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50 free Pedro Pascal trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Pedro Pascal was nine months old when his parents, both listed as enemies of the Pinochet regime, carried him out of Chile by way of the Venezuelan embassy and a spell of asylum in Denmark. He grew up in San Antonio and Orange County, trained at NYU, and then spent nearly twenty years waiting tables, getting fired and taking small television parts before a Dornish prince with a grudge changed everything. This quiz covers the whole arc: the Buffy residual check that kept him afloat, the plays he wrote and directed off-Broadway, Oberyn Martell, Javier Peña, the helmet of Din Djarin, Joel Miller and the $600,000-per-episode deal, Maxwell Lord, Agent Whiskey, the LSD-grin meme, the Emmy hat-trick of 2023, and the Mid-Atlantic accent Marvel would not let Reed Richards keep. Fifty questions with four options each and a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a TV-night quiz.
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Q 01Pedro Pascal was born in which city?
Santiago
He was born José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal in 1975, two years after the coup that brought Pinochet to power.
Q 02What was the profession of Pascal's mother, Verónica?
Child psychologist
He later adopted her surname professionally as a tribute after her death in 2000.
Q 03Pascal's father worked in which medical specialty?
Reproductive endocrinology
His father returned to Chile in 1995 after being accused of misusing fertility patients' eggs and embryos.
Q 04Pascal is the great-nephew of the sister of which Chilean president?
Salvador Allende
Laura Allende was a politician and the president's sister; Pascal is also a second cousin of politician Denise Pascal.
Q 05Before leaving Chile, Pascal's family sheltered for six months in which embassy?
Venezuelan
Both parents had been listed as enemies of the state by the Pinochet regime.
Q 06How old was Pascal when his family fled Chile?
Nine months
The family later received political asylum in Denmark before settling in the United States.
Q 07Pascal's family received political asylum in which European country?
Denmark
They then moved on to the United States, where he grew up in Texas and California.
Q 08In which Texas city was Pascal raised before moving to California?
San Antonio
He was eleven when the family relocated to Orange County, California.
Q 09At what age did Pascal's family relocate to Orange County, California?
11
He later attended the Orange County School of the Arts, graduating in 1993.
Q 10Roughly how many cousins did Pascal visit on regular childhood trips to Chile?
34
By the age of eight he was making regular visits back to Chile despite the family's exile.
Q 11Pascal graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts in 1997, part of which institution?
New York University
He studied at the Tisch School of the Arts after finishing at the Orange County School of the Arts.
Q 12Pascal acts under his mother's surname; what is his paternal surname?
Balmaceda
He felt Americans struggled to pronounce it and wanted to honor his late mother.
Q 13Which actress friend gave Pascal her per diem money during his lean years?
Sarah Paulson
The two became close soon after he moved to New York City in 1993.
Q 21Pascal played Oberyn Martell in which season of Game of Thrones?
Fourth
The season aired from April to June 2014 and the role was called the tipping point of his career.
Q 22What is Oberyn Martell's nickname?
The Red Viper
The name comes from his taste for red clothing and rumors that he used poisoned blades in duels.
Q 23Oberyn Martell comes from which desert kingdom of Westeros?
Dorne
He travels to King's Landing to claim the Dornish seat on the small council and to avenge his sister Elia.
In Narcos, Pascal's Javier Peña works for which US agency?
Q 14A residual check from which TV show rescued Pascal when he had under $7 in the bank?
Buffy
He had appeared in an early episode and the check arrived when he could not afford medical care.
Q 15Pascal said he was fired from restaurant jobs close to how many times?
10
He waited tables for years while taking small stage and television roles.
Q 16Pascal is a member of which New York City theater company?
LAByrinth
The company is known for developing new plays by its ensemble members.
Q 17Pascal made his feature film debut in 2005 in which Julia Solomonoff film?
Sisters
He was still credited as Balmaceda; the director wanted a photogenic face with 'a kind of mystery'.
Q 18Which 2010 play did Pascal write, with Sarah Silverman directing?
Flaca Loves Bone
The play follows four siblings who meet in a snowy wood to uncover a family secret.
Q 19Pascal made his directing debut with Killing Play at which New York venue?
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
He also directed underneathmybed and Yosemite at the same venue.
Q 20In the unaired 2011 Wonder Woman pilot, Pascal's character was a liaison to which force?
LAPD
The pilot was never picked up; Pascal later joined the DC universe anyway as Maxwell Lord.
DEA
The character is based on a real agent who hunted Pablo Escobar in Colombia.
Q 25Narcos shifted its focus to which cartel for its third season?
Cali
Pascal became both lead actor and narrator once the Escobar story concluded.
Q 26Boyd Holbrook, whose Narcos exit made Pascal the lead, played which DEA agent?
Steve Murphy
The first season was narrated from Murphy's perspective before Peña took over.
Q 27Who directed The Great Wall (2016), in which Pascal played mercenary Pero Tovar?
Zhang Yimou
Pascal had admired the director since his youth; the film was shot in Qingdao with Matt Damon.
Q 28In Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Pascal's Statesman agent uses which codename?
Whiskey
His character's real name is Jack Daniels, fitting the bourbon-themed Statesman agency.
Q 29Pascal played villain Dave York opposite which star in The Equalizer 2?
Denzel Washington
It was the first sequel of Washington's career.
Q 30In Prospect (2018), Pascal's character Ezra hunts for resources where?
An alien moon
Critics later saw the role as a preview of his gruff-man-softened-by-a-child characters.