Game of Thrones Season 3 Trivia
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50 free Game of Thrones Season 3 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Season 3 of Game of Thrones aired on HBO from March 31 to June 9, 2013, adapting the first half of A Storm of Swords, and it contains the scene that made Benioff and Weiss want the rights in the first place: the Red Wedding. Around it sit Daenerys buying and freeing the Unsullied in Astapor, Jaime losing his hand and gaining a conscience in a Harrenhal bathtub, Jon and Ygritte climbing the Wall, Sam killing a White Walker, and Tyrion's grim wedding to Sansa. This quiz covers the plot of all ten episodes plus the production: Morocco standing in for Slaver's Bay, the Iceland cave, the $50 million budget, David J. Peterson's Valyrian, George R. R. Martin's own script, Benioff's directing debut, the Coldplay drummer at the Twins, Bart the bear, the Hugo Award and the episode titles from 'Valar Dohaeris' to 'Mhysa'. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print it for a rewatch night.
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Q 01Season 3 of Game of Thrones adapts roughly the first half of which novel?
A Storm of Swords
A Storm of Swords was judged too long for one season, so the showrunners split it in two and held its second half back for season 4.
Q 02Which country hosted Game of Thrones season 3 filming for Daenerys's scenes in Astapor and Yunkai?
Morocco
Morocco. The unaired 2009 pilot had filmed Daenerys's wedding there too, but HBO scrapped those scenes and they were reshot in Malta.
Q 03Gosford Castle in County Armagh stood in for which castle in Game of Thrones season 3?
Riverrun
Riverrun, House Tully's seat, was filmed at Gosford Castle, which has since been converted into private homes, so a fan with the money can now live there.
Q 04Which language creator built the Valyrian languages first heard at length in Game of Thrones season 3?
David J. Peterson
David J. Peterson won the job in a contest among language inventors and built Dothraki for season 1 first; for Valyrian he had only a few words from the novels to start from.
Q 05Who wrote the Game of Thrones season 3 episode 'The Bear and the Maiden Fair'?
George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin first called his script 'Autumn Storms' for all its rain; when the rain was cut it became 'Chains', and it only got its final title once the bear scene was moved in.
Q 06Which season 3 episode, the first to credit showrunner David Benioff as director, ends with Jaime losing his sword hand?
Walk of Punishment
Walk of Punishment was directed by both showrunners, but guild rules allow a single credit, so David Benioff took it and D. B. Weiss took the credit when they co-directed the season 4 premiere.
Q 07Which Game of Thrones actor broke an ankle in July 2012, delaying season 3's Iceland shoot?
Kit Harington
Kit Harington lost his keys after a night out, tried to climb in through a window of his London flat and fell; a body double covered some of Jon Snow's shots while he healed.
Q 08Which band recorded 'The Bear and the Maiden Fair' for the end credits of a Game of Thrones season 3 episode?
The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady were asked for a bawdy, sloppy, drunken-sounding version; it crashes in over the credits right after Jaime loses his hand, because the showrunners wanted to deepen the shock.
Q 09Which Coldplay member cameoed as a musician at Game of Thrones' Red Wedding?
Will Champion
Will Champion, Coldplay's drummer, plays a drummer in the wedding band; the hall doors are locked as it strikes up 'The Rains of Castamere', and the slaughter begins.
Q 10Game of Thrones flew actors to which US city to film Brienne's bear-pit fight with a live bear?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles. Rules on moving large animals between countries kept the bear, Bart the Bear 2, in the US, which made America the season's fifth filming country for a single scene.
Q 11Game of Thrones' 'The Rains of Castamere' won which science-fiction prize in 2014?
the Hugo Award
The Hugo Award for short-form drama went to the Red Wedding episode, which beat four Doctor Who-themed finalists on the same ballot.
Q 12What does 'Valar Dohaeris', the title of Game of Thrones' season 3 premiere, mean in High Valyrian?
all men must serve
'All men must serve' is the reply to 'valar morghulis', the phrase that titled the season 2 finale, so season 3 opens by completing the exchange.
Q 13Which Irish actor joined Game of Thrones in season 3 as Mance Rayder?
Ciarán Hinds
Q 21In Game of Thrones season 3, who kills Lord Commander Jeor Mormont during the Night's Watch mutiny?
Rast
Rast stabs the Lord Commander in the back as the mutiny erupts, moments after Karl Tanner has knifed their host; it was James Cosmo's last episode as Mormont.
Q 22Which Game of Thrones character opens a crate to reveal the sorcerer who castrated him?
Varys
Varys tells Tyrion that a sorcerer in Myr cut him as a boy, then prises off the lid: he has spent years patiently growing his influence until it could deliver the man for his revenge.
Q 23In Game of Thrones season 3, Daenerys offers the slavers of Astapor which dragon in exchange for the Unsullied?
Drogon
Drogon. The slaver Kraznys insults her in Valyrian all through the haggling, never guessing it is her first language; the moment the deal is done she has the dragon burn him alive.
Ciarán Hinds, HBO's Julius Caesar in Rome, plays the King-beyond-the-Wall; Jon Snow first kneels to the wrong man, Tormund, before the real Mance speaks up from a corner.
Q 14In Game of Thrones season 3, who saves Daenerys from a warlock's scorpion-like creature in Astapor?
Barristan Selmy
Barristan Selmy, who once guarded her father as a knight of the Kingsguard, has trailed Daenerys in a hood; he kills the creature with a dagger, then asks to serve in her Queensguard.
Q 15In Game of Thrones season 3, which pirate rescues a stranded Davos after the Battle of the Blackwater?
Salladhor Saan
Salladhor Saan has quit Stannis's cause, but the stranded Davos talks his old friend into ferrying him to Dragonstone, where he means to kill Melisandre.
Q 16Which actor joined Game of Thrones in season 3 as the seer Jojen Reed?
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Thomas Brodie-Sangster, the lovesick boy of Love Actually, plays Jojen, who walks into Bran's dreams before tracking him down in the flesh to explain his visions.
Q 17In the Game of Thrones season 3 finale, Theon's unnamed torturer is revealed to be whom?
Ramsay Snow
Ramsay Snow had posed as a servant sent by Theon's sister to free him, then led him straight back to the torture chamber he had escaped from.
Q 18Which court position does Tywin give Tyrion in Game of Thrones season 3?
Master of Coin
Master of Coin: Tyrion inherits the treasury from Littlefinger and finds its magic was borrowing, with tens of millions owed to the Iron Bank of Braavos.
Q 19In Game of Thrones season 3, who cuts off Jaime Lannister's sword hand?
Locke
Locke, played by Noah Taylor, was invented for the show: in the novels it is the sellsword captain Vargo Hoat who has Jaime's hand cut off.
Q 20In Game of Thrones, Tyrion jokes about a 'knot' named after which city, a nod to a plot tangle in the novels?
Meereen
Meereen. The 'Meereenese Knot' was the author's own name for the puzzle of getting several characters to that city at the right moment, a tangle that held up the fifth novel for years.
Q 24Which translator does Daenerys demand along with the Unsullied?
Missandei
Missandei is handed over as a gift to seal the sale of all 8,000 soldiers in Astapor; once the army is hers, Daenerys turns it on the slavers who sold it.
Q 25Which Game of Thrones character is revived after the Hound kills him?
Beric Dondarrion
Beric Dondarrion falls to the Hound in a trial by combat and is prayed back to life by the priest Thoros, his sixth return; Richard Dormer took over the role for season 3.
Q 26The Game of Thrones episode title 'Kissed by Fire' refers to wildlings with what feature?
red hair
Red hair: the wildlings say a redhead has been 'kissed by fire', and the title doubles for an hour full of flames, from the Hound's terror of them to Jaime's tale of the Mad King's wildfire.
Q 27In Game of Thrones season 3, who begins teaching Davos to read in the Dragonstone dungeons?
Shireen Baratheon
Shireen Baratheon, Stannis's daughter, visits with a book and starts lessons when Davos admits he cannot read; in the finale a letter from the Night's Watch is what saves him from execution.
Q 28Which lord does Robb Stark personally execute in Game of Thrones season 3 for murdering two Lannister boys?
Rickard Karstark
Rickard Karstark is beheaded by Robb himself, against the pleas of his own family; the Karstark soldiers then abandon his army, which drives him back to the Freys for troops.
Q 29In Game of Thrones, why was Qyburn thrown out of the Citadel?
human experimentation
Human experimentation cost Qyburn his maester's chain, yet the outcast is the one who treats Jaime's infected stump, after Jaime refuses to let him take the whole arm.
Q 30Iceland's Grjótagjá lava cave provided the opening shot of which Game of Thrones season 3 moment?
Jon Snow's love scene
Jon Snow's love scene opens on the real cave, whose pool was a popular bathing spot until eruptions between 1975 and 1984 heated the water too much to swim in.