Game of Thrones Season 8 Trivia
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50 free Game of Thrones Season 8 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones ran six episodes in April and May 2019 and drew more argument than any television season in memory: 32 Emmy nominations and twelve wins on one side, a 55 percent Rotten Tomatoes score and a 1.7-million-signature remake petition on the other. Whatever you think of it, it is dense with trivia. This quiz covers the lot: the 140-page outline, the 55 night shoots behind 'The Long Night', Arya and the Night King, Melisandre's choker, Jaime knighting Brienne, Florence and the Machine's 'Jenny of Oldstones', the coffee cup and the water bottles, Rhaegal and the forgotten Iron Fleet, the bells of King's Landing, Cleganebowl, Drogon melting the throne, Bran's election, Sansa's crown, Arya's westward voyage and the 13.61 million viewers who made the finale HBO's most-watched hour ever. Cameos by Chris Stapleton, Aaron Rodgers and two sitcom stars included. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print it for a rewatch debate.
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Q 01Which Thrones episode holds the show's runtime record?
The Long Night
The Long Night. Season 8 has only six episodes because its makers said they could no longer finish ten in the usual year or so; the last four each run well over an hour, this one a single battle shot over 55 nights.
Q 02Season 8's 32 Emmy nominations in 2019 brought a fourth win for which actor?
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage. His last Emmy as Tyrion came out of the biggest haul of nominations any series had ever earned in a single year, and it arrived in spite of open dissatisfaction among fans with how the story ended.
Q 03Who sings 'Jenny's Song' by the fire before the battle in season 8?
Podrick Payne
Podrick Payne. Asked for a song in the hours before the dead arrive, Brienne's squire turns out to have a fine voice; only the first line of the lyric is from the novels, and the show's writers supplied the rest.
Q 04Where do Sansa, Tyrion and other non-fighters shelter during season 8's battle of Winterfell?
The crypts
The crypts. They are picked as the castle's refuge, which holds until the Night King raises the fallen and the long-dead Starks begin breaking out of their tombs among the people hiding there.
Q 05Which sellsword army joins Cersei in season 8 without the elephants she wanted?
The Golden Company
The Golden Company. Cersei's first reaction to her expensive new army is disappointment that no elephants came with it, and when the fighting starts Drogon bursts through the city gate behind its ranks and it is gone in moments.
Q 06In the Thrones finale, whose pitch to be king does Sansa cut short by telling him to sit?
Edmure Tully
Edmure Tully. Free again after years as a Frey hostage, Catelyn's brother rises at the Dragonpit to put his own name forward, and is promptly, if politely, told by his niece to sit back down.
Q 07What is the title of the two-hour documentary about making season 8?
The Last Watch
The Last Watch. Jeanie Finlay shot some 950 hours on set and built her film around the people behind the camera, among them the snow department and a long-serving extra, Andrew McClay, whom she called its heart.
Q 08Whom does Daenerys have Drogon burn alive for plotting to put Jon Snow on the throne?
Varys
Varys. It is Tyrion who informs on his old friend, and the spymaster goes to the dragon without a struggle, saying only that he hopes he is wrong about her.
Q 09What did a 2019 petition signed by over a million fans ask HBO to do with season 8?
Remake it
Remake it. The petition wanted the season redone 'with competent writers'; the fan who started it said it began as him venting after the fourth episode, and called it a message of frustration and disappointment.
Q 10Which novelist publicly defended season 8, writing 'All good things...'?
Stephen King
Stephen King. He tweeted that he had loved the final season, 'including Dani going bugshit all over King's Landing', and put the backlash down to people not wanting any ending at all.
Q 11Whom does Theon free from Euron's flagship in season 8's premiere?
Yara Greyjoy
Yara Greyjoy. She thanks her rescuer with a headbutt for letting her be captured in the first place, then helps him up, and sails to retake the Iron Islands while he turns north to fight for Winterfell.
Q 12Which weapon does Qyburn hand Bronn when hiring him to dispose of the Lannister brothers?
The crossbow that killed Tywin
The crossbow that killed Tywin. Tyrion shot their father with it; Cersei now sends it north with a sellsword so that both of her brothers can die by the same weapon, if they outlive the war against the dead.
Q 13Which child ruler is found dead and pinned to a wall at Last Hearth in season 8?
Q 21Which country singer cameoed as a wight in season 8's Winterfell battle?
Chris Stapleton
Chris Stapleton. A huge fan of the show, he had his management ask about any small part and said he would gladly fly anywhere for it; he was filmed in Northern Ireland with his bass player and tour manager.
Q 22Who kills the Night King?
Arya Stark
Arya Stark. She leaps at him out of the dark of the godswood; caught by the throat, she lets the Valyrian steel dagger fall from her raised hand into the other and drives it in, and his whole army collapses.
Q 23Which young northern lady kills a wight giant as it crushes her in season 8?
Lyanna Mormont
Ned Umber
Ned Umber. The search party finds the boy fixed to the wall inside a spiral of severed limbs, a message from the Night King, and he wakes screaming as a wight until Beric's flaming sword ends it.
Q 14Who tells Jon Snow about his true parentage in season 8's premiere?
Samwell Tarly
Samwell Tarly. Bran sends him to do it within minutes of Sam learning that Daenerys burned his father and brother, so the news comes with an edge: the Iron Throne, he tells Jon, is rightly his and not hers.
Q 15Which actors from It's Always Sunny and Silicon Valley cameoed as Ironborn in season 8's premiere?
Rob McElhenney and Martin Starr
Rob McElhenney and Martin Starr. Both play sailors on Euron's ship who are dead within seconds, McElhenney with an arrow through the eye; the episode's writer, Dave Hill, gave himself a death in the same scene.
Q 16Who knights Brienne in 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'?
Jaime Lannister
Jaime Lannister. When Brienne says tradition is why no woman is a knight, he answers that any knight can make another, has her kneel by the fire, and tells her to rise as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Q 17Which band performed 'Jenny of Oldstones' over the credits of season 8's second episode?
Florence and the Machine
Florence and the Machine. The showrunners had asked Florence Welch to sing 'The Rains of Castamere' back in season 2 and been turned down; she later blamed her 'wild years', and said yes to this one, the show's last.
Q 18Which Valyrian steel sword does Sam give Jorah before the battle of Winterfell?
Heartsbane
Heartsbane. Sam gives his family's blade to Jorah out of gratitude to Jorah's late father Jeor, the Lord Commander who shaped him.
Q 19Who volunteers to guard Bran in the godswood as bait for the Night King?
Theon Greyjoy
Theon Greyjoy. The Starks' former ward, who once betrayed them, asks for the post himself, holds the godswood to the last man, and makes his final charge only after Bran tells him he is a good man.
Q 20Which film's siege guided the staging of season 8's Winterfell battle?
The Two Towers
The Two Towers. Its Helm's Deep siege runs about 40 minutes, and Miguel Sapochnik watched it to work out how an even longer battle, shot over 55 nights, could avoid wearing its audience out.
Lyanna Mormont. Urged by her cousin Jorah to sit the battle out, the girl who rules Bear Island fights in the courtyard instead; snatched up in the giant's fist, she drives dragonglass into its eye as it crushes her.
Q 24What does Melisandre enchant to burn at the start of the battle of Winterfell?
the Dothraki's arakhs
The Dothraki's arakhs. Thousands of curved blades blaze up at her prayer and the horde charges into the dark; from the walls the defenders watch the distant flames go out, one after another, in silence.
Q 25What happens to Melisandre at dawn after the battle of Winterfell?
she removes her choker and dies
She removes her choker and dies. She had told Davos she would be dead before dawn; her work done, she walks out into the snow, drops the jewel that kept her young, and crumbles to dust while he watches.
Q 26In 'The Last of the Starks', Daenerys names Gendry lord of which castle?
Storm's End
Storm's End. Daenerys legitimises Robert Baratheon's bastard and hands him his father's family seat in front of the whole feast; minutes later the new lord proposes to Arya, who tells him she is no lady.
Q 27Which out-of-place object was spotted on a table in 'The Last of the Starks'?
a disposable coffee cup
A disposable coffee cup. Left on the feast table in front of Daenerys, it was digitally erased from the episode within two days, and HBO's official reply was that she had ordered a herbal tea.
Q 28Which dragon is killed by Euron's scorpions in 'The Last of the Starks'?
Rhaegal
Rhaegal. Euron's ships lie in wait off Dragonstone and bring him down with scorpion bolts before Daenerys can react; asked how it could happen, a showrunner said she had 'kind of forgot about the Iron Fleet'.
Q 29To whom does Jon give his direwolf Ghost before marching south?
Tormund
Tormund. Jon reasons that a direwolf has no place in the south and will be happier beyond the Wall, where his friend is taking the wildlings home.
Q 30Which castle does Bronn accept in exchange for sparing Jaime and Tyrion?
Highgarden
Highgarden. Cersei had promised him Riverrun for the killings; holding Tyrion to an old deal to outbid anyone who paid for his death, Bronn asks what double Riverrun might be and leaves with the answer.