Skins (TV Series)
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50 free Skins (TV Series) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Skins arrived in 2007 and changed what a teen drama could look like on British television. It was written with teenagers in the room, cast largely with unknowns, and it swapped its whole gang every two years, so each generation of sixth-formers got one intense run before the next took over. This quiz covers all three generations and the farewell specials: who loved whom, who came to a sudden end, which storylines shocked viewers, and what became of Tony, Sid, Effy, Cook, Freddie, Franky and the rest. It also follows the cast beyond the series, since several of its young actors went on to major screen careers, and it looks behind the camera at the writers, the guest stars who played the parents and the remake made for American television. It is pitched at fans who watched first time round and at anyone discovering the drama on streaming. Expect easy openers on the best-known characters and a few deep cuts for people who can still name every member of every gang.
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Q 01Which English city is the setting of the teen drama Skins, with many scenes shot around its College Green?
Bristol
Bristol is where almost every scene was shot, and open auditions there for the second cast drew 1,500 teenagers.
Q 02At the end of series one of Skins, what hits Tony Stonem while he is on the phone declaring his love?
A bus
A bus leaves Tony with brain damage, so the cocky schemer of series one spends the next series slowly regaining his memory and abilities.
Q 03Which Skins actor went on from the teen drama to the lead role in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire?
Dev Patel
Dev Patel only auditioned for Skins because his mother spotted a casting advert in the Metro newspaper and took him along, the day before a science exam.
Q 04Which actor played Posh Kenneth in Skins, helped write the drama and later won an Oscar?
Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya was head writer on two Skins episodes, and his Oscar came for playing Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.
Q 05Which actress, who played Effy Stonem, stayed on when Skins replaced nearly all its cast for series three?
Kaya Scodelario
Kaya Scodelario was 14 with no acting experience when she was cast, and Effy went on to appear in more episodes than any other character.
Q 06Which British channel premiered the teen drama Skins and went on to broadcast all seven of its series?
E4
E4 launched Skins in January 2007 and stayed its home to the end, through three casts and a farewell series in 2013.
Q 07Hannah Murray, later Gilly in Game of Thrones, played which Skins character treated for an eating disorder?
Cassie
Cassie returned for the final series in Skins Pure, where she has recovered and is waiting tables in a London café.
Q 08Which country do the sixth-formers of Skins visit on a school trip in the drama's first series?
Russia
Russia was faked for the cameras: the trip episode was actually shot in Lithuania, near Vilnius, with local actors.
Q 09Which Skins character, played by Joe Dempsie, dies of a sudden haemorrhage near the end of series two?
Chris
Chris's friends are barred from the funeral by his dad, so two of them steal the coffin to hold a send-off of their own.
Q 10In Skins, what is the profession of John Foster, who murders Freddie McClair with a baseball bat?
Psychiatrist
Psychiatrist John Foster had been treating Effy Stonem with unorthodox hypnosis, and turned on Freddie for insisting the treatment stop.
Q 11What is the family relationship between Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain, the two creators of Skins?
Father and son
Father and son hatched Skins after Jamie Brittain picked apart his dad's other ideas for a show, and the writing team they built averaged just 21 years old.
Q 12Which instrument does Jal Fazer play in Skins, taking it to the Young Musician of the Year contest?
Clarinet
Clarinet practice ends abruptly when a drug dealer smashes the instrument to punish Sid Jenkins for an unpaid debt.
Q 13Which Doctor Who star played Mark Jenkins, the dad of Sid, in the first two series of Skins?
Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi's character dies suddenly in series two, a scene that Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies singled out as superb.
Q 21Which former child film star played the manipulative Tony Stonem in the first two series of Skins?
Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult, the boy from About a Boy, was a sixth-form student himself when cast, and left his studies after the first series to act full time.
Q 22Which Cat Stevens song do the characters of Skins sing together as the first series comes to an end?
Wild World
Wild World is missing from the American DVD of the series, because the music in the original broadcasts cost too much to license.
Q 23Which actress, later Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, played Gina, the mother of Naomi Campbell, in Skins?
Olivia Colman
Q 14Which hangout of Freddie McClair's does his dad convert into a studio for his sister Karen in Skins?
His shed
His shed is where Freddie smokes with Cook and JJ, and where friends later hold a birthday party for him without knowing he is dead.
Q 15Which naive best friend of Effy Stonem first appears in series two of Skins before joining the main cast?
Pandora
Pandora and Effy were the only two characters carried over when the original gang was written out after series two.
Q 16In series three of Skins, what does an intoxicated Effy Stonem use to hit her tormentor Katie Fitch?
A rock
A rock leaves Katie recovering for the next episode, yet by series four the two have put the bitterness behind them and become close friends.
Q 17To which city does Sid Jenkins travel at the end of series two of Skins, hoping to find the girl he loves?
New York
New York is where the story leaves him searching, and viewers are never told whether the pair are reunited.
Q 18Which actor played James Cook in Skins before leading Angelina Jolie's war drama Unbroken?
Jack O'Connell
Jack O'Connell returned to the role in Skins Rise, the two-part finale that finds an older Cook on the run and dealing drugs.
Q 19Which American channel aired a short-lived remake of Skins that was cancelled after advertisers pulled out?
MTV
MTV's version copied the first British episode almost shot for shot, but swapped Maxxie for a lesbian cheerleader named Tea.
Q 20Which member of the third Skins gang dies after a road crash on holiday at the start of series six?
Grace
Grace never recovers from her coma, yet she keeps appearing to her grieving friends in visions for the rest of the series.
Olivia Colman's character runs the family home as a commune, so her daughter wakes up among strangers at the start of the episode.
Q 24Which Skins character, played by Kathryn Prescott, falls in love with her classmate Naomi Campbell?
Emily
Emily was played opposite a real twin: Megan Prescott, six minutes the younger, took the part of her domineering sister.
Q 25Which American university accepts Thomas Tomone on an athletic scholarship at the end of Skins series four?
Harvard
Harvard also takes his on-off girlfriend on a history scholarship, so chance throws the estranged pair back together.
Q 26Which hobby does JJ Jones of Skins, who has Asperger's syndrome, use to help him make friends?
Magic tricks
Magic tricks win JJ company, but it is a romance with a single mother called Lara that makes him doubt he needs to be so heavily medicated.
Q 27In which country are the Skins gang on holiday at the start of series six when a car chase turns deadly?
Morocco
Morocco is where Matty's truck overturns during the chase, and he runs away rather than be arrested for the drugs a dealer had put in it.
Q 28Which sketch comedian played Jim Stonem, the dad of Tony and Effy, and also directed two episodes of Skins?
Harry Enfield
Harry Enfield directed the episode in which a recovering Tony visits a university open day and rediscovers his old self.
Q 29What is the name of the fictional sixth-form college attended by all three generations of Skins characters?
Roundview
Roundview was played by several real schools over the years, including John Cabot Academy and, for series four, Henbury School.
Q 30Which star of The Office played the gangster Johnny White in the third series of Skins?
Mackenzie Crook
Mackenzie Crook's gangster torments the gang until Thomas, freshly arrived from the Congo, beats him in a pepper-eating contest.