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48 free Reacher trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 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 48 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
Alan Ritchson was cast in September 2020, after plans for a third Reacher film were shelved in favour of this television reboot.
Q 02On which streaming service does Reacher air?
Prime Video
Prime Video released all eight first-season episodes at once on February 4, 2022.
Q 03In season two, one of Reacher's old army comrades dies after falling from what?
A helicopter
A helicopter: in the novel the victim is thrown out 3,000 feet above the California desert, and Reacher's surviving unit-mates set out to avenge him.
Q 04Who developed Reacher for television and serves as showrunner?
Nick Santora
Nick Santora practised law for six years before writing for shows including The Sopranos and Law & Order.
Q 05Which CBS series had Reacher's showrunner created previously?
Scorpion
Scorpion was very loosely based on the life of executive producer Walter O'Brien and ran for four seasons on CBS, from 2014 to 2018.
Q 06Reacher's first season adapts which Lee Child novel, the first in the series?
Killing Floor
Killing Floor, published in 1997, won both the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for best first novel.
Q 07Reacher's second season is based on which novel, the eleventh in the series?
Bad Luck and Trouble
Bad Luck and Trouble came out in 2007, and in it Reacher's old army unit reassembles after someone starts murdering its members.
Q 08Which novel does Reacher's third season adapt?
Persuader
Persuader, the seventh book, has Reacher go undercover for the DEA to get inside a suspected smuggler's household.
Q 09Reacher's fourth season, released in August 2026, adapts which 2009 novel?
Gone Tomorrow
Gone Tomorrow, the 13th book, opens with Reacher noticing that a woman ticks every box on a suicide bomber checklist.
Q 10Reacher's fifth season, announced in May 2026, adapts which 2015 novel, the twentieth?
Make Me
Make Me begins when Reacher stops at a prairie railroad station called Mother's Rest, simply because he is curious about the name.
Q 11What is the name of the small town where Reacher is arrested in season one?
Margrave
Margrave was where blues musician Blind Blake had died, which is why Reacher got off the bus there.
Q 12In which US state is Reacher's first-season town set?
Georgia
Georgia is the setting in both the show and the 1997 novel, though the town itself is fictional.
Q 13The murder victim Reacher is accused of killing in season one turns out to be whom?
His brother Joe
His brother Joe, the murdered man, was an investigator for the Secret Service.
Who plays Oscar Finlay, the chief detective who becomes Reacher's ally in season one?
Q 21Which Terminator 2 actor plays Reacher's season-two villain Shane Langston?
Robert Patrick
Robert Patrick, once the T-1000, took over as Langston after Rory Cochrane left over a scheduling conflict with season two.
Q 22Shane Langston heads security at which private defense contractor?
New Age
New Age runs a program called Little Wing to build surface-to-air missiles meant to always hit their targets.
Q 23In Reacher's second season, how does an old army comrade secretly summon the drifter?
A code on his ATM receipt
A code on his ATM receipt, planted by a former unit-mate, signals an emergency, and Reacher learns someone is murdering members of his old unit.
Malcolm Goodwin
Malcolm Goodwin's Finlay returned as a guest in season two, by then a Boston police detective.
Q 15Which actress plays Sergeant Roscoe Conklin?
Willa Fitzgerald
Willa Fitzgerald joined the cast in March 2021, having earlier starred as Emma Duval in MTV's Scream.
Q 16What criminal enterprise is at the heart of season one's conspiracy?
Counterfeiting
Counterfeiting ran on $1 bills that were bleached and reprinted as $100s.
Q 17Who plays the crooked Mayor Grover Teale?
Bruce McGill
Bruce McGill, Mayor Teale, is best known as D-Day, the chopper-riding student in Animal House.
Q 18Before drifting, Jack Reacher served as an Army major in which kind of unit?
Military police
Military police: Reacher commanded the 110th Special Investigations Unit, whose survivors reunite in season two.
Q 19What rank did Maria Sten's character hold in Reacher's unit?
Master sergeant
Master sergeant was her rank in the 110th, the unit Reacher commanded as a major.
Q 20Who plays forensic accountant Karla Dixon in season two?
Serinda Swan
Serinda Swan's Karla Dixon is, like Reacher, a former major from his old army unit.
Q 24Who is the season-three villain from Reacher's military past?
Xavier Quinn
Xavier Quinn, played by Brian Tee, had murdered Reacher's army colleague Dominique Kohl a decade earlier.
Q 25Anthony Michael Hall plays which season-three character?
Zachary Beck
Zachary Beck is the suspected drug smuggler whose son Reacher poses as a bodyguard for.
Q 26Before playing Reacher's season-three villain, Brian Tee spent eight seasons as Ethan Choi on which NBC drama?
Chicago Med
Chicago Med had Brian Tee as Ethan Choi from 2015 to 2022, before he turned arms dealer as Reacher's old nemesis.
Q 27Which bodybuilder plays the bodyguard Paulie in Reacher's third season?
Olivier Richters
Olivier Richters, known as the Dutch Giant, was cast as Paulie, the season's secondary antagonist.
Q 28Who plays DEA agent Susan Duffy in season three?
Sonya Cassidy
Sonya Cassidy's Susan Duffy is the DEA agent who recruits Reacher to go undercover.
Q 29Season four opens with Reacher witnessing a death on what form of transport?
A subway train
A subway train is where Reacher suspects a woman of being a suicide bomber, before watching her die.
Q 30Sydelle Noel's detective Tamara Green works for which city's police department?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia replaces New York, the setting of the novel that the fourth season adapts.