My Favorite Murder
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40 free My Favorite Murder trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
My Favorite Murder began in 2016 as two friends swapping true crime stories, and grew into one of the most popular podcasts in America, with international live tours, a best-selling book and a community of listeners with its own vocabulary. This quiz covers the whole story: how Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark met, what each did before the show, the producer and the pet who became part of it, the deals that took it from a small Los Angeles network to the biggest platforms, and the famous cases the hosts told in their early episodes. It is written for listeners who have heard every episode and for newer listeners who want to test how much of the lore they have picked up. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01What do My Favorite Murder fans call themselves, a name loosely inspired by a Ned Flanders line?
Murderinos
Murderinos define the word as someone with a borderline obsessive interest in true crime. The hosts say a listener first used it in a thread on the show's old Facebook page and everyone ran with it.
Q 02Which of Georgia Hardstark's cats is heard meowing at the end of My Favorite Murder episodes?
Elvis
Elvis, a Siamese, closed each show with a meow, at first live in the room and later from a phone recording. The clip kept its place at the end of episodes after he died in December 2020.
Q 03The hosts of My Favorite Murder discovered their shared love of true crime at a party for which occasion?
Halloween
Halloween brought them together: Kilgariff, dressed as a scrub nurse, was describing a car crash she had witnessed, and Hardstark approached her about it.
Q 04The My Favorite Murder hosts ranked second on Forbes's first list of top-earning podcasters, behind which host?
Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan topped the 2019 list with an estimated $30 million, double the $15 million Forbes credited to Kilgariff and Hardstark.
Q 05The My Favorite Murder hosts named their 2018 podcast network after which phrase Karen Kilgariff often says on air?
Exactly Right
Exactly Right launched in November 2018 with five shows, My Favorite Murder among them, and began releasing original series of its own the following year.
Q 06Which serial offender, unidentified for decades until a 2018 arrest, featured in My Favorite Murder's first episode?
Golden State Killer
Golden State Killer was a name coined by writer Michelle McNamara, whose work the hosts discussed from that debut. When Joseph DeAngelo was arrested, they rushed out a special episode.
Q 07In January 2026, My Favorite Murder began appearing as a video podcast on which streaming service?
Netflix
Netflix began streaming video episodes on January 26, 2026, in an exclusive deal that arrived a decade after the podcast's first release.
Q 08At the Chicago Podcast Festival, My Favorite Murder covered which local killer who entertained at children's hospitals?
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy performed as Pogo the Clown, a character he created after joining a clown club in 1975. The hosts told his story live in November 2016.
Q 09Which painkiller brand was laced with cyanide in the 1982 Chicago poisonings that My Favorite Murder covered?
Tylenol
Tylenol capsules spiked with potassium cyanide killed at least seven people, and nobody has ever been charged with the killings. The case brought tamper-resistant packaging and federal anti-tampering laws.
Q 10My Favorite Murder episode 32 told the story of which Tejano singer, shot in 1995 by her former boutique manager?
Selena
Selena was shot at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi by Yolanda Saldívar, whom her family had confronted weeks earlier over embezzled money. The episode also covered the Zankou Chicken murders.
Q 11Episode 35 of My Favorite Murder was devoted to the 1996 death of which six-year-old in Boulder, Colorado?
JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Ramsey was found in the basement of her family's home hours after being reported missing, and the case remains unsolved. Her story also featured in the podcast's debut.
Q 12By which nickname is Elizabeth Short, the 1947 Los Angeles victim discussed on My Favorite Murder, best known?
Black Dahlia
Black Dahlia may echo The Blue Dahlia, a film noir released the year before she died. Her killing is one of the oldest unsolved cases in Los Angeles County.
Q 13Cary Stayner, covered in My Favorite Murder episode 30, killed four women in 1999 near which national park?
Yosemite
Q 21Who became My Favorite Murder's producer in June 2016, first appearing in the podcast's twenty-third episode?
Steven Ray Morris
Steven Ray Morris became a regular voice on the show as well as its producer. His cat podcast, The Purrrcast, was one of five launch shows on the network the two hosts founded.
Q 22Georgia Hardstark of My Favorite Murder first went viral in 2009 with a how-to video for which invented cocktail?
McNuggetini
McNuggetini plans were drafted on the back of a popcorn bag at a Los Angeles dive bar. The video's success brought Hardstark and her co-creator a run of cocktail and travel shows on cable.
Q 23Which downtown Los Angeles hotel, where Elisa Lam died in 2013, featured in an early My Favorite Murder episode?
Yosemite lay just beyond the Cedar Lodge motel where Stayner worked as a handyman. His younger brother had been famous years earlier as a kidnapping survivor.
Q 14Which serial killer, chased down by Los Angeles residents in 1985, did My Favorite Murder cover in episode 20?
Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, was recognized after police released his mugshot, and East Los Angeles residents chased him down and held him until officers arrived. He died in 2013 while awaiting execution.
Q 15Which tech giant, with its studio Wondery, acquired exclusive early-release rights to My Favorite Murder in 2022?
Amazon
Amazon released episodes on its music service and Wondery+ a week before other platforms. The hosts announced the end of that arrangement in January 2024.
Q 16Before My Favorite Murder, Karen Kilgariff was head writer for which host's daytime talk series, launched in 2003?
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres hired Kilgariff to help write a 2003 stand-up special, took her on tour as an opening act, then made her head writer when the daytime series began.
Q 17Which comedian appeared on My Favorite Murder in 2018 to discuss his late wife Michelle McNamara's unfinished book?
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt joined an episode recorded at Skylight Books alongside the two collaborators who helped complete the manuscript. He described finishing it as bittersweet.
Q 18My Favorite Murder episode 52 told how which child-abduction warning system, named for a Texas nine-year-old, began?
Amber Alert
Amber Alert honors Amber Hagerman, abducted while riding her bike in Arlington in 1996. Officially the letters stand for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response.
Q 19Which 1964 New York murder victim, long linked to the bystander effect, did My Favorite Murder cover in episode 24?
Kitty Genovese
Kitty Genovese became a textbook case after a newspaper claimed 38 neighbors watched and did nothing. In 2016 the same paper called its report flawed and the witness count grossly exaggerated.
Q 20On My Favorite Murder, what name is given to the listener-submitted stories read in the shorter Monday episodes?
Hometown murders
Hometown murders began as crimes from listeners' own towns and now take in ghost stories, family secrets and tales from first responders. The short episodes that carry them are called minisodes.
The Cecil
The Cecil had complaints of flooding and low water pressure before a maintenance worker found Lam in a rooftop tank. Elevator footage of her from the day she vanished had already gone viral.
Q 24A 1919 letter signed by the Axeman of New Orleans, covered on My Favorite Murder, promised to spare homes playing what?
Jazz
Jazz filled New Orleans on the night the letter named: dance halls were packed and bands played at hundreds of house parties. Nobody was killed that night.
Q 25What did My Favorite Murder name the paid membership club it launched in 2018, with forums and ticket presales?
Fan Cult
Fan Cult members pay a yearly fee for exclusive merchandise, extra content and first access to live show tickets. By early 2020 the club had about 55,000 members.
Q 26Which recurring My Favorite Murder segment lets the hosts fix factual errors made in earlier episodes?
Corrections Corner
Corrections Corner appears in many episodes, where the hosts answer listener criticism and correct mistakes from earlier shows. They have said they are not journalists, which leaves them free to editorialize and go off on tangents.
Q 27My Favorite Murder's Karen Kilgariff was a cast member on which HBO sketch series led by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross?
Mr. Show
Mr. Show featured Kilgariff in its third and fourth seasons, and she returned for the 2015 reunion series W/ Bob & David.
Q 28Which retired cold-case investigator, a surprise guest on My Favorite Murder in 2018, later co-hosted Buried Bones?
Paul Holes
Paul Holes spent years hunting the man finally identified as Joseph DeAngelo and retired weeks before the arrest. He launched Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson in 2022.
Q 29This Podcast Will Kill You, a launch show on the My Favorite Murder hosts' network, is devoted to which subject?
Infectious diseases
Infectious diseases are the beat of hosts Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke, both disease ecologists and epidemiologists, who take on a different illness each episode.
Q 30Which English family doctor, among history's most prolific serial killers, did My Favorite Murder cover in episode 15?
Harold Shipman
Harold Shipman is estimated to have killed about 250 patients over roughly 30 years. He was caught after a will leaving him a patient's estate raised her daughter's suspicions.