50 Fun Facts About Anne with an E

Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, who take in Anne at Green Gables, are related in what way?

Siblings who never married, the Cuthberts run their ancestral farm together, and they send for an orphan only because Matthew needs help in the fields.

What does Anne smash over Gilbert Blythe's head after he tugs her braid and mocks her red hair?

A slate, the writing tablet each pupil used, lands on Gilbert's head. Scolded in front of the whole class, Anne runs home in tears and swears she will never go back.

Which missing item does Marilla accuse Anne of stealing before sending her back to the orphanage?

A brooch that Marilla treasures goes missing, and she finds it wedged between the chair cushions only after Anne has already been put on the train.

Anne with an E is set in the fictional farming town of Avonlea in which Canadian province?

Prince Edward Island is where the story's author spent her childhood, and she modelled Avonlea on the real village of Cavendish there.

Which author wrote Anne of Green Gables, the classic novel that Anne with an E adapts for television?

Lucy Maud Montgomery built the story on notes she made as a girl about a household that was sent the wrong orphan by mistake and decided to keep the child.

Anne gets Diana Barry drunk at a grown-up tea party after mistaking wine for which drink?

Raspberry cordial was what Anne meant to pour, and the mix-up costs her dearly: Diana's mother finds both girls tipsy and forbids the friendship.

Which streaming service joined Canada's CBC to make Anne with an E and released the drama worldwide?

Netflix carried the drama outside Canada under the longer title, while the CBC first aired it simply as Anne and took up the streamer's name from season two.

Matthew surprises Anne with the dress she has longed for, which has what fashionable feature?

Puff sleeves were the fashion Anne had pined for, and shy Matthew braves a dress shop to order them, where he meets a friend unseen since his school days.

In Anne with an E, what had the Cuthberts actually asked the orphanage to send them instead of Anne?

A boy was what the Cuthberts ordered, to work the fields beside Matthew, so Marilla's first instinct is to send the talkative newcomer straight back.

Which Canadian Hollywood star tweeted his support for the fan campaign to save Anne with an E?

Ryan Reynolds backed the campaign alongside English singer Sam Smith, as fans launched a petition and paid for billboards to win the drama another season.

Which Irish-Canadian actress beat some 1,800 hopefuls to play Anne Shirley in Anne with an E?

Amybeth McNulty won the part with an audition that asked her to talk to trees and flowers and build a throne out of twigs.

Anne saves Diana Barry's little sister Minnie May when the child falls dangerously ill with what?

Croup leaves Minnie May fighting for breath, and Anne knows what to do from years of minding other people's children. The rescue wins over Diana's formidable great-aunt.

Although set in Atlantic Canada, Anne with an E was mostly filmed in which province to save money?

Ontario doubled for Avonlea, with a pioneer-village museum in Toronto among the period backdrops, and only occasional scenes were shot where the story is set.

New teacher Miss Stacy startles Avonlea in Anne with an E by arriving on what unusual vehicle?

A motorbike and her modern lessons soon have conservative parents pressing for her dismissal, until a town-hall vote keeps her in the classroom.

Which wild animal does Anne try to protect in season two when Billy Andrews sets out to hunt it?

A fox suspected of raiding the henhouse becomes Anne's cause, and Matthew ends up removing his own trap and fencing in the chicken coop instead.

Two boarders at Green Gables swindle Anne's neighbours by claiming Avonlea's soil is rich in what?

Gold was the lure: the con men charged $150 a property to test the soil, and one of them escaped with the money Mr. Barry had handed over.

Which right do Anne and her classmates stage a protest to demand in season three of Anne with an E?

Freedom of speech became the cause after Anne published an article on equality without her teacher's approval and the board banned her from the paper.

Which new machine at Anne's Avonlea school do the town elders secretly remove in season three?

A printing press let the pupils publish their own paper, and once it had carried Anne's opinions the elders took it away and burned down the schoolhouse.

Fans protesting the axing of Anne with an E funded billboards in Toronto and at which New York landmark?

Times Square carried a fan-funded billboard soon after the first went up in Toronto in January 2020, and the show's star and its creator visited the displays in person.

Searching church records in season three, Anne learns her birth parents originally came from where?

Scotland was the answer waiting in the church records, and Anne is soon leading her friends in a Beltane rite taken from a book of its customs.

Which Canadian rock band recorded Ahead by a Century, the opening theme of Anne with an E?

The Tragically Hip closed their farewell concert with the song in 2016, the year before the series first aired with it playing over the titles.

Moira Walley-Beckett, creator of Anne with an E, had earlier won an Emmy for writing on which crime drama?

Breaking Bad brought her the Emmy for Ozymandias, often ranked among the greatest television episodes, before she turned to an orphan's story in rural Canada.

Bash, the shipmate Gilbert befriends at sea in Anne with an E, comes from which part of the Caribbean?

Trinidad is where the steamer docks and Bash faces his mother and his past. He appears in none of the novels: the showrunner invented him to widen the world of the story.

At the end of Anne with an E, Anne and most of her classmates pass the entrance exam to study where?

Queen's College accepts Diana too, though she only sat the exam at her great-aunt's urging and her parents take time to let her go.

In Anne with an E, the authorities take Anne's friend Ka'kwet away to what kind of institution?

A residential school holds Ka'kwet after she is taken back by force, and the story ends with her parents unable to get inside to bring her home.

Anne befriends Ka'kwet while writing an article about a village of which Indigenous nation?

Mi'kmaq characters appear throughout the season, and one of their healers treats classmate Moody Spurgeon when he injures his leg on a nature walk.

Jerry Baynard, the hired hand at Anne's Green Gables, comes from which French-speaking community?

Acadian home life gets a showcase when Diana fakes an ankle injury to escape her parents and spends a lively evening with Jerry's large household.

Anne ends up with cropped hair in season two after a botched attempt to dye it which colour?

Black, raven black to be exact, was the shade Anne wanted in place of her red, and the ruined result has to be cut very short before she faces the town.

Geraldine James, Marilla in Anne with an E, played royalty in the 2019 film of which British period drama?

Downton Abbey's 2019 film cast Geraldine James as Mary, consort of King George V, decades after she made her name in The Jewel in the Crown.

Which party game leaves Anne's Avonlea classmates fretting about kissing and beauty in season two?

Spin the Bottle gives Diana her first kiss, while Billy Andrews uses the game to taunt Anne about her looks.

Season one episode titles of Anne with an E all quote which novel, one Anne discusses with Aunt Josephine?

Jane Eyre, another orphan's story, supplies every title in season one, while season two takes all of its titles from George Eliot's Middlemarch.

Every episode title in the final season of Anne with an E is a quotation from which Gothic novel?

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's tale of a creature seeking its maker, lends its lines to a season in which Anne turns sixteen and goes looking for her own origins.

Which artistic classmate of Anne's leaves Avonlea in season two to live with Great-Aunt Josephine?

Cole Mackenzie, a gifted sketcher bullied by the other lads, finds a home with Diana's great-aunt after confiding in her that he believes he is gay.

In which marginalised district does Bash meet his future wife Mary in season two of Anne with an E?

The Bog was a real Charlottetown neighbourhood settled by formerly enslaved Black Islanders, and the show's creator used it to explore intolerance and inequality.

Bash's wife Mary dies in season three of Anne with an E after a cut on her hand leads to what?

Sepsis from the infected cut leaves Mary a week or two to live, so the whole town surprises her with an Easter party at the Barry home.

In Anne with an E, Winifred Rose's father offers to fund Gilbert's medical studies in which European city?

Paris is the prize on offer if Gilbert marries Winifred, but he turns down both the city and the match because he is in love with someone else.

How does Anne officially become a Cuthbert at the end of the second episode of Anne with an E?

Anne signs the family Bible, taking the Cuthbert name in ink, after Marilla asks her forgiveness for sending her away over a theft that never happened.

How is Anne earning money at the railway station when Matthew tracks her down in episode two?

Reciting poetry for coins is how Anne means to pay her way, and she agrees to come home only when Matthew calls her his daughter.

What disaster drives Matthew to mortgage Green Gables in the first season of Anne with an E?

A shipwreck sends his crop to the bottom, a twist written for the series: in the original novel the Cuthberts' money is lost when a bank fails.

Which veteran actor, honoured with the Order of Canada, plays Matthew Cuthbert in Anne with an E?

R. H. Thomson is also known off screen for projecting the names of Canada's First World War dead onto national monuments through the night.

Which actor, a teenager in the film 20th Century Women, plays Gilbert Blythe in Anne with an E?

Lucas Jade Zumann grew up in Chicago and made his film debut in the horror sequel Sinister 2 before joining the Avonlea classroom.

The star who plays Anne in Anne with an E later joined which hit sci-fi series as band member Vickie?

Stranger Things brought her in for its fourth season as Vickie, and she returned for the fifth and final run.

Dalila Bela, Diana Barry in Anne with an E, was already known to young viewers as Agent Olive in what?

Odd Squad, made for TVOKids and PBS Kids, made her a familiar face before Avonlea, and its young cast shared a Joey Award for best ensemble.

Miss Stacy defends her job at the Avonlea town hall in Anne with an E while pointedly wearing what?

Trousers, and no corset, were her answer to critics of her modern ways, and once Anne, Gilbert and Marilla had spoken up for her she kept her post.

Whose house fire in Anne with an E sends Anne running inside to close the doors and windows?

Ruby Gillis stays at Green Gables after the blaze and becomes Anne's friend. Closing up the house was Anne's way of starving the flames of oxygen.

What giant vegetable does Matthew grow for the county fair in season three of Anne with an E?

A radish of prize-winning size is Matthew's entry, on the same day that Anne's cake for the baking contest turns out to hide an unpleasant surprise.

Marilla's crippling headaches in Anne with an E finally send her to which kind of specialist?

An oculist prescribes reading glasses, ending Marilla's fear that she would become a burden to Anne as her own late mother had been to her.

Which Avonlea women's group welcomes Marilla, then drops her after Anne's schoolyard gossip?

Progressive Mothers was Marilla's first venture into modern parenting circles, and the invitations stopped once Anne repeated what she had seen between an older pupil and the teacher.

What name do Bash and Mary give their baby daughter in the final season of Anne with an E?

Delphine is raised by half the town after she loses her mother: Marilla and Rachel Lynde nurse her through teething until Bash's own mother arrives to help.

The final scene of Anne with an E reveals that Anne's red hair came from her late mother, named what?

Bertha passed on her colouring, the last discovery of the series, and Anne reports it with delight in her first letter to Gilbert.