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This Twilight quiz has 130 free questions with answers and starts gently, with the questions any fan can answer about Bella, Edward, Jacob and Forks, then turns properly hard: the birth years and hometowns of every Cullen, the literary classic behind each novel, the dream that started it all, the $750,000 book deal, the actor Stephenie Meyer wanted for Edward before Robert Pattinson, the recast Victoria, the Italian town that stood in for Volterra and the composers behind each film's score. It covers all four novels, the novella and the two retellings, plus the five Twilight Saga movies from Catherine Hardwicke's original to Bill Condon's two-part Breaking Dawn. Play it as a fan, or use the hard half to settle who really knows the saga. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, mostly Wikipedia's Twilight articles, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01In the 2015 gender-swapped retelling of the first book, Bella and Edward became which pair?
Beau and Edythe
Life and Death, Meyer's 2015 gender-swapped retelling, renames the leads Beau Swan and Edythe Cullen; Little, Brown bundled it with the original novel in a dual edition that October.
Q 02In which book does Bella first learn that Edward is a vampire?
Twilight
Meyer says she wrote what became Chapter 13 of the first book straight from her dream, then finished the whole novel in three months.
Q 03In Twilight, which coven, treated as vampire royalty for over 3,000 years, enforces the rule that vampires stay secret from humans?
The Volturi
The Volturi have ruled from Volterra, Italy, for over 3,000 years; led by Aro, Marcus and Caius, they execute any coven that exposes vampires to humans.
Q 04In what U.S. state is the town of Forks, where much of the series takes place?
Washington
Forks is a real town located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, known for its significant rainfall, which provides a suitable climate for vampires.
Q 05Who is Bella's close childhood friend who later becomes a werewolf?
Jacob Black
Jacob Black, son of Charlie's friend Billy, phases into a wolf in New Moon and in Breaking Dawn imprints on Bella and Edward's newborn daughter Renesmee.
Q 06What gift does Jane of the Volturi have?
Sensations of pain
Her twin brother Alec has the mirror-image gift of blocking others' senses entirely.
Q 07Which actress portrays Bella Swan in the film adaptations?
Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart gained international fame for her role as Bella Swan throughout all five films of The Twilight Saga.
Q 08What is the name of the tracker vampire who hunts Bella in the first book?
James
James is a sadistic tracker vampire who becomes fixated on hunting Bella in the first novel, leading to a dangerous confrontation.
Q 09Who is the author of the Twilight book series?
Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer is the American author who conceived and wrote the popular Twilight Saga novels, starting with 'Twilight' in 2005.
Q 10What is the full first name of the main protagonist, Bella Swan?
Isabella
Bella's full name is Isabella Marie Swan. She is often called 'Bella' by friends and family, and 'Bells' by her father Charlie and Jacob Black.
Q 11As of 2020, roughly how many copies had the Twilight series sold worldwide?
160 million
About 160 million copies worldwide by 2020; the four novels have been translated into more than 35 languages.
Q 12Bella moves to Forks because her mother has hit the road with a new husband who has what job?
Minor-league baseball player
Phil Dwyer, Renée's new husband, is a minor-league baseball player who travels for the season; Bella moves in with Charlie so her mother can go with him.
Q 13What is Edward Cullen's unique supernatural ability?
Mind Reading
Mind reading is Edward's gift, and Bella's head is the one he cannot enter; after she is turned she can extend that mental shield to protect others too.
Q 21In Twilight, the Cullen family call themselves 'vegetarians' because they feed on what instead of humans?
Animals
Animals only: Carlisle began the practice of drinking animal blood, and the Cullens are not alone, since Laurent flees to a like-minded coven in Denali, Alaska.
Q 22Which novel in the 'Twilight Saga' was eventually released from Edward Cullen's perspective?
Midnight Sun
'Midnight Sun' is a companion novel that retells the events of the first book, 'Twilight', entirely from Edward Cullen's point of view.
Q 23Which classic did Stephenie Meyer cite as the loose model for the first 'Twilight' novel?
Pride and Prejudice
Q 14Who directed the first 'Twilight' film, released in 2008?
Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke directed the first 'Twilight' film, which premiered in 2008. She was praised for her direction and style, but did not return for the sequels due to creative differences and scheduling.
Q 15Which of Bella Swan's human classmates becomes her closest female friend in Forks?
Angela Weber
Angela Weber, tall, shy and kind, is the classmate Bella genuinely likes; in Twilight she attends the spring dance with Eric Yorkie after Bella turns him down.
Q 16How many main novels make up Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight Saga'?
Four
Four: Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008), which took the top four spots on USA Today's 2008 year-end bestseller list.
Q 17Stephenie Meyer states that the idea for 'Twilight' came to her in what way?
A vivid dream
The dream was of a human girl and a vampire who loved her but still wanted her blood; she wrote it up as what became Chapter 13.
Q 18What is Jasper Hale's unique supernatural ability?
Influencing emotions
He was turned at 19 in 1863 to help the vampire Maria claim territory in Monterrey, and being able to feel his prey's terror is what drove him away from feeding on humans.
Q 19Before moving to Forks, Washington, Bella Swan primarily lived in which U.S. state?
Arizona
Bella Swan spent her early childhood and most of her teenage years before Forks living with her mother, Renée, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Q 20In Twilight, Bella and Edward's daughter Renesmee is a hybrid of which two kinds of being?
Human and Vampire
Renesmee is a human-vampire hybrid: Carlisle finds she has 24 pairs of chromosomes, one more than a human and one fewer than a vampire, and she grows at an astonishing rate.
Pride and Prejudice was Meyer's loose model for Twilight; the sequels follow suit, with New Moon drawing on Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse on Wuthering Heights and Breaking Dawn on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Q 24Who played the character of Jacob Black in 'The Twilight Saga' film series?
Taylor Lautner
Taylor Lautner portrayed Jacob Black, Bella's Quileute werewolf best friend and love interest, in all five films of 'The Twilight Saga'.
Q 25Edward Cullen was dying of which disease when Carlisle turned him in 1918?
Spanish influenza
Spanish influenza: during the 1918 Chicago epidemic Edward's dying mother Elizabeth begged Carlisle to save him, and he was frozen at 17.
Q 26Which Twilight character topped Forbes's Fictional 15 list of the wealthiest fictional characters?
Carlisle Cullen
Carlisle Cullen: Forbes's Fictional 15 reasoned that more than three centuries of compound interest on a doctor's earnings had grown his fortune to roughly $34 billion.
Q 27Emmett Cullen was nearly killed by which animal in 1935 before Rosalie carried him to Carlisle?
A bear
A bear mauled Emmett while he was hunting near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in 1935; Rosalie carried him more than a hundred miles to Carlisle rather than risk biting him herself.
Q 28Before he was a vampire, Jasper Hale fought on which side in the American Civil War?
The Confederacy
He was turned in 1863 by Maria to help her fight for territory in Monterrey, and rose fast through her newborn ranks.
Q 29In Twilight lore, where did Alice find Jasper, having foreseen that the two of them would fall in love?
A diner in Philadelphia
A diner in Philadelphia is where Alice walked up to Jasper; together they then sought out Carlisle's family and joined the Cullens on their own initiative.
Q 30Renesmee Cullen's middle name, Carlie, is a portmanteau of which two names?
Carlisle and Charlie
Carlie blends Carlisle and Charlie, the two grandfathers, just as Renesmee fuses Renée and Esme, the two grandmothers.