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50 free Money Heist trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Money Heist was nearly a one-off. Álex Pina wrote La casa de papel as a two-part limited series for Antena 3, ratings slipped, and the story ended with the robbers on a beach in Palawan. Then Netflix re-cut it into 22 episodes, released it with no promotion and watched it become the most-watched non-English series on the platform, ahead of Stranger Things in the US by April 2018. Three more parts, a documentary, a Korean remake and a Berlin spin-off followed. These 50 questions cover the robbers and the people who built them: the Professor and Álvaro Morte, Tokyo as narrator, Berlin and Pedro Alonso, Nairobi, Denver's laugh, Moscow, Raquel Murillo and Lisbon, Palermo, Sierra and Gandía. Production questions take in the Dalí masks, the red jumpsuits and the forbidden colours, Bella Ciao, the CSIC building that played the Mint, the Panama island and the International Emmy. Easy questions stick to the main gang; the expert tier asks about writers, directors and filming locations. 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 Netflix quiz night.
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Q 01What is Money Heist's original Spanish title?
La casa de papel
It translates literally as 'The House of Paper'.
Q 02Who created Money Heist?
Álex Pina
He and director Jesús Colmenar set up Vancouver Media to make it.
Q 03Who plays the Professor?
Álvaro Morte
Producers had first pictured a 50-year-old Harvard type resembling José Coronado.
Q 04Which character narrates the series?
Tokyo
Úrsula Corberó's voice is the first the audience hears.
Q 05Who plays Tokyo?
Úrsula Corberó
Producers had first wanted an older actress with nothing to lose.
Q 06The first heist targets which institution?
The Royal Mint of Spain
The gang plans to stay inside for 11 days printing money.
Q 07The second heist targets which institution?
The Bank of Spain
The goal this time is gold, and rescuing Rio.
Q 08How many hostages are taken inside the Mint?
67
The gang planned to stay 11 days.
Q 09How much money do the robbers escape with from the Mint?
€984 million
Their original target was €2.4 billion over 11 days.
Q 10The robbers wear masks depicting which artist?
Salvador Dalí
Don Quixote was considered and discarded as the alternative.
Q 11What colour are the robbers' jumpsuits?
Red
The red echoed the yellow prison uniforms of Pina's earlier show Locked Up.
Q 12Which Italian clothing brand restyled the jumpsuits for part 3?
Diesel
It also launched a clothing line inspired by the series.
Q 13Which Italian anti-fascist song recurs throughout the series?
Bella ciao
It became a summer hit across Europe in 2018.
Q 14Which writer brought the Italian partisan song to the show?
Q 21What is the name of Pina and Colmenar's production company?
Vancouver Media
Money Heist was its first project.
Q 22Spanish newspaper ABC compared the city code names to which Tarantino film?
Reservoir Dogs
That film used colour-based code names.
Q 23Which two characters did writers first try as narrator before choosing Tokyo?
The Professor and Moscow
The first five lines of the pilot took a month to write.
Q 24Roughly how many script versions did the pilot go through?
Javier Gómez Santander
He had been listening to it at home to cheer himself up.
Q 15Who sings the theme song My Life Is Going On?
Cecilia Krull
Manel Santisteban composed it; Krull wrote English lyrics.
Q 16The title sequence shows the series' settings rendered in what material?
Paper
A nod to the 'House of Paper' title.
Q 17On which Spanish network did the series originally air in 2017?
Antena 3
Its 15 episodes ran from May to November 2017.
Q 18Into how many episodes did Netflix re-cut the original 15?
22
The Netflix episodes ran around 50 minutes each.
Q 19What was the series' working title during conception?
Los Desahuciados
It means 'The Evicted'.
Q 20Which earlier Pina prison drama did many of the creative team come from?
Locked Up (Vis a vis)
Alba Flores and Najwa Nimri had both starred in it.
Over 50
Later scripts were finished once a week to keep pace with filming.
Q 25Which actor was offered the Professor but was committed to the film Campeones?
Javier Gutiérrez
Casting directors then pushed for Álvaro Morte.
Q 26From which long-running soap did the casting directors know the Professor's actor?
El secreto de Puente Viejo
His prime-time experience was limited at the time.
Q 27Who plays the Professor's brother, the gang's leader inside the Mint?
Pedro Alonso
The Professor–Berlin family link was added at Morte and Alonso's suggestion.
Q 28Which actor developed Denver's trademark laugh during casting?
Jaime Lorente
Lorente also starred in Elite.
Q 29Alba Flores was asked to play which robber without an audition?
Nairobi
Pina realised late on that the gang needed another woman.
Q 30Moscow's actor had starred in which 2005 Pina series?
Los hombres de Paco
Moscow is Denver's father in the show.