Netflix Quiz: Binge-Worthy Trivia Questions from 2021/2022

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.

David Harbour, who plays Black Widow’s pretend “father” in the 2021 movie, was better known until now for his portrayal of Jim Hopper in the Netflix series Stranger Things.

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.”

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.

Netflix released the first trailer for Wednesday, Tim Burton’s (Beetlejuice) reimagining of the Addams Family series, on August 17, 2022. Burton was previously signed to develop a stop-motion Addams Family film – which was later canceled. The series, starring Jenna Ortega in the title role, alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline Christie, and Christina Ricci (who played Wednesday on the 1991 Barry Sonnenfeld live-action film,) premieres on Netflix this fall. Watch the trailer.

Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive features Mila Kunis as Ani FaNelli, a New York Times writer approached by a true-crime documentarian about a shooting incident that happened when she was a school student. The film premieres in theaters for a limited run on Sept. 30, 2022, before arriving 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.

“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.

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.

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.

Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons played the married couple in trouble in Fargo’s 2015 second season. By 2017, they were engaged in real life. The two now star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in Jane Campion’s 2022 Netflix movie “The Power of the Dog.” The film has earned Dunst Critics Choice, Golden Globe, and SAG awards nominations. Dunst and Plemons, who have two children together, won their first Oscar nominations for this film in 2022. The couple married in early July 2022 in Jamaica.

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.

Ewan McGregor won his first Emmy in 2021 for his leading role on Netflix’s Halston – on which he played the famed fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick. He was previously nominated for “Fargo,” narrating “Highlands: Scotland’s Wild Heart,” and his guest appearance on ER in 1997.

Netflix launched Paris Hilton’s unscripted reality series Cooking with Paris on Aug 4, 2021. On the trailer, released July 27, the show is described as a Netflix “cooking” series.

Famously a late bloomer, comedian Ricky Gervais turned 60 on June 25, 2021.

What’s new?

Ricky Gervais has confirmed the third series of “After Life” started filming on Monday, April 19, 2021. “After Life” ‘s third and final series hits Netflix by the end of 2021.

Cecil Hotel, AKA Hotel Cecil, currently named Stay on Main, is a budget hotel in downtown Los Angeles. It is the star of Netflix’s Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, which explores the mysterious death of Canadian student Elisa Lam and the conspiracy theories it spawned.