Game of Thrones Season 5
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49 free Game of Thrones Season 5 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Season 5 of Game of Thrones is where the show passed the books. Tyrion meets Daenerys years before the novels get there, Sansa takes a storyline from a minor character, the Night King raises the dead at Hardhome, and the season ends with Cersei walking through Dubrovnik and Jon Snow bleeding in the snow. It also set a Guinness record with 12 Emmys in one night. These 49 questions cover all ten episodes, from 'The Wars to Come' to 'Mother's Mercy': Maggy the Frog, Mance's pyre, Aemon's tiebreak vote, the viper and the necklace, Janos Slynt, the Faith Militant, Barristan's death, greyscale in Valyria, the House Martell motto, Jorah's gift, the corkscrew, Lanna the oyster seller, Karsi and Mastodon at Hardhome, breaking the wheel, Shireen, Daznak's Pit, Brienne and Stannis, poisoned lipstick and 'For the Watch'. There are production questions too: the leaked screeners, Córdoba as Volantis, the Tower of London premiere, the body double and the directors' debuts. Easy questions stick to the big deaths; the expert tier asks about Kaštel Gomilica, Calgary and Dave Hill. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01HBO launched its streaming service HBO Now days before Game of Thrones season 5, first on which tech company's devices?
Apple
Apple devices carried HBO Now from April 7, 2015, five days before the premiere, so fans could buy HBO and watch the new season without a cable subscription.
Q 02Game of Thrones season 5 mainly adapted A Feast for Crows and which novel set over the same period?
A Dance with Dragons
A Dance with Dragons runs alongside A Feast for Crows because George R. R. Martin split one overlong manuscript by character and place, not by time; the show wove the two back together.
Q 03In 2015, Game of Thrones season 5 broke which drama's single-year Emmy record?
The West Wing
The West Wing won nine Emmys for its first season in 2000; Game of Thrones had lost the top drama prize four years running before its 12 wins in 2015 took both the prize and the record.
Q 04Why did George R. R. Martin write no Game of Thrones season 5 episode?
To finish The Winds of Winter
To finish The Winds of Winter, he said, after scripting one episode in each of the first four seasons; as of 2025 the sixth novel he stepped back for was still unpublished.
Q 05What word does a septa chant while ringing a bell behind Cersei on her walk of atonement in Game of Thrones?
Shame
Shame: Septa Unella repeats it with every toll as Cersei walks naked from the Great Sept to the Red Keep, the price the High Sparrow sets for letting her go home to await trial.
Q 06In Game of Thrones season 5, what does Arya hide among rocks instead of throwing it into the sea?
Needle
Needle, the sword Jon Snow gave her, is the one piece of home Arya cannot give up, so she hides it under stones by the harbour while her clothes and silver go into the water.
Q 07Which actor joined Game of Thrones in season 5 as the High Sparrow?
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce plays the cleric Cersei raises to High Septon, only for him to lock her in a cell before the season ends.
Q 08Which Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor plays Doran, the ruling Prince of Dorne, in Game of Thrones?
Alexander Siddig
Alexander Siddig, Deep Space Nine's Dr Bashir, plays Doran as a prince who refuses to go to war over his brother Oberyn's death, so Ellaria plots behind his back.
Q 09In Game of Thrones, what are Oberyn's three eldest bastard daughters collectively called?
The Sand Snakes
The Sand Snakes are named for Sand, the surname of Dornish bastards, and for their father's nickname, the Red Viper; Oberyn has eight such daughters, and only the three eldest appear in the show.
Q 10Which actress, later the star of the thriller Servant, took over as Myrcella Baratheon in Game of Thrones season 5?
Nell Tiger Free
Nell Tiger Free replaced Aimee Richardson, who had played Myrcella in the first two seasons and answered the recast with a joke video of herself begging with a 'Princess for hire' sign.
Q 11Which Game of Thrones actor returned for one season 5 episode to play Tywin Lannister's corpse?
Charles Dance
Charles Dance came back to lie in state with painted stones over his eyes while Cersei blamed Jaime for their father's death; the premiere was his final appearance on the show.
Q 12Which three Game of Thrones regulars sat out season 5 because their story had caught up with the books?
Bran, Hodor and Meera
Bran, Hodor and Meera had reached the end of their story in the published novels, so the show rested all three for a year and brought them back in season 6.
Q 13Which Spanish city's Roman bridge became the Long Bridge of Volantis in Game of Thrones season 5?
Córdoba
Q 21How does Mance Rayder die in the Game of Thrones season 5 premiere?
Jon shoots him as he burns
Jon shoots him as he burns: Mance refuses to kneel to Stannis and is sent to the pyre, and Jon's arrow ends his agony before the fire can.
Q 22Whom does Jon Snow beat by a single vote to become Lord Commander in Game of Thrones season 5?
Alliser Thorne
Alliser Thorne ties with Jon after Sam's speech swings the hall, and one last token breaks the deadlock; Jon then names his beaten rival First Ranger.
Q 23In Game of Thrones season 5, what arrives from Dorne in a viper's jaws as a threat to Cersei?
Her daughter's necklace
Córdoba's Roman bridge was revealed as the Long Bridge of Volantis by showrunner David Benioff, who promised the effects team would make it look three times its real size.
Q 14In which city was Cersei's walk of atonement filmed for Game of Thrones season 5?
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik stood in for King's Landing: the walk took three days to film in its old town, with hundreds of extras hurling food and abuse along the route.
Q 15What did Game of Thrones use for Lena Headey's nude walk of atonement?
A body double
A body double: actress Rebecca Van Cleave walked the route nude while Headey, in a beige shift, walked beside her so that her head could be added by computer.
Q 16Which Free City does Arya reach in Game of Thrones season 5 to seek out the Faceless Men?
Braavos
Braavos: Arya sails in beneath the giant Titan statue and is at first turned away from the House of Black and White, until its doorman peels off his face to reveal Jaqen H'ghar.
Q 17Which Stark direwolf scares off two Night's Watch men attacking Sam and Gilly in Game of Thrones season 5?
Ghost
Ghost, Jon Snow's direwolf, appears as two brothers of the Watch beat Sam for defending Gilly; afterwards she tends his wounds and the two become lovers.
Q 18Where was the world premiere of the Game of Thrones season 5 opener held in March 2015?
Tower of London
Tower of London: the cast walked the carpet at the old fortress almost a month before the HBO broadcast, and the Iron Throne itself was flown in for the night.
Q 19Which Game of Thrones season 5 episode drew a then-record 8.11 million viewers on first airing?
Mother's Mercy
Mother's Mercy, the finale, edged past the premiere's 8 million after the audience had slid to 5.4 million for episode seven on Memorial Day weekend.
Q 20Who is the fortune teller a young Cersei visits in the flashback that opens Game of Thrones season 5?
Maggy the Frog
Maggy the Frog tells the girl she will be queen until a younger, more beautiful one casts her down; the scene was the first flashback the show had ever used.
Her daughter's necklace: Cersei reads it as a threat to Myrcella's life, and Jaime answers by slipping into Dorne with Bronn to bring the girl home.
Q 24Whom does Jon Snow behead for refusing an order in Game of Thrones season 5?
Janos Slynt
Janos Slynt refuses three times to go and rebuild the abandoned castle of Greyguard and insults his new commander, so Jon carries out the execution with his own hands.
Q 25Whom does Daenerys agree to marry in Game of Thrones season 5 to make peace in Meereen?
Hizdahr zo Loraq
Hizdahr zo Loraq hears the news in a cell: after feeding another noble to her dragons, Daenerys tells him she will reopen the fighting pits and take him as her husband.
Q 26Whose death in the Game of Thrones episode 'Sons of the Harpy' departs from the novels, where he is still alive?
Barristan Selmy
Barristan Selmy dies in an alley coming to the aid of the outnumbered Grey Worm, and his death pushes Daenerys to feed one of Meereen's nobles to her dragons.
Q 27Which group does Cersei authorise the High Sparrow to revive in Game of Thrones season 5?
The Faith Militant
The Faith Militant, the armed wing of the Faith of the Seven, at once arrests Loras Tyrell and then blocks King Tommen himself when he comes to demand the knight's release.
Q 28Jon Snow is told to 'kill the boy' and let what be born in Game of Thrones season 5?
The man
The man: 'Kill the boy and let the man be born' steadies Jon for an unpopular choice, and he frees Tormund and offers the wildlings land south of the Wall.
Q 29What disease does Jorah contract from the stone men of Valyria in Game of Thrones season 5?
Greyscale
Greyscale hardens the skin until its victims become the feral stone men themselves; Jorah finds the first patch on his wrist after the fight and keeps it hidden.
Q 30Which house's motto gives the Game of Thrones season 5 episode 'Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken' its title?
Martell
Martell words about never breaking title an episode that does the opposite to its characters: Loras and Margaery are arrested and Sansa is married to Ramsay.