Martin (TV Show) Trivia
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57 free Martin (TV Show) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
56 free Martin (TV Show) trivia questions with answers. Martin ran for five seasons on Fox from 1992 to 1997 and has barely left syndication since. These Martin trivia questions cover the whole show: Martin Payne's move from WZUP to Word on the Street, Gina and Pam at the PR firm, Cole cleaning jets, the eternal mystery of Tommy's job, and every character Martin Lawrence played himself, from Sheneneh and Mama Payne to Jerome, Dragonfly Jones, Otis, King Beef and little Roscoe. You will also find the episodes people still quote: the lottery ticket split 300 ways, Thomas Hearns in the ring, Snoop crashing the engagement party, Biggie's background-singer search, the brass headboard, the Bahamas wedding and the move to Los Angeles. Cast history is here too: the Tisha Campbell lawsuit, Garrett Morris's SNL past, Tracy Morgan's debut as Hustle Man, the BET+ reunion and the Emmys tribute. Roughly a third of the questions are for casual viewers, a third for people who have seen every episode twice, and the rest for the friend who can do the Bruh-Man four-finger salute without looking. Every answer is checked against a cited source shown under the question.
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Q 01On which network did Martin air from 1992 to 1997?
Fox
Fox aired all five seasons, yet a rival's studio made the show: HBO Independent Productions, the cable channel's sitcom arm, which went on to produce Everybody Loves Raymond.
Q 02What is the first name of Mama Payne, Martin's mother, whom Lawrence also plays?
Edna
Edna 'Mama' Payne smothers Martin with affection and wages open war on Gina, whom she mocks as 'Applehead'; of everyone on the show, only her son can stand her.
Q 03What is the name of the talk show Martin ends up hosting in later seasons?
Word on the Street
Word on the Street came after a humbling stretch: fired when WZUP changed hands, Martin buffed floors and flipped burgers before he landed in front of a TV camera.
Q 04Who plays Martin's girlfriend and later wife, Gina Waters?
Tisha Campbell
Tisha Campbell had starred with Lawrence in House Party (1990); when that film's lead, Kid, guests on Martin, Sheneneh begs him for a kiss like the one he gave 'that light-skinned girl' in the film.
Q 05Who plays Pam James, Gina's sharp-tongued best friend?
Tichina Arnold
Tichina Arnold got a showcase in the final season: 'Goin' for Mine' sends Pam, newly laid off, to a record label, a backdoor pilot for a spin-off that was never made.
Q 06Which actor plays Cole Brown on Martin?
Carl Anthony Payne II
Carl Anthony Payne II plays Cole, dim but loyal and devoted to his AMC Pacer; in the finale his girlfriend Shanise fails to notice that he is trying to propose.
Q 07Which actor plays Tommy Strawn on Martin?
Thomas Mikal Ford
Thomas Mikal Ford plays Tommy, the level-headed one of the group; in season three he and Pam become a couple, to Martin's loud disapproval.
Q 08On Martin, what is the running joke about Tommy?
His job is a mystery
His job is a mystery: Tommy swears he works, his friends answer 'You ain't got no job!', and when Martin and Gina tail him in 'Get a Job' the trail leads to a strip-club runway.
Q 09On Martin, where does Cole proudly work for most of the series?
At the airport
At the airport, a job Cole holds until the episode 'Cole on Ice'; when he loses it, Martin finds him work at his TV station, where Cole promptly fouls things up.
Q 10On Martin, who is the owner of radio station WZUP and Martin's boss in the early seasons?
Stan Winters
Stan Winters, a penny-pincher in dated 1970s suits, sells WZUP when the IRS catches up with him and skips town, leaving his staff to the new owner.
Q 11Which Saturday Night Live alumnus plays Martin's boss at radio station WZUP?
Garrett Morris
Garrett Morris, of SNL's original 1975 cast, was shot and badly wounded in a 1994 street holdup; the show wrote his character out while he recovered, and he came back for one guest spot.
Q 12On Martin, what business does Sheneneh Jenkins, played by Martin Lawrence in drag, run?
A hair salon
A hair salon: Sheneneh's Sho' Nuff Hair Salon is where she holds court with her girlfriends, and where Gina once had to work off a debt to her.
Q 13In the Martin episode 'Suspicious Minds', what does Martin accuse his friends of stealing?
His CD player
Q 21Martin's first episode, where Gina hears his radio talk about women, shares its title with which fairy tale?
Beauty and the Beast
'Beauty and the Beast' has Gina threaten to leave over what she hears; Martin gives in, and she agrees to play along in front of his friends as if he had won the argument.
Q 22Which real-life champion gets trash-talked by Martin, then surprises him in the ring, in 'Guard Your Grill'?
Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns, Detroit's own 'Hitman', is one of the real local names the Detroit-set show liked to use; a charity bout and Martin's big mouth end with the two of them in the ring.
Q 23In 'Blow, Baby, Blow', which rapper asks Martin to help find a new background vocalist?
His CD player vanishes, so Martin dresses everyone in black and interrogates them around a table in a spoof of New Jack City; even Gina is a suspect.
Q 14On Martin, Bruh-Man says he lives on which floor, while holding up four fingers?
The fifth
Bruh-Man, played by Reginald Ballard, always says he is 'from the fifth flo'' while holding up four fingers, then lets himself in through Martin's window.
Q 15On Martin, which comedian plays Hustle Man, the street peddler who can get you anything?
Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan plays Hustle Man, whose sidelines stretch to cut-price wedding planning for Martin; he went on to seven seasons on Saturday Night Live.
Q 16On Martin, why does Dragonfly Jones keep getting beaten up by his own student, Kenji?
He owes him money
He owes him money: the self-styled martial arts master never pays his assistant, so every request for wages ends with Dragonfly flat on his back.
Q 17On Martin, what is Jerome, the gold-toothed smooth talker forever chasing Pam?
A faded Detroit pimp
Jerome is a faded Detroit pimp who speaks in rhyme and announces himself with 'Jerome's in the house!'; his send-off, 'Uptown Friday Night', is set at his own new club.
Q 18On Martin, what job does Ol' Otis hold?
Security guard
Security guard: Ol' Otis is elderly and potbellied, yet he floors far younger men when provoked, and the police once assign him to protect Gina and Pam from bank robbers.
Q 19On Martin, what is the name of the bar where the gang regularly hangs out?
Nipsey's Lounge
Nipsey's Lounge is named for its genial bartender-owner; in the final season Martin buys in as a silent partner, and trouble follows.
Q 20When Martin's radio station WZUP is sold at the end of season two, which format does its new owner adopt?
Country
Country: in 'The Hoe Down in Motown' the station goes country-western, Martin tries gamely to adapt, and by the next episode he has been fired.
The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G. plays himself, an old friend who crashes on Martin's couch while Gina and Pam compete to prove they can sing for him.
Q 24On Martin, Gina spends a whole episode trapped in which household object?
A brass bed headboard
A brass bed headboard: Gina's head gets wedged in the couple's new bed in 'Headin' for Trouble', and she has to attend an important meeting with what is left of it hidden under a wig and a shawl.
Q 25Which real-life event explains Gina's absence for much of Martin's final season?
A lawsuit against Lawrence
A lawsuit against Lawrence: the actress playing Gina left in late 1996 and sued him and the producers; she settled and came back for the finale on condition that the two share no scenes.
Q 26In Martin's series finale, Martin and Gina leave Detroit for which city, where his talk show is going national?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles: a national deal for Martin's talk show arrives just as Gina is promoted to run her firm's office there, so both careers send them west in the two-part finale.
Q 27On Martin, which comedian plays Varnell Hill, Martin's flashier talk-show rival?
Tommy Davidson
Tommy Davidson played Varnell Hill in only two episodes, yet three decades later the character was handed a spin-off series of his own, with Davidson back in the role.
Q 28On which streaming service did the 2022 reunion special Martin: The Reunion premiere?
BET+
BET+ released the special on June 16, 2022; the four surviving leads reunited and paid tribute to the co-star they had lost in 2016.
Q 29At which 2024 awards ceremony did Martin's surviving cast reunite on a rebuilt set from the show?
The Primetime Emmy Awards
The Primetime Emmy Awards, pushed to January 2024 by the Hollywood strikes, marked their 75th year by rebuilding classic sets; Martin's four surviving leads presented from theirs.
Q 30In which country was Martin Lawrence born while his father was serving in the US military?
West Germany
West Germany: Lawrence was born in Frankfurt in 1965, and the family came home while he was still a child, settling in Maryland, where he later started out in stand-up.