172 Fun Facts About Lost

The majority of the series 'Lost' was filmed on which Hawaiian island?

Oahu nearly lost the show: midway through season one its producers warned that Lost might relocate unless Hawaii helped offset the high cost of filming there.

In The Lost Experience game, what was the Dharma Initiative's true mission on Lost?

Altering an equation predicting doomsday was the aim: the Valenzetti Equation gave the time left before humanity destroys itself, and Dharma hoped to change one of its factors but never managed it.

On Lost, the captured leader of the Others claimed to be 'Henry Gale', who had reached the island how?

In a hot air balloon, he claimed, and the balloon was real: Sayid dug up the grave beside it and found the true Henry Gale, whose Minnesota licence was still in his wallet.

What nickname did the camp's con man habitually use for the survivors' surgeon?

Sawyer called Jack 'Doc' from the first season onward, a nod to Jack Shephard being the spinal surgeon who took charge of the beach camp.

On Lost, who was the first major character among the Oceanic 815 survivors to die?

Boone Carlyle died late in season one after a drug smugglers' plane he had climbed into fell from its perch; Jack drained his own blood into him in a failed attempt to save him.

What did a drowning Charlie write on his hand in the Looking Glass to warn Desmond?

Charlie wrote 'Not Penny's boat' on his palm before drowning, warning Desmond that Naomi's freighter had not been sent by Penny Widmore and was no rescue.

On Lost, who was the manipulative leader of the Others, first met posing as a castaway named 'Henry Gale'?

Ben Linus was caught in one of Rousseau's nets and locked in the survivors' armoury, where he kept up the Henry Gale story until Sayid dug up the real Gale's grave.

What did Desmond Hume need to survive his consciousness jumping through time?

Desmond needed a 'constant', someone present in both time periods to anchor his mind; in season four's 'The Constant' his was Penny Widmore.

On Lost, which enigmatic, long-lived figure was revealed as the island's true protector, obeyed by the Others?

Jacob, seen in person only from the season-five finale, had guarded the island since ancient times and touched each candidate he hoped would one day replace him.

Which Lost character was well known for giving the other survivors a variety of nicknames?

Sawyer labelled nearly everyone, yet his own name was borrowed: it was the name used by the swindler who ruined his parents, which James Ford adopted when he took up the same trade.

On Lost, which numbers won Hurley a lottery and haunted the island?

Hurley won the lottery with 4 8 15 16 23 42, then found the same numbers stamped on Station 3's sealed door and typed into its computer every 108 minutes.

Which Dharma station was the communications hub of Lost's island?

The Flame used a rooftop satellite dish to reach the outside world; Locke destroyed it by typing 77 into its computer, which set off the station's self-destruct explosives.

In the opening seconds of Lost's pilot, Jack wakes in a bamboo grove as which animal runs past him?

A yellow Labrador named Vincent runs past Jack in that first scene; in the finale the same dog lies down beside the dying Jack in the same bamboo grove.

Which airline's Flight 316 carried Jack, Kate and Hurley back toward the island?

Ajira Airways Flight 316, bound from Los Angeles to Guam, was the flight Eloise Hawking told the returning survivors to board; Frank Lapidus landed it on Hydra Island's runway.

Which character was known for the phrase 'We have to go back!'?

Jack Shephard shouts it at Kate outside the airport in the season-three finale, the twist that revealed the episode's flashbacks were really glimpses of life after rescue.

Which station held Jack in a former shark tank early in season three?

The Hydra, the zoological station on the smaller island, held Jack in a glass-walled former shark tank while Kate and Sawyer were kept outside in animal cages.

Which alias did Lost's James Ford use as head of security among the island's 1970s scientists?

As 'Jim LaFleur', Sawyer told the Dharma leaders he was the captain of a wrecked salvage boat, then ran the Initiative's security under that name for three years.

On Lost, what did Hurley build to help the stressed survivors unwind?

A golf course: Hurley found clubs in newly recovered luggage and laid out a course to lift the camp's morale, and a crowd of survivors soon gathered to play.

Which character was a former bassist for the rock band Drive Shaft?

Charlie Pace played bass in Drive Shaft, formed with Liam Pace; the band took its name from the initials on a family ring that had belonged to their great-grandfather, Dexter Stratton.

What was the name of the sailboat a widow gave Desmond for his attempt to sail around the world?

The Elizabeth was named after the widow herself by her late husband David; she gave it to Desmond so that he could enter Widmore's round-the-world race.

Which Lost character was paralyzed before the crash but could walk again on the island?

John Locke had used a wheelchair since his con-man father pushed him from an eighth-floor window; on the island he stood and walked within minutes of the crash.

What was the name of the woman Desmond Hume was desperately trying to get back to?

Penelope Widmore, or Penny, was Desmond Hume's true love, and his efforts to return to her were a central motivating factor for his character.

On Lost, which crash survivor was a former soldier who had tortured prisoners?

Sayid Jarrah was a communications officer in Iraq's Republican Guard; American troops who captured him in the Gulf War first made him an interrogator, to break his own commander.

How did Christian Shephard die just days before his son's flight took off?

An alcohol-induced heart attack killed Christian Shephard in a back alley; his son was flying the coffin home when the plane went down, and his figure kept appearing on the island afterward.

Which actor played the leader of the Others, a character promoted to series regular from season three?

Michael Emerson was booked for a handful of season-two episodes as the captured stranger, but his unsettling performance led the writers to make him a series regular from season three.

On Lost, Desmond promises in 1996 to phone Penny eight years later on which day?

Christmas Eve 2004 was the date he gave her, begging her not to change her number; eight years on she picks up, and hearing her voice steadies his mind.

What type of animal, not native to tropical islands, was famously encountered by the survivors?

A polar bear charged the survivors in the pilot; the Dharma Initiative had kept bears for experiments at its zoological station, and some escaped their cages after the project collapsed.

Who played the character Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes?

Jorge Garcia read another character's lines at his audition because Hurley did not exist yet; the producers liked him so much that they wrote the part for him.

On Lost, the smoke monster's original human form, first seen in the season-five finale, is known by what name?

The Man in Black is a label, not a name: he is never named on screen, and takes the title from the dark clothes he wears in that scene; a late episode revealed him as the island protector's twin.

On Lost, what crime had made Kate Austen a fugitive before the crash?

Killing her mother's husband made Kate a fugitive: she blew up the house with the abusive Wayne Janssen inside after learning he was her biological father.

Which of the Others caused the drowning inside the Looking Glass station in the third-season finale?

Mikhail Bakunin, already shot with a spear gun, set off a grenade outside the porthole, flooding the communications room moments after Charlie had switched off the jammer.

Which two survivors found the buried metal door and spent weeks trying to open it?

Locke and Boone found the buried door in 'All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues' while tracking a kidnapped camp-mate, and kept it secret from the rest of the camp for weeks.

On Lost, what was the true purpose of pushing the button every 108 minutes?

To bleed off building electromagnetism: Dharma's drilling had breached an energy pocket, and when the button was once pushed too late in 2004 the surge tore a passing airliner apart.

On Lost, Shannon runs out of medication for which condition?

Asthma: with her inhalers missing, the camp's resident hoarder was accused and tortured for them, only for it to emerge that he never had them; a eucalyptus remedy eased her breathing instead.

On Lost, which adviser to the Others looks the same age in every era the show visits, from the 1950s on?

Richard Alpert asked never to die when he agreed in 1867 to act as the island protector's go-between, which is why he looks identical in 1954, 1977 and 2007.

Which girl did the Others' leader raise as his daughter after taking her as a baby?

Alex Rousseau was a week-old baby when the Others' future leader came to kill her mother Danielle; he could not go through with it, took the child and raised her as his daughter.

Which Lost character was a fertility doctor recruited by the Others to stop pregnant women dying?

Juliet Burke was hired after restoring her own sister's fertility; promised a six-month posting, she was kept on the island for more than three years.

How many seasons did the television series 'Lost' run for?

The iconic series 'Lost' aired for a total of six seasons, concluding in May 2010.

Which Lost character built the first raft to get himself and his son off the island?

Michael Dawson built the first raft, but it burned before launch: his son had secretly set it alight because he did not want to leave, so Michael started again.

On Lost, what was the mid-19th-century sailing ship found stranded deep in the jungle with a cargo of dynamite called?

The Black Rock still held crates of dynamite; the survivors hauled some away to blast open a buried door, and one of them was blown up while lecturing the others on handling it.

Which Dharma station on Lost was built to study the island's unique electromagnetic fluctuations?

The Swan was meant to be a laboratory, but Dharma's drilling in 1977 struck the energy pocket beneath it, and the survivors later knew the buried station simply as the hatch.

What was the name of Jin and Sun's daughter, born off the island?

Ji-Yeon was the name Jin chose on the island; Sun gave it to their daughter when she was born in Seoul after the rescue, by which time her father was believed dead.

On Lost, what was the trade of Jin-Soo Kwon's father, who raised him alone in a Korean village?

A fisherman raised Jin alone, unsure the boy was even his; ashamed of that poverty, Jin told Sun before they married that his parents were dead.

On Lost, what nickname is given to the two skeletons found in the caves in season one?

Adam and Eve stayed a mystery until the final season, when a flashback showed them to be a woman and the son she had raised, laid together in the cave by his twin.

Which Lost character, introduced in the season-four premiere, was a physicist from the University of Oxford?

Daniel Faraday parachuted onto the island with his memory in tatters: his Oxford time-travel experiments had damaged his own mind and left his girlfriend in a coma.

What did ABC promise Lost in 2007?

An end date was announced in May 2007: 48 more episodes over three shorter seasons, which let the writers map out the rest of the story toward a planned finish in 2010.

Lost grew from an ABC chairman's idea for a TV version of which survival film, crossed with Survivor?

Cast Away was on the chairman's mind during a Hawaiian holiday, and he pitched 'Cast Away: The Series' to a room of fellow executives, some of whom laughed at the idea.

Which two writers share Lost's 'created by' credit with Jeffrey Lieber?

J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof wrote a new pilot, yet Lieber's rejected first script, titled Nowhere, won him a share of the credit in Writers Guild arbitration.

Between which two cities was Oceanic Flight 815 flying?

Sydney and Los Angeles were its endpoints, but six hours out the radio failed and the pilot turned back toward Fiji, leaving the wreck a thousand miles from where rescuers would look.

What was the title of the 12-minute Lost epilogue released on the season six DVD set?

'The New Man in Charge' is the 12-minute epilogue on the season-six home release, in which Ben shuts down the Dharma pallet drops and visits Walt at a mental institution.

Which Lost actress almost lost her role because her US work visa arrived after filming of the pilot had begun?

Evangeline Lilly, a Canadian in her first big role, was due on set on day one; the schedule was shuffled around her, and replacements were being auditioned when the visa came through.

Which earlier drama did ABC consider too serialized when Lost was being pitched?

Alias was the network's cautionary tale, so the Lost pitch document promised self-contained episodes; Lindelof later admitted the writers meant to serialize all along.

On Lost, which keepsake did Kate stage a bank robbery to retrieve?

A toy airplane: it had belonged to Tom, the childhood sweetheart who died helping her flee the police, and on the island she fought to recover it from a locked case.

Which film did Abrams leave Lost partway through season one to direct?

Abrams stepped back partway through season one to direct Mission: Impossible III (2006), leaving Lindelof and Carlton Cuse to run the show and build most of its mythology.

Which classic series does Lost's stark, out-of-focus title card pay homage to?

The Twilight Zone was one of J. J. Abrams's favourite shows; he devised the title card himself, along with the eerie sound that opens each episode.

Where did the Lost pilot have its world premiere, two months before its broadcast?

San Diego Comic-Con hosted the pilot's world premiere on July 24, 2004, two months before broadcast; cast and crew took questions on stage afterwards, though the pilot's director, billed to appear, did not make it.

Which actor was originally lined up to play Lost's Jack, back when Jack was to die in the pilot?

Michael Keaton was the plan while Jack was to be killed by the monster midway through the pilot; once ABC insisted the hero survive, the idea was dropped and the role became the series lead.

Which actress read for Kate so impressively that Lost's producers wrote a new character for her?

Yunjin Kim auditioned for Kate; the producers wrote Sun for her instead and then added a husband, Jin, for Daniel Dae Kim to play.

On Lost, which former police officer led the tail-section survivors and shot Shannon by mistake?

Ana Lucia Cortez, once of the LAPD, led the tail-section group across the island; nearing the main camp she mistook Shannon for one of the Others and fired.

Which Hawaiian beach stood in for the crash site in Lost's pilot?

Mokuleia Beach held the wreck set around the clock for the pilot; when winter surf on the North Shore threatened to swallow the wreckage, the production had to move the camp elsewhere.

Composer Michael Giacchino had which unusual objects struck as percussion for Lost's score?

Pieces of the plane's fuselage, salvaged from the wreck set in Hawaii, were shipped to the mainland by producer Bryan Burk and hung up to be struck as percussion.

Which Cass Elliot song plays on the record player in Lost's season two premiere?

Make Your Own Kind of Music plays as Desmond starts his day in the underground station, until a blast overhead stops the record: the survivors have just blown the entrance open.

Which Oasis song does Charlie busk on a street corner in flashbacks?

Charlie is singing Oasis's 'Wonderwall' on a London corner when Desmond recognises him in 'Flashes Before Your Eyes', and busks it again in 'Greatest Hits'.

Which actor, who played Michael, said in the 2023 book Burn It Down that he was written out after raising concerns?

Harold Perrineau said he was written off after season two for asking that Michael be given 'equal depth' with the leads; Damon Lindelof replied that it broke his heart that this was Harold's experience.

Which Emmy did Lost win in September 2005?

Outstanding Drama Series went to Lost for its first season, yet the show was left off that category's shortlist entirely in each of the next two years.

Which actor won an Emmy in 2007 for playing John Locke?

Terry O'Quinn won the 2007 supporting-actor Emmy as Locke, a part J. J. Abrams gave him without an audition after working with him on an earlier series.

Which band named its 2010 album Hurley, after Lost's character, and put his actor on the cover?

Weezer used a close-up of the actor's grinning face with no words on it; Rivers Cuomo said the band simply loved the picture, and knew fans would call the record Hurley whatever its title.

Which fantasy series was created by former Lost writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis?

Once Upon a Time was developed with input from Lost's Damon Lindelof, and its creators planted Lost props in its scenes, from Apollo candy bars to Oceanic Airlines and MacCutcheon whisky.

Which documentary about Lost was released for the show's 20th anniversary?

Getting Lost was paid for entirely by fans through crowdfunding; Taylor Morden's film premiered twenty years to the day after the pilot first aired.

Which fictional organization was central to The Lost Experience alternate reality game?

The Hanso Foundation, the fictional backer of the island research project, anchored The Lost Experience; its commercial aired during a May 2006 episode with a phone number that launched the game.

Which alias, borrowed from an English philosopher, does Locke use off the island in season five?

Jeremy Bentham is the fake identity Charles Widmore gives Locke for his mission to bring the Oceanic Six back; season four had already given it as the name of the dead man in the coffin.

What does Lost's finale reveal season six's off-island scenes to be?

An afterlife: Christian Shephard tells Jack that everything on the island really happened, and that the friends made this place together so they could find one another before moving on.

What is all that remains of Lost's giant statue?

A foot with four toes is all a sailing party finds in the season-two finale; a later episode shows why, as a giant wave hurls a slave ship through the statue in 1867.

On Lost, which off-island station beneath a church did Dharma build to locate the island?

The Lamp Post, built beneath a Los Angeles church, used a pendulum to predict where the ever-moving island would be at a given time.

What does Lost's very last shot show?

An eye closing: the pilot opens on Jack's eye snapping open in a bamboo grove, and the finale ends in the same grove as he lies down wounded and shuts it for the last time.

Where do people who turn the frozen wheel beneath the Orchid station find themselves?

The Tunisian desert: Locke lands there after turning the wheel, in view of a camera Charles Widmore keeps trained on the spot, which Widmore calls 'the exit'.

Which mathematician ran Dharma's island operations from the early 1970s?

Horace Goodspeed led the Dharma community in the 1970s; the son born to him on the island in 1977 grew up to be Ethan Rom, who joined the Others and spied on the crash survivors.

Under which alias does Pierre Chang appear in the Swan orientation film?

Marvin Candle is seen with a prosthetic hand in that film; season five shows why, when the 1977 drilling accident crushes Pierre Chang's arm.

Whom does Leonard Simms tell Hurley to find in Kalgoorlie?

Leonard tells Hurley to find Sam Toomey, the navy man who first heard the numbers broadcast; in Kalgoorlie Hurley learns from Sam's widow that he had shot himself years before.

'The Constant' was nominated for which science fiction literary prize?

Hugo Award voters shortlisted 'The Constant' for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2009, but the prize went to Joss Whedon's web musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

Whom does Desmond save from drowning in 'Flashes Before Your Eyes'?

Claire is pulled from the surf by Desmond, who then admits the rescue was really for Charlie, whom he had foreseen drowning in the attempt to reach her.

Nikki appeared as a guest star on a Charlie's Angels-style TV show with what title?

Nikki guest-starred as Corvette on Exposé, the Charlie's Angels-style show whose title the episode borrowed; she and Paulo were later buried alive after a spider's paralysing bite.

What did Nikki and Paulo steal from a murdered TV producer before boarding Flight 815?

Diamonds worth $8 million: Paulo poisoned the producer's food to get them, and the stones ended up tossed into the grave where the pair were buried alive.

Whose real-life tattoos were written into Jack Shephard's backstory?

Matthew Fox had the tattoos before Lost existed; the show gave them a Thai origin and the reading 'He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us', though the Chinese characters are a line about eagles from a Mao poem.

Which abandoned vehicle does Hurley find in the jungle and get running again in season three?

A Volkswagen camper van, found on its side with a skeleton in a Dharma jumpsuit inside; Hurley gets it started by rolling it down a steep hill, calling the stunt the hope the camp needs.

Whom does Locke lock James Ford in a room with aboard the wrecked slave ship?

Anthony Cooper, Locke's father, was the con man 'Tom Sawyer' who ruined Sawyer's family; Sawyer strangled him in the ship's brig in 'The Brig'.

Which board game does Locke teach Walt on the beach in Lost's pilot?

Backgammon: Locke tells Walt the game is thousands of years old, and the show kept returning to his black and white pieces as a symbol of its struggle between good and evil.

Which chicken franchise did Hurley own after his lottery win?

Hurley bought the Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack where he had once worked; a meteorite later flattened the restaurant during a TV news interview in 'Tricia Tanaka Is Dead'.

What was the name of Hurley's imaginary friend at the Santa Rosa institution?

Dave, played by Evan Handler, was Hurley's imaginary friend from Santa Rosa who reappeared on the island urging him to jump off a cliff.

What did Sun secretly learn from her former suitor Jae Lee and hide from Jin?

To speak English: Sun took lessons from Jae Lee while planning to leave Jin, then kept the skill hidden on the island until she needed Michael's help.

Which psychic insisted the pregnant Australian survivor raise her baby herself?

Richard Malkin warned her that danger surrounded the baby unless she raised it herself, then sent her to board the doomed flight; he later admitted to Mr. Eko that he was a fraud.

Ben Linus was born in the woods outside which U.S. city?

Portland, Oregon, was the nearest city when his mother gave birth in the woods and died soon after; years later Ben claimed to have been born on the island, a lie he admits to Locke.

Why did the Others' leader have Jack captured?

To remove his tumor: the growth was on his spine, and Jack turned the surgery into leverage, making a cut mid-operation and refusing to repair it until his friends could escape.

On Lost, how did Juliet's ex-husband Edmund die?

Hit by a bus: Juliet had said that only that would ever free her from him, and soon afterwards he stepped into the road while arguing with her.

Whom does Michael's ghost apologise to Hurley for killing?

Michael's ghost asks Hurley in 'Everybody Loves Hugo' to tell Libby he is very sorry; Michael had shot her and Ana Lucia in the station to free the captive.

What reason did the Others give for freeing Walt in Lost's season-two finale?

He was more than they could handle: the Others' leader told Michael they had got 'more than we bargained for' when Walt joined them, then handed over the boy and a boat.

What was the name of Mr. Eko's brother, whose body he found in the drug plane?

Yemi, a priest, was shot by soldiers as he tried to stop Eko's smuggling flight; the plane took off with him aboard and Eko left behind, and Eko found the body in its wreck on the island.

Who shot Daniel Faraday dead at the Others' camp in 1977?

Eloise Hawking shot Daniel Faraday in 'The Variable' as he stormed the Others' camp, not knowing the man was the son she would one day knowingly send back to the island.

Which anthropologist from the freighter helped neutralise the poison gas at the Tempest station?

Charlotte Lewis and Daniel Faraday made the Tempest's gas safe in 'The Other Woman', while Juliet, told they meant to release it and kill everyone, fought to stop them.

Which mercenary did Frank Lapidus help the survivors fight in season four?

Martin Keamy wore a heart-rate monitor wired to explosives on the freighter, so when he was stabbed in revenge for killing a hostage, the ship was doomed.

The Others' ageless adviser was sold onto a slave ship after accidentally killing whom?

A doctor: he rode to fetch medicine for his dying wife Isabella, the man refused his payment, and a struggle left him dead; a priest then let him be sold as a slave.

Fans wrongly assumed Lost actor Néstor Carbonell wore what on screen?

Eyeliner was the rumour, but his dark lashes are natural: Damon Lindelof swore he wears no make-up at all, and the show joked about it in a line about 'your buddy out there with the eyeliner'.

On Lost, which actress played the woman who raised the island's protector?

Allison Janney played the woman the twins call Mother, who kills their real mother, Claudia, minutes after the birth and raises the boys as her own.

What does Jack find when he opens his father's coffin on the island in season one?

Nothing: it is empty when Jack opens it beside the cave spring he has just found; he smashes the coffin in frustration, having chased a figure of his dead father through the jungle.

Whom did Rose visit on her honeymoon hoping to cure her cancer?

Rose saw Isaac of Uluru, a faith healer Bernard had sought out, on their Australian honeymoon; Isaac said he could not help her, and the island later healed her.

What was the nationality of Mira Furlan, who played Danielle Rousseau?

Mira Furlan was Croatian, born in Zagreb in 1955 and trained at its Academy of Dramatic Art, before emigrating to the United States in 1991.

Which HBO series did Damon Lindelof create after Lost?

The Leftovers, which Lindelof created with novelist Tom Perrotta from Perrotta's book, follows a town searching for answers three years after a rapture-like 'Departure' made people vanish worldwide.

Which science teacher is blown up while handling old dynamite in Lost's season-one finale?

Leslie Arzt is lecturing the others on how unstable the old sticks are, and how to handle them safely, when one goes off in his hand.

Which 1990s drama made the Jack actor famous as Charlie Salinger?

Party of Five (1994-2000) made the actor a star as eldest sibling Charlie Salinger, who raises his orphaned brothers and sisters in San Francisco.

Which elf did Evangeline Lilly play in The Hobbit films?

Tauriel appears nowhere in Tolkien's book: Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh invented the Mirkwood elf, head of the Elven guard, for The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies.

Which sci-fi drama about an alien-occupied Los Angeles starred Josh Holloway after Lost?

Colony (2016-18), co-created by Lost's Carlton Cuse for USA Network, cast him as ex-FBI agent Will Bowman, who works for the occupiers to protect his family and find his missing son.

Which billionaire did the actor who played Locke portray in The Rocketeer?

Howard Hughes is the aviation tycoon whose prototype rocket pack is stolen at the start of the 1991 film, setting gangsters, the FBI and Nazi agents chasing the pilot who finds it.

Jorge Garcia was cast in Lost after producers saw him playing a drug dealer on which comedy?

Curb Your Enthusiasm aired his episode the night before casting began; the producers called him in to read for another part, then wrote a new character for him, making him the first actor cast.

Which Best Picture winner featured Naveen Andrews as Kip?

The English Patient cast him as Kip, a Sikh sapper clearing German mines who begins a love affair with the nurse Hana; the film won nine Oscars.

Which hobbit did Dominic Monaghan play in The Lord of the Rings?

Merry Brandybuck got Dominic Monaghan noticed, and when he read for Lost's con man the producers liked him enough to rewrite another role, an older has-been, around him.

Which WB sci-fi series first brought Emilie de Ravin recognition as Tess Harding?

Roswell cast her as alien-human hybrid Tess Harding, who leaves Earth pregnant; on Lost, her character began the series pregnant too.

Yunjin Kim played a North Korean agent in which Korean blockbuster?

Shiri (1999) cast Yunjin Kim as a North Korean sleeper agent; it became the highest-grossing Korean film to that point, out-selling Titanic at home.

Which Lost actor, born in Peru, had a Scottish father?

Henry Ian Cusick was born to a Peruvian mother and grew up in Trinidad and Scotland; his Desmond, brought in as a guest, earned an Emmy nomination and a regular place in the cast.

In which season one episode does Boone fall with the Beechcraft?

In 'Deus Ex Machina' Locke sends Boone up to the Beechcraft lodged in the canopy; it topples with him inside, and he dies of his injuries in the next episode, 'Do No Harm'.

Where is former ABC chairman Lloyd Braun's voice heard on Lost?

The episode recaps open with his 'Previously on Lost': Lloyd Braun dreamed up the show and approved its costly pilot, but was out of ABC before it ever aired.

Which new ABC show's premiere outdrew Lost's pilot eleven days later?

Desperate Housewives opened to more than 21 million viewers; together the two new hits revived the fortunes of ABC, which had finished the previous season a distant fourth.

Lost won a 2005 Prism Award for its portrayal of Charlie's addiction to which drug?

Heroin: Charlie hands his supply to Locke, who promises to return it the third time he asks; when that moment comes in 'The Moth', Charlie throws it on the fire.

On Lost, what is the name of young Walt Lloyd's pet, who also survives the crash of Flight 815?

Vincent originally belonged to Walt's stepfather, Brian Porter, and went on to appear in every season of the series.

On Lost, what is the name of the island-born baby whom Kate Austen later raises as her own son?

Aaron was counted as one of the Oceanic Six even though he was born after the crash. Kate later accepted ten years of probation so she could keep raising him.

On Lost, which language has Jin Kwon's wife secretly learned before the couple board Flight 815?

English was part of her plan to escape the marriage. She kept it hidden from Jin until a fight over the burned raft forced her to speak up.

On Lost, which sport does Hurley set up on the island to ease the survivors' stress in season one?

Golf reached the island via a script coordinator who had once built a miniature course in the offices of the TV show Angel. Hurley's version starts with clubs found in salvaged luggage.

On Lost, which organ does John Locke donate to the long-lost father who then abandons him?

A kidney was all the father wanted: he sought Locke out only because he needed a transplant, and the reunion turned out to be a con.

On Lost, which word does Desmond Hume habitually use to address almost everyone he meets?

Brother is Desmond's greeting for friend and foe alike. The character is named after David Hume, the philosopher who wrote about free will and determinism.

Which production company led by J. J. Abrams made Lost in association with ABC Studios?

Bad Robot went on to make Fringe, Person of Interest and Westworld for television, along with the Star Trek reboot films and Cloverfield.

On Lost, how is Shannon Rutherford related to Boone Carlyle, who boards Oceanic Flight 815 with her?

His stepsister from the age of eight, when her father married Boone's mother, Shannon spent much of her adolescence alongside him.

On Lost, the Dharma Initiative logo seen at every research station is built around which shape?

An octagon frames the logo, in a design modelled on the bagua, and each station places its own symbol at the centre.

What name is given to the final season's Lost scenes showing lives in which Oceanic 815 never crashed?

Flash-sideways scenes turn out in the finale to be a kind of afterlife, where the characters find one another again after their deaths.

On Lost, Mr. Eko led a gang of guerrillas in which African country before becoming a priest?

Nigeria is where Eko joined the guerrillas so that his sibling would be spared. He later took that sibling's identity as a priest after a drug-smuggling run went wrong.

On Lost, what religious objects hide the heroin found aboard the small plane crashed in the jungle?

Virgin Mary statues hid the drugs because Mr. Eko's gang planned to pose as priests and smuggle the heroin out on a relief flight.

On Lost, which keepsake does Kate Austen recover from the locked suitcase she and Sawyer find while swimming?

A toy plane was the prize: Kate and an old boyfriend had dug it up from their time capsule shortly before he was killed helping her flee.

On Lost, what is the profession of Bernard Nadler, who is separated from his wife Rose in the crash?

Dentist Bernard met Rose when her car got stuck in a snowbank. He came down with the tail section on the far side of the island.

On Lost, in which profession did tail-section leader Ana Lucia Cortez serve, just as her mother did?

Police officer was nearly all the backstory Michelle Rodriguez was given when she took the role: mother and daughter both served on the force.

On Lost, which infiltrator from the Others gives Hurley a false surname during the camp census?

Ethan Rom was the Others' surgeon, and the name he gave is an anagram of 'Other Man'. The census exposed him because he was not on the flight manifest.

On Lost, which Stephen King novel is the Others' book club discussing when Flight 815 breaks apart overhead?

Carrie has the club in a heated argument when the ground shakes like an earthquake, and the Others then watch the plane come down.

On Lost, beneath which Dharma station does Ben turn a frozen wheel to make the island vanish?

The Orchid looks at first like a derelict greenhouse. Below it lies a chamber built to warp time and space, and beneath that the ancient wheel.

On Lost, what is the name of the freighter that reaches the island's waters in season four?

Kahana carried scientists and hired guns alike, and was destroyed by a bomb in the season four finale with Michael and Jin on board.

What was the title of the thirteen short Lost clips made for mobile phones between seasons three and four?

Missing Pieces ran one to four minutes each, used the regular cast and crew in Hawaii, and earned an Emmy nomination in 2008.

Which Lost season one episode has John Locke lead a boar hunt as the camp's food supplies run low?

Walkabout proved awkward to film: real boar were so troublesome that the producers switched to computer-generated animals and shots that only suggest them.

Which Lost season three premiere has Jack, Kate and Sawyer wake as prisoners of the Others?

A Tale of Two Cities borrows the Charles Dickens title to mark the reveal of a second community on the island: the Others' tidy village, far from the beach camp.

Which Lost season one episode has Jack Shephard chase visions of his dead father through the jungle?

White Rabbit is named for the Alice in Wonderland creature that lures Alice down the hole, much as the visions lead Jack on to an empty coffin.

Which Lost season two episode briefly reveals a hidden map of the island that shows only under blacklight?

Lockdown shows the map for just thirty seconds while Locke lies pinned beneath the door, and he later tries to redraw it from memory.

Which Lost season one finale sees the raft finally set sail, only for strangers at sea to destroy it?

Exodus ends with strangers on a boat seizing young Walt and then blowing up the raft; he was the boy the Others had been coming for.

Which Lost season three episode has Hurley find an old Dharma van and jump-start it down a hill?

Tricia Tanaka Is Dead is named for the newswoman killed by a meteorite moments after interviewing Hurley about his lottery win.

Which Lost season two finale reveals how a round-the-world sailing race left Desmond Hume on the island?

Live Together, Die Alone closes far from the island, at a snowbound research station where two Portuguese-speaking chess players spot the energy burst.

Which Lost season three episode shows Ben arriving on the island as a boy with his Dharma-employed father?

The Man Behind the Curtain takes its title from The Wizard of Oz, likening Ben to the small man who works the great wizard's controls.

Which Lost season two episode retells the crash and its aftermath from the tail-section survivors' side?

The Other 48 Days breaks the usual flashback pattern: instead of life before the crash, it follows the tail-section group from the moment they swim ashore.

Which Lost season five episode has the survivors urge the Others of 1954 to bury a leaking hydrogen bomb?

Jughead is the bomb's own name; the Others had taken it from soldiers sent to test such weapons on the island.

Which three-part Lost season four finale shows the Oceanic Six rescued and reveals who lies in the coffin?

There's No Place Like Home takes its title from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and its final scenes were kept secret to stop spoilers leaking.

Which Lost season three episode has Charlie Pace volunteer for a mission he has been told will kill him?

Greatest Hits takes its name from the list Charlie writes of the five best moments of his life, each shown in a flashback.

Which Lost season four episode reveals how Michael Dawson came to be working undercover on the freighter?

Meet Kevin Johnson is named for the false name Michael uses on board, and its script was finished the very day the 2007 Hollywood writers' strike began.

Which Lost season five finale ends with Juliet striking an unexploded hydrogen bomb with a rock?

The Incident takes its name from the mysterious accident first mentioned in a Dharma training film back in season two.

Which Lost season six premiere shows the remains of the island lying at the bottom of the ocean?

LA X imagines a world in which Flight 815 lands safely, and has Jack save Charlie from choking during the flight.

Which Lost season six episode leaves the main story to show twin boys born to a shipwrecked woman?

Across the Sea is the only episode in which none of the series regulars appears outside a flashback, and it explains the two skeletons found in the caves in season one.

Which early Lost episode shows Kate Austen working on an Australian farm under the name Annie?

Tabula Rasa is Latin for 'blank slate', echoing Jack's closing remark that every survivor should be allowed to start a new life.

Which Lost season two episode ends with Shannon Rutherford shot dead in the jungle?

Abandoned closes on Ana Lucia holding a smoking gun, and about 20 million viewers watched it on first airing.

Which Lost season one episode reveals that Sawyer wrote the letter he carries when he was a boy?

Confidence Man also explains his adopted name: he took Sawyer from the con artist he blames for his parents' deaths.

Which piece of punctuation is the entire title of a Lost season two episode about the Pearl station?

A question mark is the whole title because Mr. Eko is told in a dream to find one; it turns out to be a huge symbol salted into the earth so that nothing grows there.

In the Lost pilot, a looping distress call heard from high ground is spoken in which language?

French meant the job of translating fell to Shannon, and Sayid works out that the message has been repeating for over 16 years.

In the Lost pilot, what does Jack Shephard ask Kate Austen to do when the two first meet?

Stitch his wound is the favour: Jack has a gash on his back that he cannot reach, so he recruits a stranger he spots on the beach.

Which childhood friend of J. J. Abrams plays the doomed airline pilot in the Lost pilot episode?

Greg Grunberg turns up in most of Abrams's projects; here his character replaced Jack as the unseen creature's first victim once the writers decided to spare the hero.

In the Lost pilot, which piece of equipment do Jack, Kate and Charlie climb into the cockpit to retrieve?

The transceiver works once Sayid repairs it, but its battery is nearly flat and a signal comes only on higher ground.

In the Lost pilot, what does ten-year-old Walt find in the jungle and show to his father?

Handcuffs meant a prisoner had been on the plane, and a flashback shows them on Kate's wrists as the turbulence hits.

In the Lost pilot, where is the airline pilot's body found after the unseen creature attacks?

In a treetop, mangled, is where the three find him minutes after he tells them the plane was a thousand miles off course.

In the Lost pilot, the airline pilot says Flight 815 lost radio contact and turned back toward which country?

Fiji became the new heading after the radio died six hours into the flight, which is why rescuers would be searching in the wrong place.

In the Lost pilot, what is the job of the gravely injured man with wreckage lodged in his side?

U.S. marshal Edward Mars lies unconscious on the beach while Jack tries to save him, and his gun later ends up in Sawyer's hands.

In the Lost pilot's flashback, where does Rose say her husband is as the turbulence begins?

In the bathroom was first meant to be Kate's story: early plans gave her a husband who vanished mid-flight and whom she insisted had survived, an idea handed on to Rose.

Which British broadcaster first aired the Lost pilot in August 2005, showing both parts on a single night?

Channel 4 scheduled the two halves around Big Brother eviction shows, and the launch gave the network its best ratings ever for an American import.