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116 free Peaky Blinders trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
50 free Peaky Blinders trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Peaky Blinders fan? Dive into our ultimate trivia quiz and discover how well you really know the gritty streets of Birmingham and the Shelby family empire. From Tommy's schemes to iconic catchphrases, this quiz will test your knowledge of every season.
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Q 01The fifth series of Peaky Blinders opens on 29 October 1929, a date better known as what?
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday's Wall Street crash hits while Michael is running the family's American business, and he has to bring the bad news home to Birmingham.
Q 02Which actor portrays the character of Thomas Shelby?
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy plays Tommy Shelby in all six series and returns in the 2026 film The Immortal Man, which he also produces.
Q 03The second series ends on Derby Day, 31 May 1922, with a climax at which racecourse?
Epsom
It is a step up from series 1, which closed with the Shelbys seizing pitches at the far humbler Worcester Races.
Q 04In Peaky Blinders, which pub do the Shelby family own and run their betting business from?
The Garrison
The Garrison's landlord Harry Fenton runs it in series 1 before the family take over; the pub is later blown up and rebuilt.
Q 05What is the full name of the Shelby family matriarch, Polly?
Elizabeth Gray
Polly's full name is Elizabeth Gray, a Shelby by birth and Gray by marriage; as the family's treasurer she ran the business while her nephews were away at war.
Q 06Who is the main antagonist that Tommy Shelby and the Peaky Blinders face in the first series?
Billy Kimber
Billy Kimber's betting pitches at the Worcester Races are the target on 'Black Star Day', 3 December 1919, the first series' climax.
Q 07An 1890 Birmingham Mail report of "a murderous outrage" places the real gang's origins in which district?
Small Heath
The March 1890 Birmingham Mail report on the assault of George Eastwood called the attackers the 'Small Heath Peaky Blinders', the earliest known appearance of the name in print.
Q 08What is the name of Ada Shelby's first husband?
Freddie Thorne
Freddie Thorne, played by Iddo Goldberg, fought alongside Tommy in the war and dies of 'pestilence', presumably Spanish flu, between the first and second series.
Q 09What military rank did Thomas Shelby hold during World War I?
Sergeant Major
Tommy served in France as a sergeant major, a tunneller at the Somme; Campbell's file notes he was decorated for gallantry, and the show implies he returned with what is now called PTSD.
Q 10How old is Michael Gray, taken from Polly as a small child, when he rejoins the family?
17
Michael is 17 when Tommy tracks him down at his foster family, where he had been raised as Henry, after Polly says she wants her children back.
Q 11Tommy's first wife is shot dead at a charity dinner while wearing what cursed gift from him?
A sapphire
The sapphire, which a Russian émigrée had warned Tommy was cursed, hangs at his wife's neck when the gunman shouts 'For Angel!' and fires.
Q 12What iconic item of clothing is most famously associated with the Peaky Blinders gang?
Flat caps
Flat caps with razor blades stitched into the peaks is the usual story, though disposable safety razors were not made in Britain until 1908, so it is probably apocryphal.
Q 13Which actor plays fascist politician Sir Oswald Mosley in Peaky Blinders?
Sam Claflin
Q 21Tommy Shelby's hairstyle, which the show helped bring back into fashion, is known as what?
Undercut
The undercut, shaved sides with length on top, became Tommy's signature look; barbers reported a run on it once the series took off.
Q 22Which Peaky Blinders actress played Polly Gray and died in April 2021?
Helen McCrory
Helen McCrory, who played Polly in every series, died of cancer on 16 April 2021; series 6 was reworked so that Polly's death is revealed in its opening episode.
Q 23Which actor portrays Arthur Shelby Jr.?
Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson's Arthur is Tommy's volatile right hand; Anderson had played Colonel Sebastian Moran in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows before being cast.
Series 6 adds Mosley's second wife Diana Mitford, played by Amber Anderson.
Q 14The distillery-running Camden Town gang leader of series 2 heads a gang from which community?
Jewish
The Camden Town boss leads a Jewish gang whose bakery is a front for a rum distillery; Tommy first courts him in series 2 as a counterweight to the Italian gangs of London.
Q 15What is Michael Gray's relationship to Polly Gray?
Son
Michael is Polly's son, taken from her as a small child and raised by a foster family as Henry; Tommy brings him back into the family, and in the final series Tommy shoots him dead.
Q 16In what year does the second season of 'Peaky Blinders' begin?
1921
The series follows the gang's push into the South and North while holding their Birmingham heartland.
Q 17Which political thinker is Ada Shelby's son named after?
Karl Marx
Karl Marx is the namesake of Ada's son Karl, born at the end of series 1 to a father steeped in revolutionary politics.
Q 18Inspector Campbell's missing guns in Peaky Blinders series 1 were bound for which country?
Libya
Libya was the destination of the crates Tommy's men lift from the Birmingham Small Arms factory, and the missing guns drive the whole first series.
Q 19Who created and wrote 'Peaky Blinders'?
Steven Knight
Steven Knight also co-created the game show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'.
Q 20Which streaming service acquired exclusive US distribution rights to Peaky Blinders in September 2014?
Netflix
Netflix's version is missing most of the original soundtrack because of licensing restrictions.
Q 24To form an alliance with the Lee family, John Shelby marries which character?
Esme Lee
Esme Lee marries John to seal peace with the Lee family; after John is killed in series 4 she leaves with their children, and in series 6 she returns to lead Tommy to a son he never knew.
Q 25From which city does Chief Inspector Chester Campbell originally come?
Belfast
Campbell comes from Belfast, where as an Ulster Protestant policeman he had been hunting the IRA; the government sends him to Birmingham to recover the stolen guns.
Q 26Which acclaimed actor portrays the volatile Camden Town gang leader introduced in series 2?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy plays the Camden Town gang boss from series 2 to 6; he and Cillian Murphy had already shared the screen in Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010).
Q 27What was Tommy's future first wife secretly doing when she took a job pulling pints for the Shelbys?
Working as an undercover agent
Inspector Campbell, who knew her late father, told her to get close to Tommy to find the missing guns; she later shot Campbell herself.
Q 28What was the primary criminal enterprise of the Shelbys' first major rival in series 1?
Racecourse betting
The rival's empire was racecourse betting: he controlled the bookmaking pitches at legal racecourses outside London and had police on his payroll, the very business Tommy wanted to take.
Q 29Which actor took over the role of Finn Shelby from Season 2 onwards?
Harry Kirton
Kirton's Finn is shot in the arm in series 5 after ignoring orders to stay out of a hit, and is cast out of the family in the finale.
Q 30Jessie Eden convinced women at which Birmingham factory to walk out during the 1926 stoppage?
Joseph Lucas
The real Eden went on to lead 10,000 women out in 1931 and a 40,000-household rent strike in 1939; her friends objected to the show's invented romance with Tommy.