Grimm (TV Series)
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50 free Grimm (TV Series) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Grimm took a simple idea, that the old fairy tales were really case files, and turned it into one of television's most inventive monster shows. Homicide detective Nick Burkhardt learns he comes from a long line of hunters who can see the creatures hiding behind ordinary human faces, and that many of them are his neighbours. This quiz covers the whole run: Nick, Hank, Juliette, Monroe, Rosalee, Adalind, Captain Renard and Sergeant Wu; the many kinds of Wesen and the words the show invented for their world; Trubel and the secret organisations of the later seasons; and the season 1 cases that reworked familiar stories. There are questions on the cast and on how the series was made too. It suits a rewatch, a fan trivia night, or anyone who wants to test how much Wesen lore has stuck. The questions start easy and get harder, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Grimm was set and filmed in which Pacific Northwest city, picked for the woodland in its biggest parks?
Portland
Portland won the creators over with Forest Park and Washington Park, thick with trees and inside the city itself. They later called the city a character in the show in its own right.
Q 02The pilot of Grimm, in which a postman snatches a girl walking to her grandparents' house, reworks which fairy tale?
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood runs right through the episode: both victims are dressed in red, and the kidnapped girl's backpack is marked with the initials R. H.
Q 03Monroe, first arrested by Nick Burkhardt in the Grimm pilot and then recruited as his guide, is which kind of Wesen?
Blutbad
Blutbad is the show's name for its wolf-like creatures. Monroe is a reformed one, and he becomes Nick's main guide to a hidden community that would normally avoid a Grimm.
Q 04Wesen, the word Grimm uses for its hidden creatures, is an everyday word for 'being' in which language?
German
German also supplies most of the show's creature names, though usually with spelling and grammar that no native speaker would recognise.
Q 05Which Will & Grace star was an executive producer of Grimm through the company Hazy Mills Productions?
Sean Hayes
Sean Hayes founded Hazy Mills in 2004 with Todd Milliner, a friend from Illinois State University, knowing his sitcom role would not last forever.
Q 06Juliette Silverton, Nick Burkhardt's girlfriend in the first four seasons of Grimm, works in which profession?
Veterinarian
Veterinarian Juliette shared a home with Nick when the series began, with no idea that his family hunted monsters or that he was about to propose.
Q 07In the Grimm pilot, dying Aunt Marie tells Nick Burkhardt that everything he needs to know is inside what?
Her trailer
Her trailer holds an assortment of weapons and a book recording the family's encounters with creatures. She had only just arrived in town with it when she was attacked.
Q 08The series premiere of Grimm was delayed by a month so that it would air closer to which holiday?
Halloween
Halloween was three days away when the pilot finally aired on October 28, a fitting launch for a show about monsters hiding in plain sight.
Q 09Which menacing figure of European Christmas folklore kidnaps misbehaving teenagers in a third-season episode of Grimm?
Krampus
Krampus hangs his captives from the tallest tree to devour on the winter solstice. The show's twist: he is an ordinary man who wakes each year in a Santa suit with no memory of it.
Q 10Which network aired all six seasons of Grimm, having chosen it over the rival supernatural cop pilot 17th Precinct?
NBC
NBC ordered the pilot in January 2011 and picked up the series that May, passing over Ronald D. Moore's 17th Precinct, another police procedural with a supernatural twist.
Q 11Which actor, a former contestant on MTV's Road Rules, played detective Nick Burkhardt in every season of Grimm?
David Giuntoli
David Giuntoli was the first actor cast in the series, in February 2011. His reality TV stint years earlier had paid off his college debt and settled his mind on acting.
Q 12Which Grimm actress married the actor who played Nick Burkhardt a few months after the series ended?
Bitsie Tulloch
Bitsie Tulloch played Juliette, the detective's girlfriend, and married her leading man in June 2017. She went on to play Lois Lane in Superman & Lois.
Q 13Lawyer Adalind Schade, who loses her powers in Grimm after swallowing Nick Burkhardt's blood, is which kind of Wesen?
Hexenbiest
Q 21Which University of Michigan graduate joined Grimm late in season 3 as the streetwise young Grimm known as Trubel?
Jacqueline Toboni
Jacqueline Toboni plays Trubel, real name Theresa Rubel, as a drifter with a record of minor crimes who sketches the creatures she sees.
Q 22In the fourth-season finale of Grimm, Trubel saves Nick Burkhardt by shooting Juliette with which weapon?
A crossbow
A crossbow bolt strikes Juliette just as she is about to finish Nick off, after beating him in a brutal fight at home. Trubel bursts in at the last instant.
Q 23Which secret group, run locally by Meisner, recruits Trubel in Grimm to fight Black Claw's Wesen uprising?
Hadrian's Wall
Hexenbiest is the show's witch-like breed of Wesen. Adalind wins her powers back through a string of agonising rituals and, by the final seasons, has gone from Nick's enemy to his partner.
Q 14Rosalee Calvert, who marries Monroe in Grimm's third-season finale, is a Fuchsbau, a Wesen resembling which animal?
Fox
Fox features mark every Fuchsbau. Rosalee began as a recurring guest late in season 1 and was promoted to the main cast for season 2.
Q 15Bud Wurstner, the nervous repairman who befriends Nick Burkhardt on Grimm, is an Eisbiber, resembling which animal?
Beaver
Beaver-like Bud panics when he recognises a Grimm while fixing the couple's refrigerator. The two become friends once Nick promises not to cut off his head, as any earlier Grimm would have.
Q 16After her brother Freddy is murdered in Grimm, Rosalee Calvert stays in town to run which business of his?
A spice shop
A spice shop was Freddy's cover for an apothecary trade with Wesen customers. Rosalee arrived meaning only to close it, then stayed after falling for Monroe.
Q 17On Grimm, Adalind Schade bewitches Hank Griffin with which homemade gift, which also makes Sergeant Wu violently ill?
Cookies
Cookies laced with a potion and a drop of her own blood leave Hank obsessed with her. Wu helps himself to one at the station and collapses, his face swollen with hives.
Q 18In Grimm, which word describes a Wesen's shift from human face to creature form, often triggered by strong emotion?
Woge
Woge comes from a verb meaning to surge. Ordinary people see only the human face unless a Wesen chooses to be seen, which the show offers as the origin of fairy tales.
Q 19After joining Black Claw in the fifth season of Grimm, police captain Renard is elected to which office?
Mayor
Mayor Renard does not last long. He owes the win to an organisation plotting to put Wesen in power over humans, and in the final season he resigns and returns to the precinct.
Q 20After Juliette Silverton apparently dies in Grimm, the same actress returns in season 5 as which emotionless operative?
Eve
Eve has all of Juliette's memories and powers but none of her emotional attachments. Her feelings begin to return only in the final season.
Hadrian's Wall is funded by a branch of the federal government and tries to recruit Nick as well. Black Claw wipes out its local headquarters in the season 5 finale.
Q 24What does the Grimm series finale, set partly twenty years later, reveal that Trubel has been all along?
Nick's cousin
Nick's cousin is how the closing narration places her, a third cousin whose blood helped defeat the final villain. The narrator turns out to be his grown-up son.
Q 25Trubel arrives in Grimm with no idea what she is, having spent her childhood where?
In foster care
In foster care she grew up with no understanding of Wesen, so she learns what she is only on meeting Nick and Monroe, and then trains quickly under Nick.
Q 26Which actor, earlier Prison Break's escaped inmate Haywire, played the reformed Wesen Monroe throughout Grimm?
Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell had specialised in unstable convicts, playing another in My Name Is Earl, before spending six years as Nick's guide to the Wesen world.
Q 27Which Grey's Anatomy actress played Marie Kessler, the dying aunt who tells Nick Burkhardt he is a Grimm?
Kate Burton
Kate Burton, the daughter of Richard Burton, leaves early: Aunt Marie dies in the second episode after fighting off a hospital assassin, though she returns for the finale.
Q 28Adalind Schade's daughter with Captain Renard, a child with extraordinary powers in Grimm, is given which name?
Diana
Diana shows astonishing powers even before she is born. The Royals want her so badly that Nick and his allies pose as resistance fighters to snatch her back.
Q 29Monroe and Rosalee Calvert, whose mixed marriage a Wesen purity cult opposed, end Grimm as the parents of what?
Triplets
Triplets it is: in the finale's flash-forward, set twenty years on, the three are grown and about to join a Wesen hunt alongside both families.
Q 30Captain Renard, the illegitimate son of a king in Grimm, inherits which Wesen nature from the other parent?
Zauberbiest
Zauberbiest blood gives Renard a warlock's powers. His legitimate half-brother, Prince Eric, later arrives with a scheme to abduct Nick and carry him off to Europe.