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This True Blood trivia quiz covers all seven seasons of HBO's Louisiana vampire drama in 46 free questions with answers: Sookie Stackhouse and the telepathy that made her a target, Bill Compton and Eric Northman, Merlotte's and Fangtasia, the synthetic blood that let vampires come out of the coffin, and the villains of each year from Rene and Maryann to Russell Edgington, the Authority and Hep-V. There are questions on the cast (Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgård, Nelsan Ellis), on Alan Ball and how he found Charlaine Harris's novels, on the title sequence and Jace Everett's "Bad Things", the ratings, the awards, the divisive finale and the reboot that never happened. It starts with questions any viewer will get and builds to ones for people who have watched Bon Temps burn twice. It suits a rewatch party or a solo test of how much you remember. Every answer has been checked against a reference source, and each question shows its explanation and citation once you have answered. Play the full set for a shareable score.
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Q 01In True Blood, which metal leaves vampires weak enough to be overpowered and held?
Silver
Silver: in the pilot two thugs use it to pin Bill down so they can drain his blood to sell, and Sookie's rescue of him brings the two together.
Q 02What supernatural ability does waitress Sookie Stackhouse have?
Telepathy
Sookie's telepathy lets her hear human thoughts, which is why she is drawn to vampire Bill Compton, whose mind she cannot read.
Q 03In True Blood, vampires who went public two years before the story begins are said to have come out of what?
The coffin
The coffin: the phrase is a play on 'coming out of the closet', one of the ways the show frames its vampires' fight for acceptance as a civil-rights struggle.
Q 04True Blood is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a 13-book series by which author?
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris: a writer of conventional mysteries, she invented Sookie to shake up her own style, and a contract for ten books eventually stretched to thirteen.
Q 05HBO sold a real bottled 'Tru Blood' soft drink to promote True Blood; what flavour was it?
Blood orange
Blood orange: the fizzy drink was made by a company that specialises in turning fictional brands into real products, and was branded to look like the synthetic blood on screen.
Q 06True Blood's creator, Alan Ball, had earlier won an Oscar for writing which film?
American Beauty
American Beauty: Alan Ball wrote it after years on the sitcoms Grace Under Fire and Cybill and two film scripts that were never made, and it won him Best Original Screenplay.
Q 07In True Blood's backstory, scientists from which country developed the synthetic blood Tru Blood?
Japan
Japan: once the bottled blood meant vampires no longer needed to feed on people, they revealed themselves to the world and began campaigning for equal rights.
Q 08In True Blood, what is vampire blood called when humans take it as a narcotic?
V
V: Jason gets hooked on it in season one, and he and his girlfriend Amy end up kidnapping a vampire named Eddie to keep themselves supplied.
Q 09What is the name of the bar where Sookie waits tables?
Merlotte's Bar and Grill
Merlotte's Bar and Grill belongs to Sam Merlotte, a shapeshifter who keeps an eye on Sookie in the form of a dog.
Q 10True Blood's vampire sheriff Eric was what in human life a thousand years ago?
Viking warrior
Viking warrior: the ancient vampire Godric turned Eric to save his life, which is why Eric drops everything in season two to search for his missing maker.
Q 11What is the name of the vampire bar Eric owns?
Fangtasia
Fangtasia: Eric's bar in Shreveport is where Sookie first meets him in season one, when she goes there hunting for anything that might clear her brother of murder.
Q 12Who plays Sookie Stackhouse?
Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin: an Oscar winner at eleven for The Piano, she took her first TV series role as Sookie and met her future husband at the screen test.
Q 13The actress who plays Sookie in True Blood married which co-star in Malibu in August 2010?
Stephen Moyer
Stephen Moyer plays Bill, and the two began dating while the pilot was being filmed in 2007, so the show's central romance was a real one almost from the first day.
Q 21Godric, the ancient vampire sheriff whose disappearance drives True Blood's second season, rules an area in which state?
Texas
Texas: Godric's area takes in Dallas, where the search party learns he was never kidnapped at all but gave himself up to the anti-vampire church of his own free will.
Q 22Joe Manganiello's Alcide Herveaux, who joins True Blood in season three, belongs to which supernatural species?
Werewolves
Werewolves: Eric sends Alcide to guard Sookie while she hunts for Bill, who has been kidnapped by a pack of them hooked on vampire blood.
Q 23In True Blood, Russell Edgington, played by Denis O'Hare, holds what title?
Vampire King of Mississippi
Q 14The actor who plays Eric Northman is the son of which Swedish screen veteran?
Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård: his eldest son Alexander was a child star in Sweden who quit acting at thirteen because he disliked the fame, and came back to it only as an adult.
Q 15Which actor played the short-order cook and medium Lafayette Reynolds?
Nelsan Ellis
Nelsan Ellis: the novels kill Lafayette off at the start of the second book, but the show kept him alive and he stayed for all seven seasons.
Q 16Which Law & Order: SVU star joined True Blood's fifth season as Roman, head of the Vampire Authority?
Christopher Meloni
Christopher Meloni had just walked away from twelve seasons as Detective Stabler, and described his five-centuries-old vampire leader as 'a big old baby' underneath.
Q 17Which song plays over True Blood's opening titles?
"Bad Things" by Jace Everett
"Bad Things" by Jace Everett had sunk without charting when it came out in 2005; after the show picked it as its theme, it charted in Britain and climbed to No. 2 in Norway.
Q 18True Blood's season-one killer, Rene Lenier, turns out to really be a man named what?
Drew Marshall
Rene Lenier was really Drew Marshall, who had murdered his own sister Cindy, faked a Cajun accent, got engaged to Arlene and killed women who slept with vampires.
Q 19In True Blood's first season, Bill must turn which teenager into a vampire as punishment for killing one?
Jessica Hamby
Jessica Hamby: Bill had staked a fellow vampire to save Sookie, and the tribunal's sentence was that he create a new vampire to replace the one he destroyed.
Q 20True Blood's season-two villain Maryann Forrester is what kind of creature?
A maenad
A maenad: Maryann, played by Michelle Forbes, is an immortal follower of Dionysus from ancient Greece who puts the whole town under her spell and into wild revels.
Vampire King of Mississippi: Russell kills a news anchor on live television in season three, wrecking the vampires' campaign to be accepted by humans.
Q 24What is revealed about Sookie's ancestry in season three?
She is part faerie
She is part faerie: Bill breaks the news in season three, and it explains why vampires prize her blood, which lets them walk in daylight for a short while.
Q 25In True Blood's third season, Jason gets tangled up with which werepanther clan from Hotshot?
The Norrises
The Norrises: Jason falls for Crystal Norris, and the next season her clan locks him up and tries to turn him into a werepanther so he can father its children.
Q 26In True Blood's fourth season, Sookie returns from a trip to another realm to find how much time has passed?
A year
A year: in her absence Bill has become King of Louisiana, her brother has sold her house, and Eric turns out to be the mystery buyer.
Q 27Who leads the coven of witches that torments True Blood's vampires in season four?
Marnie
Marnie: the coven leader, played by Fiona Shaw, is possessed by Antonia, a witch burned at the stake in Spain centuries earlier, and casts the spell that wipes Eric's memory.
Q 28Which character is shot in True Blood's season-four finale cliffhanger?
Tara
Tara: she pushes Sookie out of the way of Debbie Pelt's shotgun and takes the blast herself, so season five opens with Pam turning her into a vampire to save her.
Q 29In True Blood's fifth season, the Vampire Authority arrests Bill and Eric for killing whom?
Nan Flanagan
Nan Flanagan: the vampires' television spokeswoman had quit her post and tried to recruit the pair for a coup, and Bill killed her when she threatened Sookie.
Q 30What did fans nickname Bill after his blood-soaked rebirth at the end of True Blood's fifth season?
Billith
Billith: he drains a vial of blood from Lilith, the vampires' progenitor, dissolves into a pool of blood and rises from it as a far more powerful vampire in her image.