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How Well Do You Know ‘Succession’?

By Tala Safie

How Well Do You Know

‘SUCCESSION’?

A still from the TV show “Succession” showing Kendall Roy with his arms folded, staring into the distance wearing big headphones and sunglasses.

This is not a personality quiz.

By Tala Safie

1/17

Tough Love

Tap to match the Roy child to the paternal snub.

2/17

‘Succession’ or Stock Photo?

Select all squares with offices from the show.

A person wearing office attire walking along a wall of glass windows in an office tower.
Two people in suits shaking hands in an office.
Inside a corporate office at night.
A person seen from behind looking out of a glass-walled office floor.
Someone sitting on an office couch with a city skyline visible out the window beyond them.
A hand opening the door to a frosted-glass-walled conference room.
Looking into a glass-walled conference room.
People walking in office attire down a glassy hallway.
People sitting in a bland conference room.

Welcome to the slick and fluorescently-lit offices of the Waystar Royco headquarters.

3/17

Greg-isms

Which word is NOT a Greg Hirsch derivative?

Cousin Greg.

“You can’t make a Tomlette without breaking some Greggs.”

4/17

Headwear for the 1 Percent

Tap to match the hat to the billionaire.

5/17

Team-Building Activities

What’s the name of the game?

Logan speaking to a group.

To play, pick a few employees, force them to oink and throw sausages at them. “It’s fun!”

6/17

What Did Roman Do?

Tap to match the face to the deed.

7/17

Love Language

Guess the dysfunctional couple.

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“Would you kiss me if I asked you to?”

“Are you trying to seduce me?”

“Tonight, why don’t I take you out?”

“I’d castrate and marry you in a heartbeat.”

8/17

Sad Kendall

Select all squares with sad Kendall.

Kendall frowning.
Kendall with furrowed brow.
A placid Ken doll.
A drooping candle.
Kendall contemplating something in front of him.
Kendall wearing headphones.
Kendall leaning his head on his own reflection.
Kendall resting on a pool floatie holding a beer.
Tearful Kendall Jenner.

Sorry, Kendall. What a sad Roy boy.

9/17

Bespoke Media

Which of these is NOT inspiration for The Hundred, the Roy children’s “antidote to the modern malaise of empty-caloried input-overload”?

Roman standing in front of a presentation of The Hundred.

It’s like “Substack meets Masterclass meets The Economist meets The New Yorker.”

10/17

Who’s on the Menu?

Tap to match the edible insult with the character.

11/17

Cold Open

Select the headline NOT featured in the show’s opening credits.

Top view of Times Square at night. A digital billboard is broadcasting the ATN channel.

Even the chyrons on the fictional ATN news network are fodder for the show’s writers.

12/17

Waystar Royco Bodily Fluids

Tap to match the secretion to the family member.

13/17

‘Succession’ or
Davos World Economic Forum?

Select all squares showing a conference from the show.

A person handling cables in front of a big screen on stage.
A person testing microphones on a podium.
A snowy landscape showing lit buildings at night.
Four people on stage sitting on white chairs.
Three white chairs on a stage.
A presenter on stage in front of an audience.
A lit cabin by the water.
Close-up of an audience member looking at a screen. The screen is out of focus.
A person seen from behind speaking from a podium.

With Airbus-sponsored leadership hikes, cashews the size of boomerangs and overpriced Cobb salads, at the show’s corporate summits you might as well be in Switzerland.

14/17

Controlling the Narrative

Select the Waystar Royco crisis management slogan for ATN.

Tom speaking on a stage, leaning on a podium.

“Lots of wiggle room?”

15/17

Kendall Karaoke

Tap to match the performance to the words.

16/17

Mother Figure

What has Gerri NOT said to Roman?

Gerri looking at Roman with his head bowed.

“Yes, mommy.”

17/17

Celebration

Tap to match the scene to the life event.

THE END

F-Off

Logan Roy in a tuxedo.

Photo credits: HBO (‘Succession’); Shannon Fagan/Getty Images; Ezra Bailey/Getty Images; vm/Getty Images; skynesher/Getty Images; Martin Barraud/Getty Images; Jennifer Smith/Getty Images (candle); E! (Kendall Jenner); Christof Stache/AFP, via Getty Images (Ken doll); Daniela White Images/Getty Images (mashed potatoes); Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times (turducken); Dorling Kindersley, William Reavell/Getty Images (curdled cream); Stockbyte/Getty Images (raisin); Fabrice Coffrini/AFP, via Getty Images; Simon Dawson/Bloomberg, via Getty Images; and Zheng Huansong/Xinhua, via Getty Images (Davos)

A quiz by Tala Safie. Produced by Josephine Sedgwick, Sean Catangui and Amanda Webster.