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127 free Homeland trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Homeland trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Homeland fan? Test your knowledge of the iconic CIA thriller series with our comprehensive trivia quiz. From Carrie Mathison's investigations to shocking plot twists, see how well you remember the show's most memorable moments and characters.
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Q 01By the start of Homeland's second season, Brody has been elected to which office?
Congressman
Congressman: Vice President Walden urges Brody to run for a House seat in a special election, and the win carries him into a situation room, where he tips off the very man the CIA is hunting.
Q 02In Homeland, Saul Berenson recruited Carrie Mathison into the CIA while she was a student of which language at Princeton?
Arabic
Arabic was Carrie's subject at Princeton when Saul recruited her; years later an old asset, the wife of a militant commander, will talk to no one else, which pulls Carrie back into the field.
Q 03Which former US president is a self-declared Homeland fan?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama told the show's star that on Saturday afternoons, while his wife and daughters played tennis, he claimed to be going to work and watched Homeland instead.
Q 04Carrie Mathison is diagnosed with which mental health condition?
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder is Carrie's closest secret: she gets her medication quietly from her sister, because formal treatment would cost her the security clearance her job depends on.
Q 05How is Vice President Walden killed in Homeland's second season?
His pacemaker is hacked
His pacemaker is hacked: Brody hands over its serial number to win Carrie's release from his old captor, then stands over the dying Walden and refuses to call for help.
Q 06At the end of Homeland's pilot, what does Carrie notice Brody doing whenever he is on camera?
Tapping his fingers
Tapping his fingers: Carrie spots the same pattern in every news clip and reads it as a coded signal to a handler, which finally persuades a sceptical Saul that Brody is worth investigating.
Q 07At the end of Homeland's second season, Carrie helps the fugitive Brody escape towards which country?
Canada
Canada: with Brody framed for an attack he did not commit, Carrie drives him to the border but turns back alone, staying behind to clear his name.
Q 08'Homeland' is an adaptation of which Israeli television series?
Hatufim
Hatufim follows Israeli soldiers home after 17 years in captivity; an American studio bought the scripts before a frame was shot, and the adapters added Carrie and Saul, who have no counterpart in it.
Q 09At the end of Homeland's first season, a discredited Carrie checks into hospital for which treatment?
Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy: as the anaesthetic takes hold Carrie remembers Brody crying out a dead boy's name in his sleep, the link she had been missing, seconds before the treatment begins.
Q 10In season one of Homeland, where do Carrie and Brody slip away to together?
Her family's cabin
Her family's cabin is where Carrie gives herself away by naming Brody's favourite tea, Yorkshire Gold, and the romance turns into a confrontation.
Q 11Which of these Primetime Emmys did Homeland's first season win in 2012?
Outstanding Drama Series
Outstanding Drama Series went to Homeland for its first season, the first top-drama Emmy for its network, and the win ended Mad Men's four-year hold on the award.
Q 12Who portrays Saul Berenson, Carrie Mathison's mentor and long-time colleague?
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin had walked out of earlier series, so the network offered him only a short contract to play Saul; he stayed for the entire run.
Q 13Which actress played Fara Sherazi, the CIA financial analyst Saul recruits in season three?
Nazanin Boniadi
Q 21Who played Dar Adal, Homeland's veteran black ops specialist?
F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham, an Oscar winner for Amadeus, played Dar Adal, who ends season six under arrest for his part in a plot against the incoming president.
Q 22Carrie's sister Maggie, who secretly supplies her medication in Homeland, works in which profession?
Doctor
Doctor: Maggie risks her medical licence by slipping Carrie pills off the books so the illness stays out of the CIA's files, and she later raises Carrie's daughter.
Q 23Which character runs the CIA's Counterterrorism Center as Carrie's boss in Homeland's first season?
David Estes
David Estes, played by David Harewood, fires Carrie when he learns of her illness, then has to reinstate her once she is proved right about Brody.
Nazanin Boniadi played Fara Sherazi, hired for her banking expertise to follow the money behind an attack on the agency; promoted to the main cast a season later, Fara is killed in an embassy siege.
Q 14What is the name of Carrie Mathison's daughter?
Franny
Franny's welfare shadows every later season after Carrie leaves the baby with her sister Maggie to take the station chief posting abroad.
Q 15Who played the CIA assassin Peter Quinn in Homeland?
Rupert Friend
Rupert Friend played Peter Quinn, who arrives in season two posing as a desk analyst and is soon exposed as a black-ops assassin with orders to kill Brody.
Q 16Showtime timed Homeland's premiere to follow a major anniversary of which event?
The September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks: Showtime's programming chief sold the studio on getting Homeland to air for the tenth anniversary, with the hit Dexter as its lead-in.
Q 17The early seasons of Homeland were filmed in and around which city?
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina doubled for the Washington area in seasons one to three, drawn by the state's film tax credit; the CIA offices and the Brody family home were shot around the city.
Q 18At the start of Homeland's second season, what work is Carrie doing after her dismissal from the CIA?
Teaching English
Teaching English as a second language is Carrie's quiet new life until a former asset abroad refuses to speak to anyone else and the agency comes asking for her.
Q 19Which of these honors did Homeland's first season win alongside its Emmys and Golden Globes?
Peabody Award
The Peabody Award went to Homeland's first season for weighing national security against civil liberties and the tangled consequences of military action.
Q 20In Homeland's fifth season, how do Carrie and Quinn throw off the people who ordered her killed?
They fake her death
They fake her death: Quinn, sent to kill Carrie, instead photographs her posed as a corpse and leaves the pictures at his dead drop so the pair can watch who comes to collect them.
Q 24What was the fate of Nicholas Brody at the end of Season 3?
He was publicly executed
He was publicly executed: seized after a CIA mission in Tehran, Brody is hanged before a crowd while Carrie climbs the fence around the square to call out his name.
Q 25What nickname do Carrie's staff ice on her birthday cake in Homeland's fourth-season premiere?
The Drone Queen
The Drone Queen is her staff's tribute moments after she orders an air strike; reports soon show it hit a wedding and killed 40 civilians, the mistake that drives the season.
Q 26Who composed the music for Homeland?
Sean Callery
Sean Callery came to Homeland through Howard Gordon, the producer of an earlier thriller he had scored, and went on to write the theme music for Elementary.
Q 27In Homeland's pilot, what does a condemned bomb-maker whisper to Carrie about an American prisoner of war?
He has been turned
He has been turned: the informant names no one, so when Brody is rescued months later Carrie alone concludes that he is the prisoner who was turned.
Q 28In Homeland's second season, what is on the memory card Saul finds hidden in Carrie's haul from Beirut?
Brody's confession video
Brody's confession video, taped before the suicide attack he never carried out, vindicates Carrie: Saul flies home and plays it for her, and an overwhelmed Carrie says 'I was right.'
Q 29When Homeland begins, which post does Saul Berenson hold at the CIA?
Middle East Division Chief
Middle East Division Chief is Saul's post at the start; he becomes acting director in season three, only to lose the job to a senator who had spent the season attacking the agency.
Q 30In Season 6, where was Carrie Mathison living and working?
New York City
New York City is the season six setting: Carrie lives in Brooklyn and works for a nonprofit giving legal aid to Muslims mistreated by law enforcement, while quietly advising the president-elect.