Will & Grace Trivia
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69 free Will & Grace trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
62 free Will & Grace trivia questions with answers. Will & Grace ran for eleven seasons across two runs, won 18 Emmys and got name-checked by a vice president. This quiz covers all of it: Will and Grace's Columbia origins, Karen's unseen husband Stan and her four marriages, Jack's one-man shows and his son Elliot, Rosario's green-card wedding, the parade of guest stars from Debbie Reynolds and Sydney Pollack to John Cleese and Alec Baldwin, and the 2006 finale that the revival wrote off as one of Karen's hallucinations. Easy questions cover the four leads and their jobs. The hard ones ask which two films the creators faxed to NBC to prove gay characters could sell, how much the creators won in their lawsuit, and which season-four episode is still the most watched. It suits a rewatch night or a pub quiz round. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its characters and its cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What is Will Truman's profession?
Lawyer
Lawyer. When Grace sues her client Ben Doucette, Will takes her case, and Doucette answers by hiring him for his own firm, then admits he meant to pay her all along.
Q 02What does Grace Adler do for a living?
Interior designer
Interior designer. Her firm, Grace Adler Designs, has an assistant far richer than its owner: Karen is a millionaire's wife who has no need of the job.
Q 03Where is Will & Grace set?
New York
New York. Grace's studio is in the Puck Building, a real SoHo landmark seen in exterior shots, yet the show itself was taped before an audience in Los Angeles.
Q 04Who created Will & Grace?
Max Mutchnick and David Kohan
Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. The pair stepped back from writing the show after its fourth season, then returned to script both its 2006 finale and the 2017 episode that undid it.
Q 05Who plays Karen Walker?
Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally. She first read for Grace and was reluctant to try for Karen, thinking the part too close to Christine Baranski's role on Cybill; it went on to win her two Emmys.
Q 06Who plays Jack McFarland?
Sean Hayes
Sean Hayes. He liked the script but threw it away rather than pay for a flight from the Sundance festival to the audition, and only read for Jack later.
Q 07In a flashback to 1985, which actor's poster helps Will realise he is gay?
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon. Will is trying to get through a make-out session with Grace when he fixes on the star's poster; Jack had already told him he was in denial.
Q 08Why is Karen's husband Stan sent to prison in season four?
Tax evasion
Tax evasion. Stan's sentence leaves Karen alone for a season, and it is in the prison cafeteria that he starts the affair that later breaks up the marriage.
Q 09What is the name of Karen's maid?
Rosario
Rosario. In a flashback to 1985, Karen finds her selling cigarettes in a nightclub and takes her on as her maid, and the two have swapped insults ever since.
Q 10Why does Jack briefly marry Karen's maid?
So she can get a green card
So she can get a green card. Karen arranges the wedding to keep her maid in the country, and the couple divorce about a season later but stay close.
Q 11Which gay icon does Jack idolize above all others?
Cher
Cher. Jack carries a prized doll of her, yet when the real Cher walks up to his table he takes her for a drag queen, and only a slap convinces him.
Q 12What is the first of the one-man shows McFarland stages to showcase his talents?
Just Jack
Just Jack. He launches his singing career with it in season one and keeps coming back with Jack 2000, Jack 2001 and Jack 2002, none of them more than a marginal success.
Q 13Who plays Grace's meddling mother, Bobbi Adler?
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds. She died in 2016, months before the revival began, so the show wrote in Bobbi's death and gave her a tribute episode built around her last birthday wish.
Q 21Who plays Bonnie, Elliot's mother?
Rosie O'Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell. Her Bonnie was a nurse at the clinic where Jack donated; she tries to keep him away from their son, then admits she has not yet told the boy that she is gay herself.
Q 22Which Monty Python member plays Lyle Finster, Karen's husband for about 20 minutes?
John Cleese
John Cleese. His Lyle is the father of the woman who stole Karen's husband, so for the few minutes the marriage lasts her bitterest rival is also her stepdaughter.
Q 23Who plays Lorraine Finster, the cafeteria worker Stan has an affair with?
Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver. Her Lorraine serves meals in the jail where Karen's husband is doing time, and he keeps seeing her after his release until the marriage breaks up.
Q 14Which actress plays Will's mother, Marilyn Truman?
Blythe Danner
Blythe Danner. Her Marilyn treats her Lladro figurines like children and finds Les Miserables unrealistic because, she says, poor people never sing that much.
Q 15Which Oscar-winning director plays Will's father, George Truman?
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack. His George is a devoted father who still cannot bring himself to tell his colleagues that his son is gay, a secret Will stumbles on.
Q 16Which singer plays Leo Markus, the doctor Grace marries in season five?
Harry Connick Jr.
Harry Connick Jr. His Leo meets Grace as she heads to a clinic to be inseminated with Will's baby, takes her there himself, and is dating her once the baby plan falls through.
Q 17Where is Leo working when he cheats on Grace, ending their marriage?
Cambodia, with Doctors Without Borders
Cambodia, with Doctors Without Borders. Leo comes home and confesses a one-night stand with another doctor there, and Grace divorces him and moves back in with Will.
Q 18Who plays Vince D'Angelo, the police officer who becomes Will's boyfriend?
Bobby Cannavale
Bobby Cannavale. His Vince pulls Karen over for speeding, Will fights the ticket in court, and the two men leave the hearing as a couple; the part won him an Emmy.
Q 19Which diminutive actor plays Karen's wealthy Southern frenemy?
Leslie Jordan
Leslie Jordan. He won the 2006 guest-actor Emmy for the part, a pint-sized rival who likes to appear from nowhere with a drawled 'Well, well, well' before the insults start.
Q 20Who plays Elliot, the son Jack discovers he fathered through a sperm donation?
Michael Angarano
Michael Angarano. Jack donated at 17 and thought no more of it until the teenage Elliot turned up to introduce himself; reluctant at first, Jack becomes a devoted dad.
Q 24Which Bob Newhart Show alumna plays Karen's con-artist mother, Lois?
Suzanne Pleshette
Suzanne Pleshette. Her Lois is a grifter who roped the young Karen into her cons, which kept mother and daughter apart for years until Jack brought them back together.
Q 25Which Cheers star plays Nathan, Grace's neighbor and boyfriend?
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson. His Nathan blurts out a proposal in bed, Grace is offended, and when she comes round and proposes to him herself he turns her down and ends it.
Q 26Which actor plays Noah Broader, the 'West Side Curmudgeon' Grace dates in season ten?
David Schwimmer
David Schwimmer. His Noah is a grouch whose tweets Grace already follows when she runs into him in person; by the season's end Will worries she is the only one compromising, and the romance is over.
Q 27Which actor plays Malcolm Widmark, the government agent who helps Stan fake his death?
Alec Baldwin
He and Karen turn out to have an annual rendezvous in the revival.
Q 28Which alias does Karen use when she doesn't want to be recognised?
Anastasia Beaverhausen
Anastasia Beaverhausen. Karen falls back on the name whenever she would rather stay anonymous, and it is as Anastasia that she lets a rich bachelor court her while her husband is in jail.
Q 29What is Karen's maiden name?
Delaney
Delaney. Her sister Gin, played by Bernadette Peters, turns up in season eight still blaming Karen for a childhood game of Twister that left her with a bad leg.
Q 30In which city does Karen marry Lyle Finster, then end it within the hour?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas. Lyle talks Karen out of a big autumn wedding in favour of a quick one in Nevada, and about twenty minutes after the vows she decides she has compromised enough.