Mockingjay Trivia
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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? begins as a game his squad devises so he can test each memory aloud, and Katniss answers his last one, about whether she loves him, with a single word: 'Real.'
Q 03At Snow's public 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 was 17 and had only been asked for an end-credits song, Yellow Flicker Beat, when her publisher's recommendation won her the job of choosing every artist on the album.
Q 05How were midnight-release copies of Mockingjay signed, since Suzanne Collins had a hand injury?
With a signature stamp
With a signature stamp, since a hand injury kept Collins from signing; at the New York launch she still read the first chapter aloud, in an accent, because Katniss comes from Appalachia.
Q 06Which Mockingjay line did a protester paint 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; days earlier, a Bangkok cinema chain had cancelled screenings after protesters adopted the film's three-finger salute.
Q 07Which actress shaved one side of her head to play the rebels' director Cressida in Mockingjay?
Natalie Dormer
Natalie Dormer, then Margaery Tyrell on Game of Thrones, shaved the left side of her head for the part; in the novel Cressida's whole head is shaved and tattooed with green vines.
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 are President Snow's trademark: he leaves his flower in her house in the Victor's Village, which the bombing spared, and when more follow, Katniss reads them as his threat to 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
Paylor led the rebel troops Katniss filmed beside, and after the Capitol falls it is she who orders the guards to let Katniss in to see the captive Snow.
Q 22In which European capital did Mockingjay – Part 2 hold its world premiere on November 4, 2015?
Berlin
Berlin hosted the world premiere of a film that Studio Babelsberg co-produced and that shot scenes in the city; later that month the Los Angeles premiere dropped its red-carpet interviews after the Paris attacks.
Q 23Which Game of Thrones actress replaced Lily Rabe as Commander Lyme in Mockingjay – Part 2?
Gwendoline Christie
A hydroelectric dam
A hydroelectric dam supplied most of the Capitol's 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; in the novel her written list also demands hunting trips with Gale, the family cat and the right to kill Snow herself.
Q 15In Mockingjay's epilogue, Katniss steadies herself on bad days by making a mental list of what?
Good deeds she has seen
Good deeds she has seen: Katniss calls the list a game, a little tedious after more than twenty years, and closes the novel by saying there are much worse games to play.
Q 16After the war in Mockingjay, what replaces the abolished Games' old arenas?
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 19Critics of the first Mockingjay film took issue with 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 raised the first printing before release and still had to go back to press within days, after first-week sales that its trade president said had exceeded all expectations.
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 and the writer of HBO's Game Change, had to finish his Part 1 script before Lionsgate took up its option for him to write Part 2.
Q 26Mockingjay – Part 2 shot its District 2 battle scenes at which disused German airport in May 2014?
Tempelhof
Tempelhof closed to air traffic in 2008, which left its huge terminal and apron free for film crews; in 1948 and 1949 it had been the centre of the airlift that beat a Soviet blockade.
Q 27Which Terry Gilliam film was shot at the same Paris-area housing estate as a Capitol battle in Mockingjay – Part 2?
Brazil
Brazil used Les Espaces d'Abraxas at Noisy-le-Grand as a dystopian backdrop in 1985; three decades later its sunken plaza became the Capitol courtyard that fills with black tar.
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; Part 1 beat it yet still opened lower than both earlier Hunger Games films, each of which had passed $150 million.
Q 29Whose thriller did Mockingjay's e-book knock off the top of Amazon's Kindle bestseller list in August 2010?
Stieg Larsson
Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had led the Kindle chart since April; Mockingjay displaced it in release week and pulled the first two Hunger Games books into the top ten.
Q 30In Mockingjay – Part 1, what finally persuades Katniss to become the rebels' Mockingjay?
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.