Psych TV Show Trivia
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108 free Psych TV Show trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
52 free Psych TV Show trivia questions with answers. Psych ran 120 episodes on USA Network from 2006 to 2014, then came back for three movies, a musical fans waited years for and a rewatch podcast hosted by Lassie and Jules themselves. This quiz covers the whole run: the fake psychic with the real eidetic memory, Gus's nicknames and the Blueberry, the pineapple hidden in every episode, Henry's flashback lessons, and the guest-star stunts from the Breakfast Club reunion to the Twin Peaks tribute and the 100th-episode Clue homage where viewers voted for the killer. The easy questions ask who plays Shawn and what fruit to look for. The harder ones want Lassiter's middle name, which episode earned the show's first Emmy nomination, and what Gus throws at the killer in Psych 3. It suits a rewatch party, a pub quiz TV round or settling which of you actually heard it both ways. Every answer has been checked against a reference encyclopaedia entry on the series, the episode or the film, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which cable channel originally aired Psych from 2006 to 2014?
USA
USA Network ran Psych for eight seasons, then reunited the cast in December 2017 for Psych: The Movie, the first of three follow-up films.
Q 02Who created Psych, and also fronts the band that plays its theme song?
Steve Franks
Steve Franks created Psych and fronts The Friendly Indians, the band behind its theme; his police-officer father inspired Henry's hat-counting drill in the pilot.
Q 03What is the title of the Psych theme song?
I Know You Know
'I Know You Know' by The Friendly Indians opens every episode, and several episodes swapped in themed variations such as a Christmas arrangement and a Spanish-language version.
Q 04Which real ability lets Shawn Spencer pass himself off as a psychic?
Eidetic memory
Eidetic memory, sharpened by Henry's childhood observation drills, lets Shawn notice and recall details so precisely that police assume he must have inside knowledge.
Q 05Who plays Shawn Spencer?
James Roday
James Roday plays Shawn, co-wrote several episodes including the Twin Peaks tribute, and later co-wrote all three Psych movies with the series creator.
Q 06What is Gus's actual first name?
Burton
Burton Guster goes by Gus; Shawn rarely uses the name, preferring nicknames such as Magic Head, Gus T.T. Showbiz and Lavender Gooms.
Q 07What is Gus's day job when Psych begins?
Pharmaceutical sales rep
Pharmaceutical sales rep is Gus's steady paycheck, and it keeps paying off on cases: his encyclopedic knowledge of drugs often hands Shawn the background he needs.
Q 08What is the nickname of Gus's blue Toyota Echo?
The Blueberry
The Blueberry is Gus's tiny blue Toyota Echo; in 'American Duos' Tim Curry's talent-show judge, stuck riding in it, moans that he feels incarcerated in a blueberry.
Q 09Which fruit is hidden somewhere in nearly every episode of Psych?
Pineapple
Pineapple. The actor playing Shawn improvised grabbing one in the pilot and offering to slice it up for the road, and the ad-lib grew into a gag fans hunt for in almost every episode.
Q 10Which actor plays Shawn's father Henry, a retired Santa Barbara police sergeant?
Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen plays Henry Spencer; most early episodes open with a flashback in which Henry teaches young Shawn a lesson that pays off in the episode's climax.
Q 11What is Head Detective Lassiter's nickname, courtesy of Shawn and Gus?
Lassie
Lassie. Shawn and Gus pinned the collie's name on the SBPD's stern head detective, and it stuck so firmly that the second Psych film is titled Lassie Come Home.
Q 12Who plays junior detective Juliet 'Jules' O'Hara?
Maggie Lawson
Maggie Lawson plays Juliet O'Hara, who joins the SBPD in the second episode, 'Spellingg Bee', as Lassiter's new partner.
Q 13Why was Lassiter's original partner, Lucinda Barry, written out after the pilot?
Test audiences disliked the pair's romance
Q 21Which actress plays Shawn's mother Madeleine, a police psychologist?
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd plays Madeleine Spencer, introduced in the season 3 premiere 'Ghosts', when she returns to Santa Barbara and reveals that she, not Henry, ended the marriage.
Q 22Kurt Fuller plays which recurring character?
Woody the Coroner
Woody the Coroner is Kurt Fuller's role from season 4 through all three films: a morgue oddball who clicks with Shawn at once and turns out to be wanted in the Philippines.
Q 23Sage Brocklebank plays which lovable, naive SBPD officer?
Buzz McNab
Buzz McNab is the earnest patrolman Shawn and Gus lean on for favours; the series finale makes him a junior detective when the new head detective picks him as her partner.
Test audiences disliked the pair's romance: many missed that Lassiter was separated and read it as cheating, so Anne Dudek's detective gave way to Juliet; in-story, Shawn exposes the affair and she is transferred.
Q 14Kirsten Nelson plays Karen Vick, who holds what job at the SBPD?
Chief
Chief. Vick holds the post only on an interim basis until the season 2 finale, 'Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead', when she is finally handed the job for good.
Q 15Psych is set in Santa Barbara but was filmed where?
British Columbia
British Columbia stood in for California: the seaside town of White Rock, near Vancouver, doubled for the Santa Barbara coast.
Q 16Which 1985 film's main cast appeared on Psych over the years, all except Emilio Estevez?
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club's Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald guested in later seasons, and two more of its principals took recurring roles; Emilio Estevez never appeared.
Q 17Which 1980s teen-film actress played the serial killer Mr. Yang?
Ally Sheedy
Ally Sheedy played Mr. Yang in three season finales and came back for the musical; the third finale unmasks her long-hidden accomplice as her own father.
Q 18Who plays elusive international art thief Pierre Despereaux?
Cary Elwes
Cary Elwes played Despereaux four times, from the season 4 premiere to the season 8 opener, where the thief insists he has been an undercover Interpol agent all along.
Q 19Which Tears for Fears singer plays himself repeatedly on Psych?
Curt Smith
Curt Smith sang his own version of the theme for 'Shawn 2.0', played himself in several episodes and turns up shot at the mansion party in the 100th episode.
Q 20Which Star Trek captain plays Juliet's estranged con-man father Frank O'Hara?
William Shatner
William Shatner played Frank O'Hara in season 6's 'In for a Penny...', in which Shawn tracks him down for Juliet's birthday before learning why she cut him off; Jeffrey Tambor plays her stepfather.
Q 24Kristy Swanson plays Marlowe Viccellio, who becomes what to Lassiter?
His wife
His wife: they meet at a bar in 'This Episode Sucks', he vows to wait while she serves prison time, and they marry in the season 7 episode 'Deez Nups'.
Q 25Which 1980s teen-film alum plays Harris Trout, the consultant the mayor hires to shake up the SBPD?
Anthony Michael Hall
Anthony Michael Hall plays Harris Trout, introduced in the season 7 finale, who returns to run the SBPD on an interim basis in the final season before being fired.
Q 26Which Oscar winner joins season 8 as Head Detective Betsy Brannigan after Lassiter's promotion?
Mira Sorvino
Mira Sorvino, an Oscar winner for Mighty Aphrodite, plays Brannigan, who takes over as head detective once Lassiter is promoted: a bubbly scrapbooker who carries twin Colt 1911 pistols.
Q 27Which former Twin Peaks star plays Father Westley, the priest who helps Shawn and Gus?
Ray Wise
Ray Wise plays the priest, Shawn and Gus's old church-school teacher, from a season 4 exorcism case; he returns in the Twin Peaks tribute to pull them out of a burning library.
Q 28What is Psych's season 5 Twin Peaks tribute episode called?
Dual Spires
'Dual Spires' aired on December 1, 2010, twenty years to the day after the Twin Peaks episode in which the killer was unmasked to the town.
Q 29In the Twin Peaks tribute episode, the drowned teenager's name is an anagram of which character?
Laura Palmer
Laura Palmer is the anagram of Paula Merral; seven Twin Peaks cast members guested in the episode, recruited with help from Dana Ashbrook.
Q 30What event lures Shawn and Gus to the town in the Twin Peaks tribute episode?
A cinnamon festival
A cinnamon festival: an anonymous email invites them, and it turns out the town librarian sent it to draw a detective to the drowned girl's death.