Justified Trivia
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127 free Justified trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Justified trivia quiz covers all six seasons and 78 episodes of the FX neo-Western that ran from 2010 to 2015, plus the 2023 sequel City Primeval. It follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the quick-drawing lawman sent home to Harlan County, Kentucky, and his old coal-mining friend turned adversary Boyd Crowder. The easy questions are ones any viewer knows: who plays Raylan and Boyd, the writer whose stories inspired the show, the hat, the marshals' office in Lexington and what Raylan did to Tommy Bucks in Miami. From there it works through every season: Bo Crowder and the cartel, Mags Bennett and her poisoned moonshine, Dickie's lame leg, Robert Quarles's sleeve gun, Ellstin Limehouse and Noble's Holler, the parachutist and Waldo Truth, Drew Thompson's true identity, the Crowes, Avery Markham's vault and the last words in the prison. There are behind-the-scenes questions on the Pittsburgh-shot pilot, why Boyd was meant to die in it, the Gangstagrass theme, the Emmys for Margo Martindale and Jeremy Davies, and Elmore Leonard's own verdict on the adaptation. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the series, its seasons, its characters and its cast before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Fans of modern Westerns may also like our Yellowstone and Deadwood quizzes.
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Q 01What does Gary Hawkins buy a share of by mortgaging the home he shares with Winona in Justified?
A racehorse
A racehorse is Gary's plan to get the couple out of debt, paid for with a loan against their house; Winona, who learns of it afterwards, is furious.
Q 02What kind of shop does Mags Bennett keep in Justified's second season?
A general store
A general store is Mags Bennett's front: from behind its counter she plays the kindly neighbour while running the county's backwoods drug trade.
Q 03What is the title of the short story Justified is chiefly based on?
Fire in the Hole
Fire in the Hole is the story that sends Raylan home to Kentucky; the show's success moved its author to write one more novel about him, published in 2012.
Q 04Who developed Justified for television?
Graham Yost
Graham Yost ran the show for its whole run, and he and its star decided to end it themselves rather than stretch the story, a call the network accepted with regret.
Q 05Where does Coover Bennett's body end up after his fight with Raylan in Justified?
Down a mine shaft
Down a mine shaft: Coover falls into the pit where he and Dickie had dumped the body of Loretta's father, moments after trying to throw Raylan into it.
Q 06In which city is the U.S. Marshals office where Raylan works based?
Lexington
Lexington is Raylan's punishment posting: after a killing that embarrasses his bosses, they transfer him back to the state he grew up in, to his dismay.
Q 07What is the job of Alison Brander, Raylan's girlfriend in Justified's fifth season?
Social worker
Social worker Alison Brander meets Raylan through Loretta's foster case, and his feud with the Crowes soon forces the marshals to put her under guard.
Q 08What does Ava Crowder agree to do to win her release from prison before Justified's last season?
Inform on Boyd for the marshals
Inform on Boyd for the marshals: Raylan gets Ava out so that she can gather evidence for a racketeering case against the man she was engaged to.
Q 09In season one's "The Collection", Raylan meets a dealer who buys paintings by which historical figure?
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler's paintings draw Raylan into the case, and the gallery owner who buys them has a secret: he sets every one alight to spite his late father.
Q 10Who plays Dixie Mafia middleman Wynn Duffy in Justified?
Jere Burns
Jere Burns plays Wynn Duffy, a loan shark who survives a season-one shoot-out with Raylan and keeps resurfacing, rising to a senior post in the Dixie Mafia.
Q 11What was originally going to happen to Boyd Crowder in the Justified pilot?
Die
Boyd was written to die in the pilot, as he does in the original story, but test audiences liked the character so much that the producers kept him alive.
Q 12Whom does Ava Crowder kill shortly before the events of Justified begin?
Her abusive husband Bowman
Her abusive husband Bowman, Boyd's brother, is the man Ava shoots at the supper table; she is left on parole, barred from leaving Kentucky until a judge Raylan saves rewrites the terms.
Q 13Where does Raylan shoot Boyd in the pilot?
In the chest
Q 21Which star of the earlier Elmore Leonard series Karen Sisco guests in Justified's third season as a marshals official?
Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino appears as Karen Goodall, a senior marshal the script only hints is the Leonard heroine she had played, since FX did not hold the rights to that character.
Q 22What job does Mags Bennett's eldest son, Doyle, hold in Justified?
Police chief
Police chief is Doyle Bennett's day job, and he uses the badge to cover up his brothers' crimes.
Q 23What left Dickie Bennett with a lame leg in Justified?
An incident with Raylan in their youth
Raylan shoots Boyd in the chest at Ava's dinner table in the pilot; Boyd survives and later calls it a sign from God.
Q 14Which actor plays Boyd's father Bo Crowder?
M. C. Gainey
M. C. Gainey plays Bo Crowder, the Harlan crime boss who is shot dead by Miami cartel gunmen in the season-one finale.
Q 15Who plays Raylan's father Arlo Givens?
Raymond J. Barry
Raymond J. Barry plays Arlo Givens, Raylan's estranged father, a career Harlan criminal who repeatedly sides with the Crowders against his son.
Q 16What does Boyd's "flock" of reformed convicts destroy in season one of Justified?
A meth lab
A meth lab in a parked RV is torched by Boyd's born-again followers; a man hidden inside dies, and the marshals come after Boyd for it.
Q 17What does Gary Hawkins, the man Winona marries after divorcing Raylan, do for a living in Justified?
He sells real estate
He sells real estate, and his borrowing from the Dixie Mafia to fund land deals brings loan sharks to Winona's door, which is how Raylan is drawn back into her life.
Q 18What is Winona Hawkins's job in Justified?
Court stenographer
Court stenographer: Winona works in the same federal building as the marshals, so she and Raylan keep crossing paths long after their divorce.
Q 19Who leads the Miami drug cartel that wants Raylan dead in season one?
Gio Reyes
Gio Reyes, the Miami drug boss whose enforcer Raylan killed in the pilot, sends gunmen after Raylan in the season-one finale.
Q 20Which building does Boyd Crowder blow up with a rocket launcher in the Justified pilot?
A church
A church with a Black congregation is Boyd's target, but Raylan doubts the white-supremacist act: he reckons the real motive was that its pastor dealt drugs.
An incident with Raylan in their youth did it: Raylan smashed Dickie's knee in a teenage fight, and Dickie has limped, and hated him, ever since.
Q 24Which of her missing father's belongings does Loretta see Coover Bennett wearing in Justified's second season?
A wristwatch
A wristwatch on Coover's arm tells Loretta that her father never left to work elsewhere, as Mags had claimed; she calls Raylan, and Coover comes after her.
Q 25How does Mags Bennett meet her end in Justified?
She poisons her own moonshine
She poisons her own moonshine glass, then offers Raylan a handshake to settle the feud; only as she grips his palm does he realise what she has done.
Q 26Who plays the teenager Loretta McCready in Justified?
Kaitlyn Dever
Kaitlyn Dever plays Loretta McCready, the orphaned girl Raylan watches over; by the final season Loretta is buying up Harlan land herself and defying the crime boss who wants it.
Q 27Which mining company tries to buy up Harlan land in Justified's second season?
Black Pike
Black Pike sends executive Carol Johnson to buy up Harlan land; she hires Boyd for her security team, and Mags Bennett ends up signing her own deal with the company.
Q 28Where is Ellstin Limehouse keeping the money he hands over in Justified's season-three finale?
Inside a pig carcass
Inside a pig carcass: Limehouse slits it open and bundles of bills spill out, to the delight of the man robbing him, who calls it a piggy bank.
Q 29In Justified's "Decoy", what does the beaten Constable Bob do to the mob gunman questioning him?
Stabs him in the leg
Stabs him in the leg: Bob takes the beating without giving up where the marshals' fugitive is hidden, then fights back and kills the gunman just as Raylan arrives.
Q 30Which mobster, exiled from Detroit, is the main villain of Justified's third season?
Robert Quarles
Robert Quarles arrives from Detroit to corner Harlan's pill trade, and as his plans fail he ends up hooked on the pills himself.