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50 free Nathan for You trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Nathan for You ran for just 32 episodes on Comedy Central, but almost every one of them produced a stunt that leaked into the real world: a fake pig-rescues-goat video that fooled national news, a Dumb Starbucks that drew hour-long lines in Los Feliz, a Holocaust-awareness jacket brand that is still trading, and a 90-minute finale that Errol Morris called unfathomably great. These 50 questions walk through all four seasons in order. Early ones cover the premise and the most famous stunts; the middle asks about specific schemes, from the Ghost Realtor and the Hotel Excellence Awards to the smoke detectors that became musical instruments. The expert tier wants the YouTube username behind the pig video, the premiere's viewership and the name of the real coffee shop behind Dumb Starbucks. Every answer is cited to the episode list or a page about the stunt, with a short explanation. Play it solo or hand it to the group chat that still quotes The Movement.
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Q 01On which network did Nathan for You premiere in February 2013?
Comedy Central
It aired there for four seasons before Fielder moved to HBO for The Rehearsal.
Q 02Who co-created the series with Nathan Fielder?
Michael Koman
The others all worked on the show too: Mintz and Mooney wrote on season one and Woliner directed segments like The Hunk.
Q 03What background does Nathan's on-screen character cite to justify advising struggling companies?
A business degree
The real Fielder did graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Victoria, which shaped the premise.
Q 04The show grew out of "Nathan On Your Side" segments on which Canadian series?
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Fielder played a consumer advocate on the CBC news satire from 2008 to 2009.
Q 05How many episodes of Nathan for You were made in total?
32
Twenty-seven follow the business-advice format; five depart from it, including the finale.
Q 06How many seasons did the series run?
4
Comedy Central confirmed in October 2018 that Fielder had chosen to end it to focus on other projects.
Q 07Roughly how many hours of footage were shot for each 22-minute episode?
90
Fielder called the constant re-writing around real reactions "a very inefficient way of making TV."
Q 08Which viral video, later revealed as a hoax, did the show stage at a petting zoo?
A pig rescuing a baby goat
A trained stand-in pig followed a plastic-walled course underwater; the clip made NBC Nightly News and Good Morning America.
Q 09Under what YouTube username did Fielder upload the petting-zoo video in 2012?
jebdogrpm
He made no effort to promote it; Gawker and Reddit did the work, and it passed seven million views before the hoax was revealed.
Q 10Dumb Starbucks opened in February 2014 in which Los Angeles neighborhood?
Los Feliz
The strip mall at 1802 Hillhurst Avenue also held a Thai restaurant and a coin laundromat.
Q 11For "legal reasons", Dumb Starbucks claimed it was actually what?
An art gallery
The window notice said the coffee was technically the art and that parody law covered the borrowed trademarks.
Q 12Before the reveal, some visitors thought Dumb Starbucks was the work of which artist?
Banksy
Others guessed Tim & Eric, whose production company had applied for a filming permit at the address.
Q 13What was the name of the real coffee shop Nathan set out to help in the Dumb Starbucks episode?
The Helio Cafe
Owner Elias Zacklin was eventually cut out of the project; the cafe later closed for good.
Q 21In the season one finale, Nathan's blind date had to include product placement for which chain?
Quiznos
The same episode had Nathan trying to lose a private investigator using wildly dissimilar lookalikes.
Q 22What "buzzworthy" flavor did Nathan introduce at a frozen yogurt shop in the pilot?
Poo
The same episode had a pizzeria promise free pizza on late deliveries, with the free pizza one inch across.
Q 23Why did the mall block Nathan's plan for summertime photos with a St. Nick?
The Santa had a criminal record
The segment shares an episode with the petting-zoo pig hoax and a sting on a teen graffiti artist.
Q 14Who closed the Dumb Starbucks store on February 10, 2014?
The health department
It was shut for operating without a permit hours after Fielder's press conference; Starbucks never sued.
Q 15Private investigator Brian Wolfe got his own reality series, Cry Wolfe, on which channel?
Investigation Discovery
Nathan later tried to land a similar deal for a security guard from season one, without success.
Q 16Which bodybuilder was the public face of "The Movement" fitness routine?
Jack Garbarino
A ghost-written book about the routine made the Amazon best-seller list and he appeared on daytime advertorial shows.
Q 17"The Movement" was designed to secretly supply free labor to what kind of business?
A moving company
Years later Amazon reported a woman lost 100 pounds delivering packages, prompting comparisons Fielder himself joined in.
Q 18Summit Ice, the apparel brand Nathan launched on the show, raises money for what cause?
Holocaust education
It was a response to jacket maker Taiga printing a tribute to a Holocaust denier; it raised over $150,000 by 2017.
Q 19The Summit Ice episode was pulled from Paramount+ in 2023 after concerns from which country's division?
Germany
Fielder answered the removal in The Rehearsal's second season by confronting a fake Paramount executive in a Nazi-style war room.
Q 20How many viewers watched the series premiere in 2013?
354,000
Numbers rose to 570,000 for episode two and 615,000 for a sneak peek aired after Workaholics.
Q 24Which comedian deliberately sabotages a job interview while Nathan repeats his words in the pilot?
H. Jon Benjamin
Fielder had played his boom operator on Jon Benjamin Has a Van, whose cancellation helped get Nathan for You greenlit.
Q 25To claim a gas-station rebate, customers had to do what?
Hike a mountain and solve riddles
The same episode had Nathan push a caricature artist to draw insulting pictures of beachgoers.
Q 26Nathan made a haunted house scarier by convincing visitors they had caught what?
An airborne disease
The episode pairs with The Hunk, a fake dating show meant to make Nathan less awkward with women.
Q 27In "The Claw of Shame", what would the robotic arm do if Nathan failed to escape his handcuffs?
Pull down his pants
A police officer stood by to arrest him for indecent exposure in front of a group of children.
Q 28Under what nickname did Nathan rebrand a real-estate agent in the season two premiere?
The Ghost Realtor
She guaranteed ghost-free properties, which forced an exorcism when a medium sensed an incubus in one listing.
Q 29What device did Nathan attach to an auto mechanic while customers asked for estimates?
A lie detector
It opened season two in July 2014 with 710,000 viewers, then the show's best number.
Q 30What fake event did Nathan create to give his souvenir-shop movie credibility?
Eastern Los Angeles International Film Festival
He had invited people to play paying customers as extras, then realized he had to finish a real film or face fraud claims.