Real Housewives Trivia
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106 free Real Housewives trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
59 free Real Housewives trivia questions with answers. Two decades after five women in Orange County let cameras behind the gates, the Real Housewives franchise has spread to a dozen American cities and more than thirty countries. This quiz covers the whole Bravo universe: the New Jersey table flip, Scary Island, Bethenny's Skinnygirl fortune, Erika Jayne's legal saga, Jen Shah's arrest, Vanderpump Rules and Scandoval, Ultimate Girls Trip, and the taglines and reunion rituals that make the shows what they are. The questions start easy enough for anyone who has caught a reunion, then get harder: working titles, forgotten spin-offs, first international editions and the fine print in a housewife's contract. If you can name the housewife who slammed her prosthetic leg on a dinner table and the exact percentage in the "Bethenny clause," you are in the right place. Every answer has been checked against the published record and carries a linked source, so when your group chat argues about who really said what, you can settle it. Ideal for a Bravo watch party, a pub quiz round, or a solo test of two decades of devotion.
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Q 01Which location was home to the very first Real Housewives series, which premiered in 2006?
Orange County
Orange County's series premiered on Bravo in March 2006; its creator first imagined it as a film about his own neighbours in the enclave of Coto de Caza.
Q 02Who is credited as the creator of the Real Housewives franchise?
Scott Dunlop
Scott Dunlop, a Coto de Caza resident, pitched a documentary-style look at his gated community; Bravo reshaped it into The Real Housewives of Orange County, and the franchise followed.
Q 03Which Andy Cohen late-night show doubles as an aftershow for Bravo's reality programming?
Watch What Happens Live
Watch What Happens Live premiered in July 2009 and took its title from Bravo's slogan of the day, 'Watch What Happens'; it goes out live from New York so viewers can phone in.
Q 04The Real Housewives launched in 2006 as a real-life answer to Peyton Place and which scripted hit?
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives was ABC's hit of the moment; Bravo's president promised 'real-life desperate housewives', and the network swapped the working title for one that echoed the drama.
Q 05In the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills opening credits, each cast member holds which gemstone?
Diamonds
Diamonds are the Beverly Hills cast's version of the fruit other cities hold, so a newcomer promoted to the full-time cast is said to be 'holding a diamond'.
Q 06On whom did Teresa Giudice flip a dinner table during the first season of New Jersey?
Danielle Staub
Danielle Staub told Teresa to 'pay attention' as the season-ending dinner turned into a row over Cop Without a Badge, a book that recounts her past; Teresa answered by flipping the table.
Q 07Bethenny Frankel built her fortune on which lifestyle brand, which began as a pre-packaged margarita?
Skinnygirl
Skinnygirl began as a bottled margarita; Frankel sold the cocktail line to Beam Global in 2011 but kept the Skinnygirl name for everything else she sells.
Q 08Which Real Housewives series was the first to be cancelled, after a single season in 2010?
D.C.
D.C. ran for one season in 2010 and was axed in April 2011, the first series Bravo dropped; Andy Cohen said he wanted a second season but the Salahis' scandal torpedoed it.
Q 09Real Housewives of D.C. couple Michaele and Tareq Salahi were filmed crashing which event without an invitation?
A White House state dinner
A White House state dinner, held for India's prime minister in November 2009; Andy Cohen later said the couple's stunt left 'such a stink' on the show.
Q 10Jen Shah's 2021 arrest, which happened mid-filming, was for running what kind of operation?
A telemarketing fraud
Shah ran a nationwide telemarketing fraud that sold worthless 'business development' services to elderly victims; she pleaded guilty in July 2022 and reported to the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, in February 2023.
Q 11Kandi Burruss of Atlanta first found fame in the 1990s as a member of which R&B group?
Xscape
Xscape, the Atlanta quartet whose 1993 debut album produced the hits 'Just Kickin' It' and 'Understanding', made Kandi's name; the reunited group fronted a Bravo series, Xscape: Still Kickin' It, in 2017.
Q 12Which former Miss USA joined the Atlanta cast in its fifth season?
Kenya Moore
Kenya Moore won Miss USA 1993 as Miss Michigan and reached the Miss Universe top six; in her first Atlanta season she turned a boast into her debut single, 'Gone with the Wind Fabulous'.
Q 13The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip launched in 2021 on which streaming service?
Peacock
Peacock launched Ultimate Girls Trip in November 2021 with seven women from four cities sharing one villa, then revived The Real Housewives of Miami a month later, eight years after Bravo last aired it.
Q 21Kandi Burruss co-wrote which 1999 TLC hit alongside Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs?
No Scrubs
Kandi Burruss wrote 'No Scrubs' with She'kspere and Tameka 'Tiny' Cottle; in 2017 the three were added to the writing credits of Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You' because it echoed the TLC hit.
Q 22Atlanta housewife Kim Zolciak's 2009 dance single, co-written by castmate Kandi Burruss, carried what title?
Tardy for the Party
'Tardy for the Party' later landed in court, with Kandi suing over profits from the track and castmate Phaedra Parks acting as her attorney.
Q 23Luann de Lesseps' first single, released in 2010, was titled what?
Money Can't Buy You Class
Q 14Which RHOBH original cast member played Lindsey Wallace in John Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic?
Kyle Richards
Kyle Richards was a child actor when she played Lindsey Wallace in Halloween (1978), and went back to the role four decades later in Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.
Q 15Which socialite is the niece of Beverly Hills sisters Kim and Kyle?
Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton's mother Kathy Hilton is Kim and Kyle's older half-sister; Kathy joined Beverly Hills herself as a 'friend of the housewives' from season 11 in 2021.
Q 16Erika Jayne's estranged husband Tom Girardi, later convicted of wire fraud, was famous in which profession?
Personal-injury attorney
Personal-injury attorney Tom Girardi helped win the PG&E settlement dramatised in Erin Brockovich; he was disbarred in 2022 and convicted in 2024 of stealing millions from his own clients.
Q 17Erika Jayne made her Broadway debut in 2020 playing which role?
Roxie Hart in Chicago
Erika Jayne debuted as Roxie Hart in Chicago at Broadway's Ambassador Theatre on 6 January 2020; the COVID-19 shutdown ended the engagement in March after barely two months.
Q 18Lisa Vanderpump's West Hollywood venue SUR is an acronym for what?
Sexy Unique Restaurant
Sexy Unique Restaurant is the name behind SUR, which Lisa Vanderpump and her husband Ken Todd joined as co-owners in 2005; its waiting staff went on to become the cast of Vanderpump Rules.
Q 19The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast holds what in the closing lineup of the opening credits?
Peaches
Peaches, for Georgia's nickname the Peach State; the fruit became shorthand for a place in the cast, so a part-timer asked to go full-time is said to be offered a peach.
Q 20NeNe Leakes played synchronized swim coach Roz on which Fox series?
Glee
Ryan Murphy cast NeNe Leakes on Glee as Roz Washington, an Olympic bronze medalist turned synchronized-swimming coach, in season three (2012), then made her a series regular on his NBC sitcom The New Normal.
'Money Can't Buy You Class' grew out of her 2009 etiquette book: Luann said she had translated its lesson, that elegance can be learned, into song, and the result was an Auto-Tuned dance track.
Q 24The RHONY season-three cast trip that fans dubbed "Scary Island" took place in which destination?
U.S. Virgin Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands: the cast stayed on St. John, where Kelly Bensimon said in a confessional that she was 'alone on Scary Island', handing fans their name for the episode 'Sun, Sand and Psychosis'.
Q 25Real Housewives of New York's Aviva Drescher stunned a Le Cirque party by slamming what onto the table?
Her prosthetic leg
Her prosthetic leg: in the 2014 season-six finale Aviva called it 'the only thing that is artificial or fake about me', slammed it down, then threw it.
Q 26The first season of Ultimate Girls Trip was filmed at a villa in which destination?
Turks and Caicos
Turks and Caicos hosted the first trip in 2021; Vicki Gunvalson complained that she had signed a contract for the spin-off before Covid hit and then heard nothing.
Q 27Bethenny Frankel was the runner-up on which 2005 reality competition before joining RHONY?
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart billed Bethenny as a natural foods chef; she finished second to magazine publisher Dawna Stone, whom Stewart hired, and joined RHONY's first cast three years later.
Q 28Teresa Giudice served her fraud sentence at a federal prison in which state?
Connecticut
Teresa served 11 months of a 15-month sentence at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, in 2015; she and husband Joe staggered their sentences so one parent could stay home with their daughters.
Q 29Melissa Gorga, who joined New Jersey in season three, is related to Teresa Giudice how?
Sister-in-law
Melissa is Teresa's sister-in-law, married to her brother Joe Gorga; her first season opened at her son's christening, where a spat between Teresa and Joe set off the family feud.
Q 30Which Potomac cast member is known by the nickname "the Grande Dame"?
Karen Huger
Karen Huger turned the 'Grande Dame' title into a brand: a perfume called La'Dame in 2019, then Potomac's first spin-off, Karen's Grande Dame Reunion, in 2022.