Reservation Dogs Trivia
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50 free Reservation Dogs trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Reservation Dogs arrived on FX on Hulu in August 2021 as the first American series with an all-Native writers' room and an almost entirely Indigenous cast and crew, and it left three seasons later with two Peabodys, five Emmy nominations and a finale critics called near-perfect. Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi built a small Oklahoma town, Okern, where four grieving teenagers commit petty crime, dodge the NDN Mafia and plan an escape to California that never goes to plan. These 50 questions cover the whole run: the pilot's stolen delivery truck, William Knifeman's dubious war record, the Aunties' IHS conference, Cheese's ride-along with Big, the 1976 flashback episode and Old Man Fixico's funeral. There are questions on the cast too — the four young leads, Zahn McClarnon, Gary Farmer, Lily Gladstone, Graham Greene and the surprising guest stars, from Bill Burr to a US Poet Laureate. Easy questions stick to the main characters and setting; the hard tier asks about episode writers, Harjo's earlier films and the actors' first roles. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Who co-created Reservation Dogs with Taika Waititi?
Sterlin Harjo
Sterlin Harjo and Waititi dreamed the show up over late-night tea, but the New Zealander then stepped back. 'It's not my place to make this show,' he said: the stories, and the town, were his partner's.
Q 02In which US state do the Rez Dogs live?
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is the co-creator's home: he was born and raised there, and many storylines come from his own childhood. The whole first season was shot in the state too, which no scripted series had done before.
Q 03On which streaming service did Reservation Dogs premiere in 2021?
Hulu
Hulu got it through 'FX on Hulu', the 2020 arrangement that sent some FX-made series straight to the streaming service. The first episodes arrived on 9 August, the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
Q 04Why did Reservation Dogs end after its third season?
Creator's choice
Creator's choice: he announced it himself, writing that the third-season finale was the perfect series finale. He later said he had wanted to end the show when it felt right, and would never want anyone to tell him to stop.
Q 05Where do the Rez Dogs dream of moving to?
California
California was the dream of their friend Daniel, who died a year before the story starts. The gang steals and schemes to pay for the trip, and when they finally go it is to reach, for him, the ocean he never saw.
Q 06Who plays Bear Smallhill?
D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai was one of the last two actors up for Bear. The show kept the other one too: Dalton Cramer became Daniel, the friend whose death the gang is still mourning.
Q 07Which actress plays Elora Danan Postoak?
Devery Jacobs
Devery Jacobs did not stay in front of the camera: she joined the writers' room for season 2, co-wrote episodes, and in the final season directed one herself.
Q 08Elora Danan is named after a character from which 1988 fantasy film?
Willow
Willow is the Ron Howard fantasy whose heroes protect a baby named Elora Danan. In the pilot, the man buying the gang's loot hears her name and at once asks whether she was named after that baby.
Q 09What is Willie Jack's full first name?
Wilhelmina
Wilhelmina Jacqueline Sampson is the full name behind 'Willie Jack'. The boyish nickname fits: the part was first written for a boy and reworked once its actress was cast.
Q 10Who plays Willie Jack?
Paulina Alexis
Paulina Alexis first auditioned to play Elora. The showrunner asked her to read for Willie Jack as well because he thought she would be funny in it, and she got that part instead.
Q 11What is the name of Bear's spirit guide?
William Knifeman
William Knifeman first appears when Bear faints under a volley of paintballs, and keeps turning up with rambling advice on being a warrior. The actor behind him, Dallas Goldtooth, joined the show's writers' room in season 2.
Q 12At which battle does Bear's spirit guide claim he died?
Little Bighorn
Little Bighorn, he says, though he never got to fight there: his horse stumbled in a hole and rolled over on him before he reached the action.
Q 13Who plays Officer Big, the superstitious lighthorseman?
Zahn McClarnon
Zahn McClarnon plays Big as a soft-hearted tribal cop, patient with petty crooks and wary of bad omens. Season 2 shows what haunts him: he blames himself for the death of Elora's mother.
Q 21Which comedian plays Elora's driving instructor and former basketball coach in Reservation Dogs?
Bill Burr
Bill Burr plays Garrett Bobson, who abandons her fourth try at the test to chase a hunch, pulls a gun from his boot and ends up needing her as a getaway driver. Then he tells her how her mother died.
Q 22Who plays Gene, the head of the group home Cheese is sent to?
Marc Maron
Marc Maron's Gene runs the home as his own therapy session: he marches the kids through 'recovery' circles although none of them is an addict, because the recovery in question is his.
Q 23What leaves the Rez Dogs stranded when they finally reach the coast in the season 2 finale?
Their car is stolen
Q 14Which actor plays Uncle Brownie, Elora's hermit uncle?
Gary Farmer
Gary Farmer's Brownie is a local legend for flattening an entire bar in one fight, yet he now lives alone in the woods. When a tornado bears down on the town, he is the one who rides out to turn it away.
Q 15What is the name of the rival teen gang led by Jackie?
NDN Mafia
NDN Mafia announce themselves by claiming the Rez Dogs' street as their turf. The feud softens, though: their leader Jackie, a city kid who wants out, ends up hitting the road with Elora.
Q 16What is the stage name of Bear's estranged rapper father?
Punkin Lusty
Punkin Lusty is known for a novelty rap about greasy frybread. Booked to play the clinic's diabetes-awareness feast, he phones Bear on the day with a story about a cancelled flight and never shows.
Q 17Kenny Boy, who keeps insisting he is Native, owns what local business?
A salvage yard
A salvage yard, where the gang sells what it steals. When they later break in to take back a car, he catches them and, to their shock, simply lets them take it.
Q 18Who plays Dr. Kang, the physician at the tribal clinic?
Bobby Lee
Bobby Lee plays Dr. Kang as a doctor with his mind elsewhere: patching Bear up after a beating, he uses the visit to ask whether the boy's mother, who works at the clinic, has remarried.
Q 19Which mythical being does Kaniehtiio Horn play?
Deer Lady
Deer Lady, a beautiful woman with deer hooves, punishes bad men. Season 3 shows why: as a child she fled a brutal boarding school, was saved in the woods by a deer, and has gone after abusers ever since.
Q 20Which actress guest stars as Hokti, Daniel's imprisoned mother?
Lily Gladstone
Lily Gladstone plays Hokti as a medicine woman gone bitter in prison, nagged by a chatty ancestor's ghost. When she finally prays with Willie Jack, a crowd of ancestral spirits gathers round them.
Their car is stolen while they eat, with their money and Daniel's letter inside. A robed stranger known as White Jesus, played by Incubus singer Brandon Boyd, then leads them on foot toward the beach.
Q 24Which actor plays Rick, Elora's long-absent father?
Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke's Rick last saw Elora on her first birthday. She tracks him down only for the paperwork her college aid needs, but he produces the photo he kept from that day and tells her she has three half-siblings.
Q 25Reservation Dogs is set, and was mostly filmed, on the reservation of which tribal nation?
Muscogee
The Muscogee Nation, whose capital, Okmulgee, stood in for the fictional town of Okern. The co-creator has Muscogee heritage himself, and the songs at a deathbed in season 2 are sung in the nation's language.
Q 26Which Native sketch comedy group had all its members work on Reservation Dogs?
The 1491s
The 1491s named themselves for the last year before Columbus arrived. Between them the five members wrote, directed, produced and acted on the show, one of them as Bear's spirit guide.
Q 27What later FX series by the co-creator is set in the same universe?
The Lowdown
The Lowdown, a noir about a self-styled 'truthstorian', opens with a handover: Willie Jack herself strolls past its hero and gives him a nod, a cameo shot only because the actress happened to be in town.
Q 28Which award went to Reservation Dogs' first and last seasons?
Peabody
Peabody Awards went to the first season and again to the third, whose citation praised the power of Indigenous storytelling. The Emmys were less kind: five nominations over the run and not one win.
Q 29Reservation Dogs' last season was Emmy-nominated in which series category?
Comedy
Comedy: its Outstanding Comedy Series nomination came only for the third and final season, after the main categories had passed over the first two. It lost to Hacks.
Q 30In the pilot, what do the Rez Dogs steal and sell to fund their escape?
A delivery truck
A delivery truck, loaded with snack chips. The thrill fades fast: over a meal the kids overhear the driver saying the theft cost him his job and his wife has left him, and Bear shrinks into his seat.