Santa Clarita Diet
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50 free Santa Clarita Diet trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Santa Clarita Diet took the zombie story out of the apocalypse and dropped it into a tidy California suburb. Over three seasons on Netflix, a married couple with a mortgage, a teenage daughter and a full calendar had to work out how to keep the wife fed once she woke up undead and hungry for people. This quiz covers the whole run: the Hammond family and their neighbors, the victims and the cover-ups, the strange mythology behind the outbreak, and the long list of familiar faces who turned up as guest stars. There are also questions on how the series was made and promoted. It is written for fans who binged all thirty episodes and for anyone hosting a TV trivia night. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through or print it out.
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Q 01Which former child star of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial plays flesh-craving Sheila Hammond in Santa Clarita Diet?
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore was also an executive producer of the show, which her own production company helped to make.
Q 02Which seafood, served at the restaurant Japopo's, proves to be the cause of the undead outbreak in Santa Clarita Diet?
Clams
Clams were to blame: a rare red variety, bred from four specimens into thousands at a supplier called Ruby's, was about to be shipped out to restaurants.
Q 03Before Sheila's transformation in Santa Clarita Diet, what job do she and her husband Joel Hammond share?
Real estate agents
Real estate agents suited the premise: the job gets the couple out into the world and demands a forced friendliness that hides what they are up to.
Q 04Which star of Deadwood and Justified plays Sheila's devoted husband Joel Hammond in Santa Clarita Diet?
Timothy Olyphant
Timothy Olyphant was also one of the show's executive producers, alongside his co-star and the series creator.
Q 05German posters for Santa Clarita Diet were withdrawn for showing a human finger sliced like which fast food?
Currywurst
Currywurst was the dish, and after more than 50 complaints reached Germany's advertising watchdog, Netflix ended the campaign and took every poster down.
Q 06Which Castle star plays Gary West, the lecherous co-worker who becomes Sheila's first meal in Santa Clarita Diet?
Nathan Fillion
Nathan Fillion held the part for the first two seasons, even though Gary is killed and eaten in the very first episode.
Q 07When the Hammonds dig up Gary West in Santa Clarita Diet, which part of him has come back to life?
His head
His head has reanimated, and the guilty Hammonds end up keeping it around, where it records messages and gives Joel advice.
Q 08What does Sheila Hammond turn a frozen victim into before a walk with her neighbors in Santa Clarita Diet?
A smoothie
A smoothie is her answer, and on the walk she urges her friends to live life to the fullest and credits her new energy to eating more protein.
Q 09Joel Hammond's research in Santa Clarita Diet turns up old prints of a flesh-eater from which European country?
Serbia
Serbia is where the trail leads: an old book from there is said to hold a cure, and descendants of an order of knights later arrive to stamp out the outbreak.
Q 10How does Joel Hammond kill his blackmailing neighbor Dan Palmer during a fight in Santa Clarita Diet?
With a shovel
With a shovel, after refusing to do any more killing on Dan's orders; Sheila then tries to eat the entire body to hide the evidence.
Q 11Santa Clarita, the actual suburb where Santa Clarita Diet is set, is a city in which California county?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County is home to the suburb, whose name is a Spanish diminutive meaning 'little Santa Clara', coined to tell it apart from a city farther north.
Q 12What does Sheila Hammond discover her body no longer has after her transformation in Santa Clarita Diet?
A heartbeat
A heartbeat is the missing thing, yet she is content, with a stronger libido, fewer inhibitions and a sense that this may be who she really is.
Q 13What happens to Sheila Hammond at work in the first episode of Santa Clarita Diet, shortly before turning undead?
She vomits
Q 21Which kind of villain does Sheila Hammond decide she can eat without guilt in season 2 of Santa Clarita Diet?
Nazis
Nazis fit her rule of only eating bad people, and she even buys a raffle book from their softball team to use as a list of future meals.
Q 22Where do Joel and Sheila Hammond bury the remains of Gary West after her first kill in Santa Clarita Diet?
In the desert
In the desert, at a spot that is later marked for development, which forces the couple to go back for him.
Q 23What do Abby Hammond and Eric Bemis blow up at the end of season 2 of Santa Clarita Diet?
A fracking site
A fracking site was their target, destroyed with C-4 found in a dead neighbor's closet, and the blast later brings investigators to their school.
She vomits in huge quantities, bringing up what may be an organ; soon afterwards she is undead and craving flesh.
Q 14Joel and Sheila Hammond of Santa Clarita Diet have been a couple since which stage of their lives?
High school
High school is where it began, a history Joel cites when he decides he would rather help Sheila kill than leave her.
Q 15Which Community star plays Chris, half of a married duo who are the Hammonds' rivals, in Santa Clarita Diet?
Joel McHale
Joel McHale joined in the second season as Chris, whose wife is named Christa and whose son is named Christian.
Q 16Which longtime sidekick to Conan O'Brien plays Carl Coby, the Hammonds' obnoxious boss, in Santa Clarita Diet?
Andy Richter
Andy Richter plays the boss who eventually fires Sheila, which pushes Joel to quit and the couple to start a company of their own.
Q 17Which Arrested Development actress plays Dr. Cora Wolf, a scientist who studies the undead, in Santa Clarita Diet?
Portia de Rossi
Portia de Rossi's scientist moves in with the Hammonds to make a serum, warning that it can only stop Sheila getting worse.
Q 18Which director of the film Zombieland made the first two episodes of Santa Clarita Diet?
Ruben Fleischer
Ruben Fleischer directed the opening pair of episodes and is also credited as one of the show's executive producers.
Q 19Where do Joel and Sheila Hammond keep the freezer holding their road-rage victim in Santa Clarita Diet?
A storage unit
A storage unit holds the freezer, and in the second season they rent another one so that it can serve as a kill room.
Q 20What does Sheila Hammond do to save an unconscious Joel in the final moments of Santa Clarita Diet?
She bites him
She bites him after a crawling creature climbs inside him, and the show's cancellation a few weeks later left his fate unresolved.
Q 24Which comedian, the voice of Remy in Ratatouille, plays the virologist Dr. Hasmedi in Santa Clarita Diet?
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt's virologist hears Joel out about his wife's condition and concludes that Joel is the one who is crazy.
Q 25Which writer, who earlier made the sitcom Better Off Ted, created Santa Clarita Diet and ran the show?
Victor Fresco
Victor Fresco set out to make a family show with an approach nobody had seen before, and wrote the first and last episodes himself.
Q 26Which Australian actor, later Van in Yellowjackets, plays the Hammonds' daughter Abby in Santa Clarita Diet?
Liv Hewson
Liv Hewson, who was born in Canberra, plays a teenager who answers her mother's change by skipping school and turning eco-saboteur.
Q 27Which actor, later seen in Booksmart and The Righteous Gemstones, plays neighbor Eric Bemis in Santa Clarita Diet?
Skyler Gisondo
Skyler Gisondo paused his film-school studies to take the part of the nerdy teen who works out what Sheila has become.
Q 28Which actor, the voice of droid K-2SO in Rogue One, took over the role of Gary West in Santa Clarita Diet?
Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk played Gary for the third and final season, after a different actor had held the part for the first two.
Q 29Which bodily fluid is the final ingredient of the serum Dr. Cora Wolf brews for Sheila in Santa Clarita Diet?
Bile
Bile was the missing piece, and only a donor of one pure-blooded nationality would do, so Abby and Eric end up shopping for it online.
Q 30What name is given to the crawling creature that grows from the red lump Sheila expels in Santa Clarita Diet?
Mr. Ball-Legs
Mr. Ball-Legs begins as the lump each new undead person brings up, later sprouts limbs, and in the finale crawls inside Joel.