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198 free TV Shows trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
64 free TV Shows trivia questions with answers. Sixty-plus TV trivia questions and answers spanning the whole history of the small screen: the golden-age westerns and anthology shows, the sitcoms and soaps that drew 90-million-viewer audiences, and the prestige dramas and streaming hits of the last two decades. Expect Cheers and Gunsmoke next to Breaking Bad, The Bear and Squid Game. The set starts with easy crowd-pleasers (which sitcom hung out at Central Perk?) and works up to record ratings, rejected pilots and finale details only serious viewers remember. Play it solo, or lift a round for a pub quiz or family night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and network sources, and each question carries its citation. No recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01Which sitcom's six Manhattan twenty-somethings spend their days on an orange couch at the Central Perk coffee shop?
Friends
Friends kept its six leads on equal pay: they bargained as a group from Season 3, and by the last two seasons each of them earned $1 million an episode.
Q 02In Breaking Bad, what alias does the chemistry teacher at its centre adopt as his drug-lord persona?
Heisenberg
Heisenberg comes from Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist of the uncertainty principle; he first gives the name to a dealer whose office he then wrecks with a bag of explosive crystals.
Q 03In the US version of The Office, Michael Scott manages the Scranton branch of which fictional paper company?
Dunder Mifflin
Dunder Mifflin became a real brand in 2011, when the online arm of Staples licensed the fictional company's name from NBCUniversal and began selling actual Dunder Mifflin copy paper.
Q 04Which animated series features the town of Springfield?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons keeps Springfield's state a running joke; Matt Groening chose one of America's most common town names so that everyone would think it was their Springfield.
Q 05What HBO series follows the Roy family and their media conglomerate Waystar Royco?
Succession
Succession grew out of an unmade film script about Rupert Murdoch's family; its writer then invented the Roys instead, drawing on several real media dynasties.
Q 06In Stranger Things, what is the name of the alternate dimension that threatens Hawkins, Indiana?
The Upside Down
The Upside Down mirrors the real world in rot and darkness, home to the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer; the kids' Dungeons & Dragons games gave the monsters their names.
Q 07Teams of two circle the globe chasing US$1 million on which CBS show, hosted by Phil Keoghan since 2001?
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race once had to free its own host: Keoghan says he was detained in Ukraine for two days during the tenth season until the US ambassador, a fan of the show, stepped in.
Q 08Sons of Anarchy, in which Jax Teller's stepfather runs the biker club his late father started, echoes which Shakespeare play?
Hamlet
Hamlet shaped the show, its creator has said: the father who started the club is the ghost, and the stepfather who took over both the club and Jax's mother stands in for Claudius.
Q 09Which character says "I am the one who knocks" in Breaking Bad?
Walter White
Walter White says it to his wife Skyler, who fears he is in danger; 'I am the danger,' he tells her, and she answers by taking their baby and driving away from the house.
Q 10In Game of Thrones, which structure do the men of the Night's Watch swear to guard for life?
The Wall
The Wall, 700 feet of ice along the realm's northern border, came to George R. R. Martin in 1981 as he stood on Hadrian's Wall and imagined a Roman soldier staring into the unknown.
Q 11Which sitcom gave the world the catchphrase 'No soup for you'?
Seinfeld
Seinfeld based the Soup Nazi on Manhattan soup seller Al Yeganeh, who called the episode an unfair character assassination and dismissed its star as 'an idiot clown'.
Q 12What is the name of the dragon ridden by Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones?
Drogon
Drogon, named for Daenerys's late husband Khal Drogo, is the only one of her three dragons to outlive her; in the finale he melts the Iron Throne and carries her body away.
Q 13Which sitcom's stars took a pay cut to film it?
I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy's Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz accepted lower pay to cover the cost of film and kept the rights to the episodes in return, so their own company reaped the profits when the shows were rerun.
Q 21How did the final shot of The Sopranos' 2007 series finale 'Made in America' end?
An abrupt cut to black
An abrupt cut to black, then about ten seconds of silence: many viewers thought their cable had failed, and creator David Chase declined to say whether it meant Tony had been killed.
Q 22In Schitt's Creek, why did Johnny Rose originally buy the town?
As a joke gift
As a joke gift for his son David's birthday in 1991; the premise came from real life, after the show's writers read that Kim Basinger had bought a small Georgia town in 1989.
Q 23Jack, Kate and Sawyer were stranded on the island after the crash of which numbered Oceanic Airlines flight?
815
Q 14What is the name of the high school in Saved by the Bell?
Bayside High
Bayside High replaced an Indianapolis junior high: the show began on the Disney Channel as Good Morning, Miss Bliss until NBC retooled it and moved its students to California.
Q 15Which actress plays Eleven in Stranger Things?
Millie Bobby Brown
Millie Bobby Brown shaved her head to play Eleven; her parents were more against it than she was, until the show's creators pointed to Charlize Theron's Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Q 16In The Bear, what is the name of the restaurant that Carmy inherits from his brother?
The Original Beef of Chicagoland
The Original Beef of Chicagoland, which regulars call The Beef, is the sandwich shop Carmy takes over after his brother Mikey's death; he later reopens it as the fine-dining restaurant The Bear.
Q 17Which NBC mockumentary follows Leslie Knope and her fellow bureaucrats in fictional Pawnee, Indiana?
Parks and Recreation
Parks and Recreation began when NBC asked for a spin-off of The Office; its creators spent months on the idea, dropped it for a stand-alone show and kept the mockumentary cameras.
Q 18"How you doin'?" is the signature pickup line of which sitcom character?
Joey Tribbiani
Joey Tribbiani, Matt LeBlanc's struggling actor, was first planned as Monica's big love interest; the creators gave that story to Ross and Rachel instead.
Q 19Which medical drama, created by Shonda Rhimes and premiering in 2005, is set at Seattle Grace Hospital?
Grey's Anatomy
Grey's Anatomy renamed its hospital twice: Seattle Grace Mercy West after a Season 6 merger, then Grey Sloan Memorial for Lexie Grey and Mark Sloan, both killed by the Season 8 plane crash.
Q 20In The Sopranos, what type of business does Tony Soprano use as his legitimate front?
Waste management company
Waste management company: in the pilot Tony Soprano tells his psychiatrist he is a 'waste management consultant', the title he holds on paper at Barone Sanitation.
Flight 815 broke apart in mid-air because Desmond failed to enter the numbers into a hatch computer in time, releasing a burst of electromagnetism that dragged the Sydney to Los Angeles jet down.
Q 24Which animated show features characters named Bender, Leela, and Fry?
Futurama
Futurama starts when pizza delivery boy Philip J. Fry is frozen by accident as 1999 ends and thawed a thousand years later, where he becomes a delivery boy again for the Planet Express company.
Q 25What is the name of Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer's regular coffee-shop hangout?
Monk's Cafe
Monk's Cafe is only half real: the exterior is Tom's Restaurant at Broadway and 112th Street in Manhattan, but the scenes inside were shot on a studio set across the country in Los Angeles.
Q 26In Downton Abbey, what is the title held by Robert Crawley?
Earl of Grantham
Earl of Grantham is a title only a male heir can inherit, so when Robert's heirs go down with the Titanic the estate is set to pass to a distant cousin, a Manchester lawyer, and not to his daughters.
Q 27How many players are recruited into Squid Game's deadly contest?
456
456 players, all drowning in debt, compete for a pot of 45.6 billion won, 100 million per eliminated player; creator Hwang Dong-hyuk wrote the script in 2009 and could not get it funded for a decade.
Q 28At the start of Suits, what is the name of the New York law firm where Harvey Specter works?
Pearson Hardman
Pearson Hardman hires only Harvard law graduates, yet Harvey takes on Mike Ross as his associate, and the two spend years hiding that Mike never went to law school at all.
Q 29Which TV show is set in the fictional Dillon, Texas and follows a high school football team?
Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights faced cancellation after two low-rated seasons; NBC saved it with a deal that had DirecTV share the cost and show each of the last three seasons first.
Q 30In The Wire, which Baltimore institution is the main focus of Season 4?
The schools
The schools: the season follows four boys through eighth grade, drawing on writing partner Ed Burns, who had been both a Baltimore homicide detective and a public school teacher.