Queen of the South
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50 free Queen of the South trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Queen of the South follows Teresa Mendoza, a young woman from Sinaloa who runs for her life after her boyfriend is killed and ends up building a drug empire. Across five seasons the story keeps asking what power costs her, and whether the woman who started the journey can survive the Queen she becomes. This quiz covers the whole run: the opening flash-forward, Teresa's uneasy apprenticeship under Camila Vargas, the allies who stay loyal and the ones who turn, and the cities and countries her business passes through. There are questions on the cast and where you have seen them before, the writers' room, and the telenovela and book the series grew from. It is written for fans who have reached the finale and for newer viewers still working through the seasons. A couple of questions also look at where the phrase itself comes from, since the title had a long life before television.
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Q 01Which Brazilian actress, Will Smith's co-star in I Am Legend, plays Teresa Mendoza in Queen of the South?
Alice Braga
Alice Braga was taking her first lead role on American television, and she later became an executive producer of the drama. Her aunt is the film star Sônia Braga.
Q 02Steven Bauer, El Santo in Queen of the South, played Tony Montana's friend Manny in which gangster film?
Scarface
Scarface earned Bauer a Golden Globe nomination, and its producers prized his authentic Cuban background. Decades later he returned to the drug trade on screen as a cocaine producer who leads a narco-cult.
Q 03After fleeing Mexico in the pilot of Queen of the South, Teresa Mendoza ends up in which Texas city?
Dallas
Dallas is where Camila Vargas runs her side of the cartel, and her sicarios hold Teresa captive there after rescuing her. Teresa has to prove her worth with a smuggling run.
Q 04How does Teresa Mendoza finally escape the drug trade in the series finale of Queen of the South?
She fakes her own death
She fakes her own death, staging evidence so that her enemies believe the Queen is gone. The closing scenes reveal her alive on a quiet beach with James, far from the business.
Q 05Jamie Hector, who plays Devon Finch in Queen of the South, was drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield in which HBO drama?
The Wire
The Wire cast him as the ruthless young head of a Baltimore drug organization from 2004 to 2008. In the cartel drama his distributor is not what he seems, a twist that pulls James away from Teresa.
Q 06In La Reina del Sur, the telenovela behind Queen of the South, Teresa builds her empire in which European country?
Spain
Spain is where the original Teresa becomes the most powerful trafficker in the country's southern reaches. The American remake kept her in North America instead, sending her across the Texas border.
Q 07What job is Teresa Mendoza doing in Sinaloa when she falls for drug dealer Güero in Queen of the South?
Money changer
Money changer is her trade on the street, and the quick arithmetic it taught her later impresses Camila and James. She puts those skills to work on an early drug operation.
Q 08Which political office does cartel boss Don Epifanio Vargas campaign for in the first season of Queen of the South?
Governor
Governor of Sinaloa is the prize, and the scrutiny of the election gives his estranged wife Camila her opening to seize his empire. By season 3 she holds the office herself.
Q 09Teresa Mendoza moves her growing empire to which Louisiana city in season 4 of Queen of the South?
New Orleans
New Orleans brings her new rivals, including a corrupt judge who insists the city is his. Teresa runs a bar there and courts a Cuban smuggler who can widen her distribution.
Q 10The title Queen of the South echoes a New Testament name for the ruler of which kingdom, who visited Solomon?
Sheba
Sheba's ruler is called the queen of the South in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, where she comes from the ends of the earth to hear a king's wisdom. Historians place her realm in what is now Yemen.
Q 11Which cable channel, also home to Suits and Mr. Robot, aired Queen of the South?
USA Network
USA Network aired all 62 episodes from 2016 to 2021, and in its second summer the drama was Thursday night's top cable series among adults aged 18 to 49.
Q 12Queen of the South adapts La Reina del Sur, a 2011 telenovela made by which Spanish-language broadcaster?
Telemundo
Telemundo gave the telenovela a budget of 10 million dollars, among the largest it had spent on a drama. The broadcaster is a corporate sibling of the remake's American home.
Q 13Which Mexican actress played Teresa Mendoza in La Reina del Sur before Queen of the South remade the story?
Kate del Castillo
Q 21The pilot of Queen of the South opens with a flash-forward to the wealthy future Teresa, who suffers what fate?
She is shot
She is shot moments after her narration predicts she will be dead in thirty seconds. The writers said that bullet hung over the whole run, and the finale had to answer it.
Q 22In the last season of Queen of the South, Teresa brokers a Dominican-Russian truce over which city's cocaine trade?
New York
New York is the prize in the episode Me Llevo Manhattan, where Teresa heads off a turf war by getting both sides to split the business. The agreement helps fund her move into legitimate business.
Q 23El Gordo, the Cuban smuggler Teresa partners with in Queen of the South, runs his operation from which Florida city?
Miami
Kate del Castillo earned worldwide recognition in the role from 2011. Mexican authorities later found DVDs of the telenovela in a safe house used by the fugitive drug lord El Chapo.
Q 14Narco-cult leader El Santo, a cocaine supplier in Queen of the South, runs his sect in which South American country?
Bolivia
Bolivia is where Teresa, James and Güero go looking for a new supplier in season 2. Captured by the cult, Teresa has visions about the men in her life that blur reality and illusion.
Q 15In season 4 of Queen of the South, what kills Brenda's teenage son Tony Parra outside Teresa's bar?
A car bomb
A car bomb explodes in front of the bar, killing Tony and leaving Teresa unconscious. Her closest allies clash over what to do without her, and she later hunts those responsible.
Q 16At the start of season 3 of Queen of the South, Teresa Mendoza is hiding on which Mediterranean island?
Malta
Malta is where she hides from Camila and starts building a European drug business of her own. She cuts her ties there after risking her life to free a group of enslaved women.
Q 17After fleeing Europe in season 3 of Queen of the South, Teresa Mendoza starts over in which Arizona city?
Phoenix
Phoenix has its own council of cartel bosses, La Comisión, plus a corrupt sheriff, and Teresa must deal with both. James's connections help her get set up there.
Q 18Which Riverdale star, once Mateo Santos on All My Children, played lawyer Teo Aljarafe in Queen of the South?
Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos played the first lawyer Camila hires as she plots her independence from her husband. He later became a daytime talk-show host alongside his wife.
Q 19Which star of the One Day at a Time reboot plays Teresa's best friend Brenda Parra in Queen of the South?
Justina Machado
Justina Machado plays the wife of a cartel transporter who flees with Teresa and starts dealing in Texas to survive. She was a regular for the first season only.
Q 20Devon Finch poses as a drug distributor in Queen of the South, but which U.S. agency does he secretly serve?
CIA
CIA contractor Finch has El Santo's compound destroyed in season 3, wiping out Teresa's cocaine source. He then forces James to work for him as the price of keeping the Agency away from her business.
Miami is home turf for El Gordo, who introduces Teresa to an Atlanta-based queenpin in the hope that the trio can grow rich together. The alliance sours, and Teresa later strikes at his operation.
Q 24In which Sinaloa city does Teresa Mendoza live when Queen of the South begins?
Culiacán
Culiacán is where Teresa lives in the barrio before a cartel hunts her out of Mexico. The writers framed the final season as a duel between the Queen and the girl from that city.
Q 25Which former war correspondent wrote the 2002 novel that Queen of the South and La Reina del Sur adapt?
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte reported on wars for 21 years before turning to fiction. He has said Mexican narcocorridos, ballads about real drug lords, were a great inspiration for Teresa's story.
Q 26In season 1 of Queen of the South, what item of Güero's does Teresa recover in Mexico as leverage?
A notebook
A notebook kept by Güero holds cartel secrets, plus coordinates that lead Teresa and Brenda to a shocking find. Teresa later uses its contents to broker a deal with an eccentric gun smuggler.
Q 27During Camila's risky heist in season 1 of Queen of the South, Teresa goes undercover in which job?
Hotel maid
Hotel maid is her cover, and the job forces a choice that changes her. Wracked with guilt, she later disobeys Camila to help a real maid, Maria, escape a kill order.
Q 28Which actor, Mr. Delmar in Spider-Man: Homecoming, plays the loyal sicario Pote Galvez in Queen of the South?
Hemky Madera
Hemky Madera first auditioned for the role of the father, knowing he was too young for it, and was called back days later to read for Pote. He earlier played a cartel enforcer in Weeds.
Q 29Which British actor, later the pirate Shanks in the live-action One Piece, plays James Valdez in Queen of the South?
Peter Gadiot
Peter Gadiot won an Imagen Award for the role in 2017. Born in England to a Dutch father and a Mexican mother, he holds citizenship in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Mexico.
Q 30Which Mexican actress and former opera choreographer plays cartel boss Camila Vargas in Queen of the South?
Veronica Falcón
Veronica Falcón left an established career in Mexico at 50 to try her luck in the United States. She played Camila for three seasons and later joined Ozark as another cartel figure with the same first name.