Project Runway Trivia
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48 free Project Runway trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Project Runway has been sending designers to Mood with a budget and a deadline since 2004, and in that time it has won a Peabody, changed networks three times, lost and regained Heidi Klum, and turned a 21-year-old named Christian Siriano into its own mentor. This quiz covers the whole run: the original judging panel, the Bravo–Lifetime lawsuit, the season Tim Gunn publicly disagreed with the winner, the decoy collections at Fashion Week, the first disqualification, the Tim Gunn Save, and the winners from Jay McCarroll through the All-Stars season and the Freeform reboot. No sewing required, but you should know the difference between a fan favorite and a finalist.
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Q 01What was the name of the Boston terrier who greeted Project Runway designers at their fabric store?
Swatch
Swatch belonged to the family that owns the store and became its mascot, greeting contestants or sleeping through their shopping dashes until he died in 2022 at 15.
Q 02Which farewell does Heidi Klum say to each designer eliminated from Project Runway?
Auf Wiedersehen
Auf Wiedersehen comes with an air kiss, and the send-off stuck so firmly that fans and recappers call being eliminated getting "auf'd".
Q 03Longtime Project Runway judge Nina Garcia became editor-in-chief of which fashion magazine in 2017?
Elle
Elle was a homecoming: Garcia had been its fashion director when the show began, left for Marie Claire in 2008, and came back nine years later to run the magazine.
Q 04Which Project Runway season 2 designer went on to judge the first six seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race?
Santino Rice
Santino Rice, who finished third in season 2, sat beside RuPaul from 2009 until Carson Kressley and Ross Mathews took over the seat for season 7.
Q 05Which designer replaced Michael Kors as a regular Project Runway judge starting in season 11?
Zac Posen
Zac Posen got the seat because seasons 10 and 11 were filmed back to back and Kors could not commit to all the dates; Posen stayed until 2018.
Q 06Which New York fabric store do Project Runway's contestants usually shop at?
Mood Designer Fabrics
Mood Designer Fabrics got such a boost from the show that mentor Tim Gunn's exit line, "Thank you, Mood!", became a slogan the Garment District store sells on merchandise.
Q 07At which New York design school was Project Runway filmed for most of its first decade?
Parsons
Parsons also supplied the mentor: Tim Gunn chaired its fashion department, and because the show paid him nothing at first, he lived on his teaching salary.
Q 08Why did Jeffrey Sebelia drop the wigs from his winning Project Runway finale?
Over budget
Over budget by $227.95: a rival's claim that he farmed out his sewing led producers to audit his receipts, which cleared him of that but found the $8,000 limit overshot.
Q 09Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn shared which award in 2013 for hosting Project Runway?
A Primetime Emmy
A Primetime Emmy for outstanding reality host went to the pair in 2013, five years after Klum co-hosted the ceremony as one of the category's first nominees and left without it.
Q 10Which prestigious broadcasting prize was Project Runway awarded for its 2007 season?
Peabody Award
The Peabody Award citation called the creative process the heart of the series and praised it for using the reality contest "to engage, inform, enlighten and entertain".
Q 11Whose 2018 bankruptcy sent Project Runway back to Bravo?
The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company had already had its founder's name and its logo pulled from the show's credits in 2017; once it went bankrupt, a court approved the sale of its assets, the show included.
Q 12Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn left Project Runway in 2018 to create which Amazon fashion competition?
Making the Cut
Making the Cut raised the stakes for its designers: a $1 million prize, and each episode's winning look was put on sale on Amazon for viewers to buy.
Q 13Which model took over as Project Runway's host for its 2019 return in season 17?
Karlie Kloss
Q 21Through season 22, what distinction does Project Runway's season 4 champion hold among its winners?
Youngest winner
Youngest winner: Christian Siriano was 21 when his nearly all-black collection of ruffles and feathers took the title, and he told the cameras, "But hello? Did you have a doubt?"
Q 22Why did Jack Mackenroth leave Project Runway partway through season 4?
Medical reasons
Medical reasons: what he first took for a pimple in his nose was a drug-resistant staph infection, and after walking off the show he spent five days in hospital on intravenous antibiotics.
Q 23Project Runway's season 5 opened by repeating which task from season 1?
The grocery store challenge
Karlie Kloss hosted two seasons and one viral exchange: when a judge said she would never wear a designer's look, he shot back, "Not even to dinner with the Kushners?", her in-laws, and went home.
Q 14Which former Project Runway champion returned as the show's mentor in 2019?
Christian Siriano
Christian Siriano was a red-carpet name by then: in 2016, when Leslie Jones tweeted that no designer would dress her for the Ghostbusters premiere, he made her gown.
Q 15Which celebrity stylist joined Project Runway's judging panel in 2025?
Law Roach
Law Roach, the self-described image architect behind Zendaya's red-carpet looks, took the seat two years after announcing his retirement from celebrity styling.
Q 16Who won the very first season of Project Runway?
Jay McCarroll
Jay McCarroll turned down both the $100,000 and the Banana Republic mentorship after learning the contract would give the producers a share of whatever he went on to make.
Q 17Why did eliminated Project Runway designer Austin Scarlett still show at Fashion Week in season 1?
As a decoy for finalists
As a decoy for finalists: producers feared the real final three would leak before the finale aired, so a fourth collection walked too, and decoys became a fixture of later seasons.
Q 18Who won season 2 of Project Runway?
Chloe Dao
Chloe Dao, a Laos-born designer, was already running her own Houston boutique when she won, and she went straight home afterwards to keep building it.
Q 19Which Project Runway season 3 designer was the first sent home for breaking the show's rules?
Keith Michael
Keith Michael was sent home in the fourth episode after a fellow contestant found banned pattern-making books among his things; he insisted they were for his own menswear line.
Q 20Which retailer replaced Banana Republic as a Project Runway sponsor starting in season 3?
Macy's
Macy's signed on in 2006, just as it was going national by putting its own name on the former May Company department stores.
The grocery store challenge sent the new designers back to a Gristedes supermarket, and Austin Scarlett, who won the task the first time with a cornhusk gown, returned as guest judge.
Q 24Who won Project Runway's season 5, the first with an all-female final three?
Leanne Marshall
Leanne Marshall climbed from the bottom two in the second episode to win with a wave-inspired collection, and she also made a maternity dress for the pregnant Heidi Klum.
Q 25Which city hosted Project Runway's season 6, the first filmed outside New York?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles hosted season 6 at a fashion school, but a court fight kept it off the air so long that its finale runway show was held before a single episode had been broadcast.
Q 26Which company sued to block Project Runway's move to Lifetime, delaying season 6?
NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal, owner of the show's first network, won an injunction in 2008 that stopped Lifetime airing or even promoting the season until the producers paid to settle the next April.
Q 27Which season 2 runner-up won the 2009 Project Runway: All-Star Challenge special and its $100,000 prize?
Daniel Vosovic
Daniel Vosovic beat seven other alumni in the one-night special, collecting the same $100,000 he had missed out on as a runner-up three years earlier.
Q 28Who won Project Runway's season 6, its first on Lifetime?
Irina Shabayeva
Irina Shabayeva, who comes from the country of Georgia, won with a collection inspired by female warriors, and Carrie Underwood later wore one of her ombré gowns on the cover of Blown Away.
Q 29Which Project Runway season 7 designer quit late in the season, saying she wasn't ready?
Maya Luz
Maya Luz walked out in episode 11, saying she had only just left school and wasn't fully developed as a designer yet; the eliminated Anthony Williams was brought back in her place.
Q 30Who won season 7 of Project Runway in 2010?
Seth Aaron Henderson
Seth Aaron Henderson later came back to win a season of All Stars as well, which made him the first designer to take the title twice.