The Studio TV Show Trivia
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58 free The Studio TV Show trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This The Studio TV show trivia quiz covers the first season of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Apple TV comedy episode by episode, from Matt Remick's promotion and the Kool-Aid movie to the Golden Globes and the CinemaCon presentation. The easy questions cover the cast — Rogen, Catherine O'Hara, Bryan Cranston, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Hahn — the studio's name and the Scorsese pitch. Medium questions dig into the cameos: Sarah Polley's oner, Ron Howard's note, Olivia Wilde's missing reel, Ice Cube's casting and Ted Sarandos in the bathroom. The hard and expert questions are for people who watched the credits and read the interviews: the Borat test screening that inspired "The Note", the Netflix Waterloo set, Griffin's real age, the Ennis House, Point Grey Pictures and the record 23 Emmy nominations. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation, so the names, dates and plot points can be trusted. Difficulty is shown on every question, which makes it easy to build a round for a TV quiz night or play the whole set. When you finish, try our other Hollywood and comedy series quizzes.
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Q 01Seth Rogen directed every episode of The Studio alongside which longtime creative partner?
Evan Goldberg
Evan Goldberg and Rogen set their cinematographer one strict rule for the series: every scene is a single unbroken shot, filmed with one camera and one lens.
Q 02On which streaming service did The Studio debut in March 2025?
Apple TV
Apple TV, then branded Apple TV+, released the first two episodes together and renewed the series for a second season before the finale had even aired.
Q 03In The Studio, CEO Griffin Mill shares his name with the studio-executive lead of which 1990s Hollywood satire?
The Player
The Player, Robert Altman's 1992 satire, stars Tim Robbins as executive Griffin Mill and opens with a long unbroken shot around a studio lot, a move The Studio's premiere copies.
Q 04Who plays Patty Leigh, the fired studio head who becomes Matt's mentor-turned-producer in The Studio?
Catherine O'Hara
Catherine O'Hara's Patty turns her firing into leverage: Matt needs her to win back a director, so she bargains her way into a lucrative producing deal.
Q 05Which Breaking Bad star plays Continental CEO Griffin Mill in The Studio?
Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston's Griffin hands Matt the top job on one condition: he must greenlight a movie based on Kool-Aid.
Q 06Who plays Sal Saperstein, Continental's vice president of production and Matt's best friend, in The Studio?
Ike Barinholtz
Ike Barinholtz's Sal becomes the accidental star of the show's Golden Globes episode, where winner after winner thanks him from the stage as a running joke.
Q 07Which actress plays Maya Mason, Continental's head of marketing, in The Studio?
Kathryn Hahn
Kathryn Hahn's Maya is horrified to learn the Kool-Aid film is really about Jonestown, but Matt defends it until the CEO asks for an update.
Q 08Who plays Quinn Hackett, the assistant Matt promotes to junior executive in The Studio?
Chase Sui Wonders
Chase Sui Wonders' Quinn wages a sabotage war on Sal over rival horror directors, then covers for him in exchange for his parking space.
Q 09The Studio's 23 Emmy nominations in 2025 broke the first-season comedy record held by which series?
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso had held the mark with 20 nominations for its 2021 debut; The Studio then turned 13 of its 23 into wins, including best comedy series.
Q 10The Studio's 13 Emmys in 2025 broke which series' single-season comedy record?
The Bear
The Bear had won 11 for its second season a year earlier; The Studio's 13 stood for only one year before Widow's Bay won 14 in 2026.
Q 11In The Studio's premiere, which brand-based blockbuster is the model for Matt's Kool-Aid movie?
Barbie
Barbie is the model Matt wants to copy by hiring a director with real vision, but the auteurs he dreams of, such as Wes Anderson, turn out to be far out of reach.
Q 12Which legendary director pitches Matt a film about the Jonestown massacre in The Studio's premiere?
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese said yes after the creators simply sent the script to his manager; Rogen first met him when he arrived on set to shoot.
Q 13In The Studio's premiere, which actor does the Jonestown film's director want as Jim Jones?
Steve Buscemi
Q 21In The Studio's 'The Note', what is the title of the overlong film whose ending Matt wants cut?
Alphabet City
Alphabet City thrills the team for two hours as a gritty 1970s New York thriller, then loses them with a long, dreamy final act set entirely in a motel.
Q 22In The Studio's 'The Note', Matt recalls being humiliated over a note he gave on which real film?
A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind is the film where a young Matt suggested giving away the twist early, and its director roasted him in front of a room of famous filmmakers.
Q 23Seth Rogen traced The Studio's episode 'The Note' to an unpopular note he recalls giving at an early screening of which comedy?
Borat
Steve Buscemi turns up in person at a party afterwards and reveals the doomed Jonestown film was meant to be the director's last.
Q 14Which director ends up attached to the Kool-Aid movie in The Studio's premiere?
Nicholas Stoller
Nicholas Stoller, who directed Rogen in the Neighbors films, plays himself, and Matt can only win him back by making Patty a producer on the movie.
Q 15Whose party are Matt and Sal thrown out of in The Studio's premiere after making a director cry?
Charlize Theron's
Charlize Theron's party is where Matt and Sal break the news that the Jonestown film is dead, and she throws both executives out herself.
Q 16In The Studio's 'The Missing Reel', the noir film Matt is making is mocked as a rip-off of which classic?
Chinatown
Chinatown is the template: the fake noir is set in California's solar-panel business, and the episode itself turns detective story, with Matt dictating case notes into his phone.
Q 17Which director, acting for the first time in 17 years, plays herself in The Studio's episode 'The Oner'?
Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley went to Rogen for writing advice during awards season and ended up with a cameo; the creators then hired her as a writer for season two.
Q 18In The Studio's 'The Oner', which actress stars in the film being shot and asks Matt for a private jet?
Greta Lee
Greta Lee flatters Matt's ideas before asking for a studio jet for the press tour, and her best take is then ruined because his car blocks the driveway.
Q 19In The Studio's 'The Oner', which Rolling Stones song does the director need extra money to license?
You Can't Always Get What You Want
You Can't Always Get What You Want closes the real episode, an ironic sign-off: Matt drives away at dusk and the crew never get their shot.
Q 20In The Studio's 'The Note', which famously nice director must Matt tell to cut his film's ending?
Ron Howard
Ron Howard sends up his nice-guy image: he roasts Matt in front of the office and hurls his hat at him, then phones that night to agree to the cut.
Borat is the film Rogen thinks it was: he says nobody liked his note, and Larry David, sitting in the back row, made fun of him.
Q 24In The Studio's 'The Missing Reel', who turns out to have stolen the film reel?
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde, directing the film, took the reel to force costly reshoots of a sequence she disliked, then let it roll away downhill rather than hand it back.
Q 25Which actor stars in the noir film at the centre of The Studio's 'The Missing Reel'?
Zac Efron
Zac Efron looks like the prime suspect, but the cash Matt finds in his trailer is paying for a secret wrap party after Matt refused to fund one.
Q 26What does Matt have to sell to fund the reshoots at the end of The Studio's 'The Missing Reel'?
His Corvette
His Corvette goes to the very star he had suspected of the theft, who buys the classic car and so bankrolls the reshoots.
Q 27What is the title of the low-budget slasher Sal and Quinn fight over in The Studio's 'The War'?
Wink
Wink is meant to be Continental's answer to Smile, so Sal courts that film's real director, Parker Finn, but the feud drives both rival directors away.
Q 28In The Studio's 'The War', whose set does a golf cart destroy?
A Netflix Waterloo miniseries
A Netflix Waterloo miniseries had taken over the lot; Sal hurls Quinn's burrito at her, hits a passing golf-cart driver instead, and the cart flattens the set.
Q 29In The Studio, what is the profession of Matt's girlfriend Sarah, played by Rebecca Hall?
Pediatric oncologist
Pediatric oncologist Sarah takes Matt to a hospital fundraiser, where he insists to a table of her colleagues that making films matters as much as medicine.
Q 30In The Studio, which real director makes Duhpocalypse!, a gross-out zombie satire starring Johnny Knoxville?
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze co-created Jackass with Knoxville, which is the joke: the fake film is a satire of medical disinformation in which a zombie plague spreads by explosive diarrhea.