Orphan Black Trivia
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50 free Orphan Black trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Orphan Black ran five seasons from 2013 to 2017 and asked one actress to carry a dozen characters who regularly shared the frame. These 50 questions cover the story (Project Leda, Project Castor, Dyad, the Proletheans, Kendall Malone and the 274 clones), the production (the Technodolly nicknamed the Time Vampire, the tennis-ball eyelines, the acting double), the awards, and everything that came after: the IDW comics, the audio series, the Japanese remake and the 2024 spin-off. Good for a #CloneClub rewatch night or a sci-fi TV round. Every answer is sourced.
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Q 01Which actress plays Sarah, Alison, Cosima and every other clone sister in Orphan Black?
Tatiana Maslany
Tatiana Maslany built a separate music playlist for each clone and gave some their own dance moves, using sound and movement to switch between them.
Q 02The episode titles of Orphan Black's first season are all phrases from which book?
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species supplied every first-season title, and the writers kept the habit, turning next to the works of Francis Bacon and then to a presidential farewell address.
Q 03On which Canadian channel did Orphan Black first air?
Space
Space no longer exists under that name: its owner rebranded the science-fiction channel in 2019, two years after the show's finale.
Q 04Which two people created Orphan Black?
Graeme Manson and John Fawcett
Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, a screenwriter and a director, nursed the idea for about a decade before it was made; they wanted a show they could shoot in North America.
Q 05Which Orphan Black clone is a suburban soccer mom who ends up dealing pills?
Alison Hendrix
Alison Hendrix guards her tidy suburban life so fiercely that she runs for school trustee while she and her husband are secretly selling drugs.
Q 06What job did Beth Childs hold when Sarah took over her identity?
Police detective
Police detective Beth had recently shot a civilian, so in stealing her identity Sarah also inherited an inquiry into a killing she knew nothing about.
Q 07In Orphan Black, what is the name of Sarah's foster brother?
Felix Dawkins
Felix Dawkins is the first person Sarah tells about the clones, and he later goes looking for his own blood relatives, finding a half-sister called Adele.
Q 08Which actor plays the artist Felix in Orphan Black?
Jordan Gavaris
Jordan Gavaris was born and raised in Ontario, so the English accent of the London-born Felix is one he puts on for the role.
Q 09In Orphan Black, what is the scientific movement behind the cloning called?
Neolution
Neolution holds that people should use science to steer their own evolution, a creed that leads its followers from body modification to illegal human cloning.
Q 10Which biotech corporation in Orphan Black plants 'monitors' in the clones' lives?
Dyad Institute
Dyad Institute monitors pose as partners: Alison's husband and Beth's boyfriend both turn out to be reporting on the women they live with.
Q 11In Orphan Black, what is the secret religious group that hunts the clones called?
The Proletheans
The Proletheans split over the clones: one faction hunts them as abominations, while a later leader wants to breed from one and calls her fertility a miracle.
Q 12Which Orphan Black clone is Sarah's twin sister?
Helena
Helena was found at twelve by religious extremists, told she was the original, and harshly trained to hunt down and kill her own clones.
Q 13In Orphan Black, what is the name of Sarah's daughter?
Kira
Kira heals unusually fast, and since the clones were designed to be sterile, a clone's child is a prize that their makers are eager to study.
Q 21In Orphan Black's finale, which clone, raised inside the cloning corporation, hands over the list of all 274 sisters?
Rachel Duncan
Rachel Duncan had spent years hunting and betraying her sisters, so her parting gift, the names of every one of them, is what lets the others be found and cured.
Q 22In Orphan Black, which European capital gave its name to a purge of six self-aware clones?
Helsinki
Helsinki was meant to leave no witnesses, but one clone survived it and resurfaces years later as the masked recluse M.K., bent on revenge.
Q 23In Orphan Black, what animal mask does the reclusive clone M.K. wear?
Sheep
Sheep-masked M.K. keeps even her fellow clones at arm's length, the wariness of the only survivor of a massacre of her self-aware sisters.
Q 14The female clone project in Orphan Black takes its name from which Greek myth?
Leda and the Swan
Leda and the Swan is the myth in which Zeus comes to a Spartan queen in the form of a swan; Sarah first meets the name in the caption of an old photograph.
Q 15In Orphan Black, what is the military's male cloning initiative called?
Project Castor
Project Castor clones, unlike the women, grew up together as soldiers and always knew exactly what they were.
Q 16Which actor plays the male clones of Orphan Black, including Mark Rollins?
Ari Millen
Ari Millen joined in the second season as a single character, the cult follower Mark, before its finale revealed him as one face of a whole second clone line.
Q 17In Orphan Black, who raised the male clones in a military setting?
Dr. Virginia Coady
Dr. Virginia Coady, whom the male clones call Mother, was also secretly sterilising ordinary women to gather data on the illness that afflicts them.
Q 18In Orphan Black, who is revealed as the original genetic source of both clone lines?
Kendall Malone
Kendall Malone absorbed a twin brother before birth, leaving her with two cell lines, one female and one male, and each seeded a different clone project.
Q 19In Orphan Black, how is the clones' original genetic source related to Siobhan Sadler?
Her biological mother
Her biological mother, in fact, and no friend: the two had been estranged ever since the older woman killed Siobhan's husband.
Q 20Which novel did Ethan Duncan use to encode his research?
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau, a tale of a scientist remaking living creatures, hid his notes in code, and it was Rachel, the daughter he had abandoned, who could read it.
Q 24What is the profession of Krystal Goderitch, the clone unaware of her origins?
Manicurist
Manicurist Krystal comes face to face with a fellow clone and still refuses to believe it, yet her own amateur sleuthing hands the others vital leads.
Q 25Who plays Cosima's monitor and girlfriend, Delphine Cormier, in Orphan Black?
Evelyne Brochu
Evelyne Brochu's Delphine starts out as a spy planted on Cosima and ends up her wife, a marriage confirmed when the actress returned for the 2024 spin-off.
Q 26Which fertility company does Evie Cho run?
BrightBorn
BrightBorn is the fertility arm of the cloners' movement, and its boss Evie Cho goes as far as ordering the killing of the clones' original donor.
Q 27Who plays Westmorland, the cloning movement's supposedly Victorian-born founder, in Orphan Black?
Stephen McHattie
Stephen McHattie's character claims to have been born in 1842, but he is a fraud: an ordinary man named John Mathieson who took the long-dead founder's identity.
Q 28Who guest-starred in Orphan Black as Jesse, the man who charms Sarah's twin?
Patrick J. Adams
Patrick J. Adams was starring in the legal drama Suits at the time, and he came back a year later so that Jesse could have his reunion in the third-season finale.
Q 29Which future Marvel star had a small role as a schoolteacher in Orphan Black's final season?
Simu Liu
Simu Liu had been laid off from an accounting job only a few years earlier; four years after playing the teacher Mitchell he was the lead of Marvel's Shang-Chi.
Q 30Which Canadian actor was the other finalist for the lead role in Orphan Black?
Elliot Page
Elliot Page was one of two names on the co-creator's final shortlist; the part went to the other after long auditions in which, he said, she 'annihilated everybody'.