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50 free The Inbetweeners trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Inbetweeners arrived on E4 in May 2008 with 238,000 viewers and a lukewarm reception, and finished three series later with the biggest audience the channel had ever had. Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, two former Channel 4 commissioners, built it around a briefcase-carrying private-school refugee, his hot-headed best mate, a compulsive liar and a gentle giant at a fictional comprehensive called Rudge Park — and the suburban ordinariness was the point. Two films followed: the first set the record for a comedy opening weekend in Britain; the second outgrossed every other British film of 2014. These 50 questions cover the whole run and beyond: Will's badge, the yellow Fiat Cinquecento Hawaii, Thorpe Park, Caravan Club, the Swanage field trip, Charlotte Hinchcliffe and Mark Donovan, Mr Gilbert's contempt, the Malia holiday, the Australian sequel, the pilot in which James Buckley played Neil, the cast's Cambridge Footlights roots, the 2019 reunion special that needed an apology, and the MTV remake axed after one season. Easy questions stick to the four boys and the school; the expert tier asks about theme tunes, directors and the prize the show lost to The IT Crowd. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01On which channel did The Inbetweeners originally air from 2008 to 2010?
E4
Channel 4 repeated the first series in November 2008; the show's first episode drew just 238,000 viewers.
Q 02Who created and wrote The Inbetweeners?
Damon Beesley and Iain Morris
The pair met as producers on The 11 O'Clock Show and Morris had shepherded Peep Show as a Channel 4 commissioner.
Q 03What is the name of the fictional school the boys attend?
Rudge Park Comprehensive
Will is transferred there from private school after his parents' divorce.
Q 04Who plays Will McKenzie?
Simon Bird
Bird's voiceover narrates every episode; he went on to play Adam in Friday Night Dinner.
Q 05Which actor plays the hot-headed Simon Cooper?
Joe Thomas
Thomas and Bird were Cambridge Footlights contemporaries and flatmates before the show.
Q 06Who plays the compulsive liar Jay Cartwright?
James Buckley
Buckley later played the young Del Boy in the Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips.
Q 07Which actor plays the gullible Neil Sutherland?
Blake Harrison
Harrison went on to play Private Pike in the 2016 Dad's Army film.
Q 08Who plays the contemptuous head of sixth form?
Greg Davies
Davies was a secondary school drama teacher for 13 years before comedy, and now hosts Taskmaster.
Q 09Why does Will move from private school to Rudge Park in the first episode?
His parents' divorce
His mother Polly's post-divorce finances force the switch; Mr Gilbert makes him wear a name badge.
Q 10Which accessory marks Will out for mockery on his first day?
A briefcase
Mr Gilbert compounds it by making the new pupils wear large, colourful introduction badges.
Q 11Which long-term crush drives many of Simon's storylines?
Carli D'Amato
Emily Head plays Carli, who knows Simon is far keener on her than she is on him.
Q 12Who plays Charlotte Hinchcliffe, the popular older girl who briefly dates Will?
Emily Atack
Charlotte claims to have had "eleven lovers already" and is a year above the boys.
Q 13What does school bully Mark Donovan call the four boys?
Team Twat
Donovan is Charlotte's ex and briefly shows Will a sensitive side — then threatens to kill him if he tells anyone.
Q 21Who is Simon's short-term girlfriend in series 3, played by Hannah Tointon?
Tara
She suggests losing their virginity at her sister's student house in Warwick; it does not go well.
Q 22In which Welsh city are Simon's family moving to in the series 3 finale?
Swansea
Alan's company is making redundancies; Simon threatens to move into a flat with Jay instead.
Q 23What is the name of Jay's dog, who ruins his attempts at privacy in Home Alone?
Benji
Neil stays at Will's instead, on condition he can bring his PlayStation 3.
Q 24What is the name of the 2006 pilot for The Inbetweeners?
Q 14What car does Simon's dad give him after he passes his driving test?
A yellow Fiat Cinquecento Hawaii
The cast later drove the same car around Britain for Red Nose Day, hunting the 50 rudest place names.
Q 15Where does Neil work in series 1?
Thorpe Park
The boys drive there in Simon's new car, tailing a car full of girls on the way.
Q 16Where is the caravan club Jay's family belong to?
Camber Sands
Jay's promised "guaranteed casual sex" turns out to be a family disco in a small hall.
Q 17In Bunk Off, who does Simon impersonate when phoning the school office?
His mum
Mr Gilbert instantly recognises the fake female voice; the boys then try to buy booze in Simon's dad's suit.
Q 18Where does the series 2 geography field trip go?
Swanage
Jay claims a legendary local MILF sleeps with one pupil per trip; Will falls for new girl Lauren instead.
Q 19Which Duke of Edinburgh Award activity does Will sign the boys up for?
Care work at a retirement home
Mr Gilbert tells Will he was picked to run the scheme because he is a virgin.
Q 20What video game does Neil treat as revision for his PE exam?
Pro Evolution Soccer
Will, meanwhile, overdoses on energy drinks and caffeine pills.
Baggy Trousers
James Bobin directed it, and James Buckley played Neil rather than Jay.
Q 25Which character did Jay's actor play in the pilot, before being cast as Jay?
Neil
Buckley and Greg Davies were the only cast members to survive from the pilot.
Q 26The theme tune is an instrumental of "Gone Up in Flames" by which band?
Morning Runner
Then-Xfm DJ Marsha Shandur picked the show's music as supervisor.
Q 27The Inbetweeners lost the 2009 BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy to which show?
The IT Crowd
It won the publicly voted Audience Award at the 2010 BAFTAs instead.
Q 28What record audience did the first episode of series 3 draw on E4 in 2010?
2.6 million
It was the channel's biggest audience ever until Glee beat it the following year.
Q 29Where do the boys go on holiday in The Inbetweeners Movie?
Malia, Crete
Some filming also took place in Magaluf, and the empty club interior was Infernos in Clapham.
Q 30Who directed The Inbetweeners Movie?
Ben Palmer
Morris and Beesley wrote it and directed the sequel themselves.