Veep Trivia
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101 free Veep trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free Veep trivia questions with answers. Veep turned the vice presidency into the funniest job in Washington and won seventeen Emmys doing it. This quiz covers all seven seasons: Selina Meyer's climb from forgotten VP to accidental president to defeated candidate and back again, Gary and his bag, Amy and Dan, Mike's press briefings, Ben and Kent, Sue's front desk, Jonah Ryan's improbable rise, Tom James, Laura Montez, Richard Splett's destiny and the funeral overshadowed by Tom Hanks. The making-of side is here too: Armando Iannucci and The Thick of It, David Mandel taking over, the move from Baltimore to Los Angeles, Julia Louis-Dreyfus's record six Emmys for one role and the diagnosis that delayed the last season. Easy questions ask which network aired it and who Selina's bag man was; the hard ones want the year Selina dies, the state Montez represented and what Jonah's news site was called. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the show and its characters, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01What is the title of the memoir Selina publishes after losing the presidency?
A Woman First: First Woman
A Woman First: First Woman is ghostwritten by Mike McLintock, whose mislaid diary lets The Washington Post run an exposé of her presidency just as the book comes out.
Q 02In Veep, what spoils Selina's first televised address as president?
A pair of squeaky shoes
A pair of squeaky shoes steals the moment: every step to the podium squeaks, and the takeaway from her big speech is that the president 'squeaks' to the nation.
Q 03After leaving Veep, its creator went on to direct a film satire about the death of which dictator?
Stalin
Stalin's death, and the scramble among his ministers to succeed him, became The Death of Stalin, a film he was already developing when he handed Veep to a new showrunner.
Q 04Selina Meyer had been a US senator from which state before becoming vice president?
Maryland
Maryland sent Selina Meyer to the Senate before she ran for president, lost the nomination and settled for the vice presidency instead.
Q 05Which detail about Selina Meyer does Veep deliberately never reveal?
Her party affiliation
Her party affiliation is never named, a deliberate choice that keeps the satire aimed at ego and ambition in Washington instead of at one side's policies.
Q 06Tony Hale plays Gary Walsh, whose job for Selina is what?
Personal aide and body man
Personal aide and body man Gary Walsh has shadowed Selina for some two decades as one of her closest confidants, yet once she is president he lacks the clearance to stay at her side.
Q 07Anna Chlumsky plays which member of Selina's staff?
Amy Brookheimer
Amy Brookheimer is Selina's chief of staff and then her campaign manager, until she snaps and quits mid-campaign over the hiring of Selina's dithering old friend Karen Collins.
Q 08Reid Scott plays which ambitious, cut-throat member of the VP's office?
Dan Egan
Dan Egan joins the vice president's team in the first episode and, after Selina loses the White House, turns up co-hosting CBS This Morning.
Q 09Matt Walsh's Mike McLintock holds what job?
Director of communications
Director of communications Mike McLintock has been Selina's press man since her Senate days, and the finale's flash-forward turns the hapless spokesman into a veteran CBS news anchor.
Q 10Kevin Dunn plays Ben Cafferty, who holds which post?
White House Chief of Staff
White House Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty is a burned-out, hard-drinking fixer who keeps planning his exit, yet lets Selina talk him into staying when she becomes president.
Q 11Gary Cole's Kent Davison is best described as what?
A number-crunching strategist
A number-crunching strategist, Kent Davison lives by his polling data; Selina cannot stand him at first but comes to rely on his numbers once she is president.
Q 12In Veep, Timothy Simons plays Jonah Ryan, who begins the series in what role?
White House liaison to the VP's office
As White House liaison to the VP's office, Jonah clashes with everyone on Selina's staff until an anonymous insider blog gets him fired in season three.
Q 13After being fired for running an insider blog, Jonah launches his own news website called what?
Ryantology
Q 21Which character is revealed in the finale to have become a successful two-term president?
Richard Splett
Richard Splett, the guileless aide, went on to become a successful two-term president; he attends Selina's funeral in the finale's flash-forward.
Q 22In Veep's finale, how does Selina win Jonah Ryan's pledged delegates?
By offering Jonah the vice presidency
By offering Jonah the vice presidency, Selina gets his delegates at the deadlocked convention, a choice that drives Kent Davison to quit politics.
Q 23Whom does Selina frame for wrongdoing at the Meyer Fund in Veep's finale?
Gary
Ryantology lasts less than a season: after it spreads a false torture rumour about a rival of Selina's, Jonah bargains his way back into a White House job.
Q 14Jonah is drafted to run for Congress in which state to secure a vote for Selina?
New Hampshire
Jonah runs in New Hampshire, where a congressman's death opens a seat and his Uncle Jeff Kane's political machine installs him to give Selina a House vote.
Q 15In season seven, Jonah's wife Beth turns out to be what?
His biological half-sister
His biological half-sister: Beth was already his former step-sister when they married, and Jonah's own birth certificate then shows that her father is his father too.
Q 16How does Selina first reach the Oval Office near the end of season three?
The president resigns
The president resigns to look after his wife, whose mental health has collapsed, and Selina is sworn in midway through her own primary campaign.
Q 17What does Congressman Jonah Ryan make it his mission to abolish?
Daylight saving time
Daylight saving time becomes Jonah's cause after his failure to understand it gets him into trouble at work, though his efforts to scrap it go nowhere.
Q 18Which British actor plays Tom James, Selina's charming running mate?
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie arrives in season four as the senator whose popularity keeps stealing Selina's spotlight; the part was written for him after he let slip he was a fan of the show.
Q 19Why does President Meyer go into hiding from the press in season five?
She has had an eye lift
She has had an eye lift, so her vice president has to face the press over a salmonella outbreak in her place, a favour he trades for the promise of a cabinet job.
Q 20Selina's eventual successor, O'Brien's former running mate, was a senator from which state?
New Mexico
Laura Montez had been a US senator from New Mexico; her much-touted Latina identity later proves a stretch, to Selina's fury.
Gary, her most loyal follower, is hauled away by the FBI over the Meyer Fund while Selina is on stage delivering her acceptance speech.
Q 24Selina's funeral in the Veep finale's flash-forward is knocked out of the news by whose death?
Tom Hanks's
Tom Hanks's death bumps Selina's funeral from the news, paying off a line from the very first episode, in which Mike hopes a bigger story, such as Hanks dying, will bury her gaffe.
Q 25By the flash-forward that ends Veep, what has become of Jonah Ryan's political career?
He has been impeached
He has been impeached: Jonah is not even invited to Selina's funeral and is left to watch the broadcast at home.
Q 26Selina's daughter Catherine does what during her mother's funeral?
Watches it on television instead
Watches it on television instead, and gladly: Catherine pours celebratory margaritas at home with Marjorie and their grown son while her mother is laid to rest.
Q 27Who took over from Armando Iannucci as Veep's showrunner from season five?
David Mandel
David Mandel took over when the show's creator stepped down after four seasons, unable to keep running an American series while his family life was in London.
Q 28Veep is set in Washington, but which city hosted its filming for the first four seasons?
Baltimore
Baltimore stood in for Washington until season five, when a California tax credit lured the whole production to Los Angeles.
Q 29At Selina's funeral in Veep's flash-forward, what does the primary rival who later became president do?
She delivers the eulogy
She delivers the eulogy, so the last word on Selina, who managed only one full term as president, goes to a rival who outdid her with two.
Q 30Why does Veep's finale leave Selina's exact age at her death uncertain?
She always lied about it
She always lied about it, so the finale can only say she died at 75, 76 or 77, a politician still managing her image at the end.