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49 free Lupin trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Lupin was meant to star Omar Sy as Arsène Lupin himself. Showrunner George Kay instead created Assane Diop, the son of a Senegalese chauffeur who discovers Maurice Leblanc's books as a teenager and turns the gentleman thief's methods on the family that framed his father. Released in January 2021 with a Louvre heist in its first episode, the series was watched by 76 million households in a month, the biggest Netflix debut after Bridgerton, and sent Leblanc's first Lupin collection back to the top of the French children's charts. These 49 questions cover all three parts and the fourth on the way: Assane, Claire and Raoul, Benjamin Férel's antiques shop, detective Guédira and his Lupin theory, Hubert and Juliette Pellegrini, the diamond necklace and the Black Pearl, Fabienne Bériot and Léonard Koné, plus the production story: Louis Leterrier's first episodes, the museum that played the Pellegrini home, the Étretat tourism boom, Mathieu Lamboley's score and the viewing figures. Easy questions stick to the leads; the expert tier asks about locations, directors and chart placings. 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 Netflix quiz night.
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Q 01Who plays Assane Diop in Lupin?
Omar Sy
Omar Sy. The series began with him: when producers asked which role he dreamed of playing, he answered Lupin.
Q 02To case the Louvre before the heist that opens Lupin, Assane takes a job there as what?
A janitor
A janitor. The plan rests on a point the show keeps making about class in France: the wealthy never look at the people who clean up after them.
Q 03Who wrote the original Arsène Lupin stories?
Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc. His thief first appeared in a magazine story in 1905 and proved so popular that Leblanc kept writing him for more than 30 years.
Q 04Which film won Lupin's lead actor the César for best actor?
The Intouchables
The Intouchables. On a night when The Artist took best film and five more Césars, he beat that film's star to the best actor prize.
Q 05Lupin's first five episodes, released in January 2021, end on which cliffhanger?
His son goes missing
His son goes missing. The show's creator said the real cliffhanger is not the detective finally catching up with Assane on the beach, but where the boy has gone.
Q 06What is the French subtitle of Lupin's first part?
Dans l'ombre d'Arsène
Dans l'ombre d'Arsène. 'In the shadow of Arsène' fits a change of plan: the star was first announced as Lupin himself, then given a new hero who idolises him.
Q 07How much viewing put a household among Lupin's 76 million viewers in 2021?
Two minutes
Two minutes. Netflix said that was long enough to show the choice was intentional; it later switched to dividing the hours watched by a show's running time.
Q 08In Lupin, Assane's father came to France from which country?
Senegal
Senegal. Assane's mother stayed behind when they left, which is why the teenager is left entirely alone in France once his father dies.
Q 09In Lupin, Assane's father was framed for stealing what?
A diamond necklace
A diamond necklace. In the show it once belonged to Marie Antoinette, and its reappearance at auction years later is what sets Assane's revenge in motion.
Q 10Why did Hubert Pellegrini fake the theft that he pinned on Assane's father in Lupin?
To claim the insurance
To claim the insurance. The scam only worked with a scapegoat, so an innocent employee went to prison for it and died there.
Q 11In Lupin, what job did Assane's father do for the Pellegrini family?
Chauffeur
Chauffeur. His boss accused him of theft and he was later found dead in his prison cell, leaving Assane on his own at 14.
Q 12In Lupin, whom does Assane recruit for the Louvre heist?
Loan sharks
Loan sharks. He talks them into doing the stealing and has planned for their double-cross: they end up under arrest while he walks away with the prize.
Q 13In Lupin, what is the name of Assane's son?
Raoul
Raoul. In the books, the young Arsène Lupin calls himself Raoul d'Andrésy before he is famous.
Lupin's third part opens with Assane announcing he will steal which jewel?
Q 21In Lupin, Fabienne Bériot, who helps Assane go after Hubert Pellegrini, is a disgraced former what?
Journalist
Journalist. She had come close to exposing the tycoon's crimes before he had her discredited, so she joins Assane to finish the job.
Q 22In Lupin, Léonard Koné works for Hubert Pellegrini as what?
An assassin
An assassin. He is behind the death of Fabienne Bériot, the ally who was helping Assane gather evidence against his boss.
Q 23How does Hubert Pellegrini turn Assane into France's most wanted man in Lupin's second part?
By framing him for murder
By framing him for murder. The body is left in Assane's own flat, and that night his real name and face go public across France.
The Black Pearl
The Black Pearl. He tells its owners and the press exactly when he will strike, so crowds of supporters gather outside to cheer him on.
Q 15Who plays Claire, the mother of Assane's son, in Lupin?
Ludivine Sagnier
Ludivine Sagnier. Her Claire grounds the show: its creator wanted a hero who can rob a museum but can't explain himself to his child's mother.
Q 16In Lupin, what does Assane's best friend Benjamin Férel do for a living?
Antiquarian
Antiquarian. The trade is handy for a thief's best friend: Assane sells his stolen goods through Benjamin's shop.
Q 17Which detective uses his knowledge of the Lupin books to track Assane?
Youssef Guédira
Youssef Guédira. He is a fan of the novels himself, which is how he alone notices that the thief's aliases are anagrams of Arsène Lupin.
Q 18In Lupin, who is Juliette to Hubert Pellegrini, the tycoon who framed Assane's father?
His daughter
His daughter. The writers made her an old flame of Assane's, which gives him a way into the very family he is out to ruin.
Q 19Whose confession to detectives first gets Hubert Pellegrini arrested in Lupin's second part?
His wife
His wife. Anne Pellegrini tells detectives the truth about the old theft, but her husband's friends in high places soon have him out again.
Q 20In Lupin, what was the first name of Assane's father?
Babakar
Babakar. The Lupin book he chooses as a present for his son becomes the boy's guide to life and, decades later, his way to clear his father's name.
Q 24In Lupin's third part, Jean-Luc Keller ran what kind of club that the teenage Assane joined?
Boxing
Boxing. Keller pushed the orphans at his gym into crime, then spent 25 years in prison after a job with Assane went wrong, and he comes back for revenge.
Q 25Which production company makes Lupin for Netflix?
Gaumont
Gaumont. The studio was already working with the show's star and asked him what he wanted to play, and the series grew from his answer.
Q 26Louis Leterrier, who directed Lupin's first three episodes, had earlier made which heist film?
Now You See Me
Now You See Me. For Lupin's opening robbery he took cast and crew into the real Louvre and filmed there through the night.
Q 27Lupin's star calls Lupin his dream role, but says that had he been English he would have named which hero?
James Bond
James Bond. He called Lupin the perfect part for the same reasons: fun, funny, very elegant and full of action.
Q 28In Lupin, where did Assane first meet his best friend Benjamin?
At school
At school. They have been friends since childhood, and the show's creator calls Benjamin the sounding board Assane turns to when deciding where to go next.
Q 29In Lupin's first part, how does a disguised Assane try to expose Hubert Pellegrini?
On a TV talk show
On a TV talk show. The show's creator says Assane's crimes are all about pricking the bubble of the French establishment, and here he tries it on national television.
Q 30What occasion is Assane marking when he takes his family to the Normandy coast in Lupin's part 1 finale?
His son's birthday
His son's birthday. The surprise is a seaside festival celebrating the gentleman thief, the hero both father and son grew up reading.