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50 free Alias trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Alias turned a graduate student into television's busiest double agent. Sydney Bristow believes she works for a secret branch of the CIA, learns the truth in the pilot, and spends season 1 lying to her friends, her boss and, half the time, her own father. Wigs, cliffhangers and a centuries-old mystery did the rest. This quiz leans on season 1 and the characters who make it tick: Sydney's family, her partners and rivals in the field, the friends kept in the dark, and the people running SD-6. Later seasons, famous guest stars and a few behind-the-scenes facts round it out. It is pitched for fans who watched every week and for anyone meeting the series on streaming. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you knowing more about the show.
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Q 01Which Alias star did the real CIA enlist in 2003 to front a recruitment video shown at college campuses?
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Garner was chosen because, an officer said, she and Sydney Bristow reflected the qualities the agency wanted in new field officers.
Q 02Which future Oscar-nominated actor got his television break as reporter Will Tippin in Alias?
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper played Will for the first two seasons; frustrated by his shrinking screen time, he asked to be written out and briefly considered quitting acting.
Q 03Which film director guest-starred in Alias as McKenas Cole, the gunman who takes SD-6 hostage?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino played the vengeful former SD-6 agent in a two-part season 1 story, then returned in season 3 as a Covenant leader.
Q 04Which former James Bond actor guest-starred in Alias season 1 as Alliance leader Edward Poole?
Roger Moore
Roger Moore played the head of SD-9, who talks Arvin Sloane into killing a fellow Alliance director to swing a vote.
Q 05Which creator of Alias also composed the show's opening theme music and directed the pilot himself?
J. J. Abrams
J. J. Abrams wrote and directed both the first and the last episode of season 1, bookending the year himself.
Q 06The Alias episode Phase One, in which SD-6 is destroyed, aired straight after which 2003 sporting event?
The Super Bowl
The Super Bowl slot drew 17.4 million viewers, the biggest audience Alias ever had, though a 40-minute post-game show delayed its start.
Q 07Alias grew from its creator imagining the heroine of which college drama being recruited as a spy?
Felicity
Felicity was the series he was writing when the idea struck: a student who finds hidden strength and cannot tell her friends about her secret job.
Q 08Which bank's building in downtown Los Angeles hides the headquarters of SD-6 in Alias?
Credit Dauphine
Credit Dauphine also gave Sydney her cover story: she posed as a bank employee whose job kept sending her abroad.
Q 09What does Arvin Sloane gain from Rambaldi's work in the Alias finale, moments before being trapped forever?
Immortality
Immortality becomes his punishment: a dying Jack Bristow sets off a bomb that seals Sloane inside Rambaldi's tomb for eternity.
Q 10In Alias, which foreign spy agency did Sydney's mother secretly serve while married to Jack Bristow?
KGB
The KGB sent her to America to seduce and marry Jack so that she could steal details of a secret project he was developing.
Q 11Which fiancé of Sydney Bristow is murdered by SD-6 in the Alias pilot after learning her secret?
Danny Hecht
Danny Hecht, a children's heart doctor, had just proposed; his killing turns Sydney against SD-6 for good.
Q 12In which Asian city does Sydney Bristow seize a Rambaldi prototype in the Alias pilot?
Taipei
Taipei is where she grabs the device; handing it to Sloane wins back his trust and lets her begin life as a double agent.
Q 13What subject is Sydney Bristow studying as a graduate student in Los Angeles when Alias begins?
English
English ran in the family: her mother's cover while spying on Sydney's father was a job as a literature professor.
Q 21Which Canadian actor earned three straight Emmy nominations as Jack Bristow, Sydney's father, in Alias?
Victor Garber
Victor Garber's nationality rubbed off on the role: the official Alias magazine gives Jack Bristow a Canadian birthplace too.
Q 22Which Tony-winning actor played scheming SD-6 chief Arvin Sloane in every season of Alias?
Ron Rifkin
Ron Rifkin won his Tony as Herr Schultz in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret, three years before Alias began.
Q 23Which actor played Sydney Bristow's CIA handler and eventual husband in all five seasons of Alias?
Michael Vartan
Michael Vartan was born near Paris, and his character speaks French too, even working as a French teacher for a while.
Q 14In Alias, how was Sydney Bristow told as a child that her mother Laura had died?
A car accident
A car accident was staged when Sydney was six, letting her mother vanish just as the FBI began to investigate her.
Q 15Which crime boss's nickname hides Sydney Bristow's mother until the end of Alias season 1?
The Man
The Man was assumed by SD-6 to be a Paris nightclub owner named Khasinau, who proves to be only the second-in-command.
Q 16Which rival agent, played by Gina Torres, battles Sydney Bristow for Rambaldi relics in Alias?
Anna Espinosa
Anna Espinosa, born in Cuba and raised in Russia, has Rambaldi's eye symbol tattooed on her hand as a mark of devotion.
Q 17Which rival outfit of former Eastern bloc spies competes with SD-6 in Alias season 1?
K-Directorate
K-Directorate races SD-6 for Rambaldi's relics all season, until a crime boss destroys it and seizes its assets.
Q 18Which SD-6 tech genius builds the gadgets Sydney Bristow carries on her missions in Alias?
Marshall Flinkman
Marshall Flinkman loves needless visual aids in his briefings, once playing a full drum kit to make a point.
Q 19Which SD-6 field partner of Sydney Bristow in Alias has no idea the agency is not the real CIA?
Marcus Dixon
Marcus Dixon, a former Recon Marine, doubts Sydney's loyalty during season 1 and only hears the truth from her in season 2.
Q 20Which CIA handler of Sydney Bristow in Alias learns that her mother killed his father?
Michael Vaughn
Michael Vaughn's father was one of several CIA officers she killed, a trail that at first makes him suspect Jack Bristow.
Q 24Which Swedish actress joined Alias in season 2 as Sydney Bristow's long-lost mother?
Lena Olin
Lena Olin made it her first American television role, and it brought her an Emmy nomination in 2003.
Q 25In Alias, CIA agent Eric Weiss is said to descend from which famous real-life magician?
Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini was born Ehrich Weiss, so the agent's own name is the clue to his famous ancestor.
Q 26Which actor played FBI man Kendall in Alias before starring as John Locke in Lost?
Terry O'Quinn
Terry O'Quinn first appears leading the FBI panel that interrogates Sydney over a Rambaldi prophecy in season 1.
Q 27Which notorious real-life hacker made a cameo in Alias season 1 as a CIA agent planting a computer worm?
Kevin Mitnick
Kevin Mitnick played Agent Burnett while on supervised release from prison, a term that at first barred him from most communications technology.
Q 28Which British comedy star guest-starred in Alias season 3 as the bomb-maker Daniel Ryan?
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais played it straight: his character sets off a bomb in Belfast to prove his devices cannot be disarmed.
Q 29Which composer scored Alias after the show's creator discovered him through his video game music?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino had scored the Medal of Honor games, and he stayed with the same producer for Lost and Fringe.
Q 30Which production company, later behind Lost and Fringe, made Alias with Touchstone Television?
Bad Robot
Bad Robot signs off its shows with a red robot running through a meadow, voiced by two of its founder's children.