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192 free Arrested Development trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
24 free Arrested Development trivia questions with answers. Are you a true fan of the cult classic comedy series Arrested Development? Put your knowledge of the Bluth family, their hilarious schemes, and memorable one-liners to the test with our comprehensive trivia quiz. Whether you're a casual viewer or have binged the entire series multiple times, this quiz will challenge your understanding of one of television's most cleverly written shows.
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Q 01Lucille names her adopted Korean son "Annyong" after mistaking the Korean word for what as his name?
Hello
Annyong is the Korean word for hello, which Lucille took for his name. The season 3 finale reveals his real name is Hel-loh, along with the grudge he has nursed against the family.
Q 02Which Happy Days alumnus plays Barry Zuckerkorn, the Bluth family's incompetent lawyer in Arrested Development?
Henry Winkler
Henry Winkler, Happy Days' Fonzie, plays Barry Zuckerkorn; the show nods to Fonzie's famous stunt when Barry literally hops over a shark lying on a dock.
Q 03In a series of escalating dares, Gob marries a woman he has just met, played by which comedian?
Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler was married at the time to the actor who plays Gob; her character is never given a name and is credited simply as his wife.
Q 04In Arrested Development, which Bluth property had cash hidden in its walls, discovered only after it burned down?
The banana stand
The banana stand was what George Sr. meant by 'there's always money in the banana stand'; Michael let George Michael burn it down before realising he meant it literally.
Q 05Which Bluth-matriarch rival at Balboa Towers, played by Liza Minnelli, dates Buster?
Lucille Austero
The family calls her "Lucille 2"; Buster ends up dating her after bidding on the wrong Lucille at a country club auction.
Q 06Who serves as the omniscient narrator for the TV series "Arrested Development"?
Ron Howard
Ron Howard, also an executive producer, narrated the pilot so well that his voice was kept, and he later turns up on screen as a fictionalized version of himself.
Q 07A typo on Michael Bluth's birth certificate, uncovered in season three, gives his first name as what?
Nichael
Nichael is the name on the certificate Michael finds in a secret room of the model home, and it makes him fear he is the 'N. Bluth' on a witness list, being set up to go to prison.
Q 08Which of these catchphrases belongs to G.O.B. Bluth?
"Come on!"
"Come on!" is G.O.B.'s bark of indignation, as when he rants at underpaid staff about the price of his suits; "Her?" is Michael's line and "Hey, brother" is Buster's greeting.
Q 09In Arrested Development's pilot, Tobias boards a van of garishly dressed protesters after taking them for what?
Pirates
Pirates: Tobias climbs into the van with them, and the detour changes his life: by the end of the day he tells the family he has decided to become an actor.
Q 10Which spirit is matriarch Lucille Bluth's drink of choice?
Vodka
Vodka is Lucille's staple: told it is only breakfast time when she orders "a vodka rocks", she simply adds, "And a piece of toast."
Q 11Which family member works the frozen-dessert stand and proudly styles himself "Mister Manager"?
George Michael
George Michael earns the title when his father puts him in charge of the family's frozen-dessert stand, with his cousin Maeby hired to help.
Q 12Which Arrested Development character is a self-diagnosed "never-nude", unable to be completely naked?
Tobias Fünke
Tobias Fünke is a self-diagnosed "never-nude", and the condition costs him a film part when he cannot bring himself to do its shower scene.
Q 13In Arrested Development, what do the Bluths end up driving around town?
An airport stair car
Q 21George Sr. invented which faulty kitchen gadget, banned in numerous countries for burning its users?
The Cornballer
The Cornballer, a home cornball maker, was outlawed after it burned its users, so George Sr. went on selling it in Mexico; Michael still burns himself on the family's own.
Q 22Which Arrested Development character is the only one to appear in every episode of the show?
Michael
Michael appears in all 84 episodes, which is fitting for the son who keeps threatening to leave his family for good.
Q 23Tobias Fünke was once chief resident of psychiatry at a hospital in which New England city?
Boston
Boston: Tobias was chief resident at Massachusetts General Hospital; by the pilot the Fünkes are back in California, where Lindsay has spent a month in a hotel on the Bluth Company's money.
An airport stair car: when the company jet has to go, the Bluths keep the truck of boarding stairs that came with it, and it stays the family car for the rest of the series.
Q 14In Arrested Development, what is the name of G.O.B.'s puppet, which voices his more inappropriate thoughts?
Franklin Delano Bluth
Franklin Delano Bluth is the puppet Gob brought in to liven up his magic act; the pair even record an album together, "Franklin Comes Alive".
Q 15Which rival developer, played by Ed Begley Jr., owns the company competing with the Bluths?
Stan Sitwell
Stan Sitwell has alopecia, so he appears in a series of slipping wigs and stick-on eyebrows; Lucille, reaching for the word, calls him an "alpaca".
Q 16Which 'Arrested Development' character frequently exclaims 'I've made a huge mistake'?
Gob Bluth
Gob Bluth first says it after talking his way into prison for an escape stunt and finding his cell has no private toilet; it becomes his refrain whenever a scheme backfires.
Q 17In Arrested Development, what is the name of the Bluth Company's long-stalled housing development?
Sudden Valley
Sudden Valley is still unbuilt when the original run ends; when Michael finally completes it in season four, the houses stand empty.
Q 18While still in high school, Maeby cons her way into what job?
Movie studio executive
Movie studio executive: in season 2 Maeby bluffs her way into an executive job at Tantamount Studios under Mort Meyers, and keeps it until the studio learns in season 3 that she is only sixteen.
Q 19In Arrested Development, Buster Bluth loses his left hand to which animal the first time he dares swim in the ocean?
A seal
A seal, a 'loose seal' punning on Lucille, takes the hand, and Buster spends the rest of the series with a hook or prosthetic.
Q 20Who created Arrested Development?
Mitchell Hurwitz
Mitchell Hurwitz, a former Golden Girls writer, was asked in 2002 to develop a sitcom about a dysfunctional family and built it around a rich clan brought low by an accounting scandal.
Q 24In Arrested Development, which one-armed former employee did George Sr. use in staged accidents to teach his children lessons?
J. Walter Weatherman
J. Walter Weatherman's prosthetic arm flies off at the end of each flashback, followed by 'and that's why you always...' and whatever rule George Sr. was pushing.
Q 25In which Southern California city is Arrested Development set?
Newport Beach
Newport Beach, in Orange County, is the Bluths' home, though the show itself was shot mostly in Culver City and Marina del Rey, with a Culver City studio lot as its base.
Q 26Which streaming service revived Arrested Development with a fourth season in May 2013?
Netflix
Netflix released all 15 new episodes on the same day; the cast were so rarely free together that some scenes were shot with stand-ins and green screens.
Q 27Which role was hardest to cast until Will Arnett's audition won it on the spot?
Gob
Gob was the hardest role to fill; Will Arnett's audition landed it on the spot, playing Gob 'like a guy who thought of himself as the chosen son' despite clearly being the least favorite.
Q 28Where is the long-absent Annyong found hiding in season three of Arrested Development?
Inside Lucille's penthouse walls
Inside Lucille's penthouse walls: George Sr., crawling through the vents, finds Annyong running a secret surveillance post there and gathering evidence against the family.
Q 29Why did Liza Minnelli agree to play Lucille 2 when the narrator himself asked her?
She had been his babysitter as a teenager
She had been his babysitter as a teenager: Liza Minnelli babysat a young Ron Howard; producers assumed a star of her stature would pass until their old friend Howard asked her directly.
Q 30Which cable network was rumored in 2006 to be picking up Arrested Development before its creator declined?
Showtime
Showtime was the rumoured rescuer, and the show joked about it: told that HBO would not want them, George Sr. replies, "Well, I think it's Showtime." Its creator chose to end the run instead.