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50 free Hard Suits trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This is the hard Suits trivia quiz. If you already know Mike never went to Harvard, Louis loves mudding and Donna knows everything, these 50 questions dig deeper: the real Manhattan law firm where the pilot was shot, the actor cut from that pilot as Hardman, the USA executive who bought a script that was not a procedural, Harvey's high-school baseball heartbreak, and which Looney Tunes duo Louis compares himself and Harvey to. The set covers development and production, the cast's careers before and after the show, character backstories that only turn up in a line or two of dialogue, the season-by-season plot machinery, the spin-offs Pearson and Suits LA, the international remakes, and the streaming numbers that made a finished show the most-watched series of 2023. It is written for people who have seen all 134 episodes. Every answer was checked against a primary or encyclopedic source before publishing and each question carries its citation. If you want a warm-up, start with our main Suits trivia quiz and come back for this one.
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Q 01The Suits pilot was filmed in New York at the offices of which real law firm?
Kirkland & Ellis
The pilot was shot inside the Manhattan offices of Kirkland & Ellis; the Toronto sets used for the rest of the series were built to copy those rooms.
Q 02Which actor played Phillip Hardman in a scene cut from the US pilot but left in for British viewers?
Victor Garber
Victor Garber played Phillip Hardman, shown retiring voluntarily, in a scene dropped from the US broadcast; David Costabile played a different Hardman, Daniel, from season two.
Q 03USA promoted the pilot with an advance screening at Hudson River Park where it gave away what?
Häagen-Dazs sundae cones
USA handed out free Häagen-Dazs sundae cones at the Hudson River Park screening, then sent branded ice-cream carts, bikes and scooters through five cities before the June 2011 premiere.
Q 04Which USA Network executive was talked into approving Korsh's script even though it was not a procedural?
Alex Sepiol
USA executive Alex Sepiol balked because the network made procedurals, but Korsh's agent persuaded him he would like the characters; Korsh never pitched the script anywhere else.
Q 05Suits creator Aaron Korsh described his original half-hour spec script as what kind of show?
An Entourage-type
Korsh called his half-hour spec, written after ABC cancelled his sitcom Notes from the Underbelly, 'an Entourage-type' show drawn from his Wall Street years before expanding it to an hour.
Q 06In Korsh's original script, how did Mike's deception differ from the finished show?
He only pretended to have attended Harvard, and did not take LSATs for others
Korsh noted that Wall Street needs no degree or test, unlike the bar exam, and decided to embrace that difference when rewriting.
Q 07How many viewers watched the Suits pilot on its June 2011 broadcast?
4.64 million
Nielsen measured 4.64 million viewers for the June 23, 2011 premiere, ninth among basic-cable telecasts that week.
Q 08Which show did the Suits pilot follow on USA Network's schedule on premiere night?
Burn Notice
Suits debuted at 10 pm on June 23, 2011, straight after the fifth-season premiere of Burn Notice, and beat the launch numbers of USA's Fairly Legal.
Q 09Which film director served as an executive producer on Suits from the first season?
Doug Liman
Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity, was an executive producer through his company Hypnotic, which made Suits with Universal Cable Productions.
Q 10How many minutes of Suits were streamed on Netflix in 2023, per Nielsen, making it the year's most-streamed show?
57.7 billion
Nielsen counted 57.7 billion minutes of Suits viewing across Netflix and Peacock in 2023, the most of any title that year and the spark for the Suits LA spin-off.
Q 11For how many consecutive weeks did Suits top Nielsen's streaming charts in 2023, a record at the time?
12
Suits held number one on Nielsen's weekly streaming chart for 12 consecutive weeks in summer 2023, a run no series had managed before.
Q 12Which UK channel dropped Suits before season seven, letting Netflix pick up the British rights?
Dave
Dave, the UKTV channel, carried the first six seasons; from season seven in 2017 Netflix UK streamed each episode within a day of its US airing.
Q 13Suits has been remade in South Korea, Japan, Egypt and which other country?
Mongolia
The Mongolian version aired on Mongol TV in 2023. The Korean remake starred Jang Dong-gun and Park Hyung-sik on KBS2 in 2018.
Q 21Where did Sarah Rafferty earn her Master of Fine Arts?
Yale
Sarah Rafferty took her MFA at the Yale School of Drama after a Hamilton College degree that included a junior year at Oxford.
Q 22Harvey's father Gordon Specter played which instrument?
Saxophone
Gordon was immensely proud of Harvey and kept asking why he had not made partner. Harvey's mother Lily repeatedly cheated on him.
Q 23What about his high-school state baseball championship still haunts Harvey?
A shoulder injury kept him out and the team won anyway
A shoulder injury kept him out and the team won anyway: Harvey, a star high-school pitcher, admits it galls him that his teammates took the title without him.
Q 14On which network did Suits LA premiere in February 2025?
NBC
Suits LA premiered on NBC on February 23, 2025, with Stephen Amell as Ted Black of Black Lane Law; NBC cancelled it after one season that May.
Q 15Gabriel Macht's return as Harvey in Suits LA was an arc of how many episodes?
3
Macht's Harvey Specter returned for a 3-episode arc that revisited his old friendship with Ted Black; Macht said he had thought his time with the character was over.
Q 16Who co-created the spin-off Pearson with Aaron Korsh?
Daniel Arkin
Daniel Arkin, a Suits writer-producer, co-created Pearson with Korsh; the Chicago-set drama, with Morgan Spector as mayor Bobby Novak, was cancelled after one season in October 2019.
Q 17Which relative of the actor who plays Harvey appeared as Harvard ethics professor Henry Gerard?
His father, Stephen
The elder Macht guest-starred in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019. Louis's forged transcript for Mike showed an A+ in Gerard's class.
Q 18Before Suits, Gina Torres was best known as Zoë Washburne in which cult sci-fi series?
Firefly
Gina Torres played first mate Zoë Washburne in Joss Whedon's Firefly (2002) and its film sequel Serenity before joining Suits as Jessica Pearson.
Q 19Patrick J. Adams won which scholarship, funded by a famous actor, while studying at USC?
The Jack Nicholson Award
Patrick J. Adams won USC's Jack Nicholson Award, an acting prize named for and funded by the actor; the Toronto native had moved to Los Angeles at 19 to study there.
Q 20In which short-lived Darren Star series about Wall Street did Rick Hoffman play Freddie Sacker?
The $treet
The $treet, Darren Star's 2000 Fox drama about a brokerage, was pulled after seven episodes, but playing Freddie Sacker let Hoffman stop waiting tables.
Q 24Louis compares his rivalry with Harvey to which Looney Tunes pair?
Ralph the Wolf and Sam the Sheepdog
Louis likens them to Ralph the Wolf and Sam the Sheepdog, the Looney Tunes rivals who fight all shift and chat as friends once they clock out.
Q 25Louis Litt was born and raised in which New York suburb, where he was home-schooled until the age of ten?
Scarsdale
Louis Litt grew up in Scarsdale, a Westchester County suburb, home-schooled until he was ten before going on to Harvard Law.
Q 26Which client's case sparked the Harvey-Louis rivalry when Louis leaked Harvey's strategy to Hardman?
McKernon Motors
Louis leaked Harvey's McKernon Motors strategy to Daniel Hardman to curry favour with the managing partner while both were senior associates at Pearson Hardman.
Q 27What was the name of Louis's childhood bully, discussed in his sessions with Dr. Lipschitz?
Chaz McManus
Ray Proscia played the therapist, who also saw Louis through his break-ups with Sheila and Tara.
Q 28In season three, what pushes Louis to a dramatic meltdown after the Darby merger?
A change in the office-supply brands he prefers
A change in the office-supply brands he prefers, imposed after the Darby merger, sends Louis into a tantrum typical of his outsized reactions to small slights.
Q 29Which older secretary does Harvey hire as Donna's replacement when she leaves to work for Louis?
Gretchen Bodinski
Gretchen Bodinski, played by Aloma Wright, was Harvey's deliberate opposite-of-Donna pick from a waiting room of younger applicants after Donna moved to Louis's desk.
Q 30Which awkward Suits associate did Louis force to look after his sick cat despite a severe cat allergy?
Harold Gunderson
Harold Gunderson, Max Topplin's hapless associate, was saddled with Louis's ailing cat despite his allergy; he nursed a crush on Rachel and later resurfaced at rival firm Bratton Gould.