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50 free Leverage trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Leverage ran for five seasons on a simple, satisfying idea: when powerful people cheat ordinary ones, a crew of specialist crooks evens the score. A thief, a grifter, a hacker and a bruiser, led by a planner with a grudge against his old employer, turn each week's con into a puzzle the audience only fully sees at the end. This quiz covers the whole run. There are questions on the five regulars and the people who play them, the rivals and recurring villains, the season-long arcs, and the episodes fans return to most, from the pilot's double-cross to the Nate-and-Sophie mystery The Frame-Up Job. A handful look behind the camera at who made the series and where, and at the revival, Leverage: Redemption. It is pitched for anyone who has watched the crew work, whether once through or on a yearly rewatch. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you knowing something more about the series.
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Q 01Which Oscar winner, honoured at age 20 for Ordinary People, played team leader Nate Ford on Leverage?
Timothy Hutton
Timothy Hutton won that Oscar for his very first feature film performance, after starting out in television films.
Q 02Which cable network aired all five seasons of Leverage before cancelling the heist drama in December 2012?
TNT
TNT pulled the plug amid falling ratings, but the last episode had been made to work as a series finale in case that happened.
Q 03On Leverage, what is the crew's name for Eliot Spencer's role, which he himself calls retrieval specialist?
Hitter
Hitter Eliot Spencer does the fighting, yet the former black ops soldier also proves to be a gifted cook and a talented singer.
Q 04On Leverage, grifter Sophie Devereaux is hopeless at which legitimate career unless she is running a con?
Acting
Acting is Sophie's dream, yet she is over-the-top on stage and convincing only when the role is part of a crime.
Q 05On Leverage, Nate Ford spent years recovering stolen property for IYS, which is what kind of business?
Insurance company
Insurance company IYS refused to pay for a procedure that might have saved Nate's young son, the loss that turns him against his old employer.
Q 06Most Leverage episodes end by revealing how the crew really outwitted the villain using which storytelling device?
A flashback
A flashback shows what viewers were not told the first time, often turning an apparent setback into something the crew had planned for.
Q 07On Leverage, agents Taggert and McSweeten keep helping the crew, believing Parker and Hardison work for which agency?
The FBI
The FBI pair believe they are aiding fellow agents, and the arrests they are credited with send them rapidly up the bureau's ranks.
Q 08Leverage's Eliot Spencer, a former black ops soldier, refuses to use which tools of his trade unless forced?
Guns
Guns are a last resort for Eliot even though he is a skilled marksman, which is why nearly all his fights are settled hand to hand.
Q 09On Leverage, Alec Hardison's first large-scale crime stuck which nation with his Nana's medical bills?
Iceland
Iceland ended up paying for the care of the woman who raised Hardison, an early sign of the computer skills the crew comes to rely on.
Q 10Which star played hacker Alec Hardison on Leverage years before becoming Hawkman in the film Black Adam?
Aldis Hodge
Aldis Hodge is also a self-taught watchmaker who designs his own line of luxury watches, a fitting hobby for the man behind TV's great gadget builder.
Q 11On Leverage, which personal battle does Nate Ford fight throughout the series after losing his son and his marriage?
Alcoholism
Alcoholism shadows Nate for years, and together with his habit of changing the plan mid-job it sometimes puts both clients and crew at risk.
Q 12For seasons two to four, Leverage was set in Boston but was actually filmed in which other city?
Portland
Portland doubled for Boston for three seasons, then the fifth season dropped the pretence and moved the crew there outright.
Q 13After working a job with the Leverage crew, Nate Ford's old rival James Sterling is invited to join which agency?
Interpol
Interpol hires Sterling on the strength of a job the crew helped him pull off, and he remains Nate's friendly adversary to the end.
Q 21Which Star Trek: The Next Generation star directed over a dozen Leverage episodes, including The Wedding Job?
Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Frakes, Commander Riker himself, began directing on his own Star Trek series and later worked on Castle and Burn Notice as well.
Q 22Which producer of the film Independence Day pitched Leverage and directed its pilot episode?
Dean Devlin
Dean Devlin sold the series as a throwback to the lighter caper shows he grew up with, and made it through his own studio, Electric Entertainment.
Q 23Leverage's executive producer said he made the caper drama because he missed The Rockford Files and which spy series?
Mission: Impossible
Q 14Which Star Trek: Voyager star joined Leverage as grifter Tara Cole while Gina Bellman was on maternity leave?
Jeri Ryan
Jeri Ryan, Voyager's Seven of Nine, played Tara in seven season-two episodes, as a grifter Sophie sends to fill in while she is away.
Q 15Which Stand by Me cast member played Chaos, the rival hacker who torments Alec Hardison on Leverage?
Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton plays Colin Mason, alias Chaos, who is arrested twice after crossing the crew and is still hired to help them in a season finale.
Q 16Which Supernatural star, that drama's demon Crowley, played Nate Ford's rival James Sterling on Leverage?
Mark Sheppard
Mark Sheppard also played the crime boss Badger on Firefly, and on Leverage the whole crew loathes his character, Eliot most of all.
Q 17Gina Bellman, Leverage's Sophie Devereaux, was already known in Britain as Jane in which BBC sitcom?
Coupling
Coupling ran from 2000 to 2004, and Bellman, who was born in New Zealand, met her future husband just after shooting the Leverage pilot.
Q 18Christian Kane, Leverage's Eliot Spencer, earlier played lawyer Lindsey McDonald on which cult television series?
Angel
Angel fans knew Kane as a villain; on Leverage he performed all of his own fight scenes and helped choreograph them.
Q 19Which My Name Is Earl performer played the thief Parker on Leverage and later directed episodes of its revival?
Beth Riesgraf
Beth Riesgraf appeared on that sitcom as Natalie Duckworth, and went on to direct episodes of Leverage: Redemption while still starring in it.
Q 20Leverage's Nate Ford, the son of a Boston numbers runner, originally intended to become what?
A Catholic priest
A Catholic priest was Nate's first calling, a path taken in reaction to his father Jimmy, a legendary figure in Boston crime circles.
Mission: Impossible was the model he named, calling Leverage a throwback to fun television at a time when most drama had turned dark and edgy.
Q 24Weeks after its cancellation, Leverage was named Favorite Cable TV Drama at which annual ceremony?
People's Choice Awards
People's Choice Awards voters handed the series its prize on January 9, 2013, less than three weeks after the network dropped it.
Q 25Which Leverage episode is the pilot, in which Victor Dubenich hires the crew and then double-crosses them?
The Nigerian Job
The Nigerian Job ends with the thieves ruining Dubenich instead of fleeing, then asking Nate to stay on as their leader.
Q 26At the end of Leverage's second season, what does Nate Ford do so the rest of the crew can go free?
Turns himself in
Nate turns himself in to Sterling, admitting to his rival and to himself that he is now a thief, and begins the next season behind bars.
Q 27By what name is the mysterious woman who blackmails the Leverage crew into hunting Damien Moreau known?
The Italian
The Italian gives the crew six months to bring Moreau down, promising prison for Nate and far worse for the others if they fail.
Q 28Leverage's third season ends with crime boss Damien Moreau jailed in which fictional nation he once controlled?
San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo slips from Moreau's grip when the crew poses as election consultants and unseats the president he had bought.
Q 29Which ER star played Damien Moreau, the untouchable crime financier the Leverage crew hunts in season three?
Goran Visnjic
Goran Visnjic, ER's Dr. Luka Kovac, appears in the two-part finale, in which Eliot reveals that he once worked for Moreau.
Q 30In Leverage's fifth season, the crew moves west and sets up its headquarters in what kind of business?
A microbrewery
A microbrewery gives the crew its final base, bought by Hardison as cover, and Eliot takes over the design of the pub's menu.