The Chase Trivia
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50 free The Chase trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Chase is the ITV teatime quiz where four strangers try to outrun a professional quizzer down a seven-step board, and it has become one of the biggest game shows on British television: four to five million viewers an episode, National Television Awards, a BAFTA, and a franchise stretching to Australia and the United States. These 50 questions cover the rules and the people. The Cash Builder clock, the five-second lock-out, the Final Chase head start and the £8,000 celebrity pot sit beside the Chasers themselves: the Beast and his French pun, the barrister who won Mastermind, the doctor-comedian, the Governess who recommended the Vixen, the Oxford entomologist who beat Sinha as a contestant. Then it crosses the water for Brooke Burns on GSN, Sara Haines on ABC, the Jeopardy! champions who chased there, and Larry Emdur replacing Andrew O'Keefe in Australia. Easy ones ask who the Beast is; hard ones ask who adjudicates a buzzer-beater. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01On The Chase, what does a contestant gain by accepting the Chaser's lower offer?
A bigger lead on the board
A bigger lead on the board, one extra step, comes at a price: the lower offer can be zero or even negative, and a contestant who banks a minus offer shrinks the team's pot.
Q 02What does a wrong answer cost in The Chase's Cash Builder?
Nothing
Nothing: a miss or a pass carries no penalty, so speed is everything. On the American version, James Holzhauer once got 12 of 13 right in his minute.
Q 03Which revived BBC One show has Bradley Walsh presented with his son Barney since 2024?
Gladiators
Gladiators is a family affair: Walsh's wife Donna was head choreographer for the cheerleaders on the original series, and Bradley himself competed in a 1997 celebrity special.
Q 04On The Chase, what happens to a Head-to-Head player too slow to lock in an answer?
Frozen out
Frozen out for that turn, they stay where they are: once one side locks in, the other has five seconds. The rule cuts both ways, so a fast contestant can freeze out the Chaser.
Q 05What decides the contestants' head start in The Chase's Final Chase?
Team size
Team size: each player left is worth one step, because teams lose time buzzing in. Bradley Walsh reckons a three-player team's start is worth about twelve seconds.
Q 06Mark Labbett's Chaser nickname, The Beast, plays on how his surname sounds in which language?
French
French: Labbett sounds like la bête, 'the beast'. He was one of only two Chasers when the show began in 2009, alongside Shaun Wallace.
Q 07What is Shaun Wallace's Chaser nickname?
The Dark Destroyer
The Dark Destroyer lost a word in Australia, where the local version bills him as plain 'The Destroyer'. Asked whether the original nickname offended him, Wallace replied: 'Absolutely NOT.'
Q 08What is Anne Hegerty's nickname on The Chase?
The Governess
The Governess once helped a contestant win instead: as a phone-a-friend on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, she came up with the right name.
Q 09Which Chaser is "The Sinnerman"?
Paul Sinha
Paul Sinha, the Sinnerman, owes an early diagnosis to television: his Parkinson's was caught in 2019 after a consultant spotted the first symptoms while watching him on Taskmaster.
Q 10What is Jenny Ryan's nickname on The Chase?
The Vixen
The Vixen was picked for her long red hair, worn in a ponytail like the animal's bushy tail; she says the name also lets her be 'a bit predatory'.
Q 11Which Chaser is known as "The Menace"?
Darragh Ennis
Darragh Ennis, the first contestant to come back as a Chaser, says he only learned his nickname when he walked out on set: Bradley Walsh had picked it.
Q 12What does Chaser Darragh Ennis study as a university researcher?
Insect brains
Insect brains are his day job, and quiz fans once tried to top up his pay: after teammates' low offers shrank his 2017 winnings as a contestant, viewers started a GoFundMe for him.
Q 13Besides quizzing, what is Shaun Wallace's profession?
Barrister
Barrister, against the odds: he failed his O-level English four times before going on to argue cases at the Old Bailey.
Q 21Bradley Walsh was a professional footballer at which club before turning to showbusiness?
Brentford
Brentford kept him on the books for about two years, though he never played a first-team game; the club remembers him taking the mic at end-of-season dinners to entertain team-mates and fans.
Q 22Bradley Walsh played Danny Baldwin in which soap opera?
Coronation Street
Coronation Street had planned to call him Vic Baldwin; Walsh asked for Danny instead, because that was his late father's name.
Q 23Which sci-fi series cast Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien from 2018 to 2022?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who once terrified him: when he was cast, Walsh recalled watching William Hartnell's original episodes as a boy 'from behind the sofa through my fingers' before becoming a fan.
Q 14What specialist subject won Shaun Wallace the Mastermind title in 2004?
FA Cup Finals
FA Cup Finals made him Mastermind's first black champion, and he did not stop there: a year later he stood for Parliament as an independent in Brent South.
Q 15Chaser Paul Sinha qualified and worked in which profession before comedy and quizzing took over?
Doctor
Doctor: he qualified as a GP and began performing stand-up while still working as a junior doctor in hospitals, before swapping medicine for comedy.
Q 16Which reality show did Chaser Anne Hegerty compete on in 2018?
I'm a Celebrity
I'm a Celebrity showed viewers another side of her: she was praised for talking openly in camp about her Asperger's, which was not diagnosed until she was in her forties.
Q 17Which Chaser recommended Jenny Ryan to producers after playing in the quiz league team Ryan captained?
Anne Hegerty
Anne Hegerty heard that producers wanted another woman Chaser and said she would like it to be someone she knew, so she put forward the captain of her own quiz league team.
Q 18Jenny Ryan reached the final of which 2019 singing contest, finishing third?
The X Factor: Celebrity
The X Factor: Celebrity nearly lost her early: she was cut before the live shows to viewers' outrage, then reinstated when mentor Nicole Scherzinger changed her mind.
Q 19What did Chaser Mark Labbett once choose as his specialist subject on Mastermind?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons and the Olympic Games were his two Mastermind subjects. His quiz habit began at Butlins, where as a student worker he topped up his wages on the quiz machines in the bar.
Q 20The Chaser nicknamed the Beast earned his mathematics degree at which university?
Oxford
Oxford, where he read maths at Exeter College. Cleverness did not always pay: as runner-up on The People's Quiz, he noted, the winner got £200,000 and he got 'a hearty handshake'.
Q 24Bradley Walsh's Chasing Dreams was 2016's best-selling British debut album, outselling which former One Direction star?
Zayn Malik
Zayn Malik was among the pop names it outsold, even though the quiz host's album of standards reached the shops only in late November.
Q 25Fanny Chmelar, whose name sent Bradley Walsh into a viral laughing fit on The Chase, competed in which sport?
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing: the German slalom racer was the subject of a 2011 question. Walsh said he wanted to apologise, and in 2024 he did, when she surprised him on Michael McIntyre's Big Show.
Q 26On The Chase, what happens when all four contestants are caught?
One nominee plays on
One nominee plays on alone in the Final Chase for a small fixed prize, and if that player beats the Chaser, all four share the money, including the three who were caught.
Q 27On Beat the Chasers, what stops a contestant's clock and starts the Chasers' clock running?
A correct answer
A correct answer stops the clock and hands play over. In a reversal of the parent show, it is the Chasers who must buzz in, and they are not allowed to confer.
Q 28In The Chasers' Road Trip, which country did three Chasers cross to test themselves against robots?
Japan
Japan was the final leg: after child geniuses and great apes, three of the Chasers came face to face with a self-solving puzzle cube, facial recognition and working robots.
Q 29Which quiz, launched two months after The Chase, became its long-running teatime ratings rival?
Pointless
Pointless began on BBC Two and only met The Chase head-on after moving to BBC One in 2011; on one day in September 2012 the two drew 2.27 and 2.44 million viewers.
Q 30Which UK channel has broadcast The Chase since its first series in 2009?
ITV
ITV first ran it as a ten-episode, two-week trial for the 5pm slot in summer 2009. A longer run was ordered the next year, and it became a fixture of teatime.