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131 free Twin Peaks trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
49 free Twin Peaks trivia questions with answers. Welcome to the ultimate Twin Peaks trivia quiz! This challenging quiz tests your knowledge of David Lynch's iconic supernatural mystery series that captivated audiences worldwide. From Agent Dale Cooper to the Black Lodge, see how much you really remember about this legendary show.
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Q 01In an early Twin Peaks episode, what is found in the percolator after Cooper and Truman are served coffee?
A fish
A fish: their host bursts back in to warn Cooper and Truman off the coffee he has just poured, explaining that 'there was a fish in the percolator'.
Q 02What oddly large population does the 'Welcome to Twin Peaks' sign give the town?
51,201
51,201 is ten times what Lynch and Frost intended: they wanted 5,120, but ABC feared viewers would not relate to so small a town.
Q 03Which composer, a regular David Lynch collaborator, wrote the dreamy Twin Peaks theme and score?
Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti wrote the show's signature love theme in about 20 minutes at his keyboard with Lynch beside him; Lynch told him he had just written 75 percent of the score.
Q 04Which actor, already David Lynch's lead in Dune and Blue Velvet, plays FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks?
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle MacLachlan played Dale Cooper from the pilot through the 2017 revival, where he also plays Cooper's evil doppelgänger.
Q 05What is the illicit casino and brothel across the Canadian border frequented by Twin Peaks residents?
One-Eyed Jack's
One-Eyed Jack's is secretly owned by Ben Horne, who has girls recruited for it from the perfume counter of his own department store; Laura Palmer was one of them.
Q 06What is the given name of the mysterious character known as the 'Log Lady'?
Margaret Lanterman
Margaret Lanterman was widowed on her wedding night, when her lumberjack husband died in a fire; she passes on the cryptic messages she says her log gives her.
Q 07Which Twin Peaks character is the rebellious, curious daughter of the town's wealthiest hotelier?
Audrey Horne
Audrey Horne goes undercover at the brothel her father secretly owns to investigate Laura's death, and is very nearly sent to him as the new girl.
Q 08To which night of the week did ABC move Twin Peaks for its second season?
Saturday
Saturday proved a graveyard slot: 'Our audience doesn't stay home on Saturdays,' Mark Frost complained, and ABC pulled the show from its schedule in February 1991.
Q 09In Twin Peaks, Laura Palmer hid a secret life behind volunteer work for which organization?
Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels was Laura's volunteer round; after her death, Donna takes over the route to look for suspects among the people Laura visited.
Q 10Which Washington state town was a primary filming location for the fictional town of Twin Peaks?
Snoqualmie
Snoqualmie and neighbouring North Bend supplied the pilot's locations and the waterfall in the credits, but most episodes were then shot on sound stages and locations around Los Angeles.
Q 11Which actor plays Bobby Briggs, Laura Palmer's football-playing boyfriend?
Dana Ashbrook
Dana Ashbrook played Bobby Briggs from the pilot through the 2017 revival, where the former delinquent has become a sheriff's deputy.
Q 12In Twin Peaks, Agent Cooper says he likes his coffee 'black as midnight on' what?
A moonless night
A moonless night completes Cooper's coffee order; within weeks of the premiere, Newsweek found office workers quoting his coffee lines to each other at the coffee wagon.
Q 13What food item is the visiting FBI agent forever praising in 'Twin Peaks'?
Cherry pie
Cherry pie made a celebrity of the Mar-T Cafe in North Bend, the real diner used in the pilot: its 72-year-old baker told People in 1990 she had never sold so much of it.
Q 21Which actress plays Donna Hayward, Laura Palmer's best friend, in the original Twin Peaks series?
Lara Flynn Boyle
Lara Flynn Boyle did not return for the prequel film Fire Walk with Me, an absence put down to scheduling conflicts, so Moira Kelly plays Donna there.
Q 22'Fire Walk With Me' opens with the FBI investigating the murder of which earlier victim?
Teresa Banks
Teresa Banks, a drifter murdered a year before Laura, is the case Agent Chester Desmond works in the film's opening act before he vanishes.
Q 23In Twin Peaks: The Return, a dazed Agent Cooper spends most of the season living as whom?
Douglas Jones
Q 14Laura Palmer's body is found on a riverbank in the Twin Peaks pilot, wrapped in what?
Plastic
Plastic sheeting wraps the body in the image that starts the series; in The Return, Cooper's trip back in time makes the corpse vanish from the shore.
Q 15In Twin Peaks: The Return, which technology baffles receptionist Lucy?
Cell phones
Cell phones: when the sheriff phones her and then walks through the door, she takes fright; only in the penultimate episode does she announce that she finally understands them.
Q 16What does an elderly waiter bring Cooper as he lies shot in his Twin Peaks hotel room?
Warm milk
Warm milk arrives instead of help: the senile waiter hangs up the phone, has the bleeding agent sign for it and leaves him with a thumbs-up.
Q 17Which actor plays the deranged former FBI agent Windom Earle?
Kenneth Welsh
Kenneth Welsh played Windom Earle, Cooper's former FBI partner, who escapes an asylum and stalks Cooper through the second season.
Q 18Which Twin Peaks spirit inhabits the one-armed shoe salesman Phillip Gerard?
MIKE
MIKE says he was once BOB's partner in killing; then he 'saw the face of God' and took off his host's arm to rid himself of the tattoo that marked him.
Q 19Which actor played the red-suited little man who dances in Twin Peaks' Red Room?
Michael J. Anderson
Michael J. Anderson played the Man from Another Place; his eerie cadence came from speaking lines phonetically backwards, then reversing the film.
Q 20What is the name of the diner owned by Norma Jennings in 'Twin Peaks'?
The Double R Diner
The Double R Diner, a single small-town cafe in the original series, has grown by the 2017 revival into the flagship of a franchise called Norma's Double R.
Douglas 'Dougie' Jones is the Las Vegas insurance man whose life Cooper stumbles into, winning jackpot after jackpot as 'Mr. Jackpots' while his evil double roams free.
Q 24By what title is the pilot episode of 'Twin Peaks' also known?
Northwest Passage
The pilot is known as 'Northwest Passage', the working title the whole series carried in development before it became Twin Peaks.
Q 25What pattern covers the floor of the Red Room in Twin Peaks?
Zigzag stripes
Zigzag stripes floor a room first filmed as an ending for the European video release of the pilot; Lynch liked the footage so much that he reused it as Cooper's dream.
Q 26Which character does Carel Struycken play in Twin Peaks?
The Giant
The Giant, played by Carel Struycken, appears on the Roadhouse stage in season two to warn Cooper, 'It is happening again,' at the very moment the killer strikes once more.
Q 27Ben Horne's Ghostwood country-club project is intended to replace which local business?
Packard Sawmill
The Packard Sawmill stands on the land Ben Horne covets for Ghostwood Estates; the mill burns down in the season one finale.
Q 28Which actor plays sardonic FBI forensics expert Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks?
Miguel Ferrer
Miguel Ferrer's Albert insults the town until Sheriff Truman punches him; on a later visit he stuns Truman by declaring himself a pacifist who acts out of love.
Q 29What kind of creature is Waldo, the talking witness to Laura's last night at the cabin in Twin Peaks?
A myna bird
A myna bird, Waldo is shot by Leo Johnson through the sheriff's station window, but a voice-activated recorder left by its cage has already caught it saying 'Leo, no!'
Q 30Laura Palmer's look-alike cousin, who comes to Twin Peaks after her death, is named what?
Maddy Ferguson
Maddy Ferguson's name nods to Hitchcock's Vertigo, pairing Madeleine Elster with Scottie Ferguson; as with Kim Novak in that film, one actress plays both the blonde and the brunette.