50 free Reacher trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Reacher arrived in February 2022 with a town built from scratch in an Ontario farm field and a first-week Nielsen record for Amazon. Each season adapts one Lee Child novel: Killing Floor's counterfeiters, Bad Luck and Trouble's reunion of the 110th, Persuader's rug importer and Gone Tomorrow's subway opening. A fifth season and a Neagley spin-off are on the way. These 50 questions cover the show and the books behind it: Nick Santora and Scorpion, Oscar Finlay and Roscoe Conklin, KJ Kliner and Mayor Teale, Frances Neagley's rank, Karla Dixon and David O'Donnell, the New Age conspiracy, Xavier Quinn, Bizarre Bazaar, the Dutch Giant, Richard Beck's missing ear, Joe Biden's set visit, Alan Ritchson's broken shoulder, Lee Child's diner cameo, 61 Hours, the Tom Cruise films and how a can of pears named the character. There are questions on the lead too: Smallville's Aquaman, Raphael and American Idol. Easy questions stick to the main cast; the expert tier asks about Rory Cochrane, Breakout Kings and Nicholas Wootton. 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 TV night.
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Q 01Who plays Jack Reacher in the 2022 television series?
Alan Ritchson
He was cast on September 4, 2020; Tom Cruise had played the character in two films.
Q 02On which streaming service does Reacher air?
Prime Video
Its first week was the first time an Amazon production topped the Nielsen streaming chart.
Q 03Which author wrote the Jack Reacher novels the show is based on?
Lee Child
He was a freshly fired Granada Television shop steward when he wrote the first one.
Q 04Who developed Reacher for television and serves as showrunner?
Nick Santora
He also created the CBS drama Scorpion.
Q 05Which CBS series had Reacher's showrunner created previously?
Scorpion
Three Reacher cast members had also appeared in his earlier show Breakout Kings.
Q 06The first season adapts which Lee Child novel, the first in the series?
Killing Floor
The book won the Anthony and Barry awards for best first novel in 1998.
Q 07Season two is based on which novel, the eleventh in the series?
Bad Luck and Trouble
Its title comes from Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign".
Q 08Which novel does the third season adapt?
Persuader
It is the seventh book and, like the first, is written in the first person.
Q 09The fourth season, released in August 2026, adapts which 2009 novel?
Gone Tomorrow
It is the thirteenth book; Lee Child has said 61 Hours may never be adapted.
Q 10Reacher's fifth season, announced in May 2026, adapts which 2015 novel, the twentieth?
Make Me
The renewal was announced in May 2026; filming began that July.
Q 11What is the name of the small town where Reacher is arrested in season one?
Margrave
He gets off the bus there because a blues musician his brother mentioned died in the town.
Q 12In which US state is the first season's fictional town set?
Georgia
The whole town was actually built in a leased farm field in Ontario.
Q 13The murder victim Reacher is accused of killing in season one turns out to be whom?
His brother Joe
Joe was a Treasury investigator looking into a counterfeiting ring.
Q 14Who plays Oscar Finlay, the chief detective who becomes Reacher's ally in season one?
Q 21Robert Patrick replaced which actor as Shane Langston in season two?
Rory Cochrane
Cochrane left over a scheduling conflict.
Q 22Shane Langston heads security at which private defense contractor?
New Age
The company sells supposedly destroyed missile prototypes to an arms dealer.
Q 23Which actor plays the arms dealer known as A.M. in season two?
Ferdinand Kingsley
A.M. travels under multiple assumed identities.
Q 24Who is the season-three villain from Reacher's military past?
Malcolm Goodwin
Finlay returned as a guest in season two.
Q 15Which actress plays Sergeant Roscoe Conklin?
Willa Fitzgerald
She was cast alongside Malcolm Goodwin and Chris Webster in March 2021.
Q 16What criminal enterprise is at the heart of season one's conspiracy?
Counterfeiting
Used $1 bills were bleached in Venezuela and reprinted as $100s.
Q 17Who plays the crooked Mayor Grover Teale?
Bruce McGill
Teale is in league with the Kliner family.
Q 18What was the number of Reacher's Army special investigations unit?
110th
Its surviving members reunite in season two after one of them is murdered.
Q 19What rank did Maria Sten's character hold in Reacher's unit?
Master sergeant
The writers brought her into the show earlier than she appears in the books.
Q 20Who plays forensic accountant Karla Dixon in season two?
Serinda Swan
She had worked with the showrunner before on Breakout Kings.
Xavier Quinn
Brian Tee plays him; he now goes by Julius McCabe.
Q 25Anthony Michael Hall plays which season-three character?
Zachary Beck
His character owns an oriental rug importer called Bizarre Bazaar.
Q 26What is the name of the rug-importing business fronting season three's arms ring?
Bizarre Bazaar
It fronts for an arms-trafficking operation.
Q 27Which bodybuilder, nicknamed "the Dutch Giant", plays the bodyguard Paulie?
Olivier Richters
He was cast in May 2024 as the season's secondary antagonist.
Q 28Who plays DEA agent Susan Duffy in season three?
Sonya Cassidy
She was cast alongside Anthony Michael Hall in February 2024.
Q 29What body part did Richard Beck lose to terrorists?
An ear
Johnny Berchtold plays the son Reacher is hired to protect.
Q 30Season four opens with Reacher witnessing a death on what form of transport?
A subway train
The scene comes straight from the novel Gone Tomorrow.