50 free Legacies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Legacies ran four seasons on the CW from 2018 to 2022, following Hope Mikaelson, the first tribrid, and Alaric Saltzman's twin daughters at the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. It closed out The Vampire Diaries Universe with dragons, a Necromancer and a pit called Malivore. This quiz covers the characters, the monsters of the week, the crossovers from The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, and the production story: the 15-minute pilot presentation, the COVID shutdown and the Georgia town that plays Mystic Falls. Every answer is sourced and explained, so even die-hard fans should pick up something new.
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Q 01Which network aired Legacies from 2018 to 2022?
The CW
It was the third show in The Vampire Diaries Universe, all of them CW productions.
Q 02Legacies is a direct spinoff of which earlier series?
The Originals
That makes Legacies a spinoff of a spinoff: The Originals itself branched off The Vampire Diaries in 2013.
Q 03Who created Legacies and wrote its pilot script?
Julie Plec
Plec co-created The Vampire Diaries with Kevin Williamson, but ran The Originals and Legacies without him.
Q 04In which year did Legacies premiere?
2018
The premiere came five months after the series order and just months after The Originals ended.
Q 05How many seasons of Legacies were made?
4
The cancellation was announced in May 2022, barely a month before the finale aired.
Q 06How many episodes of Legacies aired in total?
68
A COVID shutdown cut season 2 short at 16 episodes, which is why the total is not a round 80.
Q 07Who plays Hope Mikaelson in Legacies?
Danielle Rose Russell
She first played the teenage Hope in the final season of The Originals before carrying the spinoff.
Q 08Who is Hope's werewolf mother?
Hayley Marshall
Hayley conceived Hope after a one-night stand with Klaus in Mystic Falls during The Vampire Diaries season 4.
Q 09Where does Hope study in Mystic Falls?
Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted
The name echoes Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which is no accident: its headmaster compared himself to Professor X.
Q 10Who is the headmaster of the Salvatore School?
Alaric Saltzman
Alaric began The Vampire Diaries as a vampire-hunting history teacher and ended up running a school for the supernatural.
Q 11Hope is the first of which kind of supernatural being?
Tribrid
Witch, werewolf and vampire bloodlines meet in one person, which is why so many villains want her.
Q 12Which actor plays Alaric in Legacies?
Matt Davis
Davis is the only Vampire Diaries lead to go the full distance, appearing across all three shows in the franchise.
Q 13Alaric's twin daughters are Lizzie and who?
Josie
The twins were introduced as babies on The Vampire Diaries and as young teens on The Originals.
Q 14Who plays Lizzie Saltzman?
Q 21MG is the nickname of which vampire student?
Milton Greasley
He works as Alaric's student aide and spends much of the show struggling not to become a ripper.
Q 22Who plays MG in Legacies?
Quincy Fouse
Fouse was among the first actors announced for the pilot in March 2018, alongside Boyd, Bryant and Shahghasemi.
Q 23Rafael Waithe is what relation to Landon Kirby?
Foster brother
The two came up together in the foster system, and Rafael's newly triggered curse is what brings them to the school.
Jenny Boyd
Boyd is British, born in Switzerland and raised in Oregon, and trained at LAMDA in London.
Q 15Who plays Josie Saltzman?
Kaylee Bryant
She left midway through season 4, and in 2023 dropped the stage name Bryant for her birth name, Kaneshiro.
Q 16Josie's biological mother Jo Laughlin belonged to which coven?
Gemini
The Gemini coven's signature is the merge, a ritual in which twins fuse and only the stronger survives.
Q 17Lizzie is named after the late mother of which character?
Caroline Forbes
Caroline carried the twins as a surrogate and co-founded the Salvatore School with Alaric.
Q 18Who plays Landon Kirby?
Aria Shahghasemi
He debuted as Landon in the twelfth episode of The Originals' final season before Legacies was even ordered.
Q 19Where did Landon work when he was first introduced?
Mystic Grill
The Grill was the franchise's favourite hangout, and Matt Donovan tended its bar for years on The Vampire Diaries.
Q 20Which vampire power fails to work on Landon, hinting he is not human?
Compulsion
The reveal that he is a phoenix, able to return from death, comes much later.
Q 24Who plays Rafael Waithe?
Peyton Alex Smith
Smith left the regular cast after season 3 and went on to play Damon Sims in All American: Homecoming.
Q 25Alaric's actor placed the role somewhere between Professor X and whom?
Dumbledore
Headmaster of a hidden school for gifted youngsters, mentor to a chosen girl: the comparison writes itself.
Q 26Kaleb Hawkins is caught doing what banned practice?
Drinking human blood
The school keeps its vampires on animal blood, a rule Kaleb treats as optional.
Q 27In season 4, Kaleb becomes half-what creature?
Dragon
A dragon was the very first Malivore monster to attack the school back in season 1.
Q 28Malivore turns Ethan Machado into which mythical creature?
Pukwudgie
Pukwudgies come from Wampanoag folklore; on the show the transformation gives Ethan phasing and teleportation.
Q 29Cleo Sowande is revealed to be which mythical being?
A muse
Her gift is inspiration, which Malivore exploited for centuries before she reached the Salvatore School.
Q 30Ryan Clarke works for which company tied to Malivore?
Triad Industries
Triad fed supernatural creatures into the Malivore pit for decades, erasing them from memory.