50 free Longmire trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Longmire is the modern western that A&E cancelled at the height of its ratings and Netflix brought back for three more seasons. Australian actor Robert Taylor plays Walt, a grieving Wyoming sheriff with a secret about his wife's death; Lou Diamond Phillips is Henry Standing Bear, who owns the Red Pony and never uses a contraction; Katee Sackhoff is Vic, the Philadelphia detective who came west and stayed. These 50 questions cover all six seasons and the world around them: Absaroka County and its real-life model Buffalo, Branch and Barlow Connally, David Ridges and Miller Beck, Malachi Strand and Jacob Nighthorse, Chance Gilbert and the Irish mob, the 36-hole golf course plot and the finale that sent Walt treasure hunting. Production questions take in the New Mexico locations, Garson Studios, the 2013 wildfires and the Granite Mountain Hotshots, the A&E cancellation and Netflix pickup, and Craig Johnson, the novelist in a Wyoming town of 25 people. Easy questions ask who plays whom; the expert tier wants the clue in Branch's shotgun shell and the critic who compared the pilot to an overfed elk. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a western night.
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Q 01In which state is Longmire set?
Wyoming
The series was actually filmed in New Mexico, a fact the season-one DVD documentary covers.
Q 02Who plays Walt Longmire?
Robert Taylor
Taylor is Australian; a New York Times critic called him a modern-day Gary Cooper.
Q 03What nationality is the actor who plays Walt?
Australian
Robert Taylor was the first cast member announced, in February 2011.
Q 04What is the name of the fictional county Walt polices?
Absaroka
Its county seat, Durant, is modelled on Buffalo, Wyoming.
Q 05Who wrote the Walt Longmire Mysteries novels the show is based on?
Craig Johnson
Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.
Q 06Who plays Walt's best friend Henry Standing Bear?
Lou Diamond Phillips
Henry owns the Red Pony bar and never speaks using contractions.
Q 07To which tribe does Henry Standing Bear belong?
Cheyenne
The reservation has its own tribal police, led by Chief Mathias.
Q 08What is the name of Henry's bar and restaurant?
The Red Pony
Malachi later uses its ledger to syphon illegal profits.
Q 09What verbal quirk defines Henry Standing Bear's speech?
He never uses contractions
His name is said to mean a bear who protects those whom he loves.
Q 10Who plays deputy Vic Moretti?
Katee Sackhoff
Sackhoff was best known as Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica.
Q 11In which city was Vic Moretti a homicide detective before heading west?
Philadelphia
She moved with her husband Sean after an incident with her superior officer.
Q 12Which deputy runs against Walt in the season-one election?
Branch Connally
He is also secretly dating Walt's daughter Cady.
Q 13Who plays Walt's daughter Cady?
Cassidy Freeman
Cady is a lawyer who ends up running for sheriff herself in the finale.
Q 14What is deputy Archie Ferguson's nickname?
Q 21Who plays the former tribal police chief Malachi Strand?
Graham Greene
Greene won a Red Nation Film Award of Excellence for the role.
Q 22Who plays the businessman and developer Jacob Nighthorse?
A Martinez
He also won a Red Nation Film Award for the part.
Q 23Who plays Branch's father Barlow Connally?
Gerald McRaney
Barlow confesses to killing his own son and dies by suicide-by-cop.
Q 24Why did Barlow pay Nighthorse to have Walt's wife killed?
The Ferg
Walt partly hired him as a favour to his father.
Q 15What did Walt tell Cady her mother died of?
Cancer
Detective Fales from Denver reveals she was actually murdered.
Q 16Which Denver detective investigates the death of the man who killed Walt's wife?
Fales
Charles S. Dutton plays him across the first three seasons.
Q 17Who was Miller Beck, in the show's backstory?
The murderer of Walt's wife
Henry hired Hector to kill him, but Hector only beat him and took his teeth.
Q 18What trophies did the mercenary Hector take from Miller Beck?
His teeth
Fales finds them at Henry's bar and arrests him.
Q 19Who stalks Vic in season two?
Ed Gorski
The retired Philadelphia cop blames her for his partner's suicide.
Q 20Who is David Ridges?
The man believed to have shot Branch
He was believed to have died by suicide and been cremated.
To help Branch become sheriff
Season three ends on the sound of a gunshot.
Q 25What clue convinces Walt that Branch's death was not suicide?
Soil in the shotgun shell
It implied the shell was ejected after firing and put back in the gun.
Q 26Who plays Lucian Connally, Walt's predecessor and mentor?
Peter Weller
RoboCop himself; Lucian's death in season six pushes Walt toward retirement.
Q 27Who plays Chief Mathias of the tribal police?
Zahn McClarnon
McClarnon later starred in Dark Winds, itself a Tony Hillerman adaptation.
Q 28Who plays the anti-government zealot Chance Gilbert?
Peter Stormare
He appears in only six episodes but becomes a major villain.
Q 29Who is Walt's love interest Dr. Donna Monaghan, introduced in season four?
A therapist treating veterans
Ally Walker plays her; she is kidnapped after a home invasion that wounds Walt.
Q 30Which organised crime group runs a heroin operation in Walt's county in season five?
The Irish mob
Walt travels to Boston to confront their boss Shane Muldoon.