My Name Is Earl
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50 free My Name is Earl trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
My Name Is Earl ran for four seasons from 2005 on a premise you can explain in one breath: a small-time crook wins the lottery, gets flattened seconds later, and decides the universe is keeping score. So he writes down every rotten thing he has ever done and sets out to fix each one. This quiz follows the list through Camden County: Earl and his brother Randy at the motel, ex-wife Joy and her husband Darnell at the trailer park, Catalina, and the parade of crooks, neighbours and well-known guest stars who turn up along the way. There are questions on the big storylines, the flashback episodes, the cast, and how the series was made and then cancelled. It is pitched for anyone who watched the show when it aired or caught it in reruns. The early questions stick to the things every viewer remembers, and the later ones reward fans who can still name the oddballs at the bar.
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Q 01Which late-night host is on the hospital TV when Earl first hears about karma in My Name Is Earl?
Carson Daly
Carson Daly's talk show is playing while Earl recovers from being run over, and the idea he hears there inspires a list of 259 wrongs to put right.
Q 02In which city did a drunk Earl marry a six-months-pregnant Joy in My Name Is Earl?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas hosted the shotgun wedding after Joy and her friends got Earl drunk. The couple then moved into a trailer left empty when Earl's friend Frank went to jail.
Q 03How much is the scratch-off lottery ticket worth that Earl loses when a car hits him in My Name Is Earl?
$100,000
$100,000 blows away in the crash, then turns up again the moment Earl does his first good deed. That is what convinces him karma is real.
Q 04Which classic model does Earl Hickey drive in My Name Is Earl, a red one with a mismatched blue driver's door?
El Camino
El Camino is the answer: Earl's 1973 car-truck first belonged to his friend Frank, who went to prison for twenty years after robbing a casino.
Q 05Which former professional skateboarder plays the title role of Earl Hickey in My Name Is Earl?
Jason Lee
Jason Lee turned the part down twice before agreeing to read the pilot script. It became his first starring role on television.
Q 06Which local business employs Darnell Turner and serves as the gang's regular hangout in My Name Is Earl?
The Crab Shack
The Crab Shack is why Earl greets Darnell as Crabman. Its missing owner, Ernie Belcher, is later found to have died in the freshly cemented floor of its bathroom.
Q 07Which running gag in My Name Is Earl ruins every photograph that is ever taken of Earl Hickey?
His eyes are closed
His eyes are closed in every single picture, a gag that sits beside the moustache, flannel shirts and classic rock T-shirts as an Earl trademark.
Q 08Which film star played Big Chubby, the Camden tycoon who owns Catalina's strip club, in My Name Is Earl?
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds's Big Chubby likes to squirt vodka into customers' mouths from a realistic liquor gun, and dies when he mistakes a real firearm for it.
Q 09Which Charmed star played Billie Cunningham, who runs Earl over and later marries him, in My Name Is Earl?
Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Milano's Billie ends the marriage by joining an Amish-like sect called the Camdenites, then hands Earl what is left of her insurance payout.
Q 10Which police reality series do Camden's residents watch themselves on in two My Name Is Earl flashback episodes?
Cops
Cops supplies the format for both episodes: handheld cameras trail Camden's officers while Earl and his friends cause chaos, the second time at a Fourth of July fair.
Q 11Which network aired My Name Is Earl for four seasons before cancelling the comedy on a cliffhanger?
NBC
NBC picked the series up after Fox had passed on the pitch. The last episode ended with a caption promising more, days before the cancellation was announced.
Q 12In the My Name Is Earl pilot, making up for which bad habit leads Earl straight back to his lost lottery ticket?
Littering
Littering is the first wrong Earl puts right, and the missing ticket turns up while he is picking up rubbish. He moves on to a classmate he used to bully.
Q 13Which job does Randy take in season three of My Name Is Earl so he can stay close to his jailed brother?
Prison guard
Q 21Which DNA-test twist about Earl Jr. ends My Name Is Earl on an unresolved cliffhanger?
Darnell is not his father
Darnell is not his father, the test shows, so Joy must have had another affair. The writers had talked of revealing someone famous, but the cancellation came first.
Q 22Which Oscar winner played Ruby Whitlow, the lawyer Earl falls for during Joy's trial, in My Name Is Earl?
Marlee Matlin
Marlee Matlin's lawyer is deaf, which is how Earl once burgled her home without being heard. She dumps him when she finds the break-in on his list.
Q 23Which actor earned an Emmy nomination as Carl Hickey, the disappointed father of Earl and Randy, in My Name Is Earl?
Beau Bridges
Prison guard is the job Randy lands after finding he cannot cope alone. His K-9 dog later stops an escaped Frank from fleeing with a hidden stash of cash.
Q 14Stealing which vehicle, with a store employee still inside, leaves Joy facing a third strike in My Name Is Earl?
A delivery truck
A delivery truck was never the plan: Joy only wanted to return a cabinet to the store, and a third strike would have meant life behind bars.
Q 15Which secret about Darnell does Joy learn from an undelivered letter in My Name Is Earl?
He is in witness protection
He is in witness protection, and Darnell Turner is not even the name he was born with. Joy throws him out of the trailer until he tells her the truth.
Q 16Why does Randy marry Catalina after she is deported in My Name Is Earl?
To get her a green card
To get her a green card is the plan, though Earl was meant to be the groom. He fails her bandit uncle's tests on purpose so that lovestruck Randy can pass them instead.
Q 17What kind of animal is Darnell Turner's beloved pet in My Name Is Earl, which Joy loses in season four?
A turtle
A turtle is Darnell's pride and joy, and he treats it like a child. After Joy loses it, the animal finds its own way home and Earl sets off to return it.
Q 18Which TV legend played the Crazy Witch Lady who locks Earl and his friends in her basement in My Name Is Earl?
Betty White
Betty White's character was taunted by Earl when he was a boy. He visits to apologise over tea, ends up her captive, and is soon joined by Randy, Joy and Darnell.
Q 19Which actress won a Primetime Emmy for playing Joy Turner, Earl's sharp-tongued ex-wife, in My Name Is Earl?
Jaime Pressly
Jaime Pressly trained as a gymnast and had herself legally emancipated at 15 so that she could take up a modelling contract in Japan.
Q 20Which former bullying victim does Earl accompany to a gay bar in the pilot of My Name Is Earl?
Kenny James
Kenny James was picked on by Earl at school and becomes a loyal friend, using his copy-shop job to print fake résumés and birth certificates for the gang.
Beau Bridges's Carl is driven to distraction by aeroplanes rattling his house several times a day, ever since a flight path was routed over his neighbourhood.
Q 24Which Saturday Night Live alumnus played Little Chubby, heir to Camden's biggest business empire, in My Name Is Earl?
Norm Macdonald
Norm Macdonald's Little Chubby only becomes likeable after an injury lowers his testosterone, and he turns cruel again as soon as surgery restores it.
Q 25Which actor from Remember the Titans and American History X played Earl's brother Randy in My Name Is Earl?
Ethan Suplee
Ethan Suplee shared scenes with his own father, Bill, who played Willie the One-Eyed Mailman, a postman with an eyepatch and a habit of binning the mail.
Q 26In My Name Is Earl, what must Earl help Donny Jones's mother do to repay Donny for a wrongful jail term?
Quit smoking
Quit smoking is the price of forgiveness. Donny served two years for a robbery Earl committed while wearing his shirt, found religion inside, and bears no grudge.
Q 27How did Earl get rid of clingy girlfriend Natalie Duckworth in My Name Is Earl?
He faked his own death
He faked his own death and sent Randy to break the news. Natalie was played by Beth Riesgraf, the real-life girlfriend of the show's leading man at the time.
Q 28What did Earl steal from Didi, the one-legged woman who chases him whenever they meet in My Name Is Earl?
Her car
Her car was the prize: Earl told Didi he loved her, then drove away in it. She forgives him only after making him spend a day getting about on one leg.
Q 29Which class does Earl teach in My Name Is Earl to make up for mocking people who have accents?
English as a second language
English as a second language is the class, and the students learn to greet people with the four words of the show's title. One of them, Nescobar-A-Lop-Lop, becomes a regular.
Q 30Which natural disaster costs Earl his list and starts a finders-keepers scramble in season four of My Name Is Earl?
A tornado
A tornado, one of several to strike Camden, also hurls Randy from a boat onto the motel roof. He decides he is invincible and wants to fly in the next one.