Catching Fire
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50 free Catching Fire trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Catching Fire is the book where the Hunger Games stop being one girl's fight to survive and become a country's fight to be free. Katniss Everdeen comes home a champion, only to find that a handful of berries has turned her into the face of a revolt she never meant to start, and that the Capitol intends to make her pay for it. This quiz follows the novel from start to finish: the Victory Tour and its fallout, the crackdown in District 12, the shock announcement that sends old champions back to fight, and the alliances, traps and betrayals inside the arena. A final handful of questions covers the author, the book's publication and the film adaptation. It is written for readers who have just finished the book, for students revising it for class, and for fans of the films who want to see how much of the story stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play on screen or print the questions for a classroom or book-club quiz.
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Q 01Wiress's odd chant helps Katniss realize that the arena in Catching Fire is laid out like what?
A clock
A clock is the arena's secret: it is split into twelve wedges, and each one unleashes its own horror for a single hour before the next takes over.
Q 02Which lie about Katniss does Peeta tell in his televised Catching Fire interview, hoping to get the Games canceled?
She is pregnant
Peeta's claim that she is pregnant throws the Capitol audience into uproar, with viewers demanding the Games be called off. They go ahead anyway.
Q 03Why do guests at President Snow's banquet in Catching Fire down a special drink midway through the feast?
To vomit and eat more
Guests drink it to vomit and eat more, a habit Katniss's prep team treats as perfectly normal. She is appalled: the food laid out could feed her district for months.
Q 04Katniss's interview gown in Catching Fire burns away as she twirls, leaving her dressed as which bird?
A mockingjay
A mockingjay, the emblem of the uprising, is what her stylist hid beneath the white gown President Snow ordered her to wear. The stunt costs him dearly.
Q 05Which special edition of the Hunger Games sends Katniss back into the arena in Catching Fire?
The Quarter Quell
The Quarter Quell marks every 25th Games with a cruel twist. This time the tributes are reaped from the districts' living victors, so Katniss has no way out.
Q 06Which stylist is beaten by Peacekeepers in front of Katniss moments before she rises into the arena in Catching Fire?
Cinna
Cinna pays for turning her interview gown into a symbol of defiance. Katniss, already locked in place for launch, can only watch as he is dragged away.
Q 07Which District 4 tribute, a Hunger Games champion at just fourteen, restarts Peeta's heart with CPR in Catching Fire?
Finnick
Finnick revives Peeta while a panicked Katniss, who has rarely seen CPR, thinks he is kissing him. The rescue persuades her that the Capitol's darling can be trusted.
Q 08At the end of Catching Fire, the rebel hovercraft that lifts Katniss from the arena is flying to which district?
13
District 13 was supposedly wiped out in the first rebellion, yet it still exists and has become the headquarters of a new uprising.
Q 09What does Peeta do during a televised Capitol interview on the Victory Tour in Catching Fire to placate President Snow?
Proposes marriage
Peeta proposes marriage on live television and Katniss accepts, to the crowd's delight. Snow is not fooled, leaving her afraid for the people she loves.
Q 10Which District 12 character is publicly whipped for poaching by the new Head Peacekeeper in Catching Fire?
Gale Hawthorne
Gale Hawthorne is flogged in the square for hunting on Capitol land. Katniss takes a lash across the cheek when she steps in to stop it.
Q 11What gesture from a Victory Tour crowd in Catching Fire ends with Peacekeepers shooting the old man who whistled first?
A three-finger salute
A three-finger salute, pressed to the lips and then held out, is how the whole crowd honors Katniss. It was her own farewell to a young ally in the previous Games.
Q 12Which district, the first Victory Tour stop in Catching Fire, hears Peeta pledge part of his winnings to two families?
11
District 11 hears Peeta promise the families of two fallen tributes a month of his winnings every year. Nothing like it has been done before, and the visit ends in gunfire.
Q 13Which District 12 haunt, where Katniss once traded her game, do the new Peacekeepers burn down in Catching Fire?
The Hob
Q 21In a tape Katniss and Peeta watch in Catching Fire, Haymitch wins his Games when a rival's axe rebounds off what?
A force field
A force field at the arena's edge flung the axe straight back at the girl who threw it. The Capitol punished the trick: within two weeks his family and his girlfriend were dead.
Q 22In her private session with the Gamemakers in Catching Fire, Katniss hangs a dummy labeled with whose name?
Seneca Crane
Seneca Crane ran the previous Games and was executed for letting both District 12 tributes live. Reminding his successors of that is a taunt the judges do not forget.
Q 23Whom does Peeta paint on the floor during his private session with the Gamemakers in Catching Fire?
Rue
The Hob was an old coal warehouse turned black market, and the coal dust left inside made it burn fast. Its regulars had to find other ways to sell their goods.
Q 14Which harsh new Head Peacekeeper brings a whipping post, stocks and gallows to District 12 in Catching Fire?
Thread
Thread replaces the easygoing Cray, who vanishes on the very day he arrives. He also imposes a curfew on the district.
Q 15What becomes of Darius, the friendly Peacekeeper who tries to stop the whipping in Catching Fire?
He is made an Avox
He is made an Avox, a servant whose tongue has been cut out, and is sent to wait on Katniss in the Capitol. She reads his presence as a message meant for her.
Q 16Which district's uprising, the first Katniss sees, does she glimpse on the mayor's television in Catching Fire?
8
District 8 rises first, and two runaways from its failed revolt later meet Katniss in the woods. She lets the news slip to her best friend, who wants District 12 to follow.
Q 17What disguise are runaways Bonnie and Twill wearing when Katniss finds them in the woods in Catching Fire?
Peacekeeper uniforms
Peacekeeper uniforms are made in their home district, which is how the pair came by them. Katniss is ready to shoot until one of them holds up a cracker stamped with a rebel symbol.
Q 18Katniss's prep team lets slip that a district is in revolt in Catching Fire by moaning about a shortage of what?
Seafood
Seafood comes from the fishing district, so weeks of empty Capitol tables tell Katniss it has risen up. The official excuse is bad weather.
Q 19President Snow, who visits Katniss at home in Catching Fire, gives off the scent of roses mixed with what else?
Blood
Blood is the smell the roses are there to mask. The sequel reveals why: sores left in his mouth by the poison he used to remove his rivals.
Q 20Why does Katniss drop from a tree and injure her foot coming home from the woods in Catching Fire?
The fence is electrified
The fence is electrified day and night now, so she drops 25 feet from a branch that overhangs it. Two Peacekeepers are already waiting at her house.
Rue is painted as Katniss left her in the previous Games, laid out and covered in flowers. The picture will not wash off, so the Gamemakers have to cover it up.
Q 24What does the District 4 tribute offer Katniss when he first flirts with her before the chariot parade in Catching Fire?
A sugar cube
A sugar cube is his opening move as the tributes wait by their chariots, followed by a request to hear all her secrets. Katniss brushes him off.
Q 25At the Cornucopia in Catching Fire, Katniss trusts a rival tribute after spotting which of Haymitch's belongings on him?
A gold bangle
A gold bangle patterned with flames, the one Haymitch wore in the Training Center, is on the rival's wrist. Katniss, about to shoot him, reads it as an order to team up.
Q 26Which elderly District 4 tribute walks into the poison fog in Catching Fire so her allies can escape it?
Mags
Mags, about 80 and the oldest tribute in the arena, knows the others cannot carry her and still outrun the mist. She kisses her fellow District 4 tribute goodbye and walks in.
Q 27The oldest tribute in Catching Fire, a woman of about 80, volunteers at the reaping to spare which younger victor?
Annie
Annie Cresta won her own Games by outswimming a flood but never recovered from what she saw there. Her screams are later used in the arena to torment the man who loves her.
Q 28Which sponsor gift lets Katniss and her allies tap the arena's trees for drinking water in Catching Fire?
A spile
A spile puzzles everyone until Katniss works out that it taps a trunk like a faucet. The trees hold the only fresh water in the arena.
Q 29What do Katniss and her allies soak in to draw out the poison after the fog attack in Catching Fire?
Salt water
Salt water burns at first but forces the fog's poison out of their bodies. It comes from the round pool at the arena's center, where the Cornucopia sits on an island.
Q 30The District 6 tribute who dies shielding Peeta from the monkeys in Catching Fire is addicted to which painkiller?
Morphling
Morphling has both District 6 tributes in its grip. As she lies dying, Peeta comforts her by talking about colors and she paints a flower on his face.