This Arrow trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers all eight seasons of the CW series that launched the Arrowverse: Oliver Queen's five years on Lian Yu, the notebook and the Undertaking, Deathstroke and the Mirakuru, Ra's al Ghul, Damien Darhk, Prometheus, Cayden James and Ricardo Diaz, the Ninth Circle, the 2040 flash-forwards, and Oliver's sacrifice as the Spectre in Crisis on Infinite Earths. It also covers how the show was made: the decision to ignore Smallville's Green Arrow and start clean, the pilot director who had also launched Smallville, the Vancouver locations, Colleen Atwood's suit and the 50 mask designs, Blake Neely's score, the record-breaking premiere audience, why the final season was only ten episodes, and the spin-off that never got picked up. The opening questions are for anyone who watched Team Arrow assemble; the last third is for people who remember which member was named after a comics writer and who was cast as a one-off guest star before taking over the show. Every answer was checked against a reference source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01On which network did Arrow premiere on October 10, 2012?
The CW
It ran eight seasons to January 2020 and became the founding show of the Arrowverse. Green Arrow had already appeared on the same network's Smallville.
Q 02How many years does Oliver Queen claim to have spent shipwrecked on Lian Yu?
Five
The island sits in the North China Sea. In truth he also spent time in Hong Kong and Russia, as the flashbacks gradually reveal.
Q 03What was Oliver's hometown called before it was renamed Star City?
Starling
The rename came in season four, along with Oliver adopting the name Green Arrow and running for mayor.
Q 04By what name is Oliver's vigilante known in season one?
The Hood
He hunts names from his father's notebook. After Tommy Merlyn's death he vows to stop killing and becomes 'The Arrow' in season two.
Q 05What is the name of the season-one conspiracy led by Malcolm Merlyn?
The Undertaking
Merlyn, the Dark Archer, planned to level the Glades. John Barrowman played him as a recurring villain before becoming a regular in season three.
Q 06Whose death at the end of season one leads Oliver to vow never to kill again?
Tommy Merlyn
Colin Donnell later returned as hallucinations, as the Earth-X Prometheus, and finally as an Earth-2 doppelganger revived by Oliver's restored multiverse.
Q 07Which former mentor from Lian Yu attacks the city as Deathstroke in season two?
Slade Wilson
Manu Bennett was recurring in season one and a regular in season two. The flashbacks reveal how their friendship curdled into a feud.
Q 08Which government agency and its leader are introduced in season two?
A.R.G.U.S. and Amanda Waller
Waller later forces Oliver to work for her in Hong Kong in the season-three flashbacks and sends him back to Lian Yu in season four's.
Q 09To whom does Oliver lose control of his family's company at the start of season three?
Ray Palmer
Brandon Routh's character renamed it Palmer Technologies and made Felicity its vice-president before spinning off into Legends of Tomorrow as the Atom.
Q 10Which League of Assassins leader does Oliver clash with in season three to protect Thea?
Ra's al Ghul
Matt Nable played him. Talia turns up later, training Oliver in the season-five flashbacks in Russia.
Q 11In which city do the season-three flashbacks place Oliver, working for Waller to stop a lethal pathogen?
Hong Kong
He escapes Lian Yu only to be conscripted. The season-five flashbacks then send him to Russia to join the Bratva.
Q 12Which terrorist group, led by Damien Darhk, is the main threat of season four?
H.I.V.E.
Neal McDonough's Darhk kills Laurel and plans to detonate nuclear weapons. Oliver and Felicity had been living quietly in Ivy Town before returning.
Q 13What discovery leads to Oliver and Felicity's break-up in season four?
He has a son, William, and hid it
Q 21Which actress plays Mia, Oliver and Felicity's daughter, in the flash-forwards?
Katherine McNamara
Mia goes by Blackstar and later Green Arrow. Ben Lewis plays the adult William Clayton.
Q 22What does Oliver become after sacrificing himself during Crisis on Infinite Earths?
The Spectre
He uses the power to stop the Anti-Monitor and restore the multiverse, reviving Moira, Quentin Lance and an Earth-2 Tommy in the process.
Q 23Where is Oliver reunited with Felicity in the final scene of the series?
A 'paradise dimension'
Emily Bett Rickards had left before the final season but returned as a special guest star for the finale.
They reconcile and marry during the season-six crossover Crisis on Earth-X. Their daughter Mia appears in the later flash-forwards.
Q 14Which serial killer, revealed to be district attorney Adrian Chase, is season five's villain?
Prometheus
Josh Segarra's performance was singled out by critics. The season also introduced Black Siren, Laurel's Earth-2 doppelganger from The Flash.
Q 15Which former Central City detective takes up the Black Canary mantle in season five?
Dinah Drake
Juliana Harkavy played her. Laurel had been the Black Canary until her Earth-1 version was killed in season four.
Q 16In the season-five flashbacks, Oliver joins which Russian criminal brotherhood?
The Bratva
He is trained there by Talia al Ghul before returning to Lian Yu to be 'rescued'.
Q 17Which terrorist hacker leads the criminal cabal in season six before being killed by Ricardo Diaz?
Cayden James
Michael Emerson played him. Diaz's takeover and Team Arrow's split forced Oliver into a deal with the FBI that ended with him in prison.
Q 18What is Oliver's inmate number when he is sent to federal prison at the end of season six?
4587
He confessed publicly to being the Green Arrow as part of the FBI deal. Season seven opens with Felicity trying to get him out.
Q 19Who is revealed as leader of the Ninth Circle in season seven?
Emiko Queen, Oliver's half-sister
Sea Shimooka's Emiko had taken over as Green Arrow while Oliver was inside. She is his paternal half-sister.
Q 20How far into the future are the flash-forwards introduced in season seven set?
Twenty years
They follow adult William and Mia in a 2040 Star City. William, Mia and Connor Hawke then time-travel to the present in the final season.
Q 24John, Oliver's bodyguard-turned-partner created specifically for the show, was named after whom?
Comic writer Andy Diggle
David Ramsey's Diggle was designed as Oliver's equal, and later took the codename Spartan. He also received a Green Lantern-style ring tease.
Q 25How was Emily Bett Rickards' Felicity Smoak originally cast?
As a one-off guest star
She recurred through season one, was promoted to regular for season two, and became the show's co-lead. She announced her exit in March 2019.
Q 26What codename does Felicity eventually adopt on Team Arrow?
Overwatch
She ran Palmer Tech in season four and founded Smoak Technologies in season seven. She is stepmother to William and mother to Mia.
Q 27Which future Supergirl auditioned to play Thea Queen?
Melissa Benoist
Willa Holland got the part; Thea, later Speedy, is eventually revealed to be Malcolm Merlyn's daughter.
Q 28Which Team Arrow member is a technological savant and Olympic decathlon medallist?
Curtis Holt
Echo Kellum's Mr. Terrific worked with Felicity at Palmer Technologies. Rene Ramirez, Wild Dog, is a dishonourably discharged Marine.
Q 29Which vigilante codename does Rene Ramirez use?
Wild Dog
Rick Gonzalez played the dishonourably discharged Marine with an estranged daughter, Zoe, from season five.
Q 30Which Smallville actor's Green Arrow did the producers deliberately NOT continue when creating Arrow?
Justin Hartley
A spin-off had been discussed during Smallville's sixth season, but the new team wanted to chart their own course with a fresh actor.