The Leftovers Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
8correct to beat the crowd
111 free The Leftovers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This The Leftovers trivia quiz covers all 28 episodes of Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta's HBO series, from the Sudden Departure of October 14, 2011 to Nora's story on a porch in rural Australia. The easy questions are ones any viewer can handle: what percentage of the world vanished, who plays Kevin and Nora, which cult wears white and chain-smokes, and where the second season moves. The harder end is for people who still argue about whether Nora was telling the truth. It asks about Matt's roulette bet, the baby Jesus, Gladys, Cairo, Patti's death, the Garveys at their best, Holy Wayne's hugs, Jarden and the drained lake, Virgil, the hotel with four outfits and the Epictetus quote, the well, the karaoke, the Guilty Remnant's bridge, Kevin Sr.'s chants and the flood that never came, Mark Linn-Baker, Frasier the Sensuous Lion, David Burton, the LADR machine and the Great Disappointment of 1844. There are also questions on the making of the show: Perrotta's novel, Lindelof after Lost, Peter Berg's pilot, Mimi Leder's finale, Max Richter's score, Iris DeMent's theme, and the cast's other work from Doctor Who to The Handmaid's Tale. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the series, its episode list, individual episodes, the novel and the cast before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, try our Lost and HBO dramas quizzes next.
30 of 111 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01On which network did The Leftovers air?
HBO
HBO ordered a third season as the last, saying it respected Damon Lindelof's decision to bring The Leftovers to a conclusion on his own terms.
Q 02What percentage of the world's population vanishes in the Sudden Departure?
2%
2% of humanity, about 140 million people, vanish in the same instant, and within three years new cults have sprung up in the event's wake.
Q 03On what date did the Sudden Departure happen?
October 14, 2011
October 14, 2011 explains the season 2 episode title 'Ten Thirteen': Meg's mother died the day before, leaving her one day to grieve before the whole world's loss eclipsed hers.
Q 04Who plays police chief Kevin Garvey?
Justin Theroux
Justin Theroux plays Kevin Garvey, who in the first episode has to shield the cult's protesters from a furious crowd, although his own wife left him to join them.
Q 05Who plays Nora Durst?
Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon plays Nora Durst, who keeps restocking her kitchen for her vanished family, throwing out the unopened food and buying the same items again.
Q 06Who plays Reverend Matt Jamison?
Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston plays Matt Jamison, a priest who stops to help two cult members being stoned, is knocked out himself, and wakes to find the cult has bought his church.
Q 07How is Matt related to Nora?
He is her brother
He is her brother, which Jill and Aimee only work out by skipping school to tail Nora after watching her deliberately knock a coffee cup to the floor.
Q 08Whom did Nora lose in the Departure?
Her husband, son and daughter
Her husband, son and daughter vanished from the kitchen table in a single moment, just after she had snapped at them over a spilled drink.
Q 09In The Leftovers, which cult wears white and chain-smokes in silence?
The Guilty Remnant
The Guilty Remnant call themselves living reminders: members give up speech, write notes instead and stand watching townspeople so that nobody can forget the Departure.
Q 10Who plays Laurie Garvey in The Leftovers?
Amy Brenneman
Amy Brenneman plays Laurie almost wordlessly through season 1, because Laurie's cult forbids speech; she pleads her case to its leader in handwritten notes.
Q 11In The Leftovers pilot, what do the cult's letter signs spell out at the Heroes Day parade?
Stop wasting your breath
Stop wasting your breath, held up one letter at a time as Nora finishes a speech about her family, so enrages the crowd that the parade ends in a brawl.
Q 12Whom does Tommy Garvey follow at the start of The Leftovers?
Holy Wayne
Holy Wayne's compound is raided by federal agents in the second episode, and Tommy shoots one of them dead to save a fellow follower before going on the run.
Q 13Who plays Meg Abbott, the woman seduced by the cult?
Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler plays Meg, first seen being stalked by the cult over dinner with her fiancé; by season 2 she is leading its most violent wing.
Q 21In The Leftovers, what happens to Evie Murphy and two friends as season 2 opens?
They vanish, and the lake drains
They vanish, and the lake drains: an earthquake hits the same night, and all the search turns up is the girls' abandoned car beside the empty basin.
Q 22Which magazine does Kevin Sr. press on his son after escaping hospital in season 1 of The Leftovers?
National Geographic
National Geographic's May 1972 issue is what the voices in Kevin Sr.'s head insist his son must accept; he hands a copy to a baffled Kevin just before being arrested again.
Q 23How does Patti Levin die at the cabin in season 1 of The Leftovers?
Q 14Who plays Jill Garvey?
Margaret Qualley
Margaret Qualley plays Jill Garvey, who ends season 1 by following her mother into the cult and has to be carried unconscious from a burning house by her father.
Q 15In which fictional New York town is season 1 of The Leftovers set?
Mapleton
Mapleton holds a Heroes Day parade for its departed in the first episode; the police chief begs the mayor to cancel it, expecting violence, and is overruled.
Q 16Season 2 of The Leftovers moves to which fictional Texas town?
Jarden
Jarden is where the Garveys arrive to find their rented house burned down, so Nora buys another outright at auction, sight unseen.
Q 17What makes the Texas town where season 2 of The Leftovers is set special?
Nobody there departed
Nobody there departed: every single resident was spared, so the town was fenced off as a national park and outsiders camp at the gates hoping to get in.
Q 18In The Leftovers, what is the national park around the Texas town called?
Miracle
Miracle admits only people with wristbands, so a camp of the shut-out grows at its gates; after losing his own wristband, Matt chooses to go back and live there.
Q 19Who plays Erika Murphy?
Regina King
Regina King plays Erika Murphy, the town doctor, who admits under Nora's questioning that she had been secretly planning to leave her husband.
Q 20By season 3 of The Leftovers, what new trade has John Murphy taken up?
Giving psychic readings
Giving psychic readings is a double act with his new wife Laurie, who feeds him each visitor's details through an earpiece; a season earlier he burned down a palm reader's house for fraud.
She slits her own throat
She slits her own throat with a shard of glass moments after Kevin, who has refused to kill her, sets her free; she bleeds out in his arms.
Q 24In The Leftovers, near which New York town is the cabin where Kevin holds Patti captive?
Cairo
Cairo, New York: in the cabin a dog hunter named Dean tries to kill the bound Patti, but Kevin fights him off and saves her life.
Q 25What unsettling habit does Kevin Garvey develop at night in season 1 of The Leftovers?
Sleepwalks and disappears for hours
Sleepwalks and disappears for hours: his shirts keep going missing, and he later finds them scattered through woods he has no memory of visiting.
Q 26Who guides Kevin into the afterworld in season 2?
Virgil
Virgil, played by Steven Williams, guides Kevin into the afterworld by giving him poison; he then shoots himself rather than administer the antidote.
Q 27What is Kevin warned never to do in the hotel afterworld of The Leftovers?
Drink the water
Drink the water and you forget why you came: the concierge who briefs Kevin takes a sip between their meetings and no longer recognises him.
Q 28What role does Kevin take on during his first visit to the hotel afterworld in The Leftovers?
An international assassin
An international assassin is the role that comes with the suit he picks from four outfits in the wardrobe, passing over a priest's robes, cult whites and his old police uniform.
Q 29Which former slave's Stoic maxim greets Kevin on the hotel wardrobe in The Leftovers?
Epictetus's
Epictetus's line reads 'Know first who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly'; Kevin passes over his own police uniform for a suit, and that choice decides who he must be there.
Q 30In The Leftovers, where does Kevin's father tell him to take Patti to be rid of her?
To the well
To the well: his father, high on a drug in a Perth hotel room, breaks through the static on Kevin's TV to say it, and Kevin ends up pushing a child version of Patti in.