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The Wire Trivia Quiz
All the Pieces Matter Baltimore's cops, docks, schools and city hall. Omar's coming, and all the pieces matter.
130 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This The Wire Trivia Quiz has 130 questions: 49 easy, 53 medium and 28 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 130 The Wire questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Despite inventing quotes, Templeton ends the series winning what?
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A Pulitzer Prize
The editors who backed him share the glory, while the colleagues who doubted him are demoted.
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The paper's top editor keeps asking for stories with the 'aspect' of which Victorian novelist?
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Charles Dickens
He wants weepy tales of poor city kids; the phrase becomes a newsroom joke and an episode title.
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In 2010, which Ivy League university started a sociology course built around The Wire?
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Harvard
Professor William Julius Wilson led it; his book When Work Disappears had helped inspire season 2.
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Before TV, creator David Simon spent more than a decade as a police reporter at which newspaper?
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The Baltimore Sun
He later put its newsroom into season 5, and his old colleague Bill Zorzi joined the writers.
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Which detective from Homicide and Law & Order: SVU pops into a Wire bar in season 5, arguing about his tab?
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John Munch
He jokes that he once owned a bar himself; Munch was partly based on the real Jay Landsman.
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Stringer Bell, the crew's suit-wearing brains, is played by which actor from east London?
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Idris Elba
Stringer is perhaps his best-known US role, years before his BBC and Marvel fame.
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Stringer Bell's actor later played which moody detective in his own BBC series?
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Luther
The role won him a Golden Globe in 2012 and grew into a film as well.
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Mayor Tommy Carcetti's actor later schemed his way through Game of Thrones as which lord?
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Littlefinger
He played him for seven seasons; Carcetti himself was partly based on Baltimore mayor Martin O'Malley.
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Which actor, the 2026 Best Actor Oscar winner, played teenage Wallace in season one?
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Michael B. Jordan
He won for Sinners, 24 years after The Wire, becoming the sixth Black man to win Best Actor.
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Fresh out of prison, Cutty finds the streets have moved on. Finish his line: "The game done…"
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Changed
Slim Charles answers that the game is the same, it just got more fierce.
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For doubting Templeton, city editor Gus Haynes is moved to which desk in the finale?
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The copy desk
Mike Fletcher, who wrote a fine feature on Bubbles, takes over Gus's old job.
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Often called TV's greatest drama, how many Emmy Awards did The Wire win?
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None
It got just two writing nominations, while Two and a Half Men won nine Emmys.
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Right after The Wire, Wallace's actor took over a soap opera role from which future Black Panther star?
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Chadwick Boseman
He played Reggie Montgomery on All My Children from 2003 to 2006, years before they met again in Wakanda.
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Avon's actor and Wallace's actor reunite in which boxing film series, as trainer and fighter?
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Creed
Wood Harris plays trainer Little Duke, and Wallace's actor directed the third film himself in 2023.
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Port officer Beadie's actress later won Michael Scott's heart in The Office as which HR rep?
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Holly Flax
Stringer's actor joined The Office too, as Michael's stern boss Charles Miner.
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In Marvel's Thor films, Stringer's actor guards the Rainbow Bridge as which Asgardian?
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Heimdall
He played the all-seeing gatekeeper in six Marvel films, from Thor in 2011 onwards.
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In the Sonic the Hedgehog films, Stringer Bell's actor voices which red rival?
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Knuckles
He has voiced the echidna since Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in 2022.
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Sure he's already lost the mayor's race, Carcetti blows off his campaign duties to play which board game with his daughter?
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Battleship
His aide Norman Wilson finds them mid-game; the candidate who'd given up goes on to win the primary.
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As mayor-elect, Carcetti floats which money-making idea for the waterfront, only to see it rejected?
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Casinos
An adviser calls it the 'urban planning default'; he settles on a harbour promenade instead.
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On a ride-along at Homicide, the mayor-to-be pours the last of the coffee. Which detective makes him brew a fresh pot?
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Kima Greggs
She's angry about City Hall meddling in her case, and Carcetti meekly makes the coffee.
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How many questions are in the The Wire Trivia Quiz?
130. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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