Game of Thrones Season 6
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50 free Game of Thrones Season 6 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Season 6 of Game of Thrones was the first to run beyond George R. R. Martin's published novels, and it shows: Jon Snow comes back, Hodor holds the door, Bran sees the Tower of Joy, Daenerys burns the khals, Sansa's letter brings the Knights of the Vale, and Cersei blows up the Great Sept to a piano score. It cost more than $100 million and won 12 Emmys. These 50 questions cover all ten episodes, from 'The Red Woman' to 'The Winds of Winter': Melisandre's reveal, Doran and Trystane, Khal Moro, Dave Hill's resurrection episode, Wylis, Balon's bridge, Roose's death, Arthur Dayne, Smalljon and Shaggydog, the cobbler High Sparrow, Robin Arryn, Euron at the Kingsmoot, the Children's secret, Kinvara, Benjen, Heartsbane, all the bloodriders, Ian McShane's septon, Lyanna Mormont, trial by combat abolished, Riverrun, Arya in the dark, Cannae, the hounds, wildfire, Frey pie and R+L=J. There are production questions too: the five filming countries, the Braavos troupe and Of Monsters and Men. Easy questions stick to the big moments; the expert tier asks about Binevenagh, Sebastian Croft and After the Thrones. 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 01Who rescues Sansa Stark and Theon from Bolton soldiers in season 6's premiere?
Brienne of Tarth
Brienne of Tarth. With her squire Podrick she cuts down the riders who have run the pair to ground in the snow, finally making good on her promise to protect the Stark children, and Sansa takes her into her service.
Q 02Whom does Daenerys leave behind to keep the peace in Meereen when she sails for Westeros?
Daario Naharis
Daario Naharis. She ends their affair as she gives the order, telling the sellsword that marriage is her best bargaining chip in Westeros and she cannot arrive there with a lover.
Q 03Season 6 was the first in which the story moved past which published novel?
A Dance with Dragons
A Dance with Dragons. One of season 6's directors said during the shoot that nothing being filmed came from a book: the scripts grew out of the writers' talks with the author about where his unfinished saga was going.
Q 04A small part of season 6 was shot near Calgary, Canada, purely to film which animals?
Wolves
Wolves. Jon Snow's direwolf Ghost is played by Quigly, an Arctic wolf raised by an Alberta trainer, so a handful of producers travelled to Calgary for ten days to film him there.
Q 05Which disease does Jorah reveal to Daenerys, who orders him to find a cure?
Greyscale
Greyscale. Jorah shows her the infection and at last admits that he loves her; instead of sending him away for good, she commands him to heal himself and return to her side for the conquest of Westeros.
Q 06Which veteran actor took over as the Three-Eyed Raven in season 6?
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow. He replaced Struan Rodger, who had played the part in a single season 4 scene, but his own stay was short: the Night King cuts the Three-Eyed Raven down in 'The Door', leaving Bran to carry on alone.
Q 07Which Danish actor joined season 6 as Theon's pirate uncle?
Pilou Asbæk
Pilou Asbæk. Viewers of the Danish drama Borgen knew him as a smooth spin doctor; here he walks out of a gale to tell his own brother, 'I am the storm, brother. The first storm and the last.'
Q 08Who plays Lady Crane, the actress portraying Cersei in the Braavos play?
Essie Davis
Richard E. Grant was cast as the troupe's manager.
Q 09Which band appears as the musicians of season 6's Braavos theatre troupe?
Of Monsters and Men
Of Monsters and Men. The Icelandic group play for the troupe as it sends up King's Landing, following Sigur Rós and Coldplay's drummer in a run of cameos the producers hand to bands they like.
Q 10What is the name of the play mocking Ned Stark that Arya watches in Braavos?
The Bloody Hand
The Bloody Hand. The farce plays Ned as a fool and Tyrion as the villain of the piece, so Arya has to stand in the crowd and watch her father's beheading done for laughs.
Q 11Which character does Freddie Stroma play, introduced at Horn Hill in season 6?
Dickon Tarly
Dickon Tarly. Sam's younger brother sits through one painfully awkward family dinner; by season 7 the part had gone to Tom Hopper, probably because Stroma was by then starring in ABC's Time After Time.
Q 12Who plays Ned Stark as a boy in season 6's flashbacks?
Sebastian Croft
Sebastian Croft. He is the boy Ned seen training with his little brother in Bran's vision of Winterfell, while Robert Aramayo plays the grown Ned who fights at the Tower of Joy later in the season.
Q 13In 2016, season 6's Emmys made Thrones the most-awarded scripted series, passing which sitcom?
Frasier
Q 21What is Hodor's real name, as revealed in 'Home'?
Wylis
Wylis. In Bran's vision of old Winterfell the future Hodor is a stable boy who talks as easily as anyone, and Bran is pulled out before he can learn what took the words away.
Q 22How does Balon Greyjoy's brother kill him in 'Home'?
Throws him off a bridge
Throws him off a bridge. The two meet in a storm on the rope walkway strung between Pyke's towers; the old king pulls a knife on the brother who has come home to mock him, and is hurled over the side.
Q 23Who does Ramsay kill in 'Home' to take the North for himself?
Roose Bolton
Roose Bolton. Ramsay stabs his father moments after hearing that Roose's wife has given birth to a boy, a new heir who threatened everything the bastard son stood to inherit.
Frasier. The sitcom needed eleven seasons to reach its record 37 Emmys; Thrones passed it after six.
Q 14How does King Tommen die in season 6?
Jumps from a window
Jumps from a window. He watches the Great Sept burn from his chambers and, told that Margaery was inside, sets down his crown and steps out without a word: the one death Cersei's plot was never meant to cause.
Q 15What was the name of the weekly recap show that followed season 6 episodes on HBO Now?
After the Thrones
After the Thrones. Hosts Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan came from the Grantland podcast Watch the Thrones; HBO dropped the show after one season, and they relaunched it on Twitter as Talk the Thrones.
Q 16Which track from season 6's finale reached No. 1 on Billboard's Spotify Viral 50 chart?
Light of the Seven
Light of the Seven. Because any familiar character theme might tip viewers off to what was coming, the finale's director suggested piano, an instrument the show's score had never used before.
Q 17What is revealed about Melisandre at the end of 'The Red Woman'?
She is physically very old
She is physically very old. Alone in her chamber she takes off her jewelled necklace and the mirror shows a frail, white-haired woman; the shot put Carice van Houten's made-up face onto an elderly woman's real body.
Q 18Who fatally stabs Prince Doran Martell in season 6's premiere?
Ellaria Sand
Ellaria Sand. Furious that he has let the deaths of his sister and his brother Oberyn go unavenged, she knifes him while his own guards look on and tells him weak men will never rule Dorne again.
Q 19Daenerys learns in season 6 that a khal's widow must live where?
Vaes Dothrak
Vaes Dothrak. As Khal Drogo's widow she is meant to join the dosh khaleen in the sacred city for life; instead she burns the assembled khals in their own temple and walks out to a kneeling horde.
Q 20Who persuades a doubting Melisandre to try to revive Jon Snow in 'Home'?
Davos Seaworth
Davos Seaworth. No devout man himself, he says he is asking the woman who showed him miracles exist; her faith broken by Stannis's defeat, she tries, gives up with a last 'please', and Jon wakes once the room has emptied.
Q 24Which famed Kingsguard swordsman nearly kills Ned Stark at the Tower of Joy in season 6?
Arthur Dayne
Arthur Dayne. Bran grew up on the tale of his father beating the finest knight in the land; the vision shows Ned disarmed and about to die when Howland Reed stabs Dayne from behind.
Q 25Which missing Stark does Smalljon Umber hand to Ramsay as a prisoner in 'Oathbreaker'?
Rickon Stark
Rickon Stark. Umber will not bow or swear to Ramsay, so he offers the boy as a gift instead, and proves who he is by producing the severed head of Rickon's direwolf, Shaggydog.
Q 26Which Stark siblings reunite at Castle Black in 'Book of the Stranger'?
Jon and Sansa
Jon and Sansa. He had just quit the Night's Watch and was packing to ride south when she came through the gate, and she is soon pressing him to help her take Winterfell back from the Boltons.
Q 27Who tries to seduce and stab Ramsay in 'Book of the Stranger', and is killed?
Osha
Osha. She climbs onto Ramsay's lap while reaching for the knife he has been peeling an apple with, but Theon has already told him how she once tricked her way out of Winterfell, and he cuts her throat first.
Q 28What trade does the High Sparrow tell Margaery he once followed?
Cobbler
Cobbler. He tells her he loved fine things until the morning after a drunken feast, when he looked at his sleeping guests, saw that it was all a lie, and walked away from his trade leaving even his own shoes behind.
Q 29Which lord does Littlefinger talk into coming to Sansa Stark's aid in season 6?
Robin Arryn
Robin Arryn. Littlefinger turns up with a falcon as a late name-day gift, mentions that the boy's cousin has fled the Boltons, and lets him arrive at the idea of sending help as if it were his own.
Q 30Who is chosen King at the Kingsmoot in 'The Door'?
Euron Greyjoy
Euron Greyjoy. Accused before the whole assembly of murdering the last king, he simply admits it and is cheered for it; his niece and nephew slip away with the best ships while he is being crowned.