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This You trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and follows Joe Goldberg from Mooney's bookstore in New York to Los Angeles, Madre Linda, London and back again. It covers Beck and the glass cage, Love Quinn and her twin brother Forty, Marienne, the Eat the Rich killer, Kate Lockwood and Bronte, and how the whole thing finally ends for Joe. There are questions about the show's making as well: how it started on Lifetime before Netflix picked it up, the 40 million viewers who found it in a month, the creators Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, and the actors behind Joe, Beck, Love, Marienne and Kate. Caroline Kepnes' novels get their share too, including the sequels that took Joe to Bainbridge Island. Questions run from easy to expert, and every answer has been checked against a reliable source. Spoilers for all five seasons, obviously.
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Q 01Who plays Joe Goldberg in You?
Penn Badgley
Penn Badgley, previously Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl, plays Joe Goldberg across all five seasons. In 2022 he launched the podcast Podcrushed with Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari.
Q 02You is based on a series of novels by which author?
Caroline Kepnes
Caroline Kepnes, a former entertainment journalist, published You in 2014 and followed it with Hidden Bodies, You Love Me and For You and Only You.
Q 03On which network did the first season of You originally premiere in September 2018?
Lifetime
Netflix had passed on the show twice, and Showtime turned it down too. Lifetime renewed it, then rescinded the renewal when Netflix picked it up.
Q 04Which two producers developed You for television?
Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble
Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble developed You, with Gamble, a Supernatural and The Magicians veteran, serving as showrunner; Lee Toland Krieger directed the pilot.
Q 05Netflix said roughly how many member households watched You's first season in its first four weeks?
40 million
Netflix's January 2019 shareholder letter said You was on track to be watched by 40 million member households in its first four weeks, dwarfing its Lifetime ratings.
Q 06What is the name of the New York bookstore Joe manages in season one?
Mooney's
Ivan Mooney, the owner, was Joe's adoptive father figure, and the soundproof glass cage in its basement becomes the show's signature set piece.
Q 07What substance does Joe use to kill Beck's boyfriend in the cage?
Peanut oil
Joe laces the caged boyfriend's coffee with peanut oil, exploiting his severe peanut allergy; he later burns the body in the woods upstate.
Q 08Which Pretty Little Liars star plays Beck's wealthy best friend Peach Salinger?
Shay Mitchell
Shay Mitchell plays Peach Salinger, Beck's wealthy, possessive best friend; Joe shoots her at her family's Greenwich estate and stages the death as a suicide.
Q 09Which Full House alum plays Dr. Nicky, Beck's therapist, whom Joe frames for her death?
John Stamos
John Stamos plays Dr. Nicky, the therapist Joe frames for Beck's murder; in season five Nicky's son Clayton seeks revenge for his father's wrongful imprisonment.
Q 10How does Joe first find Beck's name and online profiles in the novel?
From her credit card details at the shop
He then steals her phone for deeper access. The novel is written in second person, addressed to Beck as 'you.'
Q 11Which of Beck's lovers does Joe cage in the bookstore basement and kill?
Benji
Joe lures the wealthy, pretentious Benji in with a fake business opportunity. It is the first of many cage occupants.
Q 12To which city does Joe move at the start of season two?
Los Angeles
Joe flees Candace to Los Angeles, a city he professes to despise, at the start of season two, which loosely follows Kepnes' sequel Hidden Bodies.
Q 13What alias does Joe use in season two?
Will Bettelheim
Joe takes the name Will Bettelheim from a real forger, played by Robin Lord Taylor, whom he keeps in a storage-unit cage for several episodes.
Q 21What is Marienne Bellamy's job when Joe meets her in season three?
Librarian
Marienne Bellamy is head librarian at the suburb's public library, where Joe takes a job in season three; Tati Gabrielle plays her.
Q 22Tati Gabrielle, who plays Marienne, also played Prudence in which streaming series?
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Tati Gabrielle played Prudence, the haughty Weird Sister, in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; she was also Gaia in The 100 and Nora in HBO's The Last of Us.
Q 23Which 'momfluencer' and her supplement-company husband end up locked in the cage in season three?
Sherry and Cary Conrad
Q 14What is the name of the trendy high-end grocery store where Joe works in season two?
Anavrin
Anavrin is 'Nirvana' spelled backwards; Love Quinn runs its kitchen as resident chef and Calvin manages the store, which the Quinn family owns.
Q 15Which Haunting of Hill House star plays Love Quinn?
Victoria Pedretti
Victoria Pedretti played Nell Crain in The Haunting of Hill House (2018) before joining You as Love Quinn in 2019; she later led The Haunting of Bly Manor.
Q 16What is the name of Love's troubled twin brother?
Forty
Forty Quinn, played by James Scully, leans on his twin Love through addiction and mental-health struggles; he is shot dead in the season-two finale and returns as a vision in season three.
Q 17Which future Wednesday star plays Joe's 15-year-old neighbor Ellie Alves in season two?
Jenna Ortega
Jenna Ortega plays Ellie Alves; Ellie's older sister Delilah, an investigative reporter who manages Joe's building, ends up dead in the storage-unit cage, killed by Love.
Q 18Which stand-up comedian plays Henderson, the famous comic Joe targets in season two?
Chris D'Elia
Chris D'Elia plays Henderson, a celebrity comic Joe exposes as a predator of teenage girls; Henderson dies falling down stairs in his hidden room, and Joe stages it as suicide.
Q 19What is the name of the fictional California suburb where Joe and Love live in season three?
Madre Linda
Madre Linda is the fictional California suburb where Joe and Love raise newborn son Henry in season three, which premiered on Netflix in October 2021.
Q 20Which next-door neighbor does Love kill early in season three after Joe becomes fixated on her?
Natalie Engler
Love kills Natalie Engler with an axe in the season-three premiere; Natalie's stepson Theo then falls for Love, and her husband Matthew, played by Scott Speedman, digs into her disappearance.
Sherry and Cary Conrad, played by Shalita Grant and Travis Van Winkle, escape the cage and turn the ordeal into a self-help book and brand.
Q 24In which city is Joe living at the start of season four?
London
Joe is living in London at the start of season four, teaching literature at a university under a new identity and falling in with a circle of wealthy socialites.
Q 25What alias does Joe use while teaching in season four?
Jonathan Moore
Joe teaches under the alias Jonathan Moore, an identity set up by Elliot Tannenberg, a fixer working for Love's family who had been hired to get rid of him.
Q 26Which Call the Midwife and Ghosts actress plays Kate Galvin?
Charlotte Ritchie
Charlotte Ritchie, Barbara in Call the Midwife and Alison in Ghosts, plays Kate Galvin, a gallery director who marries Joe between seasons four and five.
Q 27Which Downton Abbey actor plays Rhys Montrose, the memoirist and mayoral hopeful, in season four?
Ed Speleers
Ed Speleers, Downton Abbey's footman Jimmy Kent, plays Rhys Montrose, the rags-to-Oxford memoirist running for mayor; the Rhys Joe befriends turns out to be his own hallucination.
Q 28Which of Joe's season-four students does he frame for murder?
Nadia Farran
Amy-Leigh Hickman plays Nadia Farran, Joe's sharpest student, whom he frames for murder in the season-four finale; she returns in season five to help bring him down.
Q 29Which White Lotus and Euphoria actor plays Adam Pratt, owner of the Sundry House club?
Lukas Gage
Lukas Gage, of The White Lotus and Euphoria, plays Adam Pratt, an American playboy dating Lady Phoebe who keeps begging his father to bail out Sundry House.
Q 30How was season four released?
In two parts, a month apart
Part one arrived on February 9, 2023, and part two on March 9, a schedule Netflix had begun using for its biggest series.