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50 free The L Word trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free The L Word trivia questions with answers. The L Word ran on Showtime from 2004 to 2009 and was the first television series with an ensemble cast of lesbian and bisexual women, written and directed mostly by queer women. It gave the world The Chart, The Planet, Bette and Tina's endless breakup, Shane's hair, Alice's radio show and a final season that turned into an unsolved murder mystery. This quiz covers all six seasons and the 2019 to 2023 sequel, Generation Q. Expect questions on the characters and their arcs, from Dana's tennis career to Max's transition and Tasha's discharge under don't ask, don't tell, and on the making of the show: the code name Earthlings, the origin of The Chart in the writers' room, why the show was filmed in Vancouver, the band that wrote the theme song, and the failed prison spin-off with Famke Janssen. There is a cast round too: Jennifer Beals's Flashdance, Katherine Moennig's famous cousin, Leisha Hailey's bands and Pam Grier's blaxploitation past. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its characters and its cast, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01On which network did The L Word air from 2004 to 2009?
Showtime
It premiered on January 18, 2004 and ran six seasons; the sequel and the reality spin-off aired on the same channel.
Q 02The series is set in which Los Angeles neighbourhood?
West Hollywood
The sequel moved the action east to Silver Lake more than a decade later.
Q 03Who is credited as the primary creator of The L Word?
Ilene Chaiken
She co-created it with Michele Abbott and Kathy Greenberg and later produced The Real L Word.
Q 04Where was The L Word mainly filmed?
Vancouver
Interiors were shot at Coast Mountain Films Studio, with location work in Los Angeles.
Q 05What was the show's original code name during development?
Earthlings
It is a rarely used slang term for lesbians; the phrase 'the L word' itself goes back at least to a 1981 play.
Q 06Who plays Bette Porter?
Jennifer Beals
The Chicago-born actress had been famous since a 1983 dance movie.
Q 07Bette studied art history at which university?
Yale
She grew up in Philadelphia and later became a dean at the fictional California Art College.
Q 08At the start of the series Bette and Tina, together seven years, are trying to do what?
Have a child
Their daughter Angelica is born between seasons two and three.
Q 09What is Shane McCutcheon's profession?
Hairstylist
The androgynous heartbreaker is played by Katherine Moennig, a cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow.
Q 10Which character maintains The Chart, the web of who has slept with whom?
Alice Pieszecki
The idea came from the writers' room mapping their own friends' entanglements on a piece of paper.
Q 11In the show's original concept, where was The Chart going to appear?
Tattooed on Kit Porter's back
The show was originally to be built around Kit; in season four Alice launches The Chart as a social network, mirrored by the real OurChart.com.
Q 12Dana Fairbanks is a closeted professional in which sport?
Tennis
Erin Daniels's character dies of breast cancer in season three, one of the show's most mourned storylines.
Q 13Who plays Kit Porter, Bette's straight half-sister?
Pam Grier
The star of Coffy, Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown; Kit takes over The Planet after Marina leaves.
Q 21Season four's Tasha Williams, Alice's love interest, is a former captain in what?
The Army National Guard
Her struggle under don't ask, don't tell ends in a dishonourable discharge in season five.
Q 22Which Oscar-winning deaf actress plays Jodi Lerner, Bette's sculptor girlfriend?
Marlee Matlin
She won Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God in 1986.
Q 23The character Papi is notable on The Chart for what?
Having slept with the most women
She and Angus were both written out before season five.
Q 14The cafe where the friends gather is called what?
The Planet
Its first owner, Marina Ferrer, is Jenny's first female lover; Kit buys it in season two.
Q 15Jenny Schecter arrives in Los Angeles to live with her boyfriend, whose name is what?
Tim Haspell
The others are the documentary maker who bugs her house, Kit's nanny lover, and the trans man introduced in season three.
Q 16Season two's Carmen de la Pica Morales, a DJ, becomes part of a love triangle with which two characters?
Shane and Jenny
Sarah Shahi's Carmen becomes engaged to one of them, who abandons her at the altar in the season three finale.
Q 17Helena Peabody enters the show in season two as what?
A wealthy art patron
She later buys a movie studio and is cut off by her mother after a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Q 18In season two, the documentary maker Mark Wayland secretly does what to his two housemates?
Films them with hidden cameras
The documentary maker had moved in as their housemate.
Q 19Which season-three character comes out as a trans man?
Max Sweeney
He is introduced presenting as a butch, working-class woman.
Q 20Jenny's article about her friends, later filmed as Lez Girls, ran in which magazine?
The New Yorker
By season five she has been thrown off the film's production.
Q 24The sixth and final season is structured around what?
The murder of Jenny
Each episode flashes back to a possible motive; the killer is never revealed on screen.
Q 25In post-finale 'interrogation tape' videos, which character did the creator say went to jail for Jenny's murder?
Alice
The seven short videos showed Bette, Alice, Tina, Nikki and Shane being questioned by police.
Q 26Which band wrote and performed the show's theme song, first heard in season two?
Betty
The trio also appear on screen repeatedly; the other two bands belong to Leisha Hailey and get referenced in the show.
Q 27Leisha Hailey, who plays Alice, is also half of which electropop duo?
Uh Huh Her
She formed it with Camila Grey in 2007; earlier she was in the pop duo The Murmurs.
Q 28Bette's actress first found fame in which 1983 film?
Flashdance
She grew up on the South Side of Chicago and later played Angela Cassidy in Devil in a Blue Dress.
Q 29Katherine Moennig is the cousin of which Oscar-winning actress?
Gwyneth Paltrow
Her aunt is Blythe Danner; her first big role was in the WB series Young Americans.
Q 30Which actress won a 2004 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a TV Drama for playing Tina Kennard?
Laurel Holloman
Ossie Davis earned a posthumous Emmy nomination the next year as Bette and Kit's father, Melvin.