50 Fun Facts About The 100

The 100 aired on which American network from 2014 to 2020?

The CW planned the ending: when it announced that season seven would be the last, it gave it 16 episodes so that The 100 would finish on exactly its 100th.

Which delinquent is speared as The 100's pilot ends?

Jasper takes a spear in the chest on the trek to Mount Weather, the first proof that someone else is alive on the ground; he survives it.

Who developed The 100 for television and served as its showrunner?

Jason Rothenberg was looking for a pilot to write when the publisher pitched him the idea in a meeting, before the first novel had even reached the shops.

The 100 is based on a young adult novel series by which author?

Kass Morgan is the pen name of book editor Mallory Kass; the show's makers say they kept her main ideas and themes but follow little of her story.

Why does The 100's Ark send prisoners to the ground?

Failing life support leaves the Ark with only months of air, so the council gambles its jailed teenagers to learn whether Earth can be lived on again and to save oxygen for everyone else.

In The 100's finale, humanity passes the Judge's test and does what?

Transcends as one consciousness: everyone but Clarke joins a higher collective being. She is barred for a killing during the test, so her friends give up eternity to live out their days with her on Earth.

The 100 was filmed in and around which city?

Vancouver was home for the whole run, and the cameras stopped just in time: the final scenes were shot there in mid-March 2020, as the pandemic was shutting other productions down.

Which linguist created Trigedasleng for The 100, as well as Dothraki for Game of Thrones?

David J. Peterson built Trigedasleng as a descendant of English, not an alien tongue: its words come from English, their sounds and meanings shifted over three generations on the ground.

Which Australian actress plays Clarke Griffin in The 100?

Eliza Taylor never auditioned for Clarke: producers saw a tape of her old audition for a film and called her in to read the very next day, just as she was ready to quit Los Angeles.

Which actor plays Bellamy Blake in The 100?

Bob Morley married the actress who plays Clarke in 2019, the pair announcing it only after a secret wedding; he also directed an episode of season six.

Which actress joined The 100 in season two as Commander Lexa?

Alycia Debnam-Carey also landed a lead in Fear the Walking Dead, which left her free for only seven episodes of season three, one reason the showrunner gave for killing Lexa off.

Lexa dies in which season-three episode of The 100, which also reveals the fate of the Ark's lost station Polaris?

"Thirteen" shows the Ark destroying Polaris, its thirteenth station, then kills Lexa with a stray bullet right after she and Clarke get together; the showrunner ended up apologising to furious fans.

In The 100, who fired the stray bullet that killed Lexa?

Titus, Lexa's own Flamekeeper, was trying to shoot Clarke with Murphy's gun and pin it on her own people, hoping to turn the Commander against them; the shot hit Lexa instead.

After Lexa's death in The 100, fans raised money in her name for which charity?

The Trevor Project runs a round-the-clock crisis line for LGBT young people; fans angry at the storyline turned to it, and donations passed $100,000 within about a month of the episode.

In the third episode of The 100, who murders Wells Jaha, the Chancellor's son?

Charlotte, one of the youngest of the 100, stabs Wells hoping to end her nightmares about his father, who had her parents executed; Murphy is blamed and nearly hanged before she confesses.

After wiping out Mount Weather, Clarke earns which Trigedasleng title, meaning 'Commander of Death'?

Wanheda is a dangerous name to carry: Grounders believe that killing someone takes their power, so the Ice Nation queen puts a bounty on Clarke to command death herself.

As an illegal second child on the Ark, where was Octavia hidden as she grew up?

Under the floor of the family's quarters, during every inspection; she was caught when Bellamy sneaked her out to a masked ball, and their mother was executed for having a second child.

Jasper and Monty were locked up on the Ark for what?

Making illegal substances got both locked up: they raided the Ark's farm-grown herbs, and Jasper still blames Monty for forgetting to replace what they took.

In The 100, why was John Murphy's father executed on the Ark?

Stealing medical supplies cost him his life: he took medicine when his young son caught the flu, and Murphy's mother blamed the boy and drank herself to death.

Which actress, X2's Lady Deathstrike, was in the main cast of The 100 for the pilot only?

Kelly Hu played Callie Cartwig, Abby's best friend, but the part was cut when budgets tightened after the show was picked up; the showrunner joked that she had been 'floated off camera'.

In season two of The 100, the Mountain Men harvest what from the captured delinquents to survive radiation?

Bone marrow from the Ark-born captives promised permanent immunity, where Grounder blood had only bought time, so the Mountain Men kept harvesting even though it killed the donors.

In season three of The 100, how does A.L.I.E. take control of people's minds?

They swallow a chip that carries them into the City of Light, a virtual world with no pain; the catch is that A.L.I.E. erases their painful memories along with it.

In The 100, who created the A.L.I.E. artificial intelligence?

Becca built A.L.I.E. to make life better for mankind, but the AI decided the root problem was too many people and launched the world's nuclear missiles.

In The 100, what do the Grounders call the death wave of radiation that ends season four?

Praimfaya comes from the world's nuclear power plants, built to run unattended for only a hundred years and by then melting down; it leaves a single green valley alive.

After winning The 100's conclave, who does Octavia say gets the bunker?

Every clan equally: Octavia fought as her own people's champion but gave each clan 100 places, about 1,200 in all, only to learn that her own people had already seized the bunker and sealed the door.

In The 100, the bunker where Wonkru survives was built by which doomsday cult?

Second Dawn's first bunker proves a death trap: it was never properly shielded and everyone inside had died. The real shelter was hidden beneath the Grounders' own capital all along.

In season five of The 100, the convicts who land in the valley come from which prison mining ship?

Eligius IV left to mine an asteroid before the bombs fell, so its convicts come home more than a century late to a planet with one valley left; the craft that lands is its drop ship, the Gagarin.

As ruler of Wonkru in the bunker in The 100, Octavia takes which title?

Blodreina means the Red Queen: Octavia earns it by cutting down those who defy her and wearing their blood as armour, then makes lawbreakers fight to the death in the pit.

In The 100, who triggers Damocles, the strike that destroys the last habitable valley on Earth?

McCreary, seeing his men beaten, would rather burn the valley than let anyone else have it; Clarke kills him moments later, and the survivors flee to orbit as the last green land on Earth dies.

In The 100, why does a ten-year cryosleep last 125 years?

Earth never recovered: the couple who stayed awake watched the planet stay dead year after year, so they found the sleepers a new world and left video diaries to explain.

In The 100, the habitable moon first designated Alpha is better known by what name?

Sanctum was settled by Mission Team Alpha, four families who landed with frozen embryos to start a colony and then made themselves its ruling Primes.

In The 100, the Primes keep reincarnating themselves by implanting what into Nightblood hosts?

Mind Drives hold a Prime's whole consciousness, and for one to take, the host's own mind has to be wiped first, so every 'resurrection' on the moon is really the death of its host.

In season seven of The 100, the mysterious Anomaly is revealed to be what?

A wormhole network: the Anomaly links six worlds, Earth among them, and a nearby black hole bends time, so a few months for one traveller can be years for those she left behind.

In The 100, the Disciples come from which planet?

Bardo was not theirs to begin with: the Disciples moved into a world whose native people had vanished, took over the technology left behind and spent centuries translating its logs.

In The 100, the Disciples' revered 'Shepherd' turns out to be whom?

Bill Cadogan, a cult leader from before the first apocalypse, has been kept alive in stasis for centuries; Clarke kills him just as he begins the test meant to decide humanity's fate.

In The 100, where did the Shepherd find Earth's Anomaly Stone?

Beneath Machu Picchu, in a chamber under its Temple of the Sun; from then on he cared only about opening its door to another world, not about retaking the ruined surface.

Which episode in season seven of The 100 was a backdoor pilot for a prequel series that was never made?

"Anaconda" flashes back to the days around the first apocalypse; the network kept the spin-off in development for two years before passing on it in 2021.

In which season-seven episode of The 100 is Bellamy killed?

"Blood Giant" ends with Clarke killing Bellamy to keep Madi's sketchbook from the Disciples, then fleeing through the Anomaly without the book she killed him for.

In The 100, the Ark's Traveler's Blessing for the dead and the departing ends with which line?

"May we meet again" closes a blessing that wishes the dead safe passage 'until our final journey to the ground': for people born in orbit, Earth itself had become heaven.

In The 100, Jordan Green, who greets the sleepers when they wake, is the son of which couple?

Monty and Harper chose to grow old awake on the ship rather than sleep, raising Jordan there; both were long dead by the time he woke their friends.

Which Azgeda warrior in The 100 was born Ash and took a dead friend's name on Queen Nia's orders?

Echo was her best friend's name: Queen Nia made the two girls fight, Ash killed her in self-defence, and she was forced to live on as the girl she had killed.

In season four of The 100, King Roan dies in the conclave at the hands of which Nightblood?

Luna, who once fled her own conclave to avoid killing, drowns Roan and vows that nobody will get the bunker if she wins; Octavia stops her.

Isaiah Washington, The 100's Chancellor Jaha, made his name as Dr. Preston Burke on which series?

Grey's Anatomy dropped him in 2007; on The 100 his Chancellor Jaha is left alone on the dying Ark and gets down to Earth by riding a nuclear missile.

Paige Turco, The 100's Abby Griffin, played April O'Neil in two sequels of which film franchise?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II and III cast her as the reporter, taking over from Judith Hoag; on The 100 she left the main cast after season six but came back as a guest for the finale.

Before The 100, Clarke's actress was Janae Timmins on which Australian soap?

Neighbours made her so familiar that, she says, Australian casting directors could not see past the character and typecast her; Bellamy's actor is an alumnus of the same soap.

Lindsey Morgan, The 100's Raven Reyes, earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for which soap opera?

General Hospital's Kristina Davis won her the nomination in 2013; she left the soap that year and joined The 100 in what was only a recurring part, earning promotion to the main cast from season two.

Which Grounder warrior rescues Octavia in season one of The 100 and becomes her great love?

Lincoln is tortured by the 100 as their prisoner until Octavia sets him free, and his execution by Pike in season three is the death she later avenges herself.

The 100 grew out of its showrunner's wish to make a show with the theme of which novel?

Lord of the Flies was the theme he was already hunting for when the book was pitched to him: teenagers 'turned loose on the ground without parents, teachers and authorities', a wish that turns into a nightmare.

In The 100, what is the name of the Grounder capital where the Commander rules?

Polis hides the way through the next apocalypse: the bunker that saves 1,200 people lies under the city, and its rubble then seals them in for six years.

In The 100, what do the Grounders call the people from the Ark in Trigedasleng?

Skaikru, the 'sky crew', are welcomed into the Commander's coalition as a new clan, until some of their own massacre a Grounder army and wreck the alliance.