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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 01Who plays Miriam "Midge" Maisel?
Rachel Brosnahan
Rachel Brosnahan plays Midge and won the 2018 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the role.
Q 02Who created The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Amy Sherman-Palladino created the show, drawing on memories of her father Don Sherman, a New York-born stand-up comic, and on the 1950s club-comedy world he worked in.
Q 03On which streaming service did The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel premiere in 2017?
Amazon Prime Video
The pilot aired as part of Amazon's Spring 2017 pilot season before the show was picked up.
Q 04In what year does the first season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel begin?
1958
The final season adds flash-forwards all the way to the 2000s.
Q 05At which Greenwich Village club does Midge give her first drunken, nightgown-clad set?
The Gaslight Cafe
Midge's first drunken set is at the Gaslight Cafe, the show's version of a real MacDougal Street coffeehouse of the folk era.
Q 06Which real-life comedian is arrested the same night as Midge in the pilot and becomes her ally?
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce is arrested the same night as Midge; Luke Kirby won the 2019 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for playing him.
Q 07Who becomes Midge's manager after spotting her raw talent at the Gaslight?
Susie Myerson
Susie Myerson, who works the door at the Gaslight, becomes Midge's manager after that first set and later takes on Sophie Lennon as a client too.
Q 08Which actress, also the voice of Lois Griffin on Family Guy, plays Midge's manager?
Alex Borstein
Alex Borstein plays Susie Myerson; she has voiced Lois Griffin since Family Guy's 1999 debut and was a MADtv cast member from 1997 to 2002.
Q 09Midge'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 10Whose comedy routines does Joel Maisel copy for his own act?
Bob Newhart's
Joel Maisel's act is lifted from Bob Newhart's routines; the stolen set bombs at the Gaslight in the pilot and the theft is exposed the same night.
Q 11At 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 12Who plays Midge's father, Abe Weissman?
Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub plays Abe Weissman and won the 2019 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the role.
Q 13What subject does Abe Weissman teach at Columbia University?
Mathematics
He also researches at Bell Labs before quitting academia to return to activism.
Q 21At which type of venue does Midge become the emcee in season four?
A burlesque club
Midge emcees at the Wolford, an underground burlesque club, in season four, after Shy Baldwin's tour drops her; the venue is later shut down by a police raid.
Q 22In season five, Midge is hired as a writer on which late-night TV programme?
The Gordon Ford Show
Midge joins the writers' room of The Gordon Ford Show, the fictional late-night show hosted by Reid Scott's Gordon Ford, in season five.
Q 23Why does Midge eventually fire her manager, as revealed in the season-five flash-forwards?
Q 14Abe Weissman later becomes theatre critic for which publication?
The Village Voice
Abe becomes a theatre critic at The Village Voice in season four; Chris Eigeman plays Gabe Wollinski, the paper's editor.
Q 15What second career does Midge's mother Rose Weissman take up?
Matchmaker
Rose Weissman becomes a matchmaker in season three and in season four runs afoul of a cartel of rival New York matchmakers who want her territory.
Q 16In Mrs. Maisel, which rival comic performs in a fat suit as a frumpy Queens housewife but is really a Manhattan snob?
Sophie Lennon
Sophie Lennon is played by Jane Lynch, and the character's vindictive manager gets Midge blacklisted.
Q 17Which singer hires Midge as the opening act on his tour at the end of season two?
Shy Baldwin
Shy Baldwin, a fictional crooner, offers Midge the opening slot on his tour after her set at the season-two telethon.
Q 18Why is Midge fired from the singer's tour in season three?
She alludes to his homosexuality on stage
Sterling K. Brown played his manager Reggie that season.
Q 19Where does Joel open his nightclub in season three?
Chinatown
Joel opens The Button Club in Chinatown in season three and discovers his landlords run an illegal gambling parlor downstairs.
Q 20Which future Oscar nominee plays Mei Lin, the mysterious woman Joel dates?
Stephanie Hsu
She went on to be nominated for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Her mob ties entangled Joel in illegal activity
Frank and Nicky, the mob enforcers, become unlikely friends of Susie's along the way.
Q 24Midge's brother Noah Weissman secretly works for which organisation?
The CIA
Noah Weissman, Midge's older brother, secretly works for the CIA behind a cover job; Will Brill plays him.
Q 25Which actress plays Benedetta, leader of a New York matchmaking consortium, in season four?
Kelly Bishop
Kelly Bishop plays Benedetta, head of the matchmaking cartel that tries to run Rose out of business in season four.
Q 26Which This Is Us star plays Reggie, manager of the singer Midge opens for, in season three?
Sterling K. Brown
Sterling K. Brown, who won the 2017 lead-actor Emmy for This Is Us, plays Reggie, Shy Baldwin's protective manager, in season three.
Q 27Which 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 28Which Chuck star plays Dr. Benjamin Ettenberg, the doctor Midge is briefly engaged to?
Zachary Levi
Zachary Levi plays Benjamin Ettenberg, the tall doctor Midge meets at her family's Catskills resort in season two.
Q 29Which cult filmmaker made a guest appearance in season four?
John Waters
Cult director John Waters, best known for Pink Flamingos and Hairspray, makes a cameo in season four.
Q 30How many seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel were made?
5
The final season premiered on April 14, 2023.