This You trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and follows Joe Goldberg from Mooney's bookstore in New York to Los Angeles, Madre Linda, London and back again. It covers Beck and the glass cage, Love Quinn and her twin brother Forty, Marienne, the Eat the Rich killer, Kate Lockwood and Bronte, and how the whole thing finally ends for Joe. There are questions about the show's making as well: how it started on Lifetime before Netflix picked it up, the 40 million viewers who found it in a month, the creators Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, and the actors behind Joe, Beck, Love, Marienne and Kate. Caroline Kepnes' novels get their share too, including the sequels that took Joe to Bainbridge Island. Questions run from easy to expert, and every answer has been checked against a reliable source. Spoilers for all five seasons, obviously.
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Q 01Who plays Joe Goldberg in You?
Penn Badgley
Badgley was previously Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl. In 2022 he launched the podcast Podcrushed with Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari.
Q 02You is based on a series of novels by which author?
Caroline Kepnes
Kepnes, a former entertainment reporter, published You in 2014 and followed it with Hidden Bodies, You Love Me and For You and Only You. A prequel, You First, came out in 2026.
Q 03On which network did the first season of You originally premiere in September 2018?
Lifetime
Netflix had passed on the show twice, and Showtime turned it down too. Lifetime renewed it, then rescinded the renewal when Netflix picked it up.
Q 04Which two producers developed You for television?
Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble
Berlanti was set to direct the pilot from the start. Gamble, a Supernatural and The Magicians veteran, served as showrunner.
Q 05Roughly how many people were reported to have watched You in its first month on the streaming platform?
40 million
The figure dwarfed the Lifetime audience and turned a modestly rated cable show into a global hit almost overnight.
Q 06What is the name of the New York bookstore Joe manages in season one?
Mooney's
Ivan Mooney, the owner, was Joe's adoptive father figure, and the soundproof glass cage in its basement becomes the show's signature set piece.
Q 07What is the name of Joe's obsession in season one?
Guinevere Beck
Beck is a broke NYU graduate student and aspiring writer. Elizabeth Lail plays her and returned as a special guest in later seasons.
Q 08Which Pretty Little Liars star plays Beck's wealthy best friend Peach Salinger?
Shay Mitchell
Peach harbors her own obsession with Beck and grows suspicious of Joe, who kills her at her family estate and stages it as a suicide.
Q 09Which Full House alum plays Dr. Nicky, Beck's therapist, whom Joe frames for her death?
John Stamos
Dr. Nicky's son Clayton returns in season five seeking revenge for his father's wrongful imprisonment.
Q 10How does Joe first find Beck's name and online profiles in the novel?
From her credit card details at the shop
He then steals her phone for deeper access. The novel is written in second person, addressed to Beck as 'you.'
Q 11Which of Beck's lovers does Joe imprison in the bookstore's basement cage and kill, staging an overdose?
Benji
Joe lures the wealthy, pretentious Benji in with a fake business opportunity. It is the first of many cage occupants.
Q 12To which city does Joe move at the start of season two?
Los Angeles
He is fleeing Candace, the ex-girlfriend he buried alive who survived. The season follows Kepnes' sequel Hidden Bodies.
Q 13What alias does Joe use in season two?
Will Bettelheim
He steals the identity from a real hacker, played by Robin Lord Taylor, whom he keeps in a storage-unit cage for much of the season.
Q 21What is Marienne Bellamy's job when Joe meets her in season three?
Librarian
Tati Gabrielle plays her. Marienne flees to Paris with her daughter, is kidnapped by Joe in London in season four, and returns for revenge in season five.
Q 22Tati Gabrielle, who plays Marienne, also played Prudence in which streaming series?
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
She also played Gaia in The 100 and Nora in HBO's The Last of Us.
Q 23Which 'momfluencer' and her supplement-company husband end up locked in the cage in season three?
Sherry and Cary Conrad
Q 14What is the name of the trendy high-end grocery store where Joe works in season two?
Anavrin
Read it backwards. Love Quinn is the store's resident chef, and Calvin is the manager.
Q 15Which Haunting of Hill House star plays Love Quinn?
Victoria Pedretti
Pedretti played Nell Crain in Hill House and Dani in Bly Manor before joining You in 2019, cementing a scream-queen reputation.
Q 16What is the name of Love's troubled twin brother?
Forty
James Scully plays him. He relies on Love for support through addictions and mental health struggles and returns as a guest in season three.
Q 17Which future Wednesday star plays Joe's 15-year-old neighbor Ellie Alves in season two?
Jenna Ortega
Ellie's older sister Delilah is an investigative reporter who leases Joe his apartment and ends up dead in the cage.
Q 18Which stand-up comedian plays Henderson, the famous comic Joe targets in season two?
Chris D'Elia
Henderson is exposed as a predator, and his death is one of the season's turning points.
Q 19What is the name of the fictional California suburb where Joe and Love live in season three?
Madre Linda
They are raising newborn son Henry there. The season was filmed after a two-month COVID shutdown and premiered in October 2021.
Q 20Which next-door neighbor does Love kill early in season three after Joe becomes fixated on her?
Natalie Engler
Her stepson Theo then falls for Love, and her husband Matthew Engler, played by Scott Speedman, starts digging into her disappearance.
Shalita Grant and Travis Van Winkle play the couple, who survive and turn the ordeal into a self-help brand.
Q 24In which city is Joe living at the start of season four?
London
He works as an English professor under the alias Jonathan Moore after following Marienne from Paris, and gets pulled into a circle of wealthy socialites.
Q 25What alias does Joe use while teaching in season four?
Jonathan Moore
A fixer working for Love's family, Elliot Tannenberg, sets up the cover identity for him.
Q 26Which Call the Midwife and Ghosts actress plays Kate Galvin?
Charlotte Ritchie
Kate is a fearsomely intelligent gallery director whose estranged father Tom Lockwood, played by Greg Kinnear, is a billionaire. She marries Joe before season five.
Q 27Which Downton Abbey actor plays Rhys Montrose, the memoirist and mayoral hopeful, in season four?
Ed Speleers
Rhys's memoir about prison lifted him out of poverty and into Oxford. Joe feels an instant kinship, which turns out to be more literal than he realizes.
Q 28Which of Joe's season-four students does he frame for murder?
Nadia Farran
Amy-Leigh Hickman plays the outspoken genre-fiction fan, who is still in prison for Joe's crime when season five begins and comes back seeking revenge.
Q 29Which White Lotus and Euphoria actor plays Adam Pratt, owner of the Sundry House club?
Lukas Gage
Adam is an American playboy dating Lady Phoebe and constantly begging his father to bail out his failed businesses.
Q 30How was season four released?
In two parts, a month apart
Part one arrived on February 9, 2023, and part two on March 9, a schedule Netflix had begun using for its biggest series.