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50 free Jessica Jones trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jessica Jones gave Marvel television its most reluctant hero: a private investigator with super strength, a short temper and a past she would rather drink away. Across three seasons the series swapped capes for film noir and built its first year around one of the most unsettling villains the genre has produced. This quiz covers the whole run: Kilgrave and the cat-and-mouse game of season 1, the family secrets of season 2, the serial-killer case and Trish's fall in season 3, plus the characters, the cast, the people behind the camera and the comics the show grew out of. It is written for fans who have watched every episode, but most questions give a casual viewer a fair route to the answer. Each one comes with a short explanation, so you will leave knowing more than you arrived with.
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Q 01Which actress, earlier Jane Margolis in Breaking Bad, stars as private investigator Jessica Jones?
Krysten Ritter
Krysten Ritter beat Teresa Palmer in the final round of auditions, and later made her directing debut on a season 3 episode.
Q 02Which former Doctor Who star plays Kilgrave, the mind-controlling villain of Jessica Jones season 1?
David Tennant
David Tennant had been the first choice years earlier, when the series was being planned for network television, but he was unavailable then.
Q 03Which power does bar owner Luke Cage reveal when Jessica Jones helps him fight off a gang?
Unbreakable skin
Unbreakable skin is why, late in season 1, Jessica has to fire a shotgun at Luke's head at point-blank range just to knock him out.
Q 04What is Trish Walker's job when Jessica Jones begins, years after her fame as a child star?
Radio talk-show host
Radio talk-show host Trish uses her programme to insult Kilgrave on air in season 1, and he sends a police sergeant to kill her for it.
Q 05In which Manhattan neighborhood, also Daredevil's turf, does Jessica Jones run her detective agency?
Hell's Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen has changed so much that the crew filmed in parts of Brooklyn and Long Island City that still looked like the old neighborhood.
Q 06In which crossover miniseries does Jessica Jones team up with Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist?
The Defenders
The Defenders sets the four heroes against the Hand, an ancient organization led by a character played by Sigourney Weaver.
Q 07Which three letters open every Jessica Jones episode title, a leftover from the show's first name?
AKA
AKA survived because the series was first announced with those letters in front of the heroine's name, before the title was shortened in 2015.
Q 08Jessica Jones season 2 arrived on Netflix in March 2018 to coincide with which annual observance?
International Women's Day
International Women's Day suited the season: every one of its 13 episodes was directed by a woman.
Q 09In Marvel comics, Kilgrave from Jessica Jones is better known by which colorful supervillain name?
The Purple Man
The Purple Man was created by Stan Lee and Joe Orlando in 1964 as a Daredevil villain, decades before he was tied to Jessica.
Q 10How does Jessica Jones finally kill Kilgrave beside a yacht in the season 1 finale?
Snaps his neck
Jessica snaps his neck after pretending that his control over her had returned, which lured him within arm's reach.
Q 11What does Jessica Jones call the business she opens after abandoning her short career as a superhero?
Alias Investigations
Alias Investigations borrows its name from Alias, the 2001 Marvel comic series that introduced Jessica.
Q 12Which actor plays Luke Cage in Jessica Jones before taking the lead in a Netflix series of his own?
Mike Colter
Mike Colter put on 30 pounds of muscle for the part, having signed on without reading a single script.
Q 13Which star of The Matrix films plays powerful attorney Jeri Hogarth in Jessica Jones?
Carrie-Anne Moss
Carrie-Anne Moss plays a character who is a man, Jeryn Hogarth, in the comics; the series made Hogarth a woman and a lesbian.
Q 21Which Tony-winning actress plays Alisa, the mother Jessica Jones had long believed dead?
Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer took over a part played in season 1 flashbacks by Miriam Shor; years of secret medical treatment explain the changed face.
Q 22Which scientist saved the young Jessica Jones after a car crash and gave her powers in the process?
Dr. Karl Malus
Dr. Karl Malus later starts the same procedure on Trish at her own request, then blows up his laboratory with himself inside.
Q 23Which secretive company paid Jessica Jones's medical bills after her family's fatal crash?
IGH
IGH is only a name that Trish uncovers late in season 1, but the hunt for the people behind it drives the whole of season 2.
Q 14Which Twilight screenwriter created Jessica Jones and ran the show for all three seasons?
Melissa Rosenberg
Melissa Rosenberg first developed the series for a broadcast network in 2010, then rebuilt it from page one for Netflix.
Q 15Besides superhuman strength, which power does Jessica Jones have only in a limited form?
Flight
Flight is among the powers her comic-book counterpart gains when the family car hits a convoy carrying radioactive chemicals.
Q 16What does Kilgrave buy with his poker winnings in Jessica Jones, then invite Jessica to share?
Her childhood home
Her childhood home becomes the setting for several days of uneasy cohabitation, which Jessica ends by knocking him out and carrying him off.
Q 17What hits Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, leaving Jessica to believe for a time that he is dead?
A bus
A bus left him needing new kidneys, which he simply ordered the ambulance driver who picked him up to donate.
Q 18Which missing college athlete do her parents hire Jessica Jones to find in the first episode?
Hope Shlottman
Hope Shlottman is found within the episode, but Kilgrave's orders still grip her and she kills both her parents.
Q 19What is the name of Luke Cage's late wife, whom Kilgrave forced Jessica Jones to kill?
Reva Connors
Reva Connors had hidden a box holding footage of Kilgrave as a boy, and he made Jessica dig it up before the killing.
Q 20Under which nickname was Trish Walker of Jessica Jones famous as a child television star?
Patsy
Patsy is the character's name in Marvel comics too, where she debuted in 1944 as the star of a teen romantic comedy.
Q 24Where is Jessica's mother sitting when Trish Walker kills her in Jessica Jones season 2?
On a Ferris wheel
On a Ferris wheel at Playland, the amusement park the family had visited before the crash; Jessica then takes the blame for the death.
Q 25Which feline codename, Trish Walker's in Marvel comics, titles a season 3 episode of Jessica Jones?
Hellcat
Hellcat's comics-accurate yellow and black suit is one of the costumes Trish tries on in season 3 before settling for a hat and bandana.
Q 26Which country is Jessica Jones about to leave for when she changes her mind in the series finale?
Mexico
Mexico is abandoned the moment she hears Kilgrave's voice in her head urging her to leave everyone behind, and she stays in New York instead.
Q 27To which prison for superhumans is Trish Walker sent at the end of Jessica Jones?
The Raft
The Raft is also where Luke Cage tells Jessica he sent his own brother, a visit that steels her to turn Trish in.
Q 28Which serial killer spends the third season of Jessica Jones trying to expose Jessica as a fraud?
Gregory Sallinger
Gregory Sallinger believes powered people cheat at life, and he first crosses Jessica's path by stabbing her in her own apartment.
Q 29What ability does Erik Gelden have in Jessica Jones season 3, at the cost of physical pain?
Sensing evil in others
Sensing evil in others had made him a blackmailer: he squeezed money out of wrongdoers until one of them turned out to be a murderer.
Q 30Which organ does Jessica Jones lose in surgery after a masked attacker stabs her early in season 3?
Her spleen
Her spleen even earns a mention in an episode title, and her assistant Gillian only lets her leave hospital with a bagful of medication.