Reign (TV Series)
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50 free Reign (TV Series) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Reign turned the teenage years of Mary, Queen of Scots, into a glossy royal drama full of prophecies, poisonings and impossible love triangles. It never pretended to be a history lesson, and that is a large part of why its fans still rewatch it. This quiz covers the whole run: Mary's arrival at the French court, her marriage to Francis, the schemes of Queen Catherine, the rivalry with Elizabeth of England and the return to Scotland. Alongside the plot you will find questions on the actors, the music, the costumes and where the series was filmed. It is written for viewers who have seen every season, but most questions carry a clue in the wording, so casual fans and history lovers can reason their way to plenty of answers.
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Q 01Reign follows a teenage Mary, Queen of Scots, at the French court, and was made for which American network?
The CW
The CW ordered the pilot in February 2013 and kept the drama on air for 78 episodes before ending it in 2017.
Q 02In Reign's opening episode, where has the young Queen Mary been living in France since the age of nine?
A convent
A convent hid Mary until a failed attempt to poison her there sent her back to the royal castle for safety.
Q 03How is the increasingly mad King Henry II fatally injured in Reign's first-season finale?
Struck in a joust
Struck in a joust, Henry is brought down by his own son Francis, who had secretly swapped places with the opposing knight.
Q 04Which real-life seer at the French court in Reign predicts that marrying Mary will cost Francis his life?
Nostradamus
Nostradamus is played by Rossif Sutherland, a son of actor Donald Sutherland and half-brother of Kiefer.
Q 05Alan van Sprang said he modelled Reign's womanising King Henry II on which American president?
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton was the model, the actor said; in the show Henry keeps a long-term mistress and then takes Mary's lady Kenna as another.
Q 06Toby Regbo, who plays Francis in Reign, appeared as the teenage version of which wizard in a Harry Potter film?
Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore was his role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and he returned to it in 2018 for a Fantastic Beasts film.
Q 07Anna Popplewell, Reign's Lady Lola, starred as Susan Pevensie in which blockbuster fantasy film series?
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia made her a teenage star, and its three films went on to gross over $1.5 billion worldwide.
Q 08Queen Catherine, the scheming mother of Francis in Reign, was born into which powerful Italian family?
Medici
Medici was the real queen's family too; the show's Catherine once rescues Mary and her ladies by poisoning their captors at a feast.
Q 09Reign's final episode leaps forward twenty-one years to show which event in Queen Mary's life?
Her execution
Her execution in England closes the series, after her own son agrees to become Elizabeth's heir; Mary then wakes in the afterlife beside Francis.
Q 10Which Australian actress leads Reign as Mary, having first found fame in the soap opera Neighbours?
Adelaide Kane
Adelaide Kane is part Scottish on both sides of her family and is possibly a descendant of the real Mary through her mother.
Q 11In Reign, Catherine punishes Lord Narcisse for kissing Lola by tricking him into eating a steak made from what?
His own horse
His own horse, an animal he adored, is served to him on the eve of a siege of the castle, after Catherine hears about the kiss.
Q 12Which American folk-rock band recorded "Scotland", the song heard over Reign's opening titles?
The Lumineers
The Lumineers also had a second song in the pilot, and string-quartet covers of their music turn up in later episodes.
Q 13Megan Follows, Reign's Queen Catherine, is best known in Canada for playing the heroine of which 1985 miniseries?
Anne of Green Gables
Q 21Reign's lead actress was written out of which MTV series once she won the role of Mary, Queen of Scots?
Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf had her in a recurring part as Cora Hale when she auditioned, so its writers removed the character after she was cast.
Q 22Craig Parker, Reign's scheming Narcisse, appeared as the warrior Haldir in which blockbuster film trilogy?
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings used him in its first two films; the New Zealand actor was born in Fiji and joined Reign in its second season.
Q 23Before playing Bash in Reign, Torrance Coombs appeared as Thomas Culpepper in which earlier royal drama series?
The Tudors
Anne of Green Gables won her the title part over 3,000 other girls, and she later directed three Reign episodes herself.
Q 14Reign's second season opens with the French castle locked down against an outbreak of which deadly disease?
The plague
The plague still gets inside, and a ruthless noble uses the panic to have a rival's whole family killed with infected water.
Q 15Bash, the king's illegitimate son in Reign, is the child of Henry II and which royal mistress?
Diane de Poitiers
Diane de Poitiers was a real royal mistress, but her son Bash was invented for the show and has no counterpart in history.
Q 16Which of Mary's ladies-in-waiting dies in Reign's first season after being poisoned and pushed down the stairs?
Aylee
Aylee is killed so that Mary will believe a prophecy that one of her devoted ladies would soon die.
Q 17Stripped of her title and exiled from court in Reign, Lady Greer builds a thriving business running what?
A brothel
A brothel makes Greer independent, and her workers later help end a coup by poisoning the rebel army's soldiers.
Q 18Which Protestant preacher is Queen Mary's chief enemy in Scotland during Reign's fourth and final season?
John Knox
John Knox even pushes Mary's half-brother to dissolve the Scottish monarchy when she is believed lost at sea.
Q 19Which English Catholic with a claim to England's throne becomes Mary's second husband in Reign's final season?
Lord Darnley
Lord Darnley shared a royal English grandmother with Mary, which is why Elizabeth feared any child of theirs would have an undeniable claim to her crown.
Q 20Presumed dead after a shipwreck, Mary makes a triumphant entry before Scotland's nobles in which city in Reign?
Edinburgh
Edinburgh hails her return while Elizabeth, believing her cousin drowned, sends troops north to take the Scottish throne.
The Tudors also featured Alan van Sprang, Reign's King Henry, and shared its composer, Trevor Morris, with the later show.
Q 24Which Private Practice star was first cast as Mary's mother in Reign before Amy Brenneman took over the role?
Kate Walsh
Kate Walsh had to withdraw over a filming clash, so the part of Marie de Guise went to Brenneman, her Private Practice co-star.
Q 25Which hidden figure in Reign's first season lives in the castle's passageways and proves to be Catherine's daughter?
Clarissa
Clarissa was abandoned as a newborn because of a birthmark on her face, and later tries to take revenge on Catherine's young sons.
Q 26In Reign's first season, villagers in the woods offer blood sacrifices to a feared figure known as what?
The Darkness
The Darkness turns out to be nothing more than a man, who claims the sacrifices keep disease away before Bash kills him.
Q 27In Reign, King Henry II's madness is eventually traced to slow poisoning from which of his personal possessions?
His Bible
His Bible had poison in its pages, a plot traced to the King of Navarre, and Catherine falls ill too after handling the book.
Q 28Which symptom in Reign fulfils the prophecy about Francis and signals that the young king's illness is fatal?
A bleeding ear
A bleeding ear was foreseen on the day of his wedding, in a vision that gave him just one year of marriage.
Q 29Although Reign is set in France and Scotland, most of the series was filmed in and around which Canadian city?
Toronto
Toronto hosted most of the shoot, while an Ontario estate and a conservation area near Guelph doubled for 16th-century Scotland.
Q 30Reign first aired straight after which supernatural drama, its network's biggest hit with young women?
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries led into the pilot in October 2013; by its third season Reign had been moved to Fridays and then Mondays.