2023 TV Trivia
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69 free 2023 TV trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
2023 was a strange year for television. Writers walked out in May, actors joined them in July, late-night went dark and the Emmys slid all the way into January. Yet it was also the year the Roy family finally picked a successor, a fungus took over HBO, a Chicago sandwich shop swept the comedy awards, and a man named Ronald sat through a three-week trial without realising everyone around him was an actor. This quiz covers all of it: the big finales (the Roys, Ted Lasso, Barry, Mrs. Maisel, Reservation Dogs), the breakouts (The Bear, Beef, Jury Duty, The Night Agent, Silo, Poker Face), the streaming surprises (a 12-year-old legal drama becoming the most-streamed show of the year, a Netflix pirate adaptation that actually worked), the reality moments (a 72-year-old Bachelor, a $4.56 million Squid Game prize) and the industry news that made headlines, from the strikes to the biggest defamation settlement in US media history. There are easy questions on who played Joel and Ellie and hard ones on episode titles, showrunners and the number of days the picket lines lasted. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia article for the show, event or person involved, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which character ends up as CEO of Waystar RoyCo when Succession's series finale airs in May 2023?
Tom Wambsgans
Tom Wambsgans becomes CEO after Shiv votes against her brother Kendall in the final board vote, handing the job to her estranged husband. Matthew Macfadyen won Emmys for the role.
Q 02In which season 4 episode of Succession does Logan Roy die?
Connor's Wedding
Logan dies off-screen aboard his jet in "Connor's Wedding" (season 4, episode 3), while his children are on a boat for Connor's wedding. All four options are real season 4 titles.
Q 03Which mutated fungus turns people into infected in HBO's The Last of Us, which premiered in January 2023?
Cordyceps
Cordyceps is the mutated fungus. The real fungus infects ants and hijacks their behaviour, which the show's 1968 talk-show cold open uses to make the outbreak feel plausible.
Q 04Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett play survivalists Bill and Frank in which episode of The Last of Us?
Long, Long Time
"Long, Long Time" (season 1, episode 3) is a near-standalone love story spanning 20 years, and Nick Offerman won a Primetime Emmy for it. All four options are real season 1 titles.
Q 05Who plays Joel and Ellie in HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us?
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey
Both actors had appeared in Game of Thrones, Pascal as Oberyn Martell and Ramsey as Lyanna Mormont, though they never shared a scene there.
Q 06Which comedy stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto and won Outstanding Comedy Series at the 75th Emmys?
The Bear
The Bear took ten Emmys across the main and Creative Arts ceremonies for its first season, and its second season had already arrived on FX on Hulu in June 2023.
Q 07Steven Yeun and Ali Wong feud after a road-rage incident in which 2023 Netflix series?
Beef
Beef premiered on Netflix in April 2023. Both leads won Emmys and the show swept its three Golden Globe categories; creator Lee Sung Jin based it on a real road-rage encounter of his own.
Q 08Ronald Gladden sat through a fake trial in which everyone but him was an actor, in which 2023 Amazon Freevee series?
Jury Duty
Jury Duty, released on Amazon Freevee in April 2023, surrounded Gladden with actors including James Marsden playing an entitled version of himself; it was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the Emmys.
Q 09Jason Sudeikis first played Ted Lasso in 2013 promos for which US network's Premier League coverage?
NBC
NBC Sports ran the Ted Lasso promos in 2013 and 2014 to launch its Premier League coverage, before the character was expanded into the Apple TV+ series that debuted in 2020.
Q 10Which musician completed an EGOT at the 75th Emmys with a farewell concert special from Dodger Stadium?
Elton John
Elton John's Disney+ special of his November 2022 Dodger Stadium show won the Emmy that completed his EGOT; he already had two Oscars, Grammys and a Tony for Aida.
Q 11Because of the Hollywood strikes, the 75th Emmys were pushed from September to which month?
January 2024
Anthony Anderson hosted the delayed ceremony on Fox on 15 January, a week after the Golden Globes and only two months before the Oscars.
Q 12Lars Mikkelsen played which villain in live action for the first time in Ahsoka (2023)?
Grand Admiral Thrawn
Mikkelsen had voiced Grand Admiral Thrawn in the animated Star Wars Rebels, making him one of the few actors to carry a Star Wars role from animation into live action.
Q 13Ahsoka's first episode was dedicated to which actor, who played Baylan Skoll and died in May 2023?
Ray Stevenson
Q 21In which 2023 Apple TV+ drama, based on Hugh Howey's Wool, does Rebecca Ferguson play an engineer in a 144-level bunker?
Silo
Silo premiered in May 2023. Ten thousand people live inside without knowing why, and the outside is shown to them only on a single screen. Howey originally self-published Wool as a short story.
Q 22In Netflix's The Diplomat, Keri Russell's Kate Wyler is the new US ambassador to which country?
United Kingdom
Kate is posted to the United Kingdom, arriving in London in the first episode. Rufus Sewell plays her husband Hal, himself a former ambassador, and creator Debora Cahn wrote for The West Wing and Homeland.
Q 23Gabriel Basso mans an emergency phone in the White House basement in which 2023 Netflix thriller?
Ray Stevenson, known for Rome and the Thor films, died on 21 May 2023. Rory McCann, Game of Thrones' Hound, was later cast to take over Baylan Skoll for season two.
Q 14Netflix's live-action One Piece, released in August 2023, was filmed mainly in which city?
Cape Town, South Africa
Shooting took place at Cape Town Film Studios in South Africa, where a full-size replica of the Going Merry was built; the show topped Netflix's viewing report for the second half of 2023.
Q 15How much was the single cash prize in Netflix's 2023 reality show Squid Game: The Challenge?
$4.56 million
The $4.56 million prize echoes the 456 players who entered, and Netflix billed it as the largest single cash prize in reality TV history. Player 287, Mai Whelan, won it.
Q 16How old was Gerry Turner when ABC announced him as the first lead of The Golden Bachelor in 2023?
72
ABC introduced the 72-year-old Indiana widower in July 2023. He proposed to Theresa Nist in the finale and married her in a live TV wedding in January 2024; they filed for divorce three months later.
Q 17Kelsey Grammer's 2023 Frasier revival moved the character to which city?
Boston
Frasier returns to Boston, becoming a lecturer at Harvard, back in the city where Cheers introduced him. David Hyde Pierce declined to return as Niles.
Q 18Which Oscar winner joined Loki's second season in 2023 as Ouroboros, the TVA repairs technician O.B.?
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan arrived fresh from his Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar win to play O.B. The season ended with Loki holding the timelines together himself.
Q 19In which Rian Johnson series does Natasha Lyonne play Charlie Cale, who can tell when anyone is lying?
Poker Face
Poker Face premiered on Peacock in January 2023. Johnson built it as a Columbo-style howcatchem, and Charlie drives a 1969 Plymouth Barracuda from case to case.
Q 20Which veteran film star plays therapist Paul Rhoades in Apple TV+'s Shrinking?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford's Dr. Paul Rhoades is a senior therapist at the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center; the show was co-created by Ted Lasso's Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein with Jason Segel.
The Night Agent
The Night Agent, released in March 2023 and based on a Matthew Quirk novel, racked up 812.1 million hours watched by June, more than any other Netflix original in that span.
Q 24What is the title of the fictional band's album in Daisy Jones & the Six?
Aurora
The album is Aurora, which Atlantic Records actually released on the show's March 2023 premiere day. Riley Keough and Sam Claflin sang the vocals themselves.
Q 25Which 2023 Prime Video spin-off of The Boys is set at Godolkin University?
Gen V
Gen V premiered in September 2023 with Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau, whose power is manipulating her own blood. After Chance Perdomo died in 2024 his role was written out rather than recast.
Q 26In Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher, Carla Gugino's Verna has a name that is an anagram of what?
Raven
Verna rearranges to Raven, Poe's most famous poem. The Ushers' company is Fortunato Pharmaceuticals, another Poe nod, and Mark Hamill plays their fixer, nicknamed The Pym Reaper.
Q 27Who plays corrupt North Dakota sheriff Roy Tillman in Fargo's fifth season?
Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm plays Tillman, a constitutionalist sheriff hunting Juno Temple's Dot. Sam Spruell's hired killer Ole Munch is revealed to be a 500-year-old Welsh sin-eater, one of the season's stranger swings.
Q 28Lance Reddick played which Greek god in Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians?
Zeus
Reddick played Zeus; he died in March 2023, before the series premiered that December. Courtney B. Vance took over the part for the second season.
Q 29Which HBO series, starring Bill Hader as a hitman who wanders into an acting class, ended its four-season run in May 2023?
Barry
Barry's final season jumped eight years forward, and it shared its finale night with another HBO drama's series ender about a media dynasty.
Q 30The Crown's sixth and final season, released in two parts in late 2023, ends with which royal wedding?
Charles and Camilla
The finale closes on Charles and Camilla's April 2005 wedding, the season having opened in 1997 ahead of Diana's death. Imelda Staunton was the third actress to play the Queen, after Claire Foy and Olivia Colman.