Queer as Folk Trivia
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49 free Queer as Folk trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Queer as Folk was three shows. Russell T Davies's 1999 Channel 4 original followed Stuart, Vince and Nathan around Manchester's Canal Street for eight episodes and a two-part sequel, and got a brewery to pull its sponsorship along the way. The Showtime and Showcase remake ran five seasons from 2000 to 2005 with Brian, Justin, Michael, Emmett and Ted on a Pittsburgh Liberty Avenue that was actually Toronto. And in 2022 Peacock relocated the whole idea to New Orleans for a single season. This quiz covers all three: who played whom (and who turned the lead down), what the title actually means and what it was nearly called, the Jeep through the showroom window, the comic book Michael and Justin created, the club, the diner, the nickname, the theme songs, the finale bomb and the song Brian dances to in the last scene, plus the reboot's cast and why it was set where it was. It starts with questions any viewer can get and works up to details only devoted fans will remember. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the three series, their soundtracks and their creators and cast, and each question quotes its source.
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Q 01The original 1999 Queer as Folk was set and filmed in which English city?
Manchester
Manchester: the writer put his own experience of the city's gay scene at the heart of the script, and the series was shot on location around Canal Street.
Q 02Who wrote the original British Queer as Folk?
Russell T Davies
Russell T Davies wrote every episode himself, after a producer urged him to put his own experience of growing up gay at the heart of a script.
Q 03In the British Queer as Folk, what is the name of Stuart's baby son, born in the first episode?
Alfred
Alfred is born to Stuart's lesbian friend Romey, and the news breaks into his first night with schoolboy Nathan, so Stuart heads for the hospital.
Q 04Which British broadcaster first aired the original Queer as Folk in 1999?
Channel 4
Channel 4 broadcast it from February 1999 but later rejected the writer's planned spin-off; he vowed not to work with the channel again and stayed away until 2015.
Q 05Who played the advertising executive Stuart Alan Jones in the British Queer as Folk?
Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen put the script down after a first read, startled by how bold it was, then came back to it and flew over to audition.
Q 06Which actor, the writer's first choice to play Stuart in Queer as Folk, declined over his age and suggested a friend?
Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston felt too old for Stuart and put forward the friend who got the part; he later took the lead in the same writer's drama The Second Coming.
Q 07Who played Vince Tyler, Stuart's long-suffering best friend, in the British Queer as Folk?
Craig Kelly
Craig Kelly's Vince hides being gay at the supermarket he manages, until Stuart invites a smitten colleague to his 30th birthday party and introduces Vince's boyfriend.
Q 08Who played 15-year-old schoolboy Nathan Maloney in the British Queer as Folk?
Charlie Hunnam
Charlie Hunnam was 18 when he played the 15-year-old, whose night with Stuart in the opening episode set off the press row that greeted the series.
Q 09The writer of Queer as Folk says its title came from a line in which British film?
The Full Monty
The Full Monty: on learning that two friends are gay, Mark Addy's character quotes the old Northern saying that there's nowt so queer as folk, and the line replaced the script's ruder working title.
Q 10Which firm, founded by the writer's friend Nicola Shindler, made the British Queer as Folk?
Red Production Company
Red Production Company was newly founded when Nicola Shindler asked the writer what he wanted to write; the series, its first production, was commissioned off his opening scripts.
Q 11In Queer as Folk, what does Stuart do with a Jeep after its salesman's homophobic remarks?
Drives it through the showroom window
Drives it through the showroom window: Stuart smashes the Jeep straight through the dealership's glass. His own Jeep, meanwhile, gets rammed by Nathan's furious father.
Q 12Which lager brand pulled its sponsorship of the British Queer as Folk partway through the first series?
Beck's
Beck's pulled out halfway through the run, faced a boycott call from gay-rights campaigners, and four months later signed up to sponsor the same broadcaster's dramas again.
Q 13Which composer wrote the theme for the British Queer as Folk and won an RTS craft award for its score?
Q 21Which writing duo developed and ran the American Queer as Folk?
Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman
Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman had written the 1985 TV film An Early Frost together; the network told them to use the British scripts as a launch pad, then go off and make their own show.
Q 22In the series finale of the American Queer as Folk, Justin leaves Pittsburgh for which city?
New York
New York: Brian has only just proposed, yet he tells Justin to go and chase his art career there, and the two part after one last night together.
Q 23Who played the advertising executive Brian Kinney in the American Queer as Folk?
Gale Harold
Murray Gold
Murray Gold beat himself to that award, since his Vanity Fair score was nominated too, and the writer kept him on for his later dramas.
Q 14In the British Queer as Folk, how does Stuart and Vince's friend Phil Delaney die?
A drug overdose
A drug overdose: Phil collapses after taking drugs with a stranger, who steals his wallet and leaves him to die; at the funeral his mother says he might be alive had he not been gay.
Q 15Antony Cotton, who played Alexander Perry in Queer as Folk, went on to play a gay character in which soap?
Coronation Street
Coronation Street has had Cotton as barman Sean Tully since 2003. Alexander was written for Phil Collinson, but Cotton won the part; Collinson later became Coronation Street's producer.
Q 16The 2000 sequel Queer as Folk 2 was driven by which family event?
Vince's half-sister's wedding
Vince's half-sister's wedding sets the two-part sequel going, and in the same episode a blackmailing nephew forces Stuart to come out to his parents at last.
Q 17Which newspaper's columnist wrote that the British Queer as Folk 'proves that we need censorship'?
Daily Mail
Daily Mail: columnist Lynda Lee-Potter added that a nation allowing such television was 'lacking in both wisdom and self-respect', yet the show's writer said the outcry only helped.
Q 18Which pop star performs at the benefit that is bombed in the final season of the American Queer as Folk?
Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper headlines the fundraiser in Brian's club; the explosion that follows kills several people and makes Brian finally tell Justin he loves him.
Q 19The American Queer as Folk was set in Pittsburgh but mostly filmed in which city?
Toronto
Toronto: filming there was cheaper, and the city's own gay village around Church and Wellesley streets stood in for Pittsburgh's.
Q 20Which US cable network aired the American Queer as Folk from 2000 to 2005?
Showtime
Showtime expected a niche gay audience, but more than half the viewers turned out to be women, which the show's creators called the main reason it lasted five years.
Gale Harold's Brian acts selfish but keeps sacrificing for others: he gets himself fired and runs up his credit cards to bring down a homophobic candidate for mayor.
Q 24In the American Queer as Folk, what nickname does Debbie give Brian's young lover Justin Taylor?
Sunshine
Sunshine, for his bright smile and cheery nature; the first season ends with a classmate attacking Justin with a baseball bat at his prom, leaving him in a coma for two weeks.
Q 25In Queer as Folk, Michael Novotny idolises which fictional comic-book hero?
Captain Astro
Captain Astro: Brian hires a man in the hero's costume as a birthday present for Michael, and when the comic kills its hero off in season two, Michael goes into mourning.
Q 26In Queer as Folk, what do Michael and Justin call their comic book about a superhero based on Brian?
Rage
Rage: Justin draws it and Michael writes it, with themselves as the hero's lover and sidekick; a Hollywood studio later green-lights a film version, then pulls the plug.
Q 27In the American Queer as Folk, Emmett Honeycutt originally hails from which state?
Mississippi
Mississippi: Emmett often tells stories of his small-town childhood in Hazlehurst. In season two he is offered a million dollars to keep quiet about his affair with a wealthy older man who has died.
Q 28In the American Queer as Folk, what is Ted Schmidt's profession when the series begins?
Accountant
Accountant: Ted is fired for surfing porn at work, so he starts his own porn website, which ends with him out on bail; he later keeps the books at Brian's agency.
Q 29In the American Queer as Folk, where does Debbie Novotny, Michael's mother, work?
Liberty Diner
Liberty Diner: Debbie works there in slogan T-shirts and a button-covered vest; in the final season she retires, gets bored and goes back.
Q 30In Queer as Folk, what is the job of Ben Bruckner, Michael's partner from season two onward?
College professor
College professor: Ben teaches gay studies and walks in as the first customer at Michael's comic shop; Debbie at first opposes the match because Ben is HIV-positive.