The Vampire Diaries
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Q 01Who turned Damon and Stefan Salvatore into vampires?
Katherine Pierce
Katherine Pierce turned both Salvatore brothers in 1864 by feeding them her blood, leading to their transition after they were shot by their father.
Q 02What do vampires in The Vampire Diaries 'switch off' to stop feeling guilt, grief and love?
Their humanity
Their humanity is a switch Caroline flips after her mother's death in season six, and she then forces Stefan to turn his off too.
Q 03On which network did The Vampire Diaries premiere in September 2009?
The CW
The CW premiered The Vampire Diaries on September 10, 2009, and carried it through its March 2017 finale; the network later added the spin-offs The Originals and Legacies.
Q 04When The Vampire Diaries begins, Stefan Salvatore resists human blood by feeding on what instead?
Animal blood
Animal blood is how he keeps an addiction to human blood in check, at the price of being weaker than vampires who feed on people.
Q 05In season two of The Vampire Diaries, which stone does Klaus need to break his curse?
A moonstone
A moonstone bound the curse; Katherine took it with her when she fled Klaus in 1492 and spent the next 500 years on the run from him.
Q 06What ability does Jeremy Gilbert gain after Bonnie brings him back from the dead?
Seeing ghosts
Seeing ghosts costs him his romance with Bonnie: once he can touch the ghost of his dead girlfriend Anna, Bonnie finds out and ends it.
Q 07Which relative teaches Bonnie Bennett to use her powers in season one?
Her grandmother
Her grandmother Sheila, known as Grams, dies that same season from the strain of a spell, leaving Bonnie to keep training alone.
Q 08In which Georgia town was most of The Vampire Diaries filmed?
Covington
Covington, Georgia, became Mystic Falls after a pilot shot elsewhere: the producers moved the show there to take advantage of local tax incentives.
Q 09What was Alaric Saltzman's day job when he arrived in Mystic Falls?
History teacher
History teacher: Alaric Saltzman joined Mystic Falls High as the new history teacher in season one, secretly hunting the vampire he believed had killed his wife Isobel.
Q 10Who is the main antagonist of The Vampire Diaries' first season, in town to free the woman he loves from a tomb?
Damon Salvatore
Damon Salvatore, Stefan's older brother, is season one's villain; only later does he soften into one of the show's leads.
Q 11The Vampire Diaries was based on a book series by which author?
L. J. Smith
L. J. Smith wrote the first novels as work for hire, so the book packager Alloy owned the series and later handed it to a ghostwriter.
Q 12Before The Vampire Diaries, Kevin Williamson created which teen drama?
Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek made his name in teen TV, yet a decade later he had little interest in a vampire show until his producing partner urged him to read the novels.
Q 13How old is the vampire Stefan Salvatore when Elena first falls for him, believing he is a normal human?
162
162: the season-one episode '162 Candles' has Lexi visiting for Stefan's 162nd birthday; he was turned in 1864, the year of the founders' vampire purge.
Q 21Where was the pilot episode of The Vampire Diaries filmed, before production moved to Georgia?
Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia, hosted only the pilot shoot; the producers then moved the show to Georgia to take advantage of local tax incentives.
Q 22Kevin Williamson at first found the premise of The Vampire Diaries too similar to which vampire franchise?
Twilight
Twilight put him off at first; reading the novels changed his mind once he saw a story about a small town and what lies beneath it.
Q 23Nina Dobrev was born in which European capital before her family moved to Canada?
Sofia
Sofia was home for only two years before the family moved to Toronto, yet Bulgarian is still the language she speaks with her mother.
Q 14In The Vampire Diaries, what is the surname of Matt, whose family sits outside the town's founding families?
Donovan
Donovan is his mother's name; season eight reveals that his absent father's ancestors, the Maxwells, lived in Mystic Falls before the town was even founded.
Q 15In The Vampire Diaries, Elena becomes a vampire after which season's finale?
Third
Third: in the season-three finale 'The Departed', Elena drowns off Wickery Bridge with Dr. Meredith Fell's vampire-blood treatment in her system and wakes in transition.
Q 16In The Vampire Diaries, Paul Wesley also played Silas, who is described as what?
The world's first immortal being
The world's first immortal being drank an elixir meant for his wedding to the witch Qetsiyah, who took revenge by leaving him to desiccate in a tomb for 2,000 years.
Q 17Which character was the progenitor of the Petrova doppelgängers and Silas's true love?
Amara
Amara paid for the affair: the jealous witch Qetsiyah faked her death and made her the anchor to the afterlife, where she suffered for 2,000 years.
Q 18Bonnie and Damon become best friends after being trapped together for four months in what?
A prison world
A prison world replays a single day in 1994 on a loop, built by the Gemini coven to cage Kai Parker; Damon gets home first, leaving Bonnie stranded there.
Q 19In The Vampire Diaries, which character was the first successful hybrid created by Klaus?
Tyler Lockwood
Tyler Lockwood became Klaus's first successful hybrid in season three, surviving transition only because Klaus fed him blood from the living doppelgänger Elena.
Q 20Alaric's fiancée Jo is murdered at their wedding by which relative?
Her brother Malachai
Her brother Malachai, known as Kai, stabs his twin at the altar one episode before the season-six finale; her unborn twins survive by a magical transfer into Caroline.
Q 24Before playing Damon, Ian Somerhalder was known as Boone Carlyle on which ABC series?
Lost
Lost killed Boone off in its first season, the first death of a major character on the show, yet Somerhalder kept returning to the role in later seasons.
Q 25Whom does Paul Wesley play in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
James T. Kirk
James T. Kirk was announced as a role for the show's second season, but Wesley turned up early, in the season-one finale.
Q 26In the Vampire Diaries novels, what is the name of the Virginia town that the TV show renamed?
Fell's Church
Fell's Church is the books' Virginia town; the show renamed it Mystic Falls but kept the Fell family name among the town's founders.
Q 27What is the title of the first Vampire Diaries novel?
The Awakening
The Awakening began as a commission: a book packager's editor asked the author for the vampire series in 1990, and the first three novels all appeared the following year.
Q 28The spin-off The Originals follows Klaus and his siblings to which city?
New Orleans
New Orleans is a city the family had built up themselves and fled in 1919; they return to find Klaus's former protégé Marcel ruling it.
Q 29In The Originals, which woman is the mother of Klaus's daughter?
Hayley Marshall
Hayley Marshall is pregnant after a one-night stand with Klaus, and a coven of witches uses the unborn child to force him into their fight.
Q 30In season five of The Vampire Diaries, Elena and Caroline start at which college?
Whitmore
Whitmore promises them a normal student life, but their roommate is soon murdered and a campus society called Augustine turns out to be caging vampires.