50 Fun Facts About The 100

The 100 aired on which American network from 2014 to 2020?

It became the network's most-watched show in its time slot since Life Unexpected in 2010, drawing an estimated 2.7 million viewers for its premiere.

In which year did the series premiere?

The pilot was shot in the second quarter of 2013, but the show did not reach screens until March 19 of the following year.

Who developed the series for television and served as its showrunner?

He wrote 16 of the show's 100 episodes and also directed the series finale, 'The Last War'.

The show is based on a young adult novel series by which author?

The pen name belongs to Mallory Kass, a Scholastic senior editor who later appeared as a Jeopardy! contestant in 2022.

How many years after the nuclear apocalypse does the series begin?

Three generations had been born aboard the orbiting Ark by then, and its failing life support is what forces the gamble of sending prisoners to the ground.

How many episodes did the show run in total across its seven seasons?

The final season was deliberately given 16 episodes so the tally would land exactly on the show's title.

Filming for the series took place in and around which city?

Production of the seventh season wrapped on March 14, 2020, just as Warner Bros. shut down all its shows for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Which linguist created Trigedasleng for The 100, as well as Dothraki for Game of Thrones?

Because 97 years is too short for real language change, he posited that the early Grounders used a deliberate cant to tell friend from foe.

Which Australian actress plays Clarke Griffin?

She never formally auditioned: producers saw an old film audition tape and called her in for a reading the next day, just as she was about to give up on Los Angeles.

Which actor plays Bellamy Blake?

He was one of the first two actors cast, in late February 2013, and grew up on a farm in Kyneton, Victoria.

Which actress was cast in season two as Commander Lexa?

She was already on the producers' radar from the Clarke casting search, and simultaneously landed Alicia Clark on Fear the Walking Dead.

Lexa was killed off in which third-season episode, igniting the 'bury your gays' backlash?

The episode that followed was the lowest-rated in the show's history as fans organised under 'Lexa Deserved Better' instead of watching.

Who fired the stray bullet that killed Lexa?

Her Flamekeeper had meant to shoot Clarke; moments later he cut the Flame from Lexa's neck, revealing how Commanders are chosen.

After Lexa's death, fans raised money in her name for which charity?

More than $30,000 came in within hours and over $135,000 by that July; the campaign also produced the 'Lexa Pledge' for TV writers.

Wells Jaha, the Chancellor's son, is murdered in the third episode by whom?

The killer was one of the youngest of the 100, avenging her parents' execution; Murphy was wrongly blamed and nearly lynched for it.

After wiping out Mount Weather, Clarke earns which Trigedasleng title, meaning 'Commander of Death'?

The name is also rendered as 'Mountain-slayer', and by season three the Ice Nation is hunting her to claim its power.

As an illegal second child on the Ark, where was Octavia hidden as she grew up?

She was finally caught when her brother sneaked her out to a masked ball, and some delinquents shunned her for being a second child.

Jasper and Monty were locked up on the Ark for what?

Their chemistry know-how later matters: Monty's engineering skills and video logs steer the survivors to a new world.

Why was John Murphy's father executed on the Ark?

He was trying to help his sick son; Murphy's mother then drank herself to death while blaming the boy, a backstory he confides to Raven.

Kelly Hu's Callie Cartwig vanished after the pilot; why was the character dropped?

Her death happened entirely offscreen, and she was Abby's best friend and the Ark's communications officer for exactly one episode.

In season two, the Mountain Men harvest what from the captured delinquents to survive radiation?

They had been transfusing Grounder blood for decades; the Ark kids' marrow offered a permanent cure, which made them worth killing.

How does A.L.I.E. take control of people's minds in season three?

The chip removes all pain and links the user to the City of Light, a virtual reality where the dead live on, at the cost of good memories too.

Who created the A.L.I.E. artificial intelligence?

Her spirit later guides Clarke through the Flame to hit A.L.I.E.'s kill switch; the Grounders remember her as Pramheda, the First Commander.

What do the Grounders call the second radiation death wave that ends season four?

After it, the only habitable place left on Earth is Shallow Valley, where the Eligius prisoners land in 2156.

Roughly how many people shelter in the fallout bunker as the death wave arrives?

Clarke stays behind to power up the old Ark remotely and misses her ride to space; only her Nightblood keeps her alive on the surface.

The bunker where Wonkru survives was built by which doomsday cult?

Its sigil turns up again on the Disciples' home planet, tying the cult to the Disciples and, eventually, to the man they call the Shepherd.

What is the name of the prison transport ship whose convicts land in the valley in season five?

The ship had been mining an asteroid when its captain tried to abandon the prisoners; a sympathetic pilot freed their shock collars.

As ruler of Wonkru in the bunker, Octavia takes which title, meaning 'the Red Queen'?

Anyone who broke her laws had to fight in deathmatches; after being healed on Sanctum she declares herself 'Blodreina no more'.

Who launched the Damocles bomb that destroyed the last habitable valley on Earth?

It was a scorched-earth act as his army lost; the survivors fled to orbit and went into cryosleep expecting a ten-year wait.

How long are the survivors in cryosleep before they wake near a new world?

Only two people stayed awake, grew old and raised a son aboard the ship, whose video logs explain why Earth never recovered.

The habitable moon originally designated Alpha was renamed what by Josephine Lightbourne?

It was settled by Mission Team Alpha with a thousand frozen embryos, and its ruling families became the Primes.

The Primes keep reincarnating themselves by implanting what into Nightblood hosts?

The process is supposed to wipe the host, but a remnant of A.L.I.E. inside Clarke lets her survive being possessed by Josephine.

In season seven, the mysterious Anomaly is revealed to be what?

It links six planets, one of them Earth, and a nearby black hole makes time run at wildly different speeds on each side.

The Disciples come from which planet?

Their full name is the Disciples of a Greater Truth, and they grow their children from embryos in incubators rather than raising families.

The Disciples' revered 'Shepherd' turns out to be whom?

He had been kept alive in stasis for centuries and is shot dead by Clarke just as he begins the test that decides humanity's fate.

Where did the Shepherd find Earth's Anomaly Stone, per the prequel episode?

He spent more than a decade trying to decipher it before A.L.I.E.'s creator arrived and opened it with the Flame.

Which season-seven episode served as the backdoor pilot for the prequel series that was never picked up?

Iola Evans, Adain Bradley and Leo Howard were cast as Callie, Reese and August; the network finally passed on the spinoff in November 2021.

In which season-seven episode is Bellamy killed?

It was the 13th episode of the season and was panned by critics and fans for the way it wrote off a lead who had been there since the pilot.

In the finale, the Judge appears to Clarke in the form of which character?

The Judge appears as a person's greatest teacher, failure or love, and in that guise speaks the series' last line: 'A curious species, indeed'.

Jordan Green, who greets the sleepers when they wake, is the son of which couple?

He learned Korean from his father, which later lets him spot that the Disciples mistranslated the Bardoan logs about a 'last war'.

Echo, the Azgeda spy, is revealed to really be whom, having taken the real Echo's identity as a child?

Queen Nia forced the swap after the girl killed her best friend in self-defence; she only reveals it to Niylah in season seven.

King Roan dies in the season-four conclave at the hands of which Nightblood?

She had fled her own conclave years earlier to avoid killing, and entered this one intending that nobody would get the bunker if she won.

Isaiah Washington (Jaha) first came to prominence as Dr. Preston Burke on which series?

His Jaha is killed in the second episode of season five, 'Red Queen', after four seasons chasing the City of Light and a bunker.

Paige Turco, who plays Abby Griffin, earlier played April O'Neil in sequels to which film franchise?

Her final screen role was a guest return as Abby in the 2020 series finale, after leaving the main cast at the end of season six.

Before The 100, Clarke's actress was Janae Timmins on which Australian soap?

Bellamy's actor also passed through the same soap, playing Aidan Foster from 2011 to 2013, before both were cast in the show.

Lindsey Morgan, who plays Raven Reyes, earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for which soap opera?

She played Kristina Davis for less than a year and left in March 2013, months before landing the mechanic who launches herself to Earth in a pod.

On which UK channel did the show premiere, giving it the channel's biggest-ever programme launch?

The July 2014 launch averaged 1.39 million viewers; in Canada, season one was licensed exclusively to Netflix.

The showrunner said he wanted to make a show with the theme of which novel?

Early critics leaned into the comparison, with The Hollywood Reporter joking about 'an Earth populated only by attractive teenagers, whose parents are left out in space'.

What is the name of the Grounder capital where the Commander rules?

Bounty hunter Roan is sent to drag Clarke there in season three, and the city later becomes ground zero for A.L.I.E.'s chipped army.

What do the Grounders call the people from the Ark in Trigedasleng?

They are eventually admitted to the Commander's coalition as its thirteenth clan, with Clarke bowing before the other ambassadors.