General Hospital Trivia
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109 free General Hospital trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
55 free General Hospital trivia questions with answers. General Hospital has been on ABC since April 1963, which makes for a lot of weddings, returns from the dead and cursed diamonds. This General Hospital trivia quiz covers the whole run: the Hursleys and Steve Hardy, Gloria Monty's rescue of the show, Luke and Laura's 30-million-viewer wedding, the Ice Princess and the Cassadines, the Quartermaine wars, Sonny and Jason, Robin and Stone, the Nurses' Ball, and today's Port Charles. There are questions about the famous faces who passed through, from Rick Springfield, Demi Moore and John Stamos to Ricky Martin and James Franco, and about the actors who never left: Genie Francis, Anthony Geary, Leslie Charleson, Jacklyn Zeman, Maurice Benard, Steve Burton and Finola Hughes. Easy questions cover the network and the city; harder ones ask about carbonic snow, Kawasaki disease and John Beradino's World Series ring. Every answer has been checked against the show's documented history and carries a linked source, so it holds up for a fan-club night, a family argument or a soap-opera pub quiz round.
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Q 01General Hospital has aired on which network since April 1, 1963?
ABC
General Hospital premiered on ABC on April 1, 1963, and went on to become the longest-running entertainment program in ABC's history.
Q 02General Hospital is taped at Prospect Studios in which city?
Los Angeles
Prospect Studios, the former ABC Television Center in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, is where General Hospital is taped; its fictional Port Charles is in upstate New York.
Q 03Which husband-and-wife writing team created General Hospital?
Frank and Doris Hursley
Frank and Doris Hursley set their 1963 serial on a hospital's seventh floor in a city they never named; it only became Port Charles on air in the late 1970s.
Q 04Roughly how many viewers watched Luke and Laura's 1981 wedding, a soap-opera record?
30 million
30 million viewers, the most ever for a daytime drama, watched Luke and Laura marry in November 1981; Laura's old flame Scott turned up at the reception and caught the bouquet.
Q 05Which actor played Luke Spencer from 1978 to 2015?
Anthony Geary
Anthony Geary was hired in 1978 for a 13-week arc as Luke Spencer and stayed until 2015, winning more Daytime Emmys for Lead Actor than any other performer.
Q 06Which actress has played Laura Spencer since 1977?
Genie Francis
Genie Francis took over Laura in 1977 at 14, replacing child actress Stacey Baldwin, then quit at the height of Luke and Laura's fame in 1982 to try prime time, the first of several exits and returns.
Q 07Luke Spencer's actor left General Hospital in 2015 and retired to which European city?
Amsterdam
Amsterdam had been his second home for years; he retired there in 2015 with a record eight Daytime Emmys for Lead Actor and married his partner Claudio Gama in 2019.
Q 08Which Hollywood legend, a fan of the show, played villain Helena Cassadine at General Hospital's 1981 Luke and Laura wedding?
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor, a devoted fan, asked to appear and played Helena Cassadine, who cursed Luke and Laura at their November 1981 wedding; Constance Towers took over the role in 1997.
Q 09In 1981, Luke and Laura foiled Mikkos Cassadine's plan to do what to Port Charles?
Freeze it
Freeze it, then the world: Mikkos wanted the Ice Princess diamond for a weather machine with which he meant to take over the planet.
Q 10Which executive producer took over the ailing General Hospital in 1978 and built Luke and Laura into a supercouple?
Gloria Monty
Gloria Monty arrived with the show facing cancellation, sped up the pace and built stories around its younger characters; by 1979 it was the most-watched serial in daytime.
Q 11Which actor has played mob boss Sonny Corinthos since 1993?
Maurice Benard
Maurice Benard debuted as Sonny Corinthos in 1993; the actor has bipolar disorder, and the Bensonhurst-raised mob boss was later written to share the diagnosis.
Q 12Steve Burton's Jason Quartermaine lost his memory in a car crash caused by which brother?
A.J.
A.J. Quartermaine was driving drunk when he crashed with Jason in the car; brain-damaged and amnesiac, Jason Quartermaine became Jason Morgan, Sonny's enforcer.
Q 13Which future movie star played investigative reporter Jackie Templeton on GH in the early 1980s?
Demi Moore
Demi Moore played Jackie Templeton, a reporter who came to Port Charles hunting for her missing sister and teamed up with Luke, whose wife Laura had also vanished.
Q 21British actress Finola Hughes has played which General Hospital super-spy since 1985?
Anna Devane
Anna Devane arrived in 1985 as a fence for stolen treasure, then turned out to be Robert Scorpio's ex-wife and former partner in espionage.
Q 22On General Hospital, which family conglomerate do Tracy, Ned and their relatives endlessly scheme to control?
ELQ
ELQ takes its initials from founder Edward Louis Quartermaine, first played by David Lewis in 1978 and later by John Ingle until Ingle's death in 2012.
Q 23Which actress played General Hospital cardiologist Monica Quartermaine from 1977 to 2023?
Leslie Charleson
Leslie Charleson took over from the original Monica, Patsy Rahn; her character owned the family mansion, a wedding gift from husband Alan, and often threatened to throw the in-laws out.
Q 14John Stamos got his start on GH in 1982 playing which character?
Blackie Parrish
Blackie Parrish was a street kid taken in by Rick and Lesley Webber; Stamos played him from 1982 to 1984 and drummed in the band the character formed.
Q 15'Jessie's Girl' singer Rick Springfield played which doctor on GH?
Noah Drake
Noah Drake first appeared in March 1981, a month after Springfield's album Working Class Dog came out; his soap fame helped push 'Jessie's Girl' to number one that August.
Q 16Which Latin pop superstar played singing bartender Miguel Morez on General Hospital in the mid-1990s?
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin played Miguel Morez from 1994 to 1996; Miguel had been smuggled out of Puerto Rico after his teenage girlfriend's crime-boss father put out a hit on him.
Q 17Which annual charity talent show was first staged on General Hospital in 1994?
The Nurses' Ball
The Nurses' Ball was founded on screen by Lucy Coe as a hospital benefit where the cast sing and dance; it was dropped after 2001 and revived in 2013 for the show's 50th anniversary.
Q 18What did Robin Scorpio's boyfriend Stone Cates die of in 1995?
AIDS
AIDS killed Stone Cates in 1995; his girlfriend Robin Scorpio also tested HIV-positive, and the show kept her status as a permanent part of the character.
Q 19Which actress joined General Hospital at age seven in 1985 and grew up on screen as Robin Scorpio?
Kimberly McCullough
Kimberly McCullough aged in real time as Robin, a rarity among soap children, who are usually aged rapidly with older actors; she has since stepped back from acting to direct.
Q 20Which Australian actor originated the role of WSB agent Robert Scorpio in 1980?
Tristan Rogers
Tristan Rogers originated Robert Scorpio in 1980; Robert was presumed dead in a 1992 explosion and reappeared in 1995 as a vision comforting his daughter Robin.
Q 24On General Hospital, Tracy Quartermaine famously showed her ruthlessness by doing what to her father Edward?
Withholding his heart medication
Withholding his heart medication was Tracy's low point: Edward begged for his pills, she demanded he change his will first, and he then revealed the attack was a test she had failed.
Q 25General Hospital's aristocratic Cassadine family, descended from Russian royalty, own a private island where?
Greece
Greece is home to the Cassadines' private island; the family arrived in 1981, and Luke Spencer's defeat of patriarch Mikkos that year began the long Spencer-Cassadine feud.
Q 26Nikolas Cassadine, introduced in 1996 as Laura's secret son, was originated by which actor?
Tyler Christopher
Tyler Christopher originated Nikolas in 1996, arriving to donate bone marrow to his ailing half-sister Lulu and exposing the son Laura had kept secret from Luke.
Q 27Which General Hospital character, played by Jacklyn Zeman for 45 years, went from teen prostitute to heroine?
Bobbie Spencer
Bobbie Spencer arrived scheming to win Scott Baldwin from Laura and called in her brother Luke to help break them up, the plan that first brought Luke and Laura together.
Q 28Which actress has played Carly Corinthos since 2005, following Sarah Brown and Tamara Braun?
Laura Wright
Laura Wright took over in 2005; Carly had come to town in 1996 bent on revenge against the birth mother who gave her up for adoption, and seduced her mother's husband.
Q 29Kelly Monaco, General Hospital's Sam McCall, won the very first season of which reality competition?
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars crowned her in 2005 over John O'Hurley, a result so disputed that the network staged a rematch that autumn, which O'Hurley won.
Q 30Which actress has played General Hospital's Alexis Davis since 1996?
Nancy Lee Grahn
Nancy Lee Grahn joined in 1996 after an Emmy-winning run on Santa Barbara; her Alexis, a Cassadine by birth, had a daughter with mob boss Sonny and at first cut him out of the child's life.