This The Rehearsal trivia quiz has 60 free questions with answers about Nathan Fielder's HBO docu-comedy, covering both seasons from Kor's confession at a replica Alligator Lounge to Nathan landing a Boeing 737 full of actors. The easy questions are for anyone who watched: the network, the premiere years, the bar, the robot baby, the fake son Adam, the acting studio, the airport terminal built on a soundstage and the pilot's licence. The harder ones go episode by episode: the Raising Cane's replica, the numerology-obsessed Robbin, the Oregon child-labour rules that forced the baby swaps, Nate's Lizard Lounge, Dr. Fart, Remy and 'pretend daddy', John Goglia, Moody and Cindy in the simulated cockpit, Wings of Voice and Canadian Idol, the cloned dog Achilles, the Sully Sullenberger childhood re-creation and the Evanescence theory, Colin and 'The Pack', the meeting with Congressman Steve Cohen, and 'The Miracle over the Mojave'. There are also questions on the show's origins in Nathan for You, its ratings, reviews and the debate about whether it is cruel or profound. Every answer was checked against the show's Wikipedia article and Nathan Fielder's, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01On which network did The Rehearsal premiere in July 2022?
HBO
It was first teased in 2019 as part of Fielder's deal there, and the title was revealed in June 2021.
Q 02In the first episode, what does Kor Skeete want to confess to his bar trivia team?
He lied about having a master's degree
Nathan builds a full-scale replica of the Brooklyn bar so Kor can rehearse the conversation with his friend Tricia dozens of times.
Q 03Which Brooklyn bar does Nathan recreate in full scale for Kor's rehearsal?
The Alligator Lounge
The replica later gets relocated to a warehouse and eventually opens to the public under a different name.
Q 04Which actor plays the 'fake Kor' in the first episode?
K. Todd Freeman
He is a Tony-nominated stage actor; the fake Tricia is played by another hired performer.
Q 05How does Kor's real confession to Tricia go?
She responds with understanding
Nathan then rigs the trivia night so Kor's team wins, and starts to worry about how people will react to his deceptions.
Q 06What is Angela, the subject of most of season one, rehearsing for?
Motherhood
Nathan sets her up in a rented farmhouse in rural Oregon with child actors playing her adopted baby.
Q 07Why does Nathan's team have to swap out the baby every four hours during Angela's rehearsal?
Oregon child protection laws
At night the babies are replaced with a robot baby, whose incessant crying drives off Angela's would-be partner.
Q 08Angela's simulated husband Robbin is obsessed with what?
Numerology
He quits over the robot baby's crying, and Nathan steps in as Angela's non-romantic co-parent.
Q 09What is the name of the fake son Nathan and Angela raise?
Adam
He is played by a rotating cast of child actors as he ages from a baby to a teenager and back again.
Q 10Why does Angela refuse to take part in Halloween?
She believes in Satanic conspiracies
Her beliefs later fuel a fight over a comedy skit and a joke about eating feces.
Q 11Patrick's rehearsal in 'Gold Digger' takes place in a replica of which restaurant chain?
Raising Cane's
He wants to confront his brother over their grandfather's will, which cuts him off if he is dating a 'gold digger'.
Q 12How does Nathan try to bring real emotion into Patrick's rehearsal?
Convincing him he could inherit buried gold
The gold supposedly belongs to the grandfather of Isaac, the actor playing Patrick's brother. Patrick has a breakthrough and never comes back.
Q 13What is 'the Fielder Method', taught at the acting studio Nathan opens in Los Angeles?
Covertly observing and imitating unaware people
Q 21In the season one finale, which child actor becomes attached to Nathan and keeps calling him 'daddy'?
Remy
His mother explains that he may struggle to tell acting from reality, which sends Nathan down a spiral of re-enactments.
Q 22In the final scene of season one, Nathan plays which role?
Remy's mother, Amber
Playing the mother opposite an actor as Remy, he seemingly breaks character and says, 'I'm your dad.'
Q 23Season two of The Rehearsal focuses on what subject?
Aviation safety and pilot communication
Fielder had followed plane crashes for almost 20 years and noticed a pattern of first officers failing to challenge captains.
Feeling insecure about his teaching, Nathan re-enacts the class with a fake Nathan and enrols himself as a student.
Q 14Nathan re-enacts his own acting class as a student called what?
Thomas
He immerses himself in the real Thomas's life, going as far as living in his home.
Q 15What storyline does teenage Adam get in 'The Fielder Method'?
He develops a drug problem and overdoses
The arc mirrors Angela's own past; the emergency responders are played by Fielder Method graduates.
Q 16After the teenage Adam runs away, what happens to the character?
He reverts to age six
Nathan decides to relive his son's earlier years, resetting the 15-year-old to a six-year-old.
Q 17Under what pretense does Nathan take Adam to lessons with a Judaism tutor?
Swimming
Angela, a fervent Christian, refuses to let Adam be raised in Nathan's Jewish faith.
Q 18Under what name does Nathan open his replica bar to the public?
Nate's Lizard Lounge
He is looking for solace outside the house as the co-parenting arrangement sours.
Q 19Six-year-old Adam's comedy skit character, which triggers a fight between the co-parents, is called what?
Dr. Fart
Angela claims the accompanying joke about eating feces is a Satanic practice.
Q 20How does the real confrontation with Angela in 'Apocalypto' end?
She simply quits the rehearsal
In the rehearsed version, a fake Angela had savaged Nathan's emotional detachment and questioned the ethics of the whole show.
Q 24In what month and year did season two premiere?
April 2025
HBO had renewed the show back in August 2022, so the wait was almost three years.
Q 25Which real airport terminal did Nathan partially recreate on a California soundstage for season two?
George Bush Intercontinental, Houston
His crew had been denied entry to the real terminal; Houston airport officials later said they were intrigued by the fidelity of the copy.
Q 26Who is John Goglia, Nathan's adviser in season two?
A former NTSB member
He had once recommended roleplay simulation to improve pilot communication, which is exactly the tool Nathan has.
Q 27Moody, the first officer in the season two premiere, worries his girlfriend Cindy is hit on at her job as what?
A Starbucks barista
They hash out their relationship in a simulated cockpit with Cindy dressed as a captain, and it ends awkwardly.
Q 28What is Wings of Voice?
A fake singing competition used to test co-pilots
Co-pilots had to judge and reject auditioning singers, so Nathan could see how they handled delivering hard news.
Q 29The Wings of Voice scenario was inspired by a job Nathan once had on which show?
Canadian Idol
He was a junior producer whose job included dealing with rejected hopefuls.
Q 30Which co-pilot's high likeability score with rejected contestants prompts Nathan to imitate her?
Mara'D
She also shows a knack for deflecting a captain named Jeff who has been banned from numerous dating apps.