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49 free Longmire trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 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 49 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
Wyoming. The fictional sheriff became a real tourist draw: by 2014 several thousand fans were descending on the town that inspired Durant for Longmire Days, with the cast signing autographs.
Q 02Who plays Walt Longmire?
Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor. Before he wore the white hat he was one of the men in black: his best-known role was Agent Jones, hunting Neo alongside Agent Smith in The Matrix.
Q 03What nationality is the actor who plays Sheriff Walt Longmire?
Australian
Australian. He ran away to sea at 21, worked on oil rigs, and only auditioned for drama school at 24 after spotting a newspaper advertisement.
Q 04What is the name of the fictional county where Walt Longmire is sheriff?
Absaroka
Absaroka. The name was once proposed for a real state: in the 1930s disgruntled ranchers in the region pushed to break away as Absaroka, and the movement's leader proclaimed himself governor.
Q 05Who wrote the Walt Longmire Mysteries novels the show is based on?
Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson. He found the area by accident while delivering horses as a young man, and came back years later to build his own log ranch house there.
Q 06Who plays Henry Standing Bear, Walt Longmire's best friend?
Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou Diamond Phillips. His barkeeper becomes the show's surprise vigilante in season four, answering the notes people leave at a rock outcrop for the reservation's hired avenger.
Q 07In Longmire, to which tribe does Henry Standing Bear belong?
Cheyenne
Cheyenne. The reservation has its own police and the sheriff has no jurisdiction there, so Henry is often Walt's only way in.
Q 08What is the name of Henry Standing Bear's bar in Longmire?
The Red Pony
The Red Pony. Henry's standing welcome invites people to the Red Pony 'and continual soiree', a phrase that became the title of a season-five episode.
Q 09What verbal quirk marks Henry Standing Bear's speech in Longmire?
He never uses contractions
He never uses contractions. One 2012 newspaper critic called it an odd decision, complaining that the stiff speech was only a few steps away from the Lone Ranger's Tonto.
Q 10Who plays deputy Vic Moretti in Longmire?
Katee Sackhoff
Katee Sackhoff. Her Vic spent five years working big-city homicide, and the pilot finds her six months into the new job, called out on her day off over a dead sheep.
Q 11In which city was Longmire's Vic Moretti a homicide detective before moving west?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia. Before leaving she had implicated a fellow officer in a corruption scandal; he killed himself, and his former partner tracks her down in season two.
Q 12Which brand of beer does Sheriff Walt Longmire insist he has always drunk?
Rainier
Rainier. In the pilot it is his alibi against a drunk-driving charge: the empties in his truck are another brand, picked up because he hates the sight of litter.
Q 13Who plays Cady, Walt Longmire's daughter?
Cassidy Freeman
Cassidy Freeman. Her Cady closes the series by running for her father's job, with a 'Longmire for Sheriff' sign back on the road into the county.
Q 21Who plays Malachi Strand, the former tribal police chief in Longmire?
Graham Greene
Graham Greene. His Malachi goes from tribal police chief to prison inmate to casino security boss, then leaves Henry tied down under the sun to die.
Q 22Who plays casino developer Jacob Nighthorse in Longmire?
A Martinez
A Martinez. His Nighthorse is Walt's favourite suspect for years, yet in the end he testifies to save Walt's land and hands his casino over to Henry.
Q 23Who plays wealthy developer Barlow Connally in Longmire?
Gerald McRaney
Gerald McRaney. Cornered by his own son over the killing of Walt's wife, his Barlow says it is not too late to have another son, and a single gunshot ends the season.
Q 14What is deputy Archie Ferguson's nickname in Longmire?
The Ferg
The Ferg. He tries to hand back his badge, sure he was only hired as a favour to his father; Walt says there was a second reason he is still waiting to find out.
Q 15What did Walt Longmire tell his daughter Cady her mother had died of?
Cancer
Cancer. She did have it, but a Denver detective reveals in the first-season finale that she was actually murdered, and Cady is furious that her father hid it.
Q 16Which actor plays Fales, the Denver detective who dogs Walt and Henry through Longmire's first three seasons?
Charles S. Dutton
Charles S. Dutton. His detective arrives from Colorado convinced that the sheriff, or failing him his best friend, took the law into his own hands.
Q 17Who was Miller Beck in Longmire's backstory?
The murderer of Walt's wife
The murderer of Walt's wife. Henry sent a hired avenger to Denver to kill him, but the man swears he only handed out a beating, so someone else finished the job.
Q 18In Longmire, what does the mercenary Hector take from Miller Beck as trophies?
His teeth
His teeth. A missing tooth is Hector's calling card, and when Beck's turn up at Henry's bar, Henry is arrested for a murder he did not commit.
Q 19Which ex-cop from Vic Moretti's past stalks her in Longmire's second season?
Ed Gorski
Ed Gorski. He claims he has come to make amends, but he blames Vic for his old partner's suicide, and he soon ends up badly beaten himself.
Q 20Who is David Ridges in Longmire?
The man believed to have shot Branch
The man believed to have shot Branch. Nobody credits the claim at first, because the man's suicide was caught on video and his body was supposedly burned on a pyre.
Q 24Why did Barlow Connally arrange the murder of Walt Longmire's wife?
To help Branch become sheriff
To help Branch become sheriff. He had already funnelled campaign money to his son through Jacob Nighthorse, and made a no-questions payment the week she died.
Q 25Which clue convinces Walt Longmire that deputy Branch Connally's apparent suicide was murder?
Soil in the shotgun shell
Soil in the shotgun shell. A dead man cannot eject a spent shell and reload it, and pollen in the dirt came from plants that do not grow by the river where he lay.
Q 26Who plays Lucian Connally, Walt Longmire's predecessor as sheriff?
Peter Weller
Peter Weller. RoboCop's star also directed episodes, including the one that introduces Lucian, arrested for firing off a gun in his retirement home.
Q 27Who plays Mathias, the tribal police chief in Longmire?
Zahn McClarnon
Zahn McClarnon. His Mathias works out that Henry is the reservation's new vigilante and, rather than arrest him, uses the evidence to strike a deal.
Q 28Who plays anti-government zealot Chance Gilbert in Longmire?
Peter Stormare
Peter Stormare. His cult leader appears only rarely, yet he kidnaps Vic and her husband in season three and shoots her in the final season.
Q 29Who is Dr. Donna Monaghan, Walt Longmire's love interest from season four?
A therapist treating veterans
A therapist treating veterans. Walt first questions her at the VA hospital over a drug theft, and by the season's end she is kidnapped from his home in a raid that leaves him wounded.
Q 30Which organised crime group runs heroin into Walt Longmire's county in season five?
The Irish mob
The Irish mob. Walt takes a few personal days, flies to Boston and tells its boss to stay out of his county or he will give the FBI his name.