Game of Thrones Season 2 Trivia
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50 free Game of Thrones Season 2 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Season 2 of Game of Thrones ran on HBO from April 1 to June 3, 2012, adapting most of A Clash of Kings: the War of the Five Kings, Tyrion's turn as Hand, Theon's return to Pyke, Arya at Harrenhal, Jon beyond the Wall and Daenerys in Qarth. It introduced Stannis, Melisandre, Davos, Margaery, Brienne, Ygritte and Jaqen H'ghar, moved King's Landing from Malta to Dubrovnik, sent the far-north unit to Iceland, and built to the Battle of the Blackwater, an episode written by the novels' author and directed at two days' notice. This quiz covers the production (two crews, 106 shooting days, the 15% budget bump), the casting stories (the renamed Asha, the 6 ft 3 in Brienne, the actor who replaced the Mountain), the locations (Ballintoy, Moneyglass, Lokrum, the Minčeta Tower), the music, the ratings and the six Emmy wins, plus the character turns that defined the year, from the cupbearer at Harrenhal to the coin and the phrase in the finale. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer.
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Q 01In the Game of Thrones season 2 premiere, what appears in the sky?
A red comet
A red comet. Everyone reads it their own way, but the wildling Osha insists it can mean only one thing: dragons have returned.
Q 02Game of Thrones season 2 mostly adapts which novel in A Song of Ice and Fire?
A Clash of Kings
A Clash of Kings. Not all of it made the cut: the showrunners held several of the book's characters back for season three, saying they couldn't afford to have actors waiting around for their stories to start.
Q 03Catelyn Stark frees Jaime Lannister and sends which warrior to escort him to King's Landing?
Brienne of Tarth
Brienne of Tarth. Catelyn hopes to exchange the Kingslayer for her captive daughters, and when Robb finds out he has his own mother placed under guard.
Q 04At the Blackwater, Tyrion destroys much of Stannis's fleet with a ship full of what?
Wildfire
Wildfire. So the battle could be shown on screen and not just reported, the showrunners talked HBO into raising the season's budget by about 15 percent.
Q 05Which castle does Theon Greyjoy seize in season 2 while Robb Stark is away at war?
Winterfell
Winterfell. Theon first has his raiders attack Torrhen's Square, which draws the garrison away and leaves the Stark seat almost undefended.
Q 06The desert called the Garden of Bones, which names a season 2 episode, surrounds which city?
Qarth
Qarth. Its rulers can leave travellers to die outside the walls, and Jorah warns Daenerys that every time the gates are shut on one, the garden grows.
Q 07Which director of the horror film The Descent made his Game of Thrones debut with 'Blackwater'?
Neil Marshall
Neil Marshall got the call on a Saturday morning, asking him to start that Monday. He had about a week and a half to prepare the biggest battle the show had attempted.
Q 08Who wrote the Game of Thrones episode 'Blackwater'?
George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin. He began the novels after years of television producers telling him his scripts cost too much, then had to fit his own biggest battle into an HBO budget.
Q 09Whom does Tyrion put in command of the City Watch after sending Janos Slynt to the Wall?
Bronn
Bronn. Slynt admits to the massacre of King Robert's bastards but won't say who ordered it, so Tyrion has him shipped north and hands the gold cloaks to his own sellsword.
Q 10To seal an alliance, Tyrion ships Princess Myrcella off to which region of Westeros?
Dorne
Dorne. Myrcella sails off to be betrothed into House Martell, and the royal party's walk back from the harbour ends in a riot.
Q 11Which city replaced Malta as the stand-in for King's Landing in Game of Thrones season 2?
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik. Its high medieval walls rising straight from the sea matched the capital described in the novels, so the Croatian city took over the role that Malta had played in season one.
Q 12Which wildling does Jon Snow capture in season 2 but find himself unable to execute?
Ygritte
Ygritte. She bolts while he hesitates, and by the time he has caught her again the two are cut off from the other rangers and alone for the night.
Q 13Game of Thrones season 2 filmed its scenes set north of the Wall in which country?
Iceland
Iceland. The alternative, David Benioff said, was the unsatisfying and expensive business of covering a field in the middle of Ireland with fake snow.
Q 21Which dubious distinction did Game of Thrones earn for 2012, the year its second season aired?
Most-pirated TV series
Most-pirated TV series. TorrentFreak estimated that a single episode was illegally downloaded about 4.3 million times, slightly more than its estimated US television audience.
Q 22Which actor joined Game of Thrones in season 2 as Stannis Baratheon?
Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane. He never read the novels to prepare for the unbending would-be king, telling an interviewer with a laugh that he had decided to wing it.
Q 23Which actress, once asked to audition for Cersei, joined Game of Thrones as Melisandre?
Carice van Houten
Q 14Who saves Tyrion's life during the Battle of the Blackwater by killing Ser Mandon Moore?
Podrick Payne
Podrick Payne. The Kingsguard knight turns on Tyrion in the chaos of the fighting, and the young squire runs a spear through the attacker from behind.
Q 15Who composed the music for Game of Thrones season 2?
Ramin Djawadi
Ramin Djawadi. The novels print the words of 'The Rains of Castamere' but no tune, so he had to invent the melody that Tyrion is heard whistling in the premiere.
Q 16Which indie rock band performs 'The Rains of Castamere' over the 'Blackwater' end credits?
The National
The National. The showrunners planted the song all through season two so that viewers would know it a year later, when its opening bars signal the start of the Red Wedding.
Q 17Which award did the Game of Thrones episode 'Blackwater' win in 2013?
Hugo
Hugo. Doctor Who had three of the five nominated episodes on that year's short-form ballot, and 'Blackwater' beat them all.
Q 18Which Game of Thrones cast member earned season 2's Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor?
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage. He also jumped more than 15 places to first billing in the opening credits, reasoning that with Ned Stark dead, Tyrion was the new Hand of the King.
Q 19Which fighter walks out on King Joffrey in the middle of the Battle of the Blackwater?
The Hound
The Hound. Unnerved by the flames, Sandor Clegane demands wine, renounces the king in front of everyone and later offers to take Sansa north with him.
Q 20What does Jon Snow discover Craster does with his newborn sons?
Gives them to the White Walkers
Gives them to the White Walkers. Jon follows him into the woods at night and sees one collect the baby, and the Lord Commander later admits he already knew.
Carice van Houten. She had to pass on trying out for the queen because she was busy on another shoot, and arrived a season later as the red priestess.
Q 24Theon's sister Yara was renamed from which name in the novels?
Asha
Asha. The change was reportedly made because the name sounds too much like Osha, the wildling held captive by the Starks; Gemma Whelan's Yara still commands her own ship.
Q 25Which German actor plays the mysterious prisoner Jaqen H'ghar?
Tom Wlaschiha
Tom Wlaschiha. He hadn't heard of the show when he taped his audition in Berlin, and thought a character who speaks of himself in the third person was really weird.
Q 26Who replaces the novels' Jeyne Westerling as Robb Stark's bride in Game of Thrones?
Talisa Maegyr
Talisa Maegyr. Robb meets her tending the wounded after a battle and marries her in secret in the finale, breaking his promise to wed a daughter of Walder Frey.
Q 27How does Daenerys punish Xaro Xhoan Daxos for betraying her?
Seals him in his own vault
Seals him in his own vault. The treasure house he boasted of turns out to be empty, so she locks him inside it with her treacherous handmaid and loots his mansion to buy a ship.
Q 28Which warlock holds Daenerys's stolen dragons in the House of the Undying?
Pyat Pree
Pyat Pree. He chains up the young dragons and then Daenerys herself, who gets free by ordering them to breathe fire on him.
Q 29Which Night's Watch recruit travelling with Arya do the gold cloaks hunt as King Robert's bastard?
Gendry
Gendry. Arya later saves him from Lannister soldiers by telling them that a boy they have just killed, who was carrying his helmet, was the one they wanted.
Q 30Which actor, the narrator of the Ice and Fire audiobooks, plays the pyromancer Hallyne in season 2?
Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice. He had been cast in a larger role for season one but withdrew for medical reasons; his 224 distinct voices on one of the audiobooks earned a Guinness World Record.