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50 free The Chase trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Chase is the ITV teatime quiz where four strangers try to outrun a professional quizzer down a seven-step board, and it has become one of the biggest game shows on British television: four to five million viewers an episode, National Television Awards, a BAFTA, and a franchise stretching to Australia and the United States. These 50 questions cover the rules and the people. The Cash Builder clock, the five-second lock-out, the Final Chase head start and the £8,000 celebrity pot sit beside the Chasers themselves: the Beast and his French pun, the barrister who won Mastermind, the doctor-comedian, the Governess who recommended the Vixen, the Oxford entomologist who beat Sinha as a contestant. Then it crosses the water for Brooke Burns on GSN, Sara Haines on ABC, the Jeopardy! champions who chased there, and Larry Emdur replacing Andrew O'Keefe in Australia. Easy ones ask who the Beast is; hard ones ask who adjudicates a buzzer-beater. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01Which ITV show has Bradley Walsh hosted since 2009, facing quizzers called Chasers?
The Chase
It shares its DNA with The Master, an Australian quiz that aired briefly in 2006.
Q 02How many seconds does a contestant get in the Cash Builder round?
60
Each correct answer is worth £1,000 and there is no penalty for a wrong answer or a pass.
Q 03How many steps are on the Head-to-Head board?
Seven
Playing for the Cash Builder money means starting three steps down, so five correct answers get you home.
Q 04Once one side locks in a Head-to-Head answer, how long does the other have before being frozen out?
Five seconds
A frozen-out player simply stays where they are on the board for that turn.
Q 05How long does the team get to answer questions in the Final Chase?
Two minutes
The team gets a head start of one step for every contestant who made it to the final.
Q 06Which Chaser is known as "The Beast"?
Mark Labbett
The nickname is a pun: his surname sounds like the French la bête, meaning the beast.
Q 07What is Shaun Wallace's Chaser nickname?
The Dark Destroyer
In Australia he is billed as simply "The Destroyer" after concerns about the original name.
Q 08Which Chaser is nicknamed "The Governess"?
Anne Hegerty
She joined in series 2 and also chases on the Australian and New Zealand versions.
Q 09Which Chaser is "The Sinnerman"?
Paul Sinha
He has also been billed as "The Smiling Assassin" and "Sarcasm in a Suit".
Q 10What is Jenny Ryan's nickname on the show?
The Vixen
Walsh coined it for her red hair, freckles and ponytail; producers liked that vixens are famously cunning.
Q 11Which Chaser is known as "The Menace"?
Darragh Ennis
Before joining the panel he beat Sinha as a contestant in 2017, banking £9,000 in his Cash Builder.
Q 12What does Ennis study as a laboratory researcher?
Insect brains
He is an entomologist and neuroscientist who works in the Department of Biochemistry.
Q 13Besides quizzing, what is Shaun Wallace's profession?
Barrister
He was called to the Bar in 1984 and has argued cases at the Old Bailey.
Q 14What was Shaun Wallace's specialist subject in his winning 2004 Mastermind final?
Q 21Bradley Walsh was a professional footballer for which club in 1979?
Brentford
Ankle fractures ended his playing career at 22; he later went on loan to Barnet.
Q 22Bradley Walsh played Danny Baldwin in which soap opera?
Coronation Street
The character was going to be called Vic; Walsh asked for Danny in honour of his late father.
Q 23Which sci-fi series cast Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien from 2018 to 2022?
Doctor Who
He also played DS Ronnie Brooks in Law & Order: UK for five years.
Q 24Bradley Walsh's 2016 album Chasing Dreams peaked at what position on the UK Albums Chart?
FA Cup Finals
Before finding quizzing fame he had failed his O-level English exam four times.
Q 15Sinha qualified and worked in which profession before full-time quizzing and comedy?
Doctor
He began doing stand-up while working as a junior doctor in London and King's Lynn.
Q 16Which 2018 reality show did Hegerty compete on, finishing seventh?
I'm a Celebrity
She once ghostwrote two books for Richard Scarry and says they "were a bit rubbish and nobody bought them".
Q 17Who recommended Jenny Ryan for the Chaser job after captaining her on a quiz team?
Anne Hegerty
Ryan made her debut on 2 September 2015 and is also known as "The Bolton Brainiac".
Q 18Jenny Ryan reached the final of which 2019 singing contest, finishing third?
The X Factor: Celebrity
She was cut before the live shows, but viewer outcry got her invited back.
Q 19What was Labbett's specialist subject on his 2000 Mastermind appearance?
The Simpsons
A year earlier he had taken the Olympic Games as his subject.
Q 20Labbett earned his mathematics degree from a college of which university?
Oxford
He later worked as a maths and PE supply teacher before quizzing took over.
No. 10
His follow-up, When You're Smiling, landed one place lower the next year.
Q 25Which German skier's name sent Bradley Walsh into a viral laughing fit in 2011?
Fanny Chmelar
Sinha credits the clip with doubling the audience; Walsh finally apologised to her in person in 2024.
Q 26If all four celebrities are caught, what prize fund does their nominee play for in the Final Chase?
£8,000
It was originally £20,000; each celebrity who reaches a lost final still earns £1,000 for charity.
Q 27Which 2020 prime-time spin-off pits a single player against up to five quizzers at once?
Beat the Chasers
Its working title was Take On the Chasers, and its theme reuses part of the 2009 Chaser walk-on music.
Q 28Who narrated The Chasers' Road Trip: Trains, Brains and Automobiles?
Rob Brydon
Three Chasers took on child geniuses, great apes, dolphins and robots across the UK, US and Japan.
Q 29Which BBC One quiz, launched two months after The Chase, is its long-running teatime ratings rival?
Pointless
In September 2012 the two were almost level: 2.44 million viewers against 2.27 million.
Q 30In January 2021 the show hit an all-time peak audience of more than how many viewers?
5 million
During its first two series it averaged only one to two million.