The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Trivia
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116 free The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel trivia quiz follows Midge from her nightgown set at the Gaslight in 1958 to the writers' room of The Gordon Ford Show and the flash-forwards of the final season. The easy questions cover the cast — Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub — the streaming service, the club, Lenny Bruce and Susie. Medium questions dig into Sophie Lennon's fat suit, Shy Baldwin's tour, Joel's Chinatown club, the Wolford, Noah's secret job and Rose's matchmaking. The hard and expert questions are for people who noticed the details: the Led Zeppelin building that played the Gaslight, the Oquaga Lake resort, the Sparkly logo font, the I Am Cuba dance number, the Carnegie Deli pop-up and the 30-cent gasoline stunt. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation, so the names, dates and plot points can be trusted. Difficulty is shown on every question, which makes it easy to build a round for a TV quiz night or play the whole set. When you finish, try our Gilmore Girls and other comedy series quizzes.
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Q 01On tour in season three, what do Midge and Joel discover the morning after a drunken night in Las Vegas?
They have remarried
They have remarried: Joel drops in on the Vegas leg of the tour, the exes get drunk together and wake up husband and wife again, then quickly agree to a second divorce.
Q 02Mrs. Maisel's creator says the idea came from her own childhood, when which relative worked as a stand-up comic?
Her father
Her father, Don Sherman, was a stand-up comic, so she grew up among comedians trying to make each other laugh, and she has said she knew Lenny Bruce's mother.
Q 03In which Manhattan neighbourhood is Midge living when Mrs. Maisel begins?
Upper West Side
The Upper West Side is where Midge keeps her picture-perfect home, while the comedy happens downtown in the Village, where her husband goes by night to try stand-up.
Q 04Who gives the toast at Midge and Joel's wedding in the pilot's opening scene?
The bride herself
The bride herself gives the toast, because who could do it better; the story then jumps four years ahead to find her running married life with the same total control.
Q 05In the pilot, what does Midge secretly do every night once Joel has fallen asleep?
Removes her make-up
Removes her make-up: Midge waits until her husband is asleep to take it off and put in curlers, then wakes before him to redo her face so he never sees her without it.
Q 06In season three, how does Susie secretly lose all of Midge's tour earnings?
Gambling
Gambling costs Susie every dollar of Midge's tour money, lost on a boxing bet; she and her sister then burn down their late mother's house to collect the insurance and repay it.
Q 07Which actress, also the voice of Lois Griffin on Family Guy, plays Midge's manager?
Alex Borstein
Alex Borstein nearly worked for the show's creator years earlier: she shot the pilot of a previous series for her, then lost the part because of her MADtv contract.
Q 08Midge's husband Joel leaves her for whom?
His secretary, Penny Pann
Joel leaves Midge for his secretary, Penny Pann, in the pilot; the affair comes out the same night his Gaslight set bombs.
Q 09Whose comedy routines does Joel Maisel copy for his own act?
Bob Newhart's
Bob Newhart's routines are Joel's whole act, which Midge somehow fails to notice; she is the one with the talent, as her own impromptu set soon proves.
Q 10At which department store does Midge take a job on the make-up counter?
B. Altman
Midge works the make-up counter at B. Altman, a real Fifth Avenue department store that closed in 1989; exteriors were shot at its former building.
Q 11What does Abe wear for his dawn calisthenics at the family's lakeside resort in season two?
A romper
A romper: Abe slips out before dawn in a blue one-piece for his daily calisthenics, in the episode Tony Shalhoub then entered for his winning 2019 Emmy campaign.
Q 12What subject does Abe Weissman teach at Columbia University?
Mathematics
Mathematics is Abe's field at Columbia, a cushy tenured post he impulsively quits in season three to chase the radical politics of his youth.
Q 13Abe Weissman later becomes theatre critic for which publication?
The Village Voice
The Village Voice makes Abe its theatre critic after he quits academia; the new career grows out of a reunion with an old playwright friend on a trip to Miami.
Q 21In season five, Midge is hired as a writer on which late-night TV programme?
The Gordon Ford Show
The Gordon Ford Show hires Midge as a staff writer in season five, up against a room of men; she had set her sights on it after an epiphany beneath its snowy billboard.
Q 22In the flash-forwards, why does Midge fire her manager?
Her mob ties entangled Joel in illegal activity
Her mob ties entangled Joel in illegal activity: he had dealt with her gangster backers to protect Midge, and it ended with him serving time in prison.
Q 23Midge's brother Noah Weissman secretly works for which organisation?
The CIA
Q 14What second career does Midge's mother Rose Weissman take up?
Matchmaker
Rose Weissman becomes a matchmaker, and her growing business soon puts her on a collision course with a consortium of rival New York matchmakers.
Q 15Which comic actress plays Sophie Lennon, the star whose stage act is a frumpy housewife?
Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch plays her as two women: the corny housewife on stage and, at home, a fabulously wealthy aesthete who rules a mansion full of stiff servants.
Q 16Which singer hires Midge to open for him on tour at the end of season two?
Shy Baldwin
Shy Baldwin, a fictional pop singer, is so taken with Midge's off-the-cuff set that he offers her six months as his opening act, half of the dates in Europe.
Q 17Why is Midge fired from a singer's tour in season three?
She alludes to his homosexuality on stage
She alludes to his homosexuality on stage at the Apollo, joking about his effeminate ways to win over a tough crowd, and is left behind when the tour plane leaves for Europe.
Q 18Where does Joel open his nightclub in season three?
Chinatown
Chinatown is where Joel opens his nightclub in season three, only to discover that his landlords run an illegal casino downstairs.
Q 19Which future Oscar nominee plays Mei Lin, the mysterious woman Joel dates?
Stephanie Hsu
Stephanie Hsu plays Mei Lin, who first appears as the go-between for Joel's landlords and knows far more about what goes on in his building than he does.
Q 20At which type of venue does Midge become the emcee in season four?
A burlesque club
A burlesque club, the Wolford, takes Midge on as its comic emcee after she vows never to be an opening act again; she stays until a police raid closes the place.
The CIA employs Noah in secret, which Abe learns only after pestering his own bosses to hire his son and being told to stop talking about him.
Q 24Which actress plays Benedetta, Rose's formidable business rival, in season four?
Kelly Bishop
Kelly Bishop plays Benedetta, the rival who wants Rose out of her line of work; the part reunited Bishop with the show's creator, who wrote her best-known television role.
Q 25Which This Is Us star plays Reggie, manager of the singer Midge opens for, in season three?
Sterling K. Brown
Sterling K. Brown plays Reggie, the singer's no-nonsense manager; the Emmy winner announced he would spend his summer break from This Is Us filming the part.
Q 26Which comedian plays a version of legendary stand-up Moms Mabley in season three?
Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes plays Moms Mabley, sharing the Apollo bill with Midge in the season-three finale.
Q 27Which Chuck star plays Dr. Benjamin Ettenberg, the doctor Midge is briefly engaged to?
Zachary Levi
Zachary Levi plays Benjamin, a surgeon whose mother says he wants a 'weird' woman, which is why Rose spends the summer steering Midge towards him.
Q 28Which cult filmmaker made a guest appearance in season four?
John Waters
John Waters plays Lazarus, a dapper stranger who tips Midge off about a hidden lesbian bar; she marches Susie there that night, and Susie is furious.
Q 29Midge makes her first TV appearance on what kind of broadcast?
Telethon
A telethon gives Midge her TV debut; a vengeful rival has her bumped to the last slot of the night, but her off-the-cuff set wins her a six-month tour.
Q 30How did the release format change for season four?
Two episodes a week
Season four dropped two episodes a week over four Fridays in early 2022, whereas earlier seasons had been released all at once.