Good Omens Trivia
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60 free Good Omens trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Good Omens began as a parody of the William books called William the Antichrist, was written on floppy disks posted between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in 1988, and became a novel that sat in development hell for nearly thirty years before Michael Sheen and David Tennant finally played Aziraphale and Crowley on screen. This Good Omens trivia quiz covers both: the book's Them, Witchfinder Army, Agnes Nutter and Four Horsemen, and the Amazon-BBC series through its 2026 finale. Easy questions cover the leads, the streaming service and the band that every cassette turns into. Harder ones ask which real 1612 witch trial supplied the surnames, what the French translation renamed Crowley, where the Soho bookshop street was actually built, which Doctor Who veteran turned up as Job, and what happened to the sequel that was going to be called 668. Every answer has been checked against a source and each question shows its citation and a short explanation once you answer. Ineffable, but not unfair.
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Q 01While co-writing Good Omens, Neil Gaiman also had to keep which monthly comic going?
The Sandman
The Sandman kept Gaiman on deadline, which is one reason Pratchett did most of the physical writing and looked after the master copy.
Q 02At which London hotel do Aziraphale and Crowley dine once the world is saved?
The Ritz
The Ritz: as they dine, a nightingale sings in Berkeley Square for the first time ever, a nod to the old song in which angels dine at the Ritz.
Q 03'The Nice and ___ Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch' — which word completes the title?
Accurate
Her prophecies are indeed perfectly accurate, but so cryptic and specific that they are almost useless to anyone but the person they were meant for.
Q 04Per Gaiman, Good Omens began as a parody of Richmal Crompton's stories under what working title?
William the Antichrist
The working title was William the Antichrist. It outgrew the parody, but Adam and his gang remain recognisably William Brown and the Outlaws in a village at the end of the world.
Q 05How did Gaiman and Pratchett physically exchange drafts while writing Good Omens in 1988?
Posting floppy disks
Posting floppy disks: Gaiman noted that in 1988 they 'really were pretty darn floppy', and the pair also talked the plot through by phone every day.
Q 06Which part of Good Omens did Pratchett say was 'completely and utterly' his alone?
Agnes Nutter's life and death
Agnes Nutter's life and death was, in the authors' own account, 'completely and utterly' Terry's; Neil, meanwhile, 'proudly claims responsibility for the maggots'.
Q 07How do Aziraphale and Crowley survive their executions by Heaven and Hell in series 1?
They swap bodies
They swap bodies: hellfire cannot hurt a demon and holy water cannot hurt an angel, a trick they take from Agnes Nutter's final prophecy.
Q 08In which Oxfordshire village does the Antichrist grow up?
Lower Tadfield
Adam grows up in Lower Tadfield. His reality-warping powers give the village perfect weather all year and, when the end nears, rather more than that.
Q 09What is the collective name for Adam's gang of friends?
The Them
They are the Them: Pepper, Wensleydale and Brian follow Adam everywhere, and their horror at what he is becoming is what pulls him back at the end.
Q 10What is Pepper's full given name?
Pippin Galadriel Moonchild
Pippin Galadriel Moonchild: two of the names come from The Lord of the Rings, and Pratchett called it observation, not parody, having signed books for real Galadriels.
Q 11Which lost continent does Adam accidentally raise after reading about it in a conspiracy magazine?
Atlantis
Atlantis rises after Adam reads about it in the New Aquarian Digest. He also summons UFOs and has the Amazon rainforest reclaim land, all without realising he is doing it.
Q 12Before the events of Good Omens, what was Aziraphale's original job?
Guardian of the Eastern Gate of Eden
Guardian of the Eastern Gate of Eden: he gave his flaming sword to Adam and Eve as they left, out of concern for them, which is how a weapon of Heaven got loose in the world.
Q 13Good Omens says Crowley did not so much Fall as what?
Sauntered vaguely downwards
Q 21The satanic nuns who botch the baby swap belong to the Chattering Order of which saint?
St Beryl
They are the Chattering Order of St Beryl. Sister Mary Loquacious does the fumbling; in the TV series she later runs a corporate training centre on the same site.
Q 22In the Good Omens TV series, what does Anathema do with Agnes's second book of prophecies?
Burns it unread
She burns it unread, after Newt asks whether she wants to be a descendant all her life.
Q 23Agnes Nutter and Anathema Device take their surnames from victims of which real English witch trials?
Pendle, Lancashire, 1612
Sauntered vaguely downwards: Crowley was the serpent who tempted Eve, yet after 6,000 years he likes Earth too much to want it ended.
Q 14In which London park do Aziraphale and Crowley meet to feed the ducks?
St James's Park
St James's Park: here the two talk over the coming Armageddon, and later, after a long drinking session, Crowley persuades Aziraphale to help him prevent it.
Q 15Which modern menace replaced Pestilence among the Four Horsemen of Good Omens?
Pollution
Pollution took over after Pestilence retired in 1936, muttering about penicillin; the newcomer's silver crown turns black at a touch.
Q 16Which Horseman wields the flaming sword that God originally gave to Aziraphale?
War
War carries it. She poses as a war correspondent named Carmine Zuigiber, and when the Them disarm her Aziraphale recognises the blade as the one he gave away in Eden.
Q 17What is Famine's cover identity in the modern world?
A dietician and fast-food tycoon
As Dr Raven Sable, Famine is a diet-book dietician and fast-food tycoon who sells food with no nourishment in it at all; his item of power is a pair of scales.
Q 18Which Duke of Hell is destroyed by a bucket of holy water rigged above Crowley's door?
Ligur
Ligur dies in the holy water. His partner Hastur escapes, ends up trapped in Crowley's answering machine and later bursts out in a wave of maggots.
Q 19What is the forename of Newton Pulsifer's witchfinder ancestor, who burned Agnes Nutter at the stake?
Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery
Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer lit the fire. Agnes had packed her petticoats with gunpowder and roofing nails, so the burning did not go the way he planned.
Q 20Which Witchfinder Sergeant recruits Newt as the Army's only other member?
Shadwell
Sergeant Shadwell recruits Newt. He ends the story going off to share a home with his medium neighbour Madame Tracy, which winds up the Witchfinder Army for good.
Pendle, Lancashire, 1612: Alice Nutter and Elizabeth Device were among those hanged, convicted with help from the evidence of Device's nine-year-old daughter Jennet.
Q 24What title was planned for the Good Omens sequel plotted in Seattle in 1989?
668 – The Neighbour of the Beast
It was 668 – The Neighbour of the Beast. The jet-lagged pair plotted it while sharing a Seattle hotel room; an archangel barely mentioned in the book was to be a much bigger character.
Q 25Which London road did Crowley help design in the shape of a demonic sigil?
The M25
The M25: the novel calls the orbital motorway prime evidence for the hidden hand of Satan, and when the end comes it turns into a ring of fire around London.
Q 26Which director spent years trying to make a Good Omens film with a completed script?
Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam spent years on it with a finished script. Most of the money was in place by 2002, but the funding to start shooting never came and he moved on.
Q 27Rumoured casting for the abandoned film paired Johnny Depp as Crowley with which actor as Aziraphale?
Robin Williams
Robin Williams and Depp were reported in talks for the two leads in February 2002, but the money to shoot never arrived and the casting stayed a rumour.
Q 28In the 2014 BBC Radio 4 adaptation, the two authors cameoed as what?
A pair of traffic cops
A pair of traffic cops, who get more than they bargain for when they try to stop Crowley's speeding car; the cast list credits each simply as Policeman.
Q 29Which actress plays both the medium Madame Tracy and, in series 2, the demon Shax?
Miranda Richardson
Miranda Richardson plays both: Madame Tracy lends her body to a bodiless Aziraphale at a seance, and Shax later leads Hell's assault on his bookshop.
Q 30Which two actors were cast in August 2017 as Aziraphale and Crowley?
Michael Sheen and David Tennant
Michael Sheen and David Tennant were announced in August 2017. They reprised the roles in voice-only form for a three-minute lockdown short released on YouTube in May 2020.