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129 free Dark (Netflix) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Dark trivia quiz covers all three seasons of the German Netflix series that ran from 2017 to 2020, the mind-bending time-travel story of four families in the small town of Winden. The easy questions are ones anyone who finished it will know: the town, the caves under the nuclear power plant, the boy who vanishes into 1986, the 33-year cycle and the leader of Sic Mundus. From there it gets harder: which characters are secretly which other characters, who fathered whom across the loops, the years each storyline is set in, the German episode titles, the White Devil, Erit Lux, the God Particle, the Unknown, the origin world and what happens at the dinner party in the final scene. There are production questions too, on creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, the Apparat theme song, composer Ben Frost, where in Brandenburg the show was filmed, the awards it won and the follow-up series 1899. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the series, its characters, its creators and its cast before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, try our Stranger Things and Twin Peaks quizzes next.
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Q 01In which country was Dark made?
Germany
Dark was made in Germany, with a German cast and crew, and is set in the fictional German town of Winden.
Q 02Which two people created Dark?
Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese
Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese created Dark together; the two are partners off-screen as well, with Friese serving as head writer.
Q 03How many seasons of Dark were made?
3
Dark has 3 seasons; Netflix confirmed the third would be the last, completing the creators' planned trilogy.
Q 04How many episodes of Dark are there in total?
26
Dark has 26 episodes in total; the series finale, 'The Paradise', ends with a dinner party in the origin world.
Q 05Which logical puzzle does Dark's plot structure make prominent use of?
The bootstrap paradox
The bootstrap paradox drives Dark: objects such as the time machine and its blueprint exist only because they are carried back through time, with no original cause.
Q 06Which actor leads Dark's ensemble cast as Jonas Kahnwald?
Louis Hofmann
He won a Danish film award for playing a prisoner of war before Dark.
Q 07On what date did the first season of Dark premiere?
1 December 2017
Dark's first season premiered on 1 December 2017, with every episode of the season released on Netflix the same day.
Q 08What are the four central families of Winden?
Kahnwald, Nielsen, Doppler and Tiedemann
Kahnwald, Nielsen, Doppler and Tiedemann are Winden's four central families; the series opens with the Kahnwald family mourning Jonas's father.
Q 09In which year does the first season begin?
2019
The first season begins in 2019, with Winden's teenagers searching the caves after a boy disappears; time travel then reaches back to 1986 and 1953.
Q 10Where is the wormhole located in Winden?
In the caves beneath the power plant
In the caves beneath the power plant is where the wormhole lies; Jonas follows a red cord through the tunnels to a steel door, behind which the passage links years a fixed cycle apart.
Q 11What is the name of the time-travel society introduced in season two?
Sic Mundus Creatus Est
The Latin means "Thus the World Was Created".
Q 12On what date does the apocalypse occur in Winden?
June 27, 2020
The apocalypse strikes Winden on June 27, 2020; the countdown to that day, marked episode by episode, structures the whole of the second season.
Q 13What does the third season introduce alongside the original reality?
A parallel world
A parallel world is introduced in the third season; in it Jonas was never born, and alternate versions of the main characters live out a mirrored loop.
Q 21What is the elderly Jonas, leader of Sic Mundus, called?
Adam
Adam is the name the elderly Jonas takes as leader of Sic Mundus; disfigured by his time travel, he is played by Dietrich Hollinderbäumer.
Q 22Who plays the teenage Martha?
Lisa Vicari
Lisa Vicari plays the teenage Martha; the Munich-born actress had already starred in Tim Fehlbaum's 2011 post-apocalyptic film Hell.
Q 23Which actress plays Eva, the elderly Martha who leads the rival faction?
Barbara Nüsse
Barbara Nüsse plays Eva, the elderly Martha; a veteran of German theatre, she appears only in the third season, when the rival faction's world is revealed.
Q 14Which new year is added as a storyline in season three?
1888
Adult Jonas spends months there building a machine to reactivate the portal.
Q 15Where did the BBC rank Dark among the greatest TV series of the 21st century in 2021?
58th
The BBC ranked Dark 58th in its 2021 critics' poll of the 100 greatest TV series of the 21st century, a list topped by The Wire.
Q 16Which musician composed Dark's opening theme "Goodbye"?
Apparat
Apparat, the German electronic musician Sascha Ring, composed 'Goodbye', Dark's opening theme, first released on his 2011 album The Devil's Walk.
Q 17Who composed the score for Dark?
Ben Frost
Ben Frost composed Dark's score; the Australian-born experimental musician had earlier scored the Arctic crime series Fortitude.
Q 18Which company produced Dark?
Wiedemann & Berg Television
Wiedemann & Berg Television produced Dark; founders Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann were executive producers, having earlier produced the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others.
Q 19Who directed every episode of Dark?
Baran bo Odar
Baran bo Odar directed every episode of Dark, while co-creator Jantje Friese wrote or co-wrote each script.
Q 20What is Jonas known as when he appears as an adult time traveller?
The Stranger
The Stranger is the name given to the adult Jonas, played by Andreas Pietschmann, who guides his younger self from the shadows in the first season.
Q 24What is the profession of Hannah, Jonas's mother?
Massage therapist
Massage therapist is Hannah's profession; she works from a treatment table at home and blackmails the plant director in the first season.
Q 25Who plays the police officer Ulrich?
Oliver Masucci
Oliver Masucci plays Ulrich; the German actor went on to portray Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the 2020 biopic Enfant Terrible.
Q 26What is Katharina Nielsen's job in 2019?
School principal
School principal is Katharina's job; she runs the Winden school that her own children and Jonas attend.
Q 27What is Charlotte Doppler's job in 2019?
Winden chief of police
Winden chief of police is Charlotte's post; she leads the search for the missing boys and is Ulrich's superior at the station.
Q 28Which of Charlotte and Peter's daughters is deaf?
Elisabeth
In the alternate world it is Franziska who is deaf instead.
Q 29What is the title of the Winden clockmaker's book?
A Journey Through Time
A Journey Through Time (Eine Reise durch die Zeit) is the clockmaker's book; it exists only as a bootstrap, a copy from the future reaching its author before he wrote it.
Q 30Who is Bartosz's father, the plant director in 2019?
Aleksander Tiedemann
Aleksander Tiedemann is Bartosz's father and the plant's director; he married Regina and took her surname after arriving in Winden as a fugitive in 1986.