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50 free The Summer I Turned Pretty trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This The Summer I Turned Pretty trivia quiz covers Jenny Han's story in both its forms: the 2009–2011 novel trilogy about Belly Conklin's summers at Cousins Beach, and the Prime Video series that ran for three seasons from 2022 to 2025 and is continuing as a film. Expect questions on the cast, from Lola Tung to Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno, the Fisher and Conklin families, the Wilmington shoot, the Taylor Swift needle drops Han secured with a handwritten note, the ratings records the final season set, and the book plot that the show was built from. The early questions are easy for anyone who binged a season; the later ones reward readers who know how the trilogy actually ends. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who created The Summer I Turned Pretty television series?
Jenny Han
She wrote the original novels and serves as showrunner and executive producer on the show.
Q 02On which streaming service does The Summer I Turned Pretty air?
Prime Video
The first two seasons were later uploaded free to YouTube ahead of the final season.
Q 03Who plays Belly Conklin?
Lola Tung
Critics singled out her 'luminous performance' as the heart of the show.
Q 04Who plays Conrad Fisher?
Christopher Briney
Han has said he was the easiest casting decision of the whole show.
Q 05Who plays Jeremiah Fisher?
Gavin Casalegno
He joined the main cast in July 2021, a few months after the first four leads were announced.
Q 06In which year did the series premiere?
2022
It launched on June 17, having already been renewed for a second season nine days earlier.
Q 07How many episodes were in the first season?
Seven
Amazon had originally ordered eight; season two ended up with eight and season three with eleven.
Q 08What is the name of the seaside town where the families spend every summer?
Cousins Beach
Belly's family has joined the Fishers there every year of her life.
Q 09Belly is a nickname; what is her given first name?
Isabel
She narrates the novels, which open the summer she is about to turn sixteen.
Q 10Jackie Chung plays Laurel Park, who is Belly's what?
Mother
Laurel is an author, and Susannah Fisher's lifelong best friend.
Q 11Who plays Susannah Fisher?
Rachel Blanchard
She was among the first four series regulars cast in April 2021.
Q 12In the books, Susannah Fisher goes by what nickname?
Beck
She is the calming presence everyone clings to, even after her death between the first and second books.
Q 13Who plays Belly's older brother, Steven?
Sean Kaufman
In the final book Steven tells Belly that, brother-like as Jeremiah was, she was his little sister and came first.
Q 14Who plays Taylor Jewel, Belly's best friend?
Q 21What was greenlit on September 17, 2025, the day the series finale was released?
A feature film
It is written by Han with Sarah Kucserka, and Han is set to direct.
Q 22Han co-wrote the follow-up film with which co-showrunner?
Sarah Kucserka
The two shared showrunner duties from season 2 onward.
Q 23Season 1 was filmed in and around which city?
Wilmington, North Carolina
Locations included Carolina Beach, Fort Fisher and a downtown bus station.
Rain Spencer
Recurring in season 1, she was promoted to the main cast for seasons 2 and 3.
Q 15Who plays Cam, the local boy who becomes Belly's love interest in season 1?
David Iacono
In the books Cam only appears in the first novel, as a summer fling who had crushed on Belly since grade school.
Q 16Adam Fisher, the boys' father, works as what?
Venture capitalist
Tom Everett Scott plays him; in the books he tries to sell the summer house after Susannah's death.
Q 17John Conklin, Belly's father, has what profession?
Historian
Colin Ferguson plays him as Laurel's ex-husband.
Q 18Kyra Sedgwick's season 2 character Julia is Susannah's estranged what?
Older half-sister
Her child Skye, played by Elsie Fisher, is Conrad and Jeremiah's cousin.
Q 19How many episodes make up the third and final season?
11
It opened with two episodes on July 16, 2025 and then went weekly to the September 17 finale.
Q 20Season 3 premiered on July 16 of which year?
2025
Its start had been pushed back by the 2023 Hollywood strikes.
Q 24What delayed the start of filming on season 3?
The Hollywood strikes
The Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA walkouts ran from May to November 2023; filming finally began in May 2024.
Q 25Who composed the show's original score?
Zachary Dawes
Critics noted the show leans even harder on pop 'needle drops' than on its score.
Q 26Which artist's catalogue recurs across all three seasons of the show?
Taylor Swift
Vulture argued her songs work 'as if Swift herself is a character on the show'.
Q 27Which Swift re-recording debuted in the show's first teaser trailer in May 2022?
This Love
The full track was released as a digital single shortly after the teaser.
Q 28How did Han help secure permission to use Swift's songs?
A handwritten note
People magazine reported the approach yielded multiple Swift cues across the seasons.
Q 29Which 2014 Beyoncé single tripled in sales after it played in the season 1 finale?
XO
Some artists featured on the show saw song sales jump by as much as 6,000%.
Q 30Which Swift album re-entered the Billboard 200 top 40 after three of its songs featured in season 1?
Lover
'Cruel Summer', 'Lover' and 'False God' were the three tracks.