2010s: So Much Drama Trivia Quiz

Answer: Women's prison

'Orange is the New Black' started in 2013 and ran for seven seasons, with the seventh season released in 2019. It is based on the 2010 memoir 'Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison' by Piper Kerman and a dramatised version of Piper is played by Taylor Schilling in the show. The show centres on the lives of the inmates and officers at the fictional Litchfield Penitentiary.

Answer: Downton Abbey

'Downton Abbey' was created by the British screenwriter Julian Fellowes. The first series aired in 2010 on ITV in the UK and in 2011 in the USA on PBS. The show ran for 52 episodes across six seasons with the final series being shown in the UK in 2015.

A film based on the series was released in cinemas in 2019. The show is set in the early 20th Century and focuses on the Crawley family and their domestic servants. The actor Hugh Bonneville played Robert Crawley, the head of the family.

Answer: Chernobyl

'Chernobyl' is a historical drama that tells the story of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine and the clean up in the immediate aftermath. The series consisted of five episodes and was shown in the US and UK in 2019. The show was a joint production between the HBO network in the US and Sky TV in the UK.

Answer: Prohibition

'Boardwalk Empire' was first shown in 2010 and ran until 2014 for a total of five seasons. The show is set in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the 1920s during prohibition, a time in the US when it was forbidden to sell alcohol. 'Boardwalk Empire' focuses on the character of Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson a corrupt politician who is also a gangster and effectively controls Atlantic City.

The movie director Martin Scorsese was involved in the production of the show as one of the executive producers and directed the pilot episode.

Answer: Call the Midwife

'Call the Midwife' first aired in the UK in 2012. The series is based around the work of the nuns of the fictional order of St Raymond Nonnatus and the community midwives who work and live alongside them. The first series was set in 1957 and later series have moved forward in time, so that by the 10th series the setting was 1966. By moving forward through time 'Call the Midwife' has shown medical developments that happened during the period.

Originally the series was based on a series of memoirs by former nurse and midwife Jennifer Worth who had worked as a midwife with an order of nuns in London's East End in the 1950s, although as the series has continued it has moved away from the source material with new characters being introduced who did not feature in Worth's books.

Answer: Big Little Lies

'Big Little Lies' is based on Liane Moriarty's 2014 novel with the same title. The show was originally intended to be a stand alone seven episode miniseries but due to its success a second season was commissioned which was broadcast in 2019. 'Big Little Lies' is about a group of five women who are involved in a murder investigation.

Answer: Birmingham

'Peaky Blinders' was first shown in the UK in 2013 and was available on Netflix in the US from 2014. The show is set in the period after the First World War and focuses on the exploits of the Shelby family who are involved in organised crime in the city of Birmingham in England.

Answer: Fear the Walking Dead

'Fear the Walking Dead' was first shown in 2015 and was a spin-off to the show 'The Walking Dead,' which started in 2010. Both 'The Walking Dead' and 'Fear the Walking Dead' are based on the comic book series 'The Walking Dead' which was published between 2003 and 2019.

Answer: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' aired between 2013 and 2020 and consisted of seven seasons. The show sees Clark Gregg continue in his role of Phil Coulson which he played in a number of films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The show originally tied into the MCU movies with action from the movies being referenced in the show however in later seasons the show aligned less with the movies of the MCU.

Answer: George R.R. Martin

The TV show 'Game of Thrones' is based on the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series of books by George R.R. Martin. The show is named after the title of the first novel in the series 'A Game of Thrones' which was first published in 1996. The show ran for eight seasons between 2011 and 2019 and contained several story arcs focusing on a number of characters in the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos.