Burn Notice Trivia
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49 free Burn Notice trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Burn Notice trivia quiz covers all seven seasons of the USA Network spy series, from the Nigeria job that got Michael Westen burned to the Irish cottage where he ends up raising his nephew. There are questions on Fiona's IRA past and vanishing accent, Sam Axe's Navy SEAL history and his Chuck Finley alias, Madeline's chain-smoking, Jesse Porter's accidental burn, and the season-by-season antagonists: Phillip Cowan, Carla, Management, Strickler, Gilroy, Simon, Vaughn, Anson, Card, Riley and James. Production trivia is here too: the Coconut Grove Convention Center set, the second-person voice-over that plays like a training film, the Edgar Award for the pilot, the CIA officer who became a script advisor after telling Matt Nix how accurate the show was, and the Sam Axe prequel movie Jeffrey Donovan directed. Cast questions cover Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless and Coby Bell. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its characters and its cast, and each question quotes the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01On which cable channel did Burn Notice originally air from 2007 to 2013?
USA
USA. The channel ran it for seven seasons and 111 episodes, and Ion bought the reruns two months before the finale aired.
Q 02Who created Burn Notice?
Matt Nix
Matt Nix. He also supplies the unseen voice in the opening credits that tells Michael there is a burn notice on him and that he is blacklisted.
Q 03In Burn Notice, which classic muscle car does Michael drive, a 1973 model that belonged to his late father?
Dodge Charger
Dodge Charger. His mother hands it over saying his father wanted him to have something to remember him by, and Michael ends that episode at the grave with a gruff thank-you for the car.
Q 04In Burn Notice's opening credits, Fiona asks Michael whether they should do what?
Shoot them
Shoot them. The narration bills her as a trigger-happy ex-girlfriend, a label trimmed to plain girlfriend from season six on.
Q 05In Burn Notice, in which country is Michael in the middle of an operation when he is burned?
Nigeria
Nigeria. He is paying off a warlord to leave an oil field alone when the call comes, so the deal collapses and he is beaten before waking up in his hometown.
Q 06In the Burn Notice pilot, Michael's voice-over says guns make you stupid, so fight your wars with what?
Duct tape
Duct tape. "Duct tape makes you smart," he adds, and his knack for building gadgets from hardware-store odds and ends earned the show comparisons with MacGyver.
Q 07Who plays Fiona Glenanne, Michael's ex-girlfriend, in Burn Notice?
Gabrielle Anwar
Gabrielle Anwar. Fifteen years earlier she had danced the tango with Al Pacino's blind colonel in Scent of a Woman.
Q 08In Burn Notice, which organization was Fiona formerly a member of?
The IRA
The IRA. The show's creator called her an incredibly chaotic person who thrives on disorder, which is both why Michael is drawn to her and why the two broke up.
Q 09What did Fiona lose between the Burn Notice pilot and the second episode in order to blend in?
Her accent
Her accent. From the second episode she speaks as an American and changes how she dresses, the show's way of having her put distance between herself and her past.
Q 10Who plays Sam Axe, Michael's best friend, in Burn Notice?
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell. Best known as Ash in the Evil Dead films, he proved popular enough here to get a 2011 prequel movie about the mission that ended his character's military career.
Q 11In Burn Notice, in which branch of the military did Sam Axe serve before retiring?
Navy SEALs
Navy SEALs. He retired as a commander, and when the show begins the FBI is forcing him to inform on Michael, who knows it and uses him to feed the Bureau false leads.
Q 12In Burn Notice, what alias does Sam Axe use most often on jobs?
Chuck Finley
Chuck Finley. Sam borrows the name of a real California Angels pitcher he liked to bet on, and the prequel movie shows the alias being born during a radio call for help.
Q 13In Burn Notice, how does the perpetually broke Sam usually get by in Miami?
Schmoozing rich older women
Q 21Which Burn Notice villain, played by Garret Dillahunt, committed the crimes Michael was framed for?
Simon Escher
Simon Escher. Sprung from a prison transport at the end of season three, he turns out to be furious that Michael got the credit for his work.
Q 22In season four of Burn Notice, what object hides the coded list of the people who burned Michael?
A Bible
A Bible. The man whose crimes were pinned on Michael had encoded the names in his family's copy, and it is snatched from the wreck of a car crash before Michael can use it.
Q 23Which Terminator 2 actor played telecommunications magnate John Barrett in season four of Burn Notice?
Robert Patrick
Schmoozing rich older women. His string of sugar mommas keeps him in food, lodging and nice cars, and whenever one throws him out he ends up sleeping at Michael's place.
Q 14In Burn Notice, what service does Michael's recurring contact Barry provide for the team?
Laundering money
Laundering money. "Bad Check Barry" also doctors financial records when Michael needs to frame an enemy, and he has been known to go into hiding and stop taking Michael's calls when a job turns dangerous.
Q 15Which Burn Notice character, played by Coby Bell, joins the team in season four after Michael accidentally burns him?
Jesse Porter
Jesse Porter. A counterintelligence expert, he comes to Michael for help finding whoever burned him, and briefly plans to kill him on learning the truth before the two make peace.
Q 16In Burn Notice, what is the name of Michael's younger brother, killed by a sniper in season six?
Nate
Nate. He has just helped the team capture the man blackmailing them when a single shot from an unseen sniper kills both the prisoner and him.
Q 17Which West Wing actor played Phillip Cowan, the man who wrote Michael's burn notice, in season one of Burn Notice?
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff. After a season-long hunt Michael finally confronts Cowan, who is shot dead by an assassin before he can explain who ordered the burn.
Q 18Which Battlestar Galactica actress played Carla, Michael's handler in season two of Burn Notice?
Tricia Helfer
Tricia Helfer. Carla keeps Michael in line by threatening his family, until Fiona shoots her in the season finale as she prepares to blow up a boat with him aboard.
Q 19Which Frasier actor appeared in Burn Notice as the shadowy leader known only as 'Management'?
John Mahoney
John Mahoney. His nameless character heads the syndicate that engineered Michael's burn notice in order to recruit him, and that had been quietly shielding him from the police ever since.
Q 20In Burn Notice, Michael's spartan loft sits directly above what kind of business?
A nightclub
A nightclub. He earns the place in the pilot by running a drug dealer off the premises for the Russian landlord who owns the club, and lives there without air conditioning.
Robert Patrick. Barrett arrives with a small army to bargain for the coded list, and dies when the car he and Michael flee in crashes, leaving the prize to a third party.
Q 24Who plays Anson Fullerton, the Burn Notice villain who co-founded The Organization and blackmails Fiona?
Jere Burns
Jere Burns. Anson tricks Fiona into taking the blame for a deadly bombing, then uses the threat of her arrest to make Michael work for him until she turns herself in.
Q 25Which Scrubs actor plays Tom Card, the CIA agent who trained Michael, in season six of Burn Notice?
John C. McGinley
John C. McGinley. Card turns out to be behind the sniper shot that killed Michael's brother, and Michael kills him for it, which puts the whole team on the run from the CIA.
Q 26In Burn Notice's season-six finale, Michael forces a confession from CIA hunter Olivia Riley aboard what?
A boat under Coast Guard fire
A boat under Coast Guard fire. Riley had teamed up with a drug cartel to bring Michael down, so he calls the Coast Guard on them both and she confesses only once its guns open up.
Q 27Burn Notice's final season opens with Michael undercover where?
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic. Posing as an alcoholic ex-spy, he spends nine months drinking and brawling there to catch the eye of an old colleague suspected of running a terrorist network.
Q 28In the Burn Notice finale, Michael and Fiona appear to be raising young Charlie where?
A small town in Ireland
A small town in Ireland is where the last scene appears to be set, though the finale never names the place; the pair have faked their deaths, so the CIA honors Michael with a posthumous star on its Memorial Wall.
Q 29Who sacrifices herself in the Burn Notice finale to protect young Charlie from James's men?
Madeline
Madeline. With gunmen closing in and an explosive that has no remote detonator, Michael's mother tells him by phone that she is proud of the man he is, then sets it off herself.
Q 30The 2011 Burn Notice prequel movie follows Sam Axe on a final military mission to which country?
Colombia
Colombia. Sam is sent there as punishment for an affair with a superior's wife, ends up defending a band of farmers, and trades his silence about the fiasco for an honorable discharge.