The Good Wife Trivia Quiz With Questions and Answers
What is "The Good Wife?
A: The Good Wife is an American
television
legal and
political drama.
When did the show premier?
A: September 22, 2009.
On what network did the show premier?
A: On CBS.
Who created the series?
A: Robert King and Michelle King.
Who stars in The Good Wife?
A: Julianna Margulies, Christine Baranski, Archie Panjabi, Matt Czuchry and Alan C.
Who are the current executive producers?
A: Ridley Scott, Charles McDougall, and David W. Zucker.
The show has received widespread critical acclaim and won
numerous awards, including how many Emmys?
A: Five.
The show also won the 2014 Television Critics Association
award for what?
A: Outstanding Achievement in Drama.
On what date did CBS renew the show for a sixth season?
A: On March 13, 2014.
The series focuses on what character?
A: Alicia Florrick.
What actress has the role of Alicia?
A: Julianna Margulies.
The series was partly inspired by what real life
scandal?
A: The Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.
Alicia returns to work as a junior litigator at what
law
firm?
A: Stern, Lockhart & Gardner.
Alicia is smart, independent, and fiercely protective of her
what?
A: Children.
Alicia graduated top of her class from what law school?
A: Georgetown University Law Center in the mid-1990s.
Alicia's maiden name is what?
A: Cavanaugh.
What is the name of her younger brother?
A: Owen.
In Season 3, Alicia is a third-year associate at the firm,
she and Peter are separated, and she has a what with Will?
A: Sexual affair.
In Season 3, Peter announces his candidacy for what?
A: Governor of Illinois.
In Season 4, Alicia gets and takes a promotion as an equity
partner of the firm and begins planning to do what with Cary?
A: Start a new firm.
What main character dies in season 5?
A: Will.
After Will dies, Alicia goes into a period of mourning, and
does what?
A: Separates from Peter.
In Season 6, Alicia runs for what office?
A: State's Attorney.
Who is Kalinda Sharma?
A: The firm's in-house private investigator.
Kalinda previously worked for who for three years?
A: Peter.
She is exceptionally good at her job, although her tactics
are not always strictly what?
A: legal.
Kalinda is often the key to the firm's winning a case,
usually at the what?
A: 11th hour.
Although Kalinda becomes good friends with Alicia, with the
aid of what?
A: Tequila shots; and she feels protective of Alicia.
Who is Will Gardner?
A: A named senior partner at Stern, Lockhart & Gardner and an old friend of
Alicia Florrick.
Will is seen as very much of a ladies' man throughout the
series and had various what?
A: Love affairs and girlfriends.
In episode 15 of the fifth season, Will is what?
A: Shot and killed in the courtroom.
Who is Diane Lockhart?
A: A named senior partner at the firm.
Diane is initially skeptical of Alicia Florrick's abilities
as a what?
A: Lawyer.
Diane is often torn between supporting Alicia and whom,
when the two are in competition?
A: Cary Agos.
Who is Cary Agos?
A: A young Harvard-educated lawyer who, in the first season, begins as a first
year associate at Lockhart Gardner with Alicia Florrick.
Cary is often placed in rivalry with Alicia and sometimes
resents her for her what?
A: Political connections thanks to her husband, Peter Florrick.