Fargo (FX series) Trivia
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129 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 01Which studio produced the Fargo television series with FX Productions?
MGM Television
MGM Television, which controls the rights to the 1996 film, produced the series with FX Productions; Noah Hawley ran the show through his 26 Keys Productions.
Q 02Who created the Fargo TV series?
Noah Hawley
Noah Hawley created the black comedy crime drama for FX, and went on to create Legion and Alien: Earth.
Q 03Which brothers wrote and directed the 1996 film the series is based on?
Joel and Ethan Coen
Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed the 1996 film Fargo, which won them the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; both are executive producers on the series.
Q 04How many seasons of Fargo were released between 2014 and 2024?
Five
Five seasons, each with its own setting and cast, range from 1950 in season four to 2019 in season five, all in the American Midwest, mostly Minnesota.
Q 05Which run of the show is set earliest, in 1950?
The fourth
It takes place in Kansas City, Missouri.
Q 06Who plays the hitman Lorne Malvo in season one?
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton played the drifter hitman Lorne Malvo and won the 2015 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for the role.
Q 07What is Lester Nygaard's job in season one?
Insurance salesman
Insurance salesman Lester later wins salesman of the year in Las Vegas, after Lorne Malvo's malice has passed through Bemidji.
Q 08Who plays Lester Nygaard?
Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman played Lester Nygaard opposite Billy Bob Thornton, earning a 2014 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Q 09In which Minnesota town is season one mainly set?
Bemidji
Malvo hits a deer outside it.
Q 10Who plays Deputy Molly Solverson?
Allison Tolman
Allison Tolman played Deputy Molly Solverson of the Bemidji police, earning Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and winning the Critics' Choice Television Award for the role.
Q 11Which city's police force does Gus Grimly belong to?
Duluth
Gus Grimly is a Duluth police officer and single father; he lets Malvo go after pulling him over for speeding, a choice that haunts him.
Q 12Who plays Gus Grimly?
Colin Hanks
Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks's son, plays Officer Gus Grimly opposite Martin Freeman's Lester Nygaard and Billy Bob Thornton's Lorne Malvo.
Q 13Which Emmy did the first season win?
Outstanding Miniseries
Fargo won Outstanding Miniseries at the 2014 Primetime Emmys, and Colin Bucksey won Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Movie for the episode Buridan's Ass.
Q 21What is Stavros Milos, whom Malvo begins to extort, known as?
The Supermarket King
Stavros Milos, played by Oliver Platt, styles himself the Supermarket King of Minnesota, owner of the Phoenix Farms grocery chain that Malvo blackmails.
Q 22What 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 23What flows out of Stavros's shower head in Malvo's biblical torment?
Pig's blood
Pig's blood pours from Stavros's shower, the first of Malvo's staged plagues; Malvo later looses crickets in the supermarket and leaves Stavros's dog dead.
Q 14In Fargo's 2014 opening scene, what does Lorne Malvo hit with his car on a highway outside Bemidji, Minnesota?
A deer
Malvo hits a deer in January 2006, and a nearly naked man then escapes from his trunk.
Q 15Who is Sam Hess to Lester?
His childhood bully
He breaks Lester's nose in the street.
Q 16With what does Lester kill his wife Pearl?
A hammer
Lester strikes Pearl in the head with a hammer in their basement after she mocks him, then phones Malvo for help.
Q 17Whom 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 18What are the two Fargo hitmen sent to find Hess's killer called?
Wrench and Numbers
Wrench is deaf and returns in season three.
Q 19What do the two hitmen do with the wrong man they abduct?
Drop him into an ice fishing hole
They then visit Lester's office.
Q 20Who plays the naive new police chief Bill Oswalt?
Bob Odenkirk
Bob Odenkirk played Bill Oswalt, the genial deputy who becomes Bemidji police chief after Vern's death and keeps dismissing Molly's suspicions about Lester.
Q 24What does Malvo claim to be when Gus arrests him near Stavros's house?
A Christian minister
His documents give him a plausible alibi.
Q 25What 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 26Who accidentally shoots Molly during the whiteout gunfight?
Officer Grimly
Officer Gus Grimly, blinded by the blizzard, fires at a figure in the snow and hits Molly, who survives the wound.
Q 27Whom does Lester frame for the murders of Pearl and Vern?
His brother Chazz
He plants the hammer in Chazz's gun cabinet.
Q 28How many people does Malvo kill in his rampage at the mob's Fargo headquarters?
22
Malvo kills 22 people inside the Fargo syndicate's office building, shown only from outside in a tracking shot while FBI agents Budge and Pepper sit in their car.
Q 29Which comedy duo play FBI agents Budge and Pepper?
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele played FBI agents Bill Budge and Webb Pepper, demoted to the file room after missing Malvo's massacre at the Fargo syndicate.
Q 30Where does Lester spot Malvo a year later, in season one?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas. A year on, in 'The Heap', Lester is in Las Vegas collecting an insurance salesman of the year award when he spots Malvo at the hotel bar.