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115 free Peaky Blinders trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Peaky Blinders trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Peaky Blinders fan? Dive into our ultimate trivia quiz and discover how well you really know the gritty streets of Birmingham and the Shelby family empire. From Tommy's schemes to iconic catchphrases, this quiz will test your knowledge of every season.
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Q 01The fifth series of Peaky Blinders opens on 29 October 1929, a date better known as what?
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday's Wall Street crash wipes out the Shelby fortune that Michael was managing in America, because he had held on to the shares despite Tommy's order to sell.
Q 02Which actor played John Shelby in the first four series of Peaky Blinders?
Joe Cole
Joe Cole played John Shelby from 2013 to 2017; he also told his younger brother Finn about a part in series 2, and the real-life brothers ended up on screen as cousins.
Q 03The second series of Peaky Blinders builds to a showdown at which racecourse near London?
Epsom
Epsom on Derby Day, 31 May 1922, is where Tommy must shoot a field marshal on Major Campbell's orders while his men burn the licences of a rival's bookmakers.
Q 04In Peaky Blinders, which Birmingham pub do the Shelbys own and use as their base?
The Garrison
The Garrison is the Shelbys' local and unofficial headquarters; it is bombed at the start of series 2 while the family is at a funeral, then rebuilt and reopened.
Q 05Series 4 of Peaky Blinders opens with Polly, Arthur, John and Michael moments away from which fate?
Hanging
Hanging is seconds away when the reprieve Tommy has bargained for reaches the gallows; the scare leaves the family scattered and estranged from him a year later.
Q 06Which rival do Tommy Shelby and the Peaky Blinders set out to topple in the first series?
Billy Kimber
Billy Kimber learns that Tommy means to double-cross him and marches his men into the Shelbys' own street, where Tommy shoots him dead.
Q 07An 1890 Birmingham Mail report of "a murderous outrage" places the real gang's origins in which district?
Small Heath
The March 1890 Birmingham Mail report on the assault of George Eastwood called the attackers the 'Small Heath Peaky Blinders', the earliest known appearance of the name in print.
Q 08What is the name of Ada Shelby's first husband?
Freddie Thorne
Freddie Thorne, played by Iddo Goldberg, fought alongside Tommy in the war and dies of 'pestilence', presumably Spanish flu, between the first and second series.
Q 09What military rank did Thomas Shelby hold during World War I?
Sergeant Major
Sergeant Major Tommy Shelby dug tunnels under enemy lines in France and was decorated for gallantry; the show implies he came home with what is now called PTSD.
Q 10In Peaky Blinders series 2, how does a badly beaten Tommy reach London after leaving hospital?
By barge
By barge: Tommy discharges himself early and takes a slow boat south to seek an alliance with a London gang boss against the rival whose men put him in hospital.
Q 11Tommy's first wife is shot dead at a charity dinner while wearing what cursed gift from him?
A sapphire
The sapphire, which a Russian émigrée had warned Tommy was cursed, hangs at his wife's neck when the gunman shouts 'For Angel!' and fires.
Q 12What iconic item of clothing is most famously associated with the Peaky Blinders gang?
Flat caps
Flat caps with razor blades sewn into the peaks is the popular story, but one historian of the gang doubts it: such blades were then a costly luxury, and a soft cap would make a poor weapon.
Q 13Which actor plays fascist politician Sir Oswald Mosley in Peaky Blinders?
Sam Claflin
Q 21Tommy Shelby's hairstyle, which Peaky Blinders helped bring back into fashion, is known as what?
Undercut
Undercut hair is shaved at the sides and left long on top; the look has unglamorous roots, since in Tommy's day many men had the sides cropped close for hygiene, to keep lice at bay.
Q 22Which Peaky Blinders actress played Polly Gray and died in April 2021?
Helen McCrory
Helen McCrory played Polly in the first five series but was too ill to film the sixth and died of cancer on 16 April 2021; its opening episode stages Polly's funeral and is dedicated to McCrory's memory.
Q 23Which actor portrays Arthur Shelby Jr.?
Paul Anderson
Sam Claflin, the Hunger Games star, joined in series 5; his Mosley pressures Tommy into the new fascist party, which Tommy enters only to undermine it from inside.
Q 14The distillery-running Camden Town gang leader of series 2 heads a gang from which community?
Jewish
The Camden Town boss leads a Jewish gang whose bakery is a front for a rum distillery; Tommy first courts him in series 2 as a counterweight to the Italian gangs of London.
Q 15What is Michael Gray's relationship to Polly Gray?
Son
Michael is Polly's son, taken from her as a small child and raised by a foster family; Tommy brings him back into the fold, and in the final episode Tommy shoots him dead.
Q 16In series 2 of Peaky Blinders, a war-haunted Arthur Shelby starts using which drug?
Cocaine
Cocaine takes hold of Arthur in series 2 as his war flashbacks worsen, until Tommy has to order him to straighten up; by series 4 it is Michael who is using it to keep working.
Q 17Which political thinker is Ada Shelby's son named after?
Karl Marx
Karl Marx gives Ada's son his name: Karl is born midway through series 1, on the night her brother John marries, and his revolutionary father is arrested when he comes to see the baby.
Q 18Inspector Campbell's missing guns in Peaky Blinders series 1 were bound for which country?
Libya
Libya was the destination of the crates Tommy's men lift from the Birmingham Small Arms factory, and the missing guns drive the whole first series.
Q 19Which rock star, a devoted fan, was sent Tommy Shelby's cap and let Peaky Blinders use his final album's music?
David Bowie
David Bowie was sent the cap Cillian Murphy wore in series 1 and replied with a photo of himself in it; his team cleared Blackstar for the show shortly before he died, and 'Lazarus' plays in series 3.
Q 20Which streaming service acquired exclusive US distribution rights to Peaky Blinders in September 2014?
Netflix
Netflix took the US rights on from the Weinstein Company, whose name stayed on the credits until 2017, when it was removed after the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke.
Paul Anderson's Arthur comes home from the war with a rage he cannot control: in series 2 a flashback in the boxing ring ends with him beating a boy to death, which haunts him for years.
Q 24John Shelby's arranged marriage, sealing a truce with a rival family, is to which character?
Esme Lee
Esme Lee marries John to seal peace between the families; after he is killed in series 4 she takes their children and leaves, and in series 6 she returns to lead Tommy to a son he never knew.
Q 25From which city does Chief Inspector Chester Campbell originally come?
Belfast
Campbell comes from Belfast, where as an Ulster Protestant policeman he made his name hunting republicans; the government sends him to Birmingham to recover the stolen guns.
Q 26Which acclaimed actor portrays the volatile Camden Town gang leader introduced in series 2?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy's Camden Town gang boss is apparently shot dead by Tommy on a beach at the end of series 4, yet the character turns up alive in series 5 and Hardy stayed to the end.
Q 27What was Tommy's future first wife secretly doing when she took a job pulling pints for the Shelbys?
Working as an undercover agent
Working as an undercover agent for Inspector Campbell, who had known her late father, she was sent to get close to Tommy and find the missing guns; she later shot Campbell herself.
Q 28What was the primary criminal enterprise of the Shelbys' first major rival in series 1?
Racecourse betting
The rival's empire was racecourse betting: he controlled the bookmaking pitches at legal racecourses outside London and had police on his payroll, the very business Tommy wanted to take.
Q 29Which of Tommy's relatives is cast out in the final episode of Peaky Blinders for refusing to shoot an informer?
Finn
Finn had let slip a family plot to the same man in series 5; when he will not pull the trigger in the finale, Tommy's newly found son does it and banishes him.
Q 30The Shelbys' home street in Peaky Blinders was filmed on a terraced street in which port city?
Liverpool
Liverpool's Powis Street, in Toxteth, played the Shelbys' street for years, until work to refurbish its derelict terraces forced the film crews out in 2017.