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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 all of the Leda clones?
Tatiana Maslany
She built a different music playlist for each clone to help switch between personalities on set.
Q 02In which year did the series premiere?
2013
It launched on the same night in Canada and the United States, on March 30.
Q 03On which Canadian channel did the show first air?
Space
It later made its broadcast-network debut on CTV in August 2013.
Q 04Which two people created the series?
Graeme Manson and John Fawcett
Manson was the screenwriter and Fawcett the director; both also co-wrote the IDW comic tie-in.
Q 05What is the name of the con artist at the centre of the story?
Sarah Manning
She is British by origin and living in Toronto when the story begins.
Q 06What job did Beth Childs hold when Sarah took over her identity?
Police detective
Her partner on the force, Art Bell, is played by Kevin Hanchard.
Q 07What is the name of Sarah's foster brother?
Felix Dawkins
He is the first person Sarah tells about the clones, and he returns in the 2024 spin-off.
Q 08Which actor plays Felix?
Jordan Gavaris
Felix identifies as a modern artist and moonlights as a sex worker in the early seasons.
Q 09What is the scientific movement behind the cloning called?
Neolution
Its public face in the early seasons is Dr. Aldous Leekie, played by Matt Frewer.
Q 10Which biotech corporation serves as the movement's institutional base?
Dyad Institute
It placed "monitors" in each clone's personal life under the guise of scientific study.
Q 11What is the secret religious group that hunts the clones called?
The Proletheans
A faction of the group uses Sarah's twin sister as its assassin.
Q 12Which clone is Sarah's biological twin?
Helena
The two share a surrogate birth mother, making them twins in both genes and early environment.
Q 13What is the name of Sarah's daughter, the only known child of a clone?
Kira
All the other clones were designed to be sterile, which makes her a target for study.
Q 14The female cloning programme takes its name from which Greek myth?
Q 21How many Leda clones exist in total, according to the series finale?
274
The finale introduces Camilla Torres, a Colombian clone, as one of those receiving the cure.
Q 22In which city were six self-aware Leda clones executed, per the season 3 premiere?
Helsinki
The show dates the killings to 2006; the comics later moved them to 2001.
Q 23What animal mask does the reclusive clone M.K. wear?
Sheep
M.K. turns out to be Veera Suominen, a survivor first introduced in the IDW comics.
Q 24What is the profession of Krystal Goderitch, the clone unaware of her origins?
Leda and the Swan
Sarah first sees the name on the caption of a photograph handed to her.
Q 15What is the military's male cloning initiative called?
Project Castor
Unlike the women, the male clones were all raised together knowing what they were.
Q 16Which actor plays the male clones, including Mark Rollins?
Ari Millen
He was promoted to the regular cast in season three, with Nick Abraham as his acting double.
Q 17Who raised the male clones in a military setting?
Dr. Virginia Coady
Kyra Harper plays the military doctor, who was also illegally sterilising ordinary women.
Q 18Who is revealed as the original genetic source of both clone lines?
Kendall Malone
She could seed both lines because she is a chimera, carrying male and female DNA.
Q 19How is the original genetic source related to Mrs. S?
Her biological mother
She also murdered Mrs. S's husband John decades before the events of the show.
Q 20Which novel did Ethan Duncan use to encode his research?
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Rachel, the daughter he abandoned, was the one who translated his coded edition.
Manicurist
She first appears in the season 3 premiere and gets a full episode later that season.
Q 25Who plays Cosima's monitor and girlfriend, Delphine Cormier?
Evelyne Brochu
She was originally announced as a graduate student in molecular and cellular biology, and she returns in the spin-off.
Q 26Which fertility company does Evie Cho run?
BrightBorn
Jessalyn Wanlim was cast in the role in February 2016 for the fourth season.
Q 27Who plays P.T. Westmorland, the founder of the movement, in season five?
Stephen McHattie
The character claims to have been born in 1842 and to have vanished into Borneo in 1898.
Q 28Who played Jesse, the love interest of Sarah's twin, in guest appearances?
Patrick J. Adams
He appeared in season 2, episode 6 and again in the season 3 finale.
Q 29Which future Marvel star played Mr. Mitchell, Kira's teacher, in season five?
Simu Liu
The season-five castings also included Andrew Moodie as Rachel's consultant Mr. Frontenac.
Q 30Which Canadian actor was considered for the lead before the eventual casting?
Elliot Page
The lead casting was announced on September 17, 2012, with production starting that October.