Veep Trivia
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103 free Veep trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Veep trivia questions with answers. Veep turned the vice presidency into the funniest job in Washington and won seventeen Emmys doing it. This quiz covers all seven seasons: Selina Meyer's climb from forgotten VP to accidental president to defeated candidate and back again, Gary and his bag, Amy and Dan, Mike's press briefings, Ben and Kent, Sue's front desk, Jonah Ryan's improbable rise, Tom James, Laura Montez, Richard Splett's destiny and the funeral overshadowed by Tom Hanks. The making-of side is here too: Armando Iannucci and The Thick of It, David Mandel taking over, the move from Baltimore to Los Angeles, Julia Louis-Dreyfus's record six Emmys for one role and the diagnosis that delayed the last season. Easy questions ask which network aired it and who Selina's bag man was; the hard ones want the year Selina dies, the state Montez represented and what Jonah's news site was called. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the show and its characters, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01On which network did Veep air from 2012 to 2019?
HBO
Veep aired on HBO for seven seasons, from 2012 to 2019, with the final episode going out on 12 May 2019.
Q 02Who created Veep?
Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci, the satirist behind the film In the Loop, created Veep and ran it as showrunner for its first four seasons.
Q 03Veep grew out of which BBC political comedy by the same creator?
The Thick of It
The Thick of It, Iannucci's BBC satire of a hapless minister and spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, ran from 2005 to 2012 and spawned the film In the Loop.
Q 04How many episodes of Veep were made?
65
Veep made 65 episodes across seven seasons; the last season was pushed back a year and aired in spring 2019.
Q 05Selina Meyer had been a US senator from which state before becoming vice president?
Maryland
Selina Meyer served as a US senator from Maryland before becoming vice president, a background the show references from the pilot onward.
Q 06Which detail about Selina Meyer is deliberately never revealed in the show?
Her party affiliation
The writers wanted the satire to hit both sides equally.
Q 07Tony Hale plays Gary Walsh, whose job for Selina is what?
Personal aide and body man
Gary Walsh is Selina's personal aide and body man, carrying the enormous bag nicknamed the Leviathan that holds anything she could possibly need.
Q 08Anna Chlumsky plays which member of Selina's staff?
Amy Brookheimer
Amy Brookheimer is Selina's chief of staff, and the constant target of Jonah Ryan's clashes with the VP's office.
Q 09Reid Scott plays which ambitious, cut-throat member of the VP's office?
Dan Egan
Dan Egan, played by Reid Scott, joins the VP's office as deputy director of communications and later co-hosts a network morning show.
Q 10Matt Walsh's Mike McLintock holds what job?
Director of communications
Mike McLintock is Selina's director of communications, her press man since her Senate days; after leaving the White House he writes for BuzzFeed.
Q 11Kevin Dunn plays Ben Cafferty, who holds which post?
White House Chief of Staff
Ben Cafferty is White House Chief of Staff, a depressed, high-functioning alcoholic who serves first under President Hughes and then under President Meyer.
Q 12Gary Cole's Kent Davison is best described as what?
A number-crunching strategist
The senior strategist to the president lives and dies by polling data.
Q 13In Veep, Timothy Simons plays Jonah Ryan, who begins the series in what role?
White House liaison to the VP's office
Q 21Selina's eventual successor, O'Brien's former running mate, was a senator from which state?
New Mexico
Laura Montez had been a US senator from New Mexico; her much-touted Latina identity later proves a stretch, to Selina's fury.
Q 22Which character is revealed in the finale to have become a successful two-term president?
Richard Splett
Richard Splett, the guileless aide, went on to become a successful two-term president; he attends Selina's funeral in the finale's flash-forward.
Q 23In the finale, how does Selina secure the nomination and the top job?
By offering Jonah the vice presidency
As White House liaison to the VP's office, Jonah clashes constantly with the VP's staff, particularly Amy.
Q 14After being fired for running an insider blog, Jonah launches his own news website called what?
Ryantology
Ryantology is the political news site Jonah launches in season three after the White House fires him for running an anonymous insider blog.
Q 15Jonah is drafted to run for Congress in which state to secure a vote for Selina?
New Hampshire
Jonah runs in New Hampshire, where a congressman's death opens a seat and his Uncle Jeff Kane's political machine installs him to give Selina a House vote.
Q 16Jonah marries his former step-sibling Beth, who turns out to be what?
His biological half-sister
Beth, Jonah's former step-sister, turns out to be his biological half-sister, a season-seven revelation that barely dents his presidential campaign.
Q 17How does Selina first reach the Oval Office in the season three finale?
President Hughes resigns
Hughes steps down to care for his wife's poor mental health.
Q 18The season four presidential election ends in what result?
A tie between Selina and Bill O'Brien
The deadlock throws the decision to a contingent election in the House of Representatives.
Q 19Which British actor plays Tom James, Selina's charming running mate?
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie's senator is so popular that Selina spends most of her time trying to undercut him.
Q 20Who ends up president after the tied election, via a Senate tiebreaker?
Laura Montez
Laura Montez, O'Brien's running mate, is chosen vice president by the Senate after the House deadlocks, and so becomes president instead of Selina.
Selina secures the nomination by offering Jonah Ryan the vice presidency in exchange for his delegates, then wins the general election to become president in her own right.
Q 24Whom does Selina frame for wrongdoing at the Meyer Fund in the finale?
Gary
Gary, the loyal aide, is led away by the FBI on the convention floor for the Meyer Fund fraud while Selina accepts the nomination.
Q 25Selina's funeral in the finale's flash-forward is knocked out of the news by whose death?
Tom Hanks's
Coverage of Selina's funeral is cut short by breaking news of Tom Hanks's death, a final indignity for a woman who craved attention above all.
Q 26How many years after Selina's final campaign is the finale's funeral flash-forward set?
24
A title card reads '24 years later' before Selina's funeral, where Mike McLintock anchors the coverage of her death.
Q 27Selina's daughter Catherine does what during her mother's funeral?
Watches it on television instead
She watches it on television instead of attending; the put-upon daughter gets the last word by staying away.
Q 28Who took over from Armando Iannucci as Veep's showrunner from season five?
David Mandel
David Mandel, a Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm veteran, replaced Armando Iannucci as showrunner for seasons five to seven.
Q 29For the fifth season, filming moved from which city to Los Angeles?
Baltimore
Seasons one to four were shot in Baltimore, Maryland; production moved to Los Angeles for season five when David Mandel took over as showrunner.
Q 30Veep won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series for which three seasons?
Fourth, fifth and sixth
Veep won Outstanding Comedy Series at the Emmys in 2015, 2016 and 2017, for its fourth, fifth and sixth seasons, after losing to Modern Family in its early years.