Pedro Pascal Trivia
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50 free Pedro Pascal trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Pedro Pascal was nine months old when his parents, both listed as enemies of the Pinochet regime, carried him out of Chile by way of the Venezuelan embassy and a spell of asylum in Denmark. He grew up in San Antonio and Orange County, trained at NYU, and then spent nearly twenty years waiting tables, getting fired and taking small television parts before a Dornish prince with a grudge changed everything. This quiz covers the whole arc: the Buffy residual check that kept him afloat, the plays he wrote and directed off-Broadway, Oberyn Martell, Javier Peña, the helmet of Din Djarin, Joel Miller and the $600,000-per-episode deal, Maxwell Lord, Agent Whiskey, the LSD-grin meme, the Emmy hat-trick of 2023, and the Mid-Atlantic accent Marvel would not let Reed Richards keep. Fifty questions with four options each and a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a TV-night quiz.
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Q 01Pedro Pascal was born in which city?
Santiago
Santiago was home for less than a year: his parents opposed the Pinochet dictatorship and fled Chile with him while he was still a baby.
Q 02What was the profession of Pascal's mother, Verónica?
Child psychologist
Child psychologist Verónica Pascal Ureta died early in his career, and he took her surname as his stage name in tribute.
Q 03Pascal's father worked in which medical specialty?
Reproductive endocrinology
Reproductive endocrinology is fertility medicine: his father returned to Chile in 1995 after being accused of secretly switching patients' embryos at the fertility clinic he helped run.
Q 04Through his mother's family, Pascal is related to which Chilean president?
Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende was overthrown two years before Pascal was born. His nephew Andrés Pascal Allende, a relative of Pascal's mother, led the Revolutionary Left Movement, and the new regime listed Pascal's parents as enemies.
Q 05Pascal's parents escaped Pinochet's Chile by taking refuge in which embassy?
Venezuelan
The Venezuelan embassy took them in after they went into hiding, left baby Pedro and his sister with an aunt, and climbed its wall during a guards' shift change.
Q 06As a boy in Texas, before acting took over, Pascal was a competitive athlete in which sport?
Swimming
Swimming came first: Pascal swam competitively during his Texas childhood, then gave it up after the family moved to California and drama took over.
Q 07Pascal's family received political asylum in which European country?
Denmark
Denmark granted the family asylum when Pascal was a baby, but it proved a stopover: they soon moved on to the United States, where he grew up.
Q 08In which Texas city was Pascal raised before moving to California?
San Antonio
San Antonio is where the family settled after asylum in Europe; his father took him to Spurs basketball games on weeknights if his homework was done.
Q 09Pascal moved at eleven from Texas to which California county?
Orange
Orange County became home at eleven: he went to middle school in Corona del Mar, then to high school in Los Alamitos so that he could attend the Orange County School of the Arts.
Q 10Which actor plays Lucius, the gladiator who faces Pascal's General Acacius in Gladiator II?
Paul Mescal
Paul Mescal plays Lucius, son of the first film's hero Maximus, who is forced into the Colosseum after Pascal's general conquers his home.
Q 11Pascal graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts in 1997, part of which institution?
New York University
New York University followed a turning point in his last year of school, when a spare ticket to the play Angels in America convinced him that acting could be his life.
Q 12Before he took his mother's surname, Pascal was credited under which paternal surname?
Balmaceda
Balmaceda was on his early credits; he says Americans struggled to pronounce it, and for a while he even swapped Pedro for Alexander in the hope of winning more roles.
Q 13Which actress friend gave Pascal her per diem money during his lean years?
Sarah Paulson
Q 21Who kills Oberyn Martell in a Game of Thrones trial by combat?
The Mountain
The Mountain, Gregor Clegane, crushes Oberyn's skull after the prince, who is winning the duel, pauses to demand a confession for his sister's murder.
Q 22What is the nickname of Oberyn Martell, Pascal's Game of Thrones character?
The Red Viper
The Red Viper owes the name to rumours that he fights with poisoned weapons; his eight bastard daughters are known in turn as the Sand Snakes.
Q 23Oberyn Martell comes from which desert kingdom of Westeros?
Dorne
Dorne is the far-southern realm whose prince, Oberyn, arrives in King's Landing bent on revenge for the murder of his sister Elia.
Sarah Paulson later passed his Game of Thrones audition tape to her best friend Amanda Peet, who is married to the show's co-creator David Benioff.
Q 14A residual check from which TV show rescued Pascal when he had under $7 in the bank?
Buffy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer paid him for a 1999 episode in which his lost freshman Eddie is grabbed by vampires; he says that cheque is the reason he did not give up acting.
Q 15Who plays Sue Storm opposite Pascal's Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four: First Steps?
Vanessa Kirby
Vanessa Kirby plays Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman; with Pascal's Reed she must defend a retro-futuristic 1960s Earth from Galactus, a space god who plans to devour the planet.
Q 16Who created The Mandalorian, the Star Wars series in which Pascal plays the title bounty hunter?
Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau, director of Iron Man and The Lion King, created the series for the launch of Disney+ and went on to produce its spin-offs The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka.
Q 17In Ari Aster's Eddington, Pascal's small-town mayor is challenged by a sheriff played by which actor?
Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix plays Sheriff Joe Cross, whose standoff with Pascal's Mayor Ted Garcia in May 2020 turns into a bid for the mayor's job.
Q 18Pascal's Mandalorian wears armour forged from which nearly indestructible metal?
Beskar
Beskar shrugs off blaster bolts; in the third episode Din Djarin has new armour forged from the bars he is paid for handing over the Child, then goes back to rescue it.
Q 19Which actor played Pablo Escobar opposite Pascal in the first two seasons of Narcos?
Wagner Moura
Wagner Moura, a Brazilian whose first language is Portuguese, learned Spanish for the role and put on about 40 pounds to play the Colombian cocaine boss.
Q 20Pascal plays a wealthy suitor competing with Chris Evans for Dakota Johnson's matchmaker in which film?
Materialists
Materialists grew out of writer-director Celine Song's own six months working as a matchmaker; Pascal's Harry is the rich 'perfect match' set against a struggling-actor ex.
Q 24In Narcos, Pascal's Javier Peña works for which US agency?
DEA
The DEA employed the real Javier Peña, who helped hunt Pablo Escobar in Colombia and later worked as a consultant on the series.
Q 25In the third season of Narcos, Pascal's Javier Peña goes after which cartel?
Cali
The Cali cartel had been Escobar's rival through the first two seasons; after his death it becomes the new target, with Pascal's Peña leading the pursuit.
Q 26Boyd Holbrook, whose exit from Narcos made Pascal the lead, played which agent in the series?
Steve Murphy
Steve Murphy is Peña's partner through the hunt for Escobar and leaves once it ends; the real Murphy and the real Peña appear in a cameo in the season two finale.
Q 27Who directed The Great Wall (2016), in which Pascal played mercenary Pero Tovar?
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou, who staged the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, cast Pascal and Matt Damon as mercenaries who come hunting gunpowder and end up defending the wall from monsters.
Q 28In Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Pascal's Statesman agent uses which codename?
Whiskey
Whiskey looks like an ally from Statesman, the American agency whose agents are code-named after drinks, but he is unmasked as a villain in the final act.
Q 29Pascal played villain Dave York opposite which star in The Equalizer 2?
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington returns as vigilante Robert McCall, who discovers that Dave York, his trusted former partner, is behind the murder of his best friend.
Q 30In Prospect (2018), Pascal's character Ezra hunts for resources where?
An alien moon
An alien moon covered in toxic forest is where Ezra digs for gems; a teenage girl whose father dies in a shootout with his partner takes him prisoner, then becomes his ally.