The Walking Dead Season 1
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50 free The Walking Dead Season 1 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The first season of The Walking Dead is short, tense and endlessly rewatchable. In a handful of episodes it takes Rick Grimes from a silent hospital ward to the streets of Atlanta, a camp of strangers and a locked laboratory with a clock ticking down. This quiz covers all of it: the pilot's most famous images, the Atlanta supply run that goes wrong, the feuds and losses at camp, and the answers the survivors find at the CDC. There are also questions on the actors, the source material and how the season was made. It is written for fans fresh from a rewatch as much as for those who remember only the big moments, so expect a mix of easy wins and details that reward close attention.
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Q 01The Walking Dead's pilot first aired in 2010 on which holiday?
Halloween
Halloween gave the series its debut, and 5.35 million people tuned in. No series premiere on its network had ever drawn a bigger audience.
Q 02After abandoning his patrol car on the road to Atlanta, what does Rick Grimes ride into the city in The Walking Dead?
A horse
A horse taken from a farm whose owners lie dead carries Rick into Atlanta. Walkers bring the animal down once he rides into their horde.
Q 03Swarmed by walkers on a downtown Atlanta street, Rick Grimes crawls to safety inside what in The Walking Dead pilot?
A tank
A tank abandoned in the street saves him: he squeezes underneath and finds a trapdoor in its belly. Moments later a stranger's voice crackles over its radio.
Q 04In the opening scene of The Walking Dead pilot, the little girl walker Rick Grimes shoots is holding what?
A teddy bear
A teddy bear hangs from the girl's hand as she turns to face him. Addy Miller, who played her, came back as a walker in the show's 100th episode.
Q 05Where have Shane, Lori and the other survivors pitched their camp outside Atlanta when The Walking Dead begins?
Beside a quarry
Beside a quarry, whose lake keeps the group supplied with fish. The farm and the prison only become homes in later seasons.
Q 06Which English actor, familiar to many from Love Actually, leads The Walking Dead as Rick Grimes?
Andrew Lincoln
Andrew Lincoln, born Andrew Clutterbuck in London, plays the Georgia lawman with a Southern drawl. His audition began with a single scene he taped himself.
Q 07Which actor joined The Walking Dead in its third episode as Daryl Dixon, a hunter invented for television?
Norman Reedus
Norman Reedus turned Daryl, who has no counterpart on the printed page, into one of the show's longest-running and most popular characters.
Q 08What tool does the handcuffed Merle Dixon use to free himself from an Atlanta rooftop in The Walking Dead?
A hacksaw
A hacksaw, and because its blade is too dull for steel cuffs, Merle cuts off his own hand instead. The rescue party finds only the hand.
Q 09In The Walking Dead's second episode, Rick and Glenn smear themselves with walker remains to hide what from the horde?
Their scent
Their scent is what marks them as alive, because walkers are used to the smell of death around them. The pair shuffle through the crowd draped in entrails.
Q 10What puts Rick Grimes into the coma he wakes from at the start of The Walking Dead?
A gunshot wound
A gunshot wound, suffered while he and Shane chase down criminals, puts him in hospital. He wakes to find the building ransacked and deserted.
Q 11What job gave Glenn Rhee his expert knowledge of Atlanta's streets before the outbreak in The Walking Dead?
Pizza delivery
Pizza delivery taught Glenn his way around the city, which is why the group trusts him with its most dangerous supply runs.
Q 12Which cable network, already known for Mad Men and Breaking Bad, launched The Walking Dead?
AMC
AMC ordered the pilot in January 2010, ending four years in which its developer had struggled to sell the project anywhere.
Q 13What is the name of Rick and Lori Grimes's young son, found safe at the survivors' camp in The Walking Dead?
Carl
Carl is played by Chandler Riggs, who was cast at the age of ten and stayed with the show until 2018.
Q 21Which young woman is bitten when walkers overrun the camp and dies in her older sister's arms in The Walking Dead?
Amy
Amy dies at the close of the fourth episode. Emma Bell, who played her, had known from the start that the character would last only a few episodes.
Q 22Which survivor digs holes at camp after a dream, then later asks to be left by the roadside in The Walking Dead?
Jim
Jim is bitten in the attack on the camp and, feeling himself begin to turn on the drive to the CDC, chooses to be left under a tree.
Q 23Which abusive camp member does Shane Walsh beat severely for striking Carol in The Walking Dead's third episode?
Ed Peletier
Ed Peletier becomes the outlet for Shane's fury just after Lori ends their affair, and the watching women plead with him to stop.
Q 14Which elderly survivor owns the RV that serves as the heart of the Atlanta camp in The Walking Dead?
Dale Horvath
Dale Horvath is the group's voice of conscience, never afraid to speak his mind, and advises first Shane and then Rick.
Q 15What signature weapon does the hunter and tracker Daryl Dixon carry throughout The Walking Dead?
A crossbow
A crossbow became as much Daryl's trademark as the motorcycle he takes over from his brother Merle when the group abandons Atlanta.
Q 16The Vatos gang's hideout in The Walking Dead's fourth episode turns out to be sheltering what kind of place?
A nursing home
A nursing home lies hidden behind the gang's base, and its tough-talking members turn out to be guarding their own families rather than preying on strangers.
Q 17Test Subject 19, whose recorded death Dr. Edwin Jenner replays in The Walking Dead, was which person in his life?
His wife
His wife volunteered to be recorded after she was bitten, hoping the footage would help find a cure. She had worked alongside him at the CDC.
Q 18Which actor, later Marvel's Punisher, plays Shane Walsh, Rick's best friend and fellow officer, in The Walking Dead?
Jon Bernthal
Jon Bernthal came across the pilot script during pilot season and liked it so much he told his agent he would gladly appear as an extra.
Q 19Frank Darabont, who developed The Walking Dead and directed its pilot, earlier directed which acclaimed prison drama?
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption began as a novella whose author granted Darabont the film rights on a handshake deal.
Q 20Which writer, creator of The Walking Dead comic book, scripted the fourth episode of the TV series himself?
Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman earned his first writing credit on the show with Vatos, and based its closing attack on the camp on a sequence from his own books.
Q 24Which survivor accidentally drops the handcuff key down a drain, stranding Merle Dixon on a rooftop in The Walking Dead?
T-Dog
T-Dog cannot retrieve the key, so before fleeing he chains the roof door shut to give Merle some protection from the walkers inside.
Q 25Glenn Rhee lures walkers away from the store with the blaring alarm of which muscle car in The Walking Dead?
Dodge Challenger
A Dodge Challenger carries Glenn out of Atlanta on his own, while the rest of the group escapes in a box truck.
Q 26What sudden event ruins Rick and Glenn's gory disguise as they walk among the horde in The Walking Dead?
A rainstorm
A rainstorm rinses the gore from their clothes mid-walk, and the pair have to drop the act and sprint for the truck.
Q 27What do the Vatos demand from Rick Grimes in exchange for the kidnapped Glenn in The Walking Dead?
His bag of guns
His bag of guns is the same one Rick dropped in the street when the horde closed in, and fetching it was one reason he went back to the city.
Q 28Which British actor plays Morgan Jones, the first fellow survivor Rick Grimes meets in The Walking Dead pilot?
Lennie James
Lennie James later carried Morgan over into the spin-off Fear the Walking Dead, playing the character until 2023.
Q 29Which actor, later Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy, plays the racist troublemaker Merle Dixon in The Walking Dead?
Michael Rooker
Michael Rooker liked to ad-lib, and his improvised swearing pushed the show past its cursing limit more than once.
Q 30What does Dr. Edwin Jenner do to Rick Grimes just before the survivors flee the CDC in The Walking Dead?
Whispers a secret
Jenner whispers a secret in Rick's ear that viewers did not get to hear. Rick only tells the group what was said in the second-season finale.