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76 free Game of Thrones trivia questions with answers. Eight seasons, countless betrayals, and three dragons. Game of Thrones became the most talked-about show in television history. From the Red Wedding to the Battle of the Bastards, how well do you know the world of Westeros?
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Q 01Who actually slips the poison into Joffrey's wine at the Purple Wedding?
Olenna Tyrell
The Queen of Thorns did it to spare her granddaughter a marriage to a boy she privately called 'that beast', and Jaime later returns the favour with a painless poison in her own cup.
Q 02What is the name of the massive structure that separates the northern wilderness from the Seven Kingdoms?
The Wall
It stands 700 feet high and runs 300 miles coast to coast, raised some 8,000 years before the story after the Long Night to bar the Others from the south.
Q 03Which actress took over Daenerys Targaryen from Tamzin Merchant after the original, unaired pilot?
Emilia Clarke
The pilot was reshot almost entirely with a new director, Tim Van Patten; Jennifer Ehle's Catelyn was recast with Michelle Fairley at the same time.
Q 04What are the names of Daenerys's three dragons?
Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion
She hatched them by walking into Drogo's funeral pyre with the three eggs; Jorah found her in the ashes the next morning, unburned, with the hatchlings clinging to her.
Q 05Which cast member won a record four Primetime Emmys for playing the Lannister brother known as the Imp?
Peter Dinklage
He won in 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2019 and was the only Game of Thrones actor ever to take home a Primetime Emmy, earning top billing from the second season on.
Q 06What is the Iron Throne made from?
The swords of Aegon's defeated enemies
Purportedly a thousand blades went into it, and it is so jagged that Aerys cut himself often enough to be nicknamed King Scab, while Maegor the Cruel was found dead in it.
Q 07Jaqen H'ghar tells Arya to remember which High Valyrian passphrase, meaning 'all men must die'?
Valar Morghulis
Valar Morghulis comes with an iron coin that buys her passage to Braavos; the customary reply, Valar Dohaeris, means 'all men must serve'.
Q 08Which event involves the massacre of Robb Stark and his bannermen at a wedding feast?
The Red Wedding
The Red Wedding occurs in Season 3 at the Twins, where Walder Frey and Roose Bolton conspire with Tywin Lannister to murder Robb Stark, his mother Catelyn, his wife Talisa, and his bannermen during Edmure Tully's wedding feast.
Q 09What is the name of Jon Snow's direwolf?
Ghost
The albino runt is found apart from the rest of the litter, and later helps Jon kill Qhorin Halfhand in the staged fight that gets him into Mance Rayder's camp.
Q 10Who is chosen by a council of lords to rule the Six Kingdoms at the very end of the TV series?
Bran Stark
The council votes him in on the argument that the man with the best story should rule, and that future kings should be elected by the lords rather than inherit; asked if he wants it, he replies, "Why do you think I came all this way?"
Q 11Whose words are "Hear Me Roar"?
House Lannister
The house began as a First Men dynasty descended from the trickster Lann the Clever, who is said to have swindled the family seat out of House Casterly.
Q 12What kingdom does Sansa Stark rule at the end of the series?
The North
She was the one voice on the council to withhold her vote for the new king, asking instead for independence as it stood before Aegon's conquest, which he granted.
Q 13Who kills the Night King in Season 8?
Arya Stark
Arya Stark kills the Night King during the Battle of Winterfell in Season 8, Episode 3 ("The Long Night"), stabbing him with a Valyrian steel dagger after a surprise leap attack.
Q 21Which sworn brotherhood mans the great ice barrier at the top of the Seven Kingdoms?
The Night's Watch
Its lands include the Gift, a strip fifty leagues wide, and its brothers swear off lands, titles and family for life; originally raised against the Others, it spent centuries fighting wildling raids instead.
Q 22Which character pushes Bran Stark from a tower window in the very first episode?
Jaime Lannister
Martin has said the tower scene is the moment that hooked a million readers, because it signalled this was not the story they had read a hundred times before.
Q 23Who are Jon Snow's real parents, as the series finally reveals?
Rhaegar and Lyanna
Q 14What is the seat of House Lannister?
Casterly Rock
Casterly Rock was, legend says, the seat of House Casterly until Lann the Clever swindled it away; its lords have styled themselves Wardens of the West ever since.
Q 15What is the Valyrian word Daenerys uses to command her dragons to breathe fire?
Dracarys
"Dracarys" is High Valyrian for "dragonfire." Daenerys uses this command to order her dragons to breathe fire, first teaching it to Drogon in Season 2.
Q 16How many seasons did the Game of Thrones TV series run for?
8
It ran from April 2011 to May 2019, and HBO originally intended each novel to supply one season's worth of episodes.
Q 17Which character is known as "The Imp"?
Tyrion Lannister
The New York Times has called him one of Martin's finest creations, and Bantam published a whole illustrated book of his quotes, The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister, in 2013.
Q 18What is the name of the continent where most of Game of Thrones takes place?
Westeros
The continent is roughly the size of South America, and Martin held back full world maps for years so readers would share the medieval sense of an unmapped world.
Q 19Who wrote the book series that Game of Thrones is based on?
George R.R. Martin
He began the first volume in 1991 intending a trilogy, and a cover blurb from Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan helped the 1,088-page manuscript find its early readers.
Q 20What is Arya Stark's sword called?
Needle
Mikken forged the smallsword at Jon's request, and she named it after her least favourite of the ladylike pursuits she was made to endure.
Guessing the identity of Jon's mother was the test Martin set Benioff and Weiss in 2006 before he let them adapt the books; fans had called the theory R+L=J for years.
Q 24Arya trains with the Faceless Men in which Free City, founded by escaped slaves and guarded by a colossal statue, the Titan?
Braavos
Braavos is also home to the Iron Bank, to which the Crown owes millions; the Titan doubles as a fortress astride the harbour mouth.
Q 25In the books, Sam Tarly kills an Other with a dagger made of which material?
Dragonglass
Obsidian makes the creature smoke and puddle away in twenty heartbeats, though it does nothing to wights, and old records Sam later finds hint at a second weakness called dragonsteel.
Q 26Who is the "Red Woman" or "Red Priestess" in the series?
Melisandre
Carice van Houten earned an Emmy nomination in the role; the priestess of R'hllor rarely eats or sleeps and brings Jon back from the dead in the Season 6 episode 'Home'.
Q 27In the show, the poison that kills Joffrey is smuggled into the wedding hidden inside what?
A gem on a necklace
Ser Dontos gave it to Sansa claiming it was his mother's; in the books the same trick is worked with an amethyst hairnet, one stone of which is missing afterwards.
Q 28Which actress plays Cersei Lannister in the HBO series?
Lena Headey
Lena Headey portrayed Cersei Lannister throughout all eight seasons of Game of Thrones. Her performance earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Q 29In the TV series, which sellsword company does Daario Naharis take over and pledge to Daenerys?
The Second Sons
The show swapped in the company for the Stormcrows of the books, and gave Daario a backstory as a pit fighter sold into slavery by his alcoholic mother.
Q 30Which Valyrian steel sword does Jon Snow receive from Lord Commander Mormont, its bear pommel swapped for a wolf's head?
Longclaw
Longclaw was House Mormont's ancestral sword; Jeor Mormont gives it to Jon for saving his life from a wight, with a new wolf-head pommel replacing the original bear.