Only Murders in the Building
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49 free Only Murders in the Building trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Steve Martin pitched a show about three old men too tired to leave their building a decade before Only Murders in the Building premiered on Hulu in August 2021. One of the men became Selena Gomez's Mabel, the building became the Arconia (really the Belnord on West 86th Street), and the result became Hulu's most-watched comedy, a perennial Emmy nominee and a magnet for guest stars from Sting to Meryl Streep. These 49 questions walk through all five seasons: Tim Kono and Bunny Folger, Brazzos and CoBro, Cinda Canning's Serial parody, Paul Rudd's three different roles, the season four movie-within-the-show, the season five billionaires and mobsters, the real building, the composer, the companion podcast and the Emmy-winning Pickwick Triplets song. Easy questions stick to the main characters and the building; the hard tier asks about casting dates, episode titles and songwriters. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you pick something up even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for your own true-crime-obsessed podcast night.
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Q 01In which Manhattan neighbourhood is the Arconia of Only Murders in the Building?
Upper West Side
Upper West Side: the three leads all live in the Arconia there, but only get talking when an alarm empties the building and they discover they love the same true-crime podcast.
Q 02What kind of animal is Winnie, Oliver Putnam's pet, who is poisoned in season one?
A bulldog
A bulldog: Winnie is poisoned on the day a threatening note appears on Oliver's door, and he at once suspects a celebrity neighbour of doing it.
Q 03In Only Murders in the Building, whose apartment is Mabel renovating?
Her aunt's
Her aunt's apartment is Mabel's home while she does it up. What her two new friends don't know is that she spent her school holidays in the building and grew up with the first victim.
Q 04What is the name of Charles-Haden Savage's 1990s crime drama?
Brazzos
Brazzos made Charles a TV detective whose catchphrase was 'This sends the investigation into a whole new direction'. When the show is rebooted, he is brought back only as 'Uncle Brazzos'.
Q 05What is Oliver Putnam's profession?
Broadway director
A Broadway director who is badly short of money, Oliver faces eviction over unpaid building fees, so he talks an old friend into sponsoring the podcast.
Q 06Who is the murder victim in the first episode of season one?
Tim Kono
Tim Kono is found dead in his apartment on the night the three meet. The police call it suicide, but the trio had just watched him take a frantic phone call in the elevator.
Q 07What was the name of Mabel's childhood mystery-solving quartet?
The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys were the detective books Mabel and her friends bonded over as children while solving pretend mysteries. The group broke up after one of the four died at a New Year's Eve party.
Q 08Tina Fey's Cinda Canning is a parody of which real podcast host?
Sarah Koenig
Sarah Koenig's Serial is the model for Cinda's hit, All Is Not OK in Oklahoma. The trio idolise Cinda until she launches a podcast about them called Only Murderers in the Building.
Q 09Which Arconia board president's murder is investigated in season two?
Bunny Folger
Bunny Folger is found dead with Mabel kneeling over her in the last scene of season one, so the trio start season two under arrest and investigate to clear their own names.
Q 10Who plays Charles's stunt double Sazz Pataki?
Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch's Sazz doubled for Charles on his old TV show and stayed his friend. She is shot dead in his apartment at the end of season three, apparently by a bullet meant for him.
Q 11Paul Rudd's Ben Glenroy is best known in-universe for playing which superhero?
CoBro
CoBro made Ben famous, but an old signed drawing suggests the character began as a childhood comic by his brother and manager, Dickie, which gives Dickie a motive for murder.
Q 12What is the name of Meryl Streep's struggling actress character?
Loretta Durkin
Loretta Durkin lands her first Broadway role after decades of trying. Her real reason for auditioning is Ben's brother Dickie, the son she gave up for adoption.
Q 13Which Irish-born stunt double does Paul Rudd play in season four?
Glen Stubbins
Glen Stubbins doubled for Ben Glenroy and has struggled for work since Ben died. He is shot when the lights go out at a photoshoot, then killed in hospital before Mabel can question him.
Q 21Christoph Waltz's season five billionaire Bash Steed made his fortune in what?
Tech and AI
Tech and AI made Bash Steed so rich that, when the trio's podcast hints he and two fellow billionaires are killers, they simply buy control of the company that publishes it.
Q 22Beanie Feldstein's season five character Althea, or 'Thē', is what kind of celebrity?
Pop singer
A pop singer who has just moved into the Arconia's penthouse, Althea grew up with Mabel, and she admits that her biggest hit was really written about how much she admired her old friend.
Q 23Bobby Cannavale plays Nicky Caccimelio, a man who is what in season five?
A vanished mobster
Q 14Which actor plays a version of himself cast as Oliver Putnam in season four's film of the podcast?
Zach Galifianakis
Zach Galifianakis nearly walks out when Oliver fails to recognise him, and sees the man he is playing as a mere narcissist until Howard explains how Oliver keeps going after every failure.
Q 15In Only Murders in the Building, which actress plays herself, cast as Mabel in a film?
Eva Longoria
Eva Longoria tells Mabel to take the film money and build something of her own, then turns sleuth, insisting on sticky mats at a photoshoot so the trio can collect the crew's shoeprints.
Q 16Who plays NYPD Detective Donna Williams?
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Da'Vine Joy Randolph's detective closes the first case as a textbook suicide. Once her wife gets hooked on the podcast she has second thoughts, and quietly sends Mabel the victim's phone.
Q 17Teddy Dimas, the podcast's sponsor, secretly makes money from what?
Jewellery stolen from the dead
Jewellery stolen from the dead is his sideline: his son lifts it from bodies at a funeral home, and Teddy gives himself away by paying the trio with a cheque drawn on the secret business.
Q 18Which Arconia employee's murder is investigated in season five?
Lester the doorman
Lester the doorman is found dead in the Arconia's fountain the morning after Oliver's wedding. The police call it an accident until the trio turn up a severed finger.
Q 19In season five, what are three billionaires competing for the right to build at the Arconia?
A casino
A casino: a secret gaming room has run for years beneath the Arconia, and the billionaires are playing for the licence to open New York City's first legal one in the building itself.
Q 20Which actor plays New York mayor Beau Tillman in season five?
Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key's mayor owes his office to a billionaire's campaign money, and he turns out to be the season's killer: the severed finger the trio have been carrying around is his.
A vanished mobster whose wife tries to hire the trio to find him. Oliver does find Nicky, dead in the family's dry-cleaning shop, the body apparently frozen to hide when he died.
Q 24Who is Howard Morris, played by Michael Cyril Creighton?
A cat-loving neighbour
A cat-loving neighbour, Howard becomes the trio's first suspect when his cat's paw prints turn up in the victim's blood. He is cleared when it emerges that he faints at the sight of blood.
Q 25What instrument does Amy Ryan's character Jan Bellows play professionally?
Bassoon
Bassoon is the clue as well as the job: a younger player takes Jan's first chair, and a bassoon cleaner found among the victim's things exposes her as the season-one killer.
Q 26Who plays Alice Banks, Mabel's artist love interest in season two?
Cara Delevingne
Cara Delevingne's Alice runs a gallery and coaxes Mabel back into making art. During a party game she is forced to admit she invented her grand background to be taken seriously as an artist.
Q 27Adina Verson's Poppy White is revealed to really be whom?
Becky Butler
Becky Butler was the missing girl whose case made Cinda Canning's podcast a hit. Alive and working unnoticed as Cinda's assistant, she commits the season-two murder to have a case of her own to crack.
Q 28Richard Kind's Vince Fish wears an eye patch for what reason?
Perpetual pink eye
Perpetual pink eye is Vince's explanation for the patch. He is one of the west-tower tenants who have been hiding the death of the professor who rents out their apartments to them.
Q 29Kumail Nanjiani's Rudy Thurber keeps what up in his apartment all year?
Christmas decorations
Christmas decorations stay up all year because a festive video made Rudy's name as a fitness influencer. Under questioning he admits that he actually hates Christmas.
Q 30In season one, the hooded stranger the trio nickname 'Tie-Dye Guy' turns out to be whom?
Mabel's old friend Oscar
Mabel's old friend Oscar, just out of prison after ten years for a death he did not cause. He was outside the victim's door that night and heard the gunshot.