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50 free Mockingjay trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Mockingjay is the book where the Hunger Games stop being a spectacle and become a war. Katniss wakes underground in District 13, Peeta is a prisoner of the Capitol, and the rebellion needs a face on camera more than it needs a fighter. The two films that closed the series carried those final chapters to some of the biggest box office of 2014 and 2015. This quiz stays on the third book and its two adaptations: the rebel leadership and its broadcasts, the march on the Capitol, the fates of Finnick, Snow and the rebel president, the last vote among the victors, the epilogue, and the casting, production and release of Part 1 and Part 2. The first ten questions are the broadest; the deep cuts come later. It suits anyone who finished the trilogy or sat through both films, and it works as a quick ten-question round for a fan night or a classroom.
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Q 01Which film overtook Mockingjay – Part 1 as 2014's highest-grossing release in North America?
American Sniper
American Sniper passed it within two months of Part 1 taking the 2014 crown on January 21, 2015, sixty-one days into its run. Part 1 had itself overtaken Guardians of the Galaxy for the title.
Q 02Which question does the hijacked Peeta repeat in Mockingjay to sort true memories from false ones?
Real or not real?
Real or not real? is Peeta's refrain through the novel, and USA Today's reviewer singled it out as the book's central question. The last exchange ends on Katniss answering with a single word.
Q 03At Snow's televised execution in Mockingjay, whom does Katniss shoot with her arrow instead?
President Coin
President Coin takes the arrow after Snow tells Katniss the rebels, not the Capitol, dropped the bombs that killed the medics. Snow dies in the chaos that follows.
Q 04Which New Zealand singer-songwriter curated the soundtrack album for Mockingjay – Part 1?
Lorde
Lorde curated the album and wrote its lead single, Yellow Flicker Beat, which picked up a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song. Critics praised the record's dystopian mood.
Q 05How were midnight-release copies of Mockingjay signed, since Suzanne Collins had a hand injury?
With a signature stamp
With a signature stamp standing in for Collins's autograph, the August 2010 midnight launch parties went ahead, and the publisher's Facebook page for the book drew 22,000 fans in ten days.
Q 06Which Mockingjay line was scrawled on an arch in St. Louis during the 2014 Ferguson unrest?
If we burn, you burn with us
If we burn, you burn with us is Katniss's threat to Snow after the hospital airstrike, and a protester painted it in St. Louis after the shooting of Michael Brown.
Q 07Which actress shaved one side of her head to play the rebels' director Cressida in Mockingjay?
Natalie Dormer
Natalie Dormer, then playing Margaery Tyrell on Game of Thrones, shaved the left side of her head for the part. The two Mockingjay films remain her highest-grossing.
Q 08Which victor marries Finnick Odair during Mockingjay and gives birth to his son after his death?
Annie Cresta
Annie Cresta, the traumatised District 4 victor Finnick loves, later votes against a final Hunger Games, saying he would have done the same.
Q 09The Capitol's sewer mutts that attack the Star Squad in Mockingjay are modelled on which animals?
Lizards
Lizards are the template for the muttations that kill Finnick, Castor and Homes in the Capitol's underground, and Katniss only escapes because Finnick holds them off.
Q 10Which medic is killed by the second wave of bombs outside Snow's mansion in Mockingjay?
Primrose Everdeen
Primrose Everdeen is sent to the front as a casualty nurse and dies in a double bombing that Snow later tells Katniss was the rebels' work, not the Capitol's.
Q 11In Mockingjay – Part 1, the captive Peeta suddenly shouts what warning during a Capitol broadcast?
An imminent attack on District 13
An imminent attack on District 13 is what Peeta blurts out after the rebels cut into his interview with Caesar Flickerman, and the evacuation he triggers saves the bunker.
Q 12What does Katniss find left inside her untouched house in District 12's ruins in Mockingjay – Part 1?
White roses
White roses from President Snow wait in the one house the firebombing spared, and after the bunker bombing Katniss finds the ground outside 13 littered with them, Snow's signal that each defiance costs Peeta.
Q 13In Mockingjay – Part 1, rebels black out the Capitol by destroying what in District 5?
Q 21Which rebel officer Katniss met while filming under air raid is voted president of Panem in Mockingjay?
Paylor
Commander Paylor led the rebel troops Katniss filmed alongside before the airstrike, and she takes office after the rebel president is shot dead at the execution.
Q 22In which European capital did Mockingjay – Part 2 hold its world premiere on November 4, 2015?
Berlin
Berlin's Sony Center hosted the premiere sixteen days before the US release, in the same city where the two films had wrapped shooting in June 2014.
Q 23Which Game of Thrones actress replaced Lily Rabe as Commander Lyme in Mockingjay – Part 2?
Gwendoline Christie
A hydroelectric dam
A hydroelectric dam was the Capitol's primary source of electricity, and the District 5 attackers storm it singing The Hanging Tree, the song Katniss had just recorded.
Q 14Katniss agrees to be the Mockingjay only if District 13 grants the captured victors what?
Immunity
Immunity for Peeta and the other victors held by the Capitol is her price, and in the film she also demands the right to execute Snow herself.
Q 15Mockingjay's epilogue, set twenty years on, shows Katniss and Peeta married with how many children?
Two
Two children close the story, and the film ends with Katniss soothing the younger one after a nightmare, promising to explain one day how she copes with her own.
Q 16After the war in Mockingjay, the abolished Games' old arenas are turned into what?
Memorials
Memorials replace the arenas once the post-war administration abolishes the Hunger Games, and Katniss, acquitted by reason of insanity, is sent home to District 12.
Q 17The Capitol claimed District 13 was wiped out during which past rebellion, a lie Mockingjay exposes?
The Dark Days
The Dark Days rebellion supposedly ended with District 13's destruction, but after a standoff with the Capitol its residents went underground to rebuild their strength.
Q 18In Mockingjay – Part 2, Snow invites Capitol citizens into his mansion to serve as what?
A human shield
A human shield of Capitol citizens, children among them, is Snow's last defence, and Katniss and Gale slip into the crowd in disguise to reach him.
Q 19Reviewers of both Mockingjay films most often criticised which decision by Lionsgate?
Splitting it into two parts
Splitting it into two parts drew complaints about Part 1's pacing, and director Francis Lawrence later admitted he understood the 'wrath of fans' at the cliffhanger.
Q 20Which publisher released Mockingjay in hardcover and audiobook on August 24, 2010?
Scholastic
Scholastic put the ebook on sale ahead of the hardcover, then bumped the first printing from 750,000 copies as orders climbed.
Gwendoline Christie stepped in after Rabe left for a 2014 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing; Lyme is a past victor commanding District 2's rebels.
Q 24Philip Seymour Hoffman's death turned Plutarch's last scene with Katniss in Mockingjay – Part 2 into what?
A letter read by Haymitch
A letter read by Haymitch replaced the detention-cell conversation, after early reports that Hoffman would be digitally recreated for the unshot scene.
Q 25Which Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor co-wrote both Mockingjay screenplays with Peter Craig?
Danny Strong
Danny Strong, Buffy's Jonathan Levinson, had already written HBO's Recount and Game Change and the film The Butler before taking on the two-part finale.
Q 26Mockingjay – Part 2 shot its District 2 battle scenes at which German airport in May 2014?
Tempelhof
Tempelhof's vast apron hosted the District 2 scenes during a European leg that also took the crew to an old cement factory in Rüdersdorf for another district's ruins.
Q 27Which Paris-area housing estate, used 30 years earlier for Brazil, hosted Mockingjay – Part 2 in May 2014?
Les Espaces d'Abraxas
Les Espaces d'Abraxas in Noisy-le-Grand had framed Terry Gilliam's Brazil in 1985, and the production moved there after wrapping in Atlanta in mid-April 2014.
Q 28Mockingjay – Part 1's $121.9 million debut broke which film's 2014 opening-weekend record?
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Transformers: Age of Extinction had held 2014's record at $100 million, and Part 1 gave the Hunger Games its third straight $100 million opening, a first for any franchise.
Q 29The publisher raised Mockingjay's first printing from 750,000 copies to what figure before release?
1,200,000
1,200,000 copies went out in the first printing, and another 400,000 were printed after the launch week, taking the run to 1.6 million.
Q 30In Mockingjay – Part 1, what finally persuades Katniss to take on the Mockingjay role for the rebels?
Seeing Peeta on state television
Seeing Peeta on state television, plainly being used to quell the rebellion, is what moves her, right after she has walked the ruins of District 12.