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166 free Walking Dead trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
57 free Walking Dead trivia questions with answers. Are you a true fan of The Walking Dead? Put your knowledge of the zombie apocalypse to the test with our comprehensive trivia quiz. From the earliest seasons to the final episodes, we'll challenge you on characters, storylines, and those unforgettable moments that kept us on the edge of our seats.
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Q 01Who wrote every issue of The Walking Dead comic book series?
Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman only got the comic approved by telling his publisher the outbreak was really an alien invasion plot, a twist he never intended to write.
Q 02Who was the showrunner for the first season of The Walking Dead television series?
Frank Darabont
Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption, developed the show and ran its first season, but AMC fired him in July 2011 while the second was being made.
Q 03Which handgun is Rick Grimes's signature sidearm in The Walking Dead?
Colt Python
Colt Python, a .357 Magnum revolver, is at Rick's hip from the pilot onward; after he vanishes, his young daughter carries it into battle.
Q 04Which weapon is the trademark of Daryl Dixon, The Walking Dead's motorcycle-riding tracker?
Crossbow
Crossbow in hand, Daryl makes his entrance striding out of the woods after a hunt, and the weapon has rarely left his side since.
Q 05Who leads the cannibals holding Rick's group captive as Season 5 of The Walking Dead opens?
Gareth
Gareth laughs when Rick vows to kill him with a red-handled machete; two episodes later Rick corners him in a church and does exactly that.
Q 06In The Walking Dead, after whom does Glenn's widow name their son?
Her father
Her father, Hershel Greene, gave his name to the boy born after Glenn's murder; the boy's kidnapping later sends his mother to Manhattan in the spin-off Dead City.
Q 07What was Carol Peletier's life like before the outbreak in The Walking Dead?
She was an abused housewife.
She was an abused housewife: Carol's husband beat her, and only after his death in Season 1 did she begin turning into one of the group's most hardened survivors.
Q 08How does Rick enter Atlanta in The Walking Dead's premiere?
On horseback
On horseback: his patrol car runs out of gas, so he takes a horse from a farm, and the Halloween-night premiere ends with walkers devouring it while he hides in a tank.
Q 09Which character hides a walker bite and dies in The Walking Dead's final episode?
Rosita Espinosa
Rosita Espinosa is bitten while rescuing her baby daughter Coco from a horde; she tells only Eugene at first, and dies in bed as the eleven-season series ends.
Q 10Which artist took over drawing The Walking Dead comic from issue #7 and stayed to the end?
Charlie Adlard
Charlie Adlard took over when co-creator Tony Moore left after six issues; Moore later sued, saying he had been tricked into signing away his rights.
Q 11Which word for the undead do survivors never say in The Walking Dead TV series?
Zombies
Zombies go unnamed because the show is set in a world where zombie films were never made, so each group of survivors coins its own word: walkers, biters, roamers.
Q 12What was the leader of the Saviors' job before the outbreak?
Gym teacher
Negan was a high school gym teacher before the outbreak, as shown in the 'Here's Negan' flashbacks; he named his barbed-wire bat after his late wife.
Q 13In which fortified location did the group live during Seasons 3 and 4, after leaving the Greene farm?
The Prison
The Prison kept the group safe until the Governor's militia flattened its fences with a tank midway through Season 4 and scattered everyone.
Q 21What kind of animal is Shiva, King Ezekiel's loyal pet in The Walking Dead?
Tiger
Tiger Shiva dies saving her master: she throws herself at the walkers closing in on the injured Ezekiel, Carol and Jerry, and is devoured while they escape.
Q 22What is the name of Negan's signature weapon, a barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat?
Lucille
Negan's iconic weapon is a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, which he affectionately named Lucille after his late wife.
Q 23Which lone scientist lets Rick's group into the CDC at the end of Season 1 of The Walking Dead?
Dr. Edwin Jenner
Dr. Edwin Jenner whispers to Rick that everyone is already infected and will turn after death, bitten or not, a secret Rick keeps until the Season 2 finale.
Q 14With which weapon does the Governor execute Hershel in the mid-season finale 'Too Far Gone'?
Katana
Katana in hand, the Governor beheads Hershel with Michonne's own sword, the weapon she uses against walkers and humans alike.
Q 15Which supposed safe haven, advertised on signs across Georgia, turns out to be run by cannibals in The Walking Dead?
Terminus
Terminus promised safety to all who arrived; Carol broke its grip by blowing up a propane tank and letting a herd of walkers through the fence.
Q 16In which Georgia county was Rick Grimes a sheriff's deputy before the outbreak in The Walking Dead?
King County
King County is where he wakes from a coma in the pilot; by then his wife and son have fled toward Atlanta with his partner Shane.
Q 17Which cheerful song do the Saviors play on a loop to break Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead?
Easy Street
Easy Street, by The Collapsable Hearts Club, blares through the walls of his dark cell while his jailer feeds him dog-food sandwiches to make him submit.
Q 18Which illness sweeps through the survivors' shelter in Season 4 of The Walking Dead, killing many?
Influenza
Influenza kills fast and its victims rise as walkers, so Hershel tends the quarantined sick with elderberry tea while a team raids a veterinary college for medicine.
Q 19What was Deanna Monroe's job before the outbreak?
Congresswoman
Congresswoman turned town leader, Deanna interviews each newcomer in turn, then hands Rick and Michonne the job of constables.
Q 20What put Rick Grimes in the coma he wakes from at the start of The Walking Dead?
A gunshot wound
A gunshot wound from a roadside shootout with fleeing criminals left the deputy in hospital, where he slept through the collapse of civilization and woke alone.
Q 24Which child is told to 'look at the flowers' moments before being shot in Season 4?
Lizzie
Lizzie had killed her own sister Mika believing she would come back, and Carol decides she cannot be around other people.
Q 25How does Rick kill Joe, the gang leader, in The Walking Dead's Season 4 finale?
Bites out his throat
Bites out his throat: held fast while the Claimers menace his son and Michonne, Rick rips out Joe's jugular with his teeth, and the shock lets the others fight back.
Q 26What do Alpha's Whisperers wear to pass unnoticed among the dead in The Walking Dead?
Masks of walker skin
Masks of walker skin let the Whisperers walk inside herds and steer them, and Alpha threatens to unleash her horde on any community that crosses into her land.
Q 27In what style was The Walking Dead comic printed across its 193 issues?
Black and white
Black and white art ran through all 193 issues; a full-color reissue, tinted by Dave McCaig, began in 2020, the year after the story ended.
Q 28Who were Michonne's two chained, armless walkers before they turned in The Walking Dead?
Her boyfriend and his friend
Her boyfriend and his friend were high when walkers overran the camp and her young son died; in her anger she let both men turn, then cut off their arms and jaws.
Q 29Which Walking Dead character lies about being a scientist who knows how to end the outbreak?
Eugene Porter
Eugene Porter invented the mission to Washington so that stronger survivors would protect him; when he confessed, an enraged Abraham beat him unconscious.
Q 30Which walled community does Deanna Monroe lead before Rick Grimes's group arrives and takes charge?
Alexandria
Alexandria's walls had spared its residents the worst of the outbreak, so Deanna recruited Rick's hardened group to protect people who had never had to fight.