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50 free The Bold Type trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Bold Type followed three best friends, Jane, Kat and Sutton, as they worked their way up at Scarlet, a glossy New York women's magazine. Across its run on Freeform from 2017 to 2021 it mixed workplace ambition with frank storylines about health, identity and love, and it built a loyal following that keeps rewatching it. This quiz covers the big career moves and the bigger romances, the men who came and went (and the ones who stayed), the famous faces in the cast, and the behind-the-scenes story of how the series reached the screen. Questions run from first-episode basics to details only a devoted viewer will remember. It suits fans testing their memory after a rewatch and newcomers who want to see how much they picked up. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01The actress behind Scarlet boss Jacqueline Carlyle in The Bold Type also played Jan Levinson on which NBC sitcom?
The Office
The Office made her famous as Michael Scott's corporate boss and love interest; years earlier she was cast in Back to the Future, then replaced for being too tall beside its new lead.
Q 02The Bold Type was inspired by a British journalist, later its executive producer, who ran which women's magazine?
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan was hers from 2012 to 2016, and she rose to run content across its publisher, Hearst, in the same year the pilot was ordered.
Q 03In The Bold Type, what does Sutton Brady have made from the melted-down shotgun she kept in her apartment?
Earrings
Earrings were the answer after roommate Jane, who lived close to a school shooting as a child, asked for the gun to go; Sutton had taken up shooting as a way to cope with her mother's drinking.
Q 04Where do Jane, Kat and Sutton spend most of a dinner party at Richard Hunter's apartment in The Bold Type?
In the bathtub
In the bathtub is where the three end up, which gives the episode Three Girls in a Tub its name; by the end of it Sutton has broken up with Richard over the strain of secrecy.
Q 05Meghann Fahy, Sutton Brady in The Bold Type, earned an Emmy nomination for playing Daphne Sullivan in which HBO series?
The White Lotus
The White Lotus cast her in its second season after she had auditioned for a part in the first; before her screen career she was a standby in the Broadway musical Next to Normal.
Q 06What nickname does Jane Sloan give writer Ryan Decker in The Bold Type, taken from the magazine he works for?
Pinstripe
Pinstripe is the magazine where Ryan writes, and the name sticks through an on-off romance with Jane that is later rocked by his infidelity.
Q 07Katie Stevens, who plays Jane Sloan in The Bold Type, first found fame finishing eighth on which talent show?
American Idol
American Idol put her through at 16, with judge Kara DioGuardi tipping her as a potential winner; she went on to sing on the show's 2010 summer tour.
Q 08Which job at Scarlet does Kat Edison land in the series finale of The Bold Type, after Jane Sloan turns it down?
Editor-in-chief
Editor-in-chief had been lined up for Jane, who told Jacqueline the role should go to Kat instead, a striking return for someone the company had forced out a season earlier.
Q 09Which one-time Disney Channel star joined The Bold Type in season four as beauty influencer Alice Knight?
Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné, a child star on The Cosby Show before her own Disney sitcom That's So Raven, was announced for the recurring role in October 2019.
Q 10Why was the fourth season of The Bold Type cut from a planned 18 episodes down to 16?
The COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic shut the set in March 2020, news that Meghann Fahy announced herself; the 16 episodes that survived were enough to make it the show's longest season.
Q 11Jane, Kat and Sutton all end up in which city in The Bold Type's season two finale, as Scarlet covers Fashion Week?
Paris
Paris is where Richard flies in to tell Sutton how he feels, and where Kat learns that Adena has produced no new work since moving to New York.
Q 12What does Kat Edison run for in season three of The Bold Type, with her campaign managed by Tia Clayton?
City council
City council was the goal, but Kat lost on election night; she had begun as a campaign volunteer before deciding to stand herself.
Q 13Which post does Kat Edison already hold at Scarlet when The Bold Type begins, two years after her promotion?
Social media director
Q 21Sam Page, Richard Hunter in The Bold Type, played Joan Holloway's husband Greg Harris in which 1960s-set drama?
Mad Men
Mad Men cast him as Joan's fiancé and then husband; off screen he holds a Princeton degree in ecology and evolutionary biology and had no acting experience at high school.
Q 22In The Bold Type, Richard Hunter first turns down, then accepts, a job offer in which distant city?
San Francisco
San Francisco first lost out to staying with Sutton, until she urged him to go; the two got engaged during the long-distance stretch that followed.
Q 23Which streaming service offered each new episode of The Bold Type in the US the day after its Freeform broadcast?
Hulu
Social media director put Kat ahead of her friends at the start: Jane had just been promoted and Sutton was an assistant. Kat later hired a candidate first rejected for lacking a degree.
Q 14Adena El-Amin, the artist Kat Edison falls for in The Bold Type, works in which creative profession?
Photographer
Photographer Adena first clashes with Kat by pulling her feature from the magazine; by the end of season three Scarlet has hired her as its in-house photographer.
Q 15Which preventive operation does Jane Sloan undergo in season four of The Bold Type because of her BRCA gene mutation?
A double mastectomy
A double mastectomy follows years of worry that began in season one, when Jane, whose mother died of breast cancer, hesitated even to take the test.
Q 16Which dispute splits up Sutton Brady and Richard Hunter in The Bold Type before their reunion in the finale?
Having children
Having children was Richard's dream and, after a miscarriage, not Sutton's; in the finale he decides he would rather be happy with her and no kids than with anyone else.
Q 17After Jacqueline Carlyle is briefly ousted in The Bold Type's fourth season, Scarlet returns in what new form?
Digital only
Digital only was the price RJ Safford set for bringing Jacqueline back, after Jane, Kat and Sutton got pages of a suppressed print edition out to the public.
Q 18Which job is Sutton Brady promoted to in The Bold Type's fourth season, after years as Oliver Grayson's assistant?
Stylist
Stylist was the promotion Oliver offered on her wedding day, just as she planned to follow Richard west; an earlier detour into design had taught her she preferred working behind the scenes.
Q 19In The Bold Type's pilot, whom is newly promoted Jane Sloan told to track down in person for a story?
Her ex-boyfriend
Her ex-boyfriend was the assignment: Jacqueline wanted a piece on why he had broken up with her, a brief that unsettled Jane in her first days as a writer.
Q 20Which Canadian city doubled for New York when the pilot of The Bold Type was filmed in 2016?
Toronto
Toronto hosted the pilot; later filming also took in Montreal, with New York itself used for exterior shots such as the Brooklyn Bridge.
Hulu got the second season's premiere a week before cable did, and the network's president said the streamer's marketing helped because it liked the show a lot.
Q 24Aisha Dee, who plays New Yorker Kat Edison in The Bold Type, was born and raised in which country?
Australia
Australia's Gold Coast is her home; the daughter of an opera singer and a jazz musician, she landed her first big role on the kids' series The Saddle Club.
Q 25What is the profession of Ben Chau, the religious love interest Jane Sloan meets in The Bold Type's second season?
Doctor
Doctor Ben, an OB/GYN, is first met as the subject of a freelance article; Jane is thrown to learn he is religious, as she turned against faith after her mother's death.
Q 26What job does Kat Edison take at The Belle after being forced out of Scarlet in The Bold Type's fourth season?
Bartender
Bartender Kat had been pushed out for exposing a board member's support for conversion therapy; a blizzard later traps her at the bar with a rival.
Q 27Which online publication does Jane Sloan quit Scarlet to join at the end of The Bold Type's first season?
Incite
Incite soon fired her, after a voicemail apology to an interview subject ended up online; Jacqueline made her wait before taking her back at Scarlet.
Q 28Jane Sloan is sued for defamation in The Bold Type after profiling a woman who quit finance to become what?
A stripper
A stripper was the subject of the piece, in an episode called No Feminism in the Champagne Room; at the settlement hearing Jane learns what the article has cost the woman.
Q 29In The Bold Type, Adena El-Amin asks Kat Edison for a letter of recommendation to help extend what?
Her work visa
Her work visa hangs over the whole romance: Adena is later held up re-entering the country, and Kat buys a plane ticket just to reach her beyond customs.
Q 30Which famous list of rising young talent names Jane Sloan in the fourth season of The Bold Type?
Forbes 30 Under 30
Forbes 30 Under 30 arrives in a season when Jane also gets her own vertical to run, even as her private life falls apart.