70 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
Shiv sides against her brother Kendall in the final board vote, handing the job to her estranged husband. Matthew Macfadyen won an Emmy for playing him.
Q 02In which season 4 episode of Succession does Logan Roy die?
Connor's Wedding
Logan dies off-screen aboard his private jet while his children are on a boat celebrating the wedding. Every option is a real season 4 episode title.
Q 03Which mutated fungus turns people into infected in HBO's The Last of Us, which premiered in January 2023?
Cordyceps
The real fungus does infect ants and commandeer their behaviour, which is why the show's talk-show cold open, set decades before the outbreak, felt so plausible.
Q 04Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett play survivalists Bill and Frank in which episode of The Last of Us?
Long, Long Time
The episode is a near-standalone love story spanning 20 years, and 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
It took ten Emmys across the main and Creative Arts ceremonies for that season, and the show's 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
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 unknowingly sat through a fake trial full of actors in which 2023 Amazon Freevee series?
Jury Duty
James Marsden played a heightened, entitled version of himself as Juror #14, and the show picked up three Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series.
Q 09Ted Lasso coaches which fictional football club, whose story ended with the season 3 finale in May 2023?
A.F.C. Richmond
The club's home ground scenes were shot at Selhurst Park, the real home of Crystal Palace, with a fictional badge dropped in.
Q 10Jason Sudeikis first played Ted Lasso in 2013 promos for which US network's Premier League coverage?
NBC
The promos ran for two seasons before the character was expanded into the Apple TV+ series that debuted in 2020.
Q 11Which musician completed an EGOT at the 75th Emmys with a farewell concert special from Dodger Stadium?
Elton John
The Disney+ special of his November 2022 Los Angeles show gave him the last letter of the four; he already had an Oscar, Grammys and a Tony.
Q 12Because 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 13Lars Mikkelsen played which villain in live action for the first time in Ahsoka (2023)?
Grand Admiral Thrawn
Q 21Which veteran film star plays therapist Paul Rhoades in Apple TV+'s Shrinking?
Harrison Ford
It was his first regular sitcom role. The show was co-created by Ted Lasso's Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein with Jason Segel.
Q 22In which 2023 Apple TV+ drama, based on Hugh Howey's Wool, does Rebecca Ferguson play an engineer in a 144-level bunker?
Silo
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 23In Netflix's The Diplomat, Keri Russell's Kate Wyler is the new US ambassador to which country?
United Kingdom
Mikkelsen had voiced the character 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 14Ahsoka's first episode was dedicated to which actor, who played Baylan Skoll and died in May 2023?
Ray Stevenson
He was known for Rome and the Thor films. Rory McCann, Game of Thrones' Hound, was cast to take over the role for season two.
Q 15Netflix's live-action One Piece, released in August 2023, was filmed mainly in which city?
Cape Town, South Africa
A full-size replica of the Going Merry was built for the shoot, and the show became Netflix's most-watched series of the second half of 2023.
Q 16How much was the single cash prize in Netflix's 2023 reality show Squid Game: The Challenge?
$4.56 million
The figure 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 17How old was Gerry Turner when ABC announced him as the first lead of The Golden Bachelor in 2023?
72
The Indiana widower proposed to Theresa Nist in the finale and married her in a live TV wedding the following winter; they filed for divorce three months later.
Q 18Kelsey Grammer's 2023 Frasier revival moved the character to which city?
Boston
He becomes a lecturer at Harvard, back in the city where Cheers introduced him. David Hyde Pierce declined to return as Niles.
Q 19Which Oscar winner joined Loki's second season in 2023 as Ouroboros, the TVA repairs technician O.B.?
Ke Huy Quan
He arrived fresh from his Everything Everywhere All at Once win. The season ended with Loki holding the timelines together himself.
Q 20In which Rian Johnson series does Natasha Lyonne play Charlie Cale, who can tell when anyone is lying?
Poker Face
Johnson built it as a Columbo-style howcatchem, and Charlie drives a 1969 Plymouth Barracuda from case to case.
Rufus Sewell plays her husband Hal, himself a former ambassador. Creator Debora Cahn wrote for The West Wing and Homeland.
Q 24Gabriel Basso mans an emergency phone in the White House basement in which 2023 Netflix thriller?
The Night Agent
Between its release and June 2023 it racked up 812.1m hours watched, more than any other Netflix original in that span, and it is based on a Matthew Quirk novel.
Q 25What is the name of the fictional band's album in Daisy Jones & the Six, which Atlantic Records actually released on the show's premiere day in March 2023?
Aurora
Riley Keough and Sam Claflin sang the vocals themselves. Author Taylor Jenkins Reid was partly inspired by watching Fleetwood Mac perform on television.
Q 26Which 2023 Prime Video spin-off of The Boys is set at Godolkin University?
Gen V
Jaz Sinclair leads it 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 27In Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher, Carla Gugino's Verna has a name that is an anagram of what?
Raven
The Ushers' company is Fortunato Pharmaceuticals, another Poe nod, and Mark Hamill plays their fixer, nicknamed The Pym Reaper.
Q 28Who plays corrupt North Dakota sheriff Roy Tillman in Fargo's fifth season?
Jon Hamm
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 29Lance Reddick's final role, in Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, was which Greek god?
Zeus
Reddick died in March 2023, before the series aired. Courtney B. Vance took over the part for the second season.
Q 30Which Bill Hader HBO series about a hitman in an acting class ended in May 2023 with 'wow'?
Barry
Its final season jumped eight years forward, and it shared its finale night with another HBO drama's series ender about a media dynasty.