The Leftovers Trivia
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112 free The Leftovers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This The Leftovers trivia quiz covers all 28 episodes of Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta's HBO series, from the Sudden Departure of October 14, 2011 to Nora's story on a porch in rural Australia. The easy questions are ones any viewer can handle: what percentage of the world vanished, who plays Kevin and Nora, which cult wears white and chain-smokes, and where the second season moves. The harder end is for people who still argue about whether Nora was telling the truth. It asks about Matt's roulette bet, the baby Jesus, Gladys, Cairo, Patti's death, the Garveys at their best, Holy Wayne's hugs, Jarden and the drained lake, Virgil, the hotel with four outfits and the Epictetus quote, the well, the karaoke, the Guilty Remnant's bridge, Kevin Sr.'s chants and the flood that never came, Mark Linn-Baker, Frasier the Sensuous Lion, David Burton, the LADR machine and the Great Disappointment of 1844. There are also questions on the making of the show: Perrotta's novel, Lindelof after Lost, Peter Berg's pilot, Mimi Leder's finale, Max Richter's score, Iris DeMent's theme, and the cast's other work from Doctor Who to The Handmaid's Tale. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the series, its episode list, individual episodes, the novel and the cast before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, try our Lost and HBO dramas quizzes next.
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Q 01On which network did The Leftovers air?
HBO
HBO aired The Leftovers for three seasons, from June 2014 to June 2017; the series was produced for the network by Warner Bros. Television.
Q 02What percentage of the world's population vanishes in the Sudden Departure?
2%
Around one in fifty people disappear at once.
Q 03On what date did the Sudden Departure happen?
October 14, 2011
The Sudden Departure happened on October 14, 2011; the show's anniversaries fall on that date, and a season 2 episode is titled 'Ten Thirteen' after the day before.
Q 04Who plays police chief Kevin Garvey?
Justin Theroux
Theroux had co-written Tropic Thunder and Iron Man 2 before taking the part.
Q 05Who plays Nora Durst?
Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon plays Nora Durst, her first major television role; she came from Chicago's Steppenwolf stage and earned a 2013 Tony nomination for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Q 06Who plays Reverend Matt Jamison?
Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston plays the Reverend Matt Jamison; the Salford-born English actor was earlier known for Shallow Grave and 28 Days Later.
Q 07How is Matt related to Nora?
He is her brother
Jill and Aimee only find this out by following Nora around town.
Q 08Whom did Nora lose in the Departure?
Her husband, son and daughter
Her whole family vanished from the breakfast table while she was in the kitchen.
Q 09Which cult wears white and chain-smokes in silence?
The Guilty Remnant
Its members take a vow of silence and stalk the townspeople as living reminders.
Q 10Who plays Laurie?
Amy Brenneman
Amy Brenneman plays Laurie Garvey; she had earlier co-created and starred in the CBS drama Judging Amy, inspired by her own mother, a Connecticut judge.
Q 11Who leads the cult's chapter in Kevin's town?
Patti Levin
Ann Dowd plays her, and keeps playing her after the character dies.
Q 12Whom does Kevin's son Tommy follow at the start of the series?
Holy Wayne
Wayne claims to hug people's pain away.
Q 13Who plays Meg Abbott, the woman seduced by the cult?
Liv Tyler
Meg ends up leading the cult's violent radical wing.
Q 14Who plays Jill Garvey?
Q 21Whom does John Murphy marry by season 3?
Laurie Garvey
Together they run a fraudulent medium act.
Q 22What happens to Evie Murphy and two friends in the season 2 premiere?
They vanish, and the lake drains
Evie Murphy and two friends vanish from their car by the lake the night of an earthquake, and the lake drains; they had staged a departure to join the Guilty Remnant.
Q 23Whose ghost haunts Kevin through season 2?
Patti's
His guide calls her Kevin's "adversary".
How does Patti die?
Margaret Qualley
Margaret Qualley plays Jill Garvey, her first major screen role; she had trained as a ballet dancer before switching to acting.
Q 15In which fictional New York town is season 1 set?
Mapleton
Season 1 is set in Mapleton, New York, a suburban town whose residents burn the Guilty Remnant's houses in the season 1 finale.
Q 16Season 2 moves to which fictional Texas town?
Jarden
Season 2 moves to Jarden, Texas, a small town near Austin that draws pilgrims; the real Lockhart, Texas stood in for its main street during filming.
Q 17What makes the Texas town special?
Nobody there departed
It becomes a national park and a pilgrimage site.
Q 18What is the national park around the Texas town called?
Miracle
Wristbands control who gets in; a camp of the excluded grows outside.
Q 19Which family become the Garveys' neighbours in Texas?
The Murphys
John is a firefighter, Erika a doctor, and their twins are Michael and Evie.
Q 20Who plays Erika Murphy?
Regina King
King later won an Oscar for If Beale Street Could Talk.
She slits her own throat
Kevin had refused to kill her; Matt helps him bury the body.
Q 25Near which New York town does Kevin wake up having kidnapped Patti?
Cairo
Kevin wakes in a cabin near Cairo, New York, with Patti bound and gagged; the season 1 episode is titled 'Cairo' after the town.
Q 26What does Kevin do in his sleep that alarms him in season 1?
Sleepwalks and disappears for hours
He wakes in his car near Cairo with no memory of the drive.
Q 27Who guides Kevin into the afterworld in season 2?
Virgil
Virgil, played by Steven Williams, guides Kevin into the afterworld by giving him poison; he then shoots himself rather than administer the antidote.
Q 28What form does the afterworld take when Kevin first visits it?
A hotel
The scenes were shot in a real Austin hotel.
Q 29What role does Kevin take on in the hotel afterworld?
An international assassin
Kevin becomes an international assassin by choosing the suit from four outfits in the hotel wardrobe; the season 2 episode is titled 'International Assassin' after the role.
Q 30Whose quote greets Kevin on the hotel wardrobe?
Epictetus's
The card on the wardrobe quotes Epictetus: 'Know first who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.' The Stoic philosopher was born a slave in the first century.