Farscape Trivia
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59 free Farscape trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Farscape was the sci-fi series that put a Henson puppet on the bridge, let its hero swear in made-up words and then got cancelled on a cliffhanger. This quiz has 59 free Farscape trivia questions with answers covering all four seasons and The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries. Easy ones ask who Crichton is and what Moya is; harder ones dig into Zhaan's crime, Rygel's usurping cousin, the age of Noranti, Grayza's Heppel oil, the episode where Harvey first appeared, and the German company whose purchase of the Henson company shaped the show's fate. There are cast questions too, from Lani Tupu's double duty to where Ben Browder was born. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's Farscape and character entries and carries a citation, so it holds up whether you are running a pub quiz or settling a fan argument.
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Q 01Which writer is credited as the creator of Farscape?
Rockne S. O'Bannon
Rockne S. O'Bannon, who wrote the film Alien Nation, began developing the costly series in the early 1990s but spent years trying to get it on air.
Q 02Who co-produced Farscape and built its alien characters?
The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company made Farscape to show off its Creature Shop, which is why two of the regulars, Rygel and Pilot, are animatronic puppets rather than actors.
Q 03Farscape was originally made for which Australian broadcaster?
Nine Network
Nine Network was the Australian partner on a series shot in Australia, which is why nearly all the cast apart from American lead Ben Browder came from Australia and New Zealand.
Q 04On which US cable network did Farscape premiere?
Sci-Fi
Farscape premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel as part of its Friday-night line-up, though the channel's later scheduling of the show became notoriously erratic.
Q 05Which relative of Farscape's Peacekeeper captain dies clipping Crichton's module?
Brother
Brother: his fighter clips Crichton's module in the first episode and crashes, so the captain hunts Crichton across the first season for revenge.
Q 06In which Australian city was Farscape filmed?
Sydney
Sydney was the base, with filming starting at the city's Fox Studios; the producers said they chose Australia because desert, jungle and mountains all lay close by and looked suitably alien.
Q 07What is Crichton injected with in Farscape's first episode so he can understand alien speech?
Translator microbes
Translator microbes let Moya's crew understand one another, but they cannot handle Crichton's Earth slang and pop-culture references, so his shipmates are often left guessing.
Q 08What was Crichton's Farscape module built to test?
A gravity slingshot
A gravity slingshot was the experiment: Crichton hoped Earth's pull would whip his module to greater speed, but a wormhole opened in his path and swallowed the craft.
Q 09Which space agency employed Crichton?
IASA
IASA ran the Farscape project, a test flight of a theory Crichton devised with his childhood friend DK, and it was that flight which flung him across the universe.
Q 10Crichton's father, also an astronaut, is called what?
Jack
Jack is only a nickname: father and son are both John Robert Crichton, which makes the show's hero John Jr., who followed his father into space.
Q 11In Farscape, what kind of vessel is Moya, the ship the crew live aboard?
A Leviathan
Moya is a Leviathan, a living biomechanoid ship bred for peace; she carries no weapons at all and relies on a fast-escape manoeuvre to flee.
Q 12What is the name of Moya's fast-escape manoeuvre through a tear in space-time?
Starburst
Starburst lets Moya rip open a tear in space-time and leap a vast distance; Aeryn's fighter was caught in the first one, stranding her with the escapees.
Q 13What do the initials DRD stand for on Moya?
Diagnostic Repair Drone
DRD stands for Diagnostic Repair Drone; the little beetle-like robots are built by the living ship herself as she grows.
Q 21What is the name of D'Argo's long-lost son?
Jothee
Jothee was left in others' care and ended up a slave; D'Argo spent two seasons searching for him, only for the reunion to sour when Jothee slept with Chiana.
Q 22Zhaan, the blue-skinned priestess, belongs to which plant species?
Delvian
Zhaan is a Delvian, a species of sentient plants, and the priestess dies in season 3 by giving up her own life to save Moya and the crew.
Q 23Zhaan was imprisoned for assassinating which person?
Her lover
Her lover Bitaal led her world and refused to step down when his term ended, hiring Peacekeepers to hold on to power; Zhaan killed him during a mental union, which shattered her own mind.
Q 14Moya's offspring, a gunship that Aeryn named after her father, is called what?
Talyn
Talyn was born bristling with guns after a Peacekeeper breeding experiment on his unarmed mother, and they jammed him in the birth canal until he fired a shot to free himself.
Q 15Aeryn Sun looks human but belongs to which species?
Sebacean
Sebaceans cannot regulate their body heat, so too much warmth sends Aeryn into heat delirium and then a permanent coma her people call the living death.
Q 16Who played Aeryn Sun?
Claudia Black
Claudia Black played Aeryn Sun, who begins the series as a cold, by-the-book Peacekeeper soldier and ends the story married to Crichton, with a newborn son.
Q 17What type of one-person Peacekeeper fighter did Aeryn fly?
Prowler
Aeryn's Prowler was dragged along when Moya broke free, stranding the Peacekeeper pilot among the very fugitives she had been sent to stop.
Q 18Ka D'Argo belongs to which warrior species?
Luxan
D'Argo is a Luxan, a warrior race prone to fits of hyper-rage, which made it easy to pin a killing on him that he did not commit.
Q 19D'Argo's heavy broadsword can transform into what?
A rifle
A rifle: the Qualta Blade doubles as a gun. It later saves the crew, when D'Argo's new ship cancels its self-destruct on being shown the blade he had hurled away in a temper.
Q 20D'Argo was falsely convicted of killing whom?
His wife
D'Argo was framed for the murder of his wife Lo'Laan, who was actually killed by her own brother Macton; the Peacekeepers chained him with hooks set around his collarbones.
Q 24Why did Virginia Hey leave Farscape?
Health problems from the make-up and schedule
Health problems from the make-up and schedule forced Virginia Hey out: the blue make-up on her head and chest and the long filming days made her kidneys bleed, and she was tired of shaving her head.
Q 25Rygel XVI was once the ruler, or Dominar, of which empire?
Hynerian
Rygel XVI ruled the Hynerian Empire until he was deposed and handed to the Peacekeepers, and he spends the series scheming to win his throne back.
Q 26Which relative overthrew Rygel?
His cousin Bishan
His cousin Bishan seized the throne more than 130 cycles before the series and handed Rygel to the Peacekeepers; much later, with war closing in, Bishan asked him to come home and reunite their people.
Q 27What gas does Rygel emit when he gets nervous, in a recurring gag?
Helium
Rygel passes helium when nervous, a trait of his species, and everyone in earshot ends up talking in a squeaky voice.
Q 28Chiana, the grey-skinned thief, belongs to which race?
Nebari
Chiana is a Nebari; her homeworld is run by a rigid government called The Establishment, which mind-cleanses dissidents, and she fled it.
Q 29Who played Chiana in Farscape?
Gigi Edgley
Gigi Edgley was hired for a single episode in which Chiana was meant to die, but the performance went down so well that the character stayed and became a regular.
Q 30After an encounter with an Energy Rider in season 3, what ability did Chiana develop?
Precognitive visions
Chiana gained brief precognitive visions after the Energy Rider incident in Losing Time; each use came at a cost, leaving her temporarily blind.