared in the 2000 film of Nick Hornby's novel.
Q 29Which Oscar winner won an Emmy as Dee Dee Blanchard, the controlling mother in Hulu's true-crime series The Act?
Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette won the supporting actress Emmy, while the actress playing her daughter Gypsy was nominated for the lead prize in the same limited series.
Q 30Which cable giant held the last one-third stake in Hulu after AT&T sold its share back in 2019?
Comcast
Comcast kept 33% but ceded control to Disney, under a 2019 agreement that let Disney buy the stake later and take full ownership of the service.