Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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177 free Buffy the Vampire Slayer trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
61 free Buffy the Vampire Slayer trivia questions with answers. Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran for seven seasons and 144 episodes across The WB and UPN, and this quiz covers the whole run plus everything around it: the 1992 film with Kristy Swanson, the Angel spin-off in Los Angeles, the Season Eight comics from Dark Horse, and the cast, crew and Big Bads that made Sunnydale worth returning to. The questions start easy - who created the show, what Oz turns into, which network took the last two seasons - and climb steadily through the landmark episodes (Hush, The Body, Once More, with Feeling), the season arcs and the production stories, before finishing with the kind of details only a rewatcher knows: the Summers family address, the Master's unspoken real name, and how many days Buffy was dead. It works as a solo warm-up or as a ready-made round for a trivia night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its episodes, its characters and its cast, and each question shows its source, so you can settle any argument about a wrong-looking answer on the spot.
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Q 01Who created the television series?
Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon created Buffy; his first sketch of the idea was 'Rhonda the Immortal Waitress', a seemingly insignificant woman who turns out to be extraordinary.
Q 02What was Buffy at her old high school before she was called as the Slayer?
A cheerleader
A cheerleader, and Prom Princess too; in Sunnydale she tries out for the squad again to win back a normal life, only for a witch to start cursing the other hopefuls.
Q 03What job does Buffy's Watcher hold at Sunnydale High?
Librarian
Giles works as the Sunnydale High librarian; the library sits directly above the Hellmouth, which keeps the Watcher close to the action.
Q 04Which actor plays Willow Rosenberg?
Alyson Hannigan
Alyson Hannigan plays Willow; Riff Regan had the part in the unaired 1996 pilot and was replaced before the series itself was filmed.
Q 05The spin-off series Angel is set in which city?
Los Angeles
Angel is set in Los Angeles; the pilot 'City Of' opens with Angel's voiceover saying 'Los Angeles' before anything else is spoken.
Q 06Which actor plays the bleached-blond vampire Spike?
James Marsters
James Marsters plays the very British Spike, yet he is an American: born in Greenville, California, he grew up in Modesto.
Q 07What creature does Willow's boyfriend Oz turn into?
A werewolf
Oz is a werewolf, bitten on the finger by his young cousin Jordy; he transforms on the three nights around each full moon.
Q 08Former vengeance demon Anya has a running fear of which animals?
Bunnies
Bunnies terrify Anya: told to wear something scary to a costume party in 'Fear, Itself', the former demon turns up in a pink bunny suit.
Q 09What is the informal nickname of Buffy's circle of friends?
The Scooby Gang
The Scooby Gang borrows its name from Scooby-Doo's mystery-solving teenagers, a joke that came true when Buffy's own star played Daphne in the 2002 Scooby-Doo film.
Q 10Buffy the Vampire Slayer moved from The WB to which network for its final two seasons?
UPN
UPN aired the last two seasons from October 2001 after a negotiation dispute with The WB, which had billed the season five finale as its own 'series finale'.
Q 11Who played Buffy in the original 1992 film?
Kristy Swanson
Kristy Swanson starred as Buffy in the 1992 film, which was played for light comedy rather than the darker tone Joss Whedon wrote; unhappy with the result, he reworked the idea for television.
Q 12According to Giles, vampires and demons traditionally take which night of the year off?
Halloween
Halloween is meant to be the one quiet night for the undead, yet Buffy's first in Sunnydale ends with a spell turning costumed trick-or-treaters into whatever they dressed as.
Q 13What is the title of Buffy's season-six musical episode?
Once More, with Feeling
Q 21In the season-one finale, why can't Angel give the drowned Buffy CPR himself?
He has no breath
He has no breath, as Angel tells Xander, so it is Xander who performs CPR and revives Buffy in time for her to face the Master again.
Q 22What weapon does Buffy use to destroy the supposedly invincible demon the Judge?
A rocket launcher
Buffy blows the Judge apart with a rocket launcher that Xander and Cordelia stole from an army base; her one-liner is 'That was then, this is now.'
Q 23Which body part does Xander lose to a villainous preacher in season seven?
His left eye
His left eye is gouged out by the preacher's thumb during a failed raid on a vineyard; Xander wears an eyepatch for the rest of the series.
'Once More, with Feeling' has a demon force all of Sunnydale to sing out its secrets; Joss Whedon wrote every song himself and directed the episode too.
Q 14Which evil law firm is the arch-enemy of Angel in the Buffy spin-off?
Wolfram & Hart
Wolfram & Hart answers to demonic Senior Partners; at the end of season four the firm stuns Angel's team by offering them control of its own local branch, and they accept.
Q 15In Buffy's season-three finale, the Mayor 'ascends' into what kind of demon?
A huge snake
A huge snake, the demon Olvikan, is what the Mayor becomes at graduation; Buffy lures him inside the school, where Giles sets off explosives that destroy them both.
Q 16In Buffy season four, what does the Initiative implant in the vampire Spike's head?
A behaviour-modifying chip
A behaviour-modifying chip jolts Spike with pain whenever he tries to hurt a human, so the vampire who came to kill Buffy ends up begging her friends for shelter.
Q 17Buffy's mother Joyce dies suddenly of what?
A brain aneurysm
A brain aneurysm kills Joyce in 'The Body', an episode shot with no music at all; after years of monsters, it is a natural death that no Slayer strength can fight.
Q 18What are the silent, smiling, heart-stealing villains of Buffy's nearly wordless season-four episode called?
The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen steal every voice in Sunnydale so that no one can scream while they cut out hearts; a real human scream is the one thing that kills them.
Q 19Buffy's sister Dawn is revealed to be what?
A mystical Key in human form
Dawn is a mystical Key in human form, sent to the Slayer for protection from the villainous Glory; everyone was given lifelong false memories of her.
Q 20How does Buffy die at the end of season five?
Leaping into a portal
Leaping into a portal opened by Glory's ritual is how Buffy dies in 'The Gift', closing it with her blood; her friends later resurrect her, believing they are rescuing her from a hell dimension.
Q 24Which rock band plays Buffy the Vampire Slayer's opening theme?
Nerf Herder
Nerf Herder plays the theme and turns up in person in the final season, playing on while Sunnydale evacuates: 'What kind of band plays during an apocalypse?'
Q 25On Angel, what does Cordelia inherit from the dying half-demon Doyle via a kiss?
Prophetic visions
Prophetic visions pass to Cordelia with Doyle's dying kiss; they are a painful burden until a demon's curse floods her with them and shows her how many people need help.
Q 26What is the name of the 'miracle' child born to the vampires Angel and Darla?
Connor
The child is Connor; Holtz kidnaps him into the hell dimension Quor'toth as a baby, and he returns weeks later as a teenager because time runs faster there.
Q 27Which fast-food chain hires a broke Buffy in season six?
Doublemeat Palace
Doublemeat Palace hires Buffy because, newly back from the dead, she needs money to support herself and her sister Dawn.
Q 28Which company published Buffy's canonical Season Eight comic continuation from 2007?
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics published Season Eight with Joss Whedon writing the opening arc himself and overseeing the rest, which is why it counts as the show's canonical continuation.
Q 29Buffy's brief death in the season-one finale activated which new Slayer?
Kendra
Buffy's drowning called Kendra, who arrives in season two; Kendra is later hypnotized and killed by Drusilla, which in turn calls Faith.
Q 30Which former Slayer, killed by Spike in 1977 New York, was the mother of the season-seven principal?
Nikki Wood
Nikki Wood, mother of Principal Robin Wood, was killed by Spike on a New York subway in 1977; he took his trademark leather duster from her body.