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50 free Industry trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Industry is the rare finance drama written by people who actually sat on a trading floor. Mickey Down and Konrad Kay left investment banking, pitched Jane Tranter a young and sexy series about why graduates still flock to the City, and built Pierpoint & Co, the fictional London bank where Harper Stern, Yasmin Kara-Hanani, Robert Spearing and Gus Sackey fight for permanent jobs under Eric Tao's glare. These 50 questions cover all four series and the road to the fifth and final one: the Cross Product Sales desk, Binghamton, Eton and Oxford, the Welsh working-class graduate, Nicole Craig and Felim Bichan, Jesse Bloom's pandemic fortune, FutureDawn, Sir Henry Muck and Lumi, Sweetpea Golightly's side hustles, the Pierpoint CFO pushing ESG, and the Tender founders played by Kal Penn and Max Minghella. Production questions take in the Lena Dunham pilot, the Cardiff shoot, Bad Wolf, the Equity loophole that kept filming through the strikes, Marisa Abela's BAFTA and the 2026 Emmy snub. Easy questions stick to the main cast and the bank; the hardest ask about loan sharks, viscounts and an Austrian princess. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a prestige TV night.
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Q 01What is the name of the fictional London investment bank at the centre of the series?
Pierpoint & Co
Later series widen the lens to the whole UK financial sector and its regulators.
Q 02Which two former investment bankers created the series?
Mickey Down and Konrad Kay
Jane Tranter hired them to write the pilot after a colleague made the introduction.
Q 03Which British broadcaster co-produces the series with HBO?
BBC Two
It premiered on HBO on 9 November 2020 and on the BBC the next day.
Q 04In which year did Industry premiere?
2020
Further eight-episode series followed in 2022, 2024 and 2026.
Q 05Who plays Harper Stern?
Myha'la
She dropped her surname Herrold and has gone mononymously by Myha'la since 2023.
Q 06Harper Stern comes from which New York town?
Binghamton
She is assigned to the Cross Product Sales desk on arrival.
Q 07Who plays Yasmin Kara-Hanani?
Marisa Abela
She went on to play Amy Winehouse in Back to Black and won a BAFTA for Industry.
Q 08To which desk is Yasmin first assigned?
Foreign Exchange Sales
Kenny Kilbane is her line manager there.
Q 09Who plays Eric Tao, the fiery managing director who takes Harper under his wing?
Ken Leung
Leung was Miles Straume on Lost for its final three seasons.
Q 10Who plays Robert Spearing, the Oxford graduate from a working-class Welsh background?
Harry Lawtey
He left after series three over scheduling conflicts and played Harvey Dent in Joker: Folie à Deux.
Q 11Who plays Augustus "Gus" Sackey?
David Jonsson
Gus read literae humaniores at Oxford after Eton.
Q 12Which two institutions did Gus attend before joining the bank?
Eton and Oxford
He starts in the Investment Banking Division before moving to the CPS desk.
Q 13Which Game of Thrones star joined in series three as Sir Henry Muck?
Kit Harington
Muck is the aristocratic CEO of a green-energy start-up who struggles with depression and addiction.
Q 14What is the name of Sir Henry Muck's green-energy start-up?
Q 21Which executive producer's company, Bad Wolf, developed the series?
Jane Tranter
She wanted to know why graduates kept flocking to the City after the 2008 crash.
Q 22Why was series three not halted by the 2023 WGA and SAG strikes?
The talent worked under the UK union Equity
Production carried on while most US shows shut down.
Q 23Which magazine called the series the "missing link" between Succession and Euphoria?
Vanity Fair
That was in its review of the second series, which scored 82 on Metacritic.
Lumi
James Ashford of Ashford Asset Management is one of its prominent investors.
Q 15Who plays Rishi Ramdani, the market maker known for his colourful trading-floor commentary?
Sagar Radia
He was recurring in series one and a regular from series two.
Q 16Which indie filmmaker plays hedge fund manager Jesse Bloom in series two?
Jay Duplass
Bloom is Harper's main client and made a fortune off the pandemic.
Q 17Which Barry actress plays portfolio manager Petra Koenig in series three?
Sarah Goldberg
She was cast alongside Kit Harington in April 2023.
Q 18Anna Gearing, Harper's new boss at the end of series two, heads which firm?
FutureDawn Partners
Elena Saurel plays her; Petra Koenig works there too.
Q 19Who directed the pilot episode?
Lena Dunham
Krishnan, Lilly and Nighy directed later first-series episodes.
Q 20In which city did principal photography begin in June 2019?
Cardiff
Bad Wolf, the production company behind the show, is based in the Welsh capital.
Q 24What approval rating does the third series hold on Rotten Tomatoes?
98%
Critics called it the show's best yet; the fourth series scored 96%.
Q 25Which series was announced in February 2026 as the show's last?
The fifth
Zosia Mamet was cast for it that July and filming began on 3 August 2026.
Q 26Which Girls star was cast for the final series in July 2026?
Zosia Mamet
Cary Elwes, Dianna Agron and Sam Riley were later added as guest stars.
Q 27Why did the actor playing Robert Spearing leave after the third series?
Scheduling conflicts
His exit was announced in February 2025 as Max Minghella joined.
Q 28Tender, the start-up at the heart of series four, is what kind of company?
Payment processing
Charlie Heaton's journalist James Dycker is investigating it.
Q 29Who plays Jonah Atterbury, Tender's irresponsible CEO and co-founder?
Kal Penn
Max Minghella plays his enigmatic co-founder and CFO, Whitney Halberstram.
Q 30Which Stranger Things actor plays financial journalist James Dycker?
Charlie Heaton
He was cast in March 2025 along with Kiernan Shipka and Kal Penn.