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166 free Netflix Shows trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
55 free Netflix Shows trivia questions with answers. These Netflix trivia questions and answers cover the shows that turned a DVD-by-mail company into the world's biggest streamer: Stranger Things and Hawkins, Squid Game, Wednesday, Bridgerton, The Crown, Ozark, The Witcher, Black Mirror and the true-crime documentaries everyone argued about, along with a few on Netflix itself. It works as a binge-watcher's self-test or a ready-made streaming round for a quiz night, starting with easy questions any subscriber can answer and building to details only people who watched every season will get. Every answer has been checked against a reliable source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Which 1985 Kate Bush song topped the UK chart in 2022 after featuring in Stranger Things?
Running Up That Hill
Running Up That Hill is Max's favourite song in season four; as she grieves her brother, her friends play it to pull her free of Vecna, and it reached number one 37 years after its release.
Q 02Which prime minister does American actor John Lithgow play in the first season of The Crown?
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill, back in office and 77 when Elizabeth becomes queen, won John Lithgow an Emmy; the season follows the old man until he finally resigns in 1955.
Q 03From which country does the dystopian survival drama series 'Squid Game' originate?
South Korea
'Squid Game' is a South Korean series created, written, and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, which gained immense global popularity for its unique premise.
Q 04The series 'Bridgerton' is set in London during which historical era?
Regency era
Regency era: the name comes from the years 1811 to 1820, when the Prince of Wales ruled as Prince Regent because his father, the king, was too ill to reign.
Q 05What game is central to the plot of 'The Queen's Gambit'?
Chess
'The Queen's Gambit' tells the story of Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy, as she rises through the ranks of the competitive chess world. The title itself refers to a well-known chess opening.
Q 06In the first season of 'Stranger Things', what is the creature that abducts Will Byers nicknamed?
The Demogorgon
The Demogorgon is the boys' name for it, borrowed from a monster in their Dungeons & Dragons game; Will vanishes while cycling home from one of their sessions.
Q 07What offer won Netflix the rights to House of Cards over HBO and AMC in 2011?
Two seasons up front
Two seasons up front: rival networks wanted to see a pilot first, but Netflix ordered 26 episodes straight away, and David Fincher directed the first two.
Q 08What is the grand prize in Squid Game, in South Korean won?
45.6 billion
45.6 billion won: each of the 456 players is worth 100 million won, which drops into a giant piggy bank hanging over the players as they are eliminated.
Q 09Who portrays the titular character in the Netflix series 'Wednesday'?
Jenna Ortega
Jenna Ortega learned the cello and took German lessons for the part, and stopped blinking on camera after director Tim Burton loved a take in which she never did.
Q 10The historical romance series 'Bridgerton' is based on a series of novels by which author?
Julia Quinn
Julia Quinn wrote eight Bridgerton novels, one for each of the family's alphabetically named siblings, which is why each season hands the central romance to a different brother or sister.
Q 11'The Queen's Gambit' is based on a 1983 novel by which author?
Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis, who also wrote The Hustler, died the year after it came out; Heath Ledger was preparing to direct a film version, and play a supporting part, when he died in 2008.
Q 12What illegal line of work drags the Byrde family to the Ozarks in 'Ozark'?
Money laundering
Money laundering: financial advisor Marty Byrde moves the family from Chicago to Missouri to wash cash for a Mexican cartel, and sinks ever deeper.
Q 13What alias is used by the mastermind behind the major heists in 'Money Heist' (La Casa de Papel)?
The Professor
Q 21What was the nickname of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug lord depicted in 'Griselda'?
The Godmother
The Godmother named her youngest son Michael Corleone, after the mob boss of the Godfather films; Sofía Vergara plays her in the 2024 miniseries.
Q 22In Sweet Tooth, the young hero Gus is a hybrid, part human and part which animal?
Deer
Deer: Gus grows up hidden in a remote forest cabin because hybrid children, who began to be born as a deadly virus spread, are feared and hunted by many survivors.
Q 23In the first season of Outer Banks, what treasure is John B's crew hunting?
The Royal Merchant
The Royal Merchant borrows the name of a real English ship, the Merchant Royal, which sank off Cornwall in 1641 with a fortune in gold aboard and has still not been found.
The enigmatic leader who meticulously plans and executes the elaborate heists in 'Money Heist' is known by the alias 'The Professor'.
Q 14Which country produced the complex science fiction thriller series 'Dark'?
Germany
Germany: Dark was Netflix's first German-language original, and its mystery begins when a boy's disappearance in 2019 exposes a cave passage linking the town of Winden to 1986.
Q 15The first two seasons of 'Narcos' chronicle the rise and fall of which drug lord?
Pablo Escobar
Pablo Escobar begins the series smuggling everyday contraband until a Chilean chemist nicknamed Cockroach offers him cocaine to sell; season three turns to the rival Cali Cartel.
Q 16Which author created Arsène Lupin, inspiration for the French thriller Lupin?
Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc created Lupin in 1905 as a French answer to Sherlock Holmes, and even pitted the two against each other.
Q 17Which comedian and actress co-created the teen comedy-drama 'Never Have I Ever'?
Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling created it with Lang Fisher and found her lead, newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, through an open casting call that drew 15,000 responses from around the world.
Q 18Who is the bookstore manager and serial killer narrating his obsessions in the thriller You, played by Penn Badgley?
Joe Goldberg
Joe Goldberg began on the US cable channel Lifetime, which gave the show up after one season; Netflix took it over as a global original, where it became a hit.
Q 19Which actress stars in Maid as a struggling single mother, opposite her real-life mother Andie MacDowell?
Margaret Qualley
Margaret Qualley plays Alex, who flees an abusive relationship and cleans houses to support her daughter; MacDowell plays Alex's mother, in a story drawn from Stephanie Land's memoir.
Q 20Arcane, the animated series about sisters Vi and Jinx in Piltover and Zaun, is set in which video game's universe?
League of Legends
League of Legends: Arcane gives the game's characters Vi and Jinx a past as orphaned sisters who end up fighting on rival sides, and it won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program.
Q 24Who portrays the serial killer in the limited series 'Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story'?
Evan Peters
Evan Peters won a Golden Globe as Dahmer, but relatives of the victims criticised the hit series, saying nobody had contacted them before it retold their families' worst days.
Q 25In Beef, what sparks the escalating feud between strangers Danny and Amy?
A road rage incident
A road rage incident starts it; creator Lee Sung Jin based the show on the day a driver in a white SUV honked and yelled at him and, on a whim, he followed.
Q 26Netflix's One Piece is a live-action version of a record-selling series from which medium?
Manga
Manga: Eiichiro Oda, who has drawn it since 1997, had the final say on the show; Netflix agreed not to release it until he was satisfied, and scenes he felt weren't good enough were reshot.
Q 27The zombie apocalypse series 'All of Us Are Dead' is primarily set in what type of location?
A high school
A high school: the virus was created by a science teacher at Hyosan High, and it escapes when a student is bitten in his lab, trapping the pupils inside as it spreads.
Q 28Mindhunter's Holden Ford and Bill Tench are agents of which federal agency?
FBI
FBI: Ford and Tench, modelled on real profilers John Douglas and Robert Ressler, interview jailed murderers to learn how to catch the ones still at large.
Q 29Who is the creator of the dystopian anthology series 'Black Mirror'?
Charlie Brooker
Charlie Brooker named it after the cold, shiny screen of a TV, monitor or smartphone: the black mirror found on every wall, on every desk and in the palm of every hand.
Q 30'Manifest' originally aired on which broadcast network before Netflix picked it up?
NBC
NBC cancelled Manifest after three seasons just as its old episodes were riding high in Netflix's most-watched chart; Netflix then ordered a fourth and final season of 20 episodes.