The Man in the High Castle
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50 free The Man in the High Castle trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
What if the Second World War had ended the other way? The Man in the High Castle builds a whole 1962 out of that question: a former United States split between two rival empires, a strip of lawless land between them, and a handful of forbidden films showing a history nobody is supposed to remember. This quiz covers the series from the pilot to the finale: Juliana Crain, John Smith, Frank Frink, Joe Blake, Tagomi and Chief Inspector Kido, the historical figures who turn up along the way, the travellers who slip between worlds, and how the major stories end. It also goes behind the camera, to the cast, the filming locations, the honours it won and the novel the show grew from. The opening questions suit anyone who has watched a season or two, season 1 included. The later ones are for fans who followed every twist to the end.
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Q 01Which company's streaming service ordered The Man in the High Castle after its pilot became its most-watched ever?
Amazon
Amazon released the pilot in January 2015 and let the audience response decide its fate. A full ten-episode season was ordered the following month.
Q 02Which author, whose stories also became Blade Runner and Total Recall, wrote the novel The Man in the High Castle?
Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick published the novel in 1962. He planned a sequel but said he could not face going back to read about Nazis again.
Q 03In The Man in the High Castle, which American city did the Nazis destroy with an atomic bomb?
Washington
Washington was bombed in late 1945, and its ruins were renamed the District of Contamination. The American government surrendered soon afterwards.
Q 04Which martial art does Juliana Crain practise, and later teach in another world, in The Man in the High Castle?
Aikido
Aikido is Juliana's discipline on screen, where she is on friendly terms with San Francisco's Japanese residents. In the original novel she works as a judo instructor instead.
Q 05Which famous film director was an executive producer of The Man in the High Castle through his own production company?
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott produced it through his company Scott Free. Decades earlier he had filmed another novel by the same author as Blade Runner.
Q 06Which show tune plays over the opening titles of The Man in the High Castle, sung by Jeanette Olsson?
Edelweiss
Edelweiss comes from The Sound of Music, where Captain von Trapp sings it as a farewell to the Austria he loves. It was the last song Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote together.
Q 07Which British actor plays John Smith, the American-born SS officer, in The Man in the High Castle?
Rufus Sewell
Rufus Sewell earned a Critics' Choice nomination for the part. He was already known for playing villains in A Knight's Tale and The Illusionist.
Q 08Which mountain range forms the Neutral Zone between Nazi and Japanese territory in The Man in the High Castle?
Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains territory is left as a lawless buffer with no real government. Resistance groups shelter there while both empires send in spies.
Q 09Which ancient Chinese text did the author of the novel The Man in the High Castle use to plot the story?
I Ching
I Ching readings shaped the plot. The characters consult the same book of divination before making their own big decisions.
Q 10In The Man in the High Castle, which president-elect's assassination changes history and lets the Axis win the war?
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt is killed by Giuseppe Zangara in the show's backstory. The real Zangara fired at him in Miami in 1933 and missed.
Q 11What is the name of the film collector known as the Man in the High Castle, played by Stephen Root?
Hawthorne Abendsen
Hawthorne Abendsen first appears in season two, surrounded by a vast archive of film reels. His real name is later revealed to be Abe Hawkes.
Q 12In The Man in the High Castle, which half-sister of Juliana Crain is shot moments after handing over a film?
Trudy Walker
Trudy Walker dies in the pilot, yet a living Trudy turns up at the end of season two. She comes from a world where Juliana was the one killed.
Q 13What is the name of the Japanese military police led by Chief Inspector Kido in The Man in the High Castle?
Kempeitai
Q 21In The Man in the High Castle, which real lawman runs the American Reich Bureau of Investigation?
J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover, played by William Forsythe, digs up secrets about the Smith family. The real man led the FBI from its founding until his death in 1972.
Q 22Which real Nazi figure heads Project Nebenwelt, the research into travel between worlds, in The Man in the High Castle?
Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele runs the experiments inside a coal mine, sending captives into the anomaly. The real Mengele was a doctor at Auschwitz.
Q 23In The Man in the High Castle, Joe Blake learns in Berlin that he is a product of which real Nazi programme?
Lebensborn
Kempeitai officers were real: the force policed the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 until it was disbanded after Japan's surrender in 1945.
Q 14In The Man in the High Castle, which inherited condition marks Thomas Smith for death under Nazi health laws?
Muscular dystrophy
Muscular dystrophy runs in his father's side of the family. Thomas, a devoted member of the Hitler Youth, finally turns himself in to be euthanised.
Q 15Before joining the Reich, John Smith of The Man in the High Castle served in which branch of the US military?
Army Signal Corps
Army Signal Corps service is something he shares with the Man in the High Castle himself. The two men fought on the same side before the surrender.
Q 16At the start of The Man in the High Castle, Frank Frink works in a factory making replicas of what?
American pistols
American pistols from before the war are what the factory copies. In his own time Frank makes original jewellery and sketches.
Q 17Which San Francisco antique dealer in The Man in the High Castle sells Americana to wealthy Japanese collectors?
Robert Childan
Robert Childan craves the respect of his Japanese clients. In the final season the Crown Princess calls him a man of culture, fulfilling his life's dream.
Q 18In The Man in the High Castle, which friend of Frank Frink is blamed for shooting the Crown Prince?
Ed McCarthy
Ed McCarthy is caught with Frank's gun and made the scapegoat. The real sniper was a Nazi agent hoping to provoke a war between the two empires.
Q 19Which real Nazi official plots to have Hitler assassinated in season one of The Man in the High Castle?
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich is arrested by John Smith and later shot on Smith's orders. The real Heydrich died in 1942 after an ambush on his car in Prague.
Q 20Which real Nazi leader takes control of the Reich at the end of season two of The Man in the High Castle?
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler arrests the new chancellor as a traitor and addresses the world from the Volkshalle. In reality he died in British custody in May 1945.
Lebensborn was founded in 1935 to raise birth rates among those the SS judged racially pure. Joe hears the news from his father, a powerful Reichsminister.
Q 24In which San Francisco landmark does Tagomi meditate before waking in another world in The Man in the High Castle?
Union Square
Union Square is where he closes his eyes, holding a charm that belonged to Juliana. He opens them in a 1962 where the Allies won the war.
Q 25Which real Cold War emergency grips the alternate America that Tagomi first visits in The Man in the High Castle?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis tension fills the America he finds, one that won the Second World War. On a later visit he meets his wife, who has died in his own world.
Q 26Which actress, Andromeda in the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, plays Juliana Crain in The Man in the High Castle?
Alexa Davalos
Alexa Davalos broke through in The Chronicles of Riddick and starred opposite Daniel Craig in the war film Defiance before leading the series.
Q 27In which Canadian city was most of The Man in the High Castle filmed after its pilot episode?
Vancouver
Vancouver hosted the series, with scenes shot downtown on West Georgia Street and at the University of British Columbia. The pilot had been filmed elsewhere.
Q 28Which American city stood in for San Francisco when the pilot of The Man in the High Castle was filmed?
Seattle
Seattle supplied its monorail, the Paramount Theatre and the Pike Place Market area. A former coal town to the east played the Neutral Zone.
Q 29The Man in the High Castle won two Emmys in 2016: one for cinematography and one for which other craft?
Main title design
Main title design went to a team including Patrick Clair. The series was also nominated that year for its visual effects and production design, without winning.
Q 30Adverts for The Man in the High Castle drew complaints in 2015 after covering what in Nazi imagery?
A New York subway car
A New York subway car was wrapped in Reich eagles and Imperial Japanese flags. The transit authority pulled the campaign after the state governor objected.