120 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
It was the first series HBO acquired from an outside studio rather than making in-house.
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
A season 2 episode is titled "Ten Thirteen", the day before.
Q 04Roughly how many people departed?
140 million
Enough to hollow out mainstream religion and spawn new cults.
Q 05Who plays police chief Kevin Garvey?
Justin Theroux
Theroux had co-written Tropic Thunder and Iron Man 2 before taking the part.
Q 06Who plays Nora Durst?
Carrie Coon
It was her television breakthrough; she made her film debut for David Fincher the same year.
Q 07Who plays Reverend Matt Jamison?
Christopher Eccleston
The Salford-born actor was the ninth Doctor Who.
Q 08How is Matt related to Nora?
He is her brother
Jill and Aimee only find this out by following Nora around town.
Q 09Whom 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 10Which 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 11Which member of Kevin's family joins the white-clad cult?
His wife Laurie
She hands him divorce papers without saying a word.
Q 12Who plays Laurie?
Amy Brenneman
She had co-created and starred in Judging Amy.
Q 13Who leads the cult's chapter in Kevin's town?
Patti Levin
Ann Dowd plays her, and keeps playing her after the character dies.
Q 14Whom does Kevin's son Tommy follow at the start of the series?
Q 21What is the national park around the Texas town called?
Miracle
Wristbands control who gets in; a camp of the excluded grows outside.
Q 22Which family become the Garveys' neighbours in Texas?
The Murphys
John is a firefighter, Erika a doctor, and their twins are Michael and Evie.
Q 23Who plays Erika Murphy?
Regina King
King later won an Oscar for If Beale Street Could Talk.
Q 24What is John Murphy's job in Texas?
Holy Wayne
Wayne claims to hug people's pain away.
Q 15What does Wayne believe himself to be?
The Second Coming of Jesus
He also believes he needs teenage girls to "recharge" his powers.
Q 16Who plays Meg Abbott, the woman seduced by the cult?
Liv Tyler
Meg ends up leading the cult's violent radical wing.
Q 17Who plays Jill Garvey?
Margaret Qualley
The daughter of a famous actress, she trained as a ballet dancer.
Q 18In which fictional New York town is season 1 set?
Mapleton
The cult's houses are burned by its townspeople in the season 1 finale.
Q 19Season 2 moves to which fictional Texas town?
Jarden
Nearby Lockhart's main street stood in for it during filming.
Q 20What makes the Texas town special?
Nobody there departed
It becomes a national park and a pilgrimage site.
Head of the volunteer fire department
He also acts as a vigilante against people exploiting the town's fame.
Q 25Whom does John Murphy marry by season 3?
Laurie Garvey
Together they run a fraudulent medium act.
Q 26What happens to Evie Murphy and two friends in the season 2 premiere?
They vanish, and the lake drains
They faked their departure and joined the cult.
Q 27Where does Kevin wake up the night the girls disappear?
At the bottom of the drained lake, tied to a cinder block
He had tried to drown himself on his guide's advice, and the earthquake drained the lake.
Q 28Whose ghost haunts Kevin through season 2?
Patti's
His guide calls her Kevin's "adversary".
Q 29How does Patti die?
She slits her own throat
Kevin had refused to kill her; Matt helps him bury the body.
Q 30Near which New York town does Kevin wake up having kidnapped Patti?
Cairo
The episode is named after it.