134 Fun Facts About The Hunger Games

What is the name of the fictional nation where The Hunger Games takes place?

Panem rose from the ruins of North America; after crushing a district rebellion, its Capitol imposed the Hunger Games as a yearly punishment.

Katniss's surname was borrowed from Bathsheba Everdene, the heroine of which 1874 novel?

Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy's novel; Katniss's creator said the two heroines are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.

What is the main industry of District 12?

Coal mining is District 12's industry; when coal began going straight from the mines to the trains, the empty coal warehouse became the Hob, the district's black market.

What weapon is Katniss Everdeen most skilled with?

The bow and arrow is Katniss's weapon; her father taught her to shoot, and she honed her aim hunting illegally in the woods beyond District 12's fence.

Who wrote The Hunger Games book series?

Suzanne Collins got the idea while channel surfing, when a reality show and footage of the Iraq War began to blur together in her mind.

Which catchphrase does District 12's escort deliver at Hunger Games tribute selections?

'May the odds be ever in your favor' is the District 12 escort's line at the tribute selection; Katniss and her hunting partner mock it in her Capitol accent beforehand.

What is the name of Katniss's younger sister?

Primrose "Prim" Everdeen is four years younger than Katniss. It is Prim's selection as tribute that drives Katniss to volunteer in her place.

Which actress plays Katniss Everdeen in the films?

Jennifer Lawrence dyed her hair for Katniss and trained in rock and tree climbing and combat before filming.

How many districts does the Capitol officially rule when the first novel opens?

There are officially 12 districts, though District 13 is later revealed to survive underground after the Capitol supposedly destroyed it for leading the first rebellion.

What is the poorest part of District 12, where Katniss lives with her mother and sister, called?

The Seam is home to District 12's poorest families; Katniss's mother grew up in the merchant class, where her parents ran an apothecary, and gave that up to marry a Seam man.

What is the name of the annual event where tributes are selected for the Hunger Games?

The Reaping is the annual lottery in which one boy and one girl from each district are chosen to compete. Katniss volunteers when her younger sister is drawn.

Who mentors Katniss during her first Games?

Haymitch Abernathy, District 12's only living victor, coaches Katniss from afar, timing sponsor gifts as silent messages about what she should do next.

The Hunger Games' nation takes its name from a Latin phrase meaning what in English?

Bread and circuses is the poet Juvenal's jab at Romans who gave up their political say in exchange for free food and entertainment.

Which flamboyant TV host interviews the tributes before each Hunger Games?

Caesar Flickerman dyes his hair a new colour for each Games; it is on his stage that Peeta stuns the audience by confessing his love for Katniss.

What does Finnick Odair offer Katniss when they first meet before the 75th Hunger Games parade?

A sugar cube: Finnick offers it with a flirtatious grin, says people pay him in secrets, and asks whether Katniss has any worth his time.

What is Katniss's hunting partner and childhood friend named?

Gale Hawthorne is two years older than Katniss; after her Games he is presented as her cousin so that he cannot spoil her televised romance with Peeta.

Who is the young District 11 tribute who allies with Katniss in the first Games?

Rue is the 12-year-old who reminds Katniss of her own sister; in the film her death sparks a riot in District 11, and Katniss rings her body with flowers.

What are the wealthy District 1, 2 and 4 tributes who volunteer and train for the Games called?

Careers train for years, though that is technically against the rules, then volunteer for the Games, which is why their districts produce so many victors.

What is the name of Katniss's personal stylist who designs her iconic outfits?

Cinna is in his first year as a stylist and specifically asked to be assigned to District 12. Lenny Kravitz plays him in the first two films.

What nickname does Katniss earn after her chariot ride at the Hunger Games opening ceremony?

'The Girl on Fire' is the name Katniss gains after her stylist's synthetic-flame costume at the tribute parade, and it follows her through the series.

What is District 4's main industry?

Fishing is District 4's industry; its children grow up in the water, so its tributes tend to be strong swimmers, an edge whenever an arena is flooded.

What does a district child receive for adding their name extra times to the Hunger Games lottery?

A year's grain and oil for one person is the tessera ration; hungry children claim one for each relative, so the poorest carry the most entries in the draw.

What is a Quarter Quell?

A Games every 25 years with special rules: for the first Quarter Quell, districts had to vote for their own tributes, a reminder that the rebels chose violence.

What is the Cornucopia in the Hunger Games?

The stash of weapons at the arena's centre sits in a giant golden horn; eleven of the 24 tributes die fighting over it on the first day of Katniss's Games.

Who is the Capitol escort assigned to Katniss's district?

Effie Trinket, known for her elaborate wigs and outfits, gradually develops genuine affection for her tributes. Elizabeth Banks plays her in the films.

How do the two District 12 tributes both survive their first Games?

They threaten to eat poisonous berries together once the two-victor rule is revoked, and the Gamemakers relent rather than end the Games with no winner at all.

What did the Capitol engineer jabberjays, the mockingjay's ancestors, to do?

Memorise and repeat rebel conversations: once the rebels caught on and fed the birds lies, the Capitol abandoned them, and they bred with mockingbirds to create mockingjays.

After the Hunger Games, each winner must travel through every district on which televised trip?

The Victory Tour falls midway between Games to keep the horror fresh; on Katniss's first stop, District 11, an old man who whistles in tribute is dragged out and shot.

Who is the Head Gamemaker during Katniss's first Games?

After allowing two victors, Seneca Crane is executed on President Snow's orders. Wes Bentley played him with a distinctive geometric beard.

What is District 11 known for?

Agriculture is District 11's industry, yet its people go hungry: anyone caught eating the crops they harvest is whipped in public.

After Katniss decorates her young ally's body with flowers, what does the girl's district send her?

A loaf of bread arrives by parachute from District 11, whose people can barely feed themselves yet scraped together the money to thank Katniss.

What weapon is Finnick Odair most famous for using?

A trident is Finnick Odair's signature weapon; a sponsor sent him one in the 65th Games and he paired it with a woven net to win.

In The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which tribute is young Coriolanus Snow assigned to mentor?

Lucy Gray Baird, a District 12 singer, wins the 10th Games after Snow cheats, using a handkerchief with her scent to keep the arena's snakes from attacking her.

What does President Snow always smell like, according to Katniss?

Katniss says Snow smells of blood and roses: he poisoned rivals and drank from the same cups, leaving mouth sores that never healed, and wears roses to mask the smell.

Who is the leader of District 13 during the rebellion?

President Alma Coin leads District 13, which survived underground after the Capitol supposedly destroyed it; she proves as ruthless as the regime she fights.

What do tracker jackers do to their victims?

Their stings cause hallucinations that can drive victims mad; Katniss saws a nest down onto the tributes camped below her tree and is stung senseless herself.

Who plays President Snow in the original Hunger Games film series?

Donald Sutherland wrote the first film's director a long letter about what Snow meant to the story, and the director reworked Snow's scenes around his ideas.

What happens to Peeta after the Capitol captures him in Catching Fire?

He is brainwashed to hate Katniss through 'hijacking', which twists his memories of her; when rescuers bring him back, he tries to strangle her on sight.

Beetee and Wiress, the inventors nicknamed Nuts and Volts, represent which district in the 75th Hunger Games?

Beetee and Wiress are District 3's victors; District 3 makes the nation's electronics, and Beetee's electrical expertise is central to the alliance's plan.

What is an Avox in The Hunger Games?

A punished servant who cannot speak: the Capitol cuts out the tongues of those it brands traitors, like the red-haired girl Katniss once saw captured in the woods.

What destroys the arena at the end of the 75th Games?

Lightning fired into the force field brings the dome down: Katniss sends Beetee's wire into the field's weak spot just as the bolt strikes.

The three-finger salute from the books has been used in real-life protests in which country?

Protesters in Thailand adopted the gesture in 2014 and again in 2020, and it spread to Myanmar's protests in 2021.

What target does Katniss hit to get the Gamemakers' attention during her private training session?

The apple in a roast pig's mouth: ignored by the feasting Gamemakers, Katniss skewers it, says 'Thank you for your consideration' and leaves, and they score her 11 out of 12.

Gloss and Cashmere, the victors killed by Katniss and Johanna in the 75th Games, came from where?

Gloss and Cashmere are the brother-and-sister victors from District 1; Katniss shoots Gloss moments after he kills Wiress, and Johanna axes Cashmere.

Which lullaby does Katniss sing to her dying 12-year-old ally in the arena?

Deep in the Meadow is a District 12 lullaby for fretful, hungry babies; when Katniss finishes it for the dying girl, the mockingjays take up the tune.

Axe-wielding victor Johanna Mason comes from which district, the centre of the lumber industry?

District 7's Johanna Mason won her Games by playing a snivelling coward until only a handful of tributes were left, then revealing she could kill viciously.

What are "mutts" in The Hunger Games?

Mutts, short for muttations, are the Capitol's genetically engineered creatures, from the wolf mutts of the first Games' finale to the lizard mutts that kill Finnick in the Capitol sewers.

How does Katniss's father die?

He dies in a mine explosion when Katniss is 11; her mother sinks into depression, and Katniss starts hunting illegally in the woods to keep the family fed.

In the 2025 Hunger Games prequel about young Haymitch, which girlfriend does he slip into the woods to meet?

Lenore Dove Baird is a Covey musician; after Haymitch wins his Games, Snow's revenge has him unknowingly feed her a poisoned gumdrop, and she dies in his arms.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set how many years before the first novel?

The prequel is set 64 years earlier, at the 10th Hunger Games, when Snow is 18; by Katniss's Games he is 82.

In The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which Academy dean is credited with inventing the Hunger Games?

Casca Highbottom dreamed up the Games while drunk, as a private joke for a class project; his friend Crassus Snow turned it in behind his back.

Who is Head Gamemaker of the 10th Hunger Games in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes?

Dr. Volumnia Gaul runs the 10th Games from a laboratory of horrors; she has a tank of her rainbow snakes emptied into the arena, the snakes of the title.

Sejanus Plinth's ultra-rich family moved to the Capitol from which district?

His father's money buys the family a place in the Capitol, but Sejanus never stops resenting the Games.

What relation is Tigris to Coriolanus Snow?

Tigris is his cousin and shares the orphaned Snow's home with their grandmother; decades later she hides Katniss's squad from his forces in Mockingjay.

How is the arena of the 75th Hunger Games laid out in Catching Fire?

Like a clock: Wiress keeps murmuring 'tick, tock' until Katniss realises that each horror strikes its own wedge of the arena for one hour.

Which fang-toothed District 2 victor is captured with Peeta and Johanna at the end of Catching Fire?

Enobaria won her Games by ripping out a tribute's throat with her teeth, then had them filed into gold-inlaid points; the Capitol takes her, Peeta and Johanna.

How does the District 5 tribute nicknamed Foxface die in the 74th Games?

Foxface dies eating nightlock berries she stole from Peeta's stash, not knowing he had gathered the poisonous berries by mistake.

Cato and Clove, the deadliest Careers of the 74th Games, come from where?

District 2 supplies the Capitol's Peacekeepers as well as its masonry.

Which bakery skill lets Peeta camouflage himself so well in his first Hunger Games?

Decorating cakes: Peeta frosts them at his family's bakery, and with that eye he paints himself into the mud and rocks of a riverbank, where Katniss finds him.

Which Greek myth did the author name as the main classical inspiration for The Hunger Games?

Theseus and the Minotaur; Athens sending its youths to Crete as tribute became the districts sending theirs to the Capitol.

Who directed the first Hunger Games film in 2012?

Gary Ross directed the 2012 film and co-wrote its screenplay with the novelist and Billy Ray, then left the franchise over the sequel's tight schedule.

How much did the first Hunger Games film gross in its US opening weekend?

The Hunger Games opened to $152.5 million domestically in March 2012, then the third-biggest opening ever behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and The Dark Knight.

Virtually all of the first Hunger Games film was shot in which US state?

North Carolina suited the books, which place District 12 in what was once Appalachia; an abandoned mill village there played Katniss's neighbourhood.

At his Mockingjay execution, how does President Snow react when Katniss kills someone else instead?

He laughs until he chokes as the crowd surges forward; he is found dead, and the book never settles whether he choked or was trampled.

Who plays the young Coriolanus Snow in the 2023 film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes?

Tom Blyth plays Snow at 18, a penniless student hiding his family's ruin, who mentors a tribute in the hope of winning a university prize.

Who directed the 2013 film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire?

Francis Lawrence was hired within weeks when the first film's director walked away from the sequel's rushed schedule, and he went on to direct both Mockingjay films and the 2023 prequel.

Which actor played Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in Catching Fire?

Philip Seymour Hoffman died in February 2014 with most of his Mockingjay scenes shot; the filmmakers rewrote what remained rather than recreate him digitally.

Which actor plays Finnick Odair in the Hunger Games films?

Sam Claflin joined the series in Catching Fire; in the arena his Finnick revives Peeta with CPR, proving himself to a Katniss who had not trusted him.

Where did Catching Fire shoot its jungle arena scenes after filming around Atlanta?

Hawaii: after shooting around Atlanta, where the arena's lagoon set stood in a Georgia water park, the production moved to Oahu for the jungle and beaches.

The Hunger Games' lead actress won the Best Actress Oscar in February 2013 for which film?

Silver Linings Playbook won the Katniss actress the Best Actress Oscar at 22; the next day she flew out to finish filming Catching Fire.

Roughly how much of Catching Fire was shot with IMAX cameras to set the arena apart?

About 50 minutes of arena footage was shot on IMAX 15-perf/65mm film cameras, expanding the frame when Katniss enters the arena; the first film's shaky-cam look was dropped.

Which actor plays Haymitch in the Hunger Games films?

Woody Harrelson turned the part down twice, seeing little in it for him, until the first film's director phoned and talked him into it.

Before Catching Fire, which was the last solo-female-led film to top a year's US box office?

The Exorcist (1973) was the last solo-female-led film to top the yearly US box office before Catching Fire did it in 2013 with $424 million domestic.

Which band's song "Atlas" was the lead single from the Catching Fire soundtrack?

Coldplay had hinted at a three-year break the year before, yet returned with Atlas, the band's first new music since its 2011 album Mylo Xyloto.

What does the Capitol do to District 12 after Katniss escapes the 75th Hunger Games arena?

It firebombs the district to rubble; Katniss wakes on a rebel hovercraft to learn that her family escaped but that her home no longer exists.

Which head Peacekeeper of District 12 is replaced by Romulus Thread in Catching Fire?

Cray often bought Katniss's poached turkeys and let the black market be; his replacement, Romulus Thread, has a poacher flogged and burns the Hob down.

In Catching Fire, Bonnie and Twill are refugees fleeing a failed uprising in which district?

Bonnie and Twill fled District 8, the textile district, after its uprising failed; disguised in Peacekeeper uniforms, they hope to reach a surviving District 13.

In Catching Fire, which outfit of Katniss's burns away on live television to reveal a mockingjay dress?

Her wedding gown burns away as she twirls, leaving black feathers and wings; the stunt gets its designer beaten in front of her just before she enters the arena.

Which 80-year-old victor, Finnick's mentor, walks into the poison fog in the 75th Hunger Games?

Mags volunteered to spare a younger District 4 victor, and in the fog she walks to her death so that Finnick can carry the weakened Peeta instead of her.

What is the name of the Everdeens' scruffy yellow cat?

Buttercup is the muddy-yellow tomcat Katniss's sister named for the flower; Katniss once tried to drown him in a bucket, yet he survives the war and returns to her.

Which actress plays the leader of District 13 in the two Mockingjay films?

Julianne Moore plays District 13's president in both Mockingjay films, a rebel leader who, once the war is won, proposes one last Hunger Games using Capitol children.

Which actress played the young District 11 tribute who allies with Katniss in the first Hunger Games film?

Amandla Stenberg, then 12, played the District 11 ally; Isabelle Fuhrman, who had auditioned for Katniss, was cast as Clove instead, and Alexander Ludwig became Cato.

Which production company, founded by producer Nina Jacobson, bought the Hunger Games film rights in 2009?

Color Force, Nina Jacobson's company, won the rights in early 2009 and partnered with a studio within weeks; the novelist then adapted her own book for the screen.

In which Polish city did filming of The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes begin in July 2022?

Wrocław: filming began there in July 2022, using the city's Centennial Hall, before moving to Germany for Leipzig's Monument to the Battle of the Nations and a Duisburg industrial park.

Which rock musician plays Katniss Everdeen's stylist in the first two Hunger Games films?

Lenny Kravitz won the Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row before acting in Precious and then this role.

Katniss stuns the Hunger Games judges in her scoring session by shooting an apple out of what?

A roast pig's mouth held the apple, and the judge who falls into the punch bowl in shock is Plutarch Heavensbee, who goes on to run the next Games.

Which pop star recorded "Safe & Sound" with The Civil Wars for the first Hunger Games soundtrack?

Taylor Swift wrote the hushed folk song with the duo and producer T Bone Burnett, and it won the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

District 12, Katniss Everdeen's home in The Hunger Games, lies in which US mountain region?

Appalachia even shaped how the author read the books aloud: she gave Mockingjay's first chapter an accent because its narrator comes from there.

Which song, which Katniss learned from her father, becomes the rebels' anthem in Mockingjay?

The Hanging Tree became a genuine chart hit too: the film version, sung by the lead actress, peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In Mockingjay, Finnick Odair reveals that President Snow rose to power by killing rivals with what?

Poison was Snow's signature weapon: he drank it himself to avoid suspicion, and the antidotes left him with sores in his mouth.

In Catching Fire, which lie about Katniss does Peeta tell on live television to stop the Games?

She is pregnant, Peeta claims, and the Capitol audience erupts with demands to call off the Quarter Quell.

Which actress, later director of Pitch Perfect 2, plays the District 12 escort in The Hunger Games?

Elizabeth Banks made her directing debut with Pitch Perfect 2, whose $69 million opening weekend set a record for a first-time director.

Which Japanese novel of students forced to fight to the death is The Hunger Games often compared to?

Battle Royale was rejected from a 1997 horror fiction award over its scenes of students killing each other, then became a surprise bestseller.

Which actor, a child star of Bridge to Terabithia, plays Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games films?

Josh Hutcherson beat rivals for the part including Alexander Ludwig, who was cast as the brutal tribute Cato instead.

What is the name of District 12's black market, where Katniss trades her game in The Hunger Games?

The Hob, where Greasy Sae sells soup from a large kettle, is burned down in Catching Fire on the orders of the new head Peacekeeper.

Peeta Mellark's family runs which kind of shop in District 12 of The Hunger Games?

A bakery: working there gave Peeta the painting skills he later uses to camouflage himself in the arena.

Which Australian actor plays Katniss's hunting partner and best friend in The Hunger Games films?

Liam Hemsworth earlier acted in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, a show his brother Luke had starred in before him.

In The Hunger Games, the failed rebellion that the Games were created to punish is known as what?

The Dark Days supposedly ended with District 13 wiped out, but the Capitol had lied: its people survived by moving underground.

Which tribute kills Clove at the feast but spares Katniss once in the first Hunger Games?

Thresh lets her go just once, as thanks for the way she cared for the young girl from his own district.

After the tracker jacker attack in The Hunger Games, Katniss takes a weapon from which dead tribute?

Glimmer was one of the trained volunteers who had chased Katniss up a tree and settled down beneath it to wait her out.

In the Hunger Games novel, which friend gives Katniss the mockingjay pin she wears in the arena?

Madge Undersee is the mayor's daughter, and the pin once belonged to her aunt Maysilee Donner, who died in the arena a generation earlier.

In the first Hunger Games film, where does Katniss hide the badly wounded Peeta while he recovers?

In a cave, Katniss nurses Peeta until she can fetch the medicine that heals his wound overnight.

Which studio, whose top earner had been Fahrenheit 9/11, released The Hunger Games films?

Lionsgate saw the first film overtake that documentary to become its highest-grossing release after just three days in cinemas.

Which officer leads Katniss's squad into the Capitol until a booby trap kills him in Mockingjay?

Boggs hands Katniss his holographic map of the traps as he dies and warns her not to trust anyone.

Which rebel leader is voted president at the end of the Hunger Games novel Mockingjay?

Commander Paylor of District 8 takes office, and by the novel's epilogue the Hunger Games are gone and memorials stand where the arenas were.

Which fellow victor does Finnick Odair marry during the war in Mockingjay?

Annie Cresta had been a prisoner of the Capitol until a strike team freed her along with Peeta and Johanna Mason.

Which question does Peeta keep asking in Mockingjay to check whether his memories are true?

Real or not real becomes a game his squad plays to help him sort true memories from planted ones, and the author returned to the question in a 2025 prequel about propaganda.

Which West Side Story star plays the singing District 12 tribute in the 2023 Hunger Games prequel?

Rachel Zegler performed all of her character's songs live on set, and one of them was released as the soundtrack's first single.

Which animal, named Lady, does Katniss's sister milk before school each day in The Hunger Games?

A goat: Katniss bought Lady from an old herder the district calls the Goat Man and gave her to her sister.

In the film Catching Fire, a District 6 victor dies shielding Peeta from which mutated animals?

Mandrills swarm the allies in the jungle soon after the elderly Mags gives her own life in the fog to save Peeta.

In Mockingjay – Part 1, District 5 rebels destroy which structure to cut the Capitol's electricity?

A dam: the hydroelectric plant supplied most of the Capitol's power, and its breach blacks out the whole city.

In Catching Fire, what does Peeta do during a Capitol interview to try to placate President Snow?

Proposes to Katniss, and she accepts on air, but Snow remains unconvinced by the couple's show of love.

In Catching Fire, the two District 6 victors are both addicted to which drug?

Morphling aside, the pair share a love of painting, and one spends training decorating Peeta and Katniss at the camouflage station.

The tracker jackers Katniss drops on her rivals in The Hunger Games are mutant versions of what?

Wasps: the Capitol's version is bred to track down whoever disturbs the nest.

Which phrase from Shakespeare is used to sell Katniss and Peeta's romance in The Hunger Games?

Star-crossed lovers is the image their mentor promotes to win sponsors, and Katniss at first assumes Peeta's confession is just part of the act.

The Hunger Games author got the idea while flicking between reality TV and footage of which war?

The Iraq War footage and a prize contest combined in what she called an "unsettling way" to spark her first ideas for the series.

Which Game of Thrones actress shaved part of her head to play the director Cressida in Mockingjay?

Natalie Dormer, who played Margaery Tyrell, shaved the left side of her head for the part; the novel gives Cressida a scalp tattooed with green vines.

In the Hunger Games novel, which lasting injury does Peeta suffer that the 2012 film leaves out?

He loses a leg: part of Peeta's left leg is amputated after the Games, and he walks on a prosthetic for the rest of his life.

In Mockingjay, how does Katniss vote on holding one last Hunger Games with Capitol children?

She votes yes and the proposal passes, though Peeta emphatically opposes it.

In Catching Fire's arena, Johanna Mason kills Cashmere by throwing which weapon at her?

An axe: Cashmere and her brother Gloss had won back-to-back Hunger Games, and she is charging at Katniss when Johanna's throw hits her.

Which Oscar-winning star of Fences plays the Head Gamemaker in the 2023 Hunger Games prequel?

Viola Davis completed her EGOT in February 2023, months before the prequel opened, becoming the 18th person to win all four major awards.

In the 2020 Hunger Games prequel, where in the Capitol are the tributes kept before the Games?

In a zoo: the tributes are starved in a pen there, and the young Snow breaks ranks by bringing food to the girl he mentors.

Which publisher, also the American home of Harry Potter, released The Hunger Games novels?

Scholastic signed the author to a six-figure deal for three books once she had written the first novel.

Which stylist dresses Peeta Mellark for both his Hunger Games and is later executed by the Capitol?

Portia is executed on live television along with Peeta's prep team, a punishment Katniss hears about in Mockingjay.

In the 2020 Hunger Games prequel, District 12's tribute belongs to which band of nomadic musicians?

The Covey were roaming performers until the war, after which they were forced to settle down in District 12.

After shooting the rebel president in Mockingjay, Katniss is acquitted of murder on which grounds?

Insanity is the verdict, and Katniss is sent home to District 12, where Peeta slowly recovers his memories and joins her.

Which US city doubled as the Capitol in Catching Fire and hosted most of the Mockingjay shoot?

Atlanta's soundstages housed most of the Mockingjay shoot until April 2014, when production moved on to Paris.

Which singer curated the Mockingjay – Part 1 soundtrack and sang its single "Yellow Flicker Beat"?

Lorde got the job on her publisher's recommendation, and the single earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song.

Katniss Everdeen is named after an edible water plant also known by which common name?

Arrowhead grows edible tubers underwater, which is why her father joked that if she could find herself she would never be hungry.

Before The Hunger Games, its author wrote which fantasy series about a boy named Gregor?

The Underland Chronicles grew from Alice in Wonderland: she reasoned a city child was likelier to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole.

Before her novels, the Hunger Games author wrote for which Nickelodeon children's show?

Clarissa Explains It All was one of several children's shows she wrote for, alongside Little Bear and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo.

Which film composer scored the first five Hunger Games movies, from 2012 to 2023?

James Newton Howard also produced the rebels' anthem from Mockingjay – Part 1, which first appeared on the film's score album.

The World of the Hunger Games, a themed area, opened in 2017 at the Motiongate park in which city?

Dubai's park built rides based on the films, alongside attractions drawn from John Wick and Now You See Me.

Which horror author reviewed The Hunger Games for Entertainment Weekly, likening it to a video game?

Stephen King said he came to like Katniss a lot once he got over what he called her lame name.