This Is Us Trivia
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50 free This is Us trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free This Is Us trivia questions with answers. This Is Us started as an 80-page movie script about octuplets and ended, six seasons and a lot of tissues later, as one of the most-watched dramas on American TV. This quiz covers the Pearson family across every timeline: the triplets born on Jack's 36th birthday, Kyle and the fire-station baby, William 'Shakespeare' Hill, Pittsburgh, the Super Bowl Sunday fire and the faulty slow cooker, the widow-maker heart attack, Louie the dog, Rebecca and Miguel, Randall and Beth, Tess, Annie and Deja, Kevin's acting career and his twins with Madison, Kate, Toby and Philip, Uncle Nicky, Dr K and the flash-forwards. It also covers the cast and the making of the show: Milo Ventimiglia's earlier roles, Mandy Moore's pop career, Sterling K. Brown's Emmy and Golden Globe firsts, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, Ron Cephas Jones's two guest Emmys, Dan Fogelman's film scripts, the titles NBC rejected, why Fox sold it, and the 26.97 million who watched after Super Bowl LII. Easy questions cover the family tree and the biggest moments. Medium ones ask about the actors and the production. Hard ones want the number of pages in the original script, the sitcom that gave Fogelman's episode its 'Parenthood' comparison, and whose real house doubled as a location. Every answer has been checked against reference articles on the series and its cast, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Who created This Is Us?
Dan Fogelman
Dan Fogelman. He started it as a film whose ending revealed that its scattered characters were born together as multiples, gave up about 80 pages in, and later rebuilt it for television.
Q 02In the This Is Us pilot, where does Kate first meet her future husband Toby?
A support group
A support group. Kate giggles at Toby's off-color jokes during a weight-loss meeting, and he asks her out again and again until she agrees to a date.
Q 03What is the surname of the family at the center of This Is Us?
Pearson
Pearson. The pilot follows Jack and Rebecca alongside three apparent strangers, and only its closing minutes reveal that the couple are their parents, decades earlier.
Q 04In This Is Us, what name had Jack and Rebecca chosen for the triplet who was stillborn?
Kyle
Kyle. Jack and Rebecca first gave the name to the baby they adopted, until Rebecca took his birth father's advice to give the boy a name of his own, and he became Randall.
Q 05In This Is Us, where is the newborn Randall abandoned before being taken to the hospital?
A fire station
A fire station. Firefighter Joe first takes the baby home to his wife, then drives him to the hospital where Jack and Rebecca have just lost one of their triplets.
Q 06In This Is Us, the Big Three lose Jack during what?
High school
High school. The Big Three are 17, and Randall gives up the university he had planned on to stay near his grieving family, which is how he comes to meet Beth at a college close to home.
Q 07In This Is Us, whom does Rebecca marry years after Jack's death?
Miguel Rivas
Miguel Rivas. Jack's best friend had been out of Rebecca's life for years when she joined Facebook to share photos of her first grandchild and he sent her a message.
Q 08In which city are the Big Three of This Is Us born and raised?
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh. The family's love of the Steelers outlives Jack: as an adult, Kate insists on watching every game alone beside the urn that holds his ashes.
Q 09In This Is Us, what are the names of Randall and Beth's two biological daughters?
Tess and Annie
Tess and Annie. Tess arrives in such a hurry that there is no time to reach a hospital, so Randall delivers her himself on the living-room floor.
Q 10What is Kevin's profession in This Is Us?
Actor
Actor. Kevin is the star of the hit sitcom The Manny until the pilot, when he quits mid-taping with a rant in front of the live studio audience.
Q 11In This Is Us, which career does Kate pursue?
Music
Music. Kate starts out singing at small gigs, and ends up teaching at the music school for blind children that her own son Jack attends.
Q 12In This Is Us, what nickname does Randall's biological father, William Hill, go by?
Shakespeare
Shakespeare. A bus driver gives Rebecca the nickname when she goes looking for her adopted baby's father, a poetry lover he knows from his bus.
Q 13Griffin Dunne plays which relative of the family in This Is Us?
Jack's brother Nicky
Jack's brother Nicky. Jack let his family believe Nicky had died in the war, and decades later the Big Three find their uncle alive, living alone in a trailer.
Q 21The This Is Us episode revealing how Jack died aired straight after which sporting event in February 2018?
The NFL championship game
The NFL championship game. Editors cut footage of the Super Bowl that had just ended into the episode's present-day scenes, so the family seemed to be watching the same game as viewers.
Q 22In This Is Us, what does Jack go back into the burning house to rescue for Kate?
Her dog
Her dog. Jack walks back out carrying Louie and a bundle of family mementos, and Kate goes on telling herself for years that his death was her fault.
Q 23In This Is Us, Jack escapes the house fire but dies hours later in the hospital of what?
A heart attack
Q 14In This Is Us, who is the mother of Kevin's twins, Franny and Nick?
Madison Simons
Madison Simons. Kate's best friend gets pregnant after one night with Kevin, and on the morning of their wedding she calls it off because he can't say he loves her.
Q 15In This Is Us, Kate's colleague Philip becomes what to her?
Her second husband
Her second husband. The show gives it away early: a flash-forward puts Kate in a wedding dress about to marry Philip while she is still married to Toby.
Q 16Where was This Is Us mainly filmed?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles. Most of it was shot on the Paramount lot, and actress Alyson Hannigan, who had vowed never to rent out her home for filming, made an exception for the show.
Q 17Which illness is Rebecca found to have in the later seasons of This Is Us?
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease. Randall goes behind Kevin's back to beg her to join a clinical trial in St. Louis, and the brothers' furious fight over it closes season 4.
Q 18In This Is Us, a blown tire and a night in a roadside lodge begin the family's traditions for which holiday?
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving. Stranded on the way to Rebecca's parents, Jack puts on the lodge owner's pilgrim hat, and the family re-creates the cheese dogs and Police Academy 3 every year.
Q 19In This Is Us, Jack comes home as a veteran of which war?
Vietnam War
Vietnam War. Jack told his family he was just a mechanic there, and only after his death does Kevin learn he was a staff sergeant who led men in combat.
Q 20Why was much of the This Is Us finale filmed years before it aired?
The child actors were growing up
The child actors were growing up. The creator had already planned the ending, so he shot its flashbacks years early and kept the footage under wraps until the finale.
A heart attack. Smoke inhalation brings on a sudden 'widowmaker' cardiac arrest while Rebecca is down the hall at a vending machine, so she is not in the room when he dies.
Q 24Which appliance starts the house fire in This Is Us?
An old slow cooker with a faulty switch
An old slow cooker with a faulty switch, a neighbor's hand-me-down. Viewers tweeted about throwing theirs out, and Crock-Pot had to put out a statement insisting its products were safe.
Q 25In This Is Us, where is Kevin on the night of the fire?
At Sophie's house
At Sophie's house. After lashing out at his parents, Kevin phones home to apologize but says he'll talk to his dad tomorrow, and he never gets the chance.
Q 26A This Is Us flash-forward shows Randall's firstborn daughter grown up and doing which job?
A social worker
A social worker. Viewers are led to think a boy waiting for a foster family is in the present day, until a greying Randall arrives to take the woman handling his case to dinner.
Q 27Milo Ventimiglia, who plays Jack, first broke through as brooding teen Jess Mariano on which series?
Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls. Jess left Stars Hollow to front his own spin-off, Windward Circle, but after a backdoor pilot aired the series was never picked up and he came back only as a guest.
Q 28This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia's slightly crooked mouth is the result of what?
Damaged facial nerves from birth
Damaged facial nerves from birth. Sylvester Stallone noticed at an audition that the lip hooked down just like his own, and cast him as Rocky's son in Rocky Balboa.
Q 29Mandy Moore, who plays Rebecca, first found fame in 1999 with which debut single?
Candy
Candy. Moore was 15 when it came out, later called that first album 'just awful', and once handed a radio host his money back for buying it.
Q 30Which Disney princess did Mandy Moore voice?
Rapunzel
Rapunzel. Tangled's screenwriter went on to create This Is Us, where Rebecca and Randall repeat the film's 'I love you more', 'I love you most' exchange in one episode.