Touched by an Angel
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50 free Touched by an Angel trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Touched by an Angel was one of the most popular dramas of the 1990s, and one of the gentlest. Week after week, Monica, Tess and Andrew arrived in someone's life at a turning point, brought a message of hope and moved on. Critics were often unkind, but viewers kept the series on the air for nine seasons and more than two hundred episodes. This quiz covers the whole run: the angels and the actors who played them, the recurring friends and foes, the well-known faces who dropped in as guest stars, fondly remembered episodes such as 'The Peacemaker', the spin-off, the two-part finale and the story of how the series was made. It is written for anyone who followed the show when it was new or found it later in reruns. The opening questions are friendly to casual viewers and the later ones are for devoted fans. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through or print the set for a family night, a church group or a trivia evening.
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Q 01Which civil rights icon made a cameo as herself in the Touched by an Angel episode 'Black Like Monica'?
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks filmed the cameo in 1999, in an episode that turns Monica into a Black woman so she can feel a small Illinois town's bigotry first-hand.
Q 02Which boxing legend appears as himself to a bullied boy in the Touched by an Angel episode 'Fighting the Good Fight'?
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali appears as himself, and the angel Tess speaks for him to young Tim, who has taken up boxing to face his tormentors.
Q 03Which singer and ordained minister played Tess, the tough but loving boss of Monica, on Touched by an Angel?
Della Reese
Della Reese was already a pioneer: in 1969 she became the first Black woman to host her own talk show, simply titled Della.
Q 04On Touched by an Angel, Andrew, like Adam in the pilot, is the angel of what?
Death
Death is Andrew's beat, and audiences took to him quickly: introduced as a recurring guest in season two, he was a regular by season three.
Q 05Which comedy legend guest-starred with her real-life daughter Carrie Hamilton in Touched by an Angel's 'The Comeback'?
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett played a mother whose Broadway dreams were once ruined by a rival's dirty trick, with Carrie Hamilton as the daughter now chasing the same stage career.
Q 06Which Canadian singer appeared as herself in 'Psalm 151', a Touched by an Angel episode about a dying boy's wish list?
Celine Dion
Celine Dion is the idol of the boy's best friend, a girl who goes by the name Celine herself. Dion also sang on the show's platinum-selling soundtrack album.
Q 07What red 1972 convertible, a gift in the first episode, does Tess drive throughout Touched by an Angel?
Cadillac Eldorado
Cadillac Eldorado is the model, and Tess always takes the wheel. In the finale she hands the keys to Monica, who drives it away across the desert.
Q 08The Touched by an Angel actress who played trainee angel Gloria married which rock guitarist in 1981?
Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen stayed on good terms with her after their divorce: he and their son Wolfgang were both guests at her second wedding in 2011.
Q 09Monica, the caseworker angel of Touched by an Angel, speaks with the accent of which country?
Ireland
Ireland is where Monica first set foot on Earth, and a sixth-season episode sends her back there to work with a group of teenagers from the north.
Q 10Where in the American West, far from Hollywood, were most episodes of Touched by an Angel produced?
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City was home base from the pilot onward, and the Utah capital also hosted filming of the show's spin-off series.
Q 11Which broadcast network aired all nine seasons of Touched by an Angel, from the 1994 premiere to the 2003 finale?
CBS
CBS wanted an angel drama after its executives read a magazine story about how popular belief in angels was becoming in America.
Q 12Which actress, later a producer of The Bible miniseries, starred as Monica on Touched by an Angel?
Roma Downey
Roma Downey owes her first name to two grandmothers, Rose and Mary: Ro plus Ma. She missed only two of the show's 211 episodes.
Q 13Which One Day at a Time star joined Touched by an Angel late in the run as trainee angel Gloria?
Valerie Bertinelli
Valerie Bertinelli first appeared near the end of season seven as a brand-new angel, made to understand twenty-first-century life, then stayed for the last two seasons.
Q 21Which actor played Andrew, who joined Monica and Tess as a regular in Touched by an Angel's third season?
John Dye
John Dye had once hoped to become a civil rights lawyer before acting won out. He also directed one episode of the series, in its final season.
Q 22In the Touched by an Angel episode 'The Peacemaker', what is the job of the husband facing divorce?
Hostage negotiator
Hostage negotiator is the bitter irony of the story: a man paid to talk strangers out of a crisis cannot defuse the one at home, where grief for his son nearly ends his marriage.
Q 23The Touched by an Angel actress who played Tess toured as a teenager with which gospel great?
Mahalia Jackson
Q 14Which Touched by an Angel spin-off followed the Greene family as they toured America in a trailer helping strangers?
Promised Land
Promised Land ran for three seasons from 1996, and its first episode was shown as a special instalment of the parent series.
Q 15Which Spartacus star played an 83-year-old gym-chain owner in the Touched by an Angel episode 'Bar Mitzvah'?
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas played a proud self-made man who credits his recovery from a stroke to sheer willpower and thinks religion is for the weak.
Q 16Which boy band appeared with soprano Charlotte Church in the Touched by an Angel episode 'Voice of an Angel'?
NSYNC
NSYNC shared the bill in an episode where Monica, jealous of a girl's beautiful singing voice, walks off her assignment and ends up in a karaoke bar.
Q 17Which Little House on the Prairie star guest-starred with her then husband in Touched by an Angel's 'The Peacemaker'?
Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner, married in real life at the time, played a couple whose marriage is coming apart after the loss of their son.
Q 18After Touched by an Angel, the actress who played Gloria starred alongside Betty White in which 2010s sitcom?
Hot in Cleveland
Hot in Cleveland ran from 2010 to 2015 and brought her a Screen Actors Guild nomination; she went on to host cooking shows for Food Network.
Q 19In Touched by an Angel's 'Beautiful Dreamer', Tess warns a boy by telling the story of which presidential assassin?
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth is Tess's cautionary tale for a schoolboy who announces he wants to kill for a living: she spells out what shooting Abraham Lincoln went on to cost.
Q 20What reward does Monica finally earn in the Touched by an Angel finale after passing one last test?
Promotion to supervisor
Promotion to supervisor comes only after Monica offers to give it up and stay beside an innocent prisoner as his guardian; that sacrifice was the real test.
Mahalia Jackson heard her sing at 13 and put her in her road show. Decades later the actress became an ordained minister and founded a church of her own.
Q 24Which Dallas star played Mike, a lawyer turned small-town mayor, in the two-part Touched by an Angel finale?
Patrick Duffy
Patrick Duffy's Mike agrees to defend the drifter a grieving town blames for a school explosion, though the jury still convicts.
Q 25Touched by an Angel's ratings fell sharply in season eight after a move from Sunday to which night?
Saturday
Saturday proved costly: a top-ten show only two seasons earlier, the series was soon drawing about half of its old audience.
Q 26Which Olympic figure skating champion guest-starred in 'On Edge', a Touched by an Angel episode about a skater?
Tara Lipinski
Tara Lipinski, a year after her gold medal, played Alex Thorpe, an Olympic hopeful who teaches a con man's daughter to skate before he finally owns up to his crimes.
Q 27Which A Different World star played Kathleen, a fallen angel and old friend of Monica, on Touched by an Angel?
Jasmine Guy
Jasmine Guy's Kathleen kept coming back to undermine Monica, on one occasion setting out to ruin her performance evaluation.
Q 28Which country star played Audrey Carmichael, a jingle-writing single mother, in several Touched by an Angel episodes?
Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Judd first played Audrey in a fifth-season story about her gravely ill son, then came back for two later visits from the angels.
Q 29From which heavenly division had Monica just moved up to casework when Touched by an Angel began?
Search and rescue
Search and rescue was her third posting: Monica says she started out in the choir, moved on to annunciations, and only then joined the rescue squad.
Q 30A Touched by an Angel flashback shows Monica and Tess meeting during the first airing of which Orson Welles broadcast?
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds went out in October 1938, so by the show's reckoning the two angels had known each other for well over fifty years.