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50 free Industry trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Industry is the rare finance drama written by people who actually sat on a trading floor. Mickey Down and Konrad Kay left investment banking, pitched Jane Tranter a young and sexy series about why graduates still flock to the City, and built Pierpoint & Co, the fictional London bank where Harper Stern, Yasmin Kara-Hanani, Robert Spearing and Gus Sackey fight for permanent jobs under Eric Tao's glare. These 50 questions cover all four series and the road to the fifth and final one: the Cross Product Sales desk, Binghamton, Eton and Oxford, the Welsh working-class graduate, Nicole Craig and Felim Bichan, Jesse Bloom's pandemic fortune, FutureDawn, Sir Henry Muck and Lumi, Sweetpea Golightly's side hustles, the Pierpoint CFO pushing ESG, and the Tender founders played by Kal Penn and Max Minghella. Production questions take in the Lena Dunham pilot, the Cardiff shoot, Bad Wolf, the Equity loophole that kept filming through the strikes, Marisa Abela's BAFTA and the 2026 Emmy snub. Easy questions stick to the main cast and the bank; the hardest ask about loan sharks, viscounts and an Austrian princess. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a prestige TV night.
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Q 01What is the name of the fictional London investment bank at the centre of Industry?
Pierpoint & Co
Pierpoint & Co. The bank does not survive the story intact: after a debt crisis in series three it is sold to a sovereign wealth fund, which shuts its London trading floor.
Q 02Which two former investment bankers created Industry?
Mickey Down and Konrad Kay
Mickey Down and Konrad Kay. Friends since university, both lasted only briefly in the City, Down at Rothschild and Kay at Morgan Stanley, before turning the experience into a script.
Q 03Which British channel first aired Industry, a day after its HBO premiere in November 2020?
BBC Two
BBC Two. It went out there on 10 November 2020, the night after HBO; from the second series the BBC promoted the drama to BBC One.
Q 04In the first series of Industry, what secret is Harper hiding from her employers?
She never finished university
She never finished university. Harper gets in on a forged transcript; Eric finds out and keeps quiet, then uses it to have her fired at the end of series two.
Q 05Who plays Harper Stern in Industry?
Myha'la
Myha'la. Like Harper, the Californian had never set foot in Britain before she arrived to film the first series; she has since dropped her surname, Herrold, from her credits.
Q 06In Industry's first series, what do the graduates call the day they learn who gets a permanent job?
RIF day
RIF day. It stands for Reduction in Force, the cut that ends the graduates' six-month trial; Harper has a panic attack in her final presentation and walks out, yet still gets a job.
Q 07Who plays Yasmin Kara-Hanani in Industry?
Marisa Abela
Marisa Abela. Cast within a year of leaving drama school, she went on to play Amy Winehouse in the 2024 biopic Back to Black.
Q 08To which desk is Yasmin first assigned in Industry?
Foreign Exchange Sales
Foreign Exchange Sales. Her line manager there, Kenny, bullies her through the first series; he later gets sober and, by series three, is the colleague who argues to save her job.
Q 09Who plays Eric Tao, the fiery managing director who takes Harper under his wing in Industry?
Ken Leung
Ken Leung. His Eric is mentor and betrayer by turns: he shields Harper for two series, has her sacked, then comes out of retirement in series four to start a fund with her.
Q 10Who plays Robert Spearing, the graduate from a working-class background, in Industry?
Harry Lawtey
Harry Lawtey. Robert finally walks away from banking in the series-three finale, and Lawtey, fresh from playing Harvey Dent in Joker: Folie à Deux, left the show with him.
Q 11Who plays Augustus "Gus" Sackey in Industry?
David Jonsson
David Jonsson. He left after two series, then led the romantic comedy Rye Lane and played the android Andy in Alien: Romulus.
Q 12Which two institutions did Gus attend before joining the bank in Industry?
Eton and Oxford
Eton and Oxford. HBO's character notes say Gus sees the bank as 'another tick on a checklist' on his way to Number 10; instead he is the graduate who is not kept on.
Q 13Which Game of Thrones star joined Industry in series three as Sir Henry Muck?
Kit Harington
Kit Harington. His aristocratic founder falls a long way: a botched flotation, defeat at a general election and, by the end of series four, a plea deal over a corporate fraud.
Q 21Which executive producer's company, Bad Wolf, developed Industry?
Jane Tranter
Jane Tranter. She wanted to know why graduates still flocked to the City after the financial crash, and the creators say that without her the show 'would simply be a dead idea in a drawer'.
Q 22Why did Industry keep filming through Hollywood's 2023 actors' strike?
Its cast were on Equity contracts
Its cast were on Equity contracts. Though made for HBO, the drama is shot in Britain with actors hired on the UK union's terms, so the American union's walkout did not stop the cameras.
Q 23Vanity Fair called Industry the "missing link" between Euphoria and which other HBO drama?
Succession
Q 14What is the name of Sir Henry Muck's green-energy start-up in Industry?
Lumi
Lumi. After its flotation fails, the company is bailed out by taxpayers while its poorer customers are left with soaring bills, and MPs open an inquiry.
Q 15Who plays Rishi Ramdani, Industry's market maker known for his colourful trading-floor commentary?
Sagar Radia
Sagar Radia. Promoted from a recurring part to the main cast, he was handed a whole episode in series three, White Mischief, which follows Rishi through one long gamble.
Q 16Which indie filmmaker plays hedge fund manager Jesse Bloom in series two of Industry?
Jay Duplass
Jay Duplass. His casting notice called Bloom a 'reputable' hedge-fund manager; on screen he is a billionaire who made a killing out of the pandemic and ends up manipulating Harper.
Q 17Which Barry actress plays portfolio manager Petra Koenig in series three of Industry?
Sarah Goldberg
Sarah Goldberg. Petra spots Harper's talent and the two break away to start their own fund, until Harper admits trading on inside information and Petra reports her to their backer.
Q 18After the bank fires her, Harper resurfaces in series three of Industry at which investment fund?
FutureDawn Partners
FutureDawn Partners. She starts as assistant to its head, Anna Gearing, and promptly helps a portfolio manager hedge with oil and gas bets that flout the fund's green pledges.
Q 19Who directed the pilot episode of Industry?
Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham. It was the first television she had directed since Girls; even so, one of the creators says the launch was among the least-watched in HBO's history.
Q 20Industry is set in the City of London, but where is most of it actually filmed?
Cardiff
Cardiff. The trading floor is a studio set in the Welsh capital, where shooting costs far less than in London, one reason HBO could afford to keep a little-watched first series going.
Succession. The 2022 review called the first series 'an unholy mix' of the two with a touch of Skins, and said its characters 'may not be likable, but they are ridiculously watchable'.
Q 24In series four of Industry, which country's intelligence services turn out to control Tender?
Russia
Russia. Tender's finance chief finally admits the link to frighten his chief executive into fleeing with him, warning that Moscow's agents silence people who talk to the police.
Q 25In series two of Industry, Harper joins a work trip to which city to look for her estranged brother?
Berlin
Berlin. She picks a restaurant on a hunch that he works there and finds him, but their night out together ends with him breaking six months of sobriety.
Q 26Which Girls star was cast in July 2026 for Industry's final series?
Zosia Mamet
Zosia Mamet. She joins as Carmen Dame, a fitness influencer turned wellness-tech founder, in line with the show's habit of adding one big name each series to play a plot-defining newcomer.
Q 27Why did the actor who plays Robert Spearing leave Industry after its third series?
Scheduling conflicts
Scheduling conflicts. His other roles clashed with the shoot, so Robert's new life at a psilocybin start-up, set up in the series-three finale, carries on off camera.
Q 28Tender, the start-up at the heart of Industry's fourth series, is what kind of company?
Payment processing
Payment processing. It grew by handling payments for porn and gambling sites, then tries to remake itself as a bank, a pivot that draws the short-sellers who expose its profits as invented.
Q 29Who plays Jonah Atterbury, Tender's irresponsible co-founder and first CEO, in Industry?
Kal Penn
Kal Penn. His brash American founder is forced out by his smoother co-founder before the first episode ends, and later hands a cache of the company's emails to the short-sellers.
Q 30Which Stranger Things actor plays financial journalist James Dycker in Industry?
Charlie Heaton
Charlie Heaton. Best known for playing an American, Jonathan Byers, he is in fact English; one recap joked that he had 'apparently been secretly British this whole time'.