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175 free The Sopranos trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free The Sopranos trivia questions with answers. Think you're a true Sopranos fan? Dive into our comprehensive trivia quiz covering the iconic HBO series that revolutionized television drama. From Tony Soprano's therapy sessions to the New Jersey mob's most memorable moments, test your knowledge of characters, plot twists, and unforgettable scenes.
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Q 01Which New Jersey town is home to Holsten's, the Sopranos' final-scene ice-cream shop?
Bloomfield
Bloomfield's council voted to deny HBO a filming permit, calling the show offensive to Italian Americans, then found it had no power to refuse one and the scene went ahead.
Q 02In his first therapy session in The Sopranos, which film star does Tony hold up as 'the strong, silent type'?
Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper is Tony's model of a man who never talked about his feelings, a complaint he makes while paying Dr. Melfi to listen to his own.
Q 03Which antidepressant does Dr. Melfi prescribe for Tony Soprano after his panic attacks in the first episode?
Prozac
Prozac is Melfi's answer to his panic attacks, and Tony is soon seen knocking one back with a drink at the bar of the Bada Bing.
Q 04The exterior of the Soprano family home is a real private house in which New Jersey town?
North Caldwell
North Caldwell is David Chase's own hometown, and only the outside of the house is real: most scenes inside it were shot on studio sets.
Q 05Which musician and actor portrayed Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano's consigliere?
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt had never acted: Chase saw the E Street Band guitarist give a funny speech inducting the Rascals into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and asked him to audition.
Q 06Which actor played Christopher Moltisanti, Tony Soprano's protégé?
Michael Imperioli
Michael Imperioli shares his character's itch to write for the screen: he scripted several Sopranos episodes himself, 'The Telltale Moozadell' among them.
Q 07Which broadcasting award did The Sopranos win for each of its first two seasons?
Peabody
The Peabody Award judges praised the show for lifting the mob story out of a shop-worn film genre into a study of the moral complexity of American life.
Q 08Which veteran actor played Corrado 'Junior' Soprano, Tony's uncle and initial boss?
Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianese played Corrado 'Junior' Soprano, Tony's uncle, who holds the nominal title of boss for much of the series while Tony wields the real power.
Q 09In The Sopranos, what is the well-known nickname of Peter Paul Gualtieri?
Paulie Walnuts
Paulie Walnuts was played by Tony Sirico, who had served prison time before he took up acting and was so convincing that people took him for a real made man.
Q 10Beyond loan sharking and bookmaking, what kind of business does Tony's consigliere run day to day?
A strip club
A strip club: Silvio Dante manages the Bada Bing, and Tony's crew does so much of its business there that the club serves as the family's headquarters.
Q 11Tony Soprano calls Christopher Moltisanti his nephew, but how are the two actually related?
His wife's cousin
His wife's cousin, once removed: Carmela's father and Christopher's grandmother were siblings, and Tony took Christopher under his wing after the boy's father died.
Q 12For which Sopranos role was Lorraine Bracco first put forward before she was cast as Dr. Jennifer Melfi?
Carmela Soprano
Carmela Soprano was the part her agents pushed; having already played a mob wife on film as Karen Hill, Bracco says she asked for Dr. Melfi instead.
Q 13Silvercup Studios, where most Sopranos interiors were shot, stands in which New York City borough?
Queens
Q 21Tony Soprano recruits his enforcer Furio Giunta during a business trip to which Italian city?
Naples
Furio comes from Naples: Tony meets him there on the season 2 trip in 'Commendatori' and arranges with Camorra boss Annalisa Zucca to bring him to New Jersey.
Q 22What was the name of Tony Soprano's older sister?
Janice
Janice, played by Aida Turturro, drifts back into Tony's life in season 2 after years away under the name Parvati, and later marries one of his men.
Q 23What animals does Tony Soprano become concerned about in the very first episode?
Ducks
A family of ducks nests in Tony's pool; Melfi's reading is that he projected his love for his family onto the ducks, so their departure triggers his panic attack.
Queens: Silvercup is a former bread bakery in Long Island City, and most of the show's New Jersey interiors were built there as sets.
Q 14On whom in David Chase's own life was Dr. Jennifer Melfi modelled?
His own psychiatrist
His own psychiatrist: Chase said his last therapist, Lorraine Kaufman, was the model for Melfi because she had the same way of cutting through his evasions.
Q 15What was Tony Soprano's ostensible occupation to those outside his criminal life?
Waste management consultant
Waste management consultant is the job Tony gives Dr. Melfi in the pilot; she is not fooled, yet Barone Sanitation really does carry him on its books under that title.
Q 16Dr. Melfi's own therapist is played by which noted film director?
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich, director of The Last Picture Show, plays Melfi's own therapist, who spends most of his scenes urging her to drop her gangster patient.
Q 17The Bada Bing is located in which New Jersey town?
Lodi
Lodi: the Bing was a working go-go bar on Route 17, already in business before the show arrived; only Tony's back office was a studio set.
Q 18In the final season of The Sopranos, which European city does Tony's wife visit with her friend Rosalie Aprile?
Paris
Paris overwhelms her: she broods there on life and death, and dreams that a gendarme tells her a vanished friend is dead.
Q 19What was the name of Tony Soprano's manipulative mother?
Livia
Livia Soprano, cagey and self-absorbed, was modelled on David Chase's own mother and in season one even conspires with Junior to have Tony killed.
Q 20Which actor portrayed the character Paulie Gualtieri in 'The Sopranos'?
Tony Sirico
Tony Sirico played Peter Paul 'Paulie Walnuts' Gualtieri, one of Tony Soprano's chief henchmen.
Q 24In season 3 of The Sopranos, FBI agents bug the family's basement by planting a replica of which household object?
A reading lamp
A reading lamp: agents photograph the old one and build a copy with a microphone inside, but a burst water heater floods the basement and delays the swap by a week.
Q 25In The Sopranos' season 6 premiere, what is Tony doing when his demented uncle shoots him?
Cooking dinner
Cooking dinner at Junior's house, Tony is mistaken for a long-dead mobster, Pussy Malanga, and shot in the stomach; he manages to dial 911 before passing out.
Q 26Which actor beat the star of The Sopranos to the drama lead-actor Emmy in 2004 and 2007?
James Spader
James Spader won both times for the same character on two different shows: the lawyer Alan Shore, first in The Practice and then in Boston Legal.
Q 27While touring colleges with Meadow in The Sopranos' first season, Tony spots and kills an informant in which state?
Maine
Maine is where Tony recognises a man from witness protection at a gas station and garrottes him between campus visits, a killing HBO feared would turn viewers against him.
Q 28What was the name of the theme song for 'The Sopranos'?
Woke Up This Morning
Woke Up This Morning was not written about gangsters at all: it was inspired by Sara Thornton, an Englishwoman jailed for killing her violent husband.
Q 29Which basic-cable network began showing cleaned-up reruns of The Sopranos in January 2007?
A&E
A&E toned down the nudity and swearing for its advertisers, yet found it had to trim less than 30 seconds from the average episode.
Q 30In The Sopranos, what is the name of the restaurant run by Tony's chef friend from elementary school?
Vesuvio
Vesuvio goes up in flames in the first episode, torched on Tony's orders so that a mob hit cannot be staged there; its owner later rebuilds as Nuovo Vesuvio.