The Originals Trivia
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128 free The Originals trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
78 free the Original trivia questions with answers. Always and forever. This quiz is for people who followed the Mikaelsons from Mystic Falls to the French Quarter and stayed for all five seasons. Seventy-eight questions cover Klaus the Original hybrid, Elijah's suits and promises, Rebekah, Kol, Finn and Freya, Mikael and Esther, Hayley and baby Hope, Marcel's rule over New Orleans, Davina and the Harvest, Cami, Vincent, Dahlia, the Strix, the Hollow, and the finale where two brothers stake each other on a park bench. Easy questions ask which show it spun off from and who plays Klaus; the hard ones want Hayley's birth name, the Georgia town where it was filmed, the composer, and who directed the pilot. There is a stretch on the actors too, from H2O: Just Add Water to Legacies. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its seasons, characters and cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01The Originals is a spin-off of which series?
The Vampire Diaries
The Originals spun off from The Vampire Diaries, whose fourth-season episode 'The Originals' served as a backdoor pilot following Klaus Mikaelson away from Mystic Falls.
Q 02In which American city is The Originals set?
New Orleans
The Originals is set in New Orleans, where the Mikaelsons helped build the French Quarter centuries earlier and where Klaus returns to reclaim control of the city.
Q 03On which network did The Originals air?
The CW
The Originals aired on The CW, which moved its premiere up to early October 2013 so the new show could follow the parent series' fifth-season opener.
Q 04Who plays Klaus Mikaelson?
Joseph Morgan
Morgan later reprised Klaus in the final season of Legacies.
Q 05How many seasons of The Originals were made?
5
The Originals ran for 5 seasons, from 2013 to 2018; its creator announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2017 that the fifth would be the last.
Q 06How many episodes of The Originals aired in total?
92
The Originals aired 92 episodes in all, running from its October 2013 premiere to its series finale on August 1, 2018.
Q 07Who created The Originals?
Julie Plec
Unlike The Vampire Diaries, this spin-off was overseen by Plec alone with no involvement from Kevin Williamson.
Q 08What is the name of Klaus and Hayley's daughter?
Hope
Klaus and Hayley's daughter is Hope, born at the end of season 1 and handed to Rebekah to hide after her death was faked.
Q 09What kind of supernatural being is Klaus?
A vampire-werewolf hybrid
Klaus is a vampire-werewolf hybrid: Esther conceived him in an affair with a werewolf, so when she turned her children into vampires his wolf side awoke with his first kill.
Q 10The Mikaelson family are known as 'the Originals' for what reason?
They were the first vampires ever to exist
They were the first vampires ever to exist: about a thousand years ago their mother Esther cast the immortality spell that turned her children, and every vampire since descends from their sire lines.
Q 11Who is Klaus's former protégé and adoptive son who rules the French Quarter when the Mikaelsons return?
Marcel Gerard
Marcel Gerard, the boy Klaus rescued and raised before turning him, declared himself king of the French Quarter after the Mikaelsons fled Mikael's attack on the city.
Q 12What is the title of the first episode of The Originals season 1?
Always and Forever
'Always and Forever', named for the Mikaelson siblings' vow, is the season 1 premiere; it retells the backdoor pilot's events from Elijah's point of view as he tracks Klaus to the city.
Q 13On what date did the backdoor pilot for The Originals air as an episode of the parent series?
April 25, 2013
Q 21Which actress plays the teenage Hope Mikaelson in season 5?
Danielle Rose Russell
Danielle Rose Russell took over as the teenage Hope in season 5 and went on to lead the Salvatore School spin-off for four seasons.
Q 22Who plays young Hope in season 4?
Summer Fontana
Summer Fontana played the school-age Hope for all of season 4, after the infant Hope of seasons 1-3 had been played by uncredited babies.
Q 23Which witch is possessed by Finn Mikaelson in season 2?
Vincent Griffith
Vincent Griffith, a witch played by Yusuf Gatewood, is possessed by Finn for much of season 2, until Finn is expelled and Vincent regains his body.
The backdoor pilot aired on April 25, 2013 as the parent series' fourth-season episode 'The Originals', revealing that Hayley was pregnant with Klaus's child.
Q 14Who is Elijah Mikaelson's actor?
Daniel Gillies
Gillies was simultaneously under contract for the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope and kept doing both shows.
Q 15Which actress plays Rebekah Mikaelson?
Claire Holt
Holt left the main cast in season 1 but returned as a special guest star through the finale.
Q 16Phoebe Tonkin plays which character?
Hayley Marshall
Phoebe Tonkin plays Hayley Marshall, who is pregnant with Klaus's child when the series begins; Tonkin introduced the character on the parent series in 2012.
Q 17Before she became a hybrid, what species was Hayley at the start of the show?
Werewolf
Hayley was a werewolf of the Crescent pack; she became a hybrid in the season 1 finale after dying with her newborn daughter's blood in her system.
Q 18What is the name of Leah Pipes's bartender character who becomes involved with Klaus?
Camille O'Connell
Camille O'Connell, the Rousseau's bartender and psychology student, inherited her uncle Father Kieran's cache of dark objects and became Klaus's confidante.
Q 19The young Harvest witch played by Danielle Campbell is how old at the start of the series?
16
Danielle Campbell's Harvest witch is 16 when the series begins, hidden in the attic of St. Anne's church after escaping the Harvest ritual's sacrifice.
Q 20Riley Voelkel plays which long-lost Mikaelson sibling?
Freya
Riley Voelkel plays Freya, the eldest Mikaelson, taken by Esther's sister as a child; the role recurred in season 2 before she became a regular in season 3.
Q 24Kol Mikaelson spends season 2 in the body of which young witch?
Kaleb Westphall
Kol spends season 2 in the body of Kaleb Westphall, a young witch played by Daniel Sharman, after Esther brings her sons back in borrowed bodies.
Q 25Who is the Mikaelson siblings' aunt, the season 2 villain who claims the firstborn of every generation?
Dahlia
Dahlia, played by Claudia Black, is Esther's elder sister and a witch of immense power who held the eldest Mikaelson child captive for a thousand years.
Q 26Who is Lucien Castle, the season 3 arrival?
The first vampire sired by Klaus
Lucien Castle was the first vampire sired by Klaus, turned in 1002 while the family hid in a French castle where he was a servant; he brings the prophecy of a fall by friend, foe and family.
Q 27Which season 3 character was Klaus's first love and the first vampire sired by Rebekah?
Aurora de Martel
Aurora's brother Tristan was Elijah's first sired vampire, and the two work with Lucien against the family.
Q 28What is The Strix in The Originals?
An ancient secret society of vampires
The Strix is an ancient secret society of vampires founded by Elijah a millennium ago; in season 3 its leader Tristan and lieutenant Aya recruit Marcel into its ranks.
Q 29Which parent-show character comes to the French Quarter in season 3, fleeing the hunter Rayna Cruz?
Stefan Salvatore
Stefan Salvatore crossed over in the season 3 episode 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (2016), hunted by Rayna Cruz, whose Phoenix Sword had marked him.
Q 30Which Mikaelson brother dies in season 3 after Lucien bites him?
Finn
Finn is bitten by Lucien, whose upgraded venom can kill an Original, and dies in the season 3 episode 'Behind the Black Horizon' despite his siblings' efforts.