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This True Blood trivia quiz covers all seven seasons of HBO's Louisiana vampire drama in 49 free questions with answers: Sookie Stackhouse and the telepathy that made her a target, Bill Compton and Eric Northman, Merlotte's and Fangtasia, the synthetic blood that let vampires come out of the coffin, and the villains of each year from Rene and Maryann to Russell Edgington, the Authority and Hep-V. There are questions on the cast (Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgård, Nelsan Ellis), on Alan Ball and how he found Charlaine Harris's novels, on the title sequence and Jace Everett's "Bad Things", the ratings, the awards, the divisive finale and the reboot that never happened. It starts with questions any viewer will get and builds to ones for people who have watched Bon Temps burn twice. It suits a rewatch party or a solo test of how much you remember. Every answer has been checked against a reference source, and each question shows its explanation and citation once you have answered. Play the full set for a shareable score.
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Q 01In which fictional Louisiana town is True Blood set?
Bon Temps
Bon Temps, French for "good times," is the fictional town in Renard Parish, Louisiana, where waitress Sookie Stackhouse lives with her grandmother Adele.
Q 02What supernatural ability does waitress Sookie Stackhouse have?
Telepathy
Sookie's telepathy lets her hear human thoughts, which is why she is drawn to vampire Bill Compton, whose mind she cannot read.
Q 03On which network did True Blood air from 2008 to 2014?
HBO
HBO aired True Blood for seven seasons, from the premiere on September 7, 2008 to the series finale on August 24, 2014.
Q 04True Blood is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a 13-book series by which author?
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris's books ran from Dead Until Dark in 2001 to Dead Ever After in 2013 and were later rebranded as the True Blood novels.
Q 05Which writer created True Blood after finding the first novel in a bookshop?
Alan Ball
Alan Ball, early for a dentist appointment, picked up Dead Until Dark at a Barnes & Noble and developed Harris's series into True Blood for HBO.
Q 06The show's creator had earlier won an Oscar for writing which film?
American Beauty
Alan Ball won Best Original Screenplay for American Beauty at the 72nd Academy Awards in March 2000, where the film also took Best Picture.
Q 07In the show's backstory, scientists from which country developed the synthetic blood Tru Blood?
Japan
Japanese scientists developed Tru Blood in the show's backstory, and the Japanese Yakonomo Corporation manufactures the bottled drink that let vampires reveal themselves to humans.
Q 08In True Blood, what is vampire blood called when humans take it as a narcotic?
V
V is the street name; Jason's addiction to it in season one leads him to Amy Burley, who ends up murdered like the rest.
Q 09What is the name of the bar where Sookie waits tables?
Merlotte's Bar and Grill
Merlotte's Bar and Grill belongs to Sam Merlotte, a shapeshifter who keeps an eye on Sookie in the form of a dog.
Q 10How old does vampire Bill Compton say he is in True Blood's pilot?
173
Bill tells Sookie he is 173, born in 1835 and turned by his maker Lorena in 1865 as he traveled home from the Civil War.
Q 11Eric Northman is the vampire sheriff of which numbered district?
Area 5
Eric Northman is vampire sheriff of Area 5, the Louisiana district covering Shreveport and Bon Temps, answering to Queen Sophie-Anne Leclerq.
Q 12What is the name of the vampire bar Eric owns?
Fangtasia
Fangtasia is Eric's neon-lit vampire bar in Shreveport, where Sookie first meets him in season one while looking into the Bon Temps murders.
Q 13Who plays Sookie Stackhouse?
Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse; the Canadian-born, New Zealand-raised actress had won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at age 11 for 1993's The Piano.
Q 21The season-two villain Maryann Forrester is what kind of creature?
A maenad
Maryann Forrester, played by Michelle Forbes, is a maenad, an immortal follower of Dionysus who drives Bon Temps into black-eyed bacchanals hoping to summon her god.
Q 22Godric, the 2,000-year-old vampire whose disappearance drives season two, is sheriff of which district?
Area 9 in Texas
Godric is sheriff of Area 9 in Texas, based in Dallas, where Sookie and Bill search for him amid the anti-vampire Fellowship of the Sun church.
Q 23Which supernatural species does Joe Manganiello's Alcide Herveaux introduce to True Blood's mythology in season three?
Werewolves
Q 14Anna Paquin, True Blood's Sookie, married which co-star in Malibu in August 2010?
Stephen Moyer
Stephen Moyer, who plays Bill, wed her on August 21, 2010; the couple had twins in 2012.
Q 15The actor who plays Eric Northman is the son of which Swedish screen veteran?
Stellan Skarsgård
Alexander Skarsgård, who plays Eric, is the eldest son of Stellan Skarsgård, the Swedish actor known for Breaking the Waves and Good Will Hunting.
Q 16Which actor played the short-order cook and medium Lafayette Reynolds?
Nelsan Ellis
Nelsan Ellis, a Juilliard graduate, played Lafayette; the character is killed off in Harris's second novel but was kept alive on screen for all seven seasons.
Q 17Rutina Wesley replaced which actress as Tara after the original pilot?
Brook Kerr
Brook Kerr played Tara in the unaired original pilot; when HBO ordered the series the role was recast with Rutina Wesley and Tara's scenes were reshot.
Q 18Which song plays over True Blood's opening titles?
"Bad Things" by Jace Everett
Jace Everett's 2005 single "Bad Things" plays over the opening titles, a Southern Gothic montage that earned a 2009 Emmy nomination for main title design.
Q 19The season-one killer, Rene Lenier, turns out to really be a man named what?
Drew Marshall
Rene Lenier was really Drew Marshall, who had murdered his own sister Cindy, faked a Cajun accent, got engaged to Arlene and killed women who slept with vampires.
Q 20For killing a vampire, Bill must turn which 17-year-old into a vampire in season one?
Jessica Hamby
Bill is sentenced by the Magister to turn 17-year-old Jessica Hamby after he staked the vampire Longshadow at Fangtasia to protect Sookie.
Werewolves arrive with Alcide, who is hired by Eric to help Sookie find the kidnapped Bill.
Q 24Russell Edgington, played by Denis O'Hare, holds what title?
Vampire King of Mississippi
Russell Edgington is the Vampire King of Mississippi, a roughly 3,000-year-old vampire who tore out a news anchor's spine on live television in season three.
Q 25What is revealed about Sookie's ancestry in season three?
She is part faerie
Sookie learns in season three that she is part faerie, which explains her telepathy and why vampires crave her blood; Claudine is revealed as her faerie godmother.
Q 26Which werepanther clan from Hotshot does Jason get tangled up with in season three?
The Norrises
Jason falls for Crystal Norris, whose inbred werepanther clan, the Norrises, runs the drug-dealing backwater of Hotshot a few miles from Bon Temps.
Q 27When Sookie returns from Faerie in season four, how long has she been gone in Bon Temps?
A year
Sookie returns a year later, though only minutes passed for her in Faerie, to find Bill has become King of Louisiana and Eric has bought her house.
Q 28Who leads the coven of witches that torments the vampires in season four?
Marnie
Marnie Stonebrook leads the Moon Goddess Emporium coven; possessed by the spirit of Antonia, a Spanish witch burned during the Inquisition, she casts the spell that wipes Eric's memory.
Q 29Which character is shot in the season-four finale cliffhanger?
Tara
Season five opens with Pam turning her into a vampire to save her.
Q 30Bill and Eric are arrested by the Vampire Authority in season five for killing whom?
Nan Flanagan
Nan Flanagan, the American Vampire League spokeswoman seen since season one, is killed by Bill and Eric in the season-four finale, prompting the Authority's arrest.