2023 TV Trivia
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68 free 2023 TV trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
2023 was a strange year for television. Writers walked out in May, actors joined them in July, late-night went dark and the Emmys slid all the way into January. Yet it was also the year the Roy family finally picked a successor, a fungus took over HBO, a Chicago sandwich shop swept the comedy awards, and a man named Ronald sat through a three-week trial without realising everyone around him was an actor. This quiz covers all of it: the big finales (the Roys, Ted Lasso, Barry, Mrs. Maisel, Reservation Dogs), the breakouts (The Bear, Beef, Jury Duty, The Night Agent, Silo, Poker Face), the streaming surprises (a 12-year-old legal drama becoming the most-streamed show of the year, a Netflix pirate adaptation that actually worked), the reality moments (a 72-year-old Bachelor, a $4.56 million Squid Game prize) and the industry news that made headlines, from the strikes to the biggest defamation settlement in US media history. There are easy questions on who played Joel and Ellie and hard ones on episode titles, showrunners and the number of days the picket lines lasted. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia article for the show, event or person involved, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which character ends up as CEO of Waystar RoyCo when Succession's series finale airs in May 2023?
Tom Wambsgans
Tom Wambsgans becomes CEO after Shiv votes against her brother Kendall in the final board vote, handing the job to her estranged husband. Matthew Macfadyen won Emmys for the role.
Q 02In which season 4 episode of Succession does Logan Roy die?
Connor's Wedding
"Connor's Wedding" keeps Logan's death off-screen aboard his jet while his children listen in by phone; to protect the twist, Brian Cox was later filmed in dummy scenes that were never meant to air.
Q 03Which mutated fungus turns people into infected in HBO's The Last of Us, which premiered in January 2023?
Cordyceps
Cordyceps is the mutated fungus. The real fungus infects ants and hijacks their behaviour, which the show's 1968 talk-show cold open uses to make the outbreak feel plausible.
Q 04Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett play survivalists Bill and Frank in which episode of The Last of Us?
Long, Long Time
"Long, Long Time" takes its title from the 1970 Linda Ronstadt ballad that Bill and Frank bond over; Spotify streams of the song jumped 4,900% in the hour after the episode aired.
Q 05Who plays Joel and Ellie in HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us?
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey had both been in Game of Thrones, as Oberyn Martell and Lyanna Mormont, but in different seasons, and they had never met before filming began.
Q 06Which comedy stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto and won Outstanding Comedy Series at the 75th Emmys?
The Bear
The Bear took ten Emmys across the main and Creative Arts ceremonies for its first season, and its second season had already arrived on FX on Hulu in June 2023.
Q 07Steven Yeun and Ali Wong play strangers whose road-rage run-in spirals out of control in which 2023 Netflix series?
Beef
Beef premiered in April 2023 and won Emmys for both its leads; creator Lee Sung Jin based the story on a road-rage encounter of his own.
Q 08Ronald Gladden was the only one not acting during a fake trial staged for which Amazon Freevee series?
Jury Duty
Jury Duty surrounded Gladden with actors, including James Marsden playing a version of himself; when the hoax was revealed in the finale, he was handed $100,000.
Q 09Jason Sudeikis first played Ted Lasso in 2013 promos for which US network's Premier League coverage?
NBC
NBC Sports ran the Ted Lasso promos in 2013 and 2014 to launch its Premier League coverage, before the character was expanded into the Apple TV+ series that debuted in 2020.
Q 10Which musician completed an EGOT at the 75th Emmys with a farewell concert special from Dodger Stadium?
Elton John
Elton John became the 19th EGOT winner without being in the room: he was recovering from a knee operation, so producer Ben Winston collected the Emmy for him.
Q 11Which Black-ish star hosted the strike-delayed 75th Emmys when the ceremony finally aired in January 2024?
Anthony Anderson
Anthony Anderson brought his mother Doris along as the night's "play-off mama": in place of the usual music, it was her job to tell winners when their speeches had run long.
Q 12Lars Mikkelsen played which villain in live action for the first time in Ahsoka (2023)?
Grand Admiral Thrawn
Grand Admiral Thrawn was already Mikkelsen's part: he had voiced the character in the animated Star Wars Rebels before Ahsoka let him play the role in person.
Q 13Ahsoka's first episode was dedicated to which actor, who played Baylan Skoll and died in May 2023?
Ray Stevenson
Q 21In Netflix's The Diplomat, Keri Russell's Kate Wyler is the new US ambassador to which country?
United Kingdom
United Kingdom is a posting Kate never wanted: she was preparing for Kabul when the president sent her to London instead, with her husband Hal, a career diplomat himself, in tow.
Q 22Gabriel Basso mans an emergency phone in the White House basement in which 2023 Netflix thriller?
The Night Agent
The Night Agent, adapted from Matthew Quirk's novel, drew so many viewers in its first days that Netflix ordered a second season within a week of its release.
Q 23What is the title of the fictional band's album in Daisy Jones & the Six?
Aurora
Ray Stevenson, known for Rome and the Thor films, died on 21 May 2023. Rory McCann, Game of Thrones' Hound, was later cast to take over Baylan Skoll for season two.
Q 14Netflix's live-action One Piece, released in August 2023, was filmed mainly in which city?
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa hosted the shoot at Cape Town Film Studios; Netflix had promised creator Eiichiro Oda the series would not be released until he was satisfied with it.
Q 15How much was the single cash prize in Netflix's 2023 reality show Squid Game: The Challenge?
$4.56 million
The $4.56 million prize echoes the 456 players who entered, and Netflix billed it as the largest single cash prize in reality TV history. Player 287, Mai Whelan, won it.
Q 16Kelsey Grammer's 2023 Frasier revival moved the character to which city?
Boston
Frasier returns to Boston, becoming a lecturer at Harvard, back in the city where Cheers introduced him. David Hyde Pierce declined to return as Niles.
Q 17Which Oscar winner joined Loki's second season in 2023 as Ouroboros, the TVA repairs technician O.B.?
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan signed on in 2022, months before Everything Everywhere All at Once won him his Oscar, so Marvel's new repair man was an Academy Award winner by the time the season aired.
Q 18In which Rian Johnson mystery series does Natasha Lyonne play drifter Charlie Cale, solving a new murder each episode?
Poker Face
Poker Face gives Charlie an uncanny knack for telling when anyone is lying; Rian Johnson built it as a Columbo-style "howcatchem" that shows each killing before she turns up.
Q 19Which veteran film star plays therapist Paul Rhoades in Apple TV+'s Shrinking?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford said he took the part of Paul Rhoades, a senior therapist living with Parkinson's, because he wanted to try new things after working less than he liked during the pandemic.
Q 20In which 2023 Apple TV+ drama, based on Hugh Howey's Wool, does Rebecca Ferguson play engineer Juliette Nichols?
Silo
Silo is a 144-level bunker whose ten thousand residents don't know why they live there; Hugh Howey first self-published Wool as a short e-book before it grew into a trilogy.
Aurora became a real record: Atlantic released the album in the week the show premiered in March 2023, with Riley Keough and Sam Claflin singing the lead vocals themselves.
Q 24Which 2023 Prime Video spin-off of The Boys is set at Godolkin University?
Gen V
Gen V premiered in September 2023 with Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau, whose power is manipulating her own blood. After Chance Perdomo died in 2024 his role was written out rather than recast.
Q 25Which Star Wars actor plays ruthless family fixer Arthur Pym in Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill's lawyer is nicknamed the Pym Reaper, and he has nerve to match: when the shape-shifting Verna offers him immunity for his crimes, he turns her down.
Q 26Who plays corrupt North Dakota sheriff Roy Tillman in Fargo's fifth season?
Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm plays Tillman, a constitutionalist sheriff hunting Juno Temple's Dot. Sam Spruell's hired killer Ole Munch is revealed to be a 500-year-old Welsh sin-eater, one of the season's stranger swings.
Q 27Lance Reddick played which Greek god in Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians?
Zeus
Reddick played Zeus; he died in March 2023, before the series premiered that December. Courtney B. Vance took over the part for the second season.
Q 28Bill Hader plays a hitman who stumbles into an acting class in which HBO comedy that ended in May 2023?
Barry
Barry's final season jumped eight years ahead, and its last episode went out on HBO on the same night as Succession's finale.
Q 29The Crown's sixth and final season, released in two parts in late 2023, ends with which royal wedding?
Charles and Camilla
Charles and Camilla's 2005 wedding closes a finale in which the Queen weighs abdicating; Claire Foy and Olivia Colman return as her younger selves to argue it out with Imelda Staunton.
Q 30Which series was 2023's most-streamed show on Nielsen's chart, with 57.7 billion minutes?
Suits
Suits had ended in 2019, yet its arrival on Netflix in 2023 made it the year's most-streamed show, breaking a record The Office had held since 2020.