The pilot episode of Sex and the City originally broke the fourth wall. Carrie talked directly into the camera, interviewing strangers on the street about their love lives, documentary-style. They scrapped it almost immediately because it felt wrong, but traces of it survived in the voiceover narration that became the show’s signature. Most fans don’t know the show they love was almost a completely different show. That’s the kind of thing that makes Sex and the City trivia worth doing properly.
I’ve run these questions at brunch-themed trivia nights where half the room showed up in tutus. I’ve watched people who could name every one of Carrie’s boyfriends go completely blank on anything about Miranda’s career. The confidence gap in this fandom is enormous, and it’s beautiful to watch.
Here are 30 sex and the city trivia questions that’ll sort out who actually watched the show from who just watched the highlight reels.
1. What is Mr. Big’s real name, finally revealed in the last episode of the series?
Everyone remembers this moment. But I’ve watched rooms split on whether it’s John or James, because James was a different boyfriend entirely. The confidence with which people say the wrong name is something special.
2. What newspaper does Carrie write her column for?
This one’s a warm-up, but it catches more people than it should. The column is such a central part of the show that people forget to remember the actual publication name.
3. What is the name of Carrie’s column?
If they got the newspaper, they’ll usually get this. If they didn’t, this is where the panic sets in.
4. What breed is Charlotte’s beloved dog Elizabeth Taylor?
Charlotte’s whole personality is encoded in this answer.
5. What designer shoe brand is Carrie most famously obsessed with?
If someone gets this wrong, they haven’t seen the show. They’ve seen a meme of the show.
6. What is Miranda’s profession?
People always remember Carrie’s a writer. Miranda’s career gets weirdly fuzzy in people’s memories, even though it’s a huge part of her character.
7. What is Charlotte’s first husband’s last name?
They remember Trey. They always remember Trey. But the last name is where things get quiet.
8. What cocktail do the four women famously drink throughout the series?
This is the question that made the Cosmopolitan a cultural phenomenon again. The drink existed before the show, but barely anyone ordered it.
9. What was the name of Carrie’s book, published in the later seasons?
People remember the book existed. They remember the launch party. The actual title slips away from most of them.
10. In which borough does Carrie live?
Easy, right? But I include it because it sets up harder location questions later, and because someone always overthinks it.
11. What is Samantha’s boyfriend Smith Jerrod’s real first name?
Samantha renamed him. She literally rebranded a human being. But almost nobody remembers what she changed it from.
12. What was the name of Carrie’s annoying younger boyfriend who she referred to as having the “face of a Greek god”?
This pulls from that stretch of episodes where Carrie dates someone younger and acts like she invented the concept.
13. What was the name of Steve and Miranda’s baby?
This one divides rooms. People who watched casually remember there was a baby. People who watched closely remember the name but second-guess themselves because it feels too simple.
14. What city does Carrie move to with Aleksandr Petrovsky in the final season?
The entire last arc of the show hinges on this, and it’s one of those questions where the wrong answer reveals who stopped watching before the finale.
15. What is Harry Goldenblatt’s profession?
Charlotte’s second husband. People remember he was bald and sweaty and somehow perfect for her. The job escapes them.
16. What religion does Charlotte convert to in order to marry Harry?
This storyline was handled with more care than people give it credit for. It wasn’t a punchline. Charlotte took it seriously, and the show respected that.
17. What is the name of Carrie’s building neighbor who complains about her lifestyle?
There’s a specific character here I’m after. The one who tried to get Carrie evicted.
18. What was Samantha’s cancer diagnosis in the show’s final season?
People remember Samantha got cancer. The specific type matters because it informed so much of how the show handled it.
19. What was the name of Charlotte’s art gallery?
Charlotte worked. People forget this. She had a real job at a real gallery with a real name. This question has a success rate of maybe fifteen percent in a room.
20. What actor played Aleksandr Petrovsky, the Russian artist Carrie dates in Season 6?
This one’s a coin flip in most rooms. People either know it instantly or they start describing his face with their hands.
21. Before the series, the show was based on a book. Who wrote it?
The book came first. This is where casual fans and dedicated fans diverge completely.
22. What was Steve Brady’s profession when Miranda first met him?
He wasn’t always a bar owner. The early Steve is someone people have collectively decided to forget.
23. In the first movie, what happens to Carrie on her wedding day that devastates her?
Everyone who saw this movie remembers the emotional devastation. But getting the specifics right requires remembering the sequence of events, not just the feeling.
24. What is the name of the diner where the women frequently eat together?
They weren’t always at brunch. There was a specific coffee shop and diner rotation. But one place showed up more than others.
25. What was Carrie’s apartment number?
I love this question because people who’ve visited the filming location in the West Village feel like they should know it, and they almost never do.
26. How many seasons did the original HBO series run?
Simple math question. Except people consistently add a season or subtract one. The show felt longer than it was.
27. What was the name of the bar that Steve eventually opens?
Steve’s entrepreneurial arc is one of those storylines that people remember in feeling but not in detail.
28. What did Natasha, Big’s wife, do for a living?
Natasha. The woman Carrie couldn’t stop comparing herself to. People remember Natasha’s perfect hair and her perfect apartment. The career gets lost.
29. What is the name of the sequel series that premiered on HBO Max in 2021?
This one’s here because it tells you who kept watching and who decided the original ending was enough.
30. In the original series, what are the very last words Carrie speaks in voiceover narration?
I save this one for last at every event because it does something no other question can. It makes the entire room go quiet. People who love this show, who grew up with it, who watched it with their mothers or their roommates or alone on a laptop at 2 AM, they all try to hear it in Sarah Jessica Parker’s voice. And most of them can almost get there. Almost. The answer is closer to them than they think, and further away than they’d like.
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