Killing Eve Trivia
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50 free Killing Eve trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Killing Eve ran for four series between 2018 and 2022, and each one was steered by a different woman: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emerald Fennell, Suzanne Heathcote and Laura Neal. Sandra Oh's bored MI5 analyst and Jodie Comer's psychopathic assassin chased each other from a Tuscan café to Paris, Rome, Barcelona and finally Margate, picking up Golden Globes, Emmys and BAFTAs along the way. This quiz covers the whole run: Luke Jennings's source novellas, the more than 100 actresses considered before Comer was cast, the kitchen-scene audition, the Molly Goddard pink dress that took over the 2019 red carpets, Konstantin, Carolyn, Kenny, Dasha, Hélène and the finale that landed on worst-ever lists. Fifty questions, played in sets of ten, from the basics any viewer knows to production details only the most obsessive fan of the obsessive pair will remember.
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Q 01Who plays Eve Polastri in Killing Eve?
Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh scrolled through the script hunting for her part, sure she couldn't be the lead, until her agent told her: 'Eve. The part is for Eve.'
Q 02Who plays the assassin Villanelle in Killing Eve?
Jodie Comer
Jodie Comer beat more than 100 actresses to the part; the producers wanted a killer who could vanish into a crowd, not a 'male fantasy' assassin in the Nikita mould.
Q 03What is Villanelle's real name in Killing Eve?
Oksana Astankova
Oksana Astankova was left at an orphanage as a child, became obsessed with her teacher, Anna, and murdered Anna's husband before she was recruited as an assassin.
Q 04Killing Eve is based on novellas by which author?
Luke Jennings
Luke Jennings was the Observer's dance critic when he wrote the first Villanelle story as a Kindle e-book in 2014, and a TV producer optioned it that same year.
Q 05Who was head writer of Killing Eve's first series?
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Phoebe Waller-Bridge was signed up by a producer who had read Fleabag as a stage play, long before it reached television and made her name.
Q 06Which actress and writer took over as head writer for Killing Eve's second series?
Emerald Fennell
Emerald Fennell, then best known for acting in Call the Midwife, ran one series only: Killing Eve handed each new series to a different woman as head writer.
Q 07In Killing Eve's final series, which figure appears to Villanelle in visions, looking exactly like her?
Jesus
Jesus turns up, as Villanelle in drag, on the night she nearly drowns the vicar's daughter in the font; she had found religion to show Eve that she could change.
Q 08Which BAFTA did Killing Eve win in 2019 after the academy bent its own eligibility rules?
Best Drama Series
Best Drama Series. BAFTA's rules demanded a world premiere in the UK, and Killing Eve had aired in America five months before Britain, so the committee simply ruled it a British series.
Q 09On which UK channel did Killing Eve's first series begin in September 2018?
BBC One
BBC One showed it on Saturday nights and put every episode on iPlayer the same day, so British viewers could finally binge a British-made drama that was already a hit in America.
Q 10In Killing Eve, what is the name of the secret organisation Villanelle kills for?
The Twelve
The Twelve are named after their twelve founders, and a 1979 flashback shows who suggested it: a young Carolyn, undercover among Berlin anarchists.
Q 11Who plays Carolyn Martens, head of MI6's Russia Section, in Killing Eve?
Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw won a BAFTA as Carolyn, the spy chief who recruits Eve in the first episode and, in the last, is the one who orders Villanelle's execution.
Q 12Which Danish actor plays Villanelle's handler Konstantin in Killing Eve?
Kim Bodnia
Kim Bodnia earned a BAFTA nomination as the handler Villanelle shoots in the first-series finale; presumed dead, he turns up alive and in hiding in the next series.
Q 13In Killing Eve, what does Eve's husband Niko do for a living?
Maths teacher
Maths teacher Niko pays dearly for Eve's obsession: in series three he takes a pitchfork through the throat, survives, and tells her through a speech machine to stay away for good.
Q 21In Killing Eve's first episode, where does Villanelle kill a man at his own party with a poisoned hairpin?
Tuscany
Tuscany. Villanelle slips into a villa during a family celebration and drives a poison-filled hairpin into her target's eye, but first asks him who made his bedspread.
Q 22In series one of Killing Eve, where does Konstantin send Villanelle to kill her former partner Nadia?
A prison
A prison in Russia: Konstantin has Villanelle locked up there to silence Nadia before she can make a deal with Eve and Carolyn, and for once the assassin is terrified, in case he leaves her inside.
Q 23In series three of Killing Eve, Villanelle is set up in a grand apartment in which Spanish city?
Barcelona
Q 14How does Carolyn's son Kenny die at the start of Killing Eve's third series?
A fall from a roof
A fall from a roof: Eve arrives at his office for a drink and his body lands on the ground behind her. The death is ruled a suicide, and her refusal to believe it pulls her back into the hunt.
Q 15Who plays Bill Pargrave, Eve's colleague killed in a Berlin nightclub in Killing Eve?
David Haig
David Haig's Bill follows Villanelle into a packed club, where she turns to face him and stabs him again and again; his death makes Eve's hunt personal.
Q 16Which actress plays Dasha, the ex-gymnast who trained Villanelle, in Killing Eve?
Harriet Walter
Harriet Walter's Dasha is introduced in a flashback to Moscow in 1974, as a young gymnast who attacks her boyfriend in the gym and tips chalk over his body.
Q 17Who plays Hélène, the high-ranking assassin boss in Killing Eve's last two series?
Camille Cottin
Camille Cottin's Hélène meets her end in a hotel room, where Villanelle cuts her throat while Eve looks on, not long after Eve had kissed her.
Q 18Which Game of Thrones actress plays Carolyn's daughter Geraldine in Killing Eve?
Gemma Whelan
Gemma Whelan's Geraldine keeps asking her mother to talk about her feelings, until Carolyn's patience runs out in the series-three finale: 'I think it's time you left.'
Q 19In series two of Killing Eve, Aaron Peel is the heir to what kind of business?
A tech company
A tech company: Aaron inherits it when his father is assassinated, so Eve's team sends Villanelle undercover, posing as an American called Billie, to get close to him.
Q 20Which city hosts the deadly mission at the end of Killing Eve's second series?
Rome
Rome. Among the ruins of an ancient villa, Eve refuses to run away with Villanelle and walks off, so Villanelle shoots her in the back and leaves.
Barcelona. Villanelle goes back to work from a palatial flat there, but a nice home isn't enough: she wants promotion to Keeper, a rank above her old handler Konstantin.
Q 24Which Kent seaside town is a main setting of Killing Eve's final series?
Margate
Margate, where Konstantin coaches the trainee assassin Pam, and where Eve is made to watch as an arrow drops out of the sky into Villanelle's shoulder.
Q 25In the Killing Eve episode 'Are You from Pinner?', Villanelle's half-brother is obsessed with which singer?
Elton John
Elton John is the idol of young Bor'ka, whom Villanelle takes to at once: before she blows up the family home, she leaves him an envelope of cash and a note telling him to go and see his hero.
Q 26Which designer made the pink tulle dress Villanelle wears to a psychiatric assessment in Killing Eve?
Molly Goddard
Molly Goddard's frothy pink gown, worn with punky boots to an evaluation Villanelle resents, cast a long shadow: fashion writers spotted its echo in the pink dresses at the 2019 Oscars.
Q 27In Killing Eve, which luxury gift called 'La Villanelle' does the assassin send to Eve?
A perfume
A perfume: the bottle of La Villanelle turns up in Eve's stolen suitcase, which comes back repacked with new designer clothes and a card reading 'Sorry baby'.
Q 28When Villanelle breaks into Eve's house in series one of Killing Eve, what does she say she wants?
To have dinner with her
To have dinner with her: after holding a screaming Eve under the bath tap, Villanelle sits down to eat at her kitchen table, then leaves with Eve's phone and uses it to find her next victim.
Q 29In Killing Eve's first episode, Villanelle reaches a witness in a London hospital disguised as what?
A nurse
A nurse. In the hospital toilets the disguised Villanelle stops to tell Eve to wear her hair down; by the time Eve gets back to the ward, the witness and her guards are dead.
Q 30At the start of Killing Eve's third series, what is Villanelle doing when her old trainer Dasha reappears?
Getting married
Getting married: Villanelle is in the middle of her own wedding in Spain when she spots Dasha, tackles her to the floor and, as the party turns into a brawl, leaves with her instead of the bride.