Scandal Trivia
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50 free Scandal trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
41 free Scandal trivia questions with answers. Scandal ran for seven seasons and 124 episodes on ABC, and it packed more twists into each hour than most shows manage in a season. This quiz is for the gladiators who watched every one of them. Forty questions cover Olivia Pope and her firm, the affair with President Fitzgerald Grant, Mellie's climb from First Lady to the Oval Office, Cyrus Beene's scheming, Huck, Quinn, Abby, Harrison and David Rosen, B613 and Rowan, the plane over Iceland, the murder of Andrew Nichols, and the How to Get Away with Murder crossover. It also covers the show behind the show: Shonda Rhimes, the real-life crisis manager Judy Smith who inspired Olivia, the TGIT block, the live-tweeting cast, Kerry Washington's Emmy nominations and why season three was cut to eighteen episodes. Easy questions ask who plays Olivia and which network aired it; hard ones want Huck's real name, the codename of the covert operation that killed Olivia's mother, and the 1974 series that was the last network drama built around a Black female lead. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its characters and its creators, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who plays Olivia Pope in Scandal?
Kerry Washington
Kerry Washington led the show from the first episode to the last, and in the final season she stepped behind the camera to direct an episode herself.
Q 02Who created Scandal?
Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes based the series on the casework of Judy Smith, a real political crisis manager she met in 2009, who joined the show as a co-executive producer.
Q 03The actor who plays President Fitz Grant in Scandal was the voice of which Disney animated hero?
Tarzan
Tarzan: the future President Grant voiced the grown-up ape man in Disney's 1999 film, nine years after making his name as the villain of Ghost.
Q 04Olivia Pope is partly based on Judy Smith, who served as deputy press secretary to which president?
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush appointed her in 1991. After the White House she founded the crisis firm Smith & Company, and its casework became the model for the show.
Q 05Judy Smith, the real-life model for Olivia Pope, counselled which figure from the Clinton impeachment scandal?
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky was her client during the scandal; Smith's firm has also advised the actor Wesley Snipes and Sony Pictures after its 2014 hack.
Q 06In Scandal's final season, Olivia Pope & Associates is renamed after which member of the team?
Quinn Perkins
Quinn Perkins inherits the firm when Olivia leaves to run the White House as chief of staff, and it reopens as Quinn Perkins & Associates, or QPA.
Q 07In Scandal's first episode, a new recruit is told that Olivia Pope's team are what?
Gladiators in suits
'Gladiators in suits' is how the job is sold to the firm's newest lawyer on her first day, and the phrase stuck: the network's own synopsis of the series calls the team that.
Q 08In Scandal, what White House job did Olivia Pope hold before founding her crisis firm?
Director of Communications
Director of Communications was her reward for helping to win Fitz the presidency; she then walked away from the White House to open her own crisis firm.
Q 09Who plays President Fitzgerald 'Fitz' Grant III?
Tony Goldwyn
Tony Goldwyn also worked behind the camera, directing several episodes across the run, the last of them in the final season.
Q 10Before the presidency, Fitz was governor of which state?
California
California made Fitz its governor before his run for the White House; he had gone into politics there after flying fighter jets for the Navy.
Q 11Which actor plays White House chief of staff Cyrus Beene?
Jeff Perry
Jeff Perry was still a student when he, Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney started Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, putting on plays in a school basement.
Q 12Who plays Mellie, the First Lady, in Scandal?
Bellamy Young
Bellamy Young came to acting by way of singing, her first love, and during the show's run she released an album of her own, Far Away So Close.
Q 13In Scandal, how does Mellie try to stop Fitz from divorcing her?
She has her labour induced early
She has her labour induced early so that the new baby will keep him at her side; Fitz sees through it and goes on planning the divorce.
Q 21Who plays Jake Ballard, the B613 operative ordered to get close to Olivia, in Scandal?
Scott Foley
Scott Foley arrived as a guest in season two, was promoted to the main cast a year later, and by the final season was directing episodes as well.
Q 22In Scandal, which vice president briefly takes over as president after Fitz is shot?
Sally Langston
Sally Langston becomes acting president while Fitz lies in hospital, and Olivia is pulled back into the White House to help her run it.
Q 23In Scandal, what was the codename of the mission in which Fitz shot down a civilian airliner?
Operation Remington
Q 14In Scandal, who is revealed at the end of season two to be Olivia's father?
Rowan
Rowan had been seen only as a nameless, menacing spymaster until the season's closing seconds, when Olivia faces him and says a single word: 'Dad?'
Q 15In Scandal, what is the title held by the head of B613?
Command
Command is what everyone in B613 calls its chief, whoever holds the post, and by the final season the title has passed to Olivia herself.
Q 16In Scandal, what is Huck's real name?
Diego Muñoz
Diego Muñoz is the name he had as a husband and father before B613 took that life from him; a season four episode, 'The Testimony of Diego Muñoz', turns on it.
Q 17Which actress plays Quinn Perkins in Scandal?
Katie Lowes
Katie Lowes plays the firm's wide-eyed new lawyer, who turns out to be a woman framed for murder and living under an identity that Olivia's team gave her.
Q 18In Scandal, which member of Olivia Pope's firm goes on to become White House Press Secretary and then Chief of Staff?
Abby Whelan
Abby Whelan first stands in for Olivia at the White House, is hired as its press secretary, and takes the chief of staff's office when Cyrus is fired.
Q 19Which Scandal character, played by Columbus Short, is murdered by B613 at the end of season three?
Harrison Wright
Harrison Wright had just worked out who was behind the death of the president's son. He was written out after Columbus Short left the show for personal reasons.
Q 20Which actor plays David Rosen, the US Attorney turned Attorney General, in Scandal?
Joshua Malina
Joshua Malina swapped sides between two White House dramas: he worked for the president as Will Bailey on The West Wing, then spent this show investigating one.
Operation Remington is the secret at the heart of season three: Fitz, then a Navy pilot, was ordered to shoot the plane down, and Olivia's mother was listed among the dead.
Q 24Which Friends alum guest-starred in Scandal as Congresswoman Josie Marcus, a Democratic presidential hopeful?
Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Kudrow played her across a run of season three episodes, in which Olivia's team first investigates the candidate and then coaches her for the campaign.
Q 25In Scandal, who kills Cyrus's husband James to protect a cover-up?
Jake
Jake has been asked to keep a secret buried, so he shoots James, makes it look like a carjacking and stays with the dying man to the end.
Q 26In Scandal, how was Fitz and Mellie's son Jerry murdered?
Deliberate exposure to bacterial meningitis
Deliberate exposure to bacterial meningitis made it pass for sudden illness: the boy collapses while his father gives a campaign speech, and the wave of sympathy wins Fitz the election.
Q 27Which Arrested Development star plays RNC chairwoman Elizabeth North in Scandal?
Portia de Rossi
Portia de Rossi began as a recurring guest in season four and stayed as a regular, her party chairwoman scheming her way into the West Wing as chief of staff.
Q 28In Scandal, which former vice president does Olivia brutally murder in season five?
Andrew Nichols
Andrew Nichols, who once had her kidnapped, is threatening to leak what he knows and refuses to be bought off; Olivia snaps and beats him to death with a chair.
Q 29Scandal's 100th episode imagines Olivia's life if she had refused to do what?
Rig Fitz's election
Rig Fitz's election: in the episode's what-if she says no, he loses the race, leaves his wife and turns up to ask Olivia to marry him.
Q 30Which television lawyer turns to Olivia Pope for help in Scandal's 2018 crossover episode?
Annalise Keating
Annalise Keating, of How to Get Away with Murder, needs Olivia's help to rush her class action to the Supreme Court; the story began on Scandal and carried on into her own show.