Big Netflix Quiz: 23 Binge-Worthy Trivia Questions

Netflix announced that it would end its DVD-by-mail service on Sept. 29, 2023, after shipping more than 5 billion discs over 25 years. Launched in 1998, the service was once Netflix’s biggest money maker but became obsolete in the video streaming era. Netflix split its DVD and streaming services in 2011, creating a separate website called DVD.com for its mail-order business. They stopped disclosing the number of DVD subscribers in 2018 as the service declined in popularity and profitability.

In two sections of three episodes, the Netflix series ‘Harry and Meghan,’ released on Dec. 8, 2022, and Dec. 15, has a 15 maturity rating (in the UK), with the Netflix series warning it deals with “discrimination.” Watch the trailer.

Netflix’s “Squid Game” was famously produced in South Korea. The series started streaming on Sept. 17, 2021, and soon became Netflix’s No. 1 show.

What’s going on in the “Squid Game”?

“Squid Game” is a Netflix nine-part series that describes a fictional competition where contestants are forced to play elaborately staged and deadly versions of childhood games for cash prizes. Critics say the show taps South Korea’s worries about expensive housing and scarce jobs.

Squid Game is the first non-English language series ever nominated for best drama. It also landed Lee Jung-Jae the 2022 Emmy Award for lead actor in a drama series, making him the first to win an acting award for a non-English language performance.

Which other Emmys did Squid Game win in 2022?

Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk took home the director for a drama series Emmy. The show was nominated for 14 Emmys in 2022 and won additional awards for guest acting, stunts-production design, and visual effects.

Netflix’s 2022 series Wednesday follows the teenage daughter of the Addams Family (Jenna Ortega) as she attends Nevermore Academy, a school for society’s outsiders where her parents met. Ortega and the series were nominated for the 2023 Emmy Awards.

Fun Facts: The Academy’s “dorm mom,” Marilyn Thornhill, who, unlike other students and teachers at Nevermore Academy, lacks any special abilities or powers (or so it seems…), is played by Christina Ricci, who portrayed a 10-year-old Wednesday Addams in the 1990s Addams Family films.

Demogorgon was the original Stranger Things monster who ravaged Barb (Shannon Purser) and Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) in season 1.

How is Stranger Things Doing in 2022?

Total viewership for Stranger Things has surpassed 1.15 billion hours, Netflix announced on July 5, 2022. Netflix’s 80s horror fantasy has become its most popular English-language series. Only one other Netflix show has reached 1 billion viewing hours: “Squid Game.”

Matt and Ross Duffer are the twins who created Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” On July 6, 2022, Netflix announced it’s developing a spin-off of “Stranger Things.” The new series will be based on an original idea from the Duffer twins and will be part of a deal to develop additional projects, such as a live-action TV adaptation of the Japanese anime series “Death Note.”

Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive features Mila Kunis as Ani FaNelli, a writer aspiring for a job for The New York Times, who’s approached by a true-crime documentarian about a shooting incident that happened when she was a school student. The film arrived on Netflix on Oct. 7. Watch the trailer.

Netflix’s “Day Shift” follows Jamie Foxx as a blue-collar dad who sells vampire teeth for profit. Dave Franco and Snoop Dogg are joining Foxx as members of an international union of vampire hunters. The movie streams on Netflix starting Aug. 12, 2022. Watch the first trailer.

Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Sophia Anne Caruso, and Sofia Wylie star in Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil, directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids). Based on the best-selling series by Soman Chainani, the movie follows best friends Sophie and Agatha as they put their bond to the test at a magical school for future heroes and villains. The movie, also starring Laurence Fishburne and Michelle Yeoh, is available on Netflix from Oct. 19, 2022. Watch the trailer.

Jeen-Yuhs is the title of Netflix’s 2022 three-part documentary depicting Ye’s career in music, fashion, and politics over more than 20 years.

Is Ye Happy with the Jeen-Yuhs docu?

Writing on Instagram, Ye said: “I’m going to say this kindly for the last time. I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix. Open the edit room immediately so I can be in charge of my own image. Thank you in advance.” Jeen-Yuhs is available on Netflix from Feb. 16, 2022.

Ana de Armas has been nominated for an Oscar for her role as Marilyn Monroe in “Blonde,” about Marilyn Monroe’s inner life and struggles. De Armas is the first Cuban actress in history to be nominated for a leading role Oscar.

Blonde movie facts

Adapted from the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, “Blonde” stars de Armas (No Time to Die, The Gray Man) as Marilyn Monroe. Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, and Julianne Nicholson star in the film directed by Andrew Dominik (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”), which premiered on Netflix on Sept. 28, 2022. Watch the trailer.

Lily Collins, Phil Collins’s daughter, is Emily in “Emily in Paris.” The Netflix series’ second season premieres on Dec. 22, 2021. Watch the season 2 trailer.

Red Notice, released on Netflix on November 12, 2021, is the streaming platform’s most expensive film to date, with a budget reportedly around $200 million. Netflix’s The Gray Man, released in July 2022, had the same sized budget – and was accordingly dubbed “Netflix’s most expensive film to date” as well.

The Gray Man Facts

Image: The Gray Man, Netflix

Directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo of the Avengers’ “Infinity War” and “Endgame” fame, The Gray Man is Netflix’s attempt at a blockbuster series. In the film, Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans portray shadow employees of the CIA who try to kill each other. The Russos and Netflix plan to expand the “Gray Man” universe with other films and television series. Watch the trailer.

Red Notice Facts

Directed and written by Rawson Marshall Thurber (‘Skyscraper,’ ‘We’re the Millers’,) Red Notice stars Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds. Initially planned for theatrical release, the action film halted production due to the COVID-19 pandemic until Netflix purchased the film from Universal. Watch the trailer.

“The Harder They Fall,” featuring Regina King, Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, and LaKeith Stanfield, is a western produced for Netflix by Jay-Z (credited as Shawn Carter), based on real Black characters from the Old West. On Jan. 18, 2022, the film was nominated for 12 NAACP Image Awards, including for best picture. The two-hour awards show will be broadcast on BET on Feb. 26, 2022.

John Cho’s character’s name in Netflix’s new “Cowboy Bebop” is Spike Spiegel. The series is based on an anime series that ran for one season in Japan in 1998 and spawned a cult following.

Andrew Garfield won the 2022 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical, or Comedy for his appearance in the Netflix biographical musical “tick, tick…BOOM!”, based on the autobiographical broadway musical created by “Rent” writer, Jonathan Larson. The movie is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (“Hamilton”) feature directorial debut. “tick, tock…BOOM!” also earned Garfield a second Oscar nomination, following up 2017’s Hacksaw Ridge nod.

Was there a Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 2022?

The Golden Globe Awards were announced in a live-blog event for its 79th edition, Jan. 9, 2022 – without a telecast, nominees, a red carpet, a host, press, or live stream. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association came under fire in 2021 after a Los Angeles Times report revealed ethical lapses and a lack of diversity. There was not a single Black journalist in the 87-person group.

Kristen Bell plays Anna, the star of Netflix’s dark satirical parody “The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window,” released on Jan. 28, 2022. It’s the same name her character has on Disney’s Frozen and very close to her actual middle name – Anne. The eight-episode series made it to No 1 on Netflix’ ‘s Top 10 ranking almost immediately.

The Crown’s season four received the best drama award on the Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, Emmy Awards. It’s the first time the streaming service won the prestigious trophy. “The Crown” also took all four dramatic acting categories at the 2021 ceremony. Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit picked the Best Limited Series / Mini-Series award.

How many Emmy Awards did Netflix win in 2021?

Netflix won a leading total of 44 Emmy awards in 2021, meeting the record set in 1974 by CBS.

Will Arnett is best known for his roles as Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix series Arrested Development. Gob being short for George Oscar Bluth Jr., pronounced “Jobe” (rhyming with “robe”).

What’s Murderville?

Netflix’s Murderville is an improvisational crime comedy. Will Arnett plays detective Terry Seattle, who teams up with celebrity guest stars to investigate a series of murders. The six-episode series streams beginning Feb. 3, 2022, on Netflix.

Chris Rock’s sixth standup special and his second for Netflix, Selective Outrage, was performed live from Baltimore on Mar. 4, 2023. The special featured jokes about Will Smith slapping Rock at last year’s Oscars ceremony, abortion, pronouns, O.J. Simpson, Meghan Markle, and more. Netflix’s first-ever global live show was preceded by a pre-show hosted by Ronny Chieng, David Spade, and Dana Carvey and followed by a post-show featuring Bono, Rosie Perez, Matthew McConaughey, and more.

After working together on several Marvel films, Chris Hemsworth, the Russos, and Sam Hargrave decided to branch out and make their own action franchise for Netflix. Hemsworth (Thor) stars in the Extraction franchise as Tyler Rake, a mercenary who can take down an army of bad guys with his bare hands, one of them flaming. Anthony and Joe Russo are the producers and writers who came up with this original story based on a graphic novel they also co-wrote. And Sam Hargrave is the director who was a stuntman and stunt coordinator for Marvel films before turning director with Extraction in 2020. The entire pack is back for the sequel, Extraction 2, streaming on Netflix starting June 16, 2023. Watch the action-packed trailer.

“Kaleidoscope” premiered on Jan. 1, 2023, on Netflix. The eight-part robbery drama stars Giancarlo Esposito (of Breaking Bad fame). Each Netflix viewer sees the story in a slightly different order, and each of the eight episodes corresponds with a different color – red, orange, white, etc. – instead of a number (but the same finale, “White”).