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50 free Fear the Walking Dead trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Fear the Walking Dead started as a Los Angeles prequel about a blended family watching civilisation collapse, then rebooted itself in season four around Lennie James's Morgan Jones and a Texas baseball stadium. Its 2015 premiere drew 10.1 million viewers, a cable record, and it ran 113 episodes across eight seasons before signing off in November 2023. These 50 questions cover all of it: Madison, Travis, Nick and Alicia, Victor Strand and Daniel Salazar, the Otto family's ranch, the Vultures, the Pioneers, Teddy's cult and the nuclear submarine, PADRE and the bird code names, plus the production story: the working title Cobalt, Dave Erickson and the Chambliss-Goldberg handover, filming in Vancouver, Baja California, Austin and Savannah, the composers, the Flight 462 and Passage web series and the Dead Ahead lawsuit. Easy questions stick to the core cast; the hard tier asks about episode numbers, call signs and who directed what. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation that adds one more fact. Play it solo or print it for a Walking Dead watch party.
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Q 01Who created Fear the Walking Dead with Robert Kirkman?
Dave Erickson
Erickson ran the first three seasons before Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg took over.
Q 02In which city are the first seasons set?
Los Angeles
The later seasons move the action to Mexico, Texas and finally Georgia.
Q 03Who plays Madison Clark?
Kim Dickens
Dickens left after season four and returned as a regular for the final season.
Q 04What is Madison Clark's job before the apocalypse?
Guidance counselor
Her fiancé Travis teaches English at the same high school.
Q 05Who plays Travis Manawa?
Cliff Curtis
The New Zealand actor was the male lead for the first three seasons.
Q 06What is Nick Clark recovering from when the series begins?
Heroin addiction
Frank Dillane played him for four seasons.
Q 07Which actress plays Alicia Clark?
Alycia Debnam-Carey
She was a regular for seven seasons and returned as a special guest in season eight.
Q 08Who plays Victor Strand?
Colman Domingo
He directed an episode in season four and is credited as a producer on the final season.
Q 09Daniel Salazar, played by Rubén Blades, was once a member of which group?
Sombra Negra
He is a barber whose family fled El Salvador.
Q 10Which Walking Dead character crosses over to lead the show from season four?
Morgan Jones
Lennie James had played him since the 2010 pilot of the original series.
Q 11Which former Savior, played by Austin Amelio, joins the cast in season five?
Dwight
He came to Texas hoping to find his ex-wife Sherry.
Q 12What is John Dorie's profession?
Police officer
Garret Dillahunt played him; Keith Carradine later played his father.
Q 13Which character does Jenna Elfman play?
June Dorie
She first appears using the names Naomi and Laura.
Q 14Maggie Grace's Althea is what by profession?
Q 21What is PADRE in the final season?
An island group raising children
Its leaders Sam and Ben Krennick go by the bird names Shrike and Crane.
Q 22Which character returns in season eight after apparently dying at the end of season three?
Troy Otto
Daniel Sharman's character now has a daughter, Tracy.
Q 23What is the name of the Otto family's season three stronghold?
Broke Jaw Ranch
Dayton Callie's Jeremiah Otto is its racist patriarch.
Journalist
A six-part web series, The Althea Tapes, shows her interviewing survivors.
Q 15Where did Grace Mukherjee work before the apocalypse?
A nuclear power plant
Karen David joined the main cast in season five.
Q 16Which group does young Charlie spy for in season four?
The Vultures
Alexa Nisenson's character later defects to Morgan's group.
Q 17Who leads the scavenging group that besieges the stadium in season four?
Melvin
Kevin Zegers played him, with Evan Gamble as his brother Ennis.
Q 18Colby Minifie's Virginia leads which network of communities?
The Pioneers
Zoe Colletti plays her daughter Dakota.
Q 19Season six villain Teddy Maddox, played by John Glover, is what?
A doomsday cult leader
John Dorie Sr. arrested the serial killer back in the 1970s.
Q 20What is the name of the nuclear submarine featured in season six?
USS Pennsylvania
The AMC+ special Dead in the Water tells the story of its crew.
Q 24Which community does Luciana Galvez come from?
La Colonia in Tijuana
Danay García later directed an episode, the fourth cast member to do so.
Q 25What was the project's working title before it became Fear the Walking Dead?
Cobalt
Kirkman confirmed the final title in March 2015.
Q 26On what date did the series premiere?
August 23, 2015
It debuted simultaneously on AMC in the US and AMC Global around the world.
Q 27How many episodes were in the first season?
Six
AMC had ordered the show with a two-season commitment.
Q 28How many total episodes did the series run?
113
It ended on November 19, 2023 after eight seasons.
Q 29Who took over as showrunners from season four?
Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg
They stayed through the final season.
Q 30Where were most of the first-season episodes filmed after the pilot?
Vancouver
Adam Davidson directed the pilot and the next two episodes.