Bones TV Show Trivia
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109 free Bones TV Show trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free Bones TV show trivia questions with answers. Bones ran for 246 episodes and twelve seasons on Fox, pairing a forensic anthropologist who doesn't understand pop culture with an FBI agent who trusts his gut. This Bones TV show trivia quiz covers the Jeffersonian team from Angela and Hodgins to Zack, Cam, Sweets and the rotating interns; the serial killers Gormogon, the Gravedigger and Christopher Pelant; Booth and Brennan's slow-burn romance, wedding and kids; the real Kathy Reichs behind it all; the spin-off The Finder; and the behind-the-scenes casting and filming. The 109 questions start easy for anyone who watched a season and get hard enough for fans who can name the interns in order, so it suits a solo binge break or a TV round at trivia night. Every answer is checked against episode records and documented production history.
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Q 01What nickname does Booth use for Brennan's team of lab scientists?
Squints
Squints is Booth's label for the academics he turns to when a case is stuck, and it spread: the lab's rotating interns became known as 'squinterns'.
Q 02Who created Bones for Fox?
Hart Hanson
Hart Hanson told Fox he had no interest in doing a forensics show, then met producer Barry Josephson, found they agreed on how it might unfold and signed on to write the pilot.
Q 03How does the Bones finale leave the lab?
In ruins
In ruins: 'The End in the End', directed by David Boreanaz, closes with the team clearing out their things until the wrecked lab can be rebuilt.
Q 04How is Zooey Deschanel, who guest-stars as Brennan's cousin Margaret, related to Emily Deschanel in real life?
Her sister
Her sister: Zooey, the younger Deschanel, plays Margaret Whitesell, a second cousin on Brennan's mother's side who irritates her by quoting Benjamin Franklin all through Christmas.
Q 05Alongside her lab work, Temperance Brennan has which lucrative second career?
Mystery novelist
Mystery novelist: in a wink at reality, Brennan's books follow a fictional anthropologist called Kathy Reichs, the real author whose heroine is Temperance Brennan.
Q 06David Boreanaz, who plays Booth, was previously famous for playing which vampire?
Angel
Angel is a vampire cursed with a soul as punishment for a murder, so his own spin-off follows him as a private detective seeking redemption for his past.
Q 07What was Temperance Brennan's birth name?
Joy Keenan
She was born Joy Keenan; her parents Max and Ruth Keenan, former bank robbers, renamed the whole family Brennan when they went into hiding.
Q 08What is Brennan's catchphrase whenever someone makes a pop-culture reference?
I don't know what that means
'I don't know what that means' is Brennan's reply to most pop culture, so it's a shock when she explains Jersey Shore, having taken the reality show for a factual study.
Q 09Before joining the FBI, Booth was a sniper in which US Army unit?
The 75th Rangers
The 75th Rangers were Booth's regiment as an Army sniper, and the Army wants him back: in the season-five finale he returns to uniform to train soldiers in Afghanistan.
Q 10Seeley Booth hates admitting he is related to the assassin of which US president?
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was shot by the actor John Wilkes Booth, and season five reveals that Seeley belongs to the same family, a fact the FBI agent refuses to discuss.
Q 11Where does Brennan end up giving birth to her daughter Christine?
In a stable
In a stable: labour starts during a prison riot with the hospital half an hour away, and an innkeeper who first turns the couple away lets them use his outbuilding.
Q 12Where do Booth and Brennan marry after their church burns?
A garden
A garden outside the Jeffersonian hosts the wedding in 'The Woman in White': Angela arranges a last-minute ceremony on the spot where the pair first agreed to work together.
Q 13What is the name of the forensic artist's 3D holographic crime-simulation program?
The Angelator
The Angelator was the creator's answer to the flashbacks other crime shows lean on: the team feeds in evidence until its hologram shows how the crime happened.
Q 21What does Hodgins give up in season eight to stop a hijacked drone hitting a school?
His family fortune
His family fortune: the hacker drains Hodgins's accounts through the same system that steers the drone, so saving the Afghan schoolgirls means letting the money go.
Q 22Which actor, later a screenwriter and director, plays FBI psychologist Lance Sweets?
John Francis Daley
John Francis Daley left to co-direct the 2015 film Vacation, and rather than write Sweets a long absence the producers killed him off in the season-10 premiere.
Q 23How does Sweets die in the season 10 premiere of Bones?
Assaulted while serving a warrant
Q 14On Bones, which rock guitarist plays Angela's father as a fictionalised version of himself?
Billy Gibbons
Billy Gibbons plays Angela's fiercely protective father: after she and Hodgins split up, he drugs Hodgins and has Angela's face tattooed on his arm.
Q 15What is Jack Hodgins's primary scientific specialty at the Jeffersonian?
Entomology
Entomology, the study of insects, is Hodgins's speciality alongside botany and minerals, which is why Booth saddles him with the nickname 'Bug Boy'.
Q 16What title do Hodgins and Zack compete for with each forensic breakthrough?
King of the Lab
King of the Lab is the title Hodgins and Zack fight over, and the joke pays off in the series finale, when Cam goes on leave and puts Hodgins in charge for real.
Q 17Which serial killer was Zack Addy revealed to be the apprentice of, at the end of season three?
Gormogon
Zack was unmasked as the apprentice of Gormogon, the cannibalistic secret-society killer, in the season-three finale; he pleaded insanity and later told Sweets he never actually killed anyone.
Q 18On Bones, what childhood nickname does Booth's grandfather still use for him?
Shrimp
Shrimp is what 'Pops' calls Booth; in season five he moves in after a run-in with the staff at his retirement home, then sets fire to Booth's kitchen.
Q 19The Gravedigger, who buried victims alive for ransom, turned out to be which Bones character?
US Attorney Heather Taffet
US Attorney Heather Taffet was convicted in season five's 'The Boy with the Answer'; sniper Jacob Broadsky later shot her dead as she was being escorted to court for her appeal.
Q 20Which hacktivist villain, under house arrest for crashing a Pentagon network, tormented the Bones team?
Christopher Pelant
Christopher Pelant, the hacker villain of seasons seven to nine, framed Brennan for murder and hijacked a military drone before Booth finally shot him dead.
Assaulted while serving a warrant, Sweets dies in a parking garage with Booth and Brennan beside him; Daisy Wick, pregnant at the time, later names their son Seeley Lance.
Q 24Which junior FBI agent, famous for his love of food, joins Booth after Sweets's death?
James Aubrey
James Aubrey joins Booth in season 10 with a bottomless appetite and a grudge: his father fled the country over a Ponzi scheme, and Aubrey later turns him in.
Q 25Camille Saroyan, who takes over the forensic division in season two, was previously what?
A coroner
A coroner in New York City, Cam arrives in season two to run the lab's forensic division, briefly rekindles an old romance with Booth and later marries intern Arastoo Vaziri.
Q 26Which intern is fatally shot by sniper Jacob Broadsky in season six?
Vincent Nigel-Murray
Vincent Nigel-Murray, the English trivia-spouting intern, is shot by Broadsky in 'The Hole in the Heart'; his death is the catalyst for Booth and Brennan finally getting together.
Q 27Which intern is diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma by Brennan?
Wendell Bray
Wendell Bray's first instinct is to refuse treatment and spend the time he has left travelling, until Booth and Brennan persuade him to fight the cancer.
Q 28Which actor plays Brennan's father, former bank robber Max Keenan?
Ryan O'Neal
Ryan O'Neal plays Max Keenan, whom Booth arrests in the season-two finale; a jury acquits him once the defence shows Brennan had the same motive and opportunity.
Q 29Which Fox series crossed over with Bones in the season 11 episode 'The Resurrection in the Remains'?
Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills arrive to claim a headless corpse the Jeffersonian team has found, which proves to be 200 years old and tied to a modern murder.
Q 30What was the name of the short-lived 2012 Bones spin-off?
The Finder
The Finder was launched from inside Bones: in a season-six episode of the same name, Booth calls in Walter Sherman, a man with a knack for unearthing anything, on an Everglades murder.