Bravo TV Trivia
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59 free Bravo TV trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
46 free Bravo TV trivia questions with answers. Bravo launched in 1980 as a commercial-free channel for film and the performing arts, and today it is the home of the Real Housewives, Below Deck and Watch What Happens Live. This quiz covers the whole journey: the early years with Inside the Actors Studio, the 2003 breakout of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the class of 2006 (Top Chef, Million Dollar Listing and the first Housewives), Project Runway's departure and return, Vanderpump Rules and its spin-offs, Below Deck's yachts, Andy Cohen's rise from programming executive to late-night host, and BravoCon. The easy questions ask who hosts Watch What Happens Live and which company owns the network. The hard ones want the year Bravo launched, how much NBC paid for it, the first Inside the Actors Studio guest, the yacht renamed for the first Below Deck season and which channel originally shared Bravo's channel space. Built for Bravoholics, viewing parties and pop-culture quiz nights. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the network, its shows and its stars, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Bravo's founder Rainbow Media later took which channel's name?
AMC
AMC lent its name in 2011, when Cablevision spun Rainbow Media off as AMC Networks; Bravo missed the rebrand, having been sold off nine years earlier.
Q 02Top Chef's 2010 Emmy win ended the seven-year winning streak of which reality competition?
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race had won the reality-competition Emmy every year since the award began in 2003; Top Chef broke the run in 2010, and the Race took the trophy straight back in 2011.
Q 03What did Bravo originally focus on?
Fine arts and film
Fine arts and film were the whole pitch: Bravo billed itself as the first TV service devoted to film and the performing arts, and only swerved to reality after a makeover show became its surprise hit in 2003.
Q 04Which Real Housewives star played a child in the 1978 horror classic Halloween?
Kyle Richards
Kyle Richards played young Lindsey Wallace alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, then returned to the same role 43 years later in Halloween Kills.
Q 05Which Real Housewives of Atlanta star won a Grammy for co-writing TLC's hit No Scrubs?
Kandi Burruss
Kandi Burruss won the 2000 Grammy for Best R&B Song with No Scrubs; years later its writers were added to the credits of Ed Sheeran's Shape of You because the two songs sounded so alike.
Q 06How much did Bravo sell for in 2002?
$1.25 billion
$1.25 billion in cash and stock bought Bravo from Cablevision, which sold to pay down its debt; the buyer covered part of the price by handing back the Cablevision shares it owned.
Q 07Which drama did Bravo begin re-running in 2003, with holiday marathons?
The West Wing
The West Wing reruns arrived in August 2003 behind a heavy promotional push; Bravo had bought the exclusive cable rights back in 2001, while the series was still airing new episodes on network television.
Q 08Which Vanderpump Rules star went on to Dancing with the Stars and Broadway's Chicago?
Ariana Madix
Ariana Madix learned of partner Tom Sandoval's affair in March 2023; within a year she had danced to third place on Dancing with the Stars and played Roxie Hart on Broadway.
Q 09What was the collective name for Queer Eye's team of experts?
The Fab Five
The Fab Five nearly had a different line-up: culture expert Blair Boone filmed two early episodes before Jai Rodriguez replaced him alongside Carson Kressley, Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas and Thom Filicia.
Q 10Which streaming service revived Queer Eye in 2018?
Netflix
Netflix revived the show in February 2018 with five new hosts and moved the makeovers out of the original's home city to Atlanta and neighbouring Georgia towns.
Q 11Which Million Dollar Listing broker went on to front his own streaming series, Owning Manhattan?
Ryan Serhant
Ryan Serhant arrived in the city as an actor, with a soap role on As the World Turns, then switched to selling apartments and now runs the brokerage his streaming series follows.
Q 12Which SNL star played Inside the Actors Studio's James Lipton?
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell lampooned Lipton's solemn, deliberate delivery, and the host took it well: he enjoyed the impression and turned up as himself in Ferrell's 2005 film Bewitched.
Q 13Who was the first guest broadcast on Inside the Actors Studio?
Paul Newman
Q 21Who hosted the first season of Top Chef before Padma Lakshmi?
Katie Lee
Katie Lee hosted Top Chef's first season in 2006; Padma Lakshmi took over for seasons 2 to 20, and season 10 winner Kristen Kish from season 21.
Q 22Which two judges have been on Top Chef since its first season in 2006?
Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons
Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons have judged since the 2006 debut, he as head judge on every season; Simmons also stepped up to host the pastry spin-off Top Chef: Just Desserts.
Q 23What is the name of Top Chef's short opening test each episode?
The Quickfire
Paul Newman was a fitting opener for the 1994 debut: he had spent twelve years as president of the Actors Studio, whose drama students filled the seats.
Q 14James Lipton's closing questionnaire traces back to a parlour game answered by which French novelist?
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust never wrote the questions: he answered them in a friend's confession album. French TV host Bernard Pivot revived the idea on his book show, and Lipton borrowed it from him.
Q 15Which film star was once a student in the Inside the Actors Studio audience?
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper watched from the seats as a master's student at the Actors Studio Drama School; in 2011 he came back to sit in the guest's chair himself.
Q 16Project Runway premiered on Bravo in December 2004 with which host?
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum hosted and judged for 16 seasons, sending designers home with an air kiss and 'Auf Wiedersehen', then left with Tim Gunn in 2018 to make Amazon's Making the Cut.
Q 17Project Runway returned to Bravo in 2018 after which studio went bankrupt?
The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company, the show's producer, filed for bankruptcy in March 2018, and Bravo reacquired Project Runway that May; its longtime host and Tim Gunn then left for Amazon's Making the Cut.
Q 18Who replaced Tim Gunn as Project Runway's mentor when it returned to Bravo?
Christian Siriano
Christian Siriano, who had won the show's fourth season, became Project Runway's mentor for its 2019 Bravo return, with Karlie Kloss taking over as host.
Q 19Tim Gunn chaired the fashion design department at which school before joining Project Runway?
Parsons
Parsons made Tim Gunn its fashion design chair in 2000, and the school doubled as the set: the show's early seasons were filmed in its workrooms.
Q 20Which line does the Top Chef host use to send an eliminated contestant home?
Please pack your knives and go
Please pack your knives and go was one host's line for 19 seasons, said to hundreds of chefs; in 2024 it passed to her successor, a former winner of the show.
The Quickfire usually lasts an hour or less, and early in a season winning it buys immunity from that episode's elimination; once the field thins, the reward becomes an advantage or a prize instead.
Q 24The Top Chef season winner gets a feature in which magazine?
Food & Wine
Food & Wine has been tied to the show from the start: one of its longest-serving judges was on the magazine's staff when she was cast, and the winner also cooks at its Classic in Aspen.
Q 25The Real Housewives franchise began with a series set in which location?
Orange County
The Real Housewives of Orange County premiered on 21 March 2006, pitched as a real-life answer to scripted soaps like Desperate Housewives and Peyton Place.
Q 26Which city hosted the first Real Housewives series outside the US that Bravo made itself?
Dubai
Dubai's 2022 series was the first overseas edition Bravo produced as its own; earlier foreign versions, beginning with Athens in 2011, were remakes made for local channels.
Q 27Which Bravo spin-off followed Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak and her family?
Don't Be Tardy
Don't Be Tardy echoes Kim Zolciak's 2009 dance single Tardy for the Party, which became its theme song; the show began in 2012 as Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding and ran eight seasons.
Q 28Vanderpump Rules is set at restaurants in which part of greater Los Angeles?
West Hollywood
West Hollywood is home to SUR, where the cast waited tables, and to Tom Tom, the bar Lisa Vanderpump later opened with cast members Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz.
Q 29What does SUR, the Lisa Vanderpump venue at the heart of her spin-off show, stand for?
Sexy Unique Restaurant
SUR stands for Sexy Unique Restaurant; Lisa Vanderpump and her husband Ken Todd became co-owners of the restaurant, whose servers and bartenders became the cast of her spin-off.
Q 30Which captain fronted Below Deck's first ten seasons?
Lee Rosbach
Lee Rosbach was at the helm from the 2013 debut, when the chartered yacht Cuor di Leone was renamed Honor for the cameras, until Kerry Titheradge took over for season 11.