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60 free Broad City trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Broad City ran for five seasons on Comedy Central between 2014 and 2019, and it never stopped being the show it started as: two broke best friends trying to get through one more day in New York without the day winning. This quiz covers the whole run, from the YouTube web series and Amy Poehler's role in getting it on air to the season five finale on the Brooklyn Bridge. Expect questions on the characters (Bevers, Lincoln, Jaimé, Trey and the Wexler family), the guest stars (Hillary Clinton, Kelly Ripa, Shania Twain, Steve Buscemi), the running bits (Bingo Bronson, the shitbucket, the pegging episode) and the real lives of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. Difficulty runs from easy warm-ups any casual viewer will get to details only a rewatcher would remember. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, so if you argue about one in the group chat, you'll win.
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Q 01On which network did the Broad City television series air?
Comedy Central
FX bought the pilot script first and passed on it a year later; Comedy Central committed in 2012.
Q 02Before it reached cable television, Broad City existed in what form?
A YouTube web show
Glazer and Jacobson made it themselves on YouTube between 2009 and 2011.
Q 03Which comedian mentored the show's creators and became an executive producer when it moved to television?
Amy Poehler
Poehler had already starred in the finale of the web series and later directed the season one finale.
Q 04Which network first bought the Broad City pilot script, then passed on it for being 'too girly'?
FX
Comedy Central picked it up in 2012, with Lucia Aniello directing the pilot.
Q 05In the pilot script, what were the characters called before the stars used their own first names?
Evelyn Wexler and Carly Abrams
The surnames Wexler and Abrams survived; the first names Evelyn and Carly did not.
Q 06Abbi and Ilana met while taking classes at which New York comedy institution?
Upright Citizens Brigade
They were in a small improv group there called Secret Promise Circle, and met collaborators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello through the same theatre.
Q 07What was the name of Abbi and Ilana's improv group at UCB?
Secret Promise Circle
The name gets a nod in the show's DNA: two friends and a private pact.
Q 08In which New York City neighbourhood does Abbi Abrams live?
Astoria, Queens
Ilana lives in Gowanus, Brooklyn; the commute between the two is a recurring source of trouble.
Q 09The character Ilana Wexler is a graduate of which school?
New York University
In 'In Heat' the pair steal an air conditioner from an NYU dorm because it's their old school.
Q 10What is the profession of Lincoln Rice, Ilana's on-and-off partner played by Hannibal Buress?
Pediatric dentist
He fits Ilana with a new veneer in 'Pu$$y Weed' and pulls Abbi's wisdom teeth in season two.
Q 11What is the name of the gym where Abbi works as a cleaner?
Soulstice
Her boss Trey never notices that she wants to be a trainer rather than a cleaner.
Q 12Ilana works, sporadically, at a web company called what?
Deals! Deals! Deals!
Her boss Todd struggles to manage an employee who comes and goes as she pleases.
Q 13Which recurring character is played by a real-life sibling of one of the two stars?
Eliot Wexler
Eliot Glazer also wrote the season five episode 'Along Came Molly'.
Which comedian plays Bobbi Wexler, Ilana's blunt and confrontational mother?
Q 21Roughly how much does Abbi spend at Whole Foods during her wisdom-teeth haze?
$1,500
Ilana only finds out where she is from an automated call to Abbi's phone.
Q 22Whose coat does Abbi accidentally give away while working coat check in season two?
Kelly Ripa's
Getting it back leads Abbi to an orgy, an ex-boyfriend's apartment and a disappointingly un-glamorous celebrity.
Q 23In 'Coat Check', Ilana falls for a doppelgänger named Adele without noticing the resemblance. Who plays her?
Alia Shawkat
Ilana ends it when she realises Adele looks exactly like her and, worse, doesn't smoke weed.
Susie Essman
Essman was nominated for a Critics' Choice award as a guest performer for the role.
Q 15Who plays Ilana's father, Arthur Wexler?
Bob Balaban
Balaban first appears at a shiva in 'Knockoffs' and later celebrates a 35th wedding anniversary in 'Burning Bridges'.
Q 16In season four, RuPaul plays Marcel, Ilana's ruthless boss at what kind of business?
A sushi restaurant
The restaurant is Sushi Mambeaux, where the staff and the boss insult customers as policy.
Q 17Which comedian plays Dara, the graphic-design boss who employs Abbi as her assistant in season four?
Wanda Sykes
Abbi is fired after accidentally killing Dara's cat during a mushroom trip.
Q 18Who plays Lesley, the doctor Abbi dates in the final season?
Clea DuVall
Lesley ends it by telling Abbi her life is a series of wild shenanigans, which pushes Abbi to apply for an artist residency out west.
Q 19Which sitting or former US politician made a guest appearance in the season three episode '2016'?
Hillary Clinton
Ilana signs up at the campaign office thinking it's a paid job and quits when she learns it's volunteer work.
Q 20What is the name of the stuffed toy Abbi hallucinates is walking beside her in 'Wisdom Teeth'?
Bingo Bronson
High on a cannabis cocktail, she walks to Whole Foods and spends nearly $1,500.
Q 24Which actor plays 'Male Stacy', who falls asleep during sex with Abbi in the season two premiere?
Seth Rogen
He also accidentally shoves the stolen air conditioner out of the window.
Q 25Which NBA player takes Ilana home from a party in the episode 'B&B-NYC'?
Blake Griffin
That same night Abbi and Trey watch Ratatouille and sleep together for the first time.
Q 26Which country singer do Abbi and Trey train together at the gym in season four?
Shania Twain
The episode title, 'Twaining Day', tells you who the client is.
Q 27Which Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire actor plays the man who mugs Abbi at gunpoint in 'Bedbugs'?
Steve Buscemi
Teenage shopkeeper Massouma sees him off with a pump-action shotgun.
Q 28Which Broadway star do Abbi and Ilana follow to a drag brunch in 'Lost and Found'?
Alan Cumming
While they're chatting to him, 91-year-old Saul quietly boards a bus to IKEA.
Q 29Which sitcom star plays Abbi's mother Joanne in season four?
Peri Gilpin
Frasier's Roz Doyle turns up in Abbi's tight dress and ends the night in a sex shop.
Q 30Who plays Abbi's divorced father when she goes home to Pennsylvania in the episode 'Philadelphia'?
Tony Danza
Ilana finds a valuable JonBenét Ramsey Beanie Baby while cleaning out Abbi's childhood bedroom.