Justified Trivia
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130 free Justified trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Justified trivia quiz covers all six seasons and 78 episodes of the FX neo-Western that ran from 2010 to 2015, plus the 2023 sequel City Primeval. It follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the quick-drawing lawman sent home to Harlan County, Kentucky, and his old coal-mining friend turned adversary Boyd Crowder. The easy questions are ones any viewer knows: who plays Raylan and Boyd, the writer whose stories inspired the show, the hat, the marshals' office in Lexington and what Raylan did to Tommy Bucks in Miami. From there it works through every season: Bo Crowder and the cartel, Mags Bennett and her poisoned moonshine, Dickie's lame leg, Robert Quarles's sleeve gun, Ellstin Limehouse and Noble's Holler, the parachutist and Waldo Truth, Drew Thompson's true identity, the Crowes, Avery Markham's vault and the last words in the prison. There are behind-the-scenes questions on the Pittsburgh-shot pilot, why Boyd was meant to die in it, the Gangstagrass theme, the Emmys for Margo Martindale and Jeremy Davies, and Elmore Leonard's own verdict on the adaptation. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the series, its seasons, its characters and its cast before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Fans of modern Westerns may also like our Yellowstone and Deadwood quizzes.
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Q 01On which network did Justified air?
FX
Justified aired on FX for its whole run, from March 2010 to April 2015, alongside FX dramas such as Sons of Anarchy.
Q 02Who plays Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens?
Timothy Olyphant
Timothy Olyphant plays Raylan Givens; he earned a 2011 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role.
Q 03Which crime writer's stories is Justified based on?
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard, author of Get Shorty and Out of Sight, created Raylan Givens; the series adapts his Raylan stories and Leonard served as an executive producer.
Q 04What is the title of the short story the show is chiefly based on?
Fire in the Hole
Fire in the Hole, Elmore Leonard's short story in which Raylan confronts Boyd Crowder, gave the pilot episode its title.
Q 05Who developed Justified for television?
Graham Yost
Graham Yost developed Justified and was its showrunner for all six seasons; he earlier wrote the screenplay for the 1996 film Broken Arrow.
Q 06In which part of eastern Kentucky did most of the main characters grow up?
Harlan County
Harlan County, in the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky, is where Raylan, Boyd and Ava grew up, and most of the series is set there.
Q 07In which city is the U.S. Marshals office where Raylan works based?
Lexington
Lexington hosts the Eastern District of Kentucky marshals' office, run by Chief Deputy Art Mullen, where Raylan is reassigned after the Miami shooting.
Q 08How many episodes of Justified were made?
78
Justified made 78 episodes, from the pilot on March 16, 2010 to the finale 'The Promise' on April 14, 2015.
Q 09How many seasons did the original run of Justified have?
6
Olyphant and Yost chose to end it rather than do a seventh.
Q 10Whom does Raylan shoot in Miami, leading to his reassignment to Kentucky?
Tommy Bucks
Tommy Bucks, a Miami gun thug, draws on Raylan at a hotel restaurant after ignoring his ultimatum to leave town, and Raylan shoots him dead.
Q 11Who plays Boyd Crowder?
Walton Goggins
Walton Goggins plays Boyd Crowder; he received a 2011 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the role.
Q 12What was originally going to happen to Boyd Crowder in the pilot?
Die
Boyd was scripted to die at the end of the pilot, but test audiences responded so strongly to Walton Goggins that Graham Yost kept the character alive.
Q 13Whom does Ava Crowder kill before the series begins?
Her abusive husband Bowman
Ava shot her abusive husband Bowman Crowder, Boyd's brother, at the supper table before the series begins, and was never convicted for it.
Q 21Which crime family does season two focus on?
The Bennetts
The Bennetts grow marijuana and have feuded with the Givens family for years; their dealings drive season two.
Q 22Who plays Bennett matriarch Mags?
Margo Martindale
Margo Martindale plays Mags Bennett, the matriarch of Bennett Hollow; the veteran character actress later played Mattie Fae in August: Osage County (2013).
Q 23What are the names of Mags Bennett's three sons?
Dickie, Coover and Doyle
Mags's sons are Dickie, Coover and Doyle: Dickie the limping schemer, Coover the dim-witted muscle, and Doyle the local police chief.
Q 14Where does Raylan shoot Boyd in the pilot?
In the chest
Raylan shoots Boyd in the chest at Ava's dinner table in the pilot; Boyd survives and later calls it a sign from God.
Q 15Which actor plays Boyd's father Bo Crowder?
M. C. Gainey
M. C. Gainey plays Bo Crowder, the Harlan crime boss who is shot dead by Miami cartel gunmen in the season-one finale.
Q 16Who plays Raylan's father Arlo Givens?
Raymond J. Barry
Raymond J. Barry plays Arlo Givens, Raylan's estranged father, a career Harlan criminal who repeatedly sides with the Crowders against his son.
Q 17What does Boyd's "flock" of reformed convicts blow up in season one?
Meth houses
Boyd's born-again followers blow up meth houses in season one, which Boyd calls cleansing Harlan of drugs.
Q 18What is the name of Raylan's ex-wife?
Winona Hawkins
Winona Hawkins is Raylan's ex-wife; she left him, married realtor Gary Hawkins, and later reunites with Raylan.
Q 19What is Winona's job?
Court stenographer
Winona works as a court stenographer in the Lexington federal courthouse, which is how she keeps crossing paths with Raylan.
Q 20Who leads the Miami drug cartel that wants Raylan dead in season one?
Gio Reyes
Gio Reyes, the Miami drug boss whose enforcer Raylan killed in the pilot, sends gunmen after Raylan in the season-one finale.
Q 24What left Dickie Bennett with a lame leg?
An incident with Raylan in their youth
It happened at a high school baseball game.
Q 25How does Mags Bennett kill Loretta's father Walt?
Poison
Mags poisons Walt McCready with a laced drink after he phoned the marshals about a pedophile, bringing outside law into Bennett territory.
Q 26How does Mags Bennett die?
She poisons her own moonshine
She asks Raylan to shake hands and settle the family feud first.
Q 27Who plays the teenager Loretta McCready?
Kaitlyn Dever
Kaitlyn Dever plays Loretta McCready, the orphaned teenager Raylan watches over; Dever returned for the final season and later starred in Booksmart.
Q 28Which mining company tries to buy up Harlan land in season two?
Black Pike
Black Pike Mining, fronted by executive Carol Johnson, tries to buy up Harlan land for a mountaintop-removal operation; Boyd works security for it.
Q 29Who kills Raylan's aunt and stepmother Helen?
Dickie, the middle son
He recognised Arlo's gait during a robbery of his weed operation.
Q 30How much money does Winona steal from the courthouse evidence locker?
$210,000
She panics and asks Raylan to help put it back.