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Q 01Who turned Damon and Stefan Salvatore into vampires?
Katherine Pierce
Katherine Pierce turned both Salvatore brothers in 1864 by feeding them her blood, leading to their transition after they were shot by their father.
Q 02Which fictional Virginia town is home to 'The Vampire Diaries'?
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Mystic Falls, Virginia, is the show's fictional hometown; its high school, the Mystic Grill and the Salvatore boarding house are the series' core settings.
Q 03On which network did The Vampire Diaries premiere in September 2009?
The CW
The CW premiered The Vampire Diaries on September 10, 2009, and carried it through its March 2017 finale; the network later added the spin-offs The Originals and Legacies.
Q 04What type of supernatural creature does Tyler Lockwood become after accidentally killing someone?
Werewolf
The classmate he kills had been compelled to provoke him, and his uncle Mason had already warned him that his short temper came from the family gene.
Q 05What is the family name of the Original Vampires?
Mikaelson
The Mikaelson siblings became the first vampires when their witch mother Esther turned them to protect them from werewolves.
Q 06What ability does Jeremy Gilbert gain after Bonnie brings him back from the dead?
Seeing ghosts
Seeing ghosts starts with his own exes: the first spirits Jeremy sees are his dead girlfriends Anna and Vicki, whenever he thinks about them.
Q 07What type of supernatural power does Bonnie Bennett primarily wield?
Witchcraft
Bonnie Bennett is a powerful witch from the Bennett bloodline, capable of various forms of magic including telekinesis and pyrokinesis.
Q 08In which Georgia town was most of the series filmed?
Covington
Covington, Georgia, doubled as Mystic Falls throughout the series; its courthouse square appears in nearly every episode, and production settled there for Georgia's film tax incentives.
Q 09What was Alaric Saltzman's day job when he arrived in Mystic Falls?
History teacher
History teacher: Alaric Saltzman joined Mystic Falls High as the new history teacher in season one, secretly hunting the vampire he believed had killed his wife Isobel.
Q 10Who is the main antagonist of The Vampire Diaries' first season, in town to free the woman he loves from a tomb?
Damon Salvatore
Damon Salvatore, Stefan's older brother, is season one's villain; only later does he soften into one of the show's leads.
Q 11The Vampire Diaries was based on a book series by which author?
L. J. Smith
The original novels came out in 1991-92, and because Smith signed a work-for-hire deal, the packager Alloy owns the copyright and later replaced her with ghostwriters.
Q 12How many episodes did The Vampire Diaries air across its eight seasons?
171
171 episodes: the series ran from its September 10, 2009 premiere to its March 10, 2017 finale, 'I Was Feeling Epic'.
Q 13How old is the vampire Stefan Salvatore when Elena first falls for him, believing he is a normal human?
162
162: the season-one episode '162 Candles' has Lexi visiting for Stefan's 162nd birthday; he was turned in 1864, the year of the founders' vampire purge.
Q 21Where was the pilot episode of The Vampire Diaries filmed, before production moved to Georgia?
Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia, hosted the pilot shoot in early 2009; the series then relocated to Covington, Georgia, for the state's film tax incentives.
Q 22Kevin Williamson at first found the show's premise too similar to which novels?
Twilight
Twilight: Williamson initially passed on adapting the books because a vampire falling for a human schoolgirl felt too close to Stephenie Meyer's novels.
Q 23Nina Dobrev was born in which European capital before her family moved to Canada?
Sofia
Sofia, Bulgaria: Dobrev was born Nikolina Dobreva there in 1989 and moved to Toronto at age two, later breaking through on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Q 14Which of these families is NOT one of the five founding families on Mystic Falls' Founders' council?
The Donovans
The five founding families are the Fells, the Forbes, the Lockwoods, the Gilberts and the Salvatores; Matt and Vicki Donovan are poor outsiders.
Q 15Elena becomes a vampire after the events of which finale?
Third
Third: in the season-three finale 'The Departed', Elena drowns off Wickery Bridge with Dr. Meredith Fell's vampire-blood treatment in her system and wakes in transition.
Q 16Paul Wesley also played Silas, described as what in the show's mythology?
The world's first immortal being
The world's first immortal being: Silas became immortal about 2,000 years ago by drinking the elixir the witch Qetsiyah created; Stefan is his doppelgänger.
Q 17Which character was the progenitor of the Petrova doppelgängers and Silas's true love?
Amara
Amara, the first of the Petrova doppelgänger line, was Silas's lover; Nina Dobrev played her in season five alongside Elena and Katherine.
Q 18Bonnie and Damon become best friends after being trapped together for four months in what?
A prison world
A prison world: Bonnie and Damon spent four months reliving May 10, 1994 in a Gemini-coven prison dimension, where they met the sociopathic witch Kai Parker.
Q 19Which character was the first successful hybrid created by Klaus?
Tyler Lockwood
Tyler Lockwood became Klaus's first successful hybrid in season three, surviving transition only because Klaus fed him blood from the living doppelgänger Elena.
Q 20Alaric's fiancée Jo is murdered at their wedding by which relative?
Her brother Malachai
Her brother Malachai 'Kai' Parker, Jo's twin, stabbed her at the altar in the season-six finale; the Gemini coven then moved her unborn twins into Caroline.
Q 24Before playing Damon, Ian Somerhalder was known as Boone Carlyle on which ABC series?
Lost
Lost: Somerhalder played Boone Carlyle, the first main character to be killed off, in the ABC drama's first season (2004-05).
Q 25Whom does Paul Wesley play in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
James T. Kirk
James T. Kirk: Wesley debuted as the young Kirk in the season-one finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) and returned as a recurring character in season two.
Q 26In the original novels, what is the name of the town that the TV series renamed Mystic Falls?
Fell's Church
Fell's Church is the books' Virginia town; the show renamed it Mystic Falls but kept the Fell family name among the town's founders.
Q 27What is the title of the first Vampire Diaries novel, published in 1991?
The Awakening
The Awakening opened the series in 1991, followed the same year by The Struggle and The Fury; Dark Reunion completed the original quartet in 1992.
Q 28The spin-off The Originals follows the Mikaelson siblings in the French Quarter of which city?
New Orleans
New Orleans: the Mikaelsons return to the French Quarter they fled in 1919 to find Klaus's protégé Marcel Gerard ruling the city's supernatural factions.
Q 29Klaus's daughter Hope, the first ever 'tribrid', is the child of which woman?
Hayley Marshall
Hayley Marshall, the werewolf who had a one-night stand with Klaus in season four, is revealed pregnant in the backdoor pilot 'The Originals' that launched the spin-off.
Q 30Legacies, the second Vampire Diaries spin-off, is set at a boarding school run by Alaric Saltzman and named after which brothers?
The Salvatores
The Salvatores' name is on the door: Hope Mikaelson attends the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted alongside Alaric's twin witch daughters Lizzie and Josie.