Fargo (FX series) Trivia
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127 free Fargo (FX Series) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Fargo trivia quiz is about the FX anthology series created by Noah Hawley, which ran for five seasons between 2014 and 2024 (if you want the 1996 Coen brothers film with Marge Gunderson and the wood chipper, take our Fargo movie quiz instead). Each season tells its own Midwestern crime story: Lorne Malvo and Lester Nygaard in Bemidji, the Gerhardt family war and the UFO at Sioux Falls in 1979, the Stussy brothers and V.M. Varga, Loy Cannon against the Fadda family in 1950 Kansas City, and Dot Lyon, Roy Tillman and the sin-eater Ole Munch in 2019. The easy questions are ones any viewer knows: who plays Malvo, what Lester sells, which state trooper is Molly's father, what Peggy hits with her car and what Munch finally eats. From there it works through every episode: the deer on the highway, Mr Wrench and Mr Numbers, the Supermarket King's buried satchel, the Waffle Hut, Ed's meat grinder, Hanzee, the parking lot king's stamp, the Planet Wyh, the traded sons of Kansas City, the tornado in Liberal, the three Roy Tillmans and the biscuits. There are behind-the-scenes questions on the Coens' involvement, Calgary standing in for Minnesota, the 1997 pilot with Edie Falco, the 'true story' card, the Emmys and Golden Globes and Jeff Russo's score. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the series, its seasons, its episodes and its cast before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Fans of prestige crime drama may also like our Better Call Saul and True Detective quizzes.
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Q 01Who plays Don Chumph, the dim personal trainer Malvo ropes into his blackmail scheme in Fargo?
Glenn Howerton
Glenn Howerton plays Don Chumph, whose clumsy blackmail plot Malvo takes over; Malvo later straps a shotgun to him and leaves him for the police to shoot.
Q 02Where do Lester Nygaard and Lorne Malvo first meet in the Fargo series?
A hospital
A hospital: Lester is waiting with a broken nose and Malvo with a head wound from his car crash when Malvo calmly offers to kill the man who humiliated him.
Q 03Which brothers wrote and directed the 1996 film that the Fargo series is based on?
Joel and Ethan Coen
Joel and Ethan Coen won the screenplay Oscar for the 1996 film; the series keeps its snowbound setting and deadpan tone but tells new stories with new characters.
Q 04What business does the retired Lou Solverson run in the first season of Fargo?
A coffee shop
A coffee shop: Lou's is where Molly talks through her cases, and where the ex-trooper meets Malvo and tells the killer about the bloodiest case of his career.
Q 05Who plays Greta, Gus Grimly's young daughter, in the first season of Fargo?
Joey King
Joey King plays Greta Grimly; hearing her voice on the police radio, Malvo warns Gus to think of his daughter, and Gus lets the killer drive away.
Q 06Who plays the hitman Lorne Malvo in season one?
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton plays Lorne Malvo, who drifts into town after a car crash, coaxes a meek local into murder and leaves bodies across Minnesota.
Q 07What is Lester Nygaard's job in season one?
Insurance salesman
Insurance salesman Lester is failing at the job when the series opens, mocked by his wife for it; a year and several deaths later he is collecting a salesman of the year award.
Q 08Who plays Lester Nygaard?
Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman plays Lester Nygaard, a henpecked husband who kills his wife in the first episode and spends the season lying his way out of it.
Q 09In Fargo's first episode, what is Lester trying to fix when Pearl's taunts finally make him snap?
A washing machine
A washing machine: Lester only makes the fault worse, and when Pearl says she regrets marrying him, the meekest man in town turns killer.
Q 10Who plays Deputy Molly Solverson?
Allison Tolman
Allison Tolman plays Deputy Molly Solverson, who suspects Lester within days and keeps digging even after her new chief orders her off the case.
Q 11Which city's police force does Gus Grimly belong to?
Duluth
Gus Grimly is a Duluth police officer and single father; he lets Malvo go after pulling him over for speeding, a choice that haunts him.
Q 12Who plays Gus Grimly?
Colin Hanks
Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks's son, plays Gus Grimly, a patrolman so shaken by one roadside encounter with Malvo that he ends up hunting him himself.
Q 13Which Emmy did the first season of Fargo win in 2014?
Outstanding Miniseries
Outstanding Miniseries went to Fargo because each season tells one complete story with its own cast, so it competed against miniseries, not ongoing dramas.
Q 21What is Stavros Milos, whom Malvo begins to extort, known as?
The Supermarket King
The Supermarket King hires Malvo to unmask a blackmailer, and Malvo, on finding the culprit, quietly takes over the blackmail himself.
Q 22What did Stavros find buried in the snow in 1987, linking the Fargo series to the 1996 film?
A satchel of money
A satchel of money, the ransom Carl Showalter buried in the 1996 film; broke and stranded, Stavros had just prayed for help and took it as God's answer.
Q 23What flows out of Stavros's shower head in Malvo's biblical torment?
Pig's blood
Pig's blood pours from the shower as Malvo, who has already killed Stavros's dog, fakes a run of biblical plagues; a swarm of crickets comes next.
Q 14In Fargo's 2014 opening scene, what does Lorne Malvo hit with his car on a highway outside Bemidji, Minnesota?
A deer
Malvo hits a deer in January 2006, and a nearly naked man then escapes from his trunk.
Q 15Who is Sam Hess to Lester?
His childhood bully
His childhood bully still torments Lester in middle age: Sam Hess fakes a punch in the street, and Lester flinches into a window and breaks his own nose.
Q 16With what does Lester kill his wife Pearl?
A hammer
Lester strikes Pearl in the head with a hammer in their basement after she mocks him, then phones Malvo for help.
Q 17Where does Lorne Malvo track down and kill Sam Hess in Fargo's first episode?
A strip club
A strip club is where Malvo finds Hess and throws a knife into the back of his head; he then tells a horrified Lester that he never actually said no.
Q 18What are the two Fargo hitmen sent to find Hess's killer called?
Wrench and Numbers
Wrench and Numbers are sent by the Fargo mob: Wrench is deaf, and Numbers learned sign language as a boy so the two friends could talk.
Q 19What do Fargo's mob hitmen do with the man abducted by mistake?
Drop him into an ice fishing hole
They drop him into an ice fishing hole once the mob's lawyer says he is the wrong man: Lenny Potts had merely matched a description of Malvo.
Q 20Who plays the naive new police chief Bill Oswalt?
Bob Odenkirk
Bob Odenkirk played Bill Oswalt, the genial deputy who becomes Bemidji police chief after Vern's death and keeps dismissing Molly's suspicions about Lester.
Q 24What does Malvo claim to be when Gus arrests him near Stavros's house?
A Christian minister
A Christian minister named Frank Peterson is Malvo's cover story, backed by papers and an alibi; the police believe it and let him walk free.
Q 25What injury reveals Lester was in the room when Vern was killed?
A shotgun pellet wound in his hand
A shotgun pellet wound in his hand: a stray pellet from the blast that killed Vern lodged there, and Lester hid it until a severe infection gave him away.
Q 26What job does Gus Grimly take after leaving the police in Fargo's first season?
Mail carrier
Mail carrier is the job Gus always wanted: he admits he never liked police work, and after accidentally shooting Molly in a whiteout he finally quits.
Q 27Whom does Lester frame for the murders of Pearl and Vern?
His brother Chazz
His brother Chazz takes the fall: Lester hides the murder weapon in Chazz's gun cabinet and slips a pistol into his nephew's school bag so police search the house.
Q 28What becomes of FBI agents Budge and Pepper after they miss Malvo's massacre in Fargo?
Demoted to the file room
Demoted to the file room, a bored Budge wonders how many files could be removed before it stopped being a file room: the heap paradox that titles the episode.
Q 29Which comedy duo play FBI agents Budge and Pepper?
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele play FBI agents Bill Budge and Webb Pepper, who sit bickering in a parked car while Malvo shoots up the building they are watching.
Q 30Where does Lester spot Malvo a year later, in season one?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas. Lester is there to collect an industry award when he spots Malvo at the hotel bar; Malvo pretends not to know him, and Lester refuses to let it go.