Riverdale Trivia
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99 free Riverdale trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
These Riverdale trivia questions cover all seven seasons of The CW's Archie Comics adaptation, from Jason Blossom's body washing up in Sweetwater River in 2017 to the gang waking up in 1955 and Betty's final walk into Pop's in the Sweet Hereafter. Every big mystery is here: who really killed Jason, who was under the Black Hood, who wore the Gargoyle King costume, what the Farm was harvesting, and how the whole town ended up in the parallel universe of Rivervale. There are also questions on the cast and the making of the show: the four-month search that found KJ Apa, why Reggie was recast, the musical episodes built around Carrie and Heathers, the Vancouver diner set so convincing a trucker tried to eat there, the Luke Perry tribute, and the spin-offs Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Katy Keene. Easy questions cover the core four and their parents; the hard ones are for people who remember Fizzle Rocks, the Midnight Club and the Baxter Brothers. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its seasons and its episodes, and each question quotes the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Which Twin Peaks star plays Betty's mother, Alice Cooper, in Riverdale?
Mädchen Amick
Mädchen Amick was back on screen as her Twin Peaks waitress straight after Riverdale's first season, reprising the role in the 2017 revival of the show.
Q 02On which US network did Riverdale premiere on January 26, 2017?
The CW
The CW was the project's second home: Fox landed it first, in 2014, with a script by the comics company's creative chief, then declined to go ahead, and it moved networks the next year.
Q 03Who plays Archie Andrews?
KJ Apa
KJ Apa, an 18-year-old New Zealander, won the part at the end of a four-month worldwide talent search, as one of the last actors to audition.
Q 04Which actress plays Veronica Lodge?
Camila Mendes
Camila Mendes was still a student when she won the part: she juggled the auditions with her last classes at New York University, and by the week she graduated the show had been picked up.
Q 05Which writer developed Riverdale for television?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the chief creative officer of Archie Comics, meant every wild turn of the show: his cast say the absurdity was the point, and that he laughed at table reads whenever something ridiculous happened.
Q 06In which Canadian city was Riverdale filmed?
Vancouver
Vancouver is where the show built a working replica of its diner, so convincing that a trucker once pulled his 18-wheeler in, thinking it was open for business.
Q 07Whose supposed drowning the summer before school starts drives the mystery of Riverdale's first season?
Jason Blossom
Jason Blossom had not drowned at all: he was alive for a week after his supposed boating accident on the Fourth of July, and died of a gunshot.
Q 08Who is exposed as the murderer at the heart of Riverdale's first season?
Clifford Blossom
Clifford Blossom is caught by a video on a thumb drive hidden in a varsity jacket; when the police arrive to arrest him, they find him hanged among the barrels of the family syrup business.
Q 09With whom does Archie have a secret affair in the early episodes of season one?
Miss Grundy, the music teacher
Miss Grundy, the music teacher, is not who she says she is: Betty and Veronica search her car and find a gun and an ID in the name of Jennifer Gibson.
Q 10What is the name of the school newspaper Betty revives, later run with Jughead?
The Blue and Gold
The Blue and Gold had lain dormant until Betty revived it to dig into the summer's big mystery, sending Jughead off first to interview the scouts who had found Cheryl by the water.
Q 11What family secret do Betty and Alice uncover when they catch Hal destroying evidence in season one?
The Coopers are Blossoms by blood
The Coopers are Blossoms by blood: Betty's great-grandfather was not just murdered by a Blossom, he was one, and afterwards his side of the family cut all ties and took a new name.
Q 12In Riverdale's first-season finale, where does a grieving Cheryl try to end her life before her friends save her?
Sweetwater River
Sweetwater River is frozen solid when Cheryl walks out onto it; the ice gives way beneath her, and Archie has to smash through it with his bare fist to pull her out.
Q 13Riverdale's second season opens with Archie rushing which character to hospital after a shooting?
Q 21What is the street name of the drug that floods Riverdale in season two?
Jingle Jangle
Jingle Jangle is traced to a supplier known only as the Sugarman, whom the season's masked killer dares Betty to unmask; Jughead prefers to call the stuff "little straws of death".
Q 22Under what name did Riverdale's parents play Gryphons and Gargoyles as teenagers in the early 1990s?
The Midnight Club
The Midnight Club was a band of the town's future parents, hooked on the game until their principal turned up dead; they swore never to speak of it, and a quarter of a century later their children start to play.
Q 23Which cult starts indoctrinating Riverdale residents in season three?
The Farm
Fred Andrews
Fred Andrews is shot by a masked gunman in front of his son; because the man never went for the money, Betty and Jughead begin to suspect it was no robbery at all.
Q 14What is the name of the masked shooter who terrorises Riverdale throughout season two?
The Black Hood
The Black Hood announces himself in a letter to the Coopers, vowing to target the town's sinners; a later letter dares everyone to stay sinless for 48 hours or see him strike again.
Q 15Which character reveals himself to Betty and Alice as the man behind the mask in Riverdale's second season?
Hal Cooper
Hal Cooper sits his wife and daughter down to watch his old home movies before confessing, yet insists he was not the gunman at the mayoral debate, so a second masked shooter is still at large.
Q 16Which Stephen King story is the basis for Riverdale's season-two musical episode?
Carrie
Carrie: The Musical is in rehearsal when a threatening letter forces a change of leading lady; on opening night the curtain rises to reveal her replacement murdered on stage.
Q 17Which actor took over the role of Reggie Mantle in season two after Ross Butler left for 13 Reasons Why?
Charles Melton
Charles Melton kept the part for the rest of the run, but Ross Butler did come back once: in the 100th episode the two Reggies meet, with Butler billed as Reggie Prime.
Q 18Which actor plays Hiram Lodge, Veronica's gangster father, in Riverdale?
Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos made the role a family business: his wife, Kelly Ripa, guest-starred as Hiram's mistress, and their son Michael played the teenage Hiram in a flashback.
Q 19What is the name of the Riverdale gang that Jughead's father once led?
The Southside Serpents
The Southside Serpents stay in the family: Jughead is invited to join at the end of season one and rises to wear the crown himself, before Toni Topaz takes over as their queen.
Q 20What is the name of the vigilante group Archie founds in season two to protect Riverdale High students?
The Red Circle
The Red Circle is Archie's answer to a gun attack on two classmates in a parked car, and it soon turns the gunman's own weapon, fear, against him with a video calling him out.
The Farm promises its followers healing, but Betty finds its real business in a freezer: the cult has been operating on its own members to harvest their organs.
Q 24Who is unmasked in Riverdale's season-three finale as the mastermind behind the Gargoyle King?
Penelope Blossom
Penelope Blossom gathers the four friends at a hunting lodge for one last deadly quest; the figure in the Gargoyle King's costume turns out to be Chic, whom everyone had believed dead.
Q 25Riverdale's season-three flashback episode pays homage to which 1985 John Hughes film?
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is the model: the town's parents meet as strangers in a 1992 detention, and they are played by the actors who normally play their teenage children.
Q 26Which musical does Riverdale High stage in season three, with Cheryl as its queen bee?
Heathers
Heathers: The Musical casts Cheryl as queen bee Heather Chandler, and the cult that has moved into town is paying for it, which earns one of its members a co-director's chair.
Q 27Which animal mauls Archie while he hides out alone in the wilderness in Riverdale's third season?
A bear
A bear attacks him on a forest trail, and he staggers back to his cabin to radio for help; the wounds send him into a string of feverish hallucinations before rangers find him.
Q 28Which Beverly Hills, 90210 star played Archie's father in Riverdale?
Luke Perry
Luke Perry died during the third season, and the fourth opened with a farewell to his character; his 90210 co-star Shannen Doherty took a guest part in it.
Q 29In Riverdale's fourth season, Jughead transfers to which elite boarding school?
Stonewall Prep
Stonewall Prep comes calling through a teacher, Mr. Chipping, who offers Jughead a place; he turns it down at first, and when he does go his first day does not go as planned.
Q 30Which series of mystery novels does Jughead compete to ghostwrite in Riverdale's fourth season?
The Baxter Brothers
The Baxter Brothers were Jughead's childhood favourites, a birthday present from his father every year; at his new school he learns that they have always been written by a line of ghostwriters.