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50 free Charmed trivia questions with answers. Charmed ran for 178 episodes on The WB between 1998 and 2006, and for a while it was the longest-running hour-long drama with all-female leads on American television. This quiz covers the whole run: the pilot in the Halliwell Manor attic, Prue's death and Paige's arrival, Piper and Leo's forbidden romance, Cole's turn as the Source, Magic School, the Avatars, Billie and Christy, and the flash-forward finale. There are a few questions on the 2018 CW reboot too. The early questions are the ones any fan will get (which sister freezes time, what the sisters' club is called); the later ones dig into casting near-misses, the unaired pilot, the opening-credits song and the comic-book continuation. Every answer has been checked against the show's published production history and carries a linked source, so you can settle any 'that's not what happened' arguments on the spot. Play it solo or use it as a rewatch-party round.
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Q 01In which American city do the Halliwell sisters live and fight evil?
San Francisco
The creator's original pitch was set in Boston with three witch roommates before it was reworked into three sisters in San Francisco.
Q 02On which network did Charmed originally air from 1998 to 2006?
The WB
At 178 episodes it was the second-longest drama the network ever broadcast, behind only 7th Heaven.
Q 03Which sister has the power to freeze people and objects, later evolving into making things explode?
Piper
The show explained her freezing as slowing molecules down and her combustion power as speeding them up.
Q 04What was Phoebe's original power in season one?
Premonition
Because premonition is a passive power, the character trained in martial arts to hold her own in fights.
Q 05Where in the Halliwell Manor does Phoebe find the Book of Shadows in the pilot?
The attic
Reading its opening inscription aloud is what activated the sisters' powers in the pilot.
Q 06Which actress played Prue Halliwell for the first three seasons?
Shannen Doherty
She had previously starred on another Aaron Spelling series, Beverly Hills, 90210, and left Charmed at the end of season three.
Q 07Who played the sisters' whitelighter Leo Wyatt?
Brian Krause
Leo was introduced as the handyman hired to fix up the manor before the sisters learned he was their guardian angel.
Q 08What is the name of the nightclub Piper opens in season two?
P3
Prue and Phoebe later became part-owners; before the club, Piper cooked at a restaurant called Quake.
Q 09Which sister was killed off in the season three finale?
Prue
She was killed by Shax, the Source's assassin, and her funeral is where the surviving sisters first meet Paige.
Q 10Which actress joined the cast in season four as long-lost half-sister Paige Matthews?
Rose McGowan
Two of the wrong options were genuinely considered for the role before it went to her.
Q 11Paige is the daughter of the sisters' mother Patty and which whitelighter?
Sam Wilder
Her whitelighter blood is why she was given up at birth: witch-whitelighter relationships were forbidden by the Elders.
Q 12Which Australian actor played half-demon Cole Turner, also known as Belthazor?
Julian McMahon
Cole arrived in season three as an assistant district attorney sent by the Triad to kill the sisters, and instead fell for Phoebe.
Q 13Which future Big Bang Theory star joined Charmed in its final season as young witch Billie Jenkins?
Kaley Cuoco
Billie spent the season searching for her kidnapped older sister Christy, who turned out to be working with the Triad.
Q 21In the pilot, Piper's boyfriend Jeremy turns out to be what kind of evil being?
A warlock
He had been dating her for six months purely because he knew the sisters were witches whose powers he could steal.
Q 22Which ancestor's active powers does the Book of Shadows incantation bestow on the sisters?
Melinda Warren
She was later resurrected on screen in season one to re-imprison her warlock ex-lover Matthew Tate in a locket.
Q 23Prue's second power, gained in season two, lets her be in two places at once. What is it?
Astral projection
While projecting, her physical body falls unconscious and she cannot use her telekinesis.
Q 14Which song, in a cover by Love Spit Love, served as the show's opening theme?
"How Soon Is Now?"
The same cover had appeared on the soundtrack of The Craft; when the license lapsed, streaming versions swapped in a hard-rock instrumental.
Q 15How many episodes of Charmed were made in total?
178
That total made it the longest-running hour-long US series with all-female leads until Desperate Housewives passed it by two episodes.
Q 16Which prolific producer, whose company also made 7th Heaven and Beverly Hills, 90210, produced Charmed?
Aaron Spelling
He personally suggested the working title House of Sisters, which was dropped in favour of Charmed.
Q 17Who created Charmed and wrote its pilot script?
Constance M. Burge
She had researched Wicca to move past broomstick stereotypes, and left as executive producer before season three over the show's shift toward romance plots.
Q 18Which actress was originally cast as Phoebe in the unaired 28-minute pilot before quitting?
Lori Rom
After she left, Aaron Spelling asked Alyssa Milano, whom he knew from Melrose Place, to take over and the pilot was reshot.
Q 19What is the title of the Charmed pilot, a pun on a line from Macbeth?
"Something Wicca This Way Comes"
It drew 7.7 million viewers, the highest-rated debut in WB history until Smallville's pilot beat it.
Q 20In the pilot, what object spells out a one-word message that sends Phoebe upstairs to find the Book?
A spirit board
The board's inscription, 'the power of three will set you free', later becomes the chant that vanquishes the warlock Jeremy.
Q 24Prue's first job on the show was at an auction house. What career did she switch to?
Photographer
Her fiancé and boss Roger nearly got strangled by his own tie when her new telekinesis flared up in the pilot.
Q 25For which newspaper does Phoebe become an advice columnist?
The Bay Mirror
She later dated her millionaire boss Jason Dean, played by future Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane.
Q 26How does Paige move objects with her mind, unlike Prue's straightforward telekinesis?
By calling out for the object to orb to her
Her whitelighter half explains it: she teleports objects rather than pushing them through the air.
Q 27What is the name of Piper and Leo's first son, born in season five?
Wyatt
Grams was astonished at his wiccaning because no male had ever been born into the Warren-Halliwell line.
Q 28Chris Halliwell travels back from the future to stop which relative from becoming an evil dictator?
His brother Wyatt
Adult Chris is killed by the Elder Gideon in the season six finale, in the same episode baby Chris is born.
Q 29Which demon, played by Oded Fehr, is the sisters' main antagonist in season seven?
Zankou
He briefly allied with the sisters against the Avatars before turning on them; they faked their own deaths after vanquishing him.
Q 30Which powerful neutral beings try to remake the world as a Utopia in season seven?
The Avatars
The sisters helped them at first, then discovered the Utopia erased free will and teamed up with a demon to undo it.