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This Twilight quiz has 169 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 Life and Death, the 2015 gender-swapped retelling of Twilight, Bella and Edward became which pair?
Beau and Edythe
Beau and Edythe: the swap also rewrites the ending, since Beau is bitten and becomes a vampire in the very first book, a fate Bella waits three more novels for.
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, the Cullens' 'vegetarian' diet turns their eyes which colour?
Gold
Gold: the Cullens' diet fades their eyes to gold where a human-hunter's stay red, and both kinds darken to black as thirst builds.
Q 04Stephenie Meyer set Twilight in Forks after searching Google for the American place with the most what?
Rainfall
Rainfall: the search led Meyer to the Olympic Peninsula, where she scanned the map for a small town ringed by forest and found one whose name, she said, could not have been more perfect.
Q 05In New Moon, what does Jacob Black teach Bella to ride?
A motorcycle
A motorcycle: after Edward leaves, Bella finds that reckless thrills let her hear his voice in her head, so she takes up riding with Jacob and the two grow close.
Q 06What gift does Jane of the Volturi have?
Sensations of pain
Sensations of pain: Jane floods a victim's mind with agony that is pure illusion, while her twin brother Alec does the reverse and shuts off every sense.
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 09Which 2008 science-fiction novel for adults did Twilight author Stephenie Meyer also write?
The Host
The Host: an invading alien 'soul' called Wanderer is placed in the body of a captured human, Melanie, only to find that Melanie refuses to give up her mind.
Q 10What is the full first name of the main protagonist, Bella Swan?
Isabella
Isabella: Meyer says no name seemed good enough for her heroine until she gave her the one she had been saving for a daughter of her own.
Q 11As of 2020, roughly how many copies had the Twilight novels sold worldwide?
160 million
160 million copies by 2020, a long way from the first printing of 75,000 that launched Twilight in 2005.
Q 12In Twilight, what does Bella's new stepfather Phil do for a living?
Minor-league baseball player
Minor-league baseball player: Phil is on the road so much that Bella sends herself to Forks, freeing her mother Renée to travel 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: Carlisle, horrified at becoming a vampire, tried to starve himself, found that animal blood could sustain him, and taught his family to live the same way.
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 Jane Austen novel did Stephenie Meyer name as the loose model for the first Twilight book?
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 Forks High classmate becomes Bella Swan's closest human friend?
Angela Weber
Angela Weber: tall, shy and kind, she respects other people's space, and Bella comes to appreciate her for exactly that.
Q 16How many main novels make up Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight Saga'?
Four
Four: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. Meyer first wrote a single direct sequel, Forever Dawn, never published, and later reworked its story into the finale.
Q 17Stephenie Meyer states that the idea for 'Twilight' came to her in what way?
A vivid dream
A vivid dream: Meyer woke one June morning in 2003 having seen a girl and a vampire talking in a meadow, and wrote it down at once so she would not forget it.
Q 18What is Jasper Hale's unique supernatural ability?
Influencing emotions
Influencing emotions: Jasper feels and steers the moods around him, and feeling his prey's fear as they died is what drove him to leave his nomad friends Peter and Charlotte.
Q 19Which American state does Bella Swan leave behind when she moves to Forks?
Arizona
Arizona: Bella grew up in sunny Phoenix and hated the cold and wet of Forks, yet she moves there by choice so that her mother can travel with Phil.
Q 20In Breaking Dawn, which nickname does Jacob give baby Renesmee, to Bella's fury?
Nessie
Nessie: Jacob finds 'Renesmee' a mouthful, and Bella is furious that her daughter has been named after the Loch Ness Monster, though by the end everyone uses it.
Pride and Prejudice loosely shaped the first book, while Edward's name came from two other romantic heroes, the brooding master of Jane Eyre and Austen's Mr Ferrars.
Q 24In New Moon, which reckless stunt of Bella's does Alice's vision mistake for a suicide attempt?
Cliff diving
Cliff diving: Bella jumps for the thrill, but Alice cannot see the wolves, so her vision shows the leap and not Jacob hauling Bella out of the sea.
Q 25Edward Cullen was dying of which disease when Carlisle turned him?
Spanish influenza
Spanish influenza: as the 1918 epidemic was killing them both, Edward's mother Elizabeth begged Carlisle to do whatever it took to save her son, who was turned at 17.
Q 26Forbes once ranked Twilight's Carlisle Cullen the richest fictional character, just ahead of which tycoon?
Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck came second on Forbes's 2010 Fictional 15, which put Carlisle's fortune down to centuries of compound interest and stock tips from Alice, who can see the future.
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 became a vampire, Twilight's Jasper Hale fought as a young officer in which war?
The American Civil War
The American Civil War: Jasper joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and rose fast, until the vampire Maria turned him in 1863 to train her own army of newborns.
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
Carlisle and Charlie: the middle name pairs the baby's two grandfathers, one a vampire and one human, just as Renesmee fuses her grandmothers Renée and Esme.