130 free Fargo (FX Series) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Fargo trivia quiz is about the FX anthology series created by Noah Hawley, which ran for five seasons between 2014 and 2024 (if you want the 1996 Coen brothers film with Marge Gunderson and the wood chipper, take our Fargo movie quiz instead). Each season tells its own Midwestern crime story: Lorne Malvo and Lester Nygaard in Bemidji, the Gerhardt family war and the UFO at Sioux Falls in 1979, the Stussy brothers and V.M. Varga, Loy Cannon against the Fadda family in 1950 Kansas City, and Dot Lyon, Roy Tillman and the sin-eater Ole Munch in 2019. The easy questions are ones any viewer knows: who plays Malvo, what Lester sells, which state trooper is Molly's father, what Peggy hits with her car and what Munch finally eats. From there it works through every episode: the deer on the highway, Mr Wrench and Mr Numbers, the Supermarket King's buried satchel, the Waffle Hut, Ed's meat grinder, Hanzee, the parking lot king's stamp, the Planet Wyh, the traded sons of Kansas City, the tornado in Liberal, the three Roy Tillmans and the biscuits. There are behind-the-scenes questions on the Coens' involvement, Calgary standing in for Minnesota, the 1997 pilot with Edie Falco, the 'true story' card, the Emmys and Golden Globes and Jeff Russo's score. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the series, its seasons, its episodes and its cast before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Fans of prestige crime drama may also like our Better Call Saul and True Detective quizzes.
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Q 01On which network did the Fargo television series air?
FX
It premiered on April 15, 2014.
Q 02Who created the Fargo TV series?
Noah Hawley
He also created Legion and Alien: Earth.
Q 03Which brothers wrote and directed the 1996 film the series is based on?
Joel and Ethan Coen
They became executive producers after reading Hawley's script.
Q 04How many seasons of Fargo were released between 2014 and 2024?
Five
Each has a different setting and cast.
Q 05What format does Fargo use, with each season telling a self-contained story?
Anthology
The seasons share continuity with the film and each other.
Q 06Which run of the show is set earliest, in 1950?
The fourth
It takes place in Kansas City, Missouri.
Q 07Who plays the hitman Lorne Malvo in season one?
Billy Bob Thornton
He won a Golden Globe for the role.
Q 08What is Lester Nygaard's job in season one?
Insurance salesman
He later wins salesman of the year in Las Vegas.
Q 09Who plays Lester Nygaard?
Martin Freeman
He also narrates season two.
Q 10In which Minnesota town is season one mainly set?
Bemidji
Malvo hits a deer outside it.
Q 11Who plays Deputy Molly Solverson?
Allison Tolman
She earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for it.
Q 12Which city's police force does Gus Grimly belong to?
Duluth
He first meets Malvo while stopping him for speeding.
Q 13Who plays Gus Grimly?
Colin Hanks
His father is Tom Hanks.
Q 14Which Emmy did the first season win?
Q 21Who plays the naive new police chief Bill Oswalt?
Bob Odenkirk
He constantly clashes with Molly over suspects.
Q 22What is Stavros Milos, whom Malvo begins to extort, known as?
The Supermarket King
Oliver Platt plays him.
Q 23What did Stavros find buried in the snow in 1987, linking the show to the film?
A satchel of money
It is the ransom money buried by Carl Showalter in the movie.
Q 24What flows out of Stavros's shower head in Malvo's biblical torment?
Outstanding Miniseries
Colin Bucksey also won for directing.
Q 15What does Malvo hit with his car in the opening scene of the series?
A deer
A nearly naked man then escapes from his trunk.
Q 16Who is Sam Hess to Lester?
His childhood bully
He breaks Lester's nose in the street.
Q 17With what does Lester kill his wife Pearl?
A hammer
He then calls Malvo for help.
Q 18Whom does Malvo shoot dead in Lester's house in the first episode?
Police chief Vern Thurman
Lester then knocks himself out to fake a home invasion.
Q 19What are the two Fargo hitmen sent to find Hess's killer called?
Wrench and Numbers
Wrench is deaf and returns in season three.
Q 20What do the two hitmen do with the wrong man they abduct?
Drop him into an ice fishing hole
They then visit Lester's office.
Pig's blood
Malvo also kills his dog and swaps his pills for Adderall.
Q 25What does Malvo claim to be when Gus arrests him near Stavros's house?
A Christian minister
His documents give him a plausible alibi.
Q 26What injury reveals Lester was in the room when Vern was shot?
A shotgun pellet wound in his hand
He hid the infected wound for weeks.
Q 27Who accidentally shoots Molly during the whiteout gunfight?
Officer Grimly
He is blinded by the snow.
Q 28Whom does Lester frame for the murders of Pearl and Vern?
His brother Chazz
He plants the hammer in Chazz's gun cabinet.
Q 29How many people does Malvo kill in his rampage at the mob's Fargo headquarters?
22
Two FBI agents notice too late.
Q 30Which comedy duo play FBI agents Budge and Pepper?
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele
They are demoted to filing clerks.