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50 free Only Murders in the Building trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Steve Martin pitched a show about three old men too tired to leave their building a decade before Only Murders in the Building premiered on Hulu in August 2021. One of the men became Selena Gomez's Mabel, the building became the Arconia (really the Belnord on West 86th Street), and the result became Hulu's most-watched comedy, a perennial Emmy nominee and a magnet for guest stars from Sting to Meryl Streep. These 50 questions walk through all five seasons: Tim Kono and Bunny Folger, Brazzos and CoBro, Cinda Canning's Serial parody, Paul Rudd's three different roles, the season four movie-within-the-show, the season five billionaires and mobsters, the real building, the composer, the companion podcast and the Emmy-winning Pickwick Triplets song. Easy questions stick to the main characters and the building; the hard tier asks about casting dates, episode titles and songwriters. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you pick something up even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for your own true-crime-obsessed podcast night.
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Q 01In which Manhattan neighbourhood is the Arconia, the trio's apartment building?
Upper West Side
The exterior shots use the Belnord on West 86th Street.
Q 02Who co-created the series with Steve Martin?
John Hoffman
Hoffman also co-wrote the pilot and the final two episodes of season one.
Q 03Which character is played by Selena Gomez?
Mabel Mora
Mabel is an artist living alone in her aunt's unit while renovating it.
Q 04What is the name of Charles-Haden Savage's 1990s crime drama?
Brazzos
The podcast's success later lands him a 2020s revival of the show.
Q 05What is Oliver Putnam's profession?
Broadway director
He is financially struggling and it is his idea to start the podcast.
Q 06Who is the murder victim in the first episode of season one?
Tim Kono
Julian Cihi plays him, and the character returns as a guest in season five.
Q 07What was the name of Mabel's childhood mystery-solving quartet?
The Hardy Boys
Tim Kono, the first season's victim, was one of the group.
Q 08Tina Fey's Cinda Canning is a parody of which real podcast host?
Sarah Koenig
Her show All Is Not OK in Oklahoma stands in for Serial.
Q 09Which Arconia board president's murder is investigated in season two?
Bunny Folger
Jayne Houdyshell also voices Bunny's parrot, Mrs. Gambolini.
Q 10Who plays Charles's stunt double Sazz Pataki?
Jane Lynch
Sazz dates everyone Charles dates after him, and is killed at the end of season three.
Q 11Paul Rudd's Ben Glenroy is best known in-universe for playing which TV superhero?
CoBro
Ben is murdered on the opening night of his first Broadway play.
Q 12What is the name of Meryl Streep's struggling actress character?
Loretta Durkin
She becomes Oliver's love interest and later his wife.
Q 13Which Irish-born stunt double does Paul Rudd play in season four?
Glen Stubbins
Rudd has now played three roles, including the voice of a robot doorman in season five.
Q 14Who plays a fictionalized version of himself cast as Oliver in the film adaptation?
Q 21Christoph Waltz's season five billionaire Bash Steed made his fortune in what?
Tech and AI
Renée Zellweger's Camila White made hers in hotels and Logan Lerman's Jay Pflug in pharmaceuticals.
Q 22Beanie Feldstein's season five character Althea, or 'Thē', is what kind of celebrity?
Pop singer
She is also Mabel's former childhood friend and performs the original song 'Wish That You Were Me'.
Q 23Bobby Cannavale plays Nicky Caccimelio, a man who is what in season five?
A vanished mobster
His wife Sofia, played by Téa Leoni, hires Charles and Mabel to find him.
Zach Galifianakis
Eugene Levy plays Charles and Eva Longoria plays Mabel in the movie-within-the-show.
Q 15Which actress plays a version of herself cast as Mabel in the season four movie?
Eva Longoria
Molly Shannon's Bev Melon is the Paramount producer behind the adaptation.
Q 16Who plays NYPD Detective Donna Williams?
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
She initially closes the Kono case, then gets drawn back in after her wife starts listening to the podcast.
Q 17Teddy Dimas, the patron of Oliver's family, has ties to which crime group?
Greek mafia
He agrees to sponsor the podcast, and Lane won an Emmy for the role.
Q 18Which Arconia employee's murder is investigated in season five?
Lester the doorman
Dianne Wiest joined as his wife Lorraine and Emory Cohen plays him in flashback.
Q 19What is L.E.S.T.R., voiced by Paul Rudd in season five?
A robot doorman
It is named after Lester, the doorman whose death drives the season.
Q 20Which actor plays New York mayor Beau Tillman in season five?
Keegan-Michael Key
He joined in March 2025 alongside Christoph Waltz and Renée Zellweger.
Q 24Who is Howard Morris, played by Michael Cyril Creighton?
A cat-loving neighbour
His cat died the same night as Tim Kono; he became a series regular in season three.
Q 25What instrument does Amy Ryan's character Jan Bellows play professionally?
Bassoon
Jan begins dating Charles in the first season.
Q 26Who plays Alice Banks, Mabel's artist love interest in season two?
Cara Delevingne
She was reported as a series regular in December 2021.
Q 27Adina Verson's Poppy White is revealed to really be whom?
Becky Butler
Becky was the subject of Cinda Canning's podcast All Is Not OK in Oklahoma.
Q 28Richard Kind's Vince Fish wears an eye patch for what reason?
Perpetual pink eye
He is a resident of the Arconia's west tower, introduced in season four.
Q 29Kumail Nanjiani's Rudy Thurber keeps what up in his apartment all year?
Christmas decorations
A Christmas-themed video made the fitness influencer a hit.
Q 30How many years before its premiere did Steve Martin first conceive the idea?
Ten
His original pitch was about three elderly men too tired to solve crimes outside their building.